The main reason 9Fs are fleet of foot is the excellent valve design and steam passages, able to get the steam in and out of the cylinders quickly enough for that 90MPH on 5ft wheels. Chapelon probably approved.
Great videos, but I like the Steam Engines more, because of the magnificent machinery that encompasses each Engine. The MARVEL OF PHANTASMAGORICAL MAGNIFICENCE OF THESE MAGICAL MACHINES. YOU WATCH THEM GO AND WATCH THE STEAM, AND THE PISTONS, AND RODS, ETC., THAT MAKE THEM GO, AND THE BEAUTIFUL MAGICAL WAYS THEY DO THEIR WORK. GODSPEED, AND GOD BLESS THOSE CREATORS OF THE STEAM TRAIN 🚉, AND STEAM ENGINE VIDEOS. THANKS AGAIN. SINCERELY, LIGHTSTTN1.
Great footage of a big era. I didn't know that the steam era in GB ended in 1968, I thought it was in the mid 70s. That is why English fans made a pilgrimage to West Germany until there was no more steam in October 77, and also determined to East Germany until 1988 ... PS: The first German steam locomotive, the Adler, came from England ...
Showed my grandson this video today as my daughter said he likes trains, but we were both surprised when he knew what a steam locomotive was. The surprising thing is he's only 4 and we haven't showed him anything like this before, so his seen it somewhere so can't wait to take him to the Bluebell or Mid hants railway. Train set on its way next birthday.
Used to have this on DVD. Very good documentary reminds my teen years when I first got this. I have meet both Nigel Harris and the late David Shepherd as well at Barrow Hill. RIP David
Thank you for uploading this video! We found the book with DVD probably 3 or so years ago. Our young son has loved it ever since. He's almost 5 now and still watches it with great interest. Thankful to have it available on RU-vid rather than only being able to watch on DVD.
Absolutely MUST keep steam railroading alive. If for no other reason than to tell your grandchildren--you see, you CAN make a machine that doesn't need a computer. Living history these. The perfect marriage of function and beauty.
I read somewhere that the UK has approx 500 preserved locos. What a massive debt of thanks we owe to those restorers who gave so much time (and money) to their projects. So much owed to so few! And perhaps I should like to thank the "steam widows" whose husbands were always away working on their projects.
There will never be a locomotive that can capture the beauty and feel of a steam locomotive. True iron horses that don't feel like machines,but rather as living beings..... Truly,a remarkable piece of engineering
To understand the attraction of machine such as steam locomotives one must first look beyond the machine. Most of the folks that i have worked with looked at me with a quizical expression when I stated that I always saw the intelligence that created the machine, and as such the machine is entitled to be viewed with respect. Crazy you might say not to those of us that love engineered equipment.
Thank you so much for sharing this awesome video with us all, I totally enjoyed watching it 😊 it's bought back fantastic memories, and memories are about all i have left of the day's when my dad and I went on the road to get to traction engine rallys, for long weekend's, I really miss him and our adventures we had together with our beautiful gal Burrel ❤ . Anita from Kent UK 🇬🇧
35:55 to 37:16- My favorite LNER and British steam locomotive ever: the GRESLEY W1 Yarrow Boiler powered ultra high steam water tube boiler locomotive. I love that locomotive so much, I have a room dedicated to the W1 in our model railway building. The W1 was a bold attempt to make steam locomotives more efficient with new advances in boilers, and she served the LNER for a good 7 years as she was built, and rebuilt in 1936 to serve another 23 years rebuilt as a Orthodox Streamlined locomotive, the streamlining was the exact styling used on the A4 Pacifics, but the only difference was that the W1 had a 4-6-4 ""HUDSON" (as we railroaders call it), and the A4 had the arrangement of 4-6-2 "Pacific". Fun fact: the W1 after she was rebuilt, derailed at Peterborough on September 1st 1955, but she was rerailed and put back into service. Also the W1’s very tender it worked with its entire service life is now coupled behind 60009 Union Of South Africa. Long live the W1
I've especially wanted to mention that I personally saw David Shepherds BR class 9F tender engine named Black Prince in Best of World Steam as well since the 1959 built steam locomotive had been bought by the famous artist from BR in 1967 as to now have been owned by him several decades longer since that's what Peter Fairhead personally said as I've heard those exact words with my own ears!
With the power to weight ration the Kings must have been the most powerful 4-6-0s ever built, they were 26 tons lighter than a Princess Coronation class although they were 4-6-2s and were 11 tons lighter than the Britannia class 4-6-2s, the Kings also had a greater tractive effort than both these classes and to see them in full flight was an absolute fantastic sight to see, it speaks volumes about these Railway Mechanical Engineers back in the 1920s and to think they were still running into the 1960s, the Kings were such a beautiful engine.
There used to be a good video on You Tube about preparing Kings for cutting up for scrap at Cashmores. They had to cut the back wheels first to get them round the tight curves in Cashmores yard. Actually the King was a terrible design, the result of trying to get too much power out of a 4-6-0. This resulted in a very compact front end which was difficult to access and maintain with the large internal inside cylinders. The axle loading was too high resulting in very small route availability, just 15% of the network. And the firebox too narrow for the size of loco as it was constrained by the rear drivers ... no such limitation in a Pacific. These faults meant the Kings were quickly torched in 1962, with Swindon C shop and Cashmores Newport being favoured places for quick disposal.
People don't understand about the true pleasure you can get out a steam engine, I've been bought up on steam and the traction engine i drove was a beautiful black red and gold burrel, for me it was the smell of the steam and the smoke, the fact was that you had to feed it and grease it to keep her alive and happy, people think I'm mad but they don't understand, I always tell them until they have had a bacon and egg butty with a cup of tea made off the shovel they haven't lived 😉 ohhhh the good old days, I miss them, dad and I loved everything to do with steam I've driven a steam train 🚂 at the bluebell line loved every minute my dad knew the owner so I got to spend the day with him great day ❤ I tuturned up in my boiler suite which was covered with grease and coal dust, my hair tucked up in my cap ready for work it was fantastic. Anita from Kent UK 🇬🇧
@@IslandofSodorStudios I did but unfortunately over time they were lost, my dad had most of them he passed away in 86 and my sister threw alot of them away unbeknown to me, she hated steam, because it was dirty stupid moo she wasn't like me, roll your sleeves up and dive in, I wish in a way they could bring back the steam engines there's just something so lovely about them, they are a living thing in their own right, and of course you get to love them.
@@anitainglis2005 Have you ever read train books, like The Railway Series or anything? James A Williams has a video series in which he reads that series. I've listened to that series, so I can tell you it's stories of living engines. They got faces, they breathe, talk, feel sensations and emotions and even cry, for example, when they've been a "naughty engine", in quotes due to a little engine called Thomas being told "You're a very naughty engine!" in a story. That same engine does a different naughty thing in another stories and he cries in that one, too. There's another engine, his name's James, crying and being miserable when he's been naughty, too. They also get sad when someone's mean to them, like in the first TRS story, the other engines make Edward cry and at least in the TV show based on the books, an engine nicknamed Duck's in tears over another engine's meanness.
I've especially wanted to mention that the BR class 9F remind me of a character named Murdoch who was introduced in the show's season 7 episode titled peace and quiet!
I laughed at 6:19 - 6:37 because "As a Passenger Railway, the Liverpool and Manchester needed Speed and Steady Riding from it's Locomotives, Rather than Freight Hauling" I have a feeling that Lion knows better, as the screen shows one of the only Goods engines the L&M had at the time that wasn't a return-flue boilered engine with vertical cylinders built by Timothy Hackworth (aka Stevenson's old rival), followed immediately after by a "more modern" Goods engine by Stevenson's other main rival: Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy! :)
What great engines the Western region Kings were both in aesthetics and performance, probably with their power to weight ratio the most powerful locos on British rail and to hear them at speed was something else, I know they are well maintained now but even back in my day in the 50s they were also well maintained and at speed they were a terrific sight to see, I know the LMSR had the `semis` and `prinee royals` but the Kings were the ultimate in raw power.
I'm also an old romantic when it comes to the steam age railways. I just love them all. So very sorry to learn the sad news regarding David Shepherd. Thank you very much for the video.. oved it.
@@IslandofSodorStudios -- Thank you for posting Shepherd's voice and image online so others can know he even existed. His persona typifies a breed of man that is fading away, a previous generation. Our children won't have any idea what people used to be like because all the true old-timers are gone. Thank you for the memories.
"It wasn't until 1825 that the iron railway and the steam engine came together" (3m21s) - nobody involved with this video knew about Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick's 'Pen-y-Darren' steam locomotive hauling "10 tons of iron, 5 wagons and 70 men" from Penydarren to Abercynon along the Merthyr Tydfil Tramroad in 1805? See e.g. Wikipedia for Richard Trevithick... Other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed every informative minute!
@@nikerailfanningttm9046 Yes. Last I heard, Wales and Cornwall were still part of the BRITISH Isles - specifically the big island known as Great Britain, as, indeed, they were in 1805 and 1825. Your point is...?
Not to mention, Trevithick also built and ran a passenger steam locomotive called "Catch me who can" in LONDON in 1808. Also, Locomotion isn't even George Stevenson's first locomotive, he'd built the engine Blucher for the Killingworth colliery in 1814.
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You,It has been Wonderful reliving my past. Youngsters do not understand what these old locos mean to some of us and they don't understand hard work
I don't like people banging on about "hard" work. It's righteous and smacks of resentment, ignoble. At 62 I'm no spring chicken and my wish is that people can lead fulfilling lives "hard" work or not.
@@984francis Well said. I don't know if I count as a youngster at 31, but anyway, old locos mean a lot to me. Since I'm German my knowledge about British locos is vague, but I like the 4-6-0 and the Deltic. My favorite ones from here are the "Baureihe 03" (steam loco for express trains) and the ET-165 (EMU from 1928, which I remember from my childhood, mostly because of the beautiful howling sound of it's DC-motors).
That's my childhood you're talking about. I'm not British, so apart from those, I wouldn't be here on this vid. I grew up with model TTTE, '90's kid here. Shining Time Station was my favorite show as a young child.
Sounds like Nigel Harris doing the narrative. Nice. He, the Castle Productions chap name escapes me, and the S&D Signalman Mike Arlet ? They are my favorite commentators these days.
I love to watch these videos about Steam Trains. I hope they never stop coming. I just wish it wasn't so expensive to have RU-vid Premium. I can't afford it, and the ads that inundate. Every few minutes another one. I want to enjoy those that were done with the ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS in place for those who are either sight, or vision impaired. Those where the creators made a concerted effort to make good, clean, and even enjoyable. My thanks, and Godspeed to You, and those who cared enough to do a great work. One I just watched about a history of the Steam Engine was great, but very poorly done. With heavy pixelation, and video that was often blotted out, so a lot of it was behind the blotting, and pixelation. I haven't seen the video connected with this review, but while I'm thinking about the Steam Engines, as opposed to the Diesel Engines of today. I watch many of them also, but still like those about the Steam Engines. As before, Thanks all Your Time, and the inspiration it takes to do it right, and from the beginning. Godspeed, and PLEASE KEEP UP THE GREAT WORKS. DON'T FORGET IF YOU NARRATE IN OTHER THAN ENGLISH THAT YOU MAKE SURE TO MAKE IT COMPLETELY CLEAR, AND IF ANOTHER LANGUAGE. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO HAVE ENGLISH, AND FOR OTHERS THAT DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH, THAT YOU ADD TRANSLATIONS IN OTHER LANGUAGES, SO OTHERS CAN ALSO ENJOY YOUR WORKS. THANKS AGAIN. SINCERELY, LIGHTSTTN1.
The commentator of this DVD made an error regarding preserved L.N.W.R "Precedent" class No.790 "Hardwicke" . He stated that there were 90 engines in total, similar to the above class these were in truth the "Whitworths" with smaller diameter driving wheels. Of the "Precedent" class in fact there were 155. 80 of these survived into L.M.S hands, bestowed Nos 5000-79 and the last survivor No.25001 "Snowdon" was broken up in 1934. This was when the first of the Stanier black 5s appeared inherited the running numbers 5000 upwards .
Tragic to see all those rusting locos in Barry, but wonderful that Brits have a deep love of what can possibly be described as one of their more important Inventions. The whole story of railways in Britain is one of woeful waste
Just found out that I have this book and DVD, in my railway DVD collection, still sealed. Identified by the You Tube video link icon. Charity shop purchase about three or four years ago - £2.00. I will keep it sealed and watch it on You Tube instead.
I needed to know why they don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they can extend the unused abandoned underground train stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock and that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into Five cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on those Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers. A Stock Trains and also having 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it more Larger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Railway tunnel into a High-Speed Railway lines? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Railway line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. Then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 47 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project if that will be OK for London Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from the Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden more Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly Line and also build brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street can they also make another brand new underground train station in Chingford and could they extend the Piccadilly Line and the DLR right up to Chingford? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and can they order Every 37 Octagon and Every 17 Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13 and unique small no.11 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 142MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 142MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units, can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!!!!!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 17 Tonnes for all of those 142MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are told!!!!! And please do something about these very very important Professional ideas Please? Prime Minister of England, Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Germany, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.
So proud about diesel trainsdude just trains normal trims nothing applying nothing call about them you know what school steam trains are the coolest race someone yesterday 😁 I love steam trains diesel trains is love diesel trains do you ruin the life of steam trainsand seeing god we still have skin trains around the world still today 🙏
It’s a tragic and darkest day and my heart goes out to David shepherds wife and family but the locomotive 92203 black prince and the loco will continue on to the future
Overall a nice video, but I can't shake the feeling of irritation I get any time a history of of steam locomotives that credits George Stevenson as inventing the steam engine. He only built his first locomotive after observing one of the rack locomotive engines built by John Blenkinsop in 1812. He didn't invent them, he improved on and standardised them. Richard Trevithick built the first steam locomotive in 1804. I used to live in Swansea where they keep a replica of his Penydarren locomotive.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-swWh45knSms.html ; - Railway Museum here close to me far from there, you can still take a little tour on an old steam train, history or generations
here are all my favorite british engines 1. City Of Truro (Great Western Railway 3700) 2. The Hogwarts/Wizard Express/Olton Hall (Great Western Railway 5972) 3. Evening Star (British Railways 92220) 4. The Rocket 5. Black Prince (British Railways 92203)
In pak our people used built roads in my area by steam rooler and i was always wait when come in my area. I always watch its steam system even some drive was so kind he let ride one side of wheel paddle. I thinh we still used about till 1982 or so we usd to travel , but only on small routes 30, 40 km so
WRONG. Stevenson didnt create the first steam loco and it wasnt the first in service. Trevithic created the first - and then set one up in London just for a trip round the park. His first was actually a road not rail engine
