British Railway Archive - The Golden Age - UK Steam Trains

[@christopherbraiden6713]

Awesome video on the live steam locomotive. Totally adore all aspects of steam be it on rail or road. There's a lot to do to get these engines to run and clear down!!😎🚂🚃🚃🚃🇬🇧

[@ronaldpainting5614]

I was lucky being born in the 1950s. My grand father took me to Snow Hill and New Street stations in Birmingham. I saw the best steam locomotives ever. A friend of my fathers father was an 0 6 0 shunter driver at the Nechells coal fired power station. I drove the engine and had the breakfast cooked on the coal shovel, bacon, eggs and fried bread. No cafe could beat the taste. At school a freight line passed nearby, 9Fs, Black 5s and more. Some of my family worked at M C W and Nechells carriage and wagon works. I can still remember hearing the shunting works over night. A bloody sight better in those days than now. All anyone wants to do now is work on computers. A steam loco is a living entity. Luckly where i live they still run steam in the summer, i love it.

[@coloursmoke]

great film.

[@AlasdairLowe]

I love old steam locomotives - they are wonderful, evocative, romantic things. But the narration on this is tinged with almost bitterness that it isn't used on the main line anymore. Steam exists in plenty of places around the country and in my opinion such comments do indicate more of a generic hankering for the past than steam itself. No it is not as fun, but what we have now is entirely more fit for purpose. And we still have access to steam for fun.

[@likklej8]

Many locos were a lot dirtier in BR days and many S15s and N class Southern Railway locos retained the war time black in Nationalisation. Loved those restored Gresley teak coaches.

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

S15 was a goods class and after the war in Nationalisation was painted in BR black which was standard goods livery. N15 and class N were passenger classes and after the war in Nationalisation reverted to various liveries of lined passenger green which was standard for passenger locos. 7 S15 one class N15 and one class N were preserved. The remainder were sliced with cutting torches and sent for melting down in the induction furnaces.

[@marvwatkins7029]

It's said often, but it's still so true and forever will be: until androids and robots will become too common (with AI), only a steam locomotive is the closest mechanical thing that seems like a living being. (Okay, forgetting about those 18th Century Swiss and other musical automatons.)

[@robinforrest7680]

Early morning down at the depot oiling up as the engine slowly warmed through was my favorite part of the day ! Unfortunately now sadly gone since the Chemin de Fer du Vivarais has mutated into Disneyland on rails…

[@herbgarratt]

At 19:40 he'd be much better off with the shunter's pole over the top of the buffer than underneath it. Much better leverage than the alternative. Probably why he has to have two goes at getting the link over the hook.

[@adamdrummer1991]

2:46 Blossom (those who know…know)

[@BrendanRaymondKoroKoro]

"The steam locomotive, is probably one of those technologies, which if it were invented today, would not be allowed." 😭

[@RichardBrooklyn]

Nobody would want it. It's horrendously inefficient. That's why we transitioned away from it in the first place.

[@steveworthington930]

The 9F,s could have carried on for 20 yrs+, slow coal mgr trains, replaced by slow diesels.

[@UMaung-io8vr]

❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[@maqboolbalouchi4025]

I love Steam Engines Only ..

[@jamestung6741]

Me too! I just love watching fireman shoveling coal! That's yummy to steam engines!

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@@jamestung6741 We need to stop burning fossil fuels such as coal. This is causing global warming and climate change. Greta Thunberg would like to see steam locos scrapped and cleaner transport brought in which does not produce carbon dioxide emissions causing heating of the planet and sea level rise. Stop burning coal now!

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@@jamestung6741 I wasn't rude, I was just making a point about climate change and burning coal.

[@ashto46_playz44]

@@jamestung6741 i was ment to go see flying scotsman go across a brdge near me on the 29 of june but then i relized thats it was passing by at 10:05 in the morning

[@ashto46_playz44]

on a tuesday

[@alanfrost7696]

Why didn't BR use oil firing?

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

It's still much less efficient than internal combustion. And the locos still take a long time to get pressure up and be ready. Plus at the time, they wanted to present a more modern image, and that wasn't steam which was old technology come the 1960's when they had lost millions of passengers. You need to realise that rail locomotive power is not provided for the sole titillation of a few rail foamer fans. There are loads of other factors.

[@stevef9530]

‘Passengers are requested to cross the line by the bridge’. Not required, not instructed or ordered or any other thing. What a lost golden age of respect is conjured up. I expect I’m just being a grumpy old coot….

[@paulcaswell2813]

Awww - 'The Great Marquess' - a locomotive harshly treated by the preservation world. Far too many preserved miles under her belt, and now doomed to a life in a remote museum.

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

It should be sent for scrap.

[@derekferguson385]

@@PreservationEnthusiast muppet.

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@@derekferguson385 Steam locomotives will be ripped apart with cutting torches and the debris sent for scrap melt in the induction furnaces.

[@derekferguson385]

@@PreservationEnthusiast muppet

[@derekferguson385]

@@PreservationEnthusiast keep taking the tablets.

[@simonjames2974]

The beginning should be titled how to light up and prep a steam loco without the proper tools in the case of the oil can and without properly setting the fire.

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

Hopefully these locos will get scrapped and recycled, so it won't matter.

[@davidantoniocamposbarros7528]

@@PreservationEnthusiast nah,won't happen

[@gwrstudios5181]

@@PreservationEnthusiast not really it’s peoples Property I wouldn’t want a steam loco I own to be scrapped

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@@gwrstudios5181 You wouldn't want it, but it may be required by the Gov to control pollution. Compulsory scrappage scheme. You would be compensated from the sale of the scrap plus a percentage. Or, a halfway house measure. You can keep the loco, but it must be disabled from running by blowing holes in the firebox, boiler and cylinders with cutting torches. The loco would not be able to pollute, but it could still be a museum piece. Another way I'm proposing is a prohibitive boiler certificate tax. Make it 1 million pounds so as to price these locos off the rails.

[@gwrstudios5181]

@@PreservationEnthusiast the government already had a museum for locomotives where they would put them pretty easy

[@KennethMyers-h6h]

I often wonder why it took so many years to replace these dirty inefficient time consuming machines with something better.