Tornado & Sir Nigel Gresley

[Bish]

LNER A1 Class 4-6-2 no 60163 Tornado departs Kings Cross on Saturday 23 May travels up to York and then LNER A4 Class 4-6-2 no 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley takes over for the retun trip. Should be worth seeing so I have attached some times of the journey.

London Kings Cross d 08.18 60163 Tornado.
Finsbury Park 08.27
Potters Bar a 08.42
d 08.45
Woolmer Green Jc 08.56
Stevenage a 09.01
d 09.03
Sandy 09.19
Huntingdon 09.37
Peterborough d 09.58
d 10.00
Tallington Jc 10.08
Stoke Tunnel 10.21
Grantham DGL a 10.26 water
d 10.50
Newark Northgate 11.05
Carlton DL d 11.13
d 11.19
Retford 11.33
Doncaster 11.55
Temple Hirst Jc 12.07
Colton Jc 12.19
York a 12.25


1Z64
0.0 York d 17.02 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley
5.5 Colton Jc 17.09
19.3 Temple Hirst Jc 17.23
32.5 Doncaster 17.35
49.9 Retford a 17.52 water
49.9 d 18.12
68.4 Newark Northgate 18.28
83.0 Grantham 18.44
88.7 Stoke Tnl 18.49
103.7 Tallington 19.02
112.1 Peterborough a 19.17
112.1 d 19.21
121.3 Connington UL a 19.35 water
121.3 d 20.05
129.6 Huntingdon 20.16
144.4 Sandy 20.29
161.0 Stevenage a 20.45
161.0 d 20.47
175.8 Potters Bar a 21.03
175.8 d 21.06
186.0 Finsbury Park 21.17
188.5 London Kings Cross a 21.24

[Nicholas Blair]

Saw Sir Nige and UoSA last weekend, doing the rounds up here.

http://dh-meld.fotopic.net/p58406459.html
http://dh-meld.fotopic.net/p58406460.html
http://dh-meld.fotopic.net/p58406461.html

And the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNzFZMMvHYg

Edited by Nicholas Blair on Thursday 21st May 13:26

Edited by Nicholas Blair on Thursday 21st May 13:33

[Pigeon]

Bish said:

LNER A1 Class 4-6-2 no 60163 Tornado departs Kings Cross on Saturday 23 May travels up to York

Cheers for this

Will post some pics when I get the film back... if any of them come out, it was going like the fking clappers.