SR 34067 Tangmere Makes Up For Lost Time At Oxenholme - Winter Cumbrian Mountains Express - 27/01/24

This is my first video of 2024, The Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express to kick off the 2024 Steam Season! Hauled by SR SR Unrebuilt Battle of Britain Class Light Pacific 4-6-2 34067 Tangmere from Carnforth to Preston but with WCR recently served with revocation of use for slam door stock, they've chosen to carry on by operating with a rake of Mk2s
Northbound via Shap and Southbound via the Settle & Carlisle Railway. I first headed to Oxenholme to capture Tangmere on its climb North to Carlisle but she was over an hour late and it was a bitterly cold January morning in Cumbria.
On the return run, I decided to head to Armathwaite for a change, I haven't been here in quite some time and I like the yellow signal box, what can I say! It wasn't quite the speedy run by I was expecting but it was still a sight to see, Good old Spam Cam!
I hope you enjoy this video.

[@martinchamberlain542]

Great filming, thankyou. As a dedicated steam fan for all of my seven decades, I have to concede that long, heavy modern freights are pretty awesome.

[@tattoo1084]

Great sight at Oxenholme and yellow signal box makes a shot.👍

[@doctordave12]

Thank you very much!

[@TheStephengthompson]

Very nice Mathew , going well considering the late departure. Always annoying when someone gets in your shot especially as he didn’t need to.

[@stephenbrass1808]

very nicely captured Mathew, going well at oxenholme, it was a bit damp further north at shap .

[@doctordave12]

Thank you! got lucky with the whistle and the weather!, looked very murky up Shap!

[@transportguy1k635]

I was onboard that!

[@nige7577]

Nicely captured Mathew, you always get a good shot at Oxenholme when on a charge and I’ve never done Armathwaite but the box does look good, cheers 👍

[@doctordave12]

Thanks! I get quite lucky with whistles from Tangmere at Oxenholme 😂 Happened when she double headed with Leander a couple of year's ago as well. Armathwaite is a nice little station for a shot, The yellow signal box just completes it!

[@RailwayTavern]

Grand job! I think I was in the pub for the freight coming though! Never been to Armathwaite but looks grand 👌

[@doctordave12]

Many thanks! Armathwaite is a nice little station and funnily enough, I went to the pub after Tangmere went through as I waited for my train home. Thank you for watching!

[@tristanstrains]

Very nice 👍

[@doctordave12]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@bobnweaver]

Super video, nicely captured at both locations.

[@doctordave12]

Thanks a ton, glad you liked it!

[@davidbailey533]

The mk2s look great and if it means they can still operate that's fair play great film

[@doctordave12]

Thank you very much! Yes it is good that West Coast have some coaches that they can use but if Tangmere fails, can they use another loco? I think these coaches can only be used by a certain loco.

[@bingbong7316]

There were several instances of diesel pilot and steam train engine back in Modernisation plan days, because steam heating. Could actually do that in reverse now, maybe? It would be cool, steam pilot then diesel.

[@SimonTog]

Nice video :)

[@doctordave12]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@mumumaaaah]

Can someone give me a reason why the steamer needs a oily diesel helper

[@jerrydowse5061]

Great shots,my friend got her at Ramsgreave,sailed up the grade.Did the Class 86 play up,was 3 hours plus late leaving Preston,then tour cancelled at Crewe.Very late home for the punters i guess.

[@doctordave12]

Thank you! I heard the tour was very late, hope the passengers heading south got back safely, bet taxis had to be called.

[@jerrydowse5061]

@@doctordave12 .just seen on another video,reason was a points failure at Preston,this in turn meant they could not get through a planned NR block at Stafford ?,so all put on coaches home.

[@TrainspottingUK542]

@@doctordave12 I was on the Railtour, had to get the rail replacement bus all the way from crewe to watford (and i got in very late home) but we got back safely (other than being very very tired)

[@doctordave12]

​@TrainspottingUK542 years, bet that was a long trip home, least you didn't have to pay for a taxi

[@jameshardy4354]

Can they not send black 5 45212 to help tangmere just one air braked locomotive aint a great situation to be in

[@doctordave12]

Think they need it on the KWVR, it runs every weekend at the moment.

[@davidturquand4342]

Could be that the 47 is for reverse movements where there's no run round facility. I'm fairly sure Tangmere has an air braking system fitted as didn't have to be double headed when it visited the Bluebell.

[@railwaymechanicalengineer4587]

A FARCICAL CON !!! You pay a lot of money for a supposed "Steam train ride" only to find they have added a DIESEL loco to the train, which quite clearly is doing a good 50% OF THE WORK as you can hear the diesel roaring past the camera!!! So just when life gets interesting going up hills like Shap with a steam loco, where the engine would have to work hard and give out a thunderous continuous roar, with huge smoke effects. The Diesel provides most of the power. So the steam loco has to do little work, and can almost saunter up the Hill. Without the normal grand smoke & sounds effects, you would have seen in steam days. It also means that professional train timers cannot time the train & work out how much power the steam loco is exerting, or exact speeds over any quarter mile section. So you cannot log such a train. Indeed putting a heavy vehicle on the rear of a train (unless banking on gradients) was forbidden in BR days, because its DANGEROUS. So I certainly would never waste my money on such a Farcical CON. Much better in Germany were steam excursions don't have Diesels attached, and as seen on a number of occasions have reached speeds approaching a 100mph. Indeed the 02.0201 Pacific has reached 106mph in preservation (it has achieved speeds as high as 113.3mph in East German Railways service in the 1960's) It also has the largest driving wheels fitted to ANY Pacific of 7ft 6in. NOTE: I began Driving steam back in the 1970's before becoming a Qualified Locomotive Mechanical Engineer, & I've worked for many Railways around the World.