GWR CASTLE Heads NORTH..! 5043 'Earl of Mount Edgcumbe' Heads for Carnforth/Shap! Plus other Locos!

Great to see a GWR loco venturing northbound with Castle Class 5043 'Earl of Mount Edgcumbe' working to Carnforth Steamtown from Tyseley.
The loco is positioning to Carnforth in advance of tomorrows Vintage Trains operated 'The Shap Mountaineer' tour across the famous Cumbrian lines.
See a few other locos at Stafford on a brief visit amongst the rain showers.
Hope you enjoy the video! Thanks for watching.
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[@Leah_Garnett]

She gave absolute hellfire chuff departing preston on the return back down south. I must say, i do have a soft spot for GWR Steam and it was rather enchanting to see this tresspassing deep into LMS Territory! Great video, absolutely love the castles ❤

[@NorthWestLevelCrossingsChannel]

Excellent video 👍

[@barryroberts2196]

The effort that must go into cleaning the loco is unreal, so well done.👍👍

[@wattstransportenthusiast621]

Can thank all the Crew and all the volunteers at vintage trains for that.

[@samspade975]

They probably use a steam cleaner 👍

[@lukejohn1277]

Got the earl of Mount edgecumbe passing Portobello Junction this morning

[@michaeltaylor1869]

Another lovely video well done great camera work as usual I am really looking forward to seeing your next video I hope you get a nice video next time also when is your next video going to be on KZbin bye for now Philip

[@keithalexander3386]

The only GWR Castle I have been up close with was Earl of Mount Edgcombe a few years ago in Holyhead station and it is still the shiniest engine I have seen.

[@trainsplanes]

Looks and Sounds great - Terrific loco and class 👍

[@lisaodd3196]

I watch lots of railway channels but I must say, your channel is by far the best. I don't want to see hundreds of DMU and EMU's, I want pure loco action. Wonderful to see 5043, and Blue Peter yesterday! Thank you for satisfying my train needs. 👍

[@trainsplanes]

Thanks Lisa - Glad you like them 🙏👍

[@AndreiTupolev]

Staying at Carnforth overnight? Good to see charter operators co-operating

[@trainsplanes]

Yep - WCR hosting the Earl for the evening. Good to see 👍

[@wattstransportenthusiast621]

Well done buddy. Nice to see earl heading north. Seen it on Crewe cam on rail cam looking to the heritage centre on KZbin.

[@trainsplanes]

Thanks - Great sounding locos are the Castles 👌👍

[@wattstransportenthusiast621]

@@trainsplanes she does.

[@cncpgreatlakesdiv4896]

Awesome Video thanks for posting .😊😊👍👍

[@trainsplanes]

Thanks for watching 👍

[@TrainPlaneSpotter02]

Amazing Video As Allways

[@trainsplanes]

Thank you so much 😀

[@LyntreeTown20132]

great footage has always especially 5043 thank you

[@trainsplanes]

Glad you enjoyed it 👍

[@robertbate5790]

👍👍👍👍

[@MasterMoyle]

I'm going on tomorrow's run with 5043.

[@trainsplanes]

Have a good day out 👍

[@MasterMoyle]

@@trainsplanes officially provided no issues crop up with 5043 before the tour, this will be my first trip to Carlisle behind a Western engine. I've ticked off Eastern, Midland and Southern engines in the past aswell as a British Railways standard for haulage to Carlisle but iv never visited with a Western engine on the front. Next job after this will be to tick off haulage down the S&C with a Western engine as it's the exact same story there. It's also going to be my first trip behind 5043 on a railtour for just under 10 years, my last was in May 2014 on a trip to Llandudno. That trip with 5043 was also only the 6th steam railtour id ever gone on, this tour will be my 60th.

[@user-ve8oe7ts1w]

Same driver on the kettle by any chance blowing off a load of steam on departure just to p**s everyone off?

[@peterhewitson2669]

Wow.

[@robertleah1410]

Steam driver here, no the driver was quite correctly starting with the draincocks open having sat for a while to be certain not to have any condensation in the cylinders. He shut them after a couple of wheel revolutions. Alternative is potentially blowing the cylinder covers off. Honestly……

[@AndreiTupolev]

I love the way modern day spotters don't understand the function of drain cocks at all

[@user-ve8oe7ts1w]

@@robertleah1410 thanks for your comment, it just seems to be the same for every steam loco.