What a superb facility that is to run those beautiful engines on, each one a work of art especially 71000 and the 9F but all of them a credit to their builders and owners
This is another great video. Thank you for bringing these to all of us. I live in Australia (unfortunately) and we don't have anything like this. We don't have parks like these. Our Government won't allow it. If we have locomotives over 5" gauge and parks too big, we must pay public liability insurance and personal injury insurance. Most people just can't afford that so they keep their locos small, like 3" gauge or 5" gauge. There are a few private layouts on peoples properties, which can run 7 1/4" gauge, but they aren't open to the public due to the costs of insurance etc. England and the US have great model parks with awesome layouts. It's a real pleasure to watch these. I always make myself a cuppa and sit down to watch these. Great stuff!
We have UK national club schemes for public liability and personal injury insurance as well. We also have a national scheme for boiler testing so no-one is going to be hit by claims from the public on an individual basis.
After watching this video of yours, my mind is very happy. This stream engine is very fascinating to me and my humble request to you is that if any damaged engine is gifted to me, I will carefully display it in my showcase. and I will be grateful to you forever. Thank you.
Hi Jason, Yet another superb video. Great to have caught up with you again there. The drone footage looks very steady (well done), if I sent my drone up by any trees, it would still be up there now, (stuck in one). Great video. Cheers, Andy G.
Thanks Andy. It was a great day with lots of lovely engines which are the stars of the video. Maybe see you there next year with your Standard Class 4 ;-)
18:07 - And there’s The British Rail (BR) Standard Class 8P 4-6-2 [Pacific] No. 71000 'Duke of Gloucester' (from The Steam Workshop Ltd) was Steam up and comes out the Shed, to start on first runner.
Great video I’m surprised you didn’t get a single wave from any one of the drivers or passengers. I always wave like mad when I’m filming just to see how many I can get to wave back!👋
🙄 Oh great, I’m stuck watching steam locomotive videos. 😀 And I can’t get enough of it! Thanks for uploading all these videos, especially the Model Engineering documentary from the 80’s. Fascinating! I have a question: Have you seen or heard of anyone successfully adding a steam powered dynamo to a locomotive to power the internal lighting of passenger cars, external lighting and so on?
