{"id":20908,"date":"2013-07-02T08:22:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T13:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20908"},"modified":"2014-06-18T09:29:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T14:29:50","slug":"british-high-speed-railway-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/07\/02\/british-high-speed-railway-run\/","title":{"rendered":"British high speed railway run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Ez5og1iFU8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As part of the 75th anniversary of Mallard&#8217;s record breaking 126mph run in 1938, sister loco 4464 Bittern was temporally permitted to exceed from 75mph to 90mph on the mainline. This was to be a rare look at steam running at higher speeds, following recent high speed test runs. On June 29th Bittern hauled a London-York special &#8220;The Ebor Streak&#8221; which ran along the A4&#8217;s native racing ground the East Coast Mainline.<\/p>\n<p>4464 is first seen at Langford in Bedfordshire running like a greyhound at 90mph! Well&#8230;I think it was doing a little more than 90! After a high octane pursuit on the A1 carriageway, the next location is what better place to see an LNER A4 would be Doncaster. Ending on a high note, the A4 whistles and echoes past Doncaster Works where she, Mallard, Flying Scotsman and all other LNER locos were built.<\/p>\n<p>With special thanks to Locomotive Services Limited, DBS and Network Rail for this miracle to happen.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m now in high hopes in getting the next two 90mph runs on July 19th and 27th.<\/p>\n<p>These shots and much much more will be included in the forthcoming documentary: &#8220;BITTERN: The Need for Speed&#8221; as part of the &#8220;MALLARD 75&#8221; celebrations. Which will include at an depth look at the preparations and build up to the main events in June &#038; July, along with interviews with the crews &#038; officals at this historic event in railway preservation history. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ovpsteam.co.uk\/48.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ovpsteam.co.uk\/48.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to Eric Kirkland for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the 75th anniversary of Mallard&#8217;s record breaking 126mph run in 1938, sister loco 4464 Bittern was temporally permitted to exceed from 75mph to 90mph on the mainline. This was to be a rare look at steam running at higher speeds, following recent high speed test runs. On June 29th Bittern hauled a [&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":[4,237,15],"tags":[185,980],"class_list":["post-20908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-railways","category-technology","tag-highspeedrail","tag-steampower"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5re","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20908","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=20908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26389,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20908\/revisions\/26389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}