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

Discussion in 'What's Going On' started by free2grice, Nov 30, 2012.

  1. Ben Jervis

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    Taplow 19.28
     
  2. david1984

    david1984 Resident of Nat Pres

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    Please tell me you got that on Video...
     
  3. free2grice

    free2grice Part of the furniture Friend

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    Confirmed this evening as a 14 coach train. <BJ>
     
  4. spicer21

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    I saw it too. Very "Brief Encounter" !
     
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    Oh why did I choose Stroud for Lizzie over Swindon :(
     
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    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
     
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    Excellent. Great that steam passing is happening a few times now.
     
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    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
     
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