O Gauge Live Steam : Crewchester Sept 2023

Something to brighten up these dark evening with a reminder of warmer weather an live steam outside. In a pleasant day we ran on Crewchester for the second time in 2023. Of note was
William getting to grips with his coal fired Mikado,
A J27 running through the new high level avoiding line of Abbottsdene,
King Arthur running through Crewchester at record speed ( the crew had not been informed of the change of route!).
Thanks to Graham and William for use of their video clips.
Looking forward to more steaming in 2024
00:00 Intro
00:10 LNER Q5 - John
02:20 LSWR 700 - Graham
05:05 Green Knight - Tony
06:52 Mikado - William
08:50 GNR Atlantic - Dave
10:27 LNER J27 - John
13:57 LNER O5 - Rafe
16:08 Black Five - Richard
16:35 GNR Atlantic - John
18:20 West Country - Graham
20:48 LNER J36 - John
21:53 - Credits

[@1977ajax]

Bloody marvellous stuff.

[@glennwoods2462]

Great stuff.... awesome layout...
Great locos and rolling stock...
👍🙂🇳🇿✅

[@Porschedude8]

Excellent! 👍👍

[@bambukouk]

Thank you 👍

[@DrDave_63395]

You are welcome

[@physiocrat7143]

The guard's tea jug must have gone flying across the van round the curves at that speed. Nice sounds, nice rolling stock.

[@hawthornhedgerailway1575]

I would love to have 0 gauge live steam on my railway. I will be running my collection of Hornby live steam on the 00 gauge section of my garden railway. Thanks for subscribing to my channel.

[@DrDave_63395]

BTW we will be running O gauge live steam at the Gauge O Guild show in Kettering next weekend.

[@redtec5524]

Hey, how much water is in the boiler and tender, and how long can you run on it?

[@DrDave_63395]

The capacity really depends on the prototype. My LNER Q6 (NETTA) boiler has a 90ml capacity but I usually start with 50ml. The axel pump will raise the water level during the run. The tender is mainly water with a meths tank holding 65ml. The run is governed by the amount of meths at about 30 mins - by which time the lubricator needs topping up again. As you see from my videos, we also top up the water in the tender on the go.