Exploring the Mighty GWR Castle Class: GWR's Steam Locomotive Legacy
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Immerse yourself in the captivating world of Castle Class steam locomotives, an iconic symbol of the Great Western Railway (GWR). In this comprehensive documentary, we'll delve into the history, design, and engineering feats behind these magnificent machines, showcasing their distinctive 4-6-0 wheel arrangement and Swindon railway works heritage. Discover how the Castle Class locomotives revolutionized rail travel in the early 20th century, with their powerful performance and elegant design earning them a special place in the hearts of train enthusiasts around the world. Follow us as we embark on picturesque vintage railway journeys aboard preserved Castle Class engines, revealing the remarkable story of these classic trains and their lasting impact on the railway industry. Uncover the secrets of GWR's enduring steam locomotive legacy in this unforgettable adventure. #CastleClassLocomotives #GWRSteamEngines #GreatWesternRailway #SwindonRailwayWorks #BritishSteamLocomotives #VintageRailwayJourneys #ClassicTrains #RailwayHistory #SteamLocomotiveLegacy #IconicTrains
My favorite british steam engine, greetings from Costa Rica 👋
The beautiful engines deserve a human voice...
As this channel seems to have been a bit more popular than i expected, ill def look towards me doing the recordings if i have the time :) this one isn’t the best generated voices i use, the other one is much better :) thank you for the feedback, im always looking to make it more interesting or better for people
Great video but that voice, was at times, excruciating!
Thankyou . I recall staring over the bridge at Newton Abobt and watching the crew polishing the brass fittings whilst waiting for these beautiful engines to pull out .
The castles have to be one of the most elegant machines ever built!
Love this. I do wish there was an actual person reading this, the robotic voice isn't very flattering.
Thanks hypercat, I wasn’t massively happy with this voiceover, the ones on the other vids are better :) I think I’ll have to start reading them out :)
@@RailsandTales-kj4jn if you need someone to voice over your videos, I could do it on occasion.
@@HyperCat72 that would be good :)
@@RailsandTales-kj4jn if you genuinely are interested in that, I can communicate through discord
Agreed. The most annoying was the persistent pronunciation of the designer's name as Co-LET. I'm pretty sure he pronounced it COLL-et. Everybody else does anyway
Finest Locomotive Ever
GWR MINDBOGGLING POWER !!!
The "Cheltenham Flyer" was at its inception the Worlds fastest scheduled train. That title being based on the average speed required. Further the "Cornish Riviera" was the Worlds longest non stop run (Paddington to Plymouth during summer months only). Only possible thanks to water troughs being laid at roughly 50 mile intervals, something common in Britain, but not in the USA !!!
The Castle class was in 1923, technically more powerful than the LNER's A1 class Pacific's, based on tractive effort. The "most powerful" title then passed to the Southern's "Lord Nelson" class in 1926. But then reverted to the GWR "King" class in 1927. At over 40,000lbs of tractive effort the King Class was the only 4-6-0 type to be classified in the British Railways 8P power category. Itself an engineering feat, to pack so much power into such a small express passenger locomotive design. Indeed the 4i-cylinder "King" class steam locomotive has more "Horsepower" per ton of locomotive than the monstrous Union Pacific Railroads 4-8-8-4 Mallet type "Big Boy" class, claimed as the Worlds biggest steam type with around 7000hp !!!
See the original full GWR Engine Book 1932, just click my graphic and scroll down the videos.😊
Designed by Collett, voiced by FIAT.
Hi Mike, its an AI voice, that was part of the fun of this channel, ive got some tweaks to it now, so it should be better moving forward :)
Clun Castle in Plymouth tonight attempting a high speed run in from Plymouth to Bristol in the morning
Beautiful locomotives. There is something very pleasing about them.
I agree!
Grossly americanised commentary. Collett is stressed on the first syllable not the last; loco numbers are read 'four, o, seven, nine' not 'four thousand, seventy-nine'. British locos, British accented narration, British audience. It all sounds bizarre! Get it sounding right. Otherwise, not bad. Oh, and William Stan-ee-ay? Who the hell was he?
What about Carefully Castle? 😂.
Just a little background info.... While Charles Collett was C.M.E. of the GWR at the time of the Castle Class introduction, work on the design had begun during the preceding Churchward era. The No.7 type boiler was in production for the 4700 freight locomotives but would have limited route availability due to its weight therefore a slightly smaller design (No.8) had to be procured delaying the type's introduction.
Great info CWT :)
Yes, and unfortunately he (Churchward) was killed by 4085 Berkeley Castle. Berkeley Castle has one other (AFAIK) deadly association: it was where King Edward II met his unnatural end.
'Carefully Castle' (subtitles) I love it!
The most cautious locomotive ever was carefully! Hope you enjoyed the video
A travesty of a history of this engine. The Castle was merely one of G. J. Churchward's STAR class (Churchward sadly not even mentioned) with a larger boiler and given a more enclosed cab. The idea it was new design is self-evidently just nonsense.
Awful robovoice makes for horrible mid-pronunciations.
I have to say I agree, I may well re edit it with a better cleaner voice, but thank you for the feedback :)
@@RailsandTales-kj4jn You should just use your own voice.
@@deanfawcett2085 this channel is a bit of an experiment with AI and digital voices, i do all the research and check it and find the images, but I’m keen to show the power of AI to help, especially for people who might struggle with voice recording but want to get into youtube
@@RailsandTales-kj4jn I do voice overs on my own videos and it can be a pain in editing. Getting all the volume levels the same is a fine art. It depends on how much free time you have. Personally I'd rather be doing something else than making a video absolutely perfect. As a friend once said "RUclips is for amatuers, if you try too hard it just looks like crap tv".
Anyway. Really enjoyed the video, I've got a healthy interest in GWR and will have a good look at all your videos this evening. Cheers. In fact I will subscribe.
@@thehairygolfer Thank you :) i have to say at the moment I don't have much free time so i use as many tools as possible to speed up the process, but still keep the content good
Is this voice AI generated ?
@@DeafIaint hi, yes, the whole channel was a little experiment in AI, which kinda got a bit popular, I’ll hopefully do some more content soon
Robotic voice can't even pronounce numbers the British way, and I'm fairly sure Collett didn't pronounce his name like a Frenchman.
Hi Roger, i hope you enjoyed the vid even though the audio is a little sketchy at times, part of this channel is using new tech so im hoping the new voice im using will be better
@RailsandTales-kj4jn instead of using pathetic robotic voices. Put some effort and voice it properly. Robotic voice is utter crxp.
you should have practiced your commentary for someone capable before recording this. It is chock full of irritating mispronunciations which spoil what could otherwise have been an enjoyable experience.
Hi Andy, part of why I started this channel was to use new technologies to generate content, although I check the research, I'm still refining the voices. this voice wasn't great, the others on the channel are better and more accurate voice models.
4079 Pendennis castle also went to Western Australia and lived there for quite a while. working in the Pilbara. later the Aus Steam 88, Pendennis Castle moved down to perth to meet up with the Flying Scotsman and they ended up double heading a couple trains.
Don't understand why the GWR refused to supply Castles to the LMS. The GWR was a business, and making locomotives for other companies would have been welcomed income for the company and its directors.
Not to mention publicity
But on the other hand, Swindon works would have made the profits, not the GWR as as far as I am aware they were separate companies
@@BrokenIET also i guess swindon having the advantage didn't want to lose it
Two reasons.
1) Back in the nineteenth century the London and North Western.built some locomotives for the Lancashire and Yorkshire. The independent locomotive buliding firms kicked up a stink about the potential threat to their business, and a law was passed forbidding any railway company to build locos for another.
2) The LMS loading guage was more restictive than the GWR's, and the Castles were too wide to run on the LMS.
@@BrokenIET No, they were one and the same company.
@@UrbanHermit50 Swindon could have built the Castles for the LMS, who wanted to place an order, but Swindon did not want their prized product used by other companies. No laws would have been broken.
Cannot even pronounce the designer's name correctly......AND WHAT is the L.N.R. ????????.
its an AI generated voice, part of the idea behind this channel was to use new and emerging technology to help produce the videos, I honestly didn't expect it to get popular, this is my first time doing a channel and giving it some time as well as trying out making videos, when I have some more time ill be recording the voice work, the other AI voice i use seems to be much better, with a better understanding :) but thank you for your feedback
@@RailsandTales-kj4jn if you create videos about any sort of history you HAVE to get everything correct......do your research first and also take a course in punctuation.
The AI voice is rather jarring
i agree on this one, have you heard the other voice on my other videos? its much better
I agree with the other comments, this needs proper human narrative to do the subject matter justice❗️
i have to agree with you on this one Chris, the voice on the other videos is much better, too many errors on this one, but amazing things to come from this technology im sure
Thanks for a great video about this beautiful class of locomotive. Try as I might I can't find out why the Castle Class have larger driving wheels than the King's.
Im sure ill make others about the castle so ill try and find out :)
Sir Felix Pole, Managing Director of the GWR at the time, insisted that the King Class locomotives had a tractive effort in excess of 40,000lb for publicity purposes. The resultant design required slightly smaller wheels to achieve this target. After the first five engines were built, the cylinder size was quietly reduced to 16" (from 16.25") thus dipping below the stated figure.
@@cwt5654 great info CWT, hope you enjoyed the video
@@cwt5654 Thank you very much for your detailed answer, much appreciated.
@@RailsandTales-kj4jn CWT56 has done a great job in solving my mystery. I look forward to your next video.
your attempt at Caerphilly Castle is poor
The voice, its a generated voice, part of my idea with this channel was to use new tech to assist, the other voice is better :)
Why do people ruin great videos with “Robo Voices”?
Hi Owl, so part of my reasoning was I’ll use new tech to save some time and as the voices are getting better it’s a chance to experiment, a lot of the channel is done with AI helping me. I’m glad you liked the video content, and I have to admit I’m annoyed I let this one go like this with this voice, then other voice is much better, rest assured all of this feedback will be noted and I hope you will enjoy the other videos and future ones to come :)
@@RailsandTales-kj4jn sorry R&T. Excellent video, very interesting, well researched, but the voice?… ridiculous pronunciations, soulless tones. Great to play about with. But they just aren’t ready for people yet. Just my opinion, obviously, but otherwise excellent 👍
@@Olleetheowl thanks owl, I’ll get it sorted for the next video :)
@RailsandTales-kj4jn crxp voice. Great research. Voice it yourself, put some effort in to it. Don't hide behind excuses.
Half of the comments are about the robot voice.. Personally, I don’t think its terrible, it gets quite a few pronounciations wrong, but other than that it is easily understandable. I would prefer a human voice, but if you prefer to use robot one for now that works fine to, as, like I said, it isn’t bad.
On the other videos I use a different Ai Voice which is much better, for some reason this one doesn’t sound as good, but does save me a-lot of time, once my work schedule drops down I’ll maybe do some voice ones, and maybe a little introductory video with me on it :)
@@RailsandTales-kj4jn robotic voice is terrible. Put a proper spoken English voice. Let's content down badly.
It does pronounce "sixth" correctly.
Its def getting better :)
It sounded bloody rediculous! William Sta-ee-ay? American jibberish.
As a non-English speaker, I found the voice to be clear and easy to understand.
It mispronounced things constantly.
Use a proper voice. Automated voice is crxp.
Hi Liz, i have some improvements to the voice coming on the next video :)