A4 "Silver Fox" On The Elizabethan

That's a fascinating film, Bob; thanks for the post. I'm a big fan of the A4 Pacifics, and always enjoy films of them in service. I look forward to seeing what happens at the big reunion in York this summer, although I will need to watch it from afar, alas. Here's the website for that gathering:

http://www.nrm.org.uk/PlanaVis...vents/mallard75.aspx

Very interesting film...thank you.

Chris

http://heritagerailway.co.uk/n...0mph-main-line-trips

They seem to be pulling out all the stops for the A4 gathering - see the link for recently announced trips on the East Coast Main behind A4 Bittern.  Permission has been received to run up to 90mph on limited sections.

--Reed

Great find and wonderful way to spend part of my Saturday morning, thanks!

Although it was a little coo coo in the beginning.

I remember seeing a lot of that footage in the A&E documentary series Locomotion (episode 2: Taming the Iron Monster). That series still remains one of my all-time favorite railroad documentaries, and has helped solidify my interest in European railroading.

Elizabethan Express is available in a three-DVD box set called Great American & European Railroads.  I received a set as a gift, but I'm sure it's available online if anyone's interested.  The other short films in the set are excellent as well.  (Note: although there is a German loco on the cover, "European" in the title means "British with a little bit of French.")

Aaron