70013 Oliver Cromwell's brutally stunning displays at KWVR Gala 9th March 2018 

What a beautiful beast of a locomotive, stunning to witness, thank you.

Memories. I arrived at work, Dallam Loco Shed, Warrington one summer afternoon in 1968 for the 2.5 Warrington East Leigh freight.Our loco 70013 recently out of Crewe works. Climbing out of Warrington Arpley we arrived at Acton Grange junction to wait to be turned out mainline for Crewe.The driver and I struggled for over 20 minutes to get either of the injectors to work, eventually, I was sent to the box to ask to be turned inside in order to knock the fire out as things were getting serious, however on my way I heard the whistle which was a signal to say that the driver had got them working and we continued to Crewe, I remember people watching as we arrived, we left Oliver on Crewe South Shed. I have never forgotten that day I'm 74 now

Excellent piece of film , the driver did a good job of getting up the rising curve out of Keighley Station.

Cracking work. Brilliant sound! 👍

Excellent footage , i bet the exhaust beat can be heard all over the town ....fantastic ...

Creacking,clear video Thankyou for sharing this with us xx

Love that sound and what a beautiful locomotive.

0:06 Wait, a LNWR Webb Coal Tank is preserved? Oh that is wonderful! Nice run, too, Mr. Cromwell! Greetings from Western Germany! 🇩🇪

At 9:55 - Never realized until now that the sound we used to make as kids is actually the exact way a steam train sounds in real life.

Wonderful steamy start 🤩 I noticed that there was a USA engine in the midst at one point🇺🇸...that was cool to see! Quite enjoyable! 🥰

Louder than a S160, that says a lot. Thanks for this wonderful footage.

Fantastic start and never lets up

Impressive... Takes me back sixty years!

Back in 1961 I climbed aboard ‘ Oliver’ in Longsight sheds, (9A) Manchester. She’d been put to sleep for the night, I wrote a brief note to the effect that I-had been there and enjoyed the magnificent footplate. I pushed the note right down the back of the drivers seat between the leather backing and the steel supporting frame . I don’t think it’s likely to be still there, or even the same chair. Great memories though. 4 30 pm next day and on many other occasions, copped her flying through’ withington and west didsbury ‘on the Manchester Central, London St. Pancreas express. And here she still is🤗

Your right that is some Stunning footage and a Stunning Locomotive - I Liked & Subscribed 👍😎

Great peace of video, best I've seen for a long time. Managed to see Oliver Cromwell at Victoria and Liverpool Street nice to see her working hard again.

Great filming; thanks very much.

I'm a train and I approve this video! Choo choo!

fantastic opening , thanks for sharing , liked and subscribed , last time i saw cromwell she was passing floating barge at dawlish when sea wall was being fixed

Here are some very nice dramatic shots requiring a considerable amount of patience. Well done and thank you very much. Excellent!

Fabulous stuff!

Fantastic sound on departure and what a cracking display

Great sounds

My memory of Oliver Cromwell is from FA Cup Final day 1966, Everton v Sheff. Wednesday. I wanted to go train spotting onto Preston station and my mum wouldn't let me go on my own so my Gran came with me. She sat and read her magazine whilst I collected the numbers. Oliver Cromwell came through pulling a goods train sometime in the middle of the afternoon. It had clearly only just come out of a clean up as it was just as sparkly as it is in this film. Will we ever see it in steam again?

That’s a steep climb out of Keighly station and on a curve. Right on the edge of slipping.

My favourite of all the big boy/girl loco's especially when he's "Angry Ollie."

Great Sound

Awesome power !!!

Hes a big bad tempered brute,,and i loved him...

I love trains

Withe cylinder vent pipes (to drain water condensate from the cylinders) facing forward, are theyvetting the rail which then promotes wheel slip?

Stunning displays, but it took practice to get star ted at Keighley. The bank coupled with the curve makes it a big challenge. But she did better than one of the visiting Bulleids which are known for their slipping.

Cool!

They all survive in the great marshalling yards in the sky. Only saw Polmadies 70049 Solway Firth as recently as last week,70046 Anzac was there too.

opening shot at Keighley station, Oliver Cromwell releases a fog of steam

who is watching this that love locomotives

Oliver Cromwell double heading with USA 5820, and BR 75078

So can someone tell me please. Which action creates each steam from where its blown out? I see it blown out in front and upwards nearer to the cab?

Fired olly 60s great loco like sitting in a rolls royce after firing austeritis and and lots of other locos 😆

The old train very...... ..."Wuuuuussssss...Whoooossss........Aaaaach.....!!!!"

3:38, always gotta have a bit of wheel slip, just looks bliss that does

lovely "Pacific"

saw her at shildon NRM

Maybe not too long from now we wont see sights like this , make the most of it .it will all be a distant memory . i am lucky that i can just remember the last days of steam , this is one awesome vid of a steam engine doing what it was designed too do .

God she is a leviathan isn't she, that huge firebox says it all...

Awesome opening footage of BR 70013 Oliver Cromwell releasing a fog of steam when leaving the station

at 10.mins 40 secs, why are the coaches relatively unoccupied? certainly not apparently full of sitting down folk?

Y is there steam coming from the carriages? Do they have heating systems from steam or something?

'Brutally' stunning?? ...And, how anyone can stand to have such a magnificent majestic example of a masterpiece of engineering named after such a despicable tyrant just amazes me. The tragedy of the English conquest of Ireland in the 17th century is that the Irish can never forget it and the English can never remember it.

Properly Cromwellian. Loud, serious; powerful. Your basic no nonsense steamer.

Skilful use of the regulator there to control and minimise the slipping! So glad this engine was saved for the nation, she’s a beauty! Do any others in her class survive? What about about Brittania herself?

I am from India. Can anyone educate me as to why the compartments are letting out steam?please see at 6.30 onwards

WOW SMOKE SCREEN GOOD

Why all the steam from the front these days. Never saw it when steam was on main line in the 60’s

Carriage and Wagon boys need to get working on those steam heating leaks in the coaches.

at 6mins 50sec, why are all the red coaches oozing two steams at their "bottoms"?

Is the English rail the same gauge track

Really cool that when so much is going on the lovely engine at 0:10 is just a sideshow :)

Why, each time we see it, 'tis going in a different direction forward, reverse, forward, reverse?

I think it was designed and Built at Derby 1951

Very good!

It's alive!

Wheel slip is inevitable in some circumstances, but it is a very bad thing for the engine. I had a footplate experience on a BR Class 4 tank engine - birthday present. At the intermediate station, the driver said to me, "She'll wheel slip here sometimes". I thought, "Not if I can help it!" So I opened the regulator just far enough to start away, but the driver gave it a great shove and slip she did. Quick as I could I closed the regulator and opened again much as before. I heard some time later that the engine had to be in the shops for repairs, having suffered bent rods. I have always wondered it that driver (or maybe others) had repeatedly done as he had, just for the fun of it. I think it is far more skilful to avoid it whenever possible.

Great video. Magnificent sights and sounds. Just don't let the "Snowflakes" see all that smoke and steam!!

Nice seeing the locomotive starting out, hearing it under load and seeing everything in detail. "7F"? "Big Jim"? Why is the cylinder exhaust *[1]* 2 3 4 *[1]* 2 3 4 ? Two locomotives for five cars? "carriages" Would rather hear one locomotive under load than 2 expending littleffort.

STUNNING ??? eh

*During his rise to power, Oliver Cromwell made many enemies, including his former ally Anne Boleyn. He played a prominent role in her downfall. ... Cromwell was arraigned under a bill of attainder and on Tower Hill on 28 July 1540. The king later expressed regret at the loss of his chief minister.*

En mi ciudad hay locomotoras asi pero no funcionan solo una funciona pero nunca hace recorridos con personas 😔 En otros pueblos estan abandonados a la intérperie deteriorándose😠😠que rabia.

Good to see the driver finally getting the hang of things at 9.30

Angry Ollie

Wonderful subject! But, way too much deadtime; probably could have edited this down sub-15minutes.

One day author was talking to Murdoch, but Murdoch wanted peace and quiet so he wished author

There seems to be a fashion to misuse the word brutal.

The latest video I viewed showed Angry Ollie , running on a boiler that its worthiness had expired , how foolish is that , now The fools who looked at playing around with the rules of common sense are found wanting ?

That's a proper locomotive not that shit used on the Southern Region which were all noise and no go, I used to live next to the London to Holyhead railway line near Rhyl and see the Southern Class Locos struggle up the slight incline between Prestatyn and Rhyl. Every other region engines romped it with more coaches in tow.

Can you go wash the engine...... Hold my beer....0:40

"Brutally stunning displays" ! Huh, where ? Obviously "john snow" has no experience of steam locos. They always hiss, blow steam from drain cocks, and make lots of ruddy noise. Why do you think we abolished them back in 1968. Couldn't get a wink of sleep in the back of the engine shed, damn hissing behemoths.

I’m not impressed. UP4014 rules the world of locomotion. He’s got it right. You might be a distant second with your soprano voice.

It was brutal to my eardrums as this was edited ! And I like catchy titles to get people to be interested. thanks for watching and your comment .