Filmed Tuesday 2nd March 2021 at Grosmont MPD on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. 9F No 92134 has its safety valves set in preparation for it in steam boiler insurance exam and then undergoes a brake test as part of its annual exam.
As a porter at the Epping Ongar Railway, it’s really interesting to see what goes on at the front of a train. This is remarkable footage of the fireman at work.
I'm glad that I started on the railway in 1978 as a Secondman 11 years after the end of steam on the Southern, later becoming a driver and retiring in 2018.... All we had to do after prepping the locomotive/unit was press the engine start button and wait or the compressor(s) to build up enough air pressure for the air CCG to trip in, release the handbrake, then we were basically ready to go.. no shovelling umpteen tons of coal a day whilst travelling at speed on a footplate that is oscillating independently of the tender or having to get into the tender to shovel the coal forward, and no messing around at water columns getting a good soaking whilst filling the tender with water (we never had water scoops on the Southern)... and no bashing your head on the multitude of pipework on steam locomotives.... With all that fire, you'd think it would be warm in the winter... sadly not.... but it was unbearably hot in summer... mind you, all we ever heard from the old boys, who I had huge respect for, was "in the old steam days"... a bit like Uncle Albert saying "during the war"... The mysteries of steam locomotives never really interested me... too much like hard work... at least you generally went home clean after working on diesel or electric multiple units and locomotives... retirement is happiness...
There are two safety valves. One is usually set at 249/250 psi in the case of the 9F and the second safety vavle at 251/ 252 psi. However it varies from loco to loco depending upon boiler pressure.
@@nymrfootage thanks a lot ...;-)...that was quick.....i've got actually two 9Fs, but only in 76:1 size....;-D...no problem with boilerpressure there...
@@eliotreader8220 safety valves are set to blow off at slightly different pressures. If the first valve is insufficient to reduce the pressure then the second valve kicks in a few psi later. If you had both safety valves blowing off together you would probably loose too much pressure in one go
