70000 Britannia meets 6024 King Edward I with lots of whistling!!

Saturday 23rd April was William Shakespeare's birthday and St George's Day. To celebrate, Steam Dreams ran the Cathedrals Express from London Paddington to Stratford Upon Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace.

The same day, the Great Western Society at Didcot Railway Centre had a special steam day with the two preserved GWR King Class loco's 6023 King Edward II and 6024 King Edward I in steam together for the first time in 49 years.

By a happy coincidence, the route of the Shakespeare Express took it past Didcot (this was not intended, it was originally supposed to go via High Wycombe).

The video shows the point where the Cathedrals Express passed 6024 waiting at the halt on the demonstration line at 11.00am. I think the drivers were trying to outdo each other in a whistling competition. Who won? You can decide!

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• whistles
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• steam engines
• gwr
• Britannia
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• 6024
• King Edward 1
• King Edward II
• BR
• cathedrals express
• steam dreams
• gws
• didcot
• 4-6-2
• pacific
• king class
• 4-6-0
• barry scrapyard

[puffbilliekay]

clicked the 'like' button!

[wooltman]

Just AWESOME,love it.Chris

[locomotive67]

Nice one

[34002salisbury]

King Vs Country

[noelist]

whistles galore, smashing, cheers

[johnsonbrothers44554]

what a showdown GWR VS a BR STANDARD

[magic1ond]

Brilliant video.

[bodminloco34016]

love it nice to see two engine greeting each other

[bkendlerA4]

Great idea to film that. Very nice video. A like and a favourite. Well done. Have you looked at mine when she left Paddington?

BKendlerA4

[HSTgreat]

smashin vid mate. have liked and faved :) and its deffo the kings that won the whistle war lol