Steam Dreams 2022

Great stuff!

 

Bridge Road Stevenage and Knebworth yesterday...


https://www.flickr.com/photos/alts1985/52541045450/in/dateposted-public/

 

Nice work again, especially giving us the choice of telephoto and wide angles at Welwyn North!

 

Thank you! Somewhat better weather this time which made life easier!

 

Yes - I'm expecting/hoping the sunny and frosty weather later this week will be good for steam sequences.

 

This morning's trip to Bath with 4498 has left Victoria 5 minutes early! Edit - no, RTT has just corrected itself to show 1L from Victoria after all. Strange.

 

11 coaches + 47.805 today. A few mins late arr Newbury Racecourse. [BJ]

 

An almost comically poor day of 'chasing' (albeit very low-key) for me! I caught a train from Dorking Deepdene to Wokingham, intending to hop off and video 4498 as it followed us there. But, despite the steam having oodles of time booked to wait outside Reading, it was sent ahead of us at Wokingham, and thus delayed my service train (which I stayed on to Reading, having seen on RTT what was going on). Why on earth the steam wasn't sent behind the service train as planned I don't know (thereby not delaying it), as it certainly wasn't holding anything up in turn behind it. Anyway, I then caught a train to Reading West to catch 4498 there, only to have a long container train 'bowl' me there! I am therefore proud to able to present this cameo of SNG at Reading West!

 

at a rather dull longcross

 

An A4 versus a unit?

So good to hear the chime again, after what seems so long, from an A4 Pacific. Simply wonderful.[BJ]

 

Wow! they have seats at Longcross now!

 

Thats almost poetic.

 

After dark scenes of 'Gresley' hauling the return leg of the 'Lincoln Christmas Market' train, from Swinderby, Newark, High Dyke and Woodwalton - with a memorable acoustic sequence as 4498 gets away from the Conington water stop and begins the climb at 1/200 towards Abbotts Ripton on the ECML.

 

Bath Christmas Market, 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley, 5th December 2022.
Filmed at Hungerford Common:

 

The times are now posted for the 9 December Chichester run:
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U54896/2022-12-09/detailed
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U54899/2022-12-09/detailed

 

That’s a long day out for the punters and not enough time for watering at Winchfield again

 

Indeed so - I really do not understand what's happening with the Winchfield timings. I assume an error has slipped through and is now being blindly repeated. Tomorrow's run with 44871 is still shown as pathed at 75mph after Salisbury.

 

I came up with a few rhyming couplets when it happened!

 

FWIW - the ECS for the return Bath to Victoria working has not left yet. The headcode for the ECS has just been interposed; ready for the 1616 ECS Bristol East Depot to Bath Spa - as at 17.55 hours.