While I was looking for a photo of Ilfracombe to use in my last post, I came across the pictures below. They were taken at London’s Kings Cross Station last month. I thought I would post them here as I know that many raster to vector users are keen on steam locomotives!
The locomotive is the Gresley A4 No. 60019 Bittern, originally built in 1937. It was withdrawn from service in 1966 and has since been restored. It just happened to be in Kings Cross station when I arrived on a train from Cambridge, and it was about to depart on a journey to York.
I later learned that it did the journey so quickly that it arrived in York 42 minutes early, much to the annoyance of those who had turned up to photograph it! The journey to York also included the longest non-stop steam run in Britain since 1968 – 126 miles, which it did in 126 minutes. This was made possible by the fact that it was running with two tenders, the second of which carries 9000 gallons of water. This negated the need to stop en route.
