60019 'Bittern' Hauls The Cathedrals Express Through Cholsey 05/12/2009

The 5th day of the Christmas month brings 60019 'Bittern' to haul The Cathedrals Express Charter past Cholsey. As she was booked to go straight through Didcot Parkway, there certainly didn't seem any messing about from her on the straight at Manor Farm, Cholsey. Quite a nice powerful performance in all fairness from the LNER A4 Class steam locomotive.
Locomotive - LNER A4 Class 4-6-2 No.60019 'Bittern'
Route - London Paddington - Cardiff - London Paddington
Steam Hauled Throughout
Location - Manor Farm, Cholsey
Date - 05/12/2009

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• 60019
• Bittern
• LNER
• A4
• The
• Cathedrals
• Express
• Cholsey
• Manor
• Farm
• Didcot
• Parkway
• London
• Paddington
• Cardiff

[Teenagetrainphotos]

Great Lighting Zac!

Si

[50031mad]

Cheers Si, Yeahh it was a scramble for the spot day as the sun was in a very difficult position for filming, so I thought I'd set up my tripod on the side of the bridge and hope for the best! However the sun did go round abit more & obviously I got the advantage on my side... however the other videographers went on the other side as it was crampt for space which was a real pain as they had no lighting :-( , Cheers Si

[RailPhotoAnthology]

Fantastic stuff , Zac

[50031mad]

Many thanks David

[robmasterman]

Excellent video Zac, and great to see her stretch her legs in open countryside...5* Bob

[50031mad]

Many thanks Bob, ohh yes she certainly did that! phwoahhh lovely to see her at this location to be honest I thought wasn't going to look as good as this but she did look lovely... Cheers Bob

[1madaboutguitar]

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[itfcsam]

I think i saw a different tug to you. It was the army one in like a red/brown kinda colour, gota nice 2 tone at Cam and then passing under a bridge at Standish! Yeh i was lucky! Got a whistle as well. Found Challow last week too! By accident so got real close! Dont think I'd be able to find it again now though!

[50031mad]

Thanks Ryan, ohhh yes it was very nice to actually have a steam loco that was really showing her powerfull efforts off as she was powering through on the fast at Cholsey, No need to stop at Didcot so why not ehhh :-P Cheers mate

[50031mad]

Cheers Sam. Blimey you got lucky there then! Nice of someone to tell you ehhh :-D yeahhhh we saw the tug aswell on the murcos... the freight video from this location is still to be made :-) Cheers mate