15/11/2025
Every Man/Women n Dog was out today :)
Like everyone else, we set out this morning to see the steam head North to York. We started south of Doncaster today and made our way to Babworth Loops to watch Sir Nigel Gresley take on water from a tanker. Then we jumped in car with no clear idea where to see it again and ended up just making it to Ranskill as it flew past.
Headed to Rushey Sidings on the Lincoln line, thinking Black 5 was on the way, turns out we were on the wrong line. Given it was running +50 we slowly headed towards Collingham, until we noticed it had diverted up the ECML at Newark to gain time.
So we flew up to Hambleton Jct and just made it to see it pass. Good to see a few others up there too.
Spent the rest of the day in the area and caught this ex-Scotrail turbostar on its way to Doncaster works, suspect it will be a Northern 170 soon.
We did wait for the Steam to pass back from York, I've included some videos, but it was dark. Love the fire raging though, lighting up the area, and the smoke hitting us.
... and chill.
