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Four six o please, not foour six zero. :-(

Lovely ex GWR manors and great information..

Lovely ex GWR castles

Love the Manors; saw all save two on BR but they aren't preserved. Very fond memories of 7803 on the CCE in 1961.

Narration is weird and distracting. Computer generated I assume.

Probably faster than todays trip from Penzance to Exeter

the wheel configuration 4-6-0 is pronounced four, six, oh and not four, six, zero. I've had to correct your commentaries before so please, swot up on the technical side of things before making these videos. As it is, the commentary is irritating rather than illuminating.

The oldest surviving railway station is Heighington Station on the Original Stockton & Darlington Railway. The video of The Rocket Replica was filmed at Locomotion Shildon, The National Railway Museum, on the original S&D railway Trackbed and the last video clip, filmed at Beamish Open Air Museum also in the Northeast, which is were Railways Began.

Sorry to throw a spanner in, but the loco shown at time mark 3:08 is a Thompson O1 2-8-0, not a B1. As far as 'Hunting' goes, I didn't notice this on my trip to Nottingham Victoria from Marylebone back in the day.

No photo credits.

Sounds like an AI-generated script Too many cliches and not enough substance.

Saw Clun Castle at Chester 4/3/67. Loco had a real presence. At the time the few remaining steam locos, mostly Stanier Class 5s and 8s were in awful, run-down condition.

I met Pendennis Castle in 2023. What a stunning engine and a classic GWR express locomotive. Awesome elegance.

"The Great Western Way, Or the Wrong way!" "DONT WE KNOW IT!"

Pronounciation a bit odd.

GWR MINDBOGGLING POWER !!! The "Cheltenham Flyer" was at its inception the Worlds fastest scheduled train. That title being based on the average speed required. Further the "Cornish Riviera" was the Worlds longest non stop run (Paddington to Plymouth during summer months only). Only possible thanks to water troughs being laid at roughly 50 mile intervals, something common in Britain, but not in the USA !!! The Castle class was in 1923, technically more powerful than the LNER's A1 class Pacific's, based on tractive effort. The "most powerful" title then passed to the Southern's "Lord Nelson" class in 1926. But then reverted to the GWR "King" class in 1927. At over 40,000lbs of tractive effort the King Class was the only 4-6-0 type to be classified in the British Railways 8P power category. Itself an engineering feat, to pack so much power into such a small express passenger locomotive design. Indeed the 4i-cylinder "King" class steam locomotive has more "Horsepower" per ton of locomotive than the monstrous Union Pacific Railroads 4-8-8-4 Mallet type "Big Boy" class, claimed as the Worlds biggest steam type with around 7000hp !!!

Is this voice AI generated ?

Finest Locomotive Ever

“There are two ways of doing things, the wrong way, or the great western way, and I am great western so I-“

Naming them after antelope to annoy the head of railways.

The B1 Ten Wheelers were pretty delacate of line for a design made during the fog of World War 2 and at the height of the Blitz.

I like the B1s and also the L1s if for no other reason than they looked good. Without a doubt the B1 was a very succesful loco as they built 410 of them, ofccourse the Black 5 must of been the inspiration, they were with out a doubt probably the most sucessfull general purpose locomotive built along with Staniers 8F

This is a poor representation of the locomotive in east dunhamingtonshireford park. There was also one in chattinghamsquarefordbog

I would have thought that it stopped being a passenger station shortly after it opened as demand forced the building of much larger stations.

A travesty of a history of this engine. The Castle was merely one of G. J. Churchward's STAR class (Churchward sadly not even mentioned) with a larger boiler and given a more enclosed cab. The idea it was new design is self-evidently just nonsense.

I read that these powerful locos would pull trains of up to 26 coaches transferring troops up and down the country during WWll.

I think the B1 is a great looking loco. Thompson's best. Which is more than can be said for his Pacifics.

This is the first time that I've heard anyone say four-six-zero and four-four-zero rather than four-six-o etc. and did I hear LNR rather than LNER? The GN 4-4-0 shown was hardly a large example of that wheel arrangement - BR power class 1P! The B17s were rough riders too.

See the original full GWR Engine Book 1932, just click my graphic and scroll down the videos.😊

I would like to see a comparison of the Hall, B1 and the LMS and BR 5s. The B1 boilers were originally troublesome and there was a proposed to rebuild the class with LMS style boilers, but the problem was resolved with the original boilers.

863 built...I wonder if it was successful.

Clun Castle in Plymouth tonight attempting a high speed run in from Plymouth to Bristol in the morning

I applaud this video for recognising the excellence of Thompson and his team in the Second World War.

Hm. The B1's were very good, but they could be catastrophic rough riders and threw sparks like nobodies business. Even though they were 3 cylinder, the B16's (remember them?) were a LOT better, especially in B16/2 and B16/3 form.

The B1 is more of a contemporary of the later modified Hall's with Gressley's Sandringham's/Footballers being closer in date to the original Hall's

The LNER B1 is a superior locomotive to any GW 4-6-0, the end

Enjoyable film, one of my favourite steam locos.

You know what I say: *QUACK, QUACK, QUACK!!!*

All round, an interesting and informative video. BUT… if you insist on using a “Robo Voice” you need to learn to type phonetically, so that it says what you want it to say, in a way which is not stilted. Otherwise great. But buy a decent mic and do your own voice over… it’s fun too 😊

We travelled behind B1s when we went up to norfolk to visit our country cousins

The great Western way is to do work without fuss

They were regular performers on the Great Central Mainline

My favorite british steam engine, greetings from Costa Rica 👋

Hey kids! Don't listen to the awful AI voice in this video, go watch something with a real human in.

Beautiful locomotives. There is something very pleasing about them.

Thankyou . I recall staring over the bridge at Newton Abobt and watching the crew polishing the brass fittings whilst waiting for these beautiful engines to pull out .

I'm not sure whether there is a problem with the commentary, but please note that a 4-4-0 is not an Atlantic, an Atlantic is a 4-4-2.

Grossly americanised commentary. Collett is stressed on the first syllable not the last; loco numbers are read 'four, o, seven, nine' not 'four thousand, seventy-nine'. British locos, British accented narration, British audience. It all sounds bizarre! Get it sounding right. Otherwise, not bad. Oh, and William Stan-ee-ay? Who the hell was he?

Unique , indeed❤ I have2@Tauraco00