46100 Royal Scot takes on Storm Babet at Dawlish with the final English Riviera Express - 2023 

@@hoolydooly5072no it’s a BR regulation incase brakes fail on kettle (steam train)

Which modern engines since youtube has videos of Hitachi class 802s going along the same track effortlessly...

With a diesel on the end

I ❤ 🚂🚃🚄🚅🚈🚞🚝 I have a folder on ''transportation'' thank you chou chou chouuuu :)) --------------------------------------- Btw, here's something you may find interesting. :) The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird ''turkey'', well let me explain. :) Name of my country has always been Turkiye, that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means ''land of/belonging to''... ...just like the Latin suffix -ia in such countries as Latv-ia, Roman-ia, Eston-ia, Austr-ia, Austral-ia etc etc. Another example; decades ago Czechoslovakia Republic changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia). Anyways, most likely the Latin -ia suffix was derived from the Turkish version -iye, as Turkish is much much older. Because in old times people of different languages could only pronounce it as their languages allowed them, we got various differences in spelling like Turchia (in Italian), Turquie (in French) and Turkey (in English) all trying to resemble the pronounciation of ''Turk-ia'' thus Turkiye. Mind you this was way BEFORE the animal we currently know as 'turkey'' was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas.... ...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird ''Turkey Fowl'' meaning ''Turkish Chicken''..... ....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), Rhodesian Ridgeback (because it's from Rhodesia), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc. In time you don't get to call the Greek Harehound as simply as ''Greek''; or you don't call the British Terrier as ''British''; or the German Shepherd as ''German'', but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just ''turkey'', and has been going on for hundreds of years. Now in 2023, this is causing confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their OWN country on the atlas, this ''confusion over the naming'' needed to be corrected. So my country decided to rectify this confusion that has been going on for so long and corrected the name in other languages to Türkiye, which it always was, we basically didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : ) So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : ) Best wishes. ;)

@@nichowell9902 so the passengers can charge there cellphones.

​@@nichowell9902Yeh but that was being towed 😂

Incredible

Thanks, I bet it was a much warmer in the cab.

Wasn't to bad as high tide was 09.00 so wasn't as bad as it has been when going past at high tide.

I was onboard and it wasnt too rough 😊

Wonderful!

Glad you enjoyed

Yes it was!

Royal Scot doesn’t have electrical equipment on the roof

So a design flaw then. Steam locos were always built as an improvement on the last, from learnt lessons. The permanent way hasn’t changed location in that time, and both the hitachi and voyagers were supposed to have been built with dawlish in mind! Polish it how you want, it doesn’t work!

@@tommiles8982 Kind of hard to not have electrical equipment on the roof when you've got pantographs up there...

​@@andrewreynolds4949That line isn't electrified. The problem is that when waves wash over the top of the voyager trains they damage the braking resistors.

@@stuartlomas8557 No, the trains are bimodes. That's why they have catenary. Of course it's not electrified here

All a bit of fun.

Excellent! The wet weather can almost be guaranteed to bring some form of fun.

Storm lol.

Don't gloat! 😂

I've seen some footage from onboard the train. Everyone had their windows shut! Probably didn't want sea-salt champagne or whatever you drink on these railtours tasting of the sea! Thanks for watching

Couldn't agree more! Thanks

Many thanks!

No risk, no fun. I couldn't resist the opportunity.

Open cab. A bit wet!

It was 27 minutes early through Exeter on the return. I know that because I missed it.

@@steamtothewest-trecanrail wow! I'd intended seeing it at Exeter on the outward journey but my train from Okehampton was cancelled. By the time I got to Exeter it was too late. 2 Okehampton trains were cancelled on my return journey - I waited at St David's for nearly 3 hours observing the chaos ..

Thanks a lot!

Glad you enjoyed it

Agreed. In an age of instant communication, there should surely be a place for the enjoyment of the travel itself.

Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks

I believe this was in part due to a broken down train in Teignmouth station tho 🚉🚂

​@@stevechard3860absolutely spot on, my wife was heading back from London and it was announced on the train that one had broken down.

It's signalled for bi directional working for such occasions as this, all trains run on that line to a a bit further away from the waves

Supposedly there was also a failed train farther along

Thanks,

Yes, have a look at Dawlish sea wall bi directional track. It answer any queries

There was a failed IET in the platform at Teignmouth.

Yes, it’s insurance in case there’s a problem, it’s an irritating convenience

Plus to power the train heating and aircon.

Someone needs to go outside

Yes, the line is bi-directional for that very reason.

Tornado waqs a great step forward in its conception and completion - back to the future so to speak - and basics are never to be sneezed at when reliability is the essential requirement.

I think a train broke down on the other line!

I say bring on Cornish Independence!

I thought that Cornwall was always historically fiercely "independent" of mainland Britain? But money always talks and necessity is the mother of invention etc. etc. 🙂 (from a Devon lad).

Good idea 👍

NEVER!