Black 5 - 44932 - Along the North Wales Coast this evening

[Welshguy1048]

- Black 5 - 44932 on its return along the North Wales Coast this evening.

The times if anybody would like to see it

Dave

Realtime Trains | 1Z52 1615 Blaenau Ffestiniog to Preston | 01/08/2023

Real-time train running information for 1Z52 1615 departure from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Preston on 01/08/2023. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

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A video of it this morning

 

[Harvester]

- Black 5 - 44932 on its return along the North Wales Coast this evening.

The times if anybody would like to see it

Dave

Moving quite fast, considering it’s running tender first!

 

[Whistler40145]

Moving quite fast, considering it’s running tender first!

That’s pretty unusual, normally steam locos get turned on the triangle near Holyhead

 

[hexagon789]

Moving quite fast, considering it’s running tender first!

Think there's a 45 limit for tender-first running.

 

[bleeder4]

That’s pretty unusual, normally steam locos get turned on the triangle near Holyhead

They do if the trip is going to Holyhead, but yesterday's was to Blaneau Ffestiniog. Nowhere to turn around there.

 

[Whistler40145]

They do if the trip is going to Holyhead, but yesterday's was to Blaneau Ffestiniog. Nowhere to turn around there.

Of course

 

[railfan99]

Think there's a 45 limit for tender-first running.

That's fast: in my Australian state on broad gauge (1600mm), steam locos tender first are restricted to a maximum speed of 50kmh (about 31mph), even though R class locos (built by North British Locomotive Co in the early 1950s) are capable funnel first on main lines of 115kmh (though restricted on some main lines to 80kmh). So UK ones, tender first, can travel c.50 per cent faster.

 

[hexagon789]

That's fast: in my Australian state on broad gauge (1600mm), steam locos tender first are restricted to a maximum speed of 50kmh (about 31mph), even though R class locos (built by North British Locomotive Co in the early 1950s) are capable funnel first on main lines of 115kmh (though restricted on some main lines to 80kmh). So UK ones, tender first, can travel c.50 per cent faster.

Never thought of it like that!

I admit to just thinking of it in a GB context where it means 45mph vice 60 or 75.