Cars wait as 'new' steam locomotive crosses main road in busy town 🚗 🚗 🚗
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Ramsbottom on the East Lancashire Railway was the scene as a steam loco, completed in 2019, crossed the main street, with cars waiting at the level crossing.
GWR 2900 "Saint" Class No. 2999 Lady of Legend is a 4-6-0 steam locomotive. It was based on the frames and boiler of 4900 "Hall" Class No. 4942 Maindy Hall, and was mostly constructed at Didcot Railway Centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire, where it is now based. Described as "building the 78th Saint", the project started in the 1970s to look at building a new 'Saint', since none of the original class-members were preserved.
#ELR #steamtrain
Always a privilege to watch a steam loco.
In the age of steam when we arrived at London terminals, I always used to say thank you to the driver and fireman.
It never ceased to impress me that the great heavy train had travelled many miles at speed by the efforts of one man shovelling coal.
My father was a driver on the LMS out of Birmingham before during and after WW2
On long express runs decent drivers did help with the firing.
I still do thank the drivers whenever I catch a train, it's the least I can do.
@@haroldpearson6025 Perhaps I was one of his passengers 🤔
The old grimy wooden New Street Station was the start of many an exciting steam journey to London when I was a child. The sound of taking on water at speed and feeling the heat of the engine as we walked past the locomotive at the end of the platform are particularly eclectic memories. ❤️
@@haroldpearson6025 Perhaps I was one of his passengers 🤔
The old grimy wooden New Street Station was the start of many an exciting steam journey to London when I was a child. The sound of taking on water at speed and feeling the heat of the engine as we walked past the locomotive at the end of the platform are particularly eclectic memories. ❤️
I for one applaud the delay to cars _in this instance_ as their occupants were entirely privileged to witness this glorious sight, and I say that as a Southern man through and through.
Did Neil Young sing about you?
@@pete6645 pfft Canuck upstart
I totally agree with your comment , from an LNER man.
The craftsmanship involved in making that locomotive probably contains more intelligence and wisdom than all those car drivers put together.
Excuse the ignorance of rest of us, but can someone please explain what Southern, LNER, etc are.
Steam Renaissance is happening in America.I wish all the same to all of you in the United Kingdom! Your locomotives have a princely magnificent design!😀
As a kid I was terrified of the noise, when close up to these monsters, funny that I ended up as a fire man on the foot plate, this video summons every thing the beauty of steam locomotives.
I helped reinstate that level crossing and the signals in the late 1980’s, good to see it all still working well. The first visiting GW loco we had to cut back a lot of the platform edge so it would fit through!
thanks for that, it's always nice to see the crossing whenever I'm in town.
The Brightline highspeed train on Florida's east coast needs this kind of crossing gate.
The train route has the worst record for killing people when they try to cross when signaled not to.
Both pedestrians and vehicles.
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Steam is a glorious thing with its grit and its grime and its whistles that chime.
when i was a kid every train was steam, to go anywhere it was by train, shopping in town, the beach, it was steam train, I miss the sounds of them, steam letting off through the funnels, the clanking of the chains and slamming of the doors, the whistle, and "all aboard" the smell of steam and oil and coal, they were alive and everyone wanted to be train driver, then later an astronaut with the apollo age, but the steam age is best IMO
What a gem of a location. Signal box in the town centre, with original crossing gates!!! Must go there.
Ramsbottom also where the black pudding tossing championship is held!
LIVED ALL MY LIFE NEAR THE LINE , as kids it was a great adventure to walk along the lines when trains didn't run on a sunday ( weekdays were only an occasional coal train anyway ) furthest we got was rammy and in the 70s nothing was open but the newsagent to get a drink before taking a different off road walk home , used to kill a full day and you slept at night
Where is Ramsbottom please?
Beautiful engine!
Thankyou for sharing.
Interesting that the traffic at this level crossing is controlled by conventional traffic lights and not by the usual flashing red wig-wag lights.
Its why I love steam locos , sound and look like a living thing.
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A saint at work. What a glorious sight. Mr Churchward’s standardisation of parts proves to be a winner.
This was an everyday occurrence at towns and villages across the country at one time so it's nice to see this reminder of a slower age.
Wonderful Locamotive. I also love the old crossing gate's. Fun video. 😁
That beautiful thumping chug chug chug is just spine tingling…..🥰🚂
So evocative in its sight and sound - taking me back to the steam days of my 1950s youth when I used
Bath Spa station as a schoolboy and would hang around for the up "Merchant Venturer" before I headed
for home.
Absolutely beautiful, love seeing a steam engine. And those full barriers should be everywhere
Wonderful!
I was raised as a boy in Ramsbottom after WWII: it's a lovely place.
For about a year I travelled on the steam train to grammar school in Bury. The sounds of the engine in the video were very familiar to me and reminded me of the smell emanating from the steam engine. Happy, happy days!
Ah - what a beautiful sight!! Silly Sadique would have a fit if this ventured near "his" London!!
Ramsbottom always reminds of 'yond snake' from the original 'Sooty and Sweep' . Love the old fully- gated level crossing and of course the lady herself.
Fabulous👏👏👏
2999 L of L - The Personification of a GWR Loco - Looks and Sounds Fab - Nice Vid thanks 🙏🏻✨
Nothing better than sitting on Bridgnorth station platform on a summer evening with a pint listening to the engine cooling down.
Wonderful l love manned gates
Four days after this video was taken we had a ride on the Flying Scotsman which was visiting the East Lancs Railway as part of her centenary tour. We went up to Rawtenstall from Bury, and back, and we passed Lady of :Legend at one of the intermediate stations. A great day out, and a great location - apart from the preserved locos running on the line, there is also the Bury Transport Museum across the road. That has a lot of interesting stuff, including the A4 class Union of South Africa (same class as the Mallard), which I was amazed to see sitting there.
Curious to see the 2 shades of green on the tender, then realising it's condensation where the cold water is!
Al.
Wow! That's wonderful. I never saw a GWR saint but I built one in O-scale - Lady Disdain, a straight-frame saint like Lady of Legend.
I built a 4mm EM gauge Saint Bendict with drop down footplating and the Great Bear's bogie tender to which it was once attached. (That tender lasted a fair time, hitched to many engines).
Seeing this engine and a Tesla in the same shot is quite a thing.
Yes, the Saint has style and doesn't look like a blob
Only car sh@ggers will be turned on by the Tesla,I used to work at a place in Berkshire that made parts for Formula 1 cars and twice a saw employees rubbing themselves over the car and a few more stroking it
After the tespa is long dead , the 4-6-0 will still be running ... on fire ... the thing that destroys a tesla fastest .
Past and futuristic present side by side is quite something!
A site for sore eyes, "Bring back steam" I say.
A proper ship's-wheel operated level crossing? Hell yeah!
Nice “No expense spared” awning over the cab
Essential I would say in that neck of the woods. Surprised the sun was shining - always was raining whenever I visited
Watching the signalman turning the wheel to open the gates reminds of what I used to see at Crawley Town station, years ago. The line there also crosses the High Street.
Here they open them by hand. On a few they have a dedicated person simply there to man the crossing gates [Ashtown and Clonsilla in Dublin for example] but on other tracks the guardsman gets down and closes then opens the gates again after the train has gone through [on the Limerick to Ballybrophy line for example] but all are done manually. Lovely to see a new steam engine running.
That would have been Len working up in the signal box at Crawley? He was there in 1980 when it had lifting barriers but I think he’d been there a while before. I was a young Copper and it was a regular ’Tea Stop’ on that foot patrol Beat.
I was amazed at the speed the gates opened at. I'm sure they never used to travel as fast as those.
@@alunhoskins4513 I grew up in Crawley quite a long time ago, so I'm talking about the 1950's and early 1960's. I remember being taken to Redhill Station and seeing steam locomotives for the first time, being shunted around - this was on the main line - I must have been about four at the time and I was quite frightened by them. Of course later on I got used to seeing steam trains. I used to take the train to go to school in Brighton every morning from Three Bridges and the steam train was there waiting to go off to East Grinstead - we used to call it the Puffin' Billy.
Thanks for an excellent video Sarah, I'd never have thought of taking shots from where you are standing 😊 Ian
Brilliant! I can't remember steam, but I used to watch the great Deltics on the east coast main line when I was a schoolboy!
That was interesting, beautiful loco, didn't realize that other loco had been built recently, just Tornado, I understand there might be a few more, if so wonderful!
Saw Lady of Legend a couple of weeks ago, Beautiful engine.
I used to work near Ramsbottom back in the 90's, used to drive across that level crossing most days, its a great little town
Thanks, Sarah. I enjoyed that. 😊
Subbed.
Saw her last year on the SVR spring gala, beautiful.
What a lovely sight .Thankyou
Looking good. There was/is very little protection from the elements for the footplate crew on a GWR loco particularly when running tender first.
That's the lot of locomotive crews in the 19th to the early 20th centuries in the UK. You have to be a tough fellow to operate a locomotive in those days...
@@kristoffermangila I have been on the footplate as 'Third man' and you are correct.
Know it well...Tupsarse (Ramsbottom)‚ Lancashire. East Lands Railway. The crossing causes very little disruption at all.
"Rams-" stands for ramsons (which some folk call wild garlic), "bottom" means ground or terrain in a valley. So it's "the ground where the ramsons grows".
It looks very similar to the Middlesbrough to Saltburn line at Redcar Central Station & crossing. They finally got rid of the awful Pacer DMUs. Yes, there are occasional steam trains on this line.
Very nice video, LIKE.
The Lady of Legend. Welcome back.
The GWR 4-6-0s (Saints, Halls, Castles, etc) are my favorite steam engines ever.
Nothing more elegant! Thanks to Churchwood, Collett and the rest. Someone who is knowledgeable told me that the south wales coal they burn has higher calorific value than other British coals, and that allowed them to have smaller, tapered boilers. This is an important contribution to the aesthetic of the GWR locos.
@@hughtierneytierney3585 That's probably why Henry uses "special coal" ;) [that's a Thomas the Tank Engine reference]
@@zork999 indeed!
I’ve long said that the GWR had probably the best ten-wheelers.
Great video and thanks for sharing. Dave
Wonderful. Even those ancient carriages are an improvement on the junk we have to put up with in Wales, where just 2% of the network is electrified.
It's ridiculous that you still can't take a train from South Wales to North Wales without dipping back into England at least once. Investment needed ASAP.
Hardly seems 20+ years ago I was helping conserve the barry wreck of Maindy Hall ready for the conversion to begin to becoming a Saint!
She’s in fine shape!
Brilliant video Sarah.Well done.
she is looking good , what an achievement !
Glorious and an old signal box. I went through there on my way up to Yorkshire once as I remember stopping off in Bury.
Great video! It would be even better if they'd painted those 1960sn New Look Mk.1s in chocolate and cream ...
Lovely video with Steam locomotive and passenger train! Great work! Thumbs Up & Subscribe
Greetings from Dublin
Andrew
I am waiting for the fat controller to come out & Thomas the tank engine to appear.😂😊. Love the steam engines it is very nostalgic about the steam engines.
The juxtaposition of the Tesla and the steam loco at 2:55 is an interesting one!
Beautiful shots of Lady Of Legend. Was she named after you Sarah?
Classic shape of steam .Forever may it last .
Love the ELR. Great vid.
Time to slow down and appreciate the things around us
Great sound recording!
Unusual too see regular traffic lights at a level crossing as it's normally "Wigwams"
Recommissioning steam engines while the world burns. Gotta love the irony 😁
Come to Minehead we have our own steam trains and the longest track.
Looks like the boiler and firebox cladding has recently been repainted - there's now no lining on the bands.
🇺🇸 hello from Kansas
This proves steam is far .ore popular than it has ever been steam is king of the rails and will all ways be.
All that was needed was some half-wits to glue themselves to the rails for a perfect day out.
Do the engines still run on coal? I remember reading an article some years ago where they were working on a fuel that was environmentally friendly and they were hoping it would lead to steam trains returning and replacing the diesel and electric trains you see now but I have no idea if anything came of it. Love the train, dad used to have his own model trains - in the days when you built everything from scratch rather than buying the finished product - and they have always been a favourite of mine.
Yes they do, and no steam engines aren’t returning sadly, the difference in cost of maintaining between a boiler and a diesel engine is just too big
There are still efforts to develop more environmentally friendly fuels for steam locomotives, both solid fuels and liquids.
Remember watching a video of a lady getting really angry about this because "Steam trains arent relevant anymore!"
£1 million locomotive hauling £30 a piece carriages it seems.
So cool
I would KILL to be there in person
Don't let sidiq khan see that... He'll stick cameras on it and try to charge by mile.
Would like to have seen an old guards van on the rear.
Is this the one that has just been rebuilt to its earlier incarnation?
Time, day, date, location might have been handy information. I picked up location from other comments.
@ 1:47 The "wheezing" the long steamy sound ....Piston Rod Gland leaking....???????
Shame about the scruffy carriages, otherwise wonderful.
JML
Probably a case of getting the priorities right. Manpower as well. Engine first😊
For those clevers that think a diesel is cheaper , a diesel needs a full , top to bottom service every 28 service hours , a steam engine requires a wash out every 28 service says , do the MATHEMATICS of service expenditure , the diesel is a service ex a dead loss , due to a lack of skill , the rebuilding a steam engine every 10 years is slightly more expensive than the service expenditure during the same time , they just dont tell you of the 4 deisel rebuilds in between , its called politics , driven by those that want you to drive around in an electrified cremetorium .
Service Days , ie 24 hours , not the diesel's one and a bit days !!!!!
Dey drivin on de wrong side of de road.
Great comments but, where is it?
Ramsbottom, a town in East Lancashire.
Brilliant, but where was it.
Ramsbottom, a town in East Lancashire.
Is that locomotive really new, or restored?
Some of those coaches look a bit ratty.
No, the town road crosses a railway line.
Disgraceful coaches behind it, unreal
Where is this what type loco, when ?
Just read the information below the vid.
How much pollution does it put out like 200 cars worth,,,,lol
… but why the traffic lights?
To stop the traffic so the gates can shut, same as any barrier crossing
Before the lights were installed the signalman had to wait for a suitable gap in the traffic before opening the gates. The traffic on Bridge St. had become so heavy that at times it became impossible to find a gap in the traffic. There were also near misses when certain motorists tried to force their way through. The lights were installed about 15 years ago and operation of the box was transformed. The green to red and back to green sequences are triggered automatically by normal operation of the crossing gate control levers.
@@dereklund2321 Thank you Derek, that answer makes a lot of sense. Also many thanks for the info on how the lights are activated.
Unusual that they went for “traffic lights” and not the modern alarms and wig-wags as seen on automatic level crossings ~ this hasn’t even got an alarm
Churchward cabs were crap.
Churchward cabs certainly had a reputation for being Spartan. Compare the cabs of Collets Castles and Gresley's A1 as built, both built 1923. Collets were better, but not as good as Gresley's!
I can imagine it being a bloody nightmare to drive or fire in one of those things
Probably, on the protection scale, but they look right.
Soon in Britain we will be able to climb onto the roof of better still stand on the front of the locomotive/hang from the side....just like in other sh!thole countries.
Would get a nice tan in the summer on the roof 😂
nothing wrong with steam !
Quite agreee, the soot & steam emmited doesn't seem to kill trackside trees, they seem to thrive ! Dr B in those days said lines must close because the government has to prop up B.R £ one million , now your Third Reich has Britain on the verge of bankruptcy.
The Americans must accept Vladimir Putin's offer , North Korea are preparing for nuclear war against capitalism, not just that but 2 groups of expert Russian hackers can tell you in which offshore banks & how much tax free dosh their is , your thieving government has stolen € trillions , just think how many new locos that could build .We are a grandmother has left you a treasure to be safely mined with modern technology .Love these magnificent machines from the humble shunter to the King & Pacific class .Full steam ahead Britain from myself in Spain 🇪🇸.
How wonderful it shows that all modern things are the best