Thanks for the kind comments. I am pleased that you were able to recognize yourself and former colleagues in the video film. By posting this on KZbin before I myself go to the "Great locomotive scrapyard in the sky" I have hopefully ensured the footage will out-survive me. Unfortunately for so many others who share my hobby, taking photograohs and films of trains, when they pass away their work ends up in a rubbish skip because few poeople now have the TV equipment for playing back old VCR tapes.

Well, like you told me, one is well and truly persevered in the U.K. , also there are also at least eight other cousin-brothers or cousin-sisters who are like the WD Austerity 2-8-0. They are the WD Austerity 2-10-0, which three of them are now in U.K. , while others are staying around the other countries. Despite they have longer wheelbases, they have got the same traction force and a lighter axle load compared to the WD 2-8-0, as well as having interchangeable parts, making it able to travel on secondary lines.

@@thomastsangthomas1616 i swear that there are at least 1 or 2 2-8-0 still around in the UK? or are i thinking about the S160s?

@@legoisthebest001SCR sadly, only one Austerity 2-8-0 still exist, perhaps you were also counting the S160s as well

It survives, part of Ceres Rail,I believe.

Yes , No Problem. Please mention it was filmed by Peter Crush ( 柯睿思)

btw, this very steam train/ the set of it, went off to the middle east and never came back, probably scrapped. there is STILL one of its own kind in the UK, it's called the 2-8-0 austerity

@@Braveplantt I know there is still one of these type on British Railway, preserved and can haul passengers and freight.

@@thomastsangthomas1616 hahaha, british railways have been long gone, it's now national railway that's in charge. oh, and it's preserved by a railway society instead of the government

Nice to hear from some of the former SAR staff and particularly rewarding when somebody recognizes themselves in these old video clips. Thanks for the kind comments. ( regards, Peter Crush , Hong Kong )

@@Chinarail1 Peter, you may even have chatted to me on the opening day of the festival. Were you up at the station for the handover of 15F 3052 to David Shephard?? Just before the handover Pat Abbott and myself brought 5 locos up from Beaconsfield shed to Kimberley station. I was up front in the 6 class where I generally stayed during the whole handover and chatted to many visitors. Other than that I generally worked 25NC 3488 and the condenser during the festival. Thanks again for that great clip

@@Adventurescot Thanks. I was indeed on the platform for the hand-over of 15F 3052. I must have seen you. However I didn't do much chatting.... I was too busy with the video camera. The past few years ( until Covid ruined all my travel plans) I have been gricing in Mainland China & assisting a mining and railway museum at Tangshan , east of Beijing. ( see: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2exipdsebeonLs)

@@Chinarail1 Once Kimberley steam ended I worked steam for a few years in movies but finally ended up at Voorbaai working the tour trains over Montagu and the Knysna line until I returned to Scotland where I am still driving hi speed trains out of Edinburgh. I then turned to building live steam models and now have a collection of 6 SAR machines. Last Feb we had a parade of steam day with all my engines in steam. Sadly they did not perform too well but it was still a good day. Here is a clip of the day on my KZbin kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4bYYYiMr95khJY

Thanks for the kind comments. Much more encouraging than the previous post from Conor Graaf complaining that the video clips are "disjointed'. It was never intended to be documentary but I thought these filmed records of "steam" days gone by should be available for public viewing rather than disappearing for ever without trace when the origional video tapes are thrown out in a dump truck after my demise. There was quite a lot of effort ( and expense) getting these old videotapes converted to digital format, then edited and uploaded but all some of these youngsters can do is repond with a comment "a bit disjointed" .......

3ft 6 inches

1067mm narrow gauge. The Class 25 was the biggest locomotive produced for that gauge.

It is three feet six inches, approx half of the UK gauge of six feet! I don't know why it is different, but we still have an excellent safety rating, despite the narrow gauge!

This is not a documentary. It is historic amateur film recording an event which took place over 30 years ago. In order to preserve this record it has been uploaded to digital format for anyone who wishes to see it. 23 other peiple were interested enough to look at it. You didn't have to. Nobody forced you.

依家嗰d直接將市民推落街或掉落海

@H L 你放毒国有2億中華蘇維埃暴徒

@H L 就是你大陸人

@H L 自卑的大陸人😂😂😂😂😂😂

講到英國佬冇份參與咁 冇錢塞住頂頭，會升到職、會做到咁耐 1966警隊一哥喺邊個😆戴磊華金色頭髮架

For good ventilation of essential equipment ! The wide shorts were intended to prevent soldiers from being infected by a condition they called "Dhobi's itch" ( 癬感染 )

World War 2 British Army style drill shorts. If they were too tight they would restrict your movements.

Please read the description carefully. I never described the Hong Kong Police as "Royal" in my captions

@@Chinarail1 但係嗰陣時香港 警隊 英勇之極

我只是向較年輕的綱友講解一吓 “ 皇家警察 ”命名的因由，並非向閣下質疑，請勿誤會。

1970年出世

In 1968, I was once urged by a ex-colleague of a bookstore in Mongkok, he said” salary is $495./month, plus $13. black money share a day, if you want to be a CID, then you have to pay $60,000, “ that was the PC, police constable of TST , who told me the SWEET of being there, police number was not up to 10000 yet ( man chi Cheung yau, =Kikkoman soy sauce), 9500, roughly, then. He went to the Queen’s Ballroom , Mongkok Rd. almost everyday . He was a CID, But he went Holland in 1975,

Whenever the Chinese (HK people) British Army, named TORPEDO ARMY from Shek Kong mostly, enjoyed or danced in the Ballrooms, There must a fight with Police force guys, well-known as Golden Fountain in Causeway Bay, the army sometimes had to show the cops the weapons on their military trucks , how crazy and deeply disliked each other. That’s happened in HK side, Kowloon side? Queen’s Ballroom happened quite often, but without the military trucks parked outside the ballroom. The army had never worried any consequences no matter what happened, they would be treated as light as possible, like doing the laundry, not allowed to go out for 2 weeks--- something like that, they were spoiled and under protection. They wore the sandal-like shoes when going out, cops saw them on the streets or in the ballrooms, then kept an eye on them as something might begin soon.

@@bingchiuyuen6816 Memories never die. Cheers. Thanks for your sharing.

Thanks for the nice comment.

Thank you for preserving this to us