6233 'Duchess of Sutherland' Storms and Struggles on the GB XII - Day One & Two - 2019 

Another brilliantly made video - highly professional and well done! 😎👍😎

Very dramatic. Thanks for sharing.

Wonderful!

Very well done filming Tom 👍😉 I certainly like the snece of Duchess of Sutherland struggling and the departure at Exeter st Davis. I hope Great Central & Nene Valley Railways will have the locomotive in the near future for a gala or something. I've got good new, I've buy a new Panasonic camcorder which can take a microphone and the camcorder in question is HC-V770.

Tremendous footage :)

Big wheels keep on turning Proud Duchess keeps on burning Rolling... rolling... rolling down the railroad

Very impressive footage, thank you for sharing.

5029 with assitance from 47784 was the best run I ever had over here. 47 was wide open from Mutley all the way to linespeed nearly then 1/3 way up the bank 5029 unleashed what could only be described as obsolute hell, never heard a roar like it since from any loco, only 6024 has come close.

Very good video :)

Yeah on par with Mallard and A4 class. So just shows even with a heavy loco it's hard on this line.

I would say that whoever calculated the load added one coach too many. Reminds me of the story about the greedy lad who was promised all the land he could run around in 12 hours. Along the way, he saw a very nice extra bit and ran around that as well. At the finish line, he didn't - heart gave out in trying to make it before the deadline - which was well named. An extra 48 seats filled, but nearly did not make it at all. The emergency diesel should surely have been there for all the trip, not just some of the sections. To be assisted by another loco is no shame, though I believe that only the West Country loco "Yeovil" left the banker engine behind on Drumochter Summit - the banker could not keep up with her!

I agree as too much power is bad as its likely to slip more. A heavier loco with more adhesion is probably better for grip.

I guess even the most powerful steam engines can sometimes struggle on a formidably steep incline. At one point, Duchess of Sutherland slipped to a temporary stand. She valiantly got going again, still struggling wit determination. I'm sure Sam of Sam's Trains status would have been shocked had he been watching.

if you notice steamlocos always seam to slip on these new type rail and not the old iron ones

Did you spray PAM cooking oil on the railhead for this great hard working slipping grade scene??????

Amazed how there's any water left with that safety valve going full bore😳

Needs a way to release sand onto the track to get traction.

Was there any speed restrictions within 2 miles of the 1in49 grade. If there was the driver didn't do proper release of the air brakes. The driver did a good job and it was filmed just as well.

Choo choo choo choo nicely

Great series of shots. Thank you for posting. I'm amazed at the amount of steam that was being wasted on the climb up Hemerdon bank. She was blowing off all the way up. I can understand that the fireman didn't want to run out of steam but there is a balance to be struck between too little and too much. Does 6233 have a mechanical stoker? I know some of the duchesses did (I think Duchess of Hamilton is one of them). If so I suppose there must be strong temptation to just keep on firing.

AThat was a bit close for comfort

The Railway Children

Probably the hardest work a main line loco has done for a while. Great video. Who was the driver?

Don't you think that sometimes these vintage loco's are worked just a little too hard?

Nearly stalls? She does come to a stand, and there is no shame in a 4+6-2 loco doing that if the rail conditions aren't quite right.

Plenty of power , not enough grip on wet rails. (& I have been in a failed train several times lately including Voyager & HST. & 150) I predict the new Hiachi IET will fail here at some point - with good traction - but not enough power! Funily enough I was talking to the crew at Plymouth asking how it performed on the banks & they said -Fine, no problem, she flew up. So I said, Well tomorrow you have Hemerdon that's a different matter, you are likely to get problems. Really? they said Oh we will look out for that then!

She wasn't built for banks hence why she's in this situation great video to mate

Awesome.🖒 But was any brakes rubbing to make her struggle up that bank?

Not the first Pacific to come to grief in South Devon... that's why GW engines were 4-6-0 :-)

It didn't even look like it was going uphill, it looks flat or even slightly declined. I know it must ve going uphill but you sure as hell can't see any hill.

Should have had a Diesel banker on the rear, just in case. Most do...

These would take 15 over Shap. This loco is not steaming well. Will need banking on the Kingswear run up to Churston for sure.

Thought the idea was to preserve them not to wear them out. Never let that driver drive it again.

some very uninformed comments here . the Duchesses took 20 over Shap unassisted on a daily basis . I suspect she had some damp sand and couldn't get it on the rail

Compare this wil the run from Clan Line in 2018 over the same hills. Not a sign of a slip, even though the Bulleid Pacifics were notorious for slipping - and looks like the run was done in misty weather so the rails would have been wet. Clan Line, 2018 = ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2t6AVOKKB2U.html Clan Line and Oliver Bulleid win!

Shades of Agatha Christie.

Great video. Very dramatic. I've subscribed to your channel and would appreciate same. Thanks.

I would say ,a bit of inexperienced driving there !¬!!

How stupid to expect this engine to pull so many coaches. The Driver is at fault, he should have known how many was possible. It makes it very sad to watch and even worse for the paying passengers. Gpx