Clan Line meets Angry Farmer December 2011 

I hate the Welsh for existing.

Thats No 53017 Peninsula and Orient Lines.

@@lukeslocomotives I really meant they seemed *MUCH* larger. Huge compared with other big engines (King Arthurs, GWR Halls) that you'd see at Weymouth. The unrebuilt Merchant Navies seemed no bigger than a corridor coach and did not give the impression of being specially big.

grazie Giuseppe

Never upset a steam enthusiast

Civility is a better approach.

It amazes me when such people mention the word Police and they feel emboldened and think other people are suddenly quaking in their boots over what would have been a civil matter and not a criminal one.

I googled the statistics for the US and Europe, and was very surprised that by weight, only 12% of all freight is transported by rail in the US versus 18% for Europe. But where 58% of tonnage in the US goes by road, this is 75% in Europe, where US railroads seem to loose a percentage over the last years in Europe their share of the pie is growing. This all in contrast with my opinion that US railroads had a much bigger part in the US transportation market, as most railroads rely on freight only. All has to do with the fact that roads are partly payed for by general taxes, as the taxes road users pay (road tax and taxes on fuel) do not cover all costs of maintaining the roads. Railroads have to pay the full extent to maintain their infrastructure, this makes road transport paying less for the infrastructure it uses. Road transport is becoming cheaper, especially in Europe where freight companies opened offices in Eastern Europe, got their vehicles registered over there and have very cheap drivers and low taxes, companies competing with each other to offer the lowest prices to customers, it's a race to the drain nowadays.

Hahaha

R&b

'GET ORF MOI LAAND!!!' Were you ever a cartoonist by any chance? Because Viz Magazine used to have a character called Farmer Palmer in it and this was the cartoon's tagline!

Clan Line is the best looked after loco on the main line for sure, super paint job and always clean, but for looks, nothing looks better than an LNER A4 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zo1dQSNCOhM.html

I thought Benny Hill had died. That farmer was a clown.

MAPFWH She appears like that every week. Happy to say, the famer does not appear every week

Yes, and men like that also like other men who made Britain great. I once saw a picture of W. O. Bentley (Bentley cars) at Victoria station, standing next to and admiring a Bullied Pacific.

W.O Bentley, like quite a few other famous engineers, started off by undertaking an apprenticeship with a railway company, in his case the Great Northern Railway. Henry Royce was another!

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If Bulleid had been even greater he would not have built purely passenger locos during the war. He somehow convinced the authorities that they were "mixed traffic" but anyone on the railway knew full well they were not. Also, they were such coal-eaters that all the MN's and half the WC-BB's were rebuilt by BR at considerable expense. The result was what we have here, a rather boring-looking machine, nothing like the original but much less of a "disorderly locomotive".

Sometimes this service does not carry a diesel on the back, but sometimes it does for a couple of reasons.1/ just in case the steam train looses traction on slippy rails - this is a hilly route, 2/ the diesel can provide electricity for the carriage heating and kitchen coach.

global warming?

He arrived solely to have a row, and not in the least bit interested in the train.

They are called rods, connecting rods, and yes they do move faster as there is some driving wheel slip happening, watch the smoke from the chimney, it turns black as the driver shuts off the regulator and cuts power

thank you for that sir.

Arfon Jones ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JDuJ3zHIvU4.html

The exhaust was clear for most of the video, except for when she slipped towards the end. When an engine slips the increase in exhaust draft tends to lift fuel particles off the firebed and out through the blastpipe, causing the black exhaust you saw. Black exhaust is a sign of incomplete combustion.

typical, there,s allways some knob, that complains about smoke going into thdm atmosphere etc, i can,t stand dogooder,s or enviromentalists

Nah. They probably gagged the fucker.

hahah

He's not competing with nearly 100 tons of angry steaming machinery...... not ever!

I doubt it, the train drowned out his ignorant ramblings.

Farmer stereo type behaviour offer a penny for the damage,next time passing throw your asbestos’s roof on his drive it’ll make good hard core

brandos451 it does - briefly

No 12 coach is a genny van, the class 67 is there for insurance during leaf fall.

Oh but he would never run out of mud. Good rich , fertile ud. Formed from all the shit that he talks. Yet another ignorant surrey farmer Not that all surrey farmers are ignorant. Just that the ignorant ones are pig ignorant. I know I was brought up just outside Dorking at the foot of Boxhill, in Mickleham.

a little yes it did

Obviously the farmer left some mud on his boots when he tramped across the line!

he was a turkey for sure. As for the 66, they don't always have one, but its usually used for shunting, in this case the whole train has to be pulled out backwards when it gets to the terminus.

Normally when the VSOE goes to Folkestone, theres a 67 either end so it can get to and from the sidings without running around the train.

I always thought it was in case the train failed or something went wrong then the train wouldnt be left stranded

Dynamic Braking testing?

It is because there is a lack of turntables these days, so for the return journey, the train is hauled backwards by the diesel.