A bus with a difference! A unique Sentinel steam bus powers its way up the steep bank at Lindale-in-Cartmel in Southern Lakeland. For more great images see www.heritagephotoarchive.co.uk
I recall seeing steam lorries around until about the mid-1950's. Most of them survived the war, and were even activated during it, because there was no shortage of water/coal, unlike petrol/diesel vehicles, which suffered from tightly-regulated supplies. Most of the steam vehicles I saw were tankers tar-spraying the roads prior to re-surfacing. They were well suited to going very slowly!
You are right - it was really odd to hear it. There was a reminder too that it was a technology of its time. After I had finished taking the final shot in the clip, the bus suddenly came to a halt. They literally ran out of steam and had to wait five minutes for the boiler pressure to rise before continuing. KH
Think you hear a train, but you see a bus.
The sound of a steam engine working hard, is so much more satisfying than a diesel or petrol engine.
I recall seeing steam lorries around until about the mid-1950's. Most of them survived the war, and were even activated during it, because there was no shortage of water/coal, unlike petrol/diesel vehicles, which suffered from tightly-regulated supplies. Most of the steam vehicles I saw were tankers tar-spraying the roads prior to re-surfacing. They were well suited to going very slowly!
You are right - it was really odd to hear it. There was a reminder too that it was a technology of its time. After I had finished taking the final shot in the clip, the bus suddenly came to a halt. They literally ran out of steam and had to wait five minutes for the boiler pressure to rise before continuing. KH
My father worked at the Sentinel factory in Shrewsbury in the 1940's.
I'm giving her all she's got captain
i think i can, i think i can, i think i can. I know i can!
*Thank god for Rudolf Diesel!*
I'm seeing a bus and hearing a locomotive. Surreal. So 'scuse my ignorance, but is there someone stoking a fire somewhere as well as a driver?
The boiler is vertical you don't Stoke it you turn the blower on
It has a vertical boiler, the coal goes in the top of it and the boiler is in the cab with the driver :)
Extraordinary. It sounds like a Black 5.
I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.
ALL ABOARD THE CHOO CHOO BUS!!
A time when the fuel came from Britain and not the Middle East and when no-one was in a tearing hurry to get no-where special!
Nothing like hearing them work up a hill.
Beats walking .
Great sound!
Heaven forbid if you had to pick up a passenger on the hill, it would take a day to get going again...
Everybody would have to wait at the bottom
in the Steam era there were alot of machines & vehicles other then trains which ran on steam.
So strange to hear that puffing and chugging coming from something besides a steam train engine.
Now I could easily like this kind of bus!
All i can say is awesome. When starting to slow down put more coal on the fire. On the hill you can hear the real power of steam. Phil
I think I can I think I can. I knew I could I knew I could.
Thanks mate.
This engine is part of the Saunders collection in stotfold
here comes the 8:15...
steam vehicles are some of the coolest.
There is a fireman who looks after the water in the boiler aswell. as the fire
Not quite - it ran out of steam at the top of the hill. KH
Poor old thing:) Going steady.
Bloody hell Dunedin New Zealand would kill it
No, double acting. It's a one-stroke engine!
Single-acting cylinders?
Two cylinder, Double acting.
i bet the driver was like crap again lol
May as well walk.
oh my gosh how strange
That just ain't right