LMS Jubilee Class 45690 Leander storms the Ribblehead Viaduct

Date: 17 May 2009

Location: Ribblehead Viaduct, North Yorkshire

Train: LMS Jubilee Class 4-6-0 no 45690 Leander

Timekeeping: 10-20 minutes late.

Steaminess: Loads and loads, despite the fierce wind trying to blow it away.

Speed: Limited to 30 over the viaduct

Wobbliness: I dozed off a little bit at the end...

Wind noise: Terrible. It was INCREDIBLY windy. I've been playing with YouTube's AudioSwap function to replace the wind noise with something else.

Number of other spotters: Loads. There were plenty of walkers who all hung around to see the train.

Things to note: Walking directly over the moor requires wellies otherwise you'll spend the day with wet feet. It was incredibly windy, so turn the sound down :-(

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• LMS Jubilee
• 4-6-0
• 45690
• Leander
• Ribblehead
• Blea Moor

[jonnienicholls]

how do you know where to find all these trains?

[d60163]

Usually though a website called uk steam info... I'm quite amazed at the number of steam trains still running on regular mainline tours.

[gainsbourg66]

The curious way the smoke hangs in the air looks like a painting. It ever ceased to amaze me as a boy (I was about 12 when Leander used to regularly haul trains over this same stretch) how utterly indifferent the general public were to steam trains. Thank God Michael Portillo saved Ribblehead...I only wished he could have saved the Woodhead route.

[45694Bellerophon]

Ahhh! Just marvelous, One of the best shots of the Ribblehead Viaduct ive seen, love the music, Great video , Thanks for this, regards to the U K.

[nukleuz999]

one of my favourite videos, love the music, very fitting :)

[atgordon1948]

Great video .. is available without the music?

[BIASpotter]

nice video

shame about the music tho :)

[rockdropper12]

we left hellifield on time but was stopped at settle juction for 20mins with some fast running and a quick water stop at appleby we got to carlisle 2 mins late.on the return run we got back 21mins early and left some passengers at appleby at the water stop oooops!!!! nice video it was very windy most of the day