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Ian Docwra
Великобритания
Добавлен 11 мар 2012
Mainly railways (and then mainly steam) and wildlife.
'Britannia' Barks To Reigate.
The 'Sunset Steam Express' was again greeted by dull weather as it traversed the North Downs line on 23 July 2024, seen here between Buckland and Reigate. At Reigate, the level crossing is usually left open to road traffic until as late as possible, so its closure and signal clearance usually produces an effort from the steam loco being opened up and climbing to the station, in this case with 13 coaches and an idling class 47 diesel, amounting to the equivalent load of 16 coaches. Select 4K.
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Sunset, What Sunset?!
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The 'Sunset Steam Express' seen at Reigate on a dank evening after a day of heavy rain, headed by 70000 'Britannia'. View in 4K (shot in 8K).
Merstham 'Merchant'.
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The Kent circular 'Belmond Pullman' tour on 30 May 2024, seen at Merstham, Surrey on its return leg via Tonbridge and Redhill to London Victoria.
'28 Back On The Belmond.
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Bulleid 'Merchant Navy' pacific 35028 'Clan Line' on its first 'Belmond Pullman' working since heavy overhaul, seen powering away from Redhill on the return leg from Dover on 11 May 2024.
Steam At Sunset - 'After The Rain', Re-edited.
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In May 2022, Thompson B1 class 4-6-0 61306 'Mayflower' powers up Gomshall bank in Surrey with the 'Sunset Steam Express' after rain had cleared to golden sunshine. A re-edit of the original upload.
Fifty Years Of 'Clan Line' - 2024
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On 27 April 2024, Bulleid 'Merchant Navy' pacific 35028 'Clan Line' headed its first passenger working since a heavy overhaul. It was a train to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its first main line run in preservation. It ran from London Victoria to Bath, via the SWML, being given the rare honour of running fast line all the way from Wimbledon to Worting Junction. A flawless run westwards, b...
'Clan Line' Returns 2024
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On 22 April 2024, Bulleid 'Merchant Navy' pacific 35028 'Clan Line' operated a loaded test run from Stewarts Lane to Dover and back. The locomotive had just undergone a major overhaul and this was its first real test before running its 70th anniversary special on 27 April. The train is seen at Redhill, Surrey, having just traversed the line from Tonbridge.
A Very Late Start For 'Mayflower'!
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The empty stock for the 20 April 2024 tour with B1 class 61306 'Mayflower' from Horsham to Bristol ran extremely late from Southall to Horsham, owing to a line closure en route. Here it is seen near Dorking and at Warnham. Unfortunately, operator error meant the camera was set to HD rather than 8K, as I had previously set it to record a long video to see what our dog does when we are out and fo...
Christmas 2023 Railway Miscellany
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A small selection of railway scenes from pre-Christmas 2023 (centred around steam).
Steam Galore - 44871 On 'The Christmas Sussex Belle' At Coulsdon
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'Black Five' 44871 heads the Railway Touring Company's 'Christmas Sussex Belle' away from Purley and traverses Stoats Nest Junction to gain the Quarry line at Coulsdon on 6 December 2023. The mist and fog from overnight lifted just in time. The train ran from Victoria to Eastbourne, then to Hastings and back to Victoria. The loco's exhaust is huge in the cold air. Select 4K quality.
'Braunton' Fast Line to Bath
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The 28 November 2023 'Steam Dreams' run, to Bath from London Victoria via Wimbledon and Salisbury, is seen pounding down the fast line at Hersham, Surrey. Please visit my channel for more steam and various other films.
Auto-Focus Strikes Back! 'Braunton' to Bath.
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A rare westbound run along the North Downs line to Bath, with a more conventional eastbound return. The fickle Canon R5 auto-focus latched onto a small tree branch as 34046 approached - if I had wanted it to do that, it would have refused! Perhaps it serves me right for falling for the temptation to zoom out so far!
Disaster Not Included! - The 'Sunset Steam Express' Of 2023.
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The complete 2023 season's runs through Surrey of the 'Sunset Steam Express', a summer evening circular tour from London Victoria. The penultimate working (22 August) saw a catastrophic failure of the motion of BR 7MT pacific 70000 'Britannia' at Chilworth about ten minutes after my shot of it at Worplesdon, thus the final run was with Thompson B1 61306 'Mayflower', which also took a very unusu...
Minutes Before Disaster!
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The ill-fated 'Sunset Steam Express' of 22 August 2023, seen at speed shortly after sunset at Worplesdon about ten minutes before the catastrophic failure of the steam loco, 'Britannia', at Chilworth. There, when climbing the long bank to Gomshall, part of the motion broke, and the train came to an abrupt halt. The crew had to remove the offending, very heavy elements in the dark before the tra...
'Britannia' at dusk at Little London
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15 August 2023 - the 'Sunset Steam Express' heads through the Surrey hills, seen at Little London, near Shere. Extract from my forthcoming compilation of the whole 2023 season's runs.
'Sunset Steam Express' - Chilworth, 25 July 2023.
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'Sunset Steam Express' - Chilworth, 25 July 2023.
Woking Variety - Starring 34046 'Braunton'
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Woking Variety - Starring 34046 'Braunton'
'Steam Dreams' Christmas Workings - 2022
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'Steam Dreams' Christmas Workings - 2022
'Sunset Steam Express' - 12 July 2022
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'Sunset Steam Express' - 12 July 2022
She is a special loco.
Those wonderful sounds made by the powerful locomotive are fabulous!! More steam trains MUST be run on the ordinary railway, even if they’re specials.
Glorious sight, a great steam locomotive hauling a train of passengers and staff!!
❤ Beautiful train. It's summer and not so much steam.
Thanks for sharing these films. 1964-1968 were the years I spent travelling here most weekends to see these sights. So glad that your dad was in a position to film these times.
The J94 is by no means a weak locomotive, but gets simply smothered by a couple of brake vans, it shows how steep this incline was.
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Excellent Ian, and great to see the locals coming out and enjoy seeing the train, even on a gloomy evening. I think the damp conditions at dusk added to the atmosphere.
Brilliant video! I saw her at Byfleet & New Haw.
Glorious!! I love the Southern Railway!!
Thanks for posting, and the interesting historical landscape context at the end.
N/E what. England, Scotland, Wales, NI, UK ?
North east England.
Why it not say that @@iandocwra1169
@@colinmcgregor123 I think "BR North Eastern, 1966" describes it adequately for the target audience for the video. Others, of course, can easily look up the places mentioned.
Thankfully most folks nowadays mention the film is based in Scotland, Wales or Eire in the title @@iandocwra1169
Thankfully an awareness of Scoland , Wales and Eire railways is made obvious by adding the country name in the intro.... @@iandocwra1169
You can have any colour you like as long as it’s black 5s… Actually it’s good to see steam footage in colour after all the b/w archive stuff, so well done your dad. Beautifully filmed.
What a glorious sight!! Clan Line hauling a train of Pullman cars!! Very exciting!! Well seen and well done!!
Thank Ian, superb video from years ago, never went but saw many J94 on sheds
Is it going back on the Pullman service?
Yes - starting on 11 May.
Absolutely wonderful! You are so lucky! Thank you for sharing.
You wern't totally 'bowled' Ian, but very annoying all the same. You did really well considering though, and what a fabulous sight No.28 made!
Thanks, Jim - yes, it could have been worse, and I managed to make a feature of it! I had hoped to able to use the other platform but, if everything had run perfectly to time I would have had a stopping train sitting there as 35028 passed! As it turned out, that train was a minute and a half late so I would have been OK. It's the nature of the beast...
This is lovely news!! Clan Line has been worked on for years. It’s about time they got her back to streaming the VSOE Pullman cars!!
It is good news, but she's only been out for overhaul for about nine months, I think. Perhaps it seems longer...
!! What a shame... how annoying. It wasn't a total loss, though. 👍🏻
Waw, no diesel locomotive at the back this time.
Sounds like a Serious lack of Communication
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Great capture Ian! I nearly saw it, but didn’t get to the platform in time at Godstone. 3 x roadworks and a long diversion delayed me 🙄
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Nice vid. It's always good to see Clan Line. It was the first Merchant Navy Loco that I saw. From a bridge just outside Bournemouth station in the 60's while on a family holiday, so this brought a few memories back.
Thanks so much for sharing your Dads wonderful cine films........
Weekend engineering work - now there’s a fly in everybody’s ointment 😮
Indeed but it's very poor that the planners seemingly didn't know, and that the public information site 'National Rail Enquiries' doesn't have anything either!
What a gorgeous locomotive!! I wish I had been on one of the carriages behind her!!
Thanks for posting. Do you know what caused the blockage at Wimbledon?
No, but there is an engineering train at West Sutton so some form of work looks to be happening. I can't find any reference to engineering work or service disruption there, so it's a mystery so far.
For me see this material is fantastic.Thanks from Valencia .Spain.You have an great work, is a Jewell.
Great film. Reminds me of when my parents took me on holiday to Swanage in 1958, I was brought up on GWR but I well remember pulling into Salisbury and seeing Southern Region engines for the first time and, much to the consternation of my mother, as soon as the train stopped I was out and rushing up the platform to the newsagents to buy a Southern Region Ian Allan ABC. Since then I've always had a soft spot for the Southern. Great memories
Wonderfull footage
This video is sensational , probably one of the best covering late BR/SR steam out there
Great to see how it was before my time. Thankyou for sharing.
WHAT a fantastic film it really does capture something
Fabulous film. As a 1972 Dorking-born person this shows me a time I wasn’t part of but is no less fascinating to see with such clarity. A class 33 6:35 and a little bit of BR blue and yellow there!! Wonderful stuff thanks for sharing. People like your dad are to be celebrated for having such prescience filming something that at the time, I assume he just did because he liked trains, but turned out to be a fascinating historical document!
Your father captured great sequences here, thank you. Ah, the architectural gem that was Basingstoke Power Box...not!
Very interesting, thanks. Apparently this was just two years before BR phased out steam engines. 🙏
great footage, thanks for sharing
I at class 2 tank, 41312, is now resident on the Watercress Line
Lovely video Ian. I was working from home, so only got to see it at Purley Oaks. Was a bit concerned when I saw there was a freight train approaching on the Up Slow - to be 'bowled' on a strike day wouldn't have been good!
Well done, dealing with the murk! Atmospheric or what?
Had all the Bulleid Pacifics had their name plates removed by BR, or had they been stolen by souvenir hunters? All the name plates seem to be missing.
Most had been removed by BR I believe.
Beautiful piece of filming, very atmospheric.
Nice video Ian :)
Dear oh dear…safety valves roaring, diesel shoving on rear…what a shambles.
Hmm. The safety valves were lifted, but, on a very busy main line such as this, to fit in with service trains effectively, steam workings need to be smartly operated. There was a diesel at the rear anyway to take the train from its reversal at Salisbury to Bath, and some assistance to get up to speed is sometimes needed, especially as it was four minutes late on an intensively-used line. We all wish that all steam runs were unassisted but the reality is that it can only be achieved under some circumstances. At least the diesel was a green 47 which used to work with Bulleids in 1966 and 1967 on the SWML. Shortly after this scene, the 47 cut out and 34046 was on her own (with, let's not forget, the equivalent weight of 15 coaches).
Fantastic shot! I saw her at West Byfleet.
Probably watching porn.
Finally caught up with this. It really came out very well.