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Remember this loco at both Chatterley Whitfield Museum and Foxfield Heritage Railway.

As someone who lives in Victoria, it is interesting to see one of our products featured on this channel!

In all your readings on railway history have you come across any data as to the impact the improvement on speed had on passenger numbers for the respective railways? Always wondered how much these rivalries and the publicity around these achievements really boosted the fortunes of those involved.

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Captin Dick was the 1st and greatest puffer maker of them all. A booze up with Captain Dick in Camborne would be a good trip on the first Time traveller machine probably be made in South Wales.

1893 10 years before the Wright brothers not even a generation between the two

Use metric units.

My Great Great Grandfather built the Fire queen and the jenny lidd

Anthony I have watched this effort before as I have with more than one of your impressively informative pieces of work. I am still learning and am amazed at your detail which I have not yet seen elsewhere, perhaps because of the distraction of fancy production or simply lack of detail - research - effort (which is more likely). I find it very hard to find information on the early engines and their creators apart from the famous ones. They deserve their notoriety but others deserve a slice of this cake too (for our understanding and appreciation), You in a way are their voice and our teacher. As a retired teacher I am impressed by your efforts for us. Keep up the great work. The shame for me is the very limited numbers of models for model rail modelers to enjoy. I do agree with Stephenson based on the information I know about Novelty.. You have added to this more than little.

Sooner rather than later..... well, we have a long way to go yet, but this sure would be epic! Lovely stuff! 😁

As soon as I saw Odin I instantly thought 'Patentee', but then 'Where are the valve rods on the LH side?' Is this the last version with the 100 PSI boiler, and does the valve gear have adjustable cut-off.

We miss you man. Come back soon pls

Excellent thanks

I reccomend you cover "Josephine", a narrow gauge 0-4-4-0 double fairlie locomotive from New Zealand, and one of the oldest surviving engines in new zealand

No maori would of come up with this idea

The wheels have some ferocious wear. A working life of fifty years is amazing for such an early locomotive AND to stay original.

I wonder if the replica can be recommissioned for the 200th anniversary?

Hi Anthony, the Science Museum has an engraving of the Moorish Arch from Henry Booth, looking form the east towards the tunnels. Two passenger trains stand on the track towards Liverpool and one lonely small engine with a big flag on the parallel track. As the other Rainhill engines do not seem to match, is that Perseverance?

@AnthonyDawsonHistory I have a cool video idea that hasn’t really been talked on CZcams that about the types locomotives you talk about. Do you want to hear it?

Sounds like 60 RPM.

First time I, Bev Pardoe, have seen this. Well done Anthony.

0:27 Yes, we really want you to "sed shome light" on Sans Pareil...

If my arithmetic is right, 60 mph on 8' drivers (~25' circumference) comes to about 200 RPM. Impressive enough to get those masses moving at those rates.

I am a huge fan of the British single-driver locomotives, so elegant. Of course, the design had not a chance on the rubbish American roads )not calling names, I'm native Californian).

I can't imagine what it was like for the crew to be running at speeds up to 60 MPH without a cab to shield them from the wind and weather.

Thanks for describing one of incredible pages of railway history!

50 psi, 8.5" piston diameter, 54" stroke length, at 5 mph with a wheel diameter of c.48" (based on the drawing key and visible gear ratios) means an engine speed of approximately 35 rpm, and a total estimated output power of 31 kW (42 HP). Damn. EDIT: If the wheel diameter was closer to 2.5' as shown in the second drawing, and the engine had "a few strokes per minute" as described, then the engine speed was likely closer to 90 rpm and the output power would be closer to 100 horsepower.

Wouldn’t Twin Sisters have technically been the first loco to be fitted with a double chimney?

5.5 ton axel load on rails designed max 4t? Did they decide the rails could actually handle more?

Guess railfans can't have nice things across the pond, either. Progress: forgetting where you came from.

I love the video's Andrew, please keep them coming. Lion captures the history of an age and while it might not be the Lion built in 1838, it is the Lion named in 1924 and for the last hundred years it's been a part of our history, and so we should perhaps settle for the know fact that this engine may not be the original Lion but it certainly is an engine called Lion which commemorates an age of innovation and of skills which is lost today.

We could revisit the very idea of who invented the railway locomotive and look into John Fitch and the claims and evidence around his small working model. If we permit the claim of the Aeolipile the claim of the first steam engine with caveats around it having a use beyond interesting novelty then we may depending on what has or hasn't been established need to provide the same acknowledgement towards Fitch over his model.

He didn't understand heavy steam and how to achieve it the burner box and the boiler everything has to be well-balanced or Bang I don't think he understood this concept of surface area and what that had to do with the boiler on the rocket and he may have just run out of money with no supporters once the rocket opened up in the line and the phenomenon of people wishing to ride

I hope they remembered the rocket

60 PSI that was a great accomplishment listen to average steam engine if you could get 10 psi you were a genius

During his time at the North Staffordshire Railway as locomotive superintendent, John Longbottom knew their chief engineer George James Crosbie Dawson who was my 2nd cousin 4x removed. The North Staffordshire Railway Study Group published an article in Journal 51 written by Mike Fell detailing George’s life. I was able to assist him with files from my genealogy research. There are great photos of the railway and men involved along with a lot of detail on the railway. Included in this article on page 6 is a photo of the officers of the North Staffordshire Railway taken in 1899 which includes George Dawson and John Longbottom.

During his time at the North Staffordshire Railway as locomotive superintendent, John Henry Adams would have known their chief engineer George James Crosbie Dawson who was my 2nd cousin 4x removed. The North Staffordshire Railway Study Group published an article in Journal 51 written by Mike Fell detailing George’s life. I was able to assist him with files from my genealogy research. There are great photos of the railway and men involved along with a lot of detail on the railway.

OH MY GOD, SHE'S SO CUTE!!!

One of the best videos of the topic....and I've seen a lot. Great pics !

Brilliant and educational.

Brilliant video, shame i'm a little late for the feedback.

If the loco we know as Lion now has been known as such for longer than the original, then I think it’s valid to say this loco is more Lion than Lion

Steam Saxophone or clarinet... Trumpets use the vibration of the brass of the mouthpiece, not a weed which woodwind uses... 👍

If I saw this thing in a museum I would -go pale -get goosebumps -achieve triple the blood pressure of an average infant -stop breathing for a few seconds -start yelling obscenities at it in that order

It’s interesting how steam power and railways might have developed in France, given the presence of pioneers such as Cugnot and Seguin, had conditions been more suitable. Perhaps they could have developed the steam railway before us!

Did you know in Russian food mall Vokzal 1853 that steam locomotive is here

He's my ancestor; nice to see this!

We know for sure that no.1 is indeed no.1, in either 1955 or shortly before the current powerhouse museum was constructed no.1 was taken apart for extensive restoration to ALL components with the vast majority being from 1 with other parts being prior to withdrawal.

I am an engineer that worked on the project in Florida to create a working full-scale replica. We achieved it in 2008-2009, before the working full-scale replica was built in France. If that story is of interest, I recommend contacting the Tampa Bay Automobile museum in Pinellas Park, FL to speak to the folks there about the timeframe of our build.