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Uploaded by on Oct 6, 2008

A spectacular race with 60009 Union of SA on the North Wales Coast line,Llandudno Jct to Colwyn Bay in Aug08. Note the chime whistle and glimpses of the fire in the cab.

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  • Top gear? cars? That's an insult to this magnificent, noble beast. There is nothing, repeat nothing, that is aesthetically comparable with this. Repeat- NOTHING.

  • @StolenMonkey its top speed 203kmh might not seem like much but remember it weighs 165 tons and it did 203kmh while carrying carriges..

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  • @STbluefox It'd be off in the horizon ? really ? in a straight line ? Please shove some coal in your brain and stoke it up to steam and realise even a normal family saloon would beat this .

  • Yep now that is an engine! The A4 class aka the "Mallard class" Lovelly machinery! I'd like to have a go at shovelling the coal on suach a beastie to get her to 100 Mph! Cool!

  • Somebody placing the remark about topgear....I wish steam locomotives like that would be presented in a more sexy, attractive, pasionate way that may attract more people that normally wach topgear. I mean, if you love speed, these steamlocomotive are your thing. I have been in trains doing 330 km/h, and even one (the maglev) doing 430 km/h (see mrcastlehunter) but nothing gets close to the sensation of speed and power you get when travelling at 75 m/h with a steam train.

  • That is a very sexy site! Well done!

  • I like that, and I'm a Midland man...she didnt even look like she was trying did she?!

  • Awwww, luuuucky! :D But yeah you would be unwise to actually race that puppy. It'd be off into a dot on the horizon faster than you can say A4 pacific!

  • I cannot wait to see this beast back on the main line in 2012.

    They should let her loose and really get Mallard shaking in her boots.

  • @viceroytennis Nothing?

  • @viceroytennis Spitfire? (It's up there with it, in my opinion!)

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