JOLLY FISHERMAN 13/07/13

Looked good at Welwyn North this morning about 2 minutes early.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30782/9273335899/

Brian

 

Video of her going well through Sandy.

 

I don't know what happened there. It read Oliver Cromwell in my movie editor but seems to have dropped the Cromwell bit somewhere between finishing the editing and exporting in it Quicktime.

 

May not have been hot and dry where you are but Thorpe Culvert has been over 80 since 11.00 .

Smart pull away from Wainfleet this afternoon, not a lot of 47 assistance by my ears.

 

Just being ironic.

 

Don't know what happened at Peterborough, but Ollie went from 1 early to 21 late on a 50 minute water stop, which meant the light was nearly gone. Time was made up however for an arrival a minute early, and she did sound well passing Offord.



John

 

Speaking to a chap at Arlesey and he was using the Connington water stop to leapfrog the train. Said he saw a water tanker looking a bit lost in the area so maybe that's what caused the delay.

 

Nice video and Ollie does sound good.

 

I passed the water tanker on the A1, this morning, it had been involved in a slight accident on the black cat roundabout!

 

Filmed here in The Deepings, and at Heckington. Oh How I wish that shot had been 70013's smokebox brushing the trees aside, but now you know why the 47 needed cow catchers.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/5944/9280320402/

Sounded good passing Langford this evening. Would've looked even better if she'd been on time, as the sky was a lot nicer 20 minutes earlier.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/5944/9277532399/in/photostream/

 

That was me! Nice to have met you, although I am not exactly sure who you were amongst the little group at the end of the platform. Got nothing at Arlesey, thanks to the arrival of the stopping train on our platform.
Dave.

 

Missed out at Arlesey but got some footage earlier:

 

Hello Everybody,

Filmed both the Down and Up trains yesterday. You could tell that the drive was taking it carefully although got some sound from Ollie after it had passed me.
In the up film the train was going quick still recovering lost time from the water stop at Connington.

Also thought I'd add the link to the film I shot of Ollie last year, exactly one year ago, also on a Down RTC special to Lincoln-Central. The weather was then very different.

The Down train was filmed at Oakleigh Park -

The Up train at New Southgate -

And on 14-Jul-2012 the Down Lincoln Imp with Ollie in charge at New Southgate -

All the best.

 

70013 on the return, Hadley Wood

 

a good day out even the thunder storms on the way back added to the trip the diesel did help quite a bit even ollie could not accelerate that fast at times

 

Hi all, just to let anyone know who was wandering, on the return the fire tanker did get to Connington in time, but we were held up because of signal probs north of huntingdon, so all fast trains had to switch to the slow which held us up. Jack.