A tour of the cab and controls of the Flying Scotsman, plus tender walk through
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- čas přidán 2. 04. 2019
- On the footplate of the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive, 60103. We are shown over the controls by the driver and engineer, and see the boiler pressure and water gauges, steam regulator and brakes, look inside the fire, plus inside the tender which holds 9 tons of coal for a London to Edinburgh run, and the very narrow and low walk through corridor into the train which allowed a crew change after 4 hours running, enabling the locomotive to run non stop on its intended route.
It is very difficult to get close up to this engine as there is huge interest and crowds appear everywhere it goes. (See my other steam engine videos for evidence of this!)
The locomotive was at Corfe Castle on the Swanage Railway for a 2 week visit between March and April 2019.
Technical Info:
External Camera: Sony FDR-AX700
4K 60 Megabit 25fps
Internal Camera: Gopro Hero 7
4K 50fps
Post production: Adobe Premier Pro.
Copyright © Burl Solomons 2019 - Věda a technologie
It's fantastic that people are allowed to have experiences like this with Scott. He truly is the people's locomotive.
It’s hard to believe our Scotsman is almost 100 years old. February 24th 2023 will mark Flying Scotsman’s 100 Birthday from Doncaster. Bravo to the men who saved her from scrap! Bravo National Railway Museum for adding her to the National Collection!
HAPPY BELATED 1OOTH BIRTHDAY, FLYIN' SCOTSMAN!
Great video :-)
Thanks! Was good fun seeing the old beast up close. I'll be going to the last ever days of steam on the London Underground in June, I'll do a video for that too.
EXCELLENT WORK!
No wonder why Scotsman had two tenders with corridors
That only happened after the loco was bought for preservation and overhauled. The owner Alan Peglar had a second tender converted just for water as the water troughs and water columns were removed after steam was finished. In its normal LNER and later BR service it ran with one tender.
I seriously do personally just suddenly came up with the officially well-knowingly clever idea of completely building a specifically wonderfully great new generation of corridor tenders for Flying Scotsman that'll officially well-knowingly obviously with no complete doubt whatsoever be very shockingly surprisingly well-painted in the officially well-known L N E R apple green instead of the well-known B R green! Plus, you'll be very shockingly surprisingly pleased to happily know that exactly 1 of 'em certainly will basically hold even more than enough extra water to cover verrrrrry loooooong distances with no complete trouble whatsoever meaning that Flying Scotsman certainly would basically be very shockingly surprisingly officially well-knowingly obviously able to carry on traveling down the railroad/railway line non-stop like it had done back on the date November 3Oth of the year of precisely 1934 respectfully from Edinburgh in Scotland all the way to the officially well-known terminus of King's Cross in London in England! Plus, the only sole-serving Doncaster built in the year of precisely 1923 respectfully L N E R class A3 Pacific type of steam-driven railway tender locomotive designed by Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley himself known as the Flying Scotsman certainly will basically get a chance to happily recreate the official time when he/she reached 1OO MPH top speed authentically when racing happily along exactly 21,OOO miles of CSX railroad trackage with no complete trouble whatsoever!
The guy who was giving you the guidance I know him he is Mike he is with the MNLPS
And does the reverser on Clan Line change the gears??? OMG I could not believe he said that. The reverser does change the direction but a steam loco does not have gears. The reverser changes the amount of steam admitted to the cylinders and enables the steam to work differently at different cuts off. Absolutely nothing to do with gears or gearing.
@@juleshathaway3894 It's the best way to explain things to someone who knows nothing about steam locomotives. In full forward, it's like being in first gear - lots of power, not a lot of speed or efficiency. As you start moving, you bring the reverser closer to center, shortening the stroke of the valve, which is like shifting gears in a car as you gain speed.
@@PowerTrain611 I disagree, mentioning gears adds confusion. What to do is explain what is happening in the cylinders and how the steam is behaving. I once explained to an 11 year old girl how it worked on the footplate of 60009 and she understood.
Why does Scotsman still have the corridor tender????????
Evan's Megazord reviews why not?
@@spartangoku7610 what's the point having it if you'll have a chance running low on water with how small the water tank is and the water scoops aren't even used anymore
Whats a corridor tender?
@dave dude oh ok
Corridor tenders were used so that the trains that the engine wouldn’t have to stop to change crews halfway. Relief crews could walk through the tender and into the cab from the front coach to begin a shift. There is also plenty of space for coal and water because the LNER’s tenders were taller than other normal British tenders. Most British tenders are too small to carry 8 long tons of coal but a corridor tender can.
Well that really was quite a very poor “explanation”. The part about the reverser was shocking, gears?? steam locos do not have gears. He didn’t explain how water is put into the boiler, nothing about what happens in the firebox or how steam is actually generated. He could’ve demonstrated how the water level in the boiler is determined in the gauge glass. There was so much he could’ve said but didn’t, very poor.
Well, considering that the reverser in the cab is on a different axis then the reverser mechanism at the cilinder/ linkages end, one might argue that there are some gears involved in converting the movement to the right axis/ plane.
@@timdekleijn8910 The inference from the guy "explaining" was the reverser changes the gears like on a car. The way the reverser works on a Gresley loco is the rotary action is converted to back and forth movement by a "nut" attached to a 45 degree crank acting upon a screw thread. No form of gears or gearing involved.
NINE tons of coal? All the LNE Pacific tenders held eight!