The LNER's big banking engine - LNER U1 

I've heard it said that guards had to decide if they wanted the van door open or closed before the U1 buffered up. Once it had and started to shove, the van would bow under the strain and jam it. The guard then had to sit and listen to the van creaking and groaning, hoping it wouldn't buckle, fold up and turn to match wood round them.

All the preserved and surviving British Garratts are Narrow Gauge,except for the Standard Gauge NCB William Francis,it's a lovely machine!

My grandfather saw this loco! He told me about how he observed it push a coal train up the Lickey (need to ask him about where it was exactly) Basically singlehandedly, the 8f at the front gladly taking a break. 'The poor thing at the front basically took the opportunity to get it's breath back whilst the giant casually strolled up with it's train. The load was way too heavy anyway, even for an 8f!'

When I was in Bolivia in Potosi i stumbled acrossed one parked on a siding, locals told me it ran up until the 1990s when the bolivian railway finally put it out of service because they couldn't repair it. As far as I know south American countries had a number of Garret Type locomotives! Very good video!!

The biggest problem with both the LMS and LNER Garretts was the use of LMS/LNER standard parts off their standard classes instead of standard Beyer Peacock parts.

2:37 Fun note about that picture of Big Bertha and the U1 on banking work. The train engine at the head of that train was an LMS Garratt. Also, I've noticed the use of music from Undertale.

I remember watching the 59 class Garratts thumping up and downs the tracks between Nairobi and Mombasa. The 59s were the most powerful Garratts, in an any gauge, ever built.

This used to run past my house way before my time , as a kid I would watch four EM 1 class 76 electrics doing the same job , two lead loco’s and two on rear as bankers , it took so much power no other electric loco could be in section between Aldam junction and west silk stone junction such was the power needed to push coal trains up the worsborough incline , today I regularly cycle on the route , I have heard that such was the power of the Garret that sometimes guards were trapped in they’re van because the frames buckled jamming the doors on the break van

Australia actually have the same type of class like garrat, AD60 Class and Australian Standard Garrat The wheel base of AD60 Class is 4-8-4 + 4-8-4 While the wheel base of Australian Standard Garrat is 4-8-2 + 2-8-4 AD60 operate on Standard Gauge (1,435 mm), Australian Standard Garrat operate on Cape Gauge (1,067 mm) 4 AD60 was perserved and 38 was scrapped 1 Australian Standard Garrat was perserved and 56 was scrapped

Great to see the U1 in your series. Had it been fitted with a mechanical stoker the crews would have been happier with it, the railway less I guess, it would have used even more coal as the amount a man could shovel now limited its appetite.

Can we respecc the fact this man uploads every Friday and they r always so good

Really great to see a video about the U1. I live 5miles from Wosborough Bank and have ridden up and down on the bike many a time. I would have loved to have seen these at work.

I'm surprised that when they realised it kinda sucked as a banking engine, didn't decide to instead use it as a freight-hauling powerhouse. Like, that'd make *way* more sense as the sheer size of it would mean it would give some American locos a run for their money in terms of capability of hauling cargo.

A visit to the Welsh Highland Railway is well worth a visit for anyone interested in Garratt Locomotives. Whilst they are narrow gauge running on the 2ft they are a big as a standard gauge loco. It makes one imagine how awesome a standard gauge Garratt would look

It's a shame this engine was scrapped! Looks awesome and great video

There's a Beyer Garrett that Australia has, I can't remember the city/town, or railroad, but they raced a Garrett and another steam locomotive one year and I think they do it every year. Amazing to see such a machine alive and running!

I've heard that when the steam engines used to go under the Malvern Hills on the Hereford - Worcester line, the crews had to lie on the cab floor to try to breath. Narrow bore tunnels, they filled with smoke as the train pulled up the incline.

Just to add. By the time the U1 Garratt was authorized, the Great Central had been grouped with other companies in the LNER. The U1 was designed by Nigel Gresley and not based on the O4 but on his own O2 2-8-0 class built for the Great Northern before the Grouping. The O4s had two cylinders, the O2s had three.

An interesting subject for a video, similar to the LNER U1, would be the Beyer Peacock built, soviet operated "YA-01" 4-8-2+2-8-4 Garratt. It was supposedly the largest garratt ever built, and at one point the largest and most powerful steam locomotive in Europe, with a tractive effort of around 90,000 lbs.

Garrett and Mallet locomotives are my favorites configurations.

Why isn’t there a OO model of this? This is awesome!

In March of 1950, A freight train was hauled by LMS 47972 with LNER 69999 as the banker. The train stalled halfway up the Lickey Incline and had to be rescued by MR 2290 (Big Bertha).

This is the first time I've ever seen or heard of this machine. Interesting conversation piece

Great work ToT!

Another great video lad, how about a video about the Kittson-still locomotive. That or to be an interesting video.

Bengal Nagpur Railways had the Garratt type of locomotives for heavy freight use. The N Class Garratt for eg had 4400 HP power output and all the Indian Garratts were of broad gauge (1676 mm). They could go upto 80 kmph, but were restricted to 65 when in normal service. One of these locomotives is preserved at National Rail Museum, New Delhi. Another unit has been restored to working order by Kharagpur workshop. This loco is restricted to a top speed of 45 kmph only after restoration.

Hello: Nací en 1960 y las Garrats fueron usadas con éxito en España. En la línea de Tarragona a Lérida circulaba un tren de productos petroliferos con un coche de viajeros en medio, arrastrado por una Garrat doble Mikado. Yo he viajado en este tren cuando era niño. Actualmente seria demencial un tren mixto así. Hay vídeos en You Tube del difunto Maristany.😢 Bests Regards.

I'm from mexborough and it is one of the great steam marvels that we had. If I can find anything else on the loco in one of the mexborough steam books do you want me to send it over? Keep up the good work on these videos always enjoy watching them!

If they refined the design, give it a stoker motor to move the coal from the tender to the firebox, the U1 would've been successful enough for a class of them to be built as banking engines for all heavy goods trains across Britain. Seriously making that absolute unit in just 3 weeks is crazy, it needed more time.

Do you plan on covering Bullied's Leader at some point? I'm rather curious to hear it's background.

ya know, I had a vision once, where I said to a bunch of people, 'hey I propose that I make three engines, a decapod, a u1, and a bertha, obviously this might not happen, but its an interesting dream that I had, and who knows, maybe ill make one of em, or maybe I won't, will see. In all seriousness though it would be so cool if we saw one of those engines I mentioned in action, and hey, maybe the people that built tornado could do it or another group could, anyways, nice vid.

You should do a whole video the Garrett type of engine it is definitely deserving of one considering it’s crazy design

Why would soft water require retubing? It is hard water that causes scale when the minerals in it precipitate on the surface of the tubing.

Would love to see a video on the LMS Garratt next.

Garratt's are one of my favorite type of locomotive's

those videos like this one make me feel like I was born in the wrong age

It makes sense why you would use the soundtrack “Core” from Undertale. After all, like the topic of this video, the Core was huge and imposing.

I’ve been puzzled as to why the Garratt design steam locomotive wasn’t used in the US but I’m guessing that many turntables would be too short for them. I wish I could have seen one in one of my multiple trips to Australia.

How the hell could they build it in just 3 weeks?.... Look at the size of the thing!

Could you do a video on 'big bertha' herself and on the licky incline

The fact that this… thing, was for banking is absolutely ridiculous to think of given how massive it is!

Strange there was no mention of who it was built by , Beyer Peacock Gorton Manchester .

We had Garrett engines here in New Zealand as the Class G, they were big, and lost their adhesion as water levels diminished. The recollections of them were that they were good at wheelspins and not much else. These were recycled into other engines with no surviving examples.

Nice video short yet informative

Soft water? Usually hard water causes boiler damage

Why is no one talking about the use of 'the core' soundtrack from undertale in the background

Interestingly, I watched a 1925 British Pathé silent footage called “The Monster - Filmed at Gorton, Manchester” featuring this particular locomotive.

Like the new upload.Thanks for sharing.

I've never seen a Garret Run in real life but I've seen the Union Pacific Big Boy which is the largest articulated steam locomotives in the world weighs 600 tons or 1250000 lb puts out attractive effort of 133,000 lb I think the I can't remember exactly off top of my head right now but the the wheel consolidation is aa4884 articulated simple all high-pressure some cylinders instead of a compound there is videos on RU-vid of me watching it go through Weaver Canyon and I got to talk to the engineer and everything that locomotive is gigantic 132 ft long 16 ft High 10 ft wide and it just Glides across the rails it is so crazy how smooth that locomotive actually runs it was built to pull five mile long freight trains across the planes at 80 mph that's pretty damn good for a freight locomotive check out the big boy if you know nothing about it I've seen it with my own eyes and the big boys glorious 4014 is the locomotives Road number peace out I almost forgot the boiler pressure 300 PSI of boiler pressure that's with a big boy runs on that's higher than any boiler pressure that was successful of any European locomotive as far as I know

The lner U1 garratt is my favorite U.k steam locomotive

I CANT STOP WATCHING THIS

The Steam Engine Looks Beautiful

Me: *watches the video* Me a few minutes later: *hears the CORE's theme from undertale* wait what?

Would definitely give the American Big Boys a run for their money!

There is also one more made in the LMS

Okay, did not expect Undertale music to be here. Nice!

Nice video like and subscribed from Czech Republic 🙂👍👍👍

This is litterly in my town. I live in Swinton mexbrough. And work in wosbrough Barnsley

2:35 Nice

Hi, I had once heard from an ex steam locomotive fireman who had used a bicycle inner tube of which first he cut so he could breath with this, the air being much cleaner lower down.

Ironically enough some are still in use in Africa and Australia

Is it just me or does this kinda remind me of Henry when he first came to Sodor since he wasn’t designed properly

most Garratt engine units only used two cylinders not three. Kinda sound similar to the AT&SF 3000 class, except the 3000 class is an oil burner. I wonder how better the U1 would be if the three cylinder design got replaced with the standard two cylinder layout?

A excellent video but sorry to say but i have to correct you the u1 and big bertha ran together hence the photograph of them both taken by the good Dr the u1 had long gone from the Lickey when big bertha was scrapped in 56 and the headlight was then fitted to a 9F

3:13 amazing number on the locomotive

It seems like Britian has been behind in freight steam locomotives. While the USA had the massive articulated locomotives like Challengers and eventually the Big Boys, it took British railroad companies to catch on, but it never seems like they had enough large locomotives with tons of power.

An excellent video. 💙 T.E.N.

DUDE! THATS TEH FRIKKEN CORE THEME FROME FRIKKEN UNDERTALE?!

Yes

R.I.P LNER U1 Garrett 1924-1955

I literally skipped school just to watch this video.

It's always funny to hear a British or any European locomotive described as "Massive", after you've seen American Steam locomotives...

A pure unit... I wonder if there are any in units.

Hi, I hope Train of Thought read this, I really like this videos, they hace very good information about engines or trains, and as far as I know there is no one who uploads videos like this but in Spanish, that why I want to ask if I can use the information from this videos to uploads videos about trains but in spanish I'm writting this in a comment because I didn't find how to contact you

1:12 hey! I live near there! That reminds me, I still need to do a kind of documentary of the history of wath rail yard for my train channel. I've been putting it off for too long. Speaking about wath yard, can you possibly do a video on the train crash that happened there? I haven't seen anything about it other than the one that British pathe uploaded, I believe it's called something like "Yorkshire train disaster"

My favourite loco!

Interesting video as usual, thanks. At 2.13 “soft water” - really?

This looks like a 4 year old's work after trying to draw a steam locomotive

May I request a video about the American steam turbine locomotives. There aren't many people who know that they even existed

Best train number

ABSOULUTE UNIT

If you haven’t already, could you make a video on big Bertha?

I wonder what the Baking Engine would of looked like if the wheels were placed correctly and used as a passenger train

Can you make a video on 2290 Big Bertha

Do videos on Royal Scot and Big Bertha please.

I wonder if its possible to have a diesel-steam hybrid where the steam would use the waste heat for boiling

Hey Train of Thought could you do a video about the MÁV class 242?

It's not an ABSOLUTE UNIT... it's TWO units

Certified Garatt moment

Americans: 'Why not just build a bigger engine?'

Interesting how the US and UK had different ideas on articulated steam locomotive power

What’s the theme you use for the end card? I’m very curious

Still waiting for TheSpiffingBrit to reveal his second channel. The writings are on the wall.

Should tried a cab forward design? I mean I know brits don’t believe in using oil as a fuel source for steam engines, but hear me out. It works pretty well over here and we have been using as a fuel source for steam for quite some time.

Closest thing to a British Big Boy.

Very interesting. ...It looks like those engines from Africa.

Nice

I like Garratts.

Can you do big bertha next please

Yay im 2 days late