UK - Wonderful, an A4 at speed on the East Coast Mainline, 7/12/2017 скачать в хорошем качестве

UK - Wonderful, an A4 at speed on the East Coast Mainline, 7/12/2017

In bitterly cold winds, I waited with fellow enthusiasts for the sight of an A4 Pacific blasting up the East Coast Main Line. We waited and we waited and we waited. Another train, it turns out, had hit an obstacle (unknown) and the whole mainline was blocked for an hour and a half. Our steam special, together with several other trains, was held in Peterborough station. Finally, almost two hours late, our A4 appeared. But, boy, was it worth the wait. The driver of the A4 Pacific tried hard to catch up some time and, even though the train was timetabled to run at a 60mph maximum, he was working the A4 as hard as possible, and my head was pelted with fragments of soot and coal dust as the train passed by. In my second shot, at Arksey, the A4 was still being worked to the limit on the steep climb north of Doncaster .... a wonderful sight.