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@superbia75es 7 сағат бұрын
The bloke in the cab seems unprotected from a fall. The younger bloke with the rag in his hand. Looks dangerous.
@DanDare-i2z 2 күн бұрын
Very good explanations of the work and film content. But the rose coloured nostalgia at the end, for me, was too much.
@georgec7899 7 күн бұрын
A heart warming video from a 92 year old who went to work on the steam engines between Costorphine Station to Edinburgh Waverly every day.Thank you brought back so many memories
@jonginder5494 10 күн бұрын
Rest in peace Clive. Thank you for sharing. What a legacy he left with his daughters.
@petergeorgew6208 12 күн бұрын
A truly excellent vlog, very interesting and extremely informative… 👍🏻😊
@johnburgess1547 15 күн бұрын
I had the pleasure of a half days driving with Clive and it was absolutely fabulous. I was always a GWR man and remembered seeing the Kings and Castles going through Small heath in Birmingham absolutely lovely looking engines. It’s great to hear how different engines respond and the firing that was required. So sorry to hear that Clive has passed away but I know that his daughters will keep his memory alive. Wonderful man driving wonderful machines shame that they had to go.
@hued_offical 19 күн бұрын
dude, this looks amazing! you should do one for Half-Life²!
@haroldpearson6025 20 күн бұрын
My father was a driver on the LMS, before, during and after WW2 stationed at Saltley depo in Birmingham.
@grahamfrear9270 21 күн бұрын
Britain built some and designs some of the most elegant steam trains in the world.
@JohnDent-x1d Ай бұрын
KING George v1 locomotive was great
@jackiesmith-vb5gw Ай бұрын
a brilliant program and well worth a watch!
@aleu650 Ай бұрын
Excellent material... so much information and with such beautiful images 👍
@bammy62 Ай бұрын
What a great insight into the life of an engineman. Some fantastic footage and great commentary. My dad was a fireman in the LMS region in Lancashire although under British railways so I grew up with railway tales and anecdotes. Thank you so much for sharing this.
@fuzz2567 Ай бұрын
What a brilliant video - well done.
@richard_wenner Ай бұрын
Some great camerawork too!
@jimmyplaysclash Ай бұрын
Great video, thanks for sharing, I couldn't go to the gala so seeing it here is great.
@StevenAaa-uc6lg Ай бұрын
Great photography and commentary - brilliant documentary
@Richard-x5s Ай бұрын
Greetings from Toronto, Canada. I've always had a fascination and love for steam locomotives. I was profoundly affected in the way Clive Groome himself takes us on his personal journey about his love of steam power and presents his story. If I had met him, no doubt he would have been a very personable man to share an ale with. R.I.P. Clive.
@johnburgess1547 15 күн бұрын
I have had the pleasure of meeting Clive on a Drivers day many years ago. A real character who just lived loved and breathed steam.
@sheridanpayne5347 Ай бұрын
Wonderful commentary. I could listen to this man all night! What a lovely man. What a great communicator. A true gentleman who truly loved steam.
@ragarse3 Ай бұрын
This is a truly magnificent and factfull documentary. The context centred on Clive Groome answered all schoolboys questions which was the best region for engines? Great thing is it shows the wonderful differences across the regions befoe we settled for utility and conformity. Great professional quality - well done,
@PreservationEnthusiast 5 күн бұрын
There wasn't much difference between the engines when they arrived at Cashmores yard for scrapping. Except they loved breaking GWR engines. There was a lot more copper in the fire boxes that, in their haste to dispose of the junk, BR did not account for. Even Dai Woodham liked breaking GWR. He cut about 70 in the 1960s along with some BR standards. Dai and his crew attended a seminar at Swindon C shop to teach them how to cut GWR locos and extract the scrap for melting.
@rogerrussell5155 Ай бұрын
Wonderful film with a fantastic man describing all the british railway lore quietly...expertly with a quiet perfectly laid coal fire burning in the grate behind him
@DarkAngel-ph9on Ай бұрын
Oft that LMS in chapter 3 was truly beautiful at speed❤❤❤
@andrewackerley9985 Ай бұрын
What a lovely piece of film of better days gone by. Clive was remarkable for the unbiased balance that he showed towards each of The Big Four operators.
@stephenbradbury460 Ай бұрын
Hi Clive I new a cousin of yours I Australia. Richard Groom. He was a model train fanatic loverly man. He lived in a town called Carrum Downs Victorian Australia. Richard was teacher of driving our very large lortys thes trucks where called B Ws. He was a great mate of mine.
@pizzamad3334 Ай бұрын
Rip
@Tauraco00 Ай бұрын
What an amazing hunk of a steam man on a TRAIN - nice pic indeed - glad it exists - Regards Elizabeth Lines loves Trains @ Tauraco00Railways🚂🚃🚃🚃
@Tauraco00 Ай бұрын
Wow, I think this is just amazing - his story has to be shared with all - all the love history and steam Era xxx
@smitajky Ай бұрын
This was an interesting interview. Clive spoke well and was careful to avoid needless criticism. I found it impossible to pause the story. Just waiting for the next part to reveal itself. But the piece de la resistance was when he described how if he went to the "other place" he would be a useful senior fireman there. I am not sure that I want to experience his skills first hand there.
@johnthebeekeeper1706 Ай бұрын
Yes definitely the good olde days when people had pride in what they did from the trains too the stations everything spotless not anymore so sad
@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge Ай бұрын
How eloquent and enthusiastic after all those years. Must’ve been so proud of his daughters.
@ZX600E7 Ай бұрын
Not feeding the boiler correctly. Supposed to close flap between shovels 😊
@chrisbailey459 Ай бұрын
Great story.
@Mel-127 Ай бұрын
What a marvellous story to tell and live. At times i was so engrossed it was like being on the plate with him. Its a great shame that respect from those day hasnt carried on. Mr Groome is a legend. Bless him.
@jacob-67tune18 Ай бұрын
what year was this filmed, exellent
@johnburniston6525 Ай бұрын
Let us ALL go shunting-you can do the shovelling! Folkestone memories.
@johnburniston6525 Ай бұрын
Yes,my grandad smuggled me on to a shunter,after being taken to the loco sheds mess room,big slab sandwiches, very big mugs of strong dark tea. It was Folkestone to dover,to shunting wagons. The 3 tunnels was very noisy,clattering,dark and smokey.I was told to duck down,passing a signal box-[ to keep my grandfathers licence clean!]. At 90 in December the family and me will have a steam trip,not in the cab,but in the bar! I'll ask to just stand on the footplate,to re enjoy the past! John B
@davidoswald9253 Ай бұрын
I have to say this has been the most gracious video I have ever watched. The knowledge and information passed during this film is amazing. Thank you to all involved and good fortune to his daughters to keep this world alive!! Thank you.
@BryanTorok Ай бұрын
Any idea when this video was originally made? According to Google AI, the transition to diesel in the UK started in the 1930s and was mostly complete by 1968. I'm trying to reconcile that time frame with Mr. Groome's apparent age and the ages of his daughters. Of course, I realize that the later shots were likely museum or restored excursion engines. Confusing the age of the video is that it is in Hi-Def and widescreen.
@tassiedevil2200 Ай бұрын
@BryanTorok Clive Groome passed away in February 2024, at the age of 93. Adding some dates to the story in the video: he started at Norwood in 1951, transferred to Nine Elms in 1954 and was appointed a driver in 1961. Seems he wasn't enthused by the transition to diesel and electric traction, resigned in 1979, and from the 1980's onwards developed lectures and technical and practical training courses for footplate crews. I think the video was released in 2011. (Caveat - just from a bit of work with Google). Clearly a greatly admired figure in steam preservation circles. One last follow-up - found a photo at Alamy of his three daughters - reported as the first all-female loco crew of Flying Scotsman - on the final day of the Gala Event at the Bluebell Railway in 2017.
@BryanTorok Ай бұрын
@@tassiedevil2200 Absolutely amazing. I would be concerned that exposure to coal dust and smoke along with the oils and solvents would shorten one's life, but perhaps all the robust exercise of shoveling the coal off set that. Thanks for the reply.
@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge Ай бұрын
My grandad was a fireman/driver on LMS - BR and was still full of beans and energy in his late eighties despite smoking cigars and the odd tipple, it certainly made him a fit man. RIP Clive, what a role model and gentleman.
@johnwright-w7q Ай бұрын
Can't tell you the amount of joy, and sadness as I sneaked into sidings and climbed onto the footplates of the UK,s renowned loco,s waiting to be scrapped.
@davidoswald9253 Ай бұрын
Woodham Brothers , Barry if you have memories of that place as I do.
@pauloconnor2980 Ай бұрын
Those young cleaners don't look like they are wearing gloves. I wonder if they were taught about the dangers of PAH's, getting oil, grease and kerosene all over themselves.
@Dan-tp6hb 2 ай бұрын
Are not all locomotives, like ships, referred to as "she?"
@Cromwelldunbar Ай бұрын
A silly and stupid convention…English language trying to be better than it is…There is a term which escapes me for the mo’ ..that describes such presumptious b/s like some secret ‘inside lingo’…
@danius_huganius Ай бұрын
Yea, sometimes, depends on the name th if a locomotive has a male name, it's more likely it will be referred to as a "he" Man usually refers to things they have fond to alot as if they were Women,
@PreservationEnthusiast 4 күн бұрын
@@danius_huganius I refer to all of them as "it" that's what they are. They are just collections of metal, they don't have a gender.
@mbr5742 2 ай бұрын
At least in germany (BR 01.10 and 03.10) the value of the streamlining was well proven. It reduces the drag by 40-50 percent. And has a reduction in fuel use (The engines ran operational with and without the external shell so the data base is very good here). What killed the streamline shell in germany was the maintenance hours. Even the cut back shell still required more hours than the otherwise mostly compareable BR 01 and BR 03 (1) and post 1945 the additional maintenance time was a bigger problem than the fuel use. So off came the shell (BR 01-1102 later got a replica. The engine is sheduled to get re-certified in the near future(2)) (1) Yes, I know that the 01 and 03 are two cylinder engines while the 01.10 and 03.10 are three cylinder engines. The data did take that into account, the Bundesbahn guys knew their job (2) Hopefully somewhere around 2026 we get the three fat ladies at Beekbergen (01-1075 - coal fired, no shell, 01-1104 - oil fired, no shell and 01-1102 - oil fired with shell)
@flippop101 2 ай бұрын
The narrative is superb. Perhaps someone can enlighten us as to whose voice that is. Otherwise, utter western dullness.
@gerrytierney6500 2 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing this remarkable documentary about Clive Groome. A truly remarkable man and the passing of a generation that will be sorely missed. I trust that his daughters will keep his memory alive and continue his great work. They were very lucky to have him as a father. May he rest in peace.
@johnhayward7173 2 ай бұрын
He's sat in front of a coal fire. 🔥😊
@PeteWilliams-sb7nf 2 ай бұрын
What a interesting and beautiful story,loved it.
@spankflaps1365 2 ай бұрын
I have an old steam video somewhere with a LMS driver describing a 100mph run in a Coronation. At that speed it needed 2 firemen, the fire sucked the coal off the shovel(s), and most of the coal was instantly vaporising.
@islandhopperstuart 2 ай бұрын
What a delightful film. I learned so much.
@gerardbooth40 2 ай бұрын
What a wonderfully knowledgeable and yet modest gentleman Mr. Groome was. RIP.
@davidmarley1893 2 ай бұрын
What a truly delightful man>