'50 Wagons at 50' - Great Central Railway 50th Anniversary Weekend - 17/06/23

[@bikechainmic]

WOW ! As a self confessed wagon-o-phile I could watch this ALL DAY truly amazing!

[@MySteamChannel]

Fantastic...very best wishes from Australia.

[@SynchroScore]

A wonderful way to celebrate. I work at the Illinois Railway Museum, and on July 1st we'll have our "70 for 70" anniversary special, operating 70 electric streetcars, mass-transit cars, and interurban cars.

[@BrickishRail]

Sounds like a good event, all the best with it!

[@SynchroScore]

@@BrickishRail Thank you kindly. Founded when ten men each contributed $100 to buy a high-speed interurban car in 1953, we now have the largest collection in North America. Even have our own 2-10-0, built by Baldwin in 1917, running this summer. Unfortunately, we don't run freight trains that often, I wish we would for demonstration.

[@ericjohnson3746]

Greetings from 30 degrees north/ 90degrees west. Fantastic video! Wish I had been there! If you will excuse me I thought it looked as if someone had made a foll scale replica of Mouldy Raspberry's excellent layout the "Yorkshire Dale's Railway". Thank you all.

[@brianwillson9567]

Congratulations on 50 years. Don’t want to think about that too much as my firstGCR ride was in ‘year one’..........I must be getting old.

[@maxwellturnbull1903]

So, you will remember rides in 'King Haakon' and the guards van as far as the first road over ridge, then?

[@brianwillson9567]

@@maxwellturnbull1903 Most definitely. Then 5231, Littleton no 5 Robert nelson no 4 . Obviously ‘breaking out’ single track to quorn the first big step in what has become and is becomming even more, now that reunification is only when, not if, the ambitions of those first pioneers: a true preserved main line.

[@cedarcam]

What a fantastic event, there was so much to see I did not get to look round the sheds so it was good to see what was in there. Glad the rain stopped for the 9f good train you got a lovely shot of that

[@Sherpiddy]

That 9F wasn’t even breaking a sweat with those trucks 😂

[@ThePanzer6]

Good to see 9F's doing what they were built for in preservation.

[@you2square]

Well, 9F No. 92220 Evening Star was only built to be in a museum

[@Trainsandbits]

😮 50 trucks on that train 🚂 🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃

[@vivektanti7449]

P0

[@ParkerHancock-lf2ny]

Happy 50th Anniversary of The Great Central Railway!

[@thetrainguy2024]

Simply awesome. Great video!

[@BrickishRail]

Thanks! :)

[@tobys_transport_videos]

Such an awesome railway! 😍😍😍😍 My only visit was in 2018 (I'm not a Brit 😭- I'm an Aussie 😞) but I 💖💖💖 what I see, month-in, month-out!!! 😍

[@flippop101]

Excellent video and very much appreciated! Thank you!

[@BrickishRail]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it :)

[@djdaz72]

Some excellent footage thank you

[@BrickishRail]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@paulshirley6383]

50 Wagons at 50' - Great Central Railway 50th Anniversary Weekend BrickishRail love louis shirley

[@NathanielPiscian]

Wow.. 50 trucks and 2 brakevans at each end. 😮 I never thought I live long enough to see a steam engine pull a goods train in today's times then in old recordings

[@AndreiTupolev]

Is that where Thornbury Castle is now then? Or the frames of it at any rate?

[@andrewhotston983]

I really hope they rebuild 7027.

[@BrickishRail]

She's been at the GCR for a while, though now she's been acquired for the 'Night Owl' project at Didcot, I can't see her being around much longer

[@AndreiTupolev]

@@BrickishRail ideal opportunity to construct a working Star!

[@18EStudios]

​@@AndreiTupolev Please tell me you're joking

[@AndreiTupolev]

@@18EStudios not at all. Excellent idea. A Castle is after all a larger boilered Star, and there's three operational Castles already, and we all know Lode Star will never steam again, so what better than a working Star to complete the line up. A very historically significant design after all

[@jamesburnside3023]

Fantastic liked and subbed

[@BrickishRail]

Thank you :)

[@tangerinedream7211]

Was planning on attending but had a terrible stomach bug on Friday, thanks for the upload, a momentous day.

[@BrickishRail]

That's a shame, hope you feel better :)

[@TheSudrianTerrier653]

probably the Longest train a 9f has pulled since the days of steam (except the One Black prince pulled at merehead)

[@thesudricmerman3318]

I managed to get some footage off that train at Quorn and Woodhouse

[@zacharyspinks6207]

This is a Amazing Video at That.

[@BrickishRail]

Thank you :)

[@SimonTog]

Very nice video :)

[@BrickishRail]

Thanks! :)

[@exb.r.buckeyeman845]

Wow that’s still around 500 tons + Loco.

[@Gothix1066]

It's the late 60s all over again!

[@AndreiTupolev]

Looks like they'd had a nice bit of rain there

[@atilllathehun1212]

If only that 9F was bit dirty and grimy, and chucking out some decent smoke!

[@kaisanhoque6976]

Average Americans: nah only 4 wheels and it’s so small what the fu-

[@lowrangemaniac5326]

The 48305 is the british cousin of the italian FS Gr 740! They have the same wheels arrangement: 2-8-0

[@jackx4311]

@lowrangemaniac5326 - no, the Stanier 8F is no relation to the FS Gr 740 at all; aside from the wheel arrangement (shared by many other locos), it's a completely different design. It's a heavy freight version of Stanier's mixed traffic LMS Black Five, and much of the boiler design follows Great Western Railway practise.

[@abloogywoogywoo]

lol a bit overkill on the brakevans

[@Beatlefan67]

They tended to be moved around on a convenient train to where they were needed.

[@AndreiTupolev]

It was assembled from three separate rakes, each with its own brake van. Besides, it makes up the numbers 😅

[@michaelthomas6138]

I work as a volunteer at Loughborough and met one of the brake van owners a while back. They moved it from East Lancs because it wasn’t getting used after they restored it. It was great to see the smiles on their faces when its used at events like these.

[@trailwayt9H337]

🚂🚞🚞🚋🚋🚞🚞 🚅🚋🚋🚞🚞🚋🚋 I am really impressed by these views and sounds of these trains from this video. This catching is very appreciable work. I am a train viewer from India 🧡💚