Four trains, four generations on UK East Coast Main Line

[John Ashworth]

Four trains, four generations - history to be made on Yorkshire’s East Coast Main Line

A world first will take place in Yorkshire next month to celebrate the heritage and future of one of the country’s most iconic railway lines.

Four trains spanning four generations will travel side by side, in the same direction, along the East Coast Main Line on April 23 2017...

This will be a once in a lifetime opportunity to see the world famous Flying Scotsman travel alongside two trains from Virgin Trains’ revitalised fleet - an HST (Class 43), an intercity225 (Class 91) - and the rail operator’s brand new train, the Virgin Azuma (Class 800) which is being built by Hitachi in the North East, and will come into service in 2018.

The four trains will travel together for several miles north of York to showcase the past, present and future of rail travel...

[John Ashworth]

Rail royalty Flying Scotsman meets modern era trains

AERIAL VIDEO: A moment of history as The Flying Scotsman joins four-train showcase

[Simon Walker]

A World First it is not, been done in Australia a year ago. And all these trains had passengers, see Video Below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNV10bDD9aU

[John Ashworth]

Thanks, Simon. Very nice scene, and including a Garratt, no less!

Actually come to think of it I seem to recall seeing a video of a steam event somewhere in Central Europe where they had several steam locos running at slow speed on parallel lines for a sort of "obstacle race" where the firemen had to keep getting off to perform some task or other.

[John Ashworth]

Here's one in Slovakia with five steam engines, but it's not the one I was thinking of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn38lyfZp1Y