Not bad for barely three quarters of the route. Having stations etc listed would not have helped because we did not see quite a few of them eg Arlesey cut to driver cut to Biggleswade cut to Little Barford power station.
For the people saying the us is behind on rail development: the United States is EONS more vast and disconnected than Europe and Japan. Commerce routes between suitable cities are sometimes hundreds of miles apart with nothing in between. A high speed rail network in the United States is useless unless built only on the east and west coast, between cities like New York and Norfolk, and San Diego to Seattle.
Wat een grote SCHANDE !!!! Een prima lok die nog vele decennia meekan weggooien. Kijk naar Engeland waar ouder materieel veel betrouwbaarder blijkt dan chip gestuurde mechanica. Nederland heeft die blunders al begaan, laat Belgie niet dezelfde fout maken.
No it was on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. But the railway you mean looks also interesting to visit. We have visit about 28 various heritage lines in the 🇬🇧.
Nice video! good lads on the footplate, experienced driver DC and fireman Joseph on this fine engine. captured the lovely countryside as well, wonderfull.
This video takes me right back to 7th June 1965 when, through the kindness of the driver, I was allowed to ride on the footplate of 7822 from Machynelleth to Shrewsbury. Neber to be forgotten but, having taken my last photograph beforehand my film ran out, so the memory is all in my mind! I was standing all the way in the LH corner of the cab next to the spectacle window. As we climbed Talerdigg bank I was able to look back over the (low) tender and past the coaches to see the sunset in the west. Wonderful!!
So this was back to the past for you? I think also 1965 was almost the end of steam on the main lines in the 🇬🇧. I hope you enjoyed the video, best wishes Railcaphunter
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This is why we need to keep some Coal burning locomotives around: you can't do that on an oil burner, or you can but it's not like you need a shovel on an oil burner.
A Hall, my favourite engine as a fireman. IF you've got a good driver will do everything a Castle even a King will do. But my Dad swore by the Kings for his time on the GWR.
I wonder if that young lady is still working on the K & WVR doing the firing or has she progressed into actually driving the steam trains. Hope she has.
You mean no steam locos left. Belgian railway company doesn't care about their heritage. They deemed it technically impossible... While every other European country has steam trains on the mainline. This is peak Belgian politics
When I was young I worked on a pile driving crew on the Columbia River. We worked off a steam powered derrick barge. The crane was rated at 250 tons. I spent hours inside the house completely amazed at the workings. Yes, there were lots of spinning gears and wheels all of which would kill you in a heartbeat. The deck of the barge was slick as ice from the oil laden steam discharge. The boilerman was a grouchy old man who could run this monster in his sleep. The actual crane operator was much younger and took great pride in being allowed to operate a relic. Good memories.
The crew seem to be doing a cracking job on the footplate. Always keen to see more women on the railways. 75078 is a fantastic engine, one of the only good standard designs, the others being the standard 4 tanks and standard 7s. Not keen on standard 2s, 6s or especially class 5s.
Welwyn Viaduct, (AKA Digswell Viaduct) which we cross at 06:02 spans the valley of the river Mimram. The viaduct was completed in 1850 and over 12 million bricks were used in its construction. From memory I think that this whole section of the line was built under the control of top Victorian Railway contractor Thomas Brassey. The viaduct was considered one of the wonders of the Railway age and for a while it was a tourist attraction in its own right. Queen Victoria herself took the train from London to see the viaduct, though she refused to cross it in the train! She got off the train at Hatfield and took a coach and horses to the other side of the viaduct - admiring the viaduct from a distance. She rejoined the royal train at Old Welwyn station. As you can just see at 06:20 having crossed the viaduct, trains flashes through Old Welwyn station. Despite the name it bears, the station is actually located in the village of Digswell and is almost a mile from the very pretty village of Old Welwyn. After the station (just visible at 06:22) the line then runs into the first of the two Welwyn Tunnels. These tunnels take the line under the high ground between Digswell and Woolmer Green. Sadly, there was a major two train accident in the northernmost of these tunnels in 1866 when a coal train and an empty goods train collided. Two railwaymen lost their lives there and the resulting fire in the tunnel had to be left to burn itself out, which took two days. Of course the death toll would have been far greater had the trains been passenger trains - a fact not lost on the Victorians, who immediately installed new safety precautions around that location.
now im wondering what it would be like to drive talyllyn when it comes back around 2023 in that GER Blue its supposed to be in when it returns to steam
The working unit in Salt Lake City is at 1500 s Redwood road in a private railroad supply yard and is more likely Desiel Powered. Old and impressive. Looks to be in great condition. If it's still there .
Wonderful stuff. The only Working on close to me is in Ely Nevada. I think it's a bit smaller. There is one static display in Ogden Utah . It's a fuel Oil model.
