With very roughly 7,000hp potentially available for the train, there seems to have been a good effort to regain time gradually.
Completely agree - not a risk today though...
At least the end of this tour, at Three Bridges, isn't so late as to stymie passengers' onward travel plans. Not a good week for steam...
The ECS back to Bath for the return still hasn't left Bristol, according to RTT - not again!
Ah - I had assumed the sound recording was done from the drone! It worked out well.
How do you eliminate the noise of the drone in these videos?
Seemingly, after a more-than-two hours late departure, arrival at Victoria was only about 40 late - leaving out the full hour (!) for the loco...
Hmm - "Storm Bram" was a very bland affair in the south - essentially blustery showers in the main.
I imagine there are opportunities to make up a large chunk of time with faster running and no loco change at Salisbury (which was allowed 61...
Seemingly hasn't left (arrived at?) Bath yet. With a scheduled 0001 arrival at Victoria now looking more like 0040 at best, this must surely pose...
Which I very much do, but in heavy, driving rain, and general gloom (this morning), I may choose to limit my travelling to more distant places to...
Coasting towards Farncombe. [ATTACH]
To be fair, though, yes 61306 is steam, but the weather was so dire that it was also a tricky decision for me, only really swayed by it being...
That's a nice shot - shame it was so horribly dull as to blur the loco, but the composition works well, including the aggregates train. Such a...
I did go out, to Farncombe, and got unlucky, as 71000 was just ambling slowly behind a service train on yellows - you win some (or so I've heard!)...
Trenne Benutzernamen durch Kommata.
