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Posted: 07 Nov 2018

Taken: 07 Nov 2018

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The great gathering!

The great gathering!
Five of the six A4 locomotives still in existence are visible here in one picture. The sixth is out of shot to the left.
They are 6008 Dwight D Eisenhower, 60009 Union of South Africa, 4489 Dominion of Canada, 4464 Bittern, 4468 Mallard.
Not visible in this picture is 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley

Rosalyn Hilborne, Andy Rodker, , aNNa schramm and 6 other people have particularly liked this photo

12 comments - The latest ones
 Nick Weall
Nick Weall club
What a collection Peter ~ A great gathering indeed :) All the best ~ Nick
6 years ago.
Peter_Private_Box club has replied to Nick Weall club
Thank you Nick,

A once in a lifetime experience! Let us hope the little girl in the red coat remembers something of the day when she gets older.

Best wishes
Peter
6 years ago.
 Erhard Bernstein
Erhard Bernstein club
Wow - a great collection indeed!
6 years ago.
Peter_Private_Box club has replied to Erhard Bernstein club
Thank you Erhard

Certainly a day not to be missed! I did get a photo with all six in it, just for the memory, but there was a lot of thought put into the arrangement to make it very difficult.. (Unless you paid a massive amount of money for a night photography permit, when they lined them up nicely for you)

Best wishes
Peter
6 years ago.
 ╰☆☆June☆☆╮
╰☆☆June☆☆╮ club
Well done...love it ;-) I spy the Mallard, one of my favourites....
6 years ago.
Peter_Private_Box club has replied to ╰☆☆June☆☆╮ club
Thank you June

I am really pleased that you have enjoyed the spectacle!.

Best wishes
Peter
6 years ago.
 Ste
Ste
What a smashing shot here Peter .. a rare scene indeed and a lovely record of the event .. saved in fav's by me also

Best wishes ... Steve
6 years ago.
Peter_Private_Box club has replied to Ste
Hi Steve,

Thank you so much! I am really pleased that you appreciated the effort to clear away all the extraneous people! I think Alan went to see these also..

Best wishes
Peter
6 years ago.
 Beatrice Degan(MARS)
Beatrice Degan(MARS)
Hi Peter ,
outstanding collection so strikingly caught with the little girl watching , surely amazed , at these locomotives so unusual for her ! I'm sure she will keep this experience in her mind.... for some years ( Imy 2 little grandchildren always shocks me with their memory worth Pico della Mirandola :-) and unexpectedly at a distance of years in a bright flashback.

Best wishes
Bea
6 years ago. Edited 6 years ago.
Peter_Private_Box club has replied to Beatrice Degan(MARS)
Hi Bea

Thank you so much for your most pleasing visit. You are so right, little children learn so much in their first few years.. Let us hope that one day this little girl remembers this one special day that these six locomotives were together.
I wish you a wonderful week ahead!

Best Wishes
Peter
6 years ago.
 Rosalyn Hilborne
Rosalyn Hilborne
Hi Peter,

What a wonderful experience! The engines looks so proud and gleaming and the little child in red makes the picture for me.

Best regards, Rosa.
6 years ago.
Peter_Private_Box club has replied to Rosalyn Hilborne
Hi Rosa,

Thank you so much for your nice comment. I am pleased that you noticed the little girl...
The reality here is that there were so many people milling around that this is really a composite of around half a dozen pictures with the camera in exactly the same place, taken over a period of a few minutes. I combined the bits of the pictures where the people weren't so as to eliminate them all, but this girl and her father got to stay, for the reasons you had thought of too!

Best Wishes
Peter
6 years ago.

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