Bittern Farewell 30th December 2014

Kings Cross disruption thankfully not a problem today. Bittern 3 mins late on departure. <BJ>

 

Looked a treat in the winter sun as she swept through Arlesey only 2L. Just as all she wasn't 20 seconds later or we'd have been bowled by a 91. Phew!

 

The 91 cleared Holme Green before 4464 passed us

 

20 seconds earlier and I would have a picture of an HST




John

 

Seems we both got lucky John.
4464 &#x27;Bittern&#x27; Arlesey 30-12-2014 by KING COBRA 92, on Flickr

 

Has anyone seen a path on RTT yet for Bittern to travel to Alton for delivery down to the MHR?

 

Gorgeous light this morning at Digswell! A close run thing too, with a 225 set meeting the A4 on the viaduct.


4464 Digswell Viaduct 30-12-14 (V18138) by TimEaster, on Flickr


Looking forward to seeing her when she returns to the mainline in the future

Cheers,
Tim

 

Nice shot Tim. Still restricted to "light duties" so I would never have made the climb up the hill. Still, the stitches come out later today and all being well I'll be cleared to drive from Thursday. Just a pity there's no steam on the GN for a while.

 

Thanks Ian! Hope to see you out and about once the leg's fully better though. Been a while since we last had a pint and a natter
Six weeks for the next one is a bit of a wait, but I'm sure I can be patient...

 

Video from near Offord



John (Yes it was cold!)

 

Afternoon everyone,

Here she is approaching Huntingdon station:-



Very Best Wishes,
Bob.

 

Phew! Good job I feel idle today and couldn't be bothered to get 1645 ex Nottingham to Grantham to see the return. RTT reports Grantham 18 mins early and I would have missed by 5 mins.

Looks like ECML is in a mess up north, cancellations leaving space for 60019 to run.

David

 

Love it!

 

6 minutes down Bittern made it all up and more on this section, here storming across the deeping fens, the light and weather perfect for a curtain down performance

 

Lovely video mrKwowun. I love the contrast between 1930s steam and the 21st century wind turbines. Just one wee thing, and I've seen others do the same, the '149B' headcode is a realtimetrains scrambled description - the correct headcode was 1Z19 for the down working.

 

Bittern looked and sounded stunning today a true credit to those looking after it,saw it a couple of times and our videos/my photo are up at:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mark-walker/15526938254/in/photostream/

and



Cheers,
Mark

 

My photos of the tour coming through Spalding. They are taken from the video that I took.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/...986.1073741857.1423178659&type=1&l=c07e6291cc
My video of the tour.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10205898254281836

Taken on a Fuji Finepix bridge camera.

 

According to my dad who was on board the tour ran late on the return due to poor coal? A bit of a shame if that's the case.

 

RTT shows her as 41 mins down at KX. A gradual time loss over the return journey rather than any specific incident as far as the numbers go.

 

glad i filmed it going great guns on the down then, would hate to have filmed its last run struggling a bit