Chiltern Champion, D1015 Western Champion, 9th February 2014.

My video filmed at Seer Green & Jordans, approaching Princes Risborough and leaving Claydon Junction.

 

I popped up to Marylebone to see the evening arrival/departure; the Western looked and sounded superb

A few nocturnal shots are at the start of here:
www.flickr.com/photos/steam60163/

Cheers,
Alisdair

 

Uploaded my pictures from Sunday too. I was on the second part of the tour for the branch lines around Oxfordshire. It was a great trip, covered some track I needed and scooped 47773 for haulage. My thanks to VT and everyone else involved for an excellent day. Preview of the pictures below with D1015 sat on the blocks at Marylebone. The rest of the pictures can be found by clicking the link.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/69575101@N06/sets/72157640804182364/

 

Edit: still can't get bloody embedding pics to work on here!.

 

http://railways.mjspencer.com/gallery/v/Feb2014/

My photos from Sunday

 

The Western arriving at Dorridge on the return

Had to use a prime lens as she rolled in as charters usually stop off the platform end, so a bit of grain.

Nice shot of the Oxfordshire Sea Wall Matt!.

 

I travelled on the 1st part of this tour, excellent value for money I thought. Would love VT to use this engine on this kind of trip again whereby it gives participants the option of having a good few hours to explore somewhere as opposed to just a couple of hours.

 

My video of the event. Taken at Ashendon Junction and Grendon Underwood Junction.

 

Heres my video of the day...

 

A most enjoyable trip to London.
My photos of the trip are here.

http://evergreen.zenfolio.com/p283693803#h18897a5

 

I feel I must say one thing about the times and why we show a deprature 10 minutes before Network Rail, and subsiquently Mr Randalls' excelent UK Steam, shows us appearing on the network.

The time shown by Network Rail is when we are required to transition from Tyseley Loco Works to Network Rail, NOT the departure from our Tyseley Platform. Hence to make sure we are ready to make a timely transition past the Tyseley #1 box, we allow ourselves 10 minutes.

Sorry for any confusion this causes.