Hello, guys welcome to Spike's Steam! My channel is all about steam trains such as steam trains on the mainline like tours and loco moves, Heritage Railways, and much more.
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Before I started doing videos of steam trains I always take my DSLR Canon 200D to take pictures of them. I thought it would be a good idea to do both!
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I wish they would build them as they are internally and externally make them all look like the Sir Nigel Gresley or The Flying Scotsman with a "chuff-chuff" sound-box.
At nearly 80 I need a "Haul up to ceiling 8x4 board From a rastro in Spain bought an OO train set , one model is Tornado ,& another a small tanker ,carriages & all just €60 .Hope that via Donations a Mk 2 , with modern controls Mallard will be built ,a pack of fags from my dad & I boarded her footplate at Kings Cross & tooted her whistle , green livery then srill in use @ 1954 !
Still some skill about , don't loose it Britain , train youngsters to use machine tools , in many countries girls doing it starting on Dad's lathe . My never known grandad Frederick Theodore Sadler was a steam Engineer ( ships )
Great video Spike, thank you for sharing. You captured the atmosphere really well and managed to keep fellow photographers out of your shots. Happy new year to you.
your very welcome for the clip mate and thanks again for letting me borrow your tripod for my fantastic up coming from the footplate video that should be up soon have a lovely new year and can't wait to see if we have more days out
What an amazing feat of British engineering, truly awesome. Who knows what would have developed if the P2 had been a fully fledged success. Even so, this new addition to it's class has been thoroughly planned out and problems with the original locomotives will have been ironed out and with the addition of modern components needed to be able to run on the national rail network this magnificent locomotive will be an awesome sight to see and I can't wait to ride behind her. 👍🚂🚃
This should be ready just in time for the coal to run out. I'm not really a steam fan, as I do not have any memories of them, but I appreciate the engineering . I do, however, wonder at the wisdom of new build steam in a world totally against fossil fuels and what will inevitably develop as a ban. This means limited opportunity to recoup build costs. I thinkmeven my beloved diesels ard on borrowed time.
@@smhorse Thank you for your reply, I thought so after visiting their tour, they had the boiler for Tornado on a huge revolving machine enabling all aspects of the construction to be undertaken. I think that they built a spare for Tornado and and a smaller replacement boiler for another preserved steam loco. I have studied at length how locomotive fireboxes are constructed but so far not found any complete details, anyhow, wishing you and yours a merry Christmas an a happy new year. Love from Gran Canaria.
Aren’t Tornado and Prince of Wales using the same boiler? I’m just asking because as far as I’m aware the only thing that Prince of Wales needs before it is complete is a boiler, valve gear and some pant, right?
@ModelRailwayFan38 : for practical purposes, they all use the same design - a modern version of the Diag.118. There'll be two boilers in service at any one time, plus a spare.
It’s not exactly like they’re replacing all current electric powered trains with steam engines lol, it’s one steam engine created for steam enthusiasts
You are of a different generation, you don't really understand that this can be running cleaner than an electric train even though it uses coal. There are clean fossil fuels available, there are synthetic oils that are used now, there are now synthetic fuels that power vehicles being used, not everything old tech is using old tech to function. If you have a mobile phone, it uses fossil fuels to make it, are you prepared to stop using one? I suggest you look at everything you take for granted and see what it's made from, your desire to see fossil fuels gone might diminish a fair bit.
@@mikeatcora "There are clean fossil fuels available" - I challenge you to show one that emits no greenhouse gases in its extraction, processing, transportation and burning. Won't this locomotive be burning coal? I'm well aware of the gigantic uses of fossil fuels in every part of our lives and I certainly - unlike many glib climate activists - do not claim there are simple, cheap solutions to the rising climate crisis. But building new coal-powered locomotives that rely on digging for fossil fuels is hardly a way to the future. "Heritage railways across the South are experiencing a serious shortage in fuel with a services could run out of steam. Operators are making the difficult decision to reduce the number of trains in an effort to conserve supply. It’s been described as a crucial in a year which the sector was looking to bounce back from the pandemic and Covid restrictions. At the Bluebell Railway in Sussex, maintenance supervisor Andy Sabin says it's becoming increasingly difficult and expensive to source traditional steam coal, "There's a lot of coal still under the ground that we can't use because of the mining ethics and carbon footprint.""* As for what is called 'bio-coal', that addresses only a small part of the problem. "Up to 20% of the new coal is biomass and is manufactured using CPL's hot cured process to provide durability. The special shape of the coal is to sit on the firebars of both narrow gauge and standard gauge steam locomotives, just like traditional coal - all while being classed as smokeless and emitting up to 80% less particulate matter than traditional coal."** That still leaves 80% as standard coal being mined, transported and burned to emit GHG. And bio-mass itself is much less carbon-neutral than claimed. * www.itv.com/news/meridian/2022-04-18/heritage-railways-warn-of-coal-shortage-as-sector-struggles-with-fuel-supply ** www.railadvent.co.uk/2022/02/first-ever-bio-coal-trial-on-full-size-steam-locomotive-takes-place-on-the-keighley-and-worth-valley-railway.html
Sometime after this is complete, maybe in the 2030s, they should send it over stateside and have it race the PRR T1 being reproduced the same way. I’d love to see a smaller, lighter British loco race against a heavier, stronger American one
Nice idea, but thinking back to the financial disaster of Flying Scotsman's US tour which bankrupted Alan Pegler, probably unlikely. It could run with one of the magnificent USA S160s that are resident in the UK, but as they are freight locos, not really a fair comparison.
They are very different loco's designed for completely different conditions. Such a comparison is really a penis size contest. The T1 will most likely be capable of thrashing the A1, at the same time doing damage to the pernament way due to the hammer blow caused by the balance weights of a two cylinder configuration. When the Pennsy borrowed a J from the N&W, it ran 110MPH and in the process, damaged the track. 130MPH even with the divided drive, not a good idea. On the other hand, the T1 couldn't even run in Britain, too big and too heavy.
6:00 The long whistle was because a photographer was sat next to the track with equipment spread about, shown here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LUszaClirMk.htmlsi=SRfwK5ekXnrExC6H
Very nice footage here, Lovley day for a first day in passger service i know im a few yars late but i volonteer here so i love watching all the videos.
