Those Great Locomotives - GER S69

Locomotives which have captured the imagination of many, not with their size or strength- but sheer charm. The Great Eastern Railway's S69 was, for all it was worth, a well-travelled design that could go anywhere and attempt anything, despite being drawn up as the most powerful express locomotives for the Great Eastern by Frederick Russell. From Norwich to Aberdeen, how did they fare?
SOURCES & CREDIT:
Scan of a map of the Great Eastern Railway by The British Library - Image taken from page 106 of 'Holiday Notes in East Anglia, ect', No restrictions, commons.wikime...
Photograph of a GER class T19 by Unknown author - This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the Bulgarian Archives State Agency as part of a cooperation project. The Bulgarian Archives State Agency provides images, which are public domain. For attribution/citation of the source, Bulgarian Archives State Agency, please use the identification numbers of the document's fonds, inventory, archival unit and sheet., Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Drawing of a GER S46 by W.J. Gordon, Our Home Railways; How They Began And How They Are Worked; Vol 1Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, London, 1910 - Archive.org (archive.org/de...) Google Books digitisation of public domain book., Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Photograph of Ipswich Goods Yard by Harry Walters - Smith Suitsall postcard, Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Portrait of James Holden taken from LNER Encyclopedia. Taken no later than 1925., en.wikipedia.o...
Portrait of Stephen D. Holden taken from LNER Encyclopedia, Fair use, en.wikipedia.o...
Photograph of S.D. Holden posing with the GER Class A55 'Decapod' - Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Photograph of an ex-LNER B17 by Barry Lewis - My Very First Photograph - 61623, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikime...
Map of the Great North of Scotland Railway territory by Afterbrunel at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Oxyman using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, commons.wikime...
Photograph of a GNSR K Class by London and North Eastern Railway - Barclay-Harvey, Malcolm (1950) A History of the Great North of Scotland Railway, facing page 186: Ian Allan ISBN: 978-0-7110-2592-9., Public Domain, commons.wikime...
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Literary sources:
'Great North of Scotland Railway Album' by A.E. Glen, I.A. Glen and A.G. Dunbar, published by Fraser Stewart Books
Video sources:
'SOLE SLIP: LNER B12 8527' by ‪@ChristheXelent‬
• SOLE SLIP: LNER B12 8572
LINKS
Discord server - / discord
Twitter - / teawithcaramel1
Outro music: Kevin MacLeod - Fiddles McGinty
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Railworks Train Simulator B12/1 by Caledonia Works - caledoniaworks...
Channel icon by Dean Walker - / lookitstrainart
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[@FlyingScott]

Nice

[@madduckuk]

I wouldn't have been able to get through the video without saying it.

[@HyperCat72]

Nice

[@awesome-xk8vj]

Hay Flying Scott. Can you make video about the BR Class 17's and the Gresley B17's please.

[@HyperCat72]

@@awesome-xk8vj mate, I doubt he's gonna take requests. Still worth a shot ig

[@JojoCat2008]

(Click Tongue) Nice.

[@joshslater2426]

I have a big soft spot for Great Eastern locos, and the S69 is one of my favourites (at least in its pre-grouping shape). It was the perfect expansion of the Claud Hamiltons and looked equally majestic in their dark blue liveries. Good thing one was preserved.

[@spankflaps1365]

The B12 pulling the teak articulated set on the NNR… this is one of the most beautiful train ensembles in the world.

[@exarkun42]

I love this series. You put a lot of research into it, bringing up often forgotten aspects of certain engines. The example here is Thompson being directly responsible for the 1930s rebuild.

[@davidatkinson2167]

Yes. Thompson was at Stratford at the time and everything was worked out, approval gained, but all incorporated on a single locomotive. The result was the successful B12/3 however as CME Gresley took the credit. A B12 also achieved the first 90mph on the GER at Diss. They were also utilised on Ambulance trains during WW2. This was due to their size and low axle loading.

[@exarkun42]

@@davidatkinson2167 The boss taking the credit for somebody else's great achievement. Some things never change

[@davidatkinson2167]

Thompson was a far better and quite able engineer than people gave him credit for. Perhaps things would have been different with him if there hadn't been a war on during his tenure.

[@GelatoTaco]

I would absolutely kill for a model in a GER guise w/ the Belpaire-esque shaped Firebox.

[@stephendavies6949]

The B12 is a handsome loco, and I often run my model. I now live in former GER territory, and so it is a firm favourite. Thanms for naking shch an interesting & entertaining video.

[@LegoMiester14]

Great video! The B12's are honestly one of my favorite steam locomotives, and I always love hearing more about they're history.

[@muir8009]

This is an awesone channel: really great graphics, looks so right. One of the nicest Claude Hamilton models was the old pre WW1 bing gauge 1 model.

[@ZeroWinter812]

This Engine is by far my favorite British steam engine. And its not really a famous engine overshadowed by the other classes of the later LNER but now you've given it its time to shine. this was very "nice" documentary on the class and later variants of it. I even learned things about it I didn't know.

[@eddierools]

Aaahhh, love the B12/S69's... I really do wish we could've gotten an RtR model of the S69/GER condition of the locomotive in OO scale. Don't get me wrong, the newer B12's look fantastic, but I've always fancied the belpair version with the skirts

[@firstnamlastnam2141]

They really do look good in any color. Very much like the ultramarine myself.

[@AW.Dry_and_Co.]

3:28 Here we have a GER s69 And here is toby :)

[@scottlewis775]

Can’t believe someone else remembers that joke. 😂

[@cameronebert4454]

Ah yes, the B12. One of the most elegant 4-6-0s that thundered down the rails. Also, if you had to reinvent all seven of the idols in the Splatoon franchise as UK steam locomotives (I know that this is off topic but I still want to ask), what would you choose and why?

[@thomasgray4188]

these locomotives always manage to look so picturesque. There's a reason i, as a Western and Southern fan, bought one before i got a bullied.

[@benedictinespirit779]

This is amazing i really like this sort of locomotive history videos with railworks footage

[@OfficialTrainzGod]

ah yes the best ten wheeler

[@Mikado_Mika]

I have a suggestion. Polish EN57, these are working since 1961 and are remarkably good and reliable.

[@DuckyLTD69]

PLEASE talk about the J36

[@canadaw.e6461]

Hello! i, uhm...would like to suggest a Locomotive class namely, the LNER O4...or the GCR 8K, or the ROD 2-8-0- well, its all of those, and its a class personally special to me, and a class i believe has earned the title of greatness, since...well, lasting from 1913 at least, to nearly the end of steam, and several going through war.

[@BaddyRaks]

What the top speed of B12?

[@jordandorsett3106]

Alfred!

[@mattseymour8637]

Is 8572 included in this pack?

[@FlyingScott]

The pack only depicts B12/1s, or the true S69s.

[@mattseymour8637]

@@FlyingScott Ok so there isn't a version of 8572 in the pack as it is in preservation? Can't use a different model and Change the number?

[@FlyingScott]

8572 never was a B12/1. Built as a /2, shorter cab and no skirting.

[@mattseymour8637]

@@FlyingScott So you mean that the preserved example has been modified for preservation and differs slightly from the original b12 S69 class?

[@FlyingScott]

@mattseymour8637 As I explained, many of the English B12s were rebuilt into the B12/3 form. Regardless, the CW pack only models the B12/1.

[@joshuaW5621]

They kinda look like the Claud Hamiltons but with an extra pair of driving wheels.