71000. Duke of Gloucester goes to Newcastle
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- čas přidán 31. 12. 2012
- Like so many main line railtours, the Duke's' run from Manchester to Newcastle, England, in Feb 2002, turned into a mini adventure. The tour encountered hail, rain & snow, oh & a little sun. But something unexpected as well!
Spectacular winter scenery helped make it a memorable run, especially over the bridges of Tyneside. Enjoy!
Oh! & a very happy new year everyone.
The sound of that whistle bring a tear to my eye. Thanks for sharing.
Fascinating view of a eventful trip. Magic moments at 4:45 and 17:30 as she is opened up - what a lovely sound. Be a crime if we aren't able to see and hear sights like this in the future. Best wishes Hugh. Chris
Excellent, it's alway great to see the behind the scene of a railtour!
Fantastic Hugh , dramatic footage from start to finish. I remember the Duke hammering through Oxenholme whistling from one end of the station to the other that made my hairs stand on end . Hope 71000 will grace our mainline rails again soon . Regards Steve
Nice incidental footage of 4771 right at the start. Often regarded as the finest loco in preservation 'til the cylinder crack occurred...
we lit the fire with six fire lights on a bed of coal and with more coal around firelighters On W-D austerity 2-8-0s steam was blowing off a hour and a half after, pallets are No good has they nails in and spared with fire retardent so it ends up as clinker in back of the firebox
You have a pallet with nail to wrap a bit of a rag round soaked in paraffin after you've lined the box, you don't know what your talking about I was starting locos from cold before you was born 17:57
Hey up lad its nice to hear from you. Very happy new year to you & thanks for the kind comments.
Well as your probably aware Steve, all is not well in the 71000 camp. I'm hoping, in some small way, these vids might help. Although a huge dose of decent management is whats really needed!
Thumbs UP Looks like it is Powered with old shipping pallets & Happy New
Year
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Regarding the SPAD. In steam days the "overlap" provided at virtually every signal was normally in excess of 200ft for basic safety reasons. Something modern signal engineers appear to have overlooked. Today "overlaps" are often as little as 6ft, This provides NO safety from this system now. It must also be recognised that the driver of a steam loco is often as much as 40ft behind the front of the loco. Therefore a number of modern day "SPADs" would never have occurred in early times, because of the provision of a safety "overlap" of some hundreds of feet, which also took into consideration the difficulties of a steam loco driver being as much as 40ft from the front of the loco and possibly unable to see the signal clearly at close quarters because of the boiler in front of him blocking his view. Further under regulations introduced just prior to privatisation, any driver passing a signal at Danger, much be relieved of duty and given an immediate drug/alcohol test. (An invasion of your civil liberies ?). Just one reason why I resigned as a train driver soon after privatisation.