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A reminder of the days when Britain deserved the "Great" in its name! A great nation, built upon the blood, sweat and tears of hard-working people, now being overrun by parasites!
You have done an excellent job with this video, ALL of it. Nice locations, and you have captured the very essence of the who area, and the lovely Mayflower
Mayflower may be the deserved star of this video, but the whole "package" is a delight for the quality of the presentation and the vantage points chosen to display steam action at its best in wonderful South Devon settings. Top stuff in so many ways. Thanks.
I don't care but there is nothing, I repeat nothing that can beat the sight and sounds of a steam locomotive at work especially of one at speed, they are magical!
The diesel on the back is not pushing. It is there (correct spelling) to provide assistance should it be needed but, on a more practical note, it provides AC power for the rolling stock and kitchen car.
THE LIMITATIONS OF HEAVY LOADS ON SOUTH DEVON BANKS. Of course what few seem to understand about the gradients in South Devon is that even the largest steam locos cannot surmount these gradients with a 12 coach train, and a 120 ton Diesel loco in tow, (as the total train weight exceeds even a King Class's maximum load). Unless the Diesel provides some of the power. Indeed in BR days it would have been prohibited to run passenger trains with a "swinger" (a heavy weight) on the rear of the train, as this presents serious dangers in curves ! Something the current "Mickey Mouse, headless chicken" railways in Britain have conveniently forgotten. When they binned the BR rule book (written in 150 years of blood), and replaced it with a "modern commercial outlook" !!!! Posted by a qualified Railway Mechanical Engineer, with experience on many Railways Worldwide !
Great filming! You'd think anyone could make good videos with all the equipment available these days but no. You can tell the work of a professional and you've captured it perfectly. Thanks for posting.
A really nostalgic look at the "withered arm"! I have recently moved to Exeter and I'm trying to catch up on the railway network that once existed. I travelled over much of it in the summer of 1962 when I had a 'Freedom of the West of England' rail rover ticket. If you know where to look this video shows it's still possible to see the old railway infrastructure.
When a lad in my steam spotting days, being South London, I regularly went down to Redhill. Eventually Reading Southern shed was closed and the turns were transferred to Reading GW. Grange, Halls and Manors plus 43xx became a regular sight at Redhill but never any tanks.
Nice video. I’ve seen 2 black 5s running the Jacobite recently on my Scotland holiday. Numbers 45407 ‘The Lancashire Fusilier’ and 45212. Still haven’t seen 44871 to this day😂
'Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noon day sun'! Lovely W Country show, thank you for showing us! How does the 'clagger' at the stern know when to open up the throttles and assist the monster up front please?
I believe they communicate via radio, and the steam crew asks for assistance if they feel it's necessary, whether it's going over a gradient that's too steep to climb unassisted, or getting back up to speed after a station stop or signal check.
If you mean the actual figure, depends on the diesel but in this case, 2,580 horsepower. If you mean how much assistance it provides, that depends. Sometimes it might only push its own weight, sometimes it's full throttle to help get over otherwise impassable gradients or recover from signal checks.
What can I say - brilliant footage as always!..... I was committed to volunteer gardening duties but could hear a lot of loco movements and whistles across the Tone valley. A lovely day!
In the 1960’s and 70’s our regular holidays were to a campsite above the docks at Par, you could visit the docks to see Alfred being prepared (Judy was stored out of use), Westerns were everywhere, clay hoods formed the trains, and ECC ran tours of the Par works and Blackpool pit as well as producing various free brochures and booklets about their business.
1:31 today 7812 Erlestoke manor is preserved and can be seen on heritage lines especially the Severn valley railway where the engine resides along with 7802 Bradley manor
