When I was much, much, _much_ younger I had a friend who was a BR driver. One day I scored a trip with him; 836 tons of Avgas out of Fawley Refinery for Bournemouth (Airport, I guess), pulled by non other than 33109. Thanks for a half-forgotten memory!
It's everyone's favorite ELR Trainspotter video of the year :D My favorite of the diseasels would definitely be the Hymek! Steam would be SNG and the Jinty, fantastic controlled ascents from both! Great compilation Harry and best wishes for the new year. Cheers Aadil
When I was a trainspotting in 1940's/50s I hardly ever saw the blasting of steam from a departing locomotive and even then it was only for a few seconds. Such a waste of energy. Synically, someone once said it was done to spoil the lineside photographers view??.
@@ELRTrainspotter So... The coal-pusher would not be possible as the tender draw-gear would probably make fitting a coal-pusher impossible. Unless the locomotive & tender each have buffers...... Ex Longmoor Military Railway 'Foggia'. Then after rebuild to Gas Producer type allocated new number of 3883. It then spent 11 years at Maesteg in Wales. By the late 1960's it had lost the gas producer system. It is pictured with a standard chimney.
The first one 7000 was a bloody mess both driver and fireman should be taken off the roster and retrained. the best double act the ELR ever had was Malcolm Frost and a good mate of mine Nigel Barns. I thought the ramp was going to kill the Castle. The 37 Tractor came up tidy and unfussed but the overall winner was the Jinty ( Sir Mighty Mouse ).
It was a driver experience, and they were having issues with the water, hence the fireman’s struggles. So please don’t make comments on things you don’t know the full context behind.
@@ELRTrainspotter On a bank like that the ELR driver would have been at the controls and also both driver and fireman are still in charge of the train and the safety of it and the two persons on footplate experience. So what part of the water issue did they have that caused the cylinder drain cocks to be fully open losing steam and power and the firebox to be grossly overcoaled taking away the full heat from the fire and also i might be wrong on this but the fireman looked like he had been messing about with the water injector valves, not an ideal time to be topping the boiler up when the loco is slipping and not far from stalling.
@ElmtreeLine So Mr Expert how long have you been driving for BR before you retired, so can you give me and all the viewers of this clip your take on of why it was beltching out all that black smoke from the chimney, why was is steam safety valves were not whispering and why he was injecting water in the boiler at that critical stage. Also why did the driver pull out of the platform a mile or so back knowing that the fire was not coaled light, not full steam pressure and boiler not at three quarters full.
For me, the Jinty wins the day! Her crew knew exactly how to master the bank.
When I was much, much, _much_ younger I had a friend who was a BR driver. One day I scored a trip with him; 836 tons of Avgas out of Fawley Refinery for Bournemouth (Airport, I guess), pulled by non other than 33109. Thanks for a half-forgotten memory!
No worries, lovely memory to have!!
Imagine living in thenmm houses I'd be in heaven
the first one of britannia is by far my favourite with the cylinders on
It's everyone's favorite ELR Trainspotter video of the year :D
My favorite of the diseasels would definitely be the Hymek!
Steam would be SNG and the Jinty, fantastic controlled ascents from both!
Great compilation Harry and best wishes for the new year.
Cheers
Aadil
Jinty won on sheer guts!!! 2890 close second. 😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍
And small wheels!😉
Nice
Good video :)
The diesels ascended the gradient much more easily than the steamers
As you’d expect with the added power!
I rode behind Britannia and Sir Nigel earlier this year. Video on my channel.
I understand that 2890 was a rebuild of an austerity saddle tank.
Indeed it was!
When I was a trainspotting in 1940's/50s I hardly ever saw the blasting of steam from a departing locomotive and even then it was only for a few seconds. Such a waste of energy. Synically, someone once said it was done to spoil the lineside photographers view??.
Excuse me but 2890 looks like a kit-bashed Austerity, (to me anyway). I welcome the Full-House version with full 'Kylepor' exhaust & coal-pusher.
No problem, it is a “kit bashed” austerity!
@@ELRTrainspotter So... The coal-pusher would not be possible as the tender draw-gear would probably make fitting a coal-pusher impossible. Unless the locomotive & tender each have buffers......
Ex Longmoor Military Railway 'Foggia'. Then after rebuild to Gas Producer type allocated new number of 3883.
It then spent 11 years at Maesteg in Wales. By the late 1960's it had lost the gas producer system. It is pictured with a standard chimney.
The first one 7000 was a bloody mess both driver and fireman should be taken off the roster and retrained. the best double act the ELR ever had was Malcolm Frost and a good mate of mine Nigel Barns. I thought the ramp was going to kill the Castle. The 37 Tractor came up tidy and unfussed but the overall winner was the Jinty ( Sir Mighty Mouse ).
It was a driver experience, and they were having issues with the water, hence the fireman’s struggles. So please don’t make comments on things you don’t know the full context behind.
@@ELRTrainspotter On a bank like that the ELR driver would have been at the controls and also both driver and fireman are still in charge of the train and the safety of it and the two persons on footplate experience. So what part of the water issue did they have that caused the cylinder drain cocks to be fully open losing steam and power and the firebox to be grossly overcoaled taking away the full heat from the fire and also i might be wrong on this but the fireman looked like he had been messing about with the water injector valves, not an ideal time to be topping the boiler up when the loco is slipping and not far from stalling.
You get a much finer regulator control with the drain cocks open, slow and steady appeared to work fine, whatever your smoking is fogging your brain.
@ElmtreeLine So Mr Expert how long have you been driving for BR before you retired, so can you give me and all the viewers of this clip your take on of why it was beltching out all that black smoke from the chimney, why was is steam safety valves were not whispering and why he was injecting water in the boiler at that critical stage. Also why did the driver pull out of the platform a mile or so back knowing that the fire was not coaled light, not full steam pressure and boiler not at three quarters full.