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A fantastic video i found it really interesting. What was the 3rd name on GWR Castle Class No.5051?

Loved the verger. My favourite character.

Pleased you covered the subject matter but it is full of inaccuracies and myths.

Thanks fir that

Maunsell produced FOUR Moguls, N; N1; U & U1. The N1 & U1 types were three cylinder variants of the N & U Classes, and were a lot smoother riding as a result. All four classes embodied many Churchward (GWR) principles ! ELECTRIFICATION REDUCED THE SR DEPENDENCE ON STEAM !!! Electrification was started by the LB&SCR in 1909, by electrifying the Victoria to London Bridge (South London Line) using the German 6,700v AC OVERHEAD system, which eventually expanded to certain suburban routes as far out of London as Coulsdon North & Sutton. Before the then NEW Southern Railway decided the 600v DC of the LSWR, should become the standard for the Southern. This introduced for a few years a few dual, overhead & third rail routes including that to Coulsdon North. The Southern also increased the LSWR 600v supply to 660v around 1926. And continued expanding the third rail until by 1929 virtually all suburban lines south of London had been electrified. VOLTAGE CHANGES BR it should be noted began the process of increasing the 660v supply to 750v with the Kent Coast Electrification schemes of 1959 & 1961. What few people are aware of is that the Bournemouth line electrification (1967) beyond Sturt Lane Junction (Farnborough) is supplied with 800v (not 750v. Which required a new type of substation known as the "container type" due to its similarity to an ISO container. This was also necessary as the 3,300hp 4REP Power Pack Units to obtain the original design speed of 100mph (Limited by the Civil Engineer to 90mph), needed just a little more voltage to maintain the proposed average speeds necessary for the expresses between Sturt Lane Junction & Southampton & Bournemouth. The 4REP's it must also be noted were regarded as LOCOMOTIVES, and therefore if running "light" were limited to 60mph. Each 4REP motor coach had the ELECTRICAL equipment & bogies of a Class 73 Electro-Diesel, another little known fact. The 750v routes meant pre BR designs of EMU (those before the 1951 4EPB type) such as 4SUB's 2BIL's & 4COR could NOT work over the higher voltage routes in passenger service. Which meant is was around 1989 when the last 4SUB's were finally scrapped before certain routes into central London could be raised to 750v. Happy Railway Engineering By an ex BR Southern Engineer (CM&EE dept).

CHURCHWARDS REVOLUTION IN LOCOMOTIVE DESIGN. C.J. Churchward, did a lot more than incorporate certain U.S & European ideas. He revolutionised the whole method of building locomotives, with his "Standardisation" of construction methods, and made the biggest leap forward in Steam locomotive design since "Rocket" (of 1830). Indeed Churchward's revolutionary advances took around 20 years before ANY other railway company Chief Mechanical Engineer realised exactly what Churchward had done. And in spite of Churchward giving a lecture to members of the Society of Locomotive Engineers, before World War 1 on his technical advances. The first to realise, what Churchward had done, was of course the SECR (South Eastern & Chatham Railway) under Maunsell. When in 1917 they introduced the "N" Class 2-6-0. Which incorporated Long lap, long travel valve gear, a taper boiler and reverse taper Belpaire firebox, and a number of other small Churchward advances. The only real change was to use outside Walschaerts valve gear, instead of GWR inside Stephenson link gear. But this was of course due to the fact Maunsell had grabbed, H. Holcraft from Swindon. Holcraft of course brought all the Churchward technical advances with him to Ashford !!!! Churchward's plan for what would be needed by the GWR AFTER he retired, was for Collett a Godsend. As Collett was a workshop man, NOT a designer. So Collett's Castle class was literally, just a tweak in cylinder size, an 18inch extension to the frames, and a new cab design of the 4 cylinder Star Class. Indeed the only totally new design credited to Collett was the 56xx 0-6-2T for South Wales, and he managed to screw that up initially, by failing to support the inside valve gear properly. So when the first 56xx was tested outside the works, it moved only a few feet before horrible grinding & screeching noises were heard from inside the frames, and shuddered to a halt. (Reference K.J.Cook CME & C Gibson's books on Swindon steam). What Collett can be seriously credited with, was the introduction of German Zeiss Optical equipment, which accounted for a revolution in precision manufacture and reconditioning of parts. Indeed as a result the GWR was scrapping worn out parts, at the tolerances to which other companies were constructing too !!! Further C.J.Cook CME at Swindon 1949-51, and then at Doncaster until the end of steam on the Eastern & NE Regions, took the Zeiss optical equipment with him to Doncaster and finally cured the "Achilles" heel of Gresley's 3 cylinder designs including the A1/A3 & A4 Classes. Cook, redesigned the centre cylinder "big end" and applied Swindon methods of lubrication as used on GWR 4 Cylinder types. Which cured the horrible problems of those LNER designers notoriously problems of the centre cylinder running hot. An affliction that even resulted in Mallard's World record breaking speed run, being terminated at Peterborough with a destroyed centre cylinder !!!! Happy Mechanical Engineering. From an ex BR Engineer.

Great video! I'm planning on visiting the country again and want to see the museum.

Very good illke nice move happy joy great show That beast from

Looking forward Steven, love the Dads Army theme.

Look firward to seeing it take shape

Ooh .... I DO get hot under the collar when it comes mainline Garratts in the UK. If the design had been entrusted to Beyer Peacock, as with practically all such locos post WWI, they'd have been superb locos, doubtless with long travel piston valves, adequate bearings and decent draughting.

Thank you for this, very informative!

I enjoyed this series.

AWESOME! I live in Thetford, and passed by some of these places so many times and never knew they filmed it there! Will definitely have to do a location walk around town at some point! :)

good work. amazing to see how much of old Thetford survives

Tracing the route of the Monkland canal: th-cam.com/video/d2ofl7dQ6lg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=UtKkT-sDP0k2NkGI

Last year's steam fair: th-cam.com/video/b2_cOy3qNyI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=NzkQhilbLm1hxmc6

Does anyone know what Mr Cheeseman's first name was?

Always thought local amateur dramatic society made film.

And what a bunch of crap

Not a bad movie but i wish they made a series with the new cast

THANKS STEVEN ,I REALLY ENJOY YOUR POST YOUR WONDERFUL ❤❤

No Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomed :(

Phone call from England to Paris in 1944.... I know it is a comedy but?

Watched it. Maybe i expected too much but I thought it the biggest load of old rubbish. How much money did they waste making it? I have all that is available of the original series....... Better acting, Better scripts, Better cast. If you haven't seen this film - Don't bother - It's CRAP.

Enjoyed it, was funny.

Pathetic compared to the TV series or its 1971 spin-off film. Universal shouldn't have bothered.

Not really worth the hype or the effort.

I quite enjoyed it , but I too was baffled by the inclusion of Elizabeth ! The Old Town area of Bridlington plays Walmington on Sea .

saw thia at the cinema with the parents. I was born 1960 so grew up with Das Army and many other great 79s sitcoms. I am sure I had a great time. Its not as funny as any episode though is it ? the cast themselves werent that keen on it, nor were Perry and Croft who only had a peripheral role. McCann's book on Dads Army has lots of interesting into on this production. Cohen was the typical New York Film Director, and as such came froma different comedic background.

My Dad loved Dads Army. He couldn’t stop laughing. I was puzzled and said surely after 6 years in the Army (France, N Africa, Italy ) it can’t have been anything like that. He said that in fact it was just like that !!

So long as you can accept that not everything is the same as in the TV show - Mrs Pike, Jones' van, etc - it's actually very good and retains the feel of the original with a simple but decent story. I was thirteen when it was released and didn't feel cheated, unlike the unwise recent remake where Walker, in particular, was nothing like the original character.

Anything Dads Army is classic

battle of the giant's

what is the music?

Janet Davies was replaced as the director thought she was "too homely". It was based on the first few episodes of the series, so fans could follow how the platoon came about due to the episodes missing, after the series took off

asleep in the deep?

The tapping on your video is annoying? And you missed one of the best museums in Pembrokeshire Carew control tower

Interesting thanks for your video 👍

I hope you’re able to figure it out. I’m no expert, but I’d probably swap out the music with something from TH-cam’s audio library. Maybe stills of Dad’s Army would be better than clips going forward? Either way, I’ve been watching Dad’s Army after seeing your character profiles, so I’m glad I found your channel.

Oh the copyright system has been broken ever since 2016.

I’m watching S7 now. While it’s still a quite solid show, I believe it suffers from Beck’s absence. RIP.

Hello Steven Please can you do more days out TH-cam videos about you visiting The Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in Kent The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway in Cumbria The Bluebell Railway in East Sussex The Severn Valley Railway in Shropshire and Worcestershire The North Yorkshire Moors Railway in North Yorkshire The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in West Yorkshire The Paignton and Dartmouth Railway in Devon And John Cameron's Farm in Scotland you John Cameron the Scottish farmer So please can you Steven do more days out TH-cam videos about you visiting those Railways the ones that I’ve listed if you could

THANKS Stephen ❤

You know, “Horatio” isn’t actually horatio, that is a motor rail where as Horatio is a Ruston locomotive.

LOVED WATCHING THIS, THANK YOU STEVE ❤

Very good. Well researched.

Brilliant. Well researched & presented. Thank you.