VSOE to Bristol tomorrow 12th October, now 70000 not 60163?

UK Steam now showing Tornado replaced by Britannia. Any info about why?

 

Details are mentioned on the LE Movements thread also the A1 Trust site.

Mike M. ( 70c )

 

Thanks Mike

 

Defective pipe at Barrow Hill. <BJ>
http://www.a1steam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=123

 

This should be interesting when was the last time a Brit hauled some Pullmans?

 

Could well be the Golden Arrow unless 7000 previously worked with the SLOA set ?.

 

70000 previously hauled the VSOE set in the 1980s when based on the Nene Valley Railway. Might pop over to see this one

Regards,

Dan

 

When was the last time a black unnamed engine pulled the vsoe ?

 

"Defective pipe"? Not exactly explicit is it. One assumes they mean a "pipe" e.g. an air brake component, rather than a boiler tube.

 

70000 Britannia on time at New Junction going in to Reading & with no diesel on the back.

 

A not too brilliant mobile phone picture at Theale this morning.

 

Another view as 70000 heads through the gloom at Southcote Junction:

 

It was also gloomy at ( Margaret ) Thatcham aswell, the weather bucked up at Hungerford 70000 was really motoring through there.

Hope to see her again at Wokingham this evening in the dark although the station lights are pretty good there.

Mike M. ( 70c )

 

Here's my video from Theale and Newbury:

[video=youtube;qYHzCCF2VcU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYHzCCF2VcU[/video]

 

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She was, you're quite right, and she still is. It's a livery thing going on here - the black livery without nameplates representing her state when first built and before being named and painted green.

 

Sadly,there is reported to be a NR problem nr Newbury resulting in diversions to WoE expresses. Whether VSOE will be delayed/re-routed via Swindon or Salisbury I have no idea. Just a quick note to say that the FGW site shows the B+H currently closed to through trains........

 

70000 Britannia departed from Bristol TM on time with the 1Z98 VSOE. At Keynsham station we could hear the loco exiting St. Annes tunnel some 1.5 miles before it would pass us. Blowing it's whistle profusely, it blasted through the station with it's 13 immaculate coaches. British steam at it's best.

Well done to the locomotive society and support crews for saving the day. <BJ>

 

Lifted from SWGD. 18.15

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133339 1Z98 Britannia up Newbury 18:09 JUST made it :L Ta Sent from MiLordz Phone 4."