Robin Leigh , I wish it was so, I lost penny late 2015, lucky has taken over her role in film role while I use archive photos and video footage of penny along side, in this film penny does the start and end photos.
BigGoucho , I doubt it, apart from evening star, i doubt any 9F’s carried a name, mainly they short lived, entering service 1959 or after, I think none saw out their ticket, secondly they were freight engines, names were usually given to passenger engines and in addition BR started removing names on steam locomotives in the early 1960’s .
@@pennysteam This un named aspect of the British Standard locomotives even extended to the Britannia class, with many only wearing nameplates for a short part of their lives. Mostly because many were named late in 1958 or 59 and even lost these names around 1962. Came across this in a rare article giving the naming dates and when the nameplates were removed. Although the whole Brit class had been built by September 1954 the later built ones were not named for several years. Preserved owners go for it giving names to un-named engines leading to the odd situation that for the majority of an engines life it can carry a name, albeit in preservation.
Wonderful to see these preserved steam railways back again. I really must go to the NYMR one day. I mean one day after the pandemic. The point is "when" ?
Lucky is very fortunate to be allowed a behind the scenes view of his railways. Great to see the NYMR open again. Few passengers but you'd expect that these days.
Hopefully that will change for the better. Some of Lucky's colleagues videoing other UK preserved railways have said trains have been booked out, albeit with the strict social distancing requirements that limit passenger numbers.
I live close to the Middlesbrough to Whitby line which often has steam trains travelling to and from Grosmount to other parts of the rail system. I was told of a web site that would publish dates and times of these events but have lost the link, can anyone provide a link to the web address, Thank's
Nice video, that 9f certainly makes easy work of the Moors line gradients. I hope this doesn't mean we will see much less of Bishop Treacy. Still wondering what kind of dog you have. Never seen anything like it before.
From Australia, I travelled on this railway (after staying at Whitby) a few years ago. Very pleasant. Love the scene at around 21:20 where you capture the interlocked gates being closed and the stick pulled off, and how at Grosmont you also showed the semaphore signal changing to 'proceed.'
Garry Martin , I think 29 had a minor problem or it would have been all steam, these trains only ran to the summit at fenbeck, so they had to top and tail.
Lovely video. Thank you. We had those old signals on the GNR in the North West of Ireland way back in the '60s. I must confess that I never saw a signal arm go up. The signals were either horizontal or down at an angle of 60 degrees to the horizontal.
great video!!!! at the end of the video at that location, i was there when the king and witherslack went by chucking it down with rainand it was no fun lol
Brilliant steam trains, none of today’s train drivers only know how to drive electric or diesel trains, they would not know anything about steam trains