West Somerset Steam Express 2015

Very enjoyable video Kristian, no messin' from Britannia today, a top performance and well caught by your camera. Many thanks for sharing. cheers, Alan

 

Filmed at Manningford Bruce, near Pewsey:

 

Amy chance of the heating, lighting and PA being being on the "to do" list?

 

For those waiting, it's about quarter of an hour early!
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U50663/2015/08/08/advanced

 

We think that we be sitting outside Reading until booked time. Very good return run so far, Churchill and Birmingham on footplate.

 

As has already been posted about 14E through Theale and going very nicely indeed.

 

Just one shot for me today of Britannia..Near Castle Cary...

 

Well a 14 minute early departure from Newbury ended up right time at Southcote Junction, must of been a slow run.
Then lost 4 minutes to just after Reading West & Reading where it departed late.

 

My video of Brittania near Castle Cary this evening and going well!

 

A great trip.

We got off at Slough. An elderly couple who had been sitting opposite us were due to alight there, but got in a muddle (the husband had wandered off, somewhere up the train) and had to go on to Paddington. Does anyone know if they were reunited OK? Her indoors was somewhat concerned.

 

It was a fast run from Newbury to just before Southcote Junction.

 

Great to see two steam trains yesterday (this one and Tornado on the Pullman) with not a diesel in sight. My God, that makes me and the steam fraternity feel just great. Well done to those who made that happen and let's not forget. It is August, sunny and we have not had any rain for several days.

 

It certainly was a superb all steam day out pity RTC have pulled two of them .would certainly recommend the next trips! May even be an A4 next time

 

How to gain time,Theale.

 

PA and lighting working, with warnings about not sticking heads out of droplights seemingly a key new feature on RTC trips. This might be the reason why some of the carriage sets are being temporarily withdrawn. Lights were working all the way out and all the way back to Paddington, whilst it looks like the carriage sides have been given a couple of coats of varnish. Roofs back to bare metal prior to re-painting should be the next project as they are still in a bit of a state...

Haven't a clue about heating as it was too warm for it anyway. It was actually quite a good trip that was helped by the fantastic weather. I can understand why the other two have been pulled- risk of saturating the market.

 

It was generous, but preferred a couple of pints in Minehead instead, as it would have been too much GWR for one day (rather, I wanted to avoid the queue in Wetherspoon's and make sure I had some sort of bite to eat by going there early!). Ended up having a natter with Paul42 in the Queen's Head, in any case.

 

Same with this one, booked for either 34067 or 60009.
Again not looking good.
http://www.uksteam.info/tours/t15/t0823a.htm

Looks like 70000 is the only working main line steam loco in the South atm.