60103 KX-YORK 25/2/2016

I can think of someone whom I believe is on the FS run tomorrow, who will be rather pleased to get the big blue machine hauling him back South!

 

Yes they are. Still think they look better in two-tone green, but perhaps that's just me...

 

Wasn't he responsible for a high speed SPAD once many moons ago?

 

Yes I would but I am returning by service train as I have a 430 am start

 

I have got all fingers crossed it goes well tomorrow Don. For you of course and for everyone else on and involved with the train and loco.

 

Not just you. My favourite Deltic livery too.

 

...and me...with a small yellow panel and wearing a 'Winged Thistle' headboard

 

Now you're talking.

 

Not mine....but her run south today......looks great....cue the comments on her whistle !!!!!!!

 

LOL!

 

There were crowd comments about the whistle at Welham Green too before arrival but we didn't have the pleasure of hearing it!

 

I note the RTT has gone to the trouble of listing the motive power as Flying Scotsman.

Also this path:

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U63027/2016/02/25/advanced

following FS out of KX by 7 mins is presumably for a light diesel following which suggests no tail end assistance.

 

Seen at Welham Green.



It was HEAVING, with a capital H. Workers left offices and factories nearby, Husbands and Wives, dads with kids, mothers with kids, more there than a morning rush hour, its going to be lineside chaos tomorrow.

 

How can the same company that made the Chime on a A4, produce that asthmatic, wheezing excuse of an audible warning ?, more befitting of a clapped out Andrew Barclay than an East Coast racehorse.

 

It would be interesting to know, for future reference, whether DBS/NRM/Steam Dreams or whoever are paying extra for the light engine path, and if so how much?

Hoping to see FS at some point tomorrow morning.

 

I hope all goes well tomorrow for her return to Home Turf and her dash along the ECML. All those that have bought tickets; I hope you all have a great day.
I will certainly have the late, Great, Alan Pegler in my thoughts tomorrow when watching the coverage on YT and the TV as if it wasn't for him we wouldn't have this fine Locomotive with us today. A real shame he is not around to see her back where she belongs.

 

As the BBC One Show has given out both the route and timings a minute ago I think you are right about the chaos.

 

Serious question - isn't the whistle subject to the FTR? And if so how can such a weedy thing compared to anything else on the mainline pass? Even on the ELR they were using the class 31 horn to reinforce 103.

 

They've only given the KX start time and then the public display time at the NRM and have warned people to stay 'behind the barriers'.

 

That's a bit.....no, thats very harsh on Andrew Barclays everywhere, irrespective of age, mileage and condition!!!!!