Very well filmed. Lovely to see unassisted steam up Shap, even with a short train. Reminds me of 1967/68 when my late father took us to Scout...
I suspected that. Anyway, only curiosity and won't matter on the day.
I didn't mean the test run, but rather that many steam runs recently have had 75mph timings on RTT but with slacker schedules than Saturday 27th's.
There's a certain maroon class 69 that might be good to use (won't happen, obviously)!
I understand that, but, for what everyone agrees is a fast run on Saturday, being timed for 60 just seemed odd, even though it will get to 75....
Why, one wonders?
Completely agree - some are excellent, but that doesn't make it OK where non-co-operation occurs. It shouldn't be a lottery - if a passenger...
In the background to all of this, of course, is the failure to plan for the engineering block. I wonder what will come of this - the usual trite...
I note that, despite the down run being commendably fast, RTT shows it as planned for 60mph max. Now I know all the talk about RTT's timings and...
A still from the 8K video: [ATTACH]
The footbridge only has mesh at the higher level, beneath that there is the old, wider lattice which allows fair access through for a lens. [ATTACH]
My video from Redhill. [MEDIA]
Don't know if any staff were on board, but its function was a loaded test run following overhaul and prior to its 70th anniversary run next Saturday.
Looks like good work today, with a significantly late start, it got back to only two minutes down near Dover. She's back... Interestingly, it...
Looks like they are slowly clawing back time after the late start. With no pathing allowances en route, some 'spirited' running might be on the...
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