{"id":20476,"date":"2013-05-30T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T12:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20476"},"modified":"2014-06-18T09:24:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T14:24:17","slug":"high-speed-steam-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/30\/high-speed-steam-run\/","title":{"rendered":"High speed steam run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/me1OfEEKk3I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LNER A4 Class 4464 (60019) &#8220;Bittern&#8221; has been given dispensation to run at 90MPH on the East Coast Main Line in July, to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Mallard&#8217;s world speed record, subject to a satisfactory high speed test. This is that test. The weather was perfect &mdash; damp, cool, no wind. Bittern left Didcot at 05:23 am and flew through Slough 05:58 at full pelt for an average of 60mph over the 35 miles. The 6.2 mile section between Maidenhead and Slough was completed in 4 minutes, an average of 93MPH. Using film time markers I timed the whole train at 90mph through Taplow where this film was shot.<\/p>\n<p>Given the two sets of hand cranked data, and with no speed gun to hand, I am happy to put the 90MPH stamp on the film title.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to Jim Guthrie for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LNER A4 Class 4464 (60019) &#8220;Bittern&#8221; has been given dispensation to run at 90MPH on the East Coast Main Line in July, to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Mallard&#8217;s world speed record, subject to a satisfactory high speed test. This is that test. The weather was perfect &mdash; damp, cool, no wind. Bittern left Didcot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,237,15],"tags":[185,980],"class_list":["post-20476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-railways","category-technology","tag-highspeedrail","tag-steampower"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5kg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26388,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20476\/revisions\/26388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}