Nice mate, I am the young guy who you was talking to at Hemerdon for an hour before it came through, was an interest afternoon and good talking to you.
Very interesting, thank you. I really don't understand why the A4 was not emitting lots of steam and smoke whilst climbing the Devon banks? It looked more like a toy train!
Brilliant footage mate saw this myself on hemerdon back up very rare indeed definitely interesting seeing a A4 Pacific Banking a 47 on the banks a very classical set up by lsl 😊
Give ya some clarity which marvelous video by the way. The A4 did not fail as it was due to a points failure at Plymouth preventing the hole train to turn around on the triangle.
Nice bit of Sulzer thrash at Hemerdon! Load 12 plus however much an A4 weighs* is a load rarely seen nowadays * 167 tons, equivalent to at least four extra coaches
Another lovely video well done great camera work as usual I am really looking forward to seeing your next video I hope you get a nice video next time also when is your next video going to be on RU-vid bye for now Philip
THE LIMITATIONS OF HEAVY LOADS ON SOUTH DEVON BANKS. Of course what few seem to understand about the gradients in South Devon is that even the largest steam locos cannot surmount these gradients with a 12 coach train, and a 120 ton Diesel loco in tow, (as the total train weight exceeds even a King Class's maximum load). Unless the Diesel provides some of the power. Indeed in BR days it would have been prohibited to run passenger trains with a "swinger" (a heavy weight) on the rear of the train, as this presents serious dangers in curves ! Something the current "Mickey Mouse, headless chicken" railways in Britain have conveniently forgotten. When they binned the BR rule book (written in 150 years of blood), and replaced it with a "modern commercial outlook" !!!! Posted by a qualified Railway Mechanical Engineer, with experience on many Railways Worldwide !
