5043 - Private Charter - 29/10/11

I suppose it's ok to let the cat out the bag now the event is underway so to speak.

5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe is today working a Moor St - Marylebone & return Charter for Chiltern Railways, i believe (correct me if wrong) as a retirement special for Adrian Shooter, the down run is being undertaken NON STOP thanks to the GUV Water Carrier in just over 2 hours which is very comparable to the West Midland express workings of steam days.

I took a pic of the down non stop working passing Hatton station this morning: http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_1984/6290779137/in/set-72157627777033601

News of this run seems to have been kept very quiet, so i presume it was possibly a suprise.

 

http://railways.mjspencer.com/gallery/v/Oct2011/IMG_2287.jpg.html

My photo from next to Dave

 

Unexpectedly saw this tour go over the viaduct just west of High Wycombe station whilst sat at traffic lights by Morrisons at about 11.30am!

Any news of the return times for HW please?

Regards
Graham

 

Off Marylebone at 1615, so around 30 minutes later at HW at a guess.

 

Thanks Bill - I'll be out there somewhere.

 

Storming past Claydon this morning. Heard it's actually booked for a 1h59min timing non-stop so hope it does it!
http://smithp.smugmug.com/Trains/Network-Rail-2011/19660496_rXMzZK#1555516324_hVf2Bnh-A-LB

(Note: site only just set up so still being populated!)

Peter

 

Reported to have done it in 1 hour 55 minutes

 

Good to see the railway industry still knows how to mark the retirement of its most respected members and Adrian Shooter is certainly highly regarded.

Regards,

Dan

 

Some super shots of this special working - thanks for the links chaps.

 

The return working is not non-stop with a stop at Warwick Parkway.

EDIT: btw does anyone have any timings for the return run?

 

Also stopping at High Wycombe booked 16:48 16:50 hopefully Ganderson888 will see this before going out.

 

New update - apparently 1830 at Warwick Parkway so hardly a non stop express on the return!

 

High Wycombe 16:48 16:50
Banbury 17:39 18:06
Warwick Parkway 18:30 18:38

I've only been told the stopping points.
If it had got to Banbury half an hour earlier I'd have gone out for it but it's going to be to dark by then.
Never mind, hope all on board have a good day and I'll look forward to everyone's vid's & phot's

 

1627 at Wembley, quite empty train, 47773 on the rear

 

Lovely shot Peter, well done.

 

Through Hatton 2 late at 18.43

 

Here's a couple of pictures at Marylebone.
A nice last minute catch this afternoon, makes a change to have only a handful of people around.


It went stonking through Wembley (I anyones got a good suggestion on how to shrink a 200mb file i'll upload it).

 

Any Video Converter is good and free for converting between formats but I don't know whether it can shrink a file that big?

Marylebone looking better now after its wash and brush up. Here's a video from Hatton on the return. She was going well (as usual) but the motorway drowns out some of the noise.

[video=youtube;IptWXfP733k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IptWXfP733k[/video]

 

Absolutely.. so manicured is that station I'm sure the staff ensured 5043 was parked with it's rods perfectly symmetrical as well