Tornado 'Valentine's Day Special'

What a wonderful idea for Valentine's Day. A romantic drive through the countryside of Somerset and Wiltshire.
....and lunch at Upton Scudamore. <BJ>

 

ON TIME TWYFORD. SPLENDID SIGHT........AS EXPECTED !!!

 

On time at Taplow. Not very good photo attached.

 

A very quiet 60163 through Kintbury on time.

 

Some 10 mins up passing through the old Bratton & Edington station site. Going at a far speed, but how quite she is, compared to Bittern yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBQgb8g4NQ4
Just dropped this video onto you tube. Bit grainy but gives an idea

 

Tornado passed Upton Scudamore 5 mins or so early. The loco was going really well with 14 on. Certainly not quiet here. Magnificent !! <BJ>

 

Any sun at Scuadmore quite sunny here in Keynsham for a while

 

Video from Westbury (yes we were on a footpath), Upton Scudamore and Andover. Tornado clearly in good form after the winter maintainance...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcVUMqg9KH8

 

I was doing sound at Upton Scudamore - superb recording. Sun went in just before she passed the main gallery only to come out again shortly afterwards. Someone, somewhere must have got it in sun. Next saw it at Idmiston on the climb away from Salisbury, no sun at all but going great guns. Against all the odds I caught her again at Langley after the Slough stop. Very dull and no urgency at all to her progress.

 

I was going to ask if she had 14 on or 11 on?? If she had 14 on quite an achievement!!! Well done to the loco and the crew hauling that baggage all day behind her!! Did she start off from Waterloo??

 

Tour started and finished at Paddington.

 

Thanks for the reply!! Still an achievement all the same with 14 being hauled behind her!

 

some photos of 60163 passing ditton marsh at http://keyhamtrain.fotopic.net just added some video http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=keyhamtrain#p/u/0/1U-ho5ZhKZg

 

Some great footage,many thanks for sharing

 

When did a tour last have such a monstrous load ? the Tornado factor showing no sign of letting up.

 

3 coaches were non dining rest all full of folks dining!

 

There were 10 coaches carrying passengers ( 5 dining, 2 first Class and 3 Standard (Including buffet)), plus Kitchen Car, Support Coach, Generator Coach and Brake/admin coach.

 

The reason for the slow run towards Paddington was pathing for the engineering work. With only the relief lines open between Hayes & Slough - Tornado was due to follow a local service past the block, after allowing one HST to overtake. Some HSTs were pathed in a similar fashion today.

Excellent video as usual by the Wilson boys, always look forward to your updates, especially Upton Scudamore. How does the load of this train today compare with the VSOE, is that still heavier?

One thing that I noted on Tornado when she came to rest under Span 1, was that her driving wheels were illuminated!

 

Nice video at Ditton. Someone told me that if you put yt:stretch=16:9 in the tags section of your YouTube clips then your widescreen video will look widescreen instead of squashed. Its worked for me in the past.

 

to david 1984,re-montrous load on westbury bank(upton scudamore) think back to saturday,21st november.2009,35028 clan line +13plus a class 67 diesel on the rear,from a standing start at westbury into a strong headwind and pouring rain,35028 made a spectacular ascent of the bank in atrocious weather.the sound was stunning as was the clag,ashame it wasn't daylight all this without the loco 'blowing off' ' just the heavy beat of 35028.unfortunately my dat sound recorder didn't like the weather conditions and gave up but luckily i do have some video.there are other locos other than 'tornado' that are equally spectacular without all the benefits of modern day technoligy.