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Stanier Black 5s in Action, 2011- 2023.
The Black Five was a mixed-traffic loco, "a do-anything go-anywhere" type, designed by William Stanier.
842 were eventually constructed.
A busy day on the Great Western main line at Tilehurst:
Bath Christmas Statesman, 47805 Roger Hosking and 47712 Lady Diana Spencer, 25th November 2023.
The Winchester Christmas Excursion, Class 40 No D345, 25th November 2023.
Capital Christmas Express, 46115 Scots Guardsman, 25th...
The Armistice Kentish Belle, 45596 Bahamas, 11th November 2023.
Missed my first location (Swale) because the M25 was closed due to an accident but managed to get Bahamas at Adisham and Charing:
Crossness Pumping Station, 22nd October 2023.
A Victorian Cathedral of ironwork.
Crossness Pumping Station is a former sewage pumping station designed by the Metropoiitan Board of Work’s chief engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette and architect Charles Henry Driver. It is located at Crossness Sewage...
Express Train to Lincoln, 7029 Clun Castle, 7th October 2023.
A rare sight of a "Castle" at Kings Cross.
Also filmed the opening of the level crossing at Swinderby, don’t often get to see that in North London!
Filmed at Spalding and Swinderby:
Whilst visiting the Epping Ongar Railway I paid a visit to St. Andrews Church, Greensted, Essex.
The oldest wooden Church in the World, and the oldest ‘Stave Built’ timber building in Europe.
The church represents some 1300 years of English history and Christian worship.
A short video (Maybe of...
Bath Spa via Surrey Hills, 34046 Braunton, 27th September 2023.
Filmed at Thatcham and Bradford-on-Avon.
a somewhat circuitous route but Braunton was on top form.
Spectacular whistle through Bradford-on-Avon:
The video starts At High Weald with D9516 arriving with a train from Coopersale. Next we see the class 20s also from Coopersale. Then D2170 joins the action.
Class 47 No. 47635 "Jimmy Milne" is then seen arriving with a train from Ongar.
A brief glimpse of one of the vintage shuttle buses from...
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