Little and Often. London, Midland, and Scottish railways steam fireman training video. Uploaded for use as a training aid. All rights owned by Railfims Ltd.
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@xr6lad7 ай бұрын
Given how much black smoke you see constantly coming out of heritage railway trains, this video should still be used for training.
@davidbetts95875 ай бұрын
Gosh I didn’t realise it was so complicated and involved. Fascinating video. I’ll be looking out for the colour of the smoke on the steam trains at my local heritage railway, the GCR
@Tolpuddle5815 ай бұрын
My father was a fireman based at Derby the smoke and noise are iconic wonderful.
@johnbeck70193 жыл бұрын
Great video shows how the firemen did his job
@peterburgess9802 жыл бұрын
Fascinating, thank you.
@edwardhulin99352 жыл бұрын
Its the way he says it.......wonderful!
@Radio.Raptor Жыл бұрын
I love this video. Great info and insight into firing a steam loco.
@chieffirefigherplays3 жыл бұрын
I was always trying to find this video in full length! Always trust your local Volunteer Railway if you get to know the staff.
@lineshaftrestorations7903 Жыл бұрын
This method of firing actually works for stationary boilers too, I've done it. It works best if the load is relatively constant.
@creeguyvernon Жыл бұрын
The local steam train in our area is oil fired 😎
@MrSpliffy32 жыл бұрын
This is such an awesome channel
@Quebecoisegal3 жыл бұрын
Those firemen must have been strong, and look at the early British locos when many had no cabs at all.
@thesteelrodent17967 ай бұрын
back then real men were waterproof and didn't need a cab
@brucedunncanada Жыл бұрын
It is interesting to see that all bridges over the rail lines are heavily sooted in areas immediately above the rail lines.
@PeterPan-iz1kk Жыл бұрын
This is excellent! I've watched this time and time again, and I still enjoy it. I regret that I will probably never fire a steam engine, though it would surely be exiting (and hard work as well), but that's not the point. The point is, that all the skill and work that was necessary to run these "simple" engines efficiently, was there. And not only the firemen and the drivers, but all the maintenance people too! Hats off to those doing it, and to the system for running it all and doing everything in the most economical way possible, if a steam engine can ever be called economical, which it probably can't. But that was what they had in those days. And they really tried to make the best out of it. I'm impressed. 🙂
@ncs87309 күн бұрын
A steam engine can be called economical - but you must judge historically, and not from the point of view of today. Steam was a great progress compared to horses, and much more economical.
@georgerayson9023 Жыл бұрын
I was a b.r.fireman.thid is a true description of firing.however not all locomotives were the same even the same class.i.e jubilee s.6 p some would steam better with a bi one under the door .p.s.best job I ever had I my live life.
@joshjones34089 ай бұрын
Iv never been told that before...👍👍
@bhavanpreethamch7062 Жыл бұрын
Awsome
@sumedhkudwe12934 жыл бұрын
Wow
@davidlyons55632 ай бұрын
Fill the firebox up on most trips
@garryferrington8113 ай бұрын
"Here, I've found a lump of coal." "Jolly good. The very thing we're looking for. Be careful not to drop it on your foot." "What, me drop a great, heavy lump of coal on my foot?...Ooh!" "Silly duffer."
@PerMortensen Жыл бұрын
11:36 "If due to... well... if, as sometimes happens" What is it he's avoiding saying there?
@tommcewan7936 Жыл бұрын
I'm not exactly sure, but it's evidently something both embarrassing and well-known to the company, that they're trying to be tactful about. Honestly, it's absolutely *exemplary* labour relations to include a bit like that in the film, and sadly something you'd never see in any training video today - it's a way of indirectly saying, to the working men who'd be shown this film, that the boffins and bean-counters who wrote it do understand what life is actually like on the foot-plate, that accidents do happen even to the best of us, that ideal theory is hard to always apply under challengingly non-ideal conditions. It's a humanising moment of briefly dropping the clipped formality, to basically show that the management are reasonable, decent people* who won't fire you if you've just had one bad day and that it's safe, for example, to approach them and tell them if you've accidentally bent the baffle plate, so it can be repaired. This film was presumably made back in the pre-war days when the phrase "we're all in this together" actually had at least *some* meaning. *At least, that's the impression they're trying to give; just exactly how true it really was, I couldn't say.
@MrDrury278 ай бұрын
boner joke
@MIRobin229 күн бұрын
He may have just gone off script and used the "well" to pause and find his place again. Then the editor didn't bother cutting out thay little slip. Just a theory; I don't really know.
@stuartbroome12582 жыл бұрын
I thought title and Often" was the GWR way. LMS much have pinched it!
@gerry3434 жыл бұрын
How does the fireman watch for smoke when running at night?
@737Adventures4 жыл бұрын
Believe it or not your eyes would eventually adapt to the darkness and you would be able to see
@LDZMarder3 жыл бұрын
@@737Adventures not if you look at the fier all the time when putting in coal.
@tomhind266d63 жыл бұрын
I was a fireman at kingmoor carlisle they demonstrate control fireing 6 every 2 mins regarding black smoke you did not look for that also you kept the firebox doors close the 2 main things when fireing oh bye the way you fired left handed you kept your eye on the steam guage and also the water guage if you were putting coal in the fire box you knocked off the water injectors the idea was you were not putting cold water and coal at the same time the scot engines had a long fire box so you put 4 one side 4 the other
@coloradostrong2 жыл бұрын
@@tomhind266d6 You did no such thing. You sold potatoes at a stand with mustard on them. The only smoke you saw was when the grill needed cleaning.
@IndianaNorthWestern6 ай бұрын
@@tomhind266d6 Can you take some sentence structure classes, you had like 80 conversations going on in one massive sentence.
@PeterPan-iz1kk3 жыл бұрын
Whom ever gave this a thumbs down, and why?
@philaypeephilippotter65323 жыл бұрын
Pass.
@Isochest2 жыл бұрын
This is a good video. I can only see a person with a negative agenda
@randallsullivan3692 Жыл бұрын
Some idiot who has listened to the "save the planet, damn the people" ilk for too long!!! Never heard the term "All things in moderation"!
@mrb692 Жыл бұрын
Don’t worry, it’s gone now 😂
@Dranok111 ай бұрын
"Whom" ever? *_Whom_* ever?!? Whoever taught you to write should have told you to read more first! ;-)
@Thomasnmi3 жыл бұрын
What is that metal device that is flipped up in the center of the fire opening?
@philaypeephilippotter65323 жыл бұрын
The firehole flap. The opening is called the firehole and the flap allows the fireman a better view of the fire than a fully open firehole as the glare from the fire is significantly reduced.
@coloradostrong2 жыл бұрын
A warbler plate. It sings as it get cool, alerting the coal shovel guy it needs more coal.
@PeterWalkerHP16c2 жыл бұрын
Thank good for coal. Where would we be without it?😀
@denysmith946911 ай бұрын
We’d be stuck in the dark ages and the way the world is headed we’re on our way back again
@FerroequinologistofColorado3 жыл бұрын
What would happen if the crown of the firebox became uncovered whist the fire was hot?
@philaypeephilippotter65323 жыл бұрын
The fusible plugs in the crown would melt and the steam from the boiler would quench the fire.
@titan8976 Жыл бұрын
before fusbile plugs were "invented" if the firebox was uncovered the crown would melt and cause sudden evaporation drastically increasing the boiler pressure and causing boiler explosion
@FerroequinologistofColorado Жыл бұрын
@@titan8976 oh my
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@shaunonlyplaysyt9879 Жыл бұрын
You would have to kill the fire as adding more water up tothe crown sheet would cause a boiler explosion
@VIKASHSINGH-fp2jl3 жыл бұрын
What the pression, 6 shovles of coal
@stran85143 жыл бұрын
T
@odiltm2594 жыл бұрын
Then you go to the USA and have to learn a totally different way because we burned oil in our steam engines.
@beeble20033 жыл бұрын
They experimented a little with oil burning in the UK but it never took off. We had large reserves of high-quality coal, none of the really long freight runs you get in the US and trains small enough that a guy could fire the locomotive with a shovel.