Lovely seeing such wonderful buses. In this country we had such an array of many manufacturers. One of my favourites is the Harrington Cavaliers various Bristols. As a child I enjoyed travelling on a Guy bus I don't know the model, but I do remember a Red Indian chief with feathers mounted on the radiator. Upstairs there was bench seating with the aisle running along the offside. I don't know how old the buses were. I used these buses in the early 70's. I reckon they were early 1950's. The company that operated them was called Rees & Williams of Tycroes, Ammanford. I wonder if any one remembers them. The livery was chocolate brown with red and cream. They were old buses but extremely well looked after and always reliable timewise. You could set your watch by them. It now just a memory of how things were. I often wonder were they the good old days or the bad old days. But me being a romantic I like to think they were the good old days.😊
This is childhood memories for me, one of the fishing boats that brought us to my grandparents summer place in the archipelago had a hot-bulb engine. You can run them on basically anything that is reasonabkly liquid.
Sorry to say, but on Shap that engine is doing very little work at all, it most certainly is not thundering. One cylinder-cock is stuck full open, and the smoke is hardly clearing the boiler, proving that the regulator is nowhere near full open. That is a sick engine, desperately in need of some TLC. Good film though.
TLC? I think most people's idea of 'tender loving care' these days is an OTA [over the air] update for their bloomin' EV's battery management computer.🙄
Beautiful Locomotive. British Pacific's make me wish that there was a British 4-8-4. Would have been a fantastic looking locomotive if it had ever seen the light of day, if maybe a bit to big!
I used to watch these Duchess🎉 class engines going full chat and bouncing on the rails southbound through Harrow and Wealdstone station. thank you for the reminder.
That's what you call a priming traction engine he's left the pump or injector on he's had to open the cylinder drain cocks to get the water level back down the gauge glass that's what he's looking at it'll be fine no dramas 👍
Priming, that's why he opened the cylinder drains - to vent the carried over water, although most of it still goes up the chimney. Usually caused by the boiler being too full, or the water inside being dirty.
er, you really don't know what you are talking about. You have heard various phrases but just to use them in a sentence does not make you an expert. Engine caught the water. That is all. Slide valve lifts off seat so likely no damage. Best to stay silent and let others only think you might not know than to put it in print and confirm it for them.
An interesting video but you had 10 of the rareest classic cars in the UK (Panhard Levassor) on one stand and most traveed over 100 miles to be there and you did not show one ?
It would have been good if there was subtitles of the manufactures of the full size ones ,and what scale the smaller ones were and which manufacturer they represented.
Always a bonus not to get bowled when filming opposite the running line. But, I prefer NOT to film at stations and one of the reasons was made clear in your video. Here are some tips. Get there before anyone else and pick the best spot for your needs. Take a step up or step ladder. Politely ask that anyone who arrives later than you and chooses to stand very close should be quiet during the experience (still camera operators need reminding of this because they don't usually think about sound). Enjoy the shared social atmosphere before and after the event
I used to video class 50s before the fomo and everybody was running about taking photos And railway staff wearing hi-viz jackets leapfrogging me up the platform I've tried the steam scene but it's too hectic These days I watch someone else's video, good luck everyone
Worse happened to me many years ago when videoing the Rail 150 Cavalcade at Stockton. I had stood for hours in order to get a good location when part way through someone stood directly in front of me. At one point he turned enough for his face to be visible. A colleague, also a rail enthusiast, asked to borrow the film, the next day he informed me thatvthe offending person was his brother the rail photographer Eric Oldham! Eric apologised.
