A SPECIAL heritage train will be having a two-year break after this summer's journey from Blackburn to Edinburgh.

Green Express Railtours will be running the annual trip on Saturday August 26, after which Edinburgh station is being re-built and will be unable to accommodate the train.

The locomotive, which was built in the 1950s and 1960s and has been doing this journey for 10 years, will also stop at Accrington and Burnley Manchester Road.

The train leaves Blackburn at 7.15am and arrives at 12.30pm.

It will set off back at 4.30pm, giving time to enjoy some of the Edinburgh Festival, and return to Blackburn at 9.30pm.

There are 12 heritage coaches, seating passengers in fours around a table with a large picture window, offering scentic views on route. Nick Harvey, trip organiser, said: "Passengers will have the rare chance to travel back in time to board a locomotive hauled train with coaches built almost 50 years earlier."

Tickets are £41. Further details from Green Express Railtours 66, Stonegate, Hunmanby, Filey, YO14 0PP or by calling 01723 891400.