Flying Scotsman .... Mexborough / Conisbrough +++ 25th June +++

[Fez1879]

Took my 85 year old Dad to Hatfield/Stainy to watch it go through a real treat. Thanks for the updates on here I would never have known without them

[wilts rover]

Nice bit of film of it leaving Cleethorpes here.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid4790376866001?bckey=AQ~~,AAABKPKaGak~,TpOrUJpAbLixByLKmTb4WBmvcRzX1iHB&bctid=4935730795001

I will check my notebooks and get back to you on the 4VEP Longbridge. I believe it is the 09.49 passing South Coulsdon but it might take serval years to confirm it. Still got the hat!

[BobG]

Thanks Wilts

Not really relevant, but, quite by chance, I had to spend half an hour on the platform at Didcot a few weeks ago waiting for some train or other. The wait was made more than palatable by the sight of Tornado repeatedly trundling up and down their little stretch of track there emitting huge clouds of smoke and steam . Again by chance, saw it steaming away quietly to itself in the platform at Bristol Temple Meads about a fortnight back too.

BobG

[Donnywolf]

Last week Filo posted this :

The Station Hotel at Blaxton

On SATURDAY 18TH JUNE..The FLYING SCOTSMAN 🚂 is scheduled to make a 20 minute stop for water at Finningley!

In celebration of this.. We are holding another STATIONFEST!! Which we will also be raising money for ARMED FORCES DAY - Our lovely Station friend Ben Parkinson will be coming for the day too 😀

Come down to hopefully see the very famous locomotive, live bands, music, bbq, outside bars and bouncy castles 😃 we will update with times ASAP..Please share 🙌

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Thought I would give it a "bump" as this is a special event and it could be a l-o-n-g time till 60103 passes down that Line again let alone stops for 20 minutes or so to take on Water hopefully right by the Pub itself

I am actively looking almost hourly for details of the time(s) and will post them as soon as I get them so keep checking back - because the times are getting more secretive due to the trespassing on the Line and indeed FS is only taking the Train from Newark because so many people were risking life and limb further South than that

[Bentley Bullet]

Thanks for uploading this picture of Wilts. I am sure he has no trouble finding girlfriends.

However, it most certainly is not 1975, as the train behind him is a 4VEP or possibly a 4CIG of the erstwhile British Railways Southern Region, in the livery of Network Southeast which was not introduced until 1986.

It is this inattention to accuracy across the media which gets spotters like me truly 'steamed up'

Wasn't it 1996 when this shot was taken? I think it might have been a promotion picture shoot before the movie was premiered. It's clear that Ewan McGregor is posing in his 'Renton' character for the camera.

[Dutch Uncle]

Nothing to do with trainspotting, but I have a strange story about Blaxton.

For many years I knew a Dutchman called Blackstone who worked in a similar technical area to me (Modelling & Simulation), and eventually I ended up interviewing him for a job with us in Holland. He was the outstanding candidate, and he then came to work for me some months later. On his first day, after first discovering that he was coincidentally the next door neighbour of a lifelong squash friend of mine in a distant corner of the Netherlands, I asked him (in Dutch) how such a totally Dutch person had a name like Stephen Blackstone. He told me that centuries ago his family and family name came from a tiny village in the North of England that I certainly would never have heard of ...................Blaxton! He was very wary of me after that, thinking that somehow I had been stalking him for centuries.

 

[Muttley]

Nothing to do with trainspotting, but I have a strange story about Blaxton.

For many years I knew a Dutchman called Stephen Blackstone who worked in a similar technical area to me (Modelling & Simulation), and eventually I ended up interviewing him for a job with us in Holland. He was the outstanding candidate, and he then came to work for me some months later. On his first day, after first discovering that he was coincidentally the next door neighbour of a lifelong squash friend of mine in a distant corner of the Netherlands, I asked him (in Dutch) how such a totally Dutch person had a name like Stephen Blackstone. He told me that centuries ago his family and family name came from a tiny village in the North of England that I certainly would never have heard of ...................Blaxton! He was very wary of me after that, thinking that somehow I had been stalking him for centuries.

Lots of links to the Dutch in that area due to Cornelius Vermuyden being brought in by Charles 1 to drain Hatfield Chase. I've got ancestry in Misson that is supposedly related to Vermuyden.

[Mike_F]

For many years I knew a Dutchman who worked in a similar technical area to me (Modelling & Simulation),

Robin van Persie?

[Donnywolf]

Filo

No timings as yet as they are being "withheld" ostensibly to prevent trespassers getting on the Line.

Quite potty imo because whenever they ARE released, someone will post them on social media and within minutes everyone will know where FS is scheduled to be and at what time. Even if that time schedule is released Saturday morning will it stop all those f*** you Jack I'm alright types who want THE best view from going trackside if they want ... of course it wont.

Anyway not for the first time I have digressed - just wondering if you have any inside info / intel from The Station yet ? With a Water Tanker attending surely that Haulage Company has to know where and when it is going ?

Personally I am hoping to catch FS passing Haxey somewhere / then stationary at Finno for a few minutes / then if timings allow up Fenwick way

If timings don't allow I will be happy to join the Stationfest ! Can you post that Poster on here too as it may attract a few ?

[Filo]

Filo

No timings as yet as they are being "withheld" ostensibly to prevent trespassers getting on the Line.

Quite potty imo because whenever they ARE released, someone will post them on social media and within minutes everyone will know where FS is scheduled to be and at what time. Even if that time schedule is released Saturday morning will it stop all those f*** you Jack I'm alright types who want THE best view from going trackside if they want ... of course it wont.

Anyway not for the first time I have digressed - just wondering if you have any inside info / intel from The Station yet ? With a Water Tanker attending surely that Haulage Company has to know where and when it is going ?

Personally I am hoping to catch FS passing Haxey somewhere / then stationary at Finno for a few minutes / then if timings allow up Fenwick way

If timings don't allow I will be happy to join the Stationfest ! Can you post that Poster on here too as it may attract a few ?

No info, only posted it because I saw it advertised and thought some of you train buffs would be interested

[Donnywolf]

Ah ok .... I will continue looking for the Times (hourly !) Cheers JT

[RoversDave]

Don't understand why it has to stop for water in this chuffing weather. 

[Donnywolf]

I'll see your Avatar and raise you a Rainbow !

[Donnywolf]

Times for today finally posted

http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realtimetrains.co.uk%2Ftrain%2FU50601%2F2016%2F06%2F18%2Fadvanced&h=cAQE2-7rT

Passing Beckingham 1130 and arriving Bessacarr 1215

I am guessing that the Loco may stop for Water at Blaxton between those times but that is a guess. FS was due to pull the train from London via Newark to York and would have needed watering at some point. So that would have fitted in with doing so at Finno but I am unsure now as it only starts pulling the Train FROM Newark and so possibly Newark to York in distance can be managed on one "tank"?

There looks to be plenty of time to spare between Beckingham and Bessacarr Jn but no specific scheduled times allocated for the watering and there usually IS and the start watering stop watering times are usually posted

Anyway it may stop for Water but it will be through the Crossing at some point which can be worked out from the link above

[wilts rover]

45 minutes to get from Beckingham to Bessacarr - its either stopping for water or on a go slow!

[Donnywolf]

My thoughts exactly ... maybe not watering up but maybe the "stop" is going to happen anyway

And for those who are Steam Train chasers here are a few times for today

Steam Train Duchess of Sutherland at Moorthorpe 10 15

Scotsman Park Drain 11.35 ish / Stopping at Blaxton perhaps 11.45 ish Donny Station 12.24 to 12.30 and Moss Crossing 12.40 ish

Scotsman returns to Moss at around 16.30 and reaches Donny around 16.45

Duchess of Sutherland / or Hamilton reaches Donny at 18.07 and continues via Mexborough at 18.23

Better than todays Euros ?

[ExileRover]

Do we know where abouts it is stopping in Blaxton? Is it at the station pub finningley/blaxton?

[Donnywolf]

Too late now of course but I watched it through Park Drain Level Crossing "at speed" then drove to Blaxton Xing where there were hundreds of people as it did indeed take on Water. The Crossing Barriers were 4 or 5 deep with people.

This was trailed in the OP of course

Then I scooted to Fenwick Level Xing as it sailed through "flat out" = 75mph (I had the place to myself) and then had a delightful Chicken Leek and Bacon Pie + 2 Theakstons Bitters.

Now you have a chance later to see it through Donny at 16.45 as it comes back from York but then another Steam Train Princess Elizabeth will go through an hour later. Check em all out at UKSTEAMINFO

[Donnywolf]

Here is a snap of the "chaos" at Blaxton LX

[winegums]

We went to see it from the Mallard Bridge near B and  Q and we were the only ones there.

[Donnywolf]

Aye and only me at Fenwick (on foot that is - 2 in cars)

Hardly any at Donny for Southbound at 16.45 where it looked good - and the second Steam Engine had broken down so was Diesel hauled all way home from Scarborough !

[Donnywolf]

They will wear the bugger out BUT Flying Scotsman back again this week - through Mexborough & Conisbrough (Times as yet not known) Then on to Donny / York line returning later in the evenin

Another Steam Engine will also pass through there then Donny then Thorne South on the same day (again timings not yet known - but estimating Donny 10.40) so possible that both will be similar times !