Steam Trains at Speed
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Date: 2020-03-11
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MG
Magnificent compilation. Thank you for taking the effort and time to post them up. I'm of an age when I saw most of those at speed when in British Rail daily service. 70013 Oliver Cromwell especially poignant. 1951, standing on Stratford Station in East London following my parents divorce hearing in the nearby court, I saw out bound from Liverpool Street the East Anglian Express. Flashed through the Station very fast but not fast enough I could not read the nameplate on the Smoke Deflectors. Vivid memory for obvious reasons and sewed the seeds of a lifetime's interest in transport. With flashing golden con-rods, 70013 looked brand new that day. Later, I discovered it had left the works where it was newly built not long before I saw it.
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Magnificent compilation. Thank you for taking the effort and time to post them up. I'm of an age when I saw most of those at speed when in British Rail daily service. 70013 Oliver Cromwell especially poignant. 1951, standing on Stratford Station in East London following my parents divorce hearing in the nearby court, I saw out bound from Liverpool Street the East Anglian Express. Flashed through the Station very fast but not fast enough I could not read the nameplate on the Smoke Deflectors. Vivid memory for obvious reasons and sewed the seeds of a lifetime's interest in transport. With flashing golden con-rods, 70013 looked brand new that day. Later, I discovered it had left the works where it was newly built not long before I saw it.
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Evan's
For an American I gotta say this video is impressive but is a shame that there's more steam locomotives operational in the UK and on the mainline and after the events of Amtrak banning steam excursions on the mainline in early 2018 who knows how long it'll last like when steam was banned in the UK from the late 60s to the early 70s but hopefully the banned steam excursions on the mainline in America will hopefully not last long for how it was for the British. Also at 42: 36 that whistle that duchess of Sutherland is wearing sounds very similar to one of my favourite steam locomotives in America that being Norfolk and Western 475 that wears a whistle that's sounds very similar to the one that duchess of Sutherland was wearing
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For an American I gotta say this video is impressive but is a shame that there's more steam locomotives operational in the UK and on the mainline and after the events of Amtrak banning steam excursions on the mainline in early 2018 who knows how long it'll last like when steam was banned in the UK from the late 60s to the early 70s but hopefully the banned steam excursions on the mainline in America will hopefully not last long for how it was for the British. Also at 42: 36 that whistle that duchess of Sutherland is wearing sounds very similar to one of my favourite steam locomotives in America that being Norfolk and Western 475 that wears a whistle that's sounds very similar to the one that duchess of Sutherland was wearing
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st7650
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1. Protect the TWO MAN CREW BILL (HR 1748 Safe Freight Act) Its about public safety and jobs. 2. Go to SMART-UNION. org/td Click on the Red button support two person crews on the right side of division home page. 2. Enter contact info ( this is needed to direct the email to your member of congress. 3. Click Send. The pre-drafted my essage will be sent directly to your member of congress. 4. This effects railroad retirement, retired railroaders, current railroaders theres even a spot for the general public to make there voice be heard. Please take action there is 175, 000 conductors and 59, 000 engineers that need this support not to mention public safety at risk.
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Roy
I served my time with British Railways at Gorton Tank Manchester as a 'Fitter', working on these magnificent beasts. but familiarity breeds contempt and I failed to see the beauty of the product. Thank God there were people with cameras and foresight who recorded them in full flight. The main 'Con Rod' which ties the wheels together took 8 men to lift it onto the wheels and to see it flying round as if it were made of balsa wood gives some idea of the massive strength of these machines. my sincere thanks to you guys with cameras and brains enough to know how to use them. this display of strength and speed makes 'Jurassic Park' look like childsplay.
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I served my time with British Railways at Gorton Tank Manchester as a 'Fitter', working on these magnificent beasts. but familiarity breeds contempt and I failed to see the beauty of the product. Thank God there were people with cameras and foresight who recorded them in full flight. The main 'Con Rod' which ties the wheels together took 8 men to lift it onto the wheels and to see it flying round as if it were made of balsa wood gives some idea of the massive strength of these machines. my sincere thanks to you guys with cameras and brains enough to know how to use them. this display of strength and speed makes 'Jurassic Park' look like childsplay.
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Ted
What some lovely images and footage I've always loved steam trains for the variety and colour of the engines, that plaintive whistling noise, the roar of the wheels on the rails, the smell of the steam and engine oil in the station as they pass and the feeling of watching Victorian/20th century engineering that still exudes so much power as they pound out the miles to their destination. Thank you for sharing these, this video has definitely put me in the mood for a trip on the Severn Valley steam railway soon
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What some lovely images and footage I've always loved steam trains for the variety and colour of the engines, that plaintive whistling noise, the roar of the wheels on the rails, the smell of the steam and engine oil in the station as they pass and the feeling of watching Victorian/20th century engineering that still exudes so much power as they pound out the miles to their destination. Thank you for sharing these, this video has definitely put me in the mood for a trip on the Severn Valley steam railway soon
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Matthew
whats amazing is england can run them yet in America we banished the idea and either scrapped them or let them sit in museums or we have them segregated to only run at some museums that are limited to where they go. bunch of bs over here in USA. most of the British locomotives i noticed all have pretty much same wheel arrangement but each has their own horsepower differences. alot look the same to me but im not bashing it im glad that they can run them we have very limited here and sucks.
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whats amazing is england can run them yet in America we banished the idea and either scrapped them or let them sit in museums or we have them segregated to only run at some museums that are limited to where they go. bunch of bs over here in USA. most of the British locomotives i noticed all have pretty much same wheel arrangement but each has their own horsepower differences. alot look the same to me but im not bashing it im glad that they can run them we have very limited here and sucks.
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Buynot
I've been trying to expand my horizons a little and get into British steam which I never really cared for in the past. One thing that I've been curious about is the usage of the whistle. Here in the United States we have whistle signals that engineers give out, like 2 blasts for moving forward, three short blasts for reversing, two longs a short and a long for a crossing ect. What's the UK equivalent of these? When and where do engineers have to use their whistles?
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I've been trying to expand my horizons a little and get into British steam which I never really cared for in the past. One thing that I've been curious about is the usage of the whistle. Here in the United States we have whistle signals that engineers give out, like 2 blasts for moving forward, three short blasts for reversing, two longs a short and a long for a crossing ect. What's the UK equivalent of these? When and where do engineers have to use their whistles?
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Intera
There's something so awesome about being able to see what drives a steam train forward as opposed to not seeing it in an electric/diesel train. I mean seriously the steam, and all that visible machinery moving, there's just something amazing about it. It's as if you can see the human effort and ingenuity that went into it all right there before your eyes. Love these things.
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There's something so awesome about being able to see what drives a steam train forward as opposed to not seeing it in an electric/diesel train. I mean seriously the steam, and all that visible machinery moving, there's just something amazing about it. It's as if you can see the human effort and ingenuity that went into it all right there before your eyes. Love these things.
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