Two steam beauties at Reading Station 16/09/2023
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- This was a fun evening, LMS Jubilee class 45596 "Bahamas" & SR west country class 34046 "Braunton" seeing two for the price of one, the fun of rushing from one platform to the other to catch the locos in time! ☺️
here is my footage of this glorious pair, I hope you enjoy 🚂
The restoration job of Braunton is incredible..
It is! Kind of hard to believe she used to look like a spam can! 😮
Didn't Britain build some beautiful steam engines so elegant I'm beautiful. Britain at its best 🇬🇧
beautiful
Wonderful. You've got the lighting and the atmosphere just right - you could feel it was a could winter's evening at a very modern station.
I'm so glad 😊
Excellent ideo of two great steamers, both immaculate and pulling big loads. Happy days
Thank you so much! They'll be more videos this year 😊
I was a regular on platform 4,5/6 Inthe early sixties. This brings back those days, thank you
Not a problem! More videos to come! 😊
Fabulous video!
Thank you! Glad you like!
Wonderful! Especially the rebuilt West Country - the epitome of steam engine design in my opinion (along with the Merchant Navies, of course). I can't believe its now almost 60 years since I used to watch these thundering through my local station, pulling the Atlantic Coast Express...
She's the favourite of mine, got a tattoo of her one leg 😂 she's beautiful!
I wish I could of seen steam in the 50s ❤
@@RailwayGirl97 it was actually the 60s for me - I'm not that old! So it was the tail end of steam, although I didn't fully appreciate it then. It seemed to happen very suddenly in 67 - one day there were steam engines every where, the next none. Quite a shock - I knew they were on their way out but just assumed it would take 10 years or so.
Although, on the Southern Region, local trains had been electric for so long, that steam wasn't that common, even then - just the expresses and some goods trains. Elsewhere in the country there were still a lot of local steam services, so it might have lingered longer there.
It was worth seeing though - one of those West Countries at full speed through the local station was terrifying! They made a fantastic noise. If you stand on Reading station when one in the high-speed trains go through it's pretty amazing, but imagine that with all the noise and steam and smoke!
I do prefer the rebuilt locos too; I understand the whole "spam can" design ethos, but just never did it for me. Same with the LMS streamliners; preferred them "raw" 😄
@@paulhicks6667 I'm planning to see Clan line this year! And yes! Castles are just... 🤤
You're right. Much as I love my diesels, it's nice when there isn't one on the back.
Absolutely
Great video excellent footage two good captures there , you can't beat a couple of immaculate " Kettles " well done stay safe a t b syd👍
Thank you so much! ❤
Brilliant video of them two beauties nothing else like a Steam Train all iron and steel brass and copper no plastic in sight magnificent roll on the spring and summer for some more
Absolutely! ❤
Just found your channel through recommendation from RUclips. Great footage considering you're using a phone. Subscribed in the hope you upload more like this. Thanks and good luck with the channel. Si.
Oh, there will be plenty more videos like this during 2024! Just need to wait for the rail tours to start up again! Thank you so much for your support! 😊
Great video Hannah :)
I'm glad you like it! 😊
Thanks Hannah!
No problem 😊
Great video, thank you.
You are very welcome!
Great video Hannah. Kind regards, Jake.
Thank you! ❤
Instantly subscribing 😊
@@RailwayGirl97 Your welcome. 🙂
The quality of the video was the best I have come across on youtube, especially in the dark, what camera do you use, I may have to do some saving.
Are you serious? Because I only use a Samsung A51 phone camera! 😮 x
Wow@@RailwayGirl97
Glad you like it! 😊
Great Vlog. did I miss where this was.?
It's at Reading hun, in the title 😀
doh.@@RailwayGirl97
Yes.... I agree, I think it's a bit of a let down when there is a diesel on the back.
I am not too sure if these are there as a precaution if the steam loco was to fail or if they are there for added traction?
Someone out there may be able to shed some light here?
It is a shame but it's usually to push the steam loco out of the way IF it were to fail so it doesn't disrupt usual mainline trains, but can also "assist" if the steam locomotive is struggling for whatever reason
आईं लव स्टीम इंजन ❤, ये कहां का सीन है कौन सी जगह कौन सा स्टेशन कौन सा शहर है जो इस धरोहर इंजन को जीवित रखा है! राम
This is Reading Station. The two steam locomotives are 45696 Bahamas and 34046 Braunton ❤
Beautiful engines. By the way, why were Belpaire fireboxes so popular in Britain? No criticism, just curious.
I'm still learning the names of some things, obvioisly i know what a firebox is but, what do you mean? 😂
The square topped fireboxes are Belpaire type, but on the LINER the fireboxes were round-top. Belpaires have better water circulation, but at the expense of extra internal staying.
One odd thing I've only just realised is that the blower mechanism that blows exhaust steam up the chimney to draw the fire (the thing that gives engines their typical 'chuff chuff' sound!) isn't linked to the speed of the engine. I'd always assumed it was directly linked to the driving mechanism, but, as that first engine pulling away clearly shows, it isn't. I suppose this is logical, if you think about it, as you'd want the fire to draw better as you were pulling away. Presumably, the driver must be able to control this separately? Weird that it's taken me so long to notice this!
Absolutely, I thought that when I saw Bahamas for the first time!
The blower is simply a small pipe from the boiler that goes into the smokebox low down where it is then directed up the chimney. A valve in the cab is used to turn on and control the amount of steam blowing up the chimney. Inside to smokebox the air pressure is reduced causing air to be drawn through the fire making it burn hotter and therefore make more steam. so what you listen for is a constant sound, not a chuff chuff. The blower is on at 1:00 as the locomotive begins to move. At 4:42 on Braunton a chuff chuff sound is heard starting just before the train moves away, this is the exhaust from an air pump going up the chimney. With steam locomotives it is easy to create a vacuum and because of that we fitted vacuum brakes to our trains, but with a diesel it is easier to compress air so we changed over to ait brakes, the problem then was our steam locomotives could not run with the converted and new trains, the solution was to fit an air pump like they had done in other countries many years ago. These make the chuff chuff sound we hear as they pump air into the system to release the brakes.
@@cedarcam thanks for that - very comprehensive.
@@paulhaynes8045 That's OK I saw after my reply you lived in London as a youngster. So did I and just remember the last of the steam there myself. I remember the Golden Arrow passing our train probably hauled by William Shakespeare as I have seen they kept that loco cleaned for that train.
i chose two consequetive days to spend at woking during the summer of 1965 to see the rebuilt bulleids (jarvis) for the first time ever... To say i was thrilled was an understatement..... never forget