Mid Hants Railway (Watercress Line) 2018 - Pre Spring Steam Gala

[@slycat1939]

Great video and shots of moving trains. 1) Them trains at beginning where man stood by the wheel of train wow taller then he was. 2) At 5:43 awesome video filming of moving train- also at 39:07. Through out entire video great filming. SNOW!! Bet you and your daughter was very cold. Heard that wind blowing while filming. Was that your dogs? Pretty. What a trip. Hope you and your daughter had nice time. Thanks for sharing with us your journeys. Safe travels ahead. God bless. P.s. Still going thru your videos I haven't seen. Really do enjoy your trips.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi, it was cold, but we didn't really notice it. The dog belongs to my daughter and it enjoyed all the walking. The MHR always put on a good show and the snow was a bonus. Bye for now.Tim

[@mibi1946]

Brought back a few memories when I lived in Winchester before moving to Melbourne, Australia. Thanks for posting.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hello Michael, Winchester is a lovely town, it hasn't changed much in the last 50 or so years. Did you travel along this line before it was closed by British Rail?

[@mibi1946]

No it had just reopened in the mid 70s. It was very popular when it started again. My kids loved it too.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

I remember Fred Dinenage presenting a program about the first train when the line reopened on Southern Television. I took my kids there many times over the years, they loved it.

[@gamedoutgamer]

Also the sound quality you captured is over the top good thank you!!

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed it.

[@AndreiTupolev]

Lovely early morning scenes on shed, and some interesting shunting at Alton. Nice to see a ride in the brake van; a ride in the brake van of the Goods up the hill would be interesting wouldn't it. I trust it wasn't a problem at 21:30?

[@Timsvideochannel1]

It is always worth getting to the railway early and leaving late to see the locomotives on shed at the beginning and end of the day. The brake van ride was fun and 'yes' it would be nice to get a camera on the freight train brake van one day. There wasn't a problem at 21:30, just a little slipping on the hill as the train restarted after being held at a signal just outside the station.

[@pega17pl]

(2:45) Remember me old times of railway station at my hometown. - Heinz

[@Timsvideochannel1]

It's hard to believe that such a wonderful scene from the past can still be recreated today - Tim.

[@ADMIRALSCORNER]

Glorious!

[@Timsvideochannel1]

It was good day out and I was lucky with the weather.

[@itloon]

Hi Tim. What a well made film - the coverage gave me the impression you had organised a team throughout the area. Filming was fabulous quality, any frame worthy of a picture. Alan.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi, thank you for your kind comment, it is appreciated. It would be nice to have a team with me, I just had my daughter and two dogs for company. I do sometimes set up more than one camera and hope it is still there when I go back for it. It was a good out and once again I was lucky with the weather.

[@johannperaus6890]

Hello Tim! Great class video. You can tell immediately in which country the steam locomotives were invented. That is still true tradition with you. Wonderful. Greetings from Hans from the Mühlviertel.👍👍👍🚂🚂🚂

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hello Johann, this is my local heritage railway, about a one hour drive from my home. They had a wonderful selection of locomotives in steam and the sun came out after many days of rain. British locomotives look different to those of Mainland Europe or America. The smaller British loading gauge means they have to be more compact and the designers paid a lot of attention to the aesthetic appearance. It was a good day out. Best wishes from the UK. Tim.

[@panikrystyna1]

Kocham Twoje stare pociągi.Lubię twoje duże psy. Podziwiam elegancję czapki z daszkiem. Panikrystyna.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

To był dobry dzień z moją najstarszą córką i dwa psy. Oboje cieszyć się fotografią, pracuje na kolei jako sygnalizator. Tim.

[@sevvalswl5561]

😍❤🚂

[@Timsvideochannel1]

:-)

[@hiramlofton9464]

Got a little confused Tim. I perused the title quickly. I thought it said Haints! In the Southern US the word Haint refers to a troublesome ghost or spirit. It is southern slang for haunt as in haunted. However it becomes noun and not an adjective. We are a crazy bunch of Americans for sure. Irish, Scots, English mixed in with African Americans and now East Indians and Hispanics. All agreeable folks. We have a new group of folks who are not so agreeable. They are good at pissing everyone off. Do I need to mention names? Nope....mother would say I wasn't being sociable.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi, in this case "Hants" is a shortened version of "Hampshire", the English county that is home to this railway. In my travels, I meet people from every race and color, they all have one thing in common, they offer a friendly welcome where travel and railways are generally the subject of conversation. I often travel alone and never feel I am putting myself at risk, even in recent war zones. I have become cynical about TV because the world portrayed is not the world I see, it's a far nicer place than they would have you believe, now I understand the saying "good news doesn't sell". My father said to me when I started work, "don't talk about Religion or politics" ... it often takes many years before we understand the wisdom of our parents advice.

[@paulshirley6383]

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[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi, I'm pleased you enjoyed the Mid Hants Railway 2018 - Pre Spring Steam Gala, it was a good day out with plenty of steam action.

[@chucksandos8939]

Hello, Tim! Very good is small steam engine at 25:45+! But what is it 'diesel like' engine who passed at 19:12? /I'm don't see like it anywhere other. Or it's really a diesel?../ Of course, diesel locomotives forces out the steam locomotives, probably starting from late 50th at 20th century. But not resolving radically ecological problem -- how much better solved it by its electric traction on railways, -- IMHO, it was the diesel engines that 'killed' romance style of the steam railway transport... Yes, now steam locomotives are just an object of photo sessions and filming. And also for a tourist romantic destination it are too... Hmm, that's when my 'caliber' was be about 1/3 diameter of wheel for steam locomotive, -- about shown here: 1:25+, -- they seemed to me aka beautiful (!) monsters! 😲 But at 50th years it's really my life fact then I traveled more than once on trains, which were dragged by steam locomotives! Thank you, dear Tim, for returning me to the past -- in my childhood! 😆 P.S. UK Spring are unstable now, as I see at 35:35+ But in South Bulgaria too... :( /Without snow, of course!/ But it's cold and cloudy today... And without having Sun on Sky any living aren't for me!..

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hello Chuck, the little engine at 25:45 is a Great Western pannier tank engine, they could be found all over the Western Region on branch lines and shunting duties. This particular engine is an outside cylinder variant spending much of its working life shunting empty coaching stock at London's Paddington station. The locomotive at 19:12 is a diesel mechanical shunter with the drive transmitted to the wheels using coupling rods similar to a steam locomotive. Electric locomotives may be clean and efficient, but they are not alive in the same way as steam engines. I'm pleased you enjoyed this trip down memory lane to those far off days when steam engines could found working regular trains on national networks. The long hot lazy days of summer will soon be here, spring flowers are already adding colour to the garden.

[@chucksandos8939]

Thank you for fully comments about UK railway engines. So, electric locomotives aren't romantic engines... But in Japan, for example, is 'Shinkansen' high speed train. And Japanese railway engineers managed to combine rationality -- need for good aerodynamic streamlining of high-speed express trains -- with beautiful forms: the locomotive looks like a swordfish muzzle! (hah-hah-hah) Good luke, and have nice day... and near spring too! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) P.S. At us nature blossoms on March, 1st: it's national holiday named 'Martinitsi'. I do not know, how it will be now. The last couple of years nature is not stable, at its being during seasons currently, and now the weather is so not ordinary in our land... :(

[@Timsvideochannel1]

:-)

[@chucksandos8939]

Yes! - my face on this is: (͡°͜ʖ͡°) --> ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) --> ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) UPD. Hmmm... The 'Shinkansen' don't are best 'animal like face' trains of the World! It's first place can be take 'MXL01' train - for example, see here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIbHZoShpduElZom44s /But any european HS expresses are poor technocratic like trains... :( Because their muzzles are deadly boring!/

[@Timsvideochannel1]

I have ridden high-speed trains in England, France, Belgium, Italy and China, but not yet in Japan. I will add it to my bucket list :-)

[@hansquennet8357]

Model trains???

[@Timsvideochannel1]

There was a display of O gauge trains from one of the local railway modeling societies. Sometimes these Gala events feel like grown men playing with full size trains .... its all good fun.

[@hansquennet8357]

i can't help but wonder just how much of that smoky air our man Tim has inhaled doing these marvelous videos while standing up on overpasses! And I have an objections to the term "African American", as posted below. How many different countries are there in Africa? Born elsewhere, does that make me a European American? Guess the real origins! Clue: Deutschland! Yes, European, to be sure, but specifically German.

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hello Hans, the exhaust from the steam engines on a cold day is almost entirely water vapor. If a perfume manufacturer could capture the special smell of burning coal, hot oil and steam, I'm sure it would be hit with railway enthusiasts, maybe not with their wives and friends. I find race and religion are subjects best avoided, because both get in the way of making friends, after all most countries are populated by a mix of peoples and religions.

[@hansquennet8357]

I apologize for my previous comment. I could wipe it out; however will leave it to see what replies it gathers. This not a political Forum nor a platform to express beliefs... Pardon me? Speak up and I will wipe it all out!

[@Timsvideochannel1]

Hi again, I do remove comments that are too political or likely to cause offence if they attract too much attention, because as you say "this is not a political Forum". I will wait and see, if this and other comments disappear, I know you will understand the reasons.