Brunel Anniversary Limited Special

[Rich_Eason]

Here is a pic I managed to grab Saturday night of the Brunel Anniversary Limited Special running through Filton Abbey Wood about 20mins late on the return leg to Bristol Temple Meads. Fast fading light and looming hail storm resulted in a bit of dark picture...



I Made the trip out to Pilning in the morning, last real decent viewing spot before blasting into Severn Tunnel, glorious strong sunshine (not helping with taking pics) and a very impressive turn of speed down the hill with 14(?) Mks 1s and 2s + generator car in tow.

[NDTSDN]

Only 20 minutes late !!

It left Hereford an hour late on the way back!

It was a super fast run from Hereford to BTM on Saturday.

13 coaches in total.

I was on it !!

[Rich_Eason]

However late it was it seemed like 20mins!...to be honest it was too cold to get my hands out of pockets to look at my watch!

How late was it on the way back on Saturday then?

Hope you had a good day, was going at some fair old whack down towards Severn Tunnel when we saw it...unfortunatly the pics taken in the morning were pretty poor

[NDTSDN]

It was 20 minutes late.

However as it was an hour down at one stage it was remarkable to be back in BTM only 20 minutes down.

Going down Abergavenny bank it reached at least 80, and racing through Severn Tunnel Junction Station it was awesome.

We were scheduled to stop at Magor for water but as it flashed past, I knew that was no longer the case!!

This saved several minutes.

A superb run.

[DAVE]

Without doubt the best performing and busiest loco in steam preservation!
Long live the King!

Dave Nailsea

[James]

Without doubt the best performing and busiest loco in steam preservation!

Apart from Tangmere

[DAVE]

Tangmere is no doubt a good engine for a "Spam Can" but not in the same class as the King for the loadings pulled on a regular basis.
I stand by my choice of a superior engine in performance, looks etc!
Any "seconders" out there!

Dave Nailsea

[carpetcone]

Just to add some more facts to those already mentioned....
I checked my timing sheet for Saturdays run and on the outward leg the biggest delay was at Craven Arms Sched/ Actual 1216 1257 caused by being held at the junction then having to follow a service train. Shrewsbury was a cock up going in to the centre road, then going through the station and reversing back in due to some talk of gauge clearance resulting in timings of 1242 1330.
On the return leg, the timings were Shrewsbury Dep 1534 1623 , Hereford 1722 1818, Tram Inn 1731 1830, Abergavenny 1749 1850, Maindee N Junc 1810 1910, STJ 1859 1923, Patchway 1911 1935.

An excellent run, however, I was in coach B and the info supplied by the stewards of Kingfisher Tours was very lacking.

Steve

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