Got it with the drone too - all angles covered ;-) Just glad to get it Tony as I'll be working for its Saturday return.

Close, but just okay :-) It's between Harrowden Junction and Wellingborough Yard next to the Days Aggregates site.

@ ahh thanks thought i recognised it but couldn’t think where. Are you definitely allowed to go up to the track? google maps is showing a bit of fencing and I’m a bit worried incase I’m not allowed there

It's definitely okay there, myself and a few others use it. For this shot I'm standing on a mound of rubble/mud which gives you the height to see over the palisade fencing. There's also a lower down shot just along from the mound for anything coming south, but it's a bit overgrown. ​@maisie_d213

@ been to this spot before I think but I was told it was all overgrown so I stopped going there

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Thousands(hundreds of thousands)of people - and I've made thousands of pounds from my videos and photos, so.........

@ sorry

In this context, yep!

Indeed. It was a lovely sight and sound.

I can only assume that Class 390s aren't route cleared between Stoke and North Staffs Jct.

@ that would make sense. I’ve seen videos of them between Crewe and Stoke.

It looks absolutely stunning in its fresh blue livery, especially in the sunshine like today.

They do sound a bit strange Tony, not really like anything else in this country.

Thanks. That'll be handy for you with The Great Gathering at Derby Litchurch Lane this August for Railway 200 then. I was up at North Staffs Jct today to get some of the specials for today's press launch.

@MrDeltic15 Yes would love to do in August

You're welcome 😊

Yes, I think for the guys on the footbridge rather than me.

Very close Tony, but maybe made the clip more interesting?

@MrDeltic15 more like 'perfect timing'...😆

Thanks. Just about right time, right place there.

It's between Whittlesey and March, or to be more precise between Coates and Turves. If you look on maps the road is Turf Drove.

Thanks. Yes, it's very different these days, but then I guess a lot of other things have changed too. Most of my trips out these days tend to be centered around one or two STP workings with the older locos in charge, but you can't really avoid Class 66s these days, just like we couldn't avoid Class 47s back in the 80s & 90s I guess.

Thanks very much.

Fair enough. So 1, maybe because I've started to try colour-coding the comments to match the operator they're less clear, but nobody has ever mentioned this as a problem before over the last decade or more. 2, I don't understand what you mean about KZbin monitoring the comments or is it me? As for DRS not Drs and GBRf not Gbrf, these are the correct way the trains report as listed on RealTimeTrains, Railcam, Freightmaster, FreightLocate, etc. DIRFT(not DRIFT)stands for Daventry International Railfreight Terminal, but I also add the Nortoft Lane location. I had a look at your channel to see how I should be doing it, but didn't find anything to help me.

Its not DRIFT - it is DIRFT (Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal) Granted its all intermodal containers (seen one, seen 'em all) but still interesting to see wagons that may arrive from Wentloog on continent, on their way as Anglo-Scottish traffic to Mossend, Millerhill in matter of hours

Thank you. I think you'll enjoy my Cossington movie coming up later next week then!

Thanks.

Yes, it's not the same these days, but at least we still have a handful of Class 91s for now. The GWR Castle HSTs haven't much longer left, and then the Scotrail Inter7City HSTs will be after those, and then it really is the end of an era.

Thanks. Yes, I thought I'd go here for it and get it with the drone too, which with its smoke trail showed just how relatively short the actual dive-under is.

Thanks Mark, and a belated Happy New Year to you too. Slow progress, but things should step up this year, especially later this year...........

@@MrDeltic15 Are you retiring later this year then😀

@@markjones5819 I can neither confirm or deny those rumours at this time 😉 Crunching numbers at the moment, but it's looking likely 🤞

Thank you very much.

The room it's in is 4m x 2.5m, and as you can probably see from how the layout fits in there that allows for a walkway in from the door and the centre open operating area. Hope that helps, and good luck with your project.

Thanks very much.

A belated Happy New Year to you as well. Thank you, that's much appreciated.

It's great isn't it Tony, definitely reminds me of my childhood before the second generation units arrived.

Those were the days! You'll have seen even more changes that I have there then. I hardly ever visit the station these days, but then it's pretty much unit central now.

@@MrDeltic15 Do you remember the turntable? My dad was a fire lighter in the loco shed, and he used to give a hand when needed to help turning engines around. I seem to recall they rotated a big metal wheel to turn the table, but I was only a nipper so I may have got the wheel bit wrong. Do you know if Rushton station is a private dwelling now or owned by a steam preservation society?

The turntable was before my time I'm afraid, but I've seen a few photos of the old shed and locos. There would most likely have been a large metal wheel on cogs to rotate the turntable manually. Rushton station is a private dwelling as far as I know, having been redeveloped a bit in a recent years along with the more modern houses in the old station yard there.

Indeed. Didcot now a mass of masts and wires too of course, with pretty much the only thing remaining from then being the Turbos.

Thanks very much. I tend to go Banbury/Kings Sutton these days, but a trip down this way(or further towards Westbury)is on my mind for some point.

Thanks very much. Hope you had a great Christmas and New Year.

Yes. You did get some moves like this back then, but very much before the bi-directional signalling and running common in a lot of places these days.

Thank you very much. Yes, I loved it down here with all the loco-hauled stock and HSTs back then. Very different these days of course, the station and stock much brighter/cleaner than back then, but it's just not as interesting with today's motive power.

It's interesting comparing the short section they had to replace when doing the dive-under(just visible in the background here)as you can clearly see the difference in the late 1980s masts compared to those that appeared from the early 2000s.

You're welcome.

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

Quite a sight and sound - not something easy to repeat these days.

Thank you.

Thanks very much Tony.

Thank you very much. The weather certainly played ball for the Harringworth drone shot in the morning and then Uffington in the afternoon whilst waiting for 7Q84.

Model railways have certainly moved on since I last had a layout, so my modelling skills will have to move on too so it looks realistic!

Thanks very much.

They're not bad for a modern unit, thanks to the "Thrash Pod" when in diesel mode.

Thanks. Usually on a Friday it runs from Derby Chaddesden Sidings to Kings Lynn, then makes a short trip from there to nearby Middleton Towers where it returns from on a Saturday to Ravenhead. Some runs in 2024 also went to Brandon Sidings.