Favourite Streak (A4) video.

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  1. Ron

    Ron Full Member

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    My favourite loco taken at my birth town station!!



    (best seen full screen and sound on number 11!)
     
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    ianvolvo46 Staff Member Moderator

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    Stunning Ron I just love the way it emerges out of the darkness it must have been like a ghost train to those not expecting it :thumbup::thumbup:.. thanks
     
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    Now that is how to drive a steam engine!!!!!!!!!
     
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    Keith M Staff Member Moderator

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    I was lucky enough to see "Bittern" on one of the 90mph runs a couple of years ago. That's how they used to come through Retford when I was trainspotting there back in the late 50's/early 60's. I have my own video of that loco coming into Retford to take on water on another of it's runs, local Fire Brigade provided a pumping engine. That siren whistle is the one thing that still makes what's left of my hair stand on end, nothing to touch it!:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

    Keith.
     
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    Keith M Staff Member Moderator

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    Just looked the 90mph runs up, didn't realise it was 2013, which just goes to show how time flies! I hadn't been back to Retford since my early days, and apart from the removal of the centre track where the 'straight-through-ers' used to run on, nothing much appeared to have changed apart from electrification.
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    What bit of hair I have stands up the same when I hear a chime whistle to!! ( Even my OO model!!) :giggle:
     

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