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I once met a now long gone GWR driver of the 'King' class, and he said they were great performers...although the fireman had to work extra hard as they were always so hungry for coal. Thanks for uploading !

Look at how polished the boots are on that chap opening and closing the fire box.

Thanks for posting this video. It brought back memories of a journey to Padstow from Waterloo in July or August 1964, which I think was the last year of the Atlantic Coast Express. Te journey was notable as from Exeter we had a Southern Railway `Mogul` for the climb up the banks for the next leg of our journey. I am sure the loco was being thrashed as at least one hot cinder entered our coach, burning a hole in the silk scarf of a lady sitting by the window. At Launceston the fireman went to the signal box probably to change the single line tablet - I imagine that by his appearance he had been on the shovel for most of the way from Exeter. At Hallwill Jcn we had already detached coaches, I imagine for Bude but even with the lighter load we were late into Padstow but the company in our compartment and the scenery meant that we did not mind one bit! Our return journey 2 weeks later was behind an unrebuilt Bullied which must have had an easier run downhill. I am always grateful to my Mum and Dad for choosing the North Cornwall Coast for our holiday that year and even more grateful that we did not have a car and went everywhere by train!

I suspect a lot of us railway enthusiasts always had a dedicated VHS video cassette at the side of the recorder to record all sorts of railway news and programmes. I certainly did!!

I remember going to have a look at the Fleet derailment after school. Have a blurry photograph of it taken from a bridge a long way away.

This is now a rarity, but veg will tell you privatisation has been a disaster.

VHS video

What's with the interference lines across the screen?

Some interesting footage

6024 first class footage thanks Tony Simpson

❤if you show the top speed at 2000 drawbar in this then this video will become very interesting 🤔❤

IGNORANT PROGRAMME TITLE ??? Get real: "2,000lbs Drawbar Horsepower" wouldn't take the skin off a rice pudding. The King Class with a 40,300lbf Tractive effort, could on occasion develop, with the front end improvements as applied by K.J. Cook at Swindon in the 1950's, achieve just over 2,000 Horsepower. (Not "lbs"). Indeed if compared to the (also 8P rated) Duke of Gloucester, as rebuilt & redesigned in the 1980's, which developed a registered 3,200idhp with the Dynamometer car included behind the loco, at 40mph going Up Shap, the King should get to 2,000idhp !

Good to see a GW loco in GW livery. Sadly, most of the preserved 4-6-0's are in BR livery, which I feel misrepresents their history, particularly for people who may be less informed about railways.

If you cared about accuracy you would change the description. Not impressed when errors just left to fester.

I have a 'Channel Islands Boat Train' destination roof board in my collection. I got it for £1.50 in the late 1970s.

Lots of interest here - the amazing amount of time no-one on the footplate (and there were at least four people including the videographer) seemed to be watching the road ahead, the amount of trackside trespass that was going on (including I think by the videographer who took the lineside clip near the end) and, of course, the great performance by the loco. 1993 doesn't seem a huge time back, but so much has changed now - the train would have been halted in the face of so much trespass these days. Regarding the edhp of 2,000 - a good effort indeed, and only a few pacifics in the UK could normally produce more. That power from a 4-6-0 gave a very good tractive effort rating; equal to, or better than, some class 8 pacifics.

Good fast catch of the wheelslip

Off the mainline

Shame she has been on the mainline for so long. Loved seeing in down here in Devon

Woww nice video train locomotif ❤❤

An excellent video and excellent teamwork with the footplate crew and inspector. My compliments on showing the efforts of each individual. Being on the footplate of a steam loco at speed is hard work but a lot of enjoyment, too! I suggest, however, that the title of this video should be changed as it is meaningless as it stands. Is it a drawbar pull of 2000 lb (the tension in the drawbar coupling) or is it 2000 drawbar hp (the power available to pull the train behind the loco)?

I saw someone with no hv 😂😂

The fireman would open and close doors as well as putting coal on. A hard job now when not doing it day in day out

FANTASTIC

A great video.

Loco and crew both working for a living and (I suspect) lolving it. Possibly the fireman not so much!

Some subtitles as to what the driver was doing would have been helpful to the uninitiated like myself. Also, I thought that drivers stood on the left of the footplate (in order to see the signals).

It simply means 2,000hp - the "lb" is an error.

How this 2000 lbs actually measured.

They had proper steaming coal in those days!

Brilliant performance, despite the slip !!! I saw Clan Line on her first preservation vist to Statford on Avon. It took her twenty minutes to cross the canal bridge from the platform with nine on. A recording actually featured, edited, on one of Peter Hanfords steam records, published by Transaccord Argo records.

What it the black lever on the right the driver keeps opening/closing when starting away

Whats he got a shirt and tie on for-is he going out for dinner after!??!

Steam is measured in nominal horse power anyway.

Pass!

Great video, seen another video with the same run and footage but had a commentary talking over the top of the footage noise which I don't partially like that much, but with this one I can hear the engine working with no talking over the top of it, love this video.

When I worked on her that was the way I fired her, keep the back and sides up, she would steam all day, along with good Welsh coal. Pleasure working on her

What on earth does 2000lb drawbar horsepower mean!

Amazing video, I've seen pictures, but colour footage is much better, I was sadly born 6 years after they closed the railway line, but my mother used it regularly to go to school in Wadebridge and bodmin, such a shame 🫠 😢

What does the title mean?

Them ol ancient western engines are hard work with that darn great shovel & having to defy gravity to get it to fire hole door! & they don’t slip @ least that is wot I was told 😂 Give me a good ol unconverted Bulleid pacific any day, far easier to work for the enginemen, footplate well laid out, ride like a coach & shovel plate level with fire hole. Ol Mr Bulleid certainly knew wot he was about!! 😃

0.42 ..had never seen a footbridge at this level crossing (Cambois) before, till now !! 😁 👍🏻

That fire is virtually sucking the coal off the shovel,good burn going on there

I never tire of watching this video it's absolutely brilliant.

The 'GWR' crew seem to be making hard work in getting train away!!! Driver constantly 'wrestling' with the controls, even when under way, whilst the fireman seems to empty the tender, plus the fact the latter has a '3rd' man assisting with the firehole doors, snd attending to the injectors!!! Just for the 'film crew' or what???

Excellent

Fantastic video, it always gives me enjoyment seeing these clips, especially the way the Passengers and other bystanders wander around the track work, these days the Health and Safety Executive would be going into melt down. More videos like this please.

Incredible views. And to think all that once really existed before history's hatchet job on our cherished steam world. Back then railways made life worth living. That can hardly be said of them today.

Amazing views.

Great shots of Parkstone. Fantastic place for trainspotting on Summer Saturdays until 1962 when the S&D through holiday trains finished. Almost non-stop action. Not so good after that.