This is some film of industrial steam around Kent, London, and South Wales. Not my film but I thought it was about time it was shared among like minded folk. Note : - The adverts are nothing to do with me. I don't get a bean out of them.
My dad (deceased) rode in the cab of a fireless steamer. It was Pennsylvania Power And Light Co. 4094. She is the worlds largest fireless steamer in existence, she is a 0-8-0. She rode so smoothly my dad said to me, in 1969 PP&L retired her and donated her to the Railroad Museum Of Pennsylvania. She is the worlds only streamlined fireless locomotive as well.
@@Reimu__Hakurei There is plenty if natural beauty in the Earth. We don't need polluting locomotives burning fossil fuels and adding to carbon emissions and global warming climate change. The polluting machines need to be cut for scrap and recycled.
My grandad worked at Betteshanger Colliery and I spent many happy hours watching the locos there and Snowdown colliery, giving me a lifelong interest in industrial railways- indeed I have a layout depicting the kent coalfield on my liveaboard narrowboat, currently moored on the Oxford canal... many thanks fmc!
My grandfather worked at Betteshanger after surviving WW1. Unfortunately the mine took its toll as he contracted an unknown disease at 50 and died a vegetable at 55...probably black lung. Enjoying this video very much...anyone know of any other videos on Betteshanger Colliery.
I love the Pecketts! They are my favorite industrial British steamers. Steam may have been banned from the BR Mainlines, but these industrial Pecketts, Pugs, and other saddle tanks kept puffing and clanking around!
I remember in the early 1970s as a small child going to a ship launch at the Swan hunter Yard, (previously Furness), at Haverton Hill....long gone now closed for good in 1979, anyway they were using green coloured steam engines in the yard, I can vividly remember it...lost world now.....great video 🙂
Thank you for a wonderfully nostalgic video. The locos at Snowdown Colliery are very familiar, as a group that I belonged to, The Ashford Railway Trust, negotiated with the NCB to remove and preserve both St. Thomas and St. Dunstan from the colliery to a site at Sellindge, along with a Sentinel shunter and the little Fowler 0-4-0 that appears briefly in the Snowdown segment. I had the privilege of driving the Fowler up and down the yard at Snowdown, after the closure of the colliery. Also of interest was the footage of the London Transport panniers, one of which I saw trundling through Hammersmith tube station sometime in 1970.
Back in the 60s the east London Tate and Lyle sugar factory had industrial locos. Far back in the mists of time the Greenwich Gas works now O2 site had industrial locos
So pleased to see Snowdown Avonside saddle tanks. The Canterbury and District Society of Model and Experimental Engineers had a visit just for us. St Thomas and the Austerity were steamed. Very friendly crew. Unforgettable.
brilliant video ,the last I new Irish loco supplied new built in the 1940s for the NCC ,NCC N0 4seen passing camera at 51.00 is the engine that was preserved and is still around today she is a fine engine ,nicknamed Jeeps after the American army jeep as they could do any work from shunting ,pulling freight and passenger duties a vey useful locomotive .
Is it just me or do videos released by Online Video tend to reuse a lot of their own footage and commentary? coz the bit about the LT steam crane was also heard in "UNDERGROUND TRAINS REMEMBERED VOL 1"
@@derekferguson385 This has already been sliced for scrap with cutting torches and sent for melting down. Good riddance to a polluting locomotive which produced carbon dioxide and contributed to global warming and climate change. Scrap steam locomotives!
Hand S would have had a fit if they saw the the working on the Kilmersdon incline.which I luckily saw in operation plus a foot plate ride on the Peckett
This was a lovely find of some great footage. Thank you. ps. How on earth did these poor people manage not to be killed and maimed by savage dogs or eaten by crocodiles? Not one of them was wearing a HiViz jacket.
They weren’t. BR banned the use of steam on their lines for a few years on their lines after the end of steam in 1968 but even then there were exceptions, BR still owned a narrow gauge steam railway in Wales at that time, I think Flying Scotsman had an exception due to an existing agreement, and there were still some steam breakdown cranes which could move themselves along the tracks. Any other organisation could use steam locomotives on their own lines if they wanted to.
@@srfurley Steam was banned because it was inefficient and polluting. Too difficult and expensive to maintain. Most steam locos were chopped with cutting torches and the scrap sent for melting down.
