YouTube for transport anoraks!
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The reason it keeps getting bumped is that I'm spending too much time on the internet when I should be working tbh.
In a very similar vein, - in 3 parts.
Isambard, have you read P.W. Smith's memoirs of his time as a driver on the S&D? If not, I strongly recommend them...
Spion
I hear ya
If that floats your boat (soz) then this book is worth reading for a warts n all account of life on a 4 mast cargo barque in the late 30s
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Grain-Race-Picador-Books/dp/0330318853
Wiki article on the book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Grain_Race
Oh yes.
That's a wonderful book.In the same vein, Alan Villers' own books are well worth reading, as is Basil Lubbock's account of his time in sail in the South American trades in the 1890s.
Lovely footage, that.
Wasn't some of that taken on the record run in 1937, when they broke the speed record but nearly derailed the train trying to take the crossovers into Crewe station at 60... 
At some point I'd like to get up to the NRM and see Duchess of Hamilton, now they've put the casing back on:
Tbh I think it looks like an upturned bath, but it's certainly striking.
davesgcr
Reading books
Very impressive paint work that !
Could be filmed on the day they did 114mph at Madeley before putting the brake in and taking 2x20mph reverse crossovers at Crewe South Junction at (I think) 57mph. Madness
Cant lay my hand on C J Allens book now - but will check the date out !
On reflection , that must have ben the point where the LMS gave up speed records ! Interesting to know how she would have managed somewhere like Stoke bank where the conditions for a thrash were a bit more suitable !
Could be filmed on the day they did 114mph at Madeley before putting the brake in and taking 2x20mph reverse crossovers at Crewe South Junction at (I think) 57mph. Madness
Cant lay my hand on C J Allens book now - but will check the date out !
On reflection , that must have ben the point where the LMS gave up speed records ! Interesting to know how she would have managed somewhere like Stoke bank where the conditions for a thrash were a bit more suitable !
I can.
*consults battered copy of C J Allen*
It was 29 June 1937, and they hit 114mph only two miles before Crewe station, and then slammed on the brakes. Bob Riddles' account of what happened when they got to Crewe makes alarming reading, talking about flying crockery in the dining car as the train lurched over the crossovers.
AFAIK the LMS did give up on speed records after that since there was nowhere safe to try them. As you say, it'd be interesting to see what a Duchess could do on Stoke Bank. I've certainly seen Brell Ewart claiming that he could get 120mph out of Duchess of Sutherland without too much difficulty. Damn 75mph speed limit.
Thought I'd bump this to add a couple of videos of Duchess of Sutherland's last main line run before its boiler ticket expires.
I went to see it at King's Cross. Unfortunately, thanks to heavy football traffic, a delayed tube, King's Cross tube being part-shut and a traffic jam, I sprinted up the platform just as the train doors were being shut.
But at least I got to see it leave.
I went to see it at King's Cross. Unfortunately, thanks to heavy football traffic, a delayed tube, King's Cross tube being part-shut and a traffic jam, I sprinted up the platform just as the train doors were being shut.
But at least I got to see it leave.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Thought I'd bump this to add a couple of videos of Duchess of Sutherland's last main line run before its boiler ticket expires.
I went to see it at King's Cross. Unfortunately, thanks to heavy football traffic, a delayed tube, King's Cross tube being part-shut and a traffic jam, I sprinted up the platform just as the train doors were being shut.
I was in town yesterday and nearly made a diversion to KX to see this... ran out of time in the end though, unfortunately.
(Last weekend I thought I might catch the Hastings unit at Waterloo but it never made it because apparently it derailed at Windsor
)It was quite a sight. I've never been much of an LMS man, but the Duchesses really are magnificent machines and Duchess of Sutherland's been a top mainline performer for the last few years. It'll be missed. However, for some reason they'd cordoned the top of the platform off so you couldn't actually get right up to the engine - no further than roughly level with the cab - and there was a buzz-box class 47 on the back of the train which gave it a helpful shove out of King's Cross, meaning no drama, explosive exhaust beats, wheelspin and everything else that makes the sight of a big steam engine starting a heavy train so impressive. Still glad to have seen it, though.
Meanwhile, a few shots of my favourite engine on the main line: Oliver Cromwell:
- first bit shot from a carriage, but from 1.48 the camera is on the footplate. Lovely bit of film.
- through Dawlish at 70mph
- longer shot of 70013 climbing Whiteball - with a lovely sound - and along the sea wall at Dawlish.
Much as I'm not much of a GWR fan (*ducks*), a Castle or King in full flight is a tremendous sight and sound. I dragged a couple of friends to a Wetherspoon's in Exeter a few weeks ago since it overlooks St David's station and King Edward I was due to stop for water. Unfortunately we couldn't actually see it through the trees and we were too comfortably settled in the beer garden to go down to the station, but it sounded the part. Seemed to be steaming well too: the safety valves were making quite a racket!
on the Torbay Express in August and September - long video with some lovely shots.
Two videos of on the Welsh Marches Express in May. I saw this train go by at Lydney Junction from the footplate of the Dean Forest Railway's pannier tank. I enjoyed my driving day, but I'd have gladly given it up to ride footplate on either of the Castles...
teuchter
je suis teuchter
How does it get its boiler ticket back, then - is it just some kind of inspection or does it have to be taken out and rebuilt?
I don't know what the rules are, actually, but most engines have a major overhaul and boilers usually seem to be re-tubed, if nothing else. It's an expensive business, which is why a lot of engines are out of traffic for several years once their ticket expires.
davesgcr
Reading books
Of course LMS locomotive policy in the 1930's was Swindon influenced .....
Fine engines those Stanier Pacifics though - Euston to Perth with 14 on being a normal days work I gather. They were a very updated version of what the GWR could have done , but with modern features.
Much though I enjoy a beer garden with company , you really should have gone to see the King go through .....
Fine engines those Stanier Pacifics though - Euston to Perth with 14 on being a normal days work I gather. They were a very updated version of what the GWR could have done , but with modern features.
Much though I enjoy a beer garden with company , you really should have gone to see the King go through .....
This sits uneasily between transport and sport, but it's going here because a) it's Youtube, and b) it's not worth a thread of its own. Some stunning footage of the in the 1970s. Just listen to those Escorts sing...
Meanwhile, getting back to the more usual themes of this thread, some lovely old footage of - silent film set to music: very evocative.
Meanwhile, getting back to the more usual themes of this thread, some lovely old footage of - silent film set to music: very evocative.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
This is not youtube, but it is definitely transport anoraky:
http://webcam04.deg.net/cgi-bin/guestimage.html
http://webcam04.deg.net/cgi-bin/guestimage.html
I can't resist posting this. Driver on the M5 has to get his toe down to keep up with , running alongside at well over the 75mph speed limit. Steam trains at 90mph+ FTW. It was filmed in 1995, so the cars the cameraman keeps overtaking look rather old-fashioned as well.
From the same bloke, a similar shot of , this time without the camera car having to risk a speeding ticket to keep up!
Driver on the M5 has to get his toe down to keep up with , running alongside at well over the 75mph speed limit. Steam trains at 90mph+ FTW. It was filmed in 1995, so the cars the cameraman keeps overtaking look rather old-fashioned as well.From the same bloke, a similar shot of , this time without the camera car having to risk a speeding ticket to keep up!
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I can't resist posting this.
From the same bloke, a similar shot of , this time without the camera car having to risk a speeding ticket to keep up!
They are both pretty cool.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I can't resist posting this.
That's fantastic
It really shows how hard the valve gear is working at those kind of speeds, the forces involved must be enormous...
Griff
Feeding the foxes
Wow! Only just seen this.
Leytonstone is my birthplace and where I lived most of my life, so this is fascinating.
Griff
Feeding the foxes
Sold at the Pebble Beach auction in August for the 'reasonable' price of $185,000.
One of my favourite cars ever, built in Paris in very small numbers in the mid-50s to mid '60s, with Chrysler V8s and extremely expensive at the time.
This one is over-restored in that American Pebble Beach way, but you get the jist of what it looks like, just a shame you can't hear that V8 under the bonnet.
Not to everyone's taste, but a Facel II or HK500 would be in my lottery winning garage as soon as I could get the nicest one I could find/get restored.
Griff
Feeding the foxes
Great post.
Wandering around Saffron Walden last year and I spotted a French Racing Blue Bugatti Type 35 racer, so I thought it was a replica and wandered over to the bloke to ask if it was 'real' only to see another one parked in his garage.
They were both real, and the bloke was quite embarressed about their values as they'd been handed down to him. I've seen him driving one around town a few time now, and the sound is awesome.
Couldn't speak for about 10 minures after to my wife.
Wandering around Saffron Walden last year and I spotted a French Racing Blue Bugatti Type 35 racer, so I thought it was a replica and wandered over to the bloke to ask if it was 'real' only to see another one parked in his garage.
They were both real, and the bloke was quite embarressed about their values as they'd been handed down to him. I've seen him driving one around town a few time now, and the sound is awesome.
Couldn't speak for about 10 minures after to my wife.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I'm going to bump this thread with a link to this guy's site, which I just stumbled across -
http://raildata.info/reports.html
there are plenty of youtube clips on there, but mainly it's worth looking at for some really excellent photography of railways, in lots of places. I've only looked at a few bits... will definitely look at the rest some time on a rainy day.
http://raildata.info/reports.html
there are plenty of youtube clips on there, but mainly it's worth looking at for some really excellent photography of railways, in lots of places. I've only looked at a few bits... will definitely look at the rest some time on a rainy day.
