Mid Hants Railway - Watercress Line - 2024 Spring Steam Gala - 4K

[@alanrollins907]

So many engines, so much steam! A much welcomed video, Tim. Thank you. 👍

[@TerryMcGearyScotland]

Agreed. There’s something about coal and steam that diesel and electric just can’t match.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed it. The Watercress Line put on a really good show 😊.

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thank you for another ride back in time. Really love the steamers! Picturesque scenery as always. See you on the next, Tim! 🇦🇺🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Cheers Martin, it was wonderful to see so many steam locomotives in one place as they departed the locomotive depot at the beginning of the day and returned in the evening 🚂🚃🚃🚃😊.

[@TerryMcGearyScotland]

All that amazing activity, colours, sounds and smells (Iguess😁). It’s fantastic.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hello Terry, the Watercress Line put on a good show, it was nice to see so many locomotives in steam 😊.

[@JimNicholls]

Looked like a really great day, Tim. I really miss the English heritage railways. Thanks for all you do.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hello Jim, it was a very good day out, I'm glad you enjoyed the video 😊.

[@nevardmedia]

Beautifully shot video! Proper!

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@afriquelesud]

Such a nice place to see the cutesy little locomotives, so different from the behemoths we had on South African 🇿🇦 railways.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

We are lucky in the UK that so many steam locomotives of all shapes and sizes lasted long enough for railway preservation societies to step in and save many of them. I'd like to see some of the big South African locomotives in action.

[@neilforbes416]

Aaahhhh yeeeeessssss, the Watercress Line! Lettuce not forget to mark this event on our calendar! LOL😁

[@Mediawatcher2023]

@neilforbes416 now,now lettuce not beetrooting around the bush here that was a very salad remark 😄

[@neilforbes416]

@@Mediawatcher2023 ~ Groan ~

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Oooh, you're making a right salad of this 🌶🫑🥒🥬🧅🥗.

[@neilforbes416]

@@Timsvideochannel1 LOL A tasty morsel!

[@johannperaus6890]

Hi Tim! By now everyone should know which country the railway comes from. Fine session 👍. I hope you becomes all the links. Best regards from Hans and Cheers 🍻🇦🇹.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hello Hans, my KZbin channel is receiving a massive number of comments causing me to be a bit slow answering. Thanks for the links, I have watched two of them and I'll watch the rest as time allows. This video features one of my local heritage railways, I'm lucky to have some of the country's best heritage railways within an hour and a half’s drive of my home. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. 🍻🍺 Tim.

[@geralldus]

Great video Tim, as usual. Envious of the 4K resolution, I use a hand held camera with image stabilisation that doesn't function at 4K, perhaps I should go back to using a tripod. Anyway some great footage, I must also have you in shot, as I saw myself filming in Ropley yard from the opposite side when the shunter was pulling out Kilmersoon.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi, I'm pleased you enjoyed the day, the Watercress Line put on a good show, it was nice to see three top class visiting engines as well as 3 from the home fleet if you include Kilmersdon. I use a Sony FDR-AX53 camcorder, a competent point and shoot camera without breaking the bank. I set up my tripod if it is convenient to do so. I guess we must have been in each other’s shots.

[@Travel-by-Train]

I Love ❤ Steam Train 🍒🍒🍒

[@Timsvideochannel1]

The railway put on a good show 😊.

[@SteamPowerMadness]

Going there tomorrow to help out on a Traction Engine! :D

[@Timsvideochannel1]

I'm tempted to visit at the weekend, I hope you enjoy helping out with the traction engine 😊.

[@SteamPowerMadness]

@Timsvideochannel1 I'm sure I will, and thanks! :)

[@Sugarmountaincondo]

Really nice video of English trains and while I am not a fan of any tank engines (even here in the U.S.) I did really like the look of the #603, #45690 and the "Battle of Britain" engines. I also liked the passenger consists and photo-op of a freight train. I am curious about Loco's like the #603, the tender trucks look so close together, are they rigid frame or articulated trucks? #45690 looks like its 3 tender axles are on a rigid frame. Also @11:53 there is a heavy duty depressed flat car painted in what looks like U.S. Army Olive green color and it has Arch-Bar style trucks on it and also a white star. Looks like it is being used for MOW purposes such as distributing sleepers using the crane onboard. Is it WW1 or WW2 vintage military? Glad to see this line was saved and so many different steam & early diesel loco's as well as the yard & shops complex and stations and well, just everything. I love the signaling system too. Beautiful countryside to run trains through. @20:58 the car with angled sides and gun ports and a camouflage paint job, is that from a WW2 Armored Train used to patrol the lines in 1940 when an invasion was feared? @34:44 the Caboose looks like it is built on top of an old WW2 flat car, is it? I also noticed late that none of the steam loco's sport ant sort of a headlight or running lights, were they removed on purpose?

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi, from your comment, you must have really studied the locomotives featured in this video. Number 603's tender is mounted on two four wheeled bogies (trucks) and you are correct in saying that number 45690's tender is a rigid frame mounted on 3 axles. The wagon shown at 11:53 is usually referred to as a bogie well wagon, the well being required to allow oversize loads to be carried within the limited British loading gauge, I found this information about the waggon on the internet where it is described as a 50 ton Bogie Well Wagon with Light Duty Diesel Crane - www.flickr.com/photos/36034969@N08/7984990756 The railway is set in Southern England's picturesque Hampshire countryside where it recreates scenes many people believed had disappeared forever using a mixture of original buildings and newer buildings constructed to look after the locomotive fleet. First generation diesels are almost as popular as the steam locomotives because younger visitors never saw steam in its heyday, but they do remember the diesels, some of which are still at work on the mainline today. Wagons at the Watercress Line - watercressline.co.uk/wagons/ I can't find any information about the waggon at 20:58 - my best guess is that it is a recreation of an armoured waggon used in one of the railway's "Railways at War" events. The Caboose (Brake van in the UK) at 34:44 is in almost as built condition - watercressline.co.uk/s56302/ Please click on this link for information about a similar waggon located on the nearby Bluebell Railway - www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/wagon/56290.html British locomotives generally carried oil lamps mounted on lamp brackets rather than electric lights, there were some exceptions such as the Southern Region Bulleid pacifics. To the best of my knowledge no British steam locomotives were built with head lights although they are now fitted to all modern trains.

[@sellier-bellot22]

This beautiful British countryside beats Australian desert scenery in this time !!! LOL😄😄Spring time is wonderful time by the way not so many countries in Europe were this kind of action is possible in this scale ???

[@Timsvideochannel1]

It was very cold, some of that Australian sunshine would have been welcome. I love the springtime when the sun's warmth and the longer days encourage the first flowers such as daffodils, snowdrops and Bluebells to add colour to the otherwise bland winter landscape. Only Dresden matches the UK when it comes to the number of steam locomotives in action at any one time.

[@sellier-bellot22]

@@Timsvideochannel1 Good to know !

[@jasmine7576]

とても品質の良い石炭。

[@Timsvideochannel1]

蒸気機関車は深層で採掘された硬質黒色石炭が大好きです

[@KenanTurkiye]

😄

[@robertcoleman4861]

A wonderful day out thanks Tim, Love the canola fields, Are you having good weather over there it's been raining in Sydney for the last week i only hope it doe's not rain for 40 days & 40 nights.😲🌧⛈

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hello Bob, this video was filmed on one of the few days the rain held off since I returned from Australia and New Zealand, from the air the town I live in looks like an island with the surrounding fields slowly turning into marsh land as a result of the highly irresponsible building of a massive Amazon distribution depot on the last natural flood plain causing the standing water to flood areas that were once free from annual flooding. Quite how we end up with such brain dead idiots running our town council baffles me, they are either dumb beyond belief or taking backhanders from the developers. It was a cold day at the railway, but the excellent line up of locomotives made it a very good day out. I hope the weather improves in Sydney. All the best from an unseasonably cold and wet UK.

[@kellyashfordtrains2642]

Nice, but rule no. 1: when a steam gala comes, no looking at scenery or filming from the lineside. We want to see you riding the rails behind every single steam engine all day long. Plus, Manston is in desperate need of a polish, she shouldn't be running in that filthy condition, it gives the preserved railway a bad name in my book. I was hoping to see you riding behind Leander.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi, there are plenty videos showing the locomotives on KZbin, some of them are very good. I try to capture the atmosphere of the day, including the scenery and the people, not just the locomotives. Manston was deliberately made to look filthy for a photo shoot, it was due to be cleaned up after the gala event.