March is a good month for spotting ....

[chippy]

I was sheltering behind the hedge near the bus stop.

[chippy]

Westbury

http://www.flickr.com/photos/byjr/8582889478/

[Geoffers]

My trip to Dawlish did not go as smoothly as I hoped. I was still walking to my vantage point to film The Mayflower, when it passed me without warning and several minutes early. Luckily my sister was a few hundred yards behind me and saw it approaching the station and was able to get some decent footage.

For the return journey, sea breaking over the coastal path meant we couldn't get to an ideal position in time so had to film from the station bridge. By that time the weather had deteriorated significantly, so that didn't help matters.

For The Cathedrals Express, a combination of some local buffoon giving completely incorrect info for the outward journey ("it's running 77 minutes late") and late running on the return & adverse weather, meant less than perfect positioning and conditions for this trip, too.

Still, here they are:

http://youtu.be/R-CqA2L9AEs

http://youtu.be/CduqD9DkKJU

[chippy]

tangmere & support coach

http://www.flickr.com/photos/byjr/8584733829/

[free2grice]

.....a combination of some local buffoon giving completely incorrect info for the outward journey ("it's running 77 minutes late")

I'm afraid that the information that the buffoon gave you was correct. I had a call from a friend who was on the charter. He told me that Tornado had been held at Slough for over an hour. Tornado did exceptionally well to claw back the late running. Here is a quote from Nat-Preservation:
''65 minutes late on leaving Reading due to air break problem which held the train up at Slough for over an hour.''
If you need to know where a train is use Realtime Train Info. <BJ>

[chippy]

I was also caught out by the delay...I was waiting at westbury for it,we new it was going to be late then they said over the station speaker system that as tornado was so late it would not come in to the station,but would be using the 'avoiding' line so that it would not need to slow down.As the announcer finished we caught the distant exhaust trail as it passed by at great speed,never got any photos...but the day was not lost as tangmere had already been through the station earlier.I think it was about an hour late,just before midday at westbury.

[Geoffers]

.....a combination of some local buffoon giving completely incorrect info for the outward journey ("it's running 77 minutes late")

I'm afraid that the information that the buffoon gave you was correct. I had a call from a friend who was on the charter. He told me that Tornado had been held at Slough for over an hour. Tornado did exceptionally well to claw back the late running. Here is a quote from Nat-Preservation:
''65 minutes late on leaving Reading due to air break problem which held the train up at Slough for over an hour.''
If you need to know where a train is use Realtime Train Info. <BJ>

Oh, I don't doubt the buffoon meant well. Unfortunately he didn't say it *was* running 77 minutes late at Slough or Reading, or wherever, he said it *is* running 77 minutes late, this about 15 minutes before we were expecting it to arrive! Hence instead of being in position we were on the platform waiting a local train to Paignton so we could film it later at Goodrington Sands.

[Paul G]

Well I Did Manage to get out ond see 45407 Lancashire Fusiler on Sunday On the Return to Castleton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP8AsUjPBak[/url]