My apologies, I did plan on including a photo at the start but I edited my movie before my photos. If you search 'Furness railway 20' in your search engine, this will show you the full loco.
I played on this loco when i was a kid and it was a static piece of playground furniture in a small park. It was painted some horrible sky blue colour at the time and i was about 5 or 6 (Im 58 now) so glad it was restored1
I didn't know that! I have to say it is one of the most stunning locos I have had the pleasure of filming on. There is something magical about it (and not just it's age) and I am glad it is being used.
Thought this lovely old thing was out of traffic? Anyways I'm pretty sure it's one of two tender engines at the RSR, the other being GWR Hall class, being restored in the corrugated steel shed with the yellow doors on the left. I think the halls tender frames are around there too...
They was testing it that day after a recent refurb. The first run was solo but the second run had another loco at the back to take some strain off while they give it a run or two
I was working at the NRM in Shildon when somebody shunted this old lady through a not fully open shutter door and damaged her dome. Nice to see her repaired and running again
I would not have liked to be the person that did that! She is a lovely loco, this was her first loaded run after a bit of recent work so it was a pleasure to have been there really
This made me chuckle, they was testing the loco after a recent refurbishment so hopefully that is the biggest issue they found. If you look closely you can see a little tinfoil pouch in shot too, that was somebodys lunch warming up!
That must have been amazing! It is such a beautiful loco, I thought I was lucky just to stick a camera on it! I am glad I can try to show the world a little bit of what it would be like to drive something like this. I am just glad I got a dry day, Preston isn't known for it's good weather!
@@TheTouristLine FR20 is an amazing locomotive and a real pleasure to have been allowed to do it. Tim Owen is on the regulator and Alan Middleton was the guy that keeps appearing. He was the one walking along the side of the engine and tender. I learnt so much from Tim and Alan and will always be eternally grateful.
I can confirm it is a 0-4-0, you are correct. It was such a pleasure to be able to film with it, even better because I was able to take my 2 year old daughter along. Memories like that make for future train fans, and they are the next generation to inherit and look after these machines.
The Ffestiniog Railway has “Prince”, a locomotive built in 1863 and also still running for the company she was built for on that railway. So how do you know your’s is older? There’s also a steam locomotive, in India I think, that is still running that was built in 1855, so the FR stopped calling ‘Prince’ the eldest a few years ago.
Prince wasn't delivered to the railway and put to work until January 1864, FR20 was put to work in August 1863 so just about clinches it. Not that I am taking anything away from Prince, it is a magnificent loco and a pleasure to visit.
It hinges on amount of original material. Has the original design been deviated from when rebuilds were done. Difficult if you don't have any records of the original build.
If I could make one suggestion, edit out the inactivity from 51:10 to about 55:11 where the loco(running light-engine at that instant) was sitting idle at the end of the line.
I am always 50/50 about chopping bits, part of me wants to keep it as accurate and as true as it was on the day and part of me does like to cut out some of the static bits. I have left it in on some videos and chopped others down quite a lot to keep them flowing, it is nice to see what somebody else thinks about it to be honest, 4 minutes is a long time to be idle.
@Neil Forbes even though you made the suggestion its entirely up to the person how he or she edits the video but some word of advice wouldn't do any harm
Here is the thing about British steam locomotives there very beautiful including the E2 aside from the short coal bunker but the E2 is a beautiful locomotive And aside from the bullies leader class locomotive
@@TheTouristLine to be honest diesel locomotives looked nice back then but now are just boxes on wheels on wheels and nothing special but if you give them a small adjustment then they will look nice speaking of nice diesel locomotives I believe that the DD51 from the Japanese railways are very underrated in America
I cant find any info on that on the Didcot website, can you send me a link so I can have a nosey? It's been ages since I have been there, definitely need a visit soon!
I completely agree. If I could go back and do it again I would put a couple of my photos at the start. Truth be told, I was that excited to get the footage online I did the video before I even looked at my camera!
On a steam locomotive, the "identity" is generally based on the frames. at the peak of the steam era, it was normal practice, for locos which were made in large numbers, to be fitted with swap reconditioned boilers when they came in for major servicing. The removed boiler was refurbished and joined the pool for subsequent rebuilds, and tenders were also treated the same way, so changing these items out really doesnt effect the original identity of a loco. It was quite normal for all of these bits to be replaced in normal service.
