I still have the VHS 📼 of this wonderful gem 💎... 👍 Such Great Steam Train 🚉 treasures worth watching and keeping... 👍 ♥ Love 😍 the soundtrack on this show.. Such a joy...
I remember her being towed to York in '75. Preservation is very accidental, the gov wanted to cut her up. The centre big end went yes, several tons of con rod at 500 rpm might do that to a plain bearing. Apparently she will never run again ... but they built Tornado and restored a big boy so who knows.
Haven't seen this footage before, loved it, show some more please. They should make a movie about the Mallard it would make great viewing. Keep up the good work👍👍
The engine at 2:49 is actually 4472 Flying Scotsman. I’ve seen the group photo that was taken at this event but I don’t remember where exactly I saw it and I can’t seem to find it again.
2:49 This LNER Gresley A3 Pacific Steam Locomotive Flying Scotsman Is A Bit Like Gordon The Big Engine From Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends The Original Series In 1984. Thanks Mate. X
Gresley was aware of the bearing problem that the centre cylinder had. Caused of course by lack of cool airflow. Quite how it worked or even worked at all is rather difficult to understand as the driver is rather remote. A 'device' was fitted that gave off a terrible smell as the bearing started to overheat. The driver then had just 1 minute to ease down the throttle. The driver had already achieved 126mph and eased off immediately. No doubt as it was a 'near run thing' they decided to call it a day early.
@@DistanceNsVeterans just because it's a one off doesn't mean that it can't have done what was claimed. Unfortunately no one kept any records of such performances and now all we have are unsupported claims. Remember the Wright Flyer was a one off and we have eye witness testimony from reliable persons of its achievements in December 1907.
Yanks always got to talk themselves up to to do anything better than anyone else, without proving it. Take their version of Concorde. Ours flew. Theirs never got of the drawing board, but to listen to the Yanks, "Oh, it will leave Concorde standing, blah, blah, but à is often the case, total b*ll***ks!
