The English Riviera Expresses with Royal Scot & Britannia

After a near 8 month period, it was time to film steam on the mainline once again. With the lockdown restrictions eased Saphos Trains brought back their program of steam runs on the mainline. Two of which were the English Riviera Expresses. 46100 Royal Scot would haul the first run on July 26th and 70000 Britannia (masquerading as 70022 Tornado) would follow the week after on August 2nd. Filmed respectively on them dates this film captures both locos at work hauling these trains.
26/8/2020 46100 Royal Scot
Filmed at:
Limpley Stoke
Wellington Bank
Goodrington Bank
Torre Bank
Cogload Junction
2/8/2020 70022 Tornado
Filmed at:
near Hillfarrance (where a curious fox also witnesses the Brit pass by)
Broadsands Viaduct
Hollicombe, Paignton
Creech St Michael

[@EMuksteam]

Excellent video Ryan. Captured them at a fantastic choice of locations. Well done. Kind regards C&A

[@spacecow149]

terrific video! :)

[@holmesjunction]

Enjoyed both days and amazed at the clarity. Brilliant quality sound and vision! You have a good set up there. Steve

[@UKBamber]

Great stuff. Looking forward to seeing them double head through Totnes in a couple of weeks time.

[@4073castle]

Railway enthusiasts are generally of a precise detail nature - that does not include myself necessarily, I am just making a rivet-counting observation! 70022 was a Western Region Britannia in its early days and following the "Polar Star" accident which was blamed upon reduced driver visibility because of hand rails on smoke deflectors, WR Brits had their rails removed, and the deflectors pierced by hand-hold "apertures." Britannia was not a WR Brit and still has the handrails so it should not STRICTLY masquerade as one. But Mr Hosking can do as he likes of course, just so long as he keeps his engines on the main lines for us all to see, enjoy and for oldies like myself, remember! Need I say more :-)