{"id":2805,"date":"2013-12-08T14:08:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T14:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2013-12-08T14:44:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T14:44:49","slug":"4464-bittern-at-over-90mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/4464-bittern-at-over-90mph\/","title":{"rendered":"4464 Bittern at over 90mph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My pal from TWR Video and I ventured into Lincolnshire yesterday to witness A4 pacific loco 4464 Bittern on the last of her three high-speed runs. It was rather a long way to go for one shot, and we lengthened the odds of getting a good one by chosing the famous stretch on Stoke Bank where Mallard set her world record. Even if she was on time, she&#8217;d pass us a good 20 minutes after sunset, and the weather forecast suggested a cloudy evening, but what the heck?! We found a good open stretch of embankment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetmap.co.uk\/map.srf?X=499420&amp;Y=323575&amp;A=Y&amp;Z=120\">just north of Swayfield<\/a>, and the cloud to the south-west looked quite broken, so we gambled on a silhouette.<\/p>\n<p>For once, fortune favoured us. According to a friend on board, she reached 92 mph just around here. Here are two frame-grabs from the video. I won&#8217;t post more at the moment, because it might be included in OVP&#8217;s production, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ovpsteam.co.uk\/48.html\">The Need For Speed<\/a>, and I don&#8217;t want to steal David&#8217;s thunder.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2805 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/4464-bittern-at-over-90mph\/4464_131207_swayfield01\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/4464_131207_Swayfield01-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/4464-bittern-at-over-90mph\/4464_131207_swayfield02\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/4464_131207_Swayfield02-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My pal from TWR Video and I ventured into Lincolnshire yesterday to witness A4 pacific loco 4464 Bittern on the last of her three high-speed runs. It was rather a long way to go for one shot, and we lengthened &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/4464-bittern-at-over-90mph\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-video","category-in_progress","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2809,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/2809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}