60163 'Tornado'. Ipswich to Bristol. 1st Dec. 2012

Taplow 19.28

 

Please tell me you got that on Video...

 

Confirmed this evening as a 14 coach train. <BJ>

 

I saw it too. Very "Brief Encounter" !

 

Oh why did I choose Stroud for Lizzie over Swindon

 

What a piece of luck! I stop off back at Swindon to see 60163 pass, before catching the next HST to Didcot. It was quite fortunate then, that 60163 was almost 25 minutes late and 6201 was on time, and just after Lizzie rolled in, the centre road signal went to green, and 60163 raced through, whistling all the way to 6201.

This was spectacular...

The link is here, and I will post the links to the other videos from the day as soon as I possibly can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weH1je6sDfk

James at SVN

 

Excellent. Great that steam passing is happening a few times now.

 

Here are the two videos from yesterdays chase. I had a great day out with a number of friends, and hope these videos are a good indication of what happened throughout the day. Normally, I would combine the two videos into one full video, but my computer's hard drive hasn't got enough memory to support a 17 minute video!

The link to the 6201 video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXEsiDHHRn4&list=UL
The link to the 60163 video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5GBv-ljNK0

Enjoy, and as ever, comments are appreciated.

James at SVN

 

Liking the video's and photo's

Here's my humble effort from yesterday

Not the shot I wanted, as some one parked a turbo unit in the way!

But at least she was more or less to time

http://daverydingphotography.zenfolio.com/60163tornadothecathedralsexpress011212

And going like the clappers

60163 TORNADO. Sat.1st.Dec.2012 - YouTube