60019 Banbury to Kingswear. 21st May

60019 Bittern. Steam Dreams. Banbury to Kingswear via Melksham .
Tuesday, 21st May. Outbound timings now available. <BJ>
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U53149/2013/05/21/advanced

 

Timings still unavailable for the return leg of this tour. Strange. <BJ>

 

Set down times are showing on Steam Dreams website. 16.50 from Kingswear, 23.51 back at Banbury.

 

Banker up to Churston I presume ?.

 

Full timings now available thanks to uksteam.
Bittern away from Banbury on time. <BJ>
http://www.uksteam.info/tours/t13/t0521a.htm

 

D7535 rostered for shunt duties at Kingswear and is on standby for banking if required.

 

About 4 mins late at Tackley. Here are a couple of frame-grabs from a very dull morning:

 

The link from UKsteam to RTT doesn't work at the moment. I get this error message:

Advanced search doesn't show anything from "Kingswear (for Dartmouth)" through Oxford at the expected time (about 23:00). I guess it will show up later...

 

Here is the link I have been using so far today.
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U53149/2013/05/21/advanced

'Bittern' absolutely flattened Brewham bank this morning whilst blowing off at the same time.
Load 12 today. Superb performance from the A4. <BJ>

 

Swindon 21:52 21:55
Uffington (Oxfordshire) PASS 22:08
Challow PASS 22:11 RL
Wantage Road W 22:16 22:30
Foxhall Junction PASS 22:40
Didcot North Junction PASS 22:45
Kennington Junction PASS 22:53
Oxford 22:59 23:15 2
Wolvercot Junction PASS 23:20
Heyford PASS 23:32
Aynho Junction PASS 23:45
Banbury arrive 23:51

 

Cheers Bill. Your link works fine for the outward trip. Where did you get the return times? They match what's in UKsteam, so that's fine.

I was trying to make a bookmark to the RTT return times on my smart-phone, so I could see how it's going. I don't want to be hanging around on Tackley station if she's running an hour late ;-)

 

Yep, it can be quite exciting. I did that once when Tangmere was near Roundwood summit. Thankfully she was making so much noise and smell no one else noticed.

 

I'll keep an eye on the return leg and keep you updated. <BJ>

 

It wasn't hanging around at Tackley here, it tore the place up.

 

A couple of video snaps from a very grey Swindon this morning, managed to prop my tripod up on an electrical box so as to clear the 6ft high fence. Hoping to catch her at Swindon East Yard in an hour, anyone know how she's doing? As the return timings seem to have vanished from Real Time Trains.

 

'Bittern' reported through Wick, near Langport, at 19 56 hrs. The train appears to be running to time at present. <BJ>

 

Ah good good, just hope it stays that way by the time she gets to Swindon, the light may have gone completely but thankfully the yard does have somewhat decent lighting

 

'Bittern' reported 1 late away from Chippenham at 2132. <BJ>

 

Here's my video, taken at Dawlish and just north of Exeter.....

 

My footage of yesterday's run, seen at Swindon Station in the morning and Swindon East Yard in the evening.

Enjoy.