What use would it be? Too big for heritage railways. Not suitable for rail tour passenger main line use either. It was just suited for banking. Just a waste of coal and source of pollution in modern days.
@@PreservationEnthusiast She was a rare engine. She was worthy of preservation, even if she were to be on permanent display in a museum. If a working replica were built, the engine could work on the Lickey Incline just as her predecessor did.
@@matthewpowell2429 DB Cargo use dedicated class 66 diesels for banking purposes now. It would not make sense to have a single steam engine doing that work. The infrastructure does not exist for coaling, watering and maintenance. The class 66 are much better suited for operational readiness. Not to mention more powerful... tractive effort of 58,000 lbs as opposed to 43,000 lbs of Big Bertha. Plus the class 66s are 3x more efficient in terms of fuel and don't need to be kept in steam wasting fuel between banking duties... very important for a banker when the work may be very intermittent depending on traffic movements. All in all, your suggestion does not make any operational sense, using old technology for these modern duties.
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Many lines closed because they only had one or two trains a day. If they had a service at regular intervals, at clock face times, many services might have been saved. One line closed under Beeching serving two medium-sized towns had six trains each way. In one direction, if not both, had a three-hour gap with no trains, then two within half an hour!
5:21 This LNER Gresley Streamlined A4 Pacific Main Line Express Steam Locomotive No.60009 AKA 4488 Union Of South Africa Was Built At Doncaster Locomotive Works Factory In Doncaster In South Yorkshire In England In 1937 For The London And North Eastern Railway. Design By Sir Nigel Gresley Who Also Built Mallard. Thanks Mate. X
17:51 I would hardly considor the ejector ruining Edward Thomas' appearance I for one think it looks interesting in her appearance. While she may not be wearing it in preservation at least shes in Corris Railway Red now that looks fantastic on her,even if we only saw her like that before recently going under overhaul
Restoration of steam engines, sounds like heaven, I wish the main line would have steam engines running again, it would be just like heyday when they used to be really useful, but for now they can enjoy their time on other railways before the time comes to glory days
I watched those @1:33:11, the narrator has mispronounced the surname of the SECR/SR CME. It's Mansell (like the 1992 British Formula 1 World Champion, not 'Mornsell'. The BBC, with its vast resources, really should have got that right given that the speaker is their man, Peter Woods.
That area might not have attracted many tourists then. but I'm darned sure if that line had become a heritage railway then tourism would have jumped twenty fold if not more. I live near there and its a very pretty Valley and well worth the investment
All aspects of railways…no mention of the two or three gas turbine locos…hardly surprising with no recording of any of them at speed or their performance… Nor I bet, and a safe bet, no mention of the wonderful Brighton moguls…. Here’s hoping my pessimistic speculation is proved wrong…but I honestly doubt it…
I've especially wanted to mention that I personally saw Dukedog #9017 certainly has a wheel configuration of 4-4-0 meaning a total of exactly 4 leading wheels, a total of exactly 4 drive wheels, and especially not a single trailing wheel meaning it's got an American wheel configuration!
Stepney the Bluebell Engine had been mentioned by the narrator to have been built in the exact same year as no.54 Waddon as seen in my Smithsonian train book!
I've especially read the specifications of Stepney's basis including his wheel configuration, number of cylinders, boiler pressure, drive wheel diameter, ad especially his exact top speed that happens to be approximately 60 MPH as I've been doing my research very carefully by reading my Smithsonian train book!
I'm personally pleased to see Stepney the Bluebell Engine in this video since he'd been mentioned as the very first engine to escape to the Bluebell Railway, and there's absolutely no doubt he especially had a book written 'bout him that was adapted during the show's 4th season! He certainly has a lot in common with Thomas the Tank Engine since they were both built by the exact same railway less than a whole century apart!
I've especially wanted to mention that the classes of the 57OO class pannier tank engines as well as the 14XX class auto tank engines represent a pair of Great Western tank engines named Duck and Oliver who work on a branch line on Sir Topham Hatt's railway known as the Little Western that runs along the coast from Tidmouth to Arlsebrugh where it'll meet up with the Arlsedale miniature railway!
The technical quality of this transfer from the original 16mm film is appalling. I know that Cam's filming style was "brisk", to put it kindly, but this presentation does it no favours-and some of the spoken commentary is questionable.
My grandparents house looked out at the Lickey Incline, I remember hearing the engines and being told it was Big Bertha. Could sometimes hear them slip a bit…I think, I’m no rail expert! Sudden fast chuffing. I used to love watching them.
The video/film could do with enhancement by some experts like was done recently with WW1 film. However, we must be eternally grateful to those who had the interest, foresight, and indeed the money to do filming back then as it was horrendously expensive. (btw I now have a Grandson named Ivo!)
Wow, very interesting. Just like Edward in Thomas & Friends/The Railway Series, only he is not withdraw, from what I recall (as I haven't read all the Railway Series books).
