I was lucky being born in the 1950s. My grand father took me to Snow Hill and New Street stations in Birmingham. I saw the best steam locomotives ever. A friend of my fathers father was an 0 6 0 shunter driver at the Nechells coal fired power station. I drove the engine and had the breakfast cooked on the coal shovel, bacon, eggs and fried bread. No cafe could beat the taste. At school a freight line passed nearby, 9Fs, Black 5s and more. Some of my family worked at M C W and Nechells carriage and wagon works. I can still remember hearing the shunting works over night. A bloody sight better in those days than now. All anyone wants to do now is work on computers. A steam loco is a living entity. Luckly where i live they still run steam in the summer, i love it.
Awesome video on the live steam locomotive. Totally adore all aspects of steam be it on rail or road. There's a lot to do to get these engines to run and clear down!!😎🚂🚃🚃🚃🇬🇧
Many locos were a lot dirtier in BR days and many S15s and N class Southern Railway locos retained the war time black in Nationalisation. Loved those restored Gresley teak coaches.
S15 was a goods class and after the war in Nationalisation was painted in BR black which was standard goods livery. N15 and class N were passenger classes and after the war in Nationalisation reverted to various liveries of lined passenger green which was standard for passenger locos. 7 S15 one class N15 and one class N were preserved. The remainder were sliced with cutting torches and sent for melting down in the induction furnaces.
I juts love seeing steam engines... and I am juts so glad they no longer run up and own main lines and through cities as the means of power... dirty stinking engines they were.... but bloody awesome. One here and there is all we need.
@@PreservationEnthusiast that's all bullcrap because it is estimated that the average temperature for over 100 years went up only ONE degree Celsius. The ultra rich and elite tell us that us driving cars is 'changing the weather' while they live on private islands with private airports. They don't know science but they will pay scientists to say stuff. Look, a volcano in the Dutch East Indies blew up letting out more carbon dioxide than man has ever done. Nature and the universe is changing the climate like it has been for billions of years through polar shifts, earth's orbital rotation 'wobbling', the moon, and solar flares amongst other factors which aren't fully understood. These politricks are to keep the people in high-rise group apartments on VR, GMO leaves and flavored bugs, and laboring to death at warehouses and factories. Remember this, the World Economic Forum said "you will own nothing and you will be happy". It's nearly time to save humanity to prevent such a catastrophe, an authoritarian post-war/apocalyptic nightmare. God save us all.
@@TheRedAirOn You have some good points. We are more at risk from global wars, terrorism, germ warfare or pandemics. Those have potential to kill a lot quickly. But you'll have to do a lot better than "rich people pay scientists to say stuff". That's just a conspiracy theory. There's a huge amount of science and independent science that goes on, and 95% of it concurs global warming is a medium to long term danger to the planet as we know it. We may even go into a vicious circle which is beyond our control.
It's said often, but it's still so true and forever will be: until androids and robots will become too common (with AI), only a steam locomotive is the closest mechanical thing that seems like a living being. (Okay, forgetting about those 18th Century Swiss and other musical automatons.)
Early morning down at the depot oiling up as the engine slowly warmed through was my favorite part of the day ! Unfortunately now sadly gone since the Chemin de Fer du Vivarais has mutated into Disneyland on rails…
I love old steam locomotives - they are wonderful, evocative, romantic things. But the narration on this is tinged with almost bitterness that it isn't used on the main line anymore. Steam exists in plenty of places around the country and in my opinion such comments do indicate more of a generic hankering for the past than steam itself. No it is not as fun, but what we have now is entirely more fit for purpose. And we still have access to steam for fun.
At 19:40 he'd be much better off with the shunter's pole over the top of the buffer than underneath it. Much better leverage than the alternative. Probably why he has to have two goes at getting the link over the hook.
@@jamestung6741 We need to stop burning fossil fuels such as coal. This is causing global warming and climate change. Greta Thunberg would like to see steam locos scrapped and cleaner transport brought in which does not produce carbon dioxide emissions causing heating of the planet and sea level rise. Stop burning coal now!
@@jamestung6741 i was ment to go see flying scotsman go across a brdge near me on the 29 of june but then i relized thats it was passing by at 10:05 in the morning
It's still much less efficient than internal combustion. And the locos still take a long time to get pressure up and be ready. Plus at the time, they wanted to present a more modern image, and that wasn't steam which was old technology come the 1960's when they had lost millions of passengers. You need to realise that rail locomotive power is not provided for the sole titillation of a few rail foamer fans. There are loads of other factors.
Awww - 'The Great Marquess' - a locomotive harshly treated by the preservation world. Far too many preserved miles under her belt, and now doomed to a life in a remote museum.
The beginning should be titled how to light up and prep a steam loco without the proper tools in the case of the oil can and without properly setting the fire.
@@gwrstudios5181 You wouldn't want it, but it may be required by the Gov to control pollution. Compulsory scrappage scheme. You would be compensated from the sale of the scrap plus a percentage. Or, a halfway house measure. You can keep the loco, but it must be disabled from running by blowing holes in the firebox, boiler and cylinders with cutting torches. The loco would not be able to pollute, but it could still be a museum piece. Another way I'm proposing is a prohibitive boiler certificate tax. Make it 1 million pounds so as to price these locos off the rails.
‘Passengers are requested to cross the line by the bridge’. Not required, not instructed or ordered or any other thing. What a lost golden age of respect is conjured up. I expect I’m just being a grumpy old coot….
