5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe demolishes the 1/37 Lickey Incline! | The Shakespeare Express | 30/6/24
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- Today's video is again of my favourite locomotive, GWR Castle Class 4-6-0 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, which certainly didn't disappoint! She was hauling Vintage Trains' the Shakespeare Express from Worcester Shrub Hill to Stratford Upon Avon! Vintage Trains' 2024 Shakespeare Express has seen operations expanded to Derby, Worcester and Leicester! This is the second of which; originating in Worcester, the tour went via Bromsgrove and the Lickey Incline to Birmingham and then onwards to Stratford via Solihull and Dorridge. The tour then did its afternoon circular to Birmingham and back, both out (smokebox first) and return (tender first) via Dorridge. The tour then went via the North Warwicks Line through Henley in Arden back to Birmingham and back to Worcester via Stourbridge. With overcast weather forecasted, we didn't expect much with the lighting at all locations.
The tour is seen at Vigo on the Lickey Incline and Widney Manor on the first return, the second return sadly had to be abandoned because I was hosting a party to watch England play Slovakia in the Euro 2024 quarter finals, a game which we subsequently won (albeit with great difficulty lol)! Because the Sunday timetable on the UK rail network is so shocking, this one required some out of the box thinking in order to get to my locations!
I started out from Solihull on the 76 bus, travelling to Selly Oak on the Cross City line to catch the 9:13, the earliest train of the day toward Bromsgrove. From Barnt Green I walked down to the Lickey, good to meet @LiamsLocos, @blackcountrysteamvideos8021 ,@GreatBritishRailways1, @AndysSteamAdventures and @FullSteamAhead at Vigo! 5043 didn't do her planned Bromsgrove stop and instead rocketed up the incline with the 47 giving a hefty shove - I'd still say the majority of the effort was off 5043 though. After that it was a walk back to Barnt Green, taking the 11:48 one stop to Longbridge and then catching the 49 bus back to Solihull. This allowed me to get to Widney Manor, where I met @harnettyrailways for 5043 to absolutely rip through the station giving it the full beans! After that I did have to call it a day and host the party back home.
Thanks to all who made this possible as always, the video would completely unfeasible without everyone that I mention! This includes NR for their reduction of the fire risk caution level, WMR for the trains, NX West Mids for the 76 and 49 busses and of course VT and the mighty 5043 as well as her fantastic crew. Thanks also to my company. I hope you enjoy as I did!
Thanks for catching up again Dan! Superb shots from you mate!!
Cheers Liam, glad you should think so mate! Roll on the next one. Regards, Dan
Many thanks for posting, another great video. And after very tense 95 minutes , the England game and party had a happy ending too!
Haha thank you very much! Yes the party went well and somehow we are still in the tournament even now lol! Regards, Dan
It was lovely to hear the Steamer's revs dropping slowly, as it passed Vigo, even with the '47' giving it a bit of a push up the Bank. My Grandson and I have spent many happy hours watching trains at VIgo. When I was a lad (late 50s) my mates and I used to gather on the big embankment, right near the top of the 'Bank' (up side) and before the (now long gone) Blackwell Station. Happy days!
Most certainly! Vigo would have been an even more impressive location back then I'll bet! Thanks for sharing your story! Regards, Dan
Great video, good to see you at the incline. Loved the Widney Manor Station shot, my favourite local place to capture normally tbf
Cheers Andy, same to you mate! Widney Manor is very often a great spot as you rightly point out. Regards, Dan
@@crunchynutsteamfilms5043 got me plans for Sunday 14th I think for my next adventures 🙂
I fancy that green parcels van at the back was doing a bit too.
Evidence?
Shame the kettle, couldn't be trusted to set fire to the lineside
@@SWRural-fk2ub the thrash.
Haha I wish it were a parcels van lol! Yes it was giving some but less than I expected in retrospect. Regards, Dan
I guessed you'd be there Dan and another nice couple of shot's on your unusually short day Lol..... That must be Khazakstan coal VT are using, I had a couple of 'smokey shots' too!!
Regards,Brian.
@@SYKAROST thanks Brian. Didn't think diesel was imported from Kazakhstan though?
Cheers Brian, and yes it was very smoky about lol! You had quite a more impressive haul than me shots wise lol. Regards, Dan
Who needs football parties, when steamies are hard at work? I would have abandoned the party, rather than Earl of Mount Edgcumbe on the run.
@@kellyashfordtrains2642 steam.loco wasn't hard at work - 47 on the back was doing everything. Just drop the steam loco into a low gear and makes it sound much more emphatic than it actually is.
@@PolishThatHandle346 Evidence ?
@@SWRural-fk2ub of what? That load 8 is too heavy for a Castle to lift unassisted on a 1 in 37 incline?
Haha I do have my commitments though and am not about to drop my mates in the rubbish for 5043 which I am thankfully able to see often lol. Regards, Dan
Hardly demolished when the 47 was shoving it up there.
I've had a fair few comments of the sort but I'd highly recommend you go to the incline to see these things for yourself - yes the diesel was working but not as hard as the Castle. Regards, Dan
Nonsense. It's there to turn carriages around.
47 on the rear is practically doing all the work - 5043s a show pony at that point, all first notch to look good. Such a shame - pretty sure we've seen the last actual climb of the incline by steam
Please don't be so negative. You can clearly hear the Castle is working resonably hard, there's also another video showing the water injector going full pelt so clearly the engine is not idling. There's also an orange fire alert and considering the incidents in the south west it's only sensible to show some restraint, unless we want steam banned from the mainline forever
@@AndrewHatton85 why would the water injector be an indication of how hard the locos working? If you drove your car in first gear hard enough it would also give a decent sound despite moving at relatively slow speed. Appreciate the fire concerns but the weather isn't really the issue here - a single Castle would never shift load 8 up the incline unassisted anyway so was always going to be banked. Appreciate that's been done to sell tickets but it's pretty inevitable that a banker or double heading would have always been needed regardless of the weather and rail condition. Just more that it's a diesel banker again and again working pretty full out in support (see the GB tour with 44871 and 45407 as well as 60103 for recent examples of overloaded trains). It's more that the maths would never be mathing than me being negative
@@PolishThatHandle346 Still no evidence.
Hoestly mate not sure what you want to see, you admit that any train going up there needs banking. So you want to see steam banking the train? Just not econimical for anything other than a real special occasion. The boiler is a zero-sum system, water goes in and it comes out. You can't just open the injector forever unless you want to flood it. So it is an indication to some exttent that the loco is working.
As someone who produces nothing, if some of us didn't put the effort in to record these events you'd have nothing to whine about. Your comment appears on others videos but is totally contradictory. It needs a banker but you feel entitled to dictate the effort needed Lol. Perhaps you'd rather see 5043 labouring with the equivelent of another 3 coaches, wasting coal & water and the fireman having to sweat a little more. Just accept how fortunate we are to still have so much main line steam on the front and that others are doing there best to record it for your 'entertainment'!!