Category: Europe
Mallard 75 – The Great Gathering
While my disdain for the tabloidy Daily Mail is nearly endless, this is actually a pretty good review of yesterday’s event. Just promise me you won’t click any links to stories about Princesses, Kardashians, or other ilk.
Making 90 miles an hour . . .
The whistle broke into a scream . . .
LMS 6170 on shed
LMS 4-6-0 6170 “British Legion” is the star of this 1936 publicity film showing the a typical servicing between assignments.
BR 70000 ‘Brittania’ on the Royal Train
While the timings weren’t made public, and the weather wasn’t the greatest, BR 4-6-2 70000 hauled the Royal Train from Preston to Wakefield yesterday, where the Prince of Wales rededicated the locomotive before departing.
Happy Hallowe’en!
(Photo by Graham Williams.)
Crew injuries on 241P17
Last Saturday ex-SNCF 4-8-2 241P17 powered an excursion from Le Creusot to Aix-les-Bains. While being turned for the return journey, the locomotive suffered a “rare but serious” failure, resulting in burns to driver Yann Janaudy and two others. An investigation is under way, and two future excursions have been cancelled.
Let’s wish the injured a rapid and full recovery.
(Via the Continental Railway Circle.)
Yesterday on the Settle – Carlisle
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-SDsKgB8DA&w=480
(Thanks to Stephen Thompson.)
Flying Scotsman at the NRM
(Photo by National Railway Museum)
The UK’s National Railway Museum has unveiled the newly-restored Flying Scotsman in WWII-era black for display.
The BBC files a report here.
(Photo by Carl Spencer.)
On Tuesday the locomotive was moved to the East Lancashire Railway for steam tests and commissioning runs.
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Wash Up and Brush Up
A fascinating look at the British Rail equivalent of the old ICC ‘Monthly’:
Shed code 6A on the locomotive’s smokebox was Chester, so the filming location is probably Crewe.