A Story Of Steam - Railway Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2011
- A short Railway documentary exploring why steam engines appeal to so many people and how they quickly vanished from the railways but made a strong return.
Created by Richard Camp as part of Safir Productions.
Music is by John Beagley and used very kindly with his permission - A great thanks to him for that = )
Documentary was filmed at a number of places such as Knebworth, London, Nene Valley Railway and Crewe Heritage Centre.
Please check end credits for further details and full list of credits.
John Beagley's amazing music can be found here:
www.soundcloud.com/johnbeagleymusic
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www.cdbaby.com/Artist/JohnBeagley
Enjoy! 
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i didn't grew up with steam but watching thomas got me into steam
The old ways are always the best, trains today are boring metal cans on wheels, steam trains are proud living legends of the railways!
Keiron Bartlett couldn’t agree more
Im just gonna talk for the USA for a sec and say, steam is making a comeback here as well. Some of our railroads are starting steam programs and heritage railroads are also starting to be quite common. Nice job on the video as well. Its great to hear the stories of some of the old crew.
Thank you for the kind comments!
I've had a lot in mind for a long time. The problems I face though is lack of equipment, money, and time. Working on the former of the two though. Hopefully some point in the future I will be able to get something together =)
Thanks again!
Well put Mr. Pick. When I saw Tornado eased out of the shop for her trials, I was thrilled. She is another 'Steam-Treasure' and is one great locomotive. I salute the team who had the foresight to embark upon such a venture. My undying repect to you all!
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Very well done. As an American, I love the power that US steam represents, but I have to admit the elegance of British steam is very appealing.
Very nice video. There really is something magical about a steam locomotives. My dad hand fired steamers back in the early 40's for the new York Central, and I loved listening to his railroading stories. I'm an engineer for CSX here in New York and have run all the newest offerings from GE and EMD and the oldest but I have yet to run a Steam engine. Hopefully some day my dream will come true. Again thankyou for a very good video.
I have both fired and driven steam locomotives. My father was a driver in South Africa where steam existed long after the engines in the USA and Great Britain had been put out to pasture. yes. They were brutal at times, and then they were pure bliss. I remember the good and seldom can recall the bad.
the whistle sound
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usually music to ones ears ( but some are just )
9:34 I can tell you why!
Because they are alive, they have character! And even now when stood on the platform on my way to work I see young ones saying 'choo choo'
Steam is just so iconic
Exactly, they're the icons of the early days of railroading
A grand documentary of Britain's steam days, what I liked best were the interviews, gave it more life and personality.
A great and very professional & informative documentary you have made - 5*! Cheers, Jack
Various steam locomotives have been built in South America and Africa that have hit and efficiency of over 20%. Though steam is still more expensive to run. I would like a 50 / 50 mix personally.
Hi John. Do they not have any dedicated steam lines over there? I guess they still run some steam specials and such right?
I think the main reason it's still so alive here is because how it affected so many people and so many people worked on the railways back in the days of steam. It is great that the younger generations and future can still see and experience such a heritage. One day, it'll be them who look after that heritage too. Thanks for the comment!
I've just come across this - no idea why I've missed it before.
I enjoyed your film very much - nicely filmed and put together, the voice over made sense, the music was really appropriate. And, of course, the subject matter is, as ever, a delight.
Very well done - do you have any more?
This is one of the best documentaries of steam locomotives ever produced
Excellent video. Thank you for sharing and for all the time you put into it :)
Steam locos are just one of those things that someone designed and it ended up being extremely aesthetic in all aspects. Sure the modern stuff is more efficient, but you just can't beat the beauty of the old stuff.
Excellent work! The interviewees in this video hit the nail on the head when they said that you can see a steam engine working; It's not like "a tin can going past"!!
I think that the only engine that as close to a "living Machine" as a steam engine would be the Swiss and Austrian Crocodiles.
Because they move, and you see them moving, you see how the movement of the train is generated by the movement of the machine.
The steam Engine also seems to breathe, huffing and puffing while moving
No Computers, just mechanics.
And a crocodile as an articualted locomotive, "crawls" around the curve, unhurried, seemingly untainted by todays haste.
Poetry in Motion.
Very nice video, thanks for the link!
Excellent job, well done squire
This was a brilliant video
Amazing video. Thanks for sharing it (:
Oh my that last fly by was just insane.
It's a shame and a pity that America doesn't take more interest in its steam past. "Out with the old and in with the new!" is the everlasting cry. I salute the Brits for keeping their steam heritage alive!
Our railways were the envy of the world.Before Beechings axe fell the railways could take you to,or near to,any destination in the UK.Not only that but vast amounts of freight went by rail.With the roads as overloaded as they are you would have thought that current and past governments would have done all in their power to get freight off the roads back onto the rails.The only thing I see being moved by rail these days is gravel and rarely coal.What many cannot envisage is just how vast the railways were,not just the rail networks,but the many loco and carriage manufacturers,the service depots etc.Thousands of plants employing countless thousands of people.As with all knee jerk legislation little or no attention was paid to the future and future requirements.It was only after it was all gone and the problems started mounting that the stupidity of such severe measures was fully appreciated.
This doco made me feel warm inside :)
Very well, have a nice day.
Superb!
I wish. That would be a great honour to have it on TV but I don't think it's quite to that standard. Not without a lot more work done to it at least =)
Thanks for the comment.
A brilliant video, added to my favourites also a like from me, well done thanks for sharing...Bill
A very nice video.
Nice little doc :-)
Why not? In the late 80s, Western Australia built a replica of HMS Endeavour, a sailing ship that was involved with the first white settlement in Australia in 1788. Except for the regulations covering modern communications and requiring an auxilliary engine, she was as close to the original as you can get. It's not about reintroducing old technology, it's about enjoying it for what it is. Building one from scratch would only further enhance that process
Great video to watch, makes me proud to be helping on the Duchess every weekend :)
Great emotional vid. I wish there were as many steam engines in my country as in the UK, They would be a boon for tourists and for regular passengers...
As a former fireman and boiler operator working with water and coal was great, but it was hot dirty and hard work. Very labour intensive in order to keep it efficiently producing, you only have to look at some maintenance videos to see how much work it took,But at the time it had its enjoyable aspects.
One of the problems with videos like this is they ignore the vast numbers of railwaymen who couldn't wait to see the back of steam. They are out there, but no one wants to hear what they have to say.
What a fantastic video this is. :)
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Excellent video. I learned quite a lot. Steam locomotives have a very big attraction beacause of nostalgy it promotes. I can even get the smell around the trains when I was young. Strange but true!!! Thank you so very much for sharing. Take care. :-)
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2:55 There she is... My favourite locomotive in the world 'Black Prince'... When I first saw this loco I was 5 years old, she was in one of the sidings at Toddington and when I stood next to her they opened the steam drains.
Scared the living shit out of me but since then I have followed this loco almost religiously
S H ONE T Oh really. Your religion is in vain !
David White Ummm what?
great video richard, 5* :)
Very well done documentary God bless you Brett's for inventing the steam locomotive in the first place at help tie my country back together after the Civil War America would not be what it is today if it wasn't for the railroads my lineage is also from Cornwall and Ireland so I've always loved watching English documentaries on steam locomotives you have such a love for them like I do I draw them I'm a railroad artist I love steam locomotives I got to drive one once when I was in Washington State thank you England for one of the greatest inventions of all time the railroads and steam locomotive you have something to be very proud of that machine changed the world God bless the Iron Horse machine that gave us the modern era
superb video! makes me proud to be a fireman myself!
WOW!!! i can't stress how amazing that was the filming the interviewing, just amazing.
did you have to arrange the interviews be for you did them?
I worked on the footplate as a fireman in the early 60s at shed A1 Willesden. I preferred working on steam, it was hard work getting the fire going then keeping the firebox under control making sure you had plenty of water in the boiler and steam at the start of a climb, compare that to sticking a lamp on the front about 70 turns on the brake and press the whistle, the hardest job was making a cuppa on a diesel. But times change. But they need to get people and goods back on the tracks
the answer to if we will see more new engine in future, yes 82045 oh svr and the p2 that is getting built by the lads that made tornado
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I love steam i wanted to be an engine driver as most boys did.
Thhe bloke on knebworth station reminds me of Monty Python.
dont forget sir nigel gresley & the tornado exspress !!!!
In terms of safety and passenger numbers, our railways aren't a shadow of their former selves.
You make a valid point there, and I appreciate your honesty. I enjoy American Steam and British steam very much. Americans came out with geared steam engines such as shays, Heislers, Willamettes, and Climaxes which is a treat you will never find in England. Then again England has Bullied Class locomotives that are funny boxes that are still steam (Like some of the 4-6-2s and Q1 Class 0-6-0. Both countries have beautiful and unique steam engines, and both the US and UK are blessed with steam.
There are always a few dedicated souls but not many. The Durango & Silverton is alive and well. No commercial lines run steam.
That was very enjoyable. Thank you. Just a question. Do you know what the Castle is at 06.55 please? All the best.
As much as I love steam engines (so much so I volunteer on a preserved railways maintenance & overhaul dept). There are so many people with blinkered nostalgic views when it comes to steam. Steam engines are awkward, difficult, expensive (both labour and materials) and inefficient forms of traction. This is the reason why continental Europe abandoned steam technology by the 1930s.
What was the name of the credits song? it was brilliant.
Professionally produced, well done. May i ask what the music at 06:09 is?
@Chris9017
Dear Chris.
Thank you for those kind comments sir. Knowing that this project is being enjoyed by people all around the world has made it worth while = )
I do think we indeed have the most beautiful engines in the world, but then again... I'm probably a tad biased with that^^
Many thanks again!
I absalutely love steam!
In Brittan they built some new steam trains in the 90s???
I really enjoyed this video, if only people here in the USA would make more effort's to preserve our steam locomotives, operational or not. I myself am an American Railfan, and a diehard steam locomotive enthusiast. of the 1,775 steam locomotives in the United States, almost 200 are operational and many more are well on the way to making a return to steam. The USA could a few lesson's from the British steam locomotive operator's. you Brits do a wonderful job keeping them in running order.
Hello there sir.
All the music in this video is used by kind permission of the artist John Beagley (Highly recommend him).
The song in question is called "Guardian Angel" and is part of his "It Stars Here" album.
I hope that helps =)
All the best,
-Richard
Great Video Richard! You should of zoomed in on me (i was the kid who shouted WICKED!!) either way great video mate.
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-Andrew
Andrew Moore Wow
Hey there. Thank you very much for your kind comment.
The loco at 6:55? That would be Thornbury Castle. There's also an archive image of her at 1:55. Bit of a shame I didn't realise both were the same loco when editing or else I would have tried to merge them some how.
Thanks for watching =)
if you realy think about about it, nobody thought of it to save them because the frame of mind was,"theres thousands of them, some 1 will save a few of them" well not many people did
Steam shall live on FOREVER!!!!!!!
@SafirGroup no problem. I really enjoyed this video. I live in California where we have a lot of working steam engines on heritage railways, and a couple that run on main lines. Sadly the modern steam engines are all black, only the engines over 100 years old are really colorful like the ones from the U.K. But still both engines from the U.S. and U.K. are very beautiful in many different and the same ways. I am 23 years old and am lucky to have grown up with steam.
ah yes, i was born well after the steam era, but there is nothing more enjoyable then the sound of a seam engin's whistel( yes i know i spelt engian and whistel... twice, point being)
great vid... i personaly wouldnt mind working at a preserved railway sometime.... :) oh and reguarding the A1 class loco they built... they are now trying to raise funds to build yet another loco..
I would have been happy to talk to people with those views. In fact, I hope to sometime in the future because I know that there was a lot of good that came with steam being retired.
Unfortunately, we didn't find or know anyone who was glad to see modern stock over steam. One person mentioned the benefits of retiring steam but there wasn't anywhere to fit it in well with the project.
Do not be mistaken. such would have been included if there were the numbers. Though as I said, we didn't find any.
That was great. Some of the most beautiful steam locomotives I have ever seen were in England. In England they have many different colors, even modern steam engines, where as in America most of them are just black with no striping unless they are 100 years old or older where they had more color and brass. There is nothing like a beautiful British steam engine.
trains are my childhood
At 0:05 There's A Garden Layout
Yes.
Whats the song at the end?
This was amazing. You guys did a great job on this and while i love american steam its alot like American cars...there a lot of muscle and not a lot of elegance...British steam like British cars have both. One day i want to go there and see these things in person
My favorite bit was 11:34-11:44 when the kids got excited as the train passed by.
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The biggest reason for the change was "fill your tanks with diesel fuel and go all day," or simpler than that, "throw a switch and go." Filling the train with coal and water every few miles may have seemed like fun to some, but it was costly and time consuming.
I believe the A1 trust started building the steam loco in 1990
I love the old steam engines even though i never saw one in real life yet. i had microsoft Train Sim and, sorry to say it Mallard, Flying Scotsman hit 128 MPH on Amtrak's ACELA High Speed Line with fire burning at 2000 degrees F.
Hey there.
Thank you for the comments. Personally, I don't think it's all that amazing. There's a lot that could be improved upon =)
As for interviews, it depends. Some were arranged as I knew people personally from my local model rail club. Others, such as volunteers from Crewe HC and Nene Valley, I met on the day I was filming there and asked if I could interview them. Both places knew I would be filming there so I guess some volunteers expected me to be around.
Regards,
-Richard
Now the slogan for oil vehicles is “fill er' up, turn a key and go all day" back then it was “three hours for the boiler, and go for 3 hours".
What they did with steam locos then, was keep their fires burning constantly, so you'd have the time of firing up, and then maintaining steam until you need to drop the fire for maintenance or fuel reasons, quite an interesting way of looking at things ;D
+RockyRailroad Productions dude, I think I know how a steam locomotive works, I just didn't mention stocking.
In 57 the change was so quick, i went to the station on the way home from the kids movie show on a Sat morning to watch a couple of trains pull in and see the big pistons pull it away and up turms this lifeless diesel, so they were gone forever. Not much fun to look at a deisel, i ran home and asked where the trains had gone.
Dear DDunker51.
Mallard is still the official holder of the steam (locomotive) speed record. There are a number of other locos mentioned in the world that compete with her but there's equally a number of factors that affect both sides.
I'm very interested in looking this up though! Could you perhaps message me with any information you have on this?
many thanks for your comment sir! All the best!
It kinda sad that in Malaysia they didn't keep any functioning steam locomotives during dieselisation,
It makes you wonder what the future holds for the railway as from the end of steam there have been big changes which haven't always been for the better especially in the reduction in staffing levels. Now drivers are expected to be a jack of all trades which has seen the grades of secondman and guard disappear so bringing back steam and paying two wages for footplate crew is a none starter.
Slight historical error. The Mallard was NOT the world's fastest steam locomotive. That honor belonged to the Chicago & Easern Illinois, which experimented with high speed steam, and succeeded in running a steam train at 137 mph. The Mallard was a distant contender.
I'm afraid without accurate evidence, it doesn't count as official. Mallard's record still stands.
0:57 - ...'carrying people; male and freight'... Funny that, never thought of my other half as "freight", although she'd be amused enough to spare my life.
I have indeed. Why?
I honestly wish the world can use steam trains again because with the oil rising in the middle east, it would cost more for diesel locomotives to buy for fuel. Steam trains are reliable because it just requires coal (or wood) and water.
Steam is a living thing.
I was born in 76’ here in the states, and when diesel is slated for replacement, it will be painful. It’s already starting to California, they are forcing electric battery units by 2030 for all railroads in that state. One day in the future, we won’t hear the charming purr of the modern diesel sadly, it will be replaced by the quiet and annoying hum of electric motors. Sad, truly sad.
That's the problem. You don't just find them. You have to go looking for them. They tend to be the men for whom the railway was 'just a job', which is of course a view that goes against the rather rose-tinted grain perpetuated nowadays. As such, they don't tend to be hanging around preserved railways as they have no more interest in railways now than they had then. Tell you what though, a film about the 'counter-culture' would be fascinating. Few people have even attempted it!
A steam engine is a living thing my business partner has just bought a small traction engine and that lives
Diesel electric and electric locomotives just look like a train car in a lot of ways it's almost indistinguishable from what it's pulling a steam locomotive is very much so alive I wrote a poem about steam locomotives steam locomotives are alive they have a heart of fire a soul of steam muscles of pumping Pistons and werling drive rods a whistle is his voice yelling and telling you to get the hell out of the way the number one thing that makes steam locomotives unique is the mechanism that provides the power to pull the train is visible you can see the cross head where the Piston Rod comes out of the cylinder you can see it go to the wrist pin and go down the drive rod and you can see the linkages like on a walschaerts valve gear which is my favorite to watch because it's such a mesmerizing mechanism and it's timed to the sound the chug the engine makes and you know how fast it's going just by the rhythm of the engine steam locomotives are very Musical because they beat these rhythms in a Time that's repeatable that's why there's been so many train song written about steam locomotives because they exude their own rhythm and I only know about two other songs that are about diesels one of them is cream white room but there's times of steam locomotives train songs Johnny Cash or a huge railfan and he'll especially love steam locomotives and he wrote tons of songs for some reason the elemental qualities of a steam locomotive it's earth air water and fire all together makes this being that is so powerful that you can feel its power through the ground steam locomotives have a very inspiring quality about them that no other machine in the entire world possess I've Loved steam locomotive since I was a little boy and they always for some reason Lose My Soul I guess I'm an old soul I always wish I was born a hundred years ago when Transcontinental Railroad was built but there is nothing like that machine the Iron Horse we love it because we can understand it as we can see how it works with our own eyes and I think that's why all of us love steam locomotive sorry for the rant peace out into the world have a great day
diesel and electric will rule the rails, but steam is beautiful and magnificent. until they make the diesel train or electric train have the external moving parts, i will see steam.
To bad Norway doesn't have many Steam locomotives left, the closest I know about is a few NSB Class XXII and Class XXI steam locomotives.
Go steam
Steam should never have gone....still hoping that it may return one day as oil is becoming costly. Losing steam was one of the worst decisions ever made...it gave so many men jobs gave pride in your work and most of all most of the workers were `railmen` at heart...not like todays giant electric train network that gives the passenger poor service and ever increasing fares. No,for me bring back `steam` it will never be matched.
People would pay more to go on steam trains