60007 now booked for Cathedrals Express 1st December

Sadly the sun must have done that previously :-(

 

4932 has only been kept in steam to prevent frost damage.

 

Just added another shot from Corston.

http://michael527.fotopic.net/p68300554.html

 

Very nice pics and video, thanks! I think I will stay in tonight and survive on the memories of this morning. My video is just uploading now, but now I have the HD phone it takes ages!!

 

some photos taken at bath and bristol video to follow at http://keyhamtrain.fotopic.net video at http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=keyhamtrain#grid/uploads

 

Here we go finally!

Six minutes of confused station announcements, A4 whistling, wheelslips, sunshine, cloud, steam, ducks, shivering and 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley. Hope you enjoy it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qhrCObCYI

 

60007 seen at Staines running 10-15 mins down.
http://stephen-leek.fotopic.net/p68302625.html

 

Great to see 60007 back on the mainline.

 

Lovely photo!

 

I have finally got my pictures of this morning's train passing through Wokingham onto Fotopic; here's the link for anyone interested to see them :

http://ronfisher2.fotopic.net/c1907221.html

Hope that they are of interest.

 

Thankyou Steve

 

Excellent, Steve. Back to the 60's with the wheelslip. I wonder if the driver was actually a little concerned that SNG wasn't getting away. Without knowing what happened, I was expecting her to have a restart !!! Heavy load, bend, wet rail mmmmm. Well done driver.

 

Considering the fireworks that often accompanied steam departures from York in the days of yore, the Ascot departure was well controlled and quite subdued by comparison.

 

Hello All,

A collection of photographs of Class A4 4-6-2 60007 'SIR NIGEL GRESLEY' hauling 'The Cathedrals Express' into Bristol Temple Meads have now been added to my fotopic site.

Link here;

http://preservedrailwaylocomotivephotosbyrichardsmith.fotopic.net/c1921132.html

Hope you enjoy viewing them.

Best regards SteamHawk216.

 

Indeed, very tricky departure from Ascot. The track was covered in think Frost. I'm not 100% sure but I think you can see the driver working the gravity sanders after which the slipping stops.

 

Ah ha - beg your pardon, I assumed they would be steam sanders.

 

I felt like I was by that time as well, and I'd only been out there an hour, not all night!

 

A4's have both steam and gravity sands for forward direction. Nothing for reverse, though, which can be a problem on heritage railways when running tender first.