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 .. thanks
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! Keith.
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. Keith.