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Thank you Dawn. I found this really interesting.

The original version of the Stephenson bridge is across the river Conwy. It is shorter than the Britania Bridge, but still in the original form, and still in use. I think that it is listed, and CADW have something to do with it. The Britania Bridge is now not enough for the amount of traffic using the road deck, but the rail deck was opened as single track, and remained single track ever since.

The rail bridge by Conwy Castle is a mini version of the original bridge

Designed by Husband & Co of Sheffield, worked on the bridge and the road network.

The towers were built to include chains but were not needed

The rocks were called the brittania rocks hence the name 😊

05:39: This picture was not taken in Great Britain. The car transport wagons are carriages of the former Deutsche Bundesbahn, recognizable by the German lettering. The picture was probably taken in Hamburg Central Station. In the background you can see advertising for a carpet shop in Elmshorn. 07:21: This picture is also not from Great Britain. The signals are German main and distant signals and in the background you can see a class 294 (diesel locomotive).

Wow! So much history in plain sight. Thanks for posting and looking forward to your next one.

Really excellent! Thank you.

Did a rail grinding course at RTC. My company even had the track maintenance contract at one point but it was before I joined them

Head codes are still used to this day . In the form of a four digit letter and number code allocated to every train movement on the network. In the sixties diesel locomotives would display this number on the front , that’s why older diesels were built with headcode boxes. If a train driver has to communicate with a signal man through the s.p.t or g.s.m.r , he will first quote the headcode number of the train he is operating that way the signal man can instantly identify that exact train.

SO this must be where the "Flying Banana" is stabled. Another superb video. thankyou

hoary! it's my town!

I loved video this Dawn and please do some more. The video is well presented and shows the time and effort you've put into it. Thank you

"Could do no more than whistle in distress"?? "With an almighty roar the cylinder heads exploded"?

Named locomotives in North America are not rare but not common either. Normally passenger cars, like sleepers and diners, or business cars carry names. Back in the 1800's several railroads did have locos named after company officials' or places the railroad passed through. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad had a class of steam locomotives named after American presidents. The Frisco Railroad named their passenger diesels after race horses. In Canada the shortline railway, Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia back in the 90's early 2000's had diesel locos named after a few writers, poets, and Canadian prime ministers. A few Writers names were Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Gault, Sir Richard Maitland and Prime Ministers like Sir John A Macdonald, Sir Charles Tupper and Sir Robert Laird Borden. Sadly CB&CNS no longer name their locomotives.

The question really ought to be when and why locomotives acquired numbers - the pioneer engines in most countries had names only, mostly derived from the horses and stagecoaches they replaced.

The GWR originally did not have numbers, merely the names. I like the almost unthinking selection such as Terrible (after a naval ship?) and the GW's absorbed loco, Slaughter (named after the builders). As to the LNER I do think the powerful A3 Pretty Polly was such a cute name. The LNWR had a Psyche but engine crew had difficulty with this and it was known variously as 'Fish' or 'Pish'. It was supposed that the GW's Flower class bore names taken from Churchward's own garden (such as Stephanotis).

In summary, loco names have an eclectic - and sometimes eccentric - but always an interesting mix of sources. Apparently all the B17 Football team names were offered to the relevant clubs when they were scrapped. Yes, more please!

Many thanks for another interesting video

Because humans will pack-bond with anything.

interesting video as always! =D

The Time Police and Jodi Taylor brought me here

I had no idea that the North Western Railway was also a REAL railway, I thought it was fictional. I like your videos by the way, the Abbot's Ripton one is my favourite

Well done! The politics behind it I read in FSWilliams' 'Midland Railway' and that chapter itself I had to digest more than once. I lived next door in the 1960s to one who worked in the ticket office at Clapham (ahem, Jct) and I have a slide of the LMS bar and circle cast nameboard as I passed through Clapham in the late 1960s.

i will amite i thought this was going to be a NWR episode but it nice to know there was a real NWR also since we now have a labour government now would love to hear what 5 railway lines you would like to see reopen in next 10 year

The only one left with the original height of all the fittings

I am eating and enjoying a Cadburys Milk Chocolate bar watching this.

Our railway heritage locomotives should have been taken more seriously, albeit just one of each class, and not unceremoniously be scrapped to rid ourselves of each design.

Thank you both for an excellent interview. Feels very positive from where I am.

One question and one question only: Is this engine worthy of becoming a Thomas character?

I would love to see her be returned to steam and base on bluebell railway would be right at home

Fascinating video - thank you!

In the US,Sperry Rail Service,has been giving rolling inspections of railroads for years! Also,now,Loram,and Herzog,are in the rail inspections industry!! Many railroads also have track geometry cars,such as the Long Island,Norfolk Southern,Union Pacific,and they are,like the current British system,always on the move! Oh,forgot,the JR has a flying Banana on the Shinkashin routes! Thank you 😇 😊!

Saw the "Flying Banana" pass through Leagrave, heading North one afternoon.

Err, should the location of the broken track be south of the incident site as the train was heading for Leeds?

In late 1970s/early 1980s BR had a high speed track recording coach in a Mk2F coach shell plus a small fleet of other track recording coaches in pre-nationalisation era coaches.

According to my knowledge the next big jump in dynamometer coach technology was achieved in 1983 by the South African Railways with a system that could measure in real time intrain forces of up to 2 500 kilonewton as well as other relevant parameters at six discrete points in trains of up 2 500 metres in length. During 1989 this system was pushed to a further limit of measuring forces over a train length of more than 7 000 metres during an investigation of the possibility of such train lengths.

I enjoyed the history of Slough station and lots I never realised about. Yes Slough is a lovely station. I live near Slough and locally it's called Sluff.

Excellent ! Really, you deserve more subscribers. Well researched and fascinating. Thanks.

Nice vid, shame such an interesting station is in a place like Slough

Brilliant video, as always! Last autumn, I had been traveling around England and Scotland on my BritRail pass. On my last day, I had time before my flight and a day left on the pass. Since my hotel was close to Paddington, and I hadn’t been on GWR this trip, I decided to take a quick RT to Reading just to say I rode the line. Pulling into Slough, I saw the station building and quickly jumped off to check it out. Enjoyed my short visit! Then took another train heading west to complete my trip. Looking forward to your next video!

The diesel is static at statfold barn.

i remember the chocolate train from somerdale keynsham going to bath pulled by a class 25 and the carnivals in frys ground it is a chocolate quarter now with houses etc

Хватит Гулять , Пора Работать , Вазвращайся В Россию ! Марс И Сникерс Хорошо Себя Чувствуют ....! 💝🍬🍫

Enjoyed my chocolate. My personal favourite hazelnut,and my late mother Bournville dark chocolate,and my late father favourite was Ja mica rum.also my late auntie and uncle worked at CADBURY, we free chocolate. When we visited my late grandmother

That's me and my old horse Truman in the last photograph, now I live in Somerset with my Railway Horse and Cartage Collection dedicated to the memory of the horses that worked for the railways.