The Perfect Double-header?

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

Could this be the (in)famous Ghost Train of Lincolnshire? A U1 piloted by an O2 pounding through Much Binding In The Marsh?

Manna, yer a genius!

[ArthurK]

All this talk of the perfect double header leaves my a bit out in the cold. My answer is none of the above. Instead to me the double header etched into my memory is the afernoon Newcastle to Leeds in the late 1940s. It was always pulled by two D49/3 "Hunts". I very quickly built up my tally of that class watching those go by - beautiful even if they were none too clean. Thanks to holidays in Hull and visits to York I saw all of the class though some of the Scottish "Shire" class evaded me
ArthurK

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

I had the trainset up in the garden this PM so I could run some of my dream double headers.

Take yer pick from: O4, G2A, S&D 7F, Standard 9F.

Sadly, the Stanier 8F, being kit built with 50:1 gears, wouldn't double head with anything else.

[WOOTANG]

a good combination
would entail lms royal scot 6100 'royal scot' and 6115 'scots guardsman' on the wes coast main line
or it could be 92220 'evening star' and 92203 'black prince' but it would have to entertain a mineral train but it would be even better going up the lickey incline

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

That reminds me of a train I rode on the East Lancs.

53809 + 92203. With a Pines headboard.

Hmm. Must set the trainset up....

[sirbrian]

My 'Perfect Double-header' took place about 50 years ago with a Derby to London morning express that was pulled by a 'Jubilee' and piloted by a 'Black Five'. I was riding on the 'Black Five' at the time. As we traveled over the points and crossings just South of Luton the locomotive rocked violently from side-to-side. I wondered if we were going to stay on the track! I observed at the time that the locomotive speedometer was indicating 105 mph!! This speedometer indication was and still is the highest speedometer reading that I have ever made on a steam locomotive. I have seen 100 mph on the speedometers of steam locomotives on a number of other occasions, but never more than 100 mph.

Sir Brian

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

Not a double header or even LNER but...

On a Scarborough Spa many moons ago the train, behind 34092 of blessed memory was about 30 down leaving Leeds so the driver made the welkin ring somewhat. I wasn't expecting a brake application for Micklefield Jn, a 60mph restriction, but there was one and a big one. In the fourth coach, the roar from the chimney was clearly heard once clear. On the racing stretch from Church Fenton to York, I extracted my stopwatch and timed over the quarter mile. 9.5 seconds. Some chaps opposite were doing the same and we compared times. They'd got the same.

Nearest I've ever been to the "ton" behind steam! And didn't 34092 look smug at Scarborough after a "right time" arrival. Some of the restrictions on the Scarborough line were taken a bit generously as well, if you get my drift!

[Coboman]

How about a double banker??
LMS Garret pulling, been pushed by the U1 and Big Bertha. Now that must have been a sight to behold!

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

Could rekindle Manna's earthquake, that one. Ooooh, goosepimple time!

[kudu]

Remember my dad taking me to Kings Cross to see a - THE - double-headed Atlantic departure. I was a bit young to appreciate it, though.

Kudu

[strang steel]

How about a double banker??
LMS Garret pulling, been pushed by the U1 and Big Bertha. Now that must have been a sight to behold!

There is a photo of that in existence somewhere. I have seen it in an edition of Backtrack.

[PGBerrie]

Look no further than the Wentworth Incline before the electrics arrived: WD and O4 on the front and O4 and WD pushing! (As per Woodhead Part 2, E. M. Johnson, Foxline)

I googled "Wentworth Incline, O4" and found the visipix site with pictures of the Garrett and an O4 double heading - unfortunately the URL is too long to copy.

Peter

[third-rail]

Look no further than the Wentworth Incline before the electrics arrived: WD and O4 on the front and O4 and WD pushing! (As per Woodhead Part 2, E. M. Johnson, Foxline)

I googled "Wentworth Incline, O4" and found the visipix site with pictures of the Garrett and an O4 double heading - unfortunately the URL is too long to copy.

Peter

found this with apologies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fVggOE8OUs

[manna]

G'Day Gents

I have two (double-double headers )

First----- Imagine a sunny day sitting by the Hertford branch, birds are cheeping, beers foaming in the glass, and you hear a whistle 'pop' in the distance, a bit of light smoke appears over the trees, two locos, traveling slowly along, a J50 and a J6 with a couple of wagons, heading to Enfield Chas to shunt the banana wagons about.

Second----Two P1's poundin' the line to Hornsey, with a hundred on, between the tunnels at Welwyn North, in the pouring rain.

manna

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

'ave a gander at these!

http://visipix.dynalias.com/newsgroups/ ... d=fulltext

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