A4 day

[JJUK]

Hi,
A couple months back the National Railway Museum has a A4 day with all the A4's in a row and three of them was blowing their whistles. Does anyone know if anything like this will happen again as i missed it and really would love to be there next time.

Thanks, JJ

 

[Phoenix]

Hi,
A couple months back the National Railway Museum has a A4 day with all the A4's in a row and three of them was blowing their whistles. Does anyone know if anything like this will happen again as i missed it and really would love to be there next time.

Thanks, JJ

Very unlikely sorry to tell you but basically all four Uk survivors were brought together due to it being the Anniversary of Mallards record run I think it was due to that anyway.
But on the brighter side of things there are still a few aniversaries for loco's to come so there well may be more line ups like this althought not as famous.

 

[The_Rail_WAy]

Would be very unlikely that an event like that would occur any time in the near future, It was the first time the Mallard had left the shed at the NRM in almost 20 years! Even more unique was that 60009 passed on the ECML working a railtour - I have a link to a video I foud on youtube which you may find interesting:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=L5fe1P6ulvE&feature=related

 

[D306]

There's something similar at Barrow Hill in may IIRC

 

[CraigS]

There's something similar at Barrow Hill in may IIRC

Barrow Hill are holding a LNER Gala on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th April which features 60163 Tornado, 60532 Blue Peter and 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley among others.

 

[EE Type 3]

Barrow Hill are holding a LNER Gala on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th April which features 60163 Tornado, 60532 Blue Peter and 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley among others.

Where has Blue Peter been all this time?

 

[Daniel533]

Where has Blue Peter been all this time?

I belive it has been resident at Barrow Hill.

 

[EE Type 3]

I belive it has been resident at Barrow Hill.

Which means I must have not been looking that well to miss it :roll:

 

[CraigS]

I belive it has been resident at Barrow Hill.

Indeed it has. Been there for around 18 months or longer now.

 

[Phoenix]

Indeed it has. Been there for around 18 months or longer now.

Yeah seen her not to long ago I was actually surprised to see her there I thought she was abit too high profile to be there for that long but then again what do I about steam eh.

But that video clip is pretty cool really nice to see the whistles blowing whilst the mainline is graced by one of the fine machines.It's strange with Mallard as she is sitting silent but still just the sight of her in the daylight says enough to me.

You could say im abit of a Mallard Ned.

 

[heart-of-wessex]

that video was awesome, seen it before, and watched it more than once, the whistles was just brilliant, even sent a shiver down my spine, such a great performance, was probably 8x better in the flesh.



Cheers,

James.