Steam Locomotive Does The Impossible!?! tall Tale Or Not Ep13

[@tjmfarming9584]

Ok, so to clarify my comment on the other video. I did some research into the incident further, and according to the Didcot Railway Centre on Facebook, No.16 (later renumbered to GWR No.24 after its rebuild in 1925) did indeed rescue the express from a King Class, the 11:45 am Bristol-Paddington Express to be specific. The King class in question, No.6003 had to be taken off the train at Badminton due to its whistle not working correctly. No.24 just happened to come along with a down goods train at the right place at the right time. As it turns out, No.24 was called upon to pull the train TENDER FIRST, and managed to get the train as far as Swindon before a spare engine took the train the rest of the way to Paddington. The engine was withdrawn and scrapped in July 1930. The post never specified whether 24 performed the mission impossible feat of making up 30 minutes of lost time. Whether it really did or not is up for debate. If it did, that'd explain why the GWR had the engine withdrawn in July 1930. If not, then chances are that's just my wildly exaggerated imagination talking as I've written a fictional story based on the real incident where a similar engine to the design of Galloping Alice also rescued an express just 26 years earlier... and a completely different design to the king...

[@TrainBandit]

@@tjmfarming9584 the funny part about this is I do the same thing where I will write a fictional story based of a real story. When I did history videos a lot I had to be really careful 😂 Thanks for the info, I'll pin this for anyone that wants to read this for further information. Thanks for the Tale, either way it's a lot of fun! 😃💯

[@RCassinello]

The part that I find hard to believe is that over half an hour of time could have been lost in the first place before the first goods train arrived - they were at least as often as 20 minute intervals on the GWR. Even allowing for time for the loco to shunt its own train into the yard then couple up (about 7 minutes), it'd barely be half an hour late.

[@TrainBandit]

@@RCassinello this is true, but another king class came to pick the train up and probably make up the lost time. 😀

[@ItalyBound19]

Awesome!

[@TrainBandit]

Thanks!

[@TroublesomeSlateTruck]

Good Job. 👍🏼

[@TrainBandit]

@@TroublesomeSlateTruck thanks, I have so much fun making this series! Glad you enjoyed!!! 😃👍

[@NicholasSpisak]

Hi, I got another good one, so the New york Central tested its Niagara against an E7 ABA set, and the E7s did fairly better, so in the 40s, when World War 2 broke out New York Central wanted to design a 4-8-4 wheel arrangement to outrun the E7s so NYC did more research and designed a dual service locomotive with 7,000 horsepower. It had 78-inch drivers, 305 PSI, and 26×28 inch cylinders and baker valve gear and a boiler diameter of 105 ft LONG and a centipede tender with a 4-10-2 tender

[@TrainBandit]

@@NicholasSpisak awesome it's in the list! 🤠

[@NicholasSpisak]

@@TrainBandit 💜💜💜

[@JUANORQUIO]

WoW! That’s Fantastic!

[@TrainBandit]

@@JUANORQUIO thanks! It's been a fun series! 🤠

[@TrainBandit]

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