It should have been a good weekend for
photographing and getting some video of steam train specials. It didn't quite
turn out that way due to the rather wayward timing of Sunday's Tin Bath
Special.
Saturday's trip out was to see The Valentine
White Rose running from London Kings Cross to York.
I'd got the timing from Real Time Trains
just about spot on for our 45 minute trip out to Colton Junction near York.
There were a good number of enthusiasts already in their chosen spots as we
arrived. I think 34067 Tangmere was third choice locomotive for this tour
behind 70000 Britannia and 60009 Union of South Africa. Actually it's a bit of
a treat to see an Ex Southern Region locomotive working in this part of the
country.
Tangmere sped by running a few minutes early
but with a rather disappointing amount of smoke.
Sunday's plan was to capture The Tin Bath
in Wakefield our local station. I've blogged before about the special charter
steam train called the Tin Bath named after the Last of the Summer Wine television
programme. On Sunday it was due to travel through Wakefield. This was too good
an opportunity to miss so my plan was to pop down to the station to grab a
quick video clip as it passed through. I knew from the Internet the train was
running almost an hour late and so tried to judge our arrival time accordingly. Then at the last minute I decided more of an action packed video would
be better rather than the train passing slowly through the station and decided
on a spot out towards Horbury Junction. The trouble was I got the timing all wrong and we
arrived just as smoke billowed over the bridge parapets. So as
you've probably guessed there are no photographs of The Tin Bath.
To finish off this post the video of
Tangmere heading The Valentine White Rose is included below.
