VETERAN LOCOMOTIVE - "PUFFING BILLY"

Smoke, steam, piston rods pounding up & down. Great stuff. The driver is good too. The original loco was built in 1813. TRAIN RAILWAY RAILROAD

[@Zebred2001]

To think that every time someone climbs into a high tech vehicle from a jet fighter to a spaceship the experience of preparing it for departure by throwing switches and starting systems goes back to these steam pioneers.

[@philnewton4844]

Why no View of it from the Trackside?

[@TheKodakman]

My other videos were taken from the trackside . Search for "Puffing Billy" &"Beamish Museum".

[@mchagnon7]

Special thanks to Benedict Cumberbatch for operating the locomotive for us!

[@paularowe7651]

Don't forget Richard Trevithick who started it all off in @1803!

[@michaelnaisbitt1639]

Amazing that it works but it did. Man and machine 200 years ago. Great video. 👍🚂😀

[@musicurio]

Thanks so much for sharing! I spent much of my leisure hours in the '60s when 7 or 8 drawing this locomotive and its contempories over and over again. You could say I as obsessed!! I never imagined that one day it would be possible to see and hear what it would actually have been like in motion. Just amazing, thanks again.

[@TheKodakman]

If you visit Beamish Museum you can ride on it yourself. They also have working replicas of "Locomotion", "Steam Elephant" and various old trams & buses.

[@musicurio]

TheKodakman thanks

[@angelgonzalo2885]

Habría sido fantastico tener una vista general de la locomotora y no solo de la chimenea. Lastima!!

[@scottm5425]

I think the wind noise was louder than the engine!

[@martinlintzgy1361]

Surprised how quiet she is I expected more rattling and clanking

[@hebburnlad1645]

Built by my grandfather 🚂

[@steventhornton4716]

All 12 mph of it

[@MrHewes44]

I’ve been on that loco it’s in Newcastle beamish Museum

[@JanMolin]

the diesel generator in used fore the modern brakes, the original had none!

[@ashleydemoss4609]

Jan Molin Jensen every steam loco has brakes.

[@ncopictures7182]

Not the ones built at that time.@@ashleydemoss4609

[@christianlanz1680]

Excellent Video, make more of them. I wish you a Happy New Year.

[@Journeyman-Fixit]

Great video, High tech transportation almost 200 years ago?

[@NigelDixon1952]

Thanks, a great video.

[@ncopictures7182]

Can I use the audio from this video for something? I will gladly credit you.

[@ncopictures7182]

Thank you very much!@@davidwilkinson7175

[@CombraStudios]

At one point in history this was the best means of transport in the world

[@TheKodakman]

Railways are still a good means of transport.

[@CombraStudios]

@@TheKodakman sure yes! I mean, in its time it was either this awesome steam beast or horse, travelling on land. Or sailships over the sea

[@LutzDerLurch]

Not really. It was a cheap way for moving coal.

[@VT29steamtrain]

@@LutzDerLurch well, this one, many locomotives after transported passengers

[@NJPurling]

Puffing Billy was an iron cart-horse. No faster than shown here but it was a roaring success. It & Wylam Dilly both lasted around fifty years at work. Billy was made 18134. Wylam Dilly came later in 1815 and has improvements Billy does not. This locomotive does take a minor liberty with historical authenticity as Wylam was 5ft gauge and the replica is clearly standard gauge as it has been to other railways.

[@brianrigsby7900]

Amazing she still runs!

[@brianrigsby7900]

Or he since it’s called billy😅

[@TheKodakman]

The original ran for many years. Then it was put in the Science Museum, London. This replica at Beamish is quite new.

[@MrNoUsername]

Looks a bit like Locomotion No. 1

[@AlexThePatriot]

Sad that the original will never run under its own power ever again

[@Gigastorm123]

~sigh~ i love this kinda stuff... so much..... ~likes and favs~

[@beepbkp6981]

*w* *a* *t*

[@TheKodakman]

@Hallaran Yes, the original Puffing Billy was built in 1813. At that time the Land Speed Record was about 5 miles per hour.

[@Rebel9668]

Nahhhh, horses could go faster than that.

[@dubsy1026]

I can go faster than that

[@Wreckedftfoxy]

hey wait a minute why is there a engine in the tender

[@TheKodakman]

The small diesel engine is for the modern brakes which have been fitted for safety reasons. The original loco did not have brakes but because it ran at only 5mph that did not matter too much.

[@GNRA1GreatNorthern1470]

The tender is in the front, the chimney and firebox are on the the front

[@danielday3162]

What is the gasoline engine used for?

[@TheKodakman]

I do not know. The loco obviously runs on steam power & there were no gasoline engines back in 1813. It is probably something to do with modern safety requirements.

[@danielday3162]

I'll bet its a water injector. Those old steam engines probably didn't have them

[@kalvinchester4068]

Daniel Day they actually had water pumps and steam powered water injectors

[@ianprince1698]

Went on this recently, the modern petrol pump is for modern brakes for safety reasons , at Beamish museum.

[@NJPurling]

@@ianprince1698 Probably a compressor and air tank in the replica Chaldron wagon. 5 mph doesn't sound like much but it is the speed a heavy horse can manage. Because of the Peninsular War the price of feed for horses had massively increased. Thus locomotive use became more attractive. The locomotive could keep up this speed as long as fuel & water supply permitted, & feeding & watering the iron horse was relatively quick.