Blue Peter at King's Cross 13th July 2024 4k

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  • This video was taken on Saturday 13th July 2024 at king's Cross Station in London. 4k

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  • @JR-SCOOT
    @JR-SCOOT หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Wow what a sight. Blue Peter looks awesome. Good capture well done...

    • @stephenlaws7752
      @stephenlaws7752  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Glad you liked the video

  • @routeman680
    @routeman680 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    I don't think I've ever seen 60532 looking so beautiful or so clean, with all the brass fittings gleaming. (I still prefer BR green!) None of our photos dating from steam days could give us the close ups of detail and perfect focus of today's digital devices. Thanks for uploading this excellent video.

    • @stephenlaws7752
      @stephenlaws7752  หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Thanks for your kind words Glad you liked the video

  • @davebarclay4429
    @davebarclay4429 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Everybody is rightly commenting on how good Blue Peter is looking but I thought 57311 also looked rather smart in its shiny lined black.

    • @stephenlaws7752
      @stephenlaws7752  หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yes she looked very good too

    • @lesigh1749
      @lesigh1749 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Its a shame the BR Black livery wasn't ever used for the early diesels, it does look VERY nice on them. I've seen a model of a Warship class in a "what if" BR Black and silver lining livery like that and it looked gorgeous.

    • @Mounhas
      @Mounhas 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Yes the diesel looked good in black.

  • @geordieceltic2
    @geordieceltic2 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I have followed and travelled behind Blue Peter over the past 30 years and must say that she has never looked so good. The BR blue livery is stunning. A credit to all who brought her back into service. Thank you, great video.

    • @stephenlaws7752
      @stephenlaws7752  19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Glad you liked the video

    • @ncs8730
      @ncs8730 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Right! She looks just stunning in this blue. Besides, Blue Peter MUST wear blue livery :))

  • @TransportNostalgia
    @TransportNostalgia หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    A beautiful Steam Train and a beautiful film. Thanks for sharing👍

  • @jerribee1
    @jerribee1 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The Class 57 looked quite handsome in lined black.

  • @curtisdaniel9294
    @curtisdaniel9294 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    An Amazing Machine! Thanks for filming it. 🎉

    • @stephenlaws7752
      @stephenlaws7752  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Glad you liked the video

  • @DallasSDogger
    @DallasSDogger หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Fantastic! And the NSWGR 38 class whistle has added a great new sound!

  • @cccenturion4480
    @cccenturion4480 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    What a beautiful looking loco. A credit to everyone involved in her restoration. Absolutely stunning. Hoping she'll get to run down to the South West soon.

  • @Going-Full-Circle
    @Going-Full-Circle หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Looks like such a beautiful piece of engernearing

  • @ceanothus_bluemoon
    @ceanothus_bluemoon หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Blue Peter looking stunning!

  • @colfer222
    @colfer222 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Beautiful engine, thanks for posting.

    • @stephenlaws7752
      @stephenlaws7752  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Glad you liked the video

  • @CosD
    @CosD หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    OMG I remember this Loco from the 1970s. TV programme. Absolutely fantastic job keeping this beautiful locomotive in top order 👏🏻 thank you 🙏

  • @neiljosephbennett9119
    @neiljosephbennett9119 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Utterly fantastic! The UK can be so proud of its railway heritage! Nothing like it anywhere else on Earth.

  • @sirjohng1
    @sirjohng1 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Never saw ANY locos this spectacularly clean and beautiful trainspotting in the fifties.☹️

  • @cjone3432
    @cjone3432 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Magnificent!

  • @1chish
    @1chish หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    'Blood & Custard' livery with a LNER Peppercorn Class A2. Perfect.

  • @paredding
    @paredding หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Spectacular - thanks for posting. And not only BP looking immaculate but also the black Class 57 which I just bought the Heljan model. I hope Bachmann or Hornby does the BP in blue

  • @Mounhas
    @Mounhas 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Great video of a thing of beauty. Thank you.

  • @chrisst8922
    @chrisst8922 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    ''ELLOW!''
    ''Today John went down to King's Cross to see the latest locomotives and find out all about our very own engine, number 60532 Blue Peter as she returns to the main line taking passengers to Scotland.....''

  • @geoffreyford7288
    @geoffreyford7288 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Got to remember Blue Peter was originally a horse that won the Derby and 2000 G in 1939, nothing to do with boats or TV programme.

    • @markiliff
      @markiliff หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Except _blue peter_ was nautical slang for the blue flag with a white rectangle that denotes the letter P long before 1939, so *_something_* to do with ships!

    • @RoyCousins
      @RoyCousins หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@markiliff Yes, the racehorse was named after the nautical flag for "P" which indicates Preparing to sail.

    • @stephendavies6949
      @stephendavies6949 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @geoffreyford7288 Both horse and programme were named after the nautical flag. Blue Peter the programme were instrumental in helping raise money to return the loco to the mainline in the 1970s too.

    • @modeloco
      @modeloco หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Loved all that dot connecting everyone 👍

  • @kevinpennick3604
    @kevinpennick3604 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Bloody marvellous

  • @barnsproductions
    @barnsproductions หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I saw both the 91-hauled IC225 set, plus not long afterwards ‘Blue Peter’ and its train, at Peterborough late yesterday afternoon.

  • @JonDingle
    @JonDingle หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Steam loco's have such a presence, sense of occassion and Blue Peter 60532 looks fantastic in that livery. I really do wish that these loco's could be used commercially today instead of the boring and hideous rail buses going up and down

    • @martinsims1273
      @martinsims1273 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, they may well be "efficient", but they certainly lack the "presence" of steam power.

  • @brianwillson9567
    @brianwillson9567 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    That organisation certainly turns out an immaculate train.

  • @vcs00railway
    @vcs00railway หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Stunning looking locomotive, so clean and like new

  • @jonelson1983
    @jonelson1983 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Looks fantastic

  • @James-ih4gz
    @James-ih4gz หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    shes blue like a GNR-I engine from ireland love it

  • @michaelnaisbitt7926
    @michaelnaisbitt7926 หลายเดือนก่อน

    She is absolutely beautiful thanks for upload TH-cam

  • @generalfilms9947
    @generalfilms9947 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    So beautiful those trains are 🤩

  • @FranciscoAntonio-rd1eu
    @FranciscoAntonio-rd1eu หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Blue Peter is a very handsome boy, and he smokes cigars hehehe...Gracias.

  • @user-vc6bz1ig7v
    @user-vc6bz1ig7v หลายเดือนก่อน

    Absolutely stunning loco, fantastic condition.

  • @johnmay2786
    @johnmay2786 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a magnificent locomotive!

  • @alan_mythicalgnome
    @alan_mythicalgnome หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Blue Peter looks smart in early BR blue and all Crimson and cream coaches. Being Blue Peter the blue livery is fitting for it. It would look a stunning sight if it was double heading with Sir Nigel Gresley.

    • @kristoffermangila
      @kristoffermangila หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Even better if she double heads with Tornado, as both are designs of Arthur Peppercorn!

    • @alan_mythicalgnome
      @alan_mythicalgnome หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@kristoffermangila Yes.They would look good together. I was thinking more of the sight of the matching mint condition colour with Sir Nigel Gresley.

    • @ncs8730
      @ncs8730 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      One yummy pie is not enough for you, you want two pies at once :))

  • @JonWhitton
    @JonWhitton หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fantastic

  • @michaelstaley2241
    @michaelstaley2241 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A very beautiful locomotive…

  • @user-bt3po7in7g
    @user-bt3po7in7g 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    fantastic

  • @RealJustinCrow
    @RealJustinCrow หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What was the charter service? Good couple of grand for a ticket, probably a 2 night sleeper up and own the island, but would be nice to give the website a view?

  • @jaybee1921
    @jaybee1921 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Excellent coverage, thanks for sharing...I didn't realise it was the Official Naming Ceromony, who did the honours? 🙂

    • @fenderac3049
      @fenderac3049 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Jeremy Hosking the owner of LSL.

    • @stephenlaws7752
      @stephenlaws7752  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad you liked the video

    • @speedbirdconcordeBOAB
      @speedbirdconcordeBOAB หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      John Noakes and Shep 😂

  • @bob-sb2zu
    @bob-sb2zu หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What livery is the train supposed to be in ? It's certainly not what used to be called 'carmine and cream',the red is too dark and plum coloured,i remember the livery well.l only asked because many people are calling it that .

  • @alanrowe2464
    @alanrowe2464 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful loco, excellent video, thank you. One gripe, someone please do something about that whistle !

  • @mikeslipper1779
    @mikeslipper1779 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That's a superb piece of steam machinery.

  • @RailfanRaza
    @RailfanRaza หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful 😍 video lovely video brother ❤️

    • @stephenlaws7752
      @stephenlaws7752  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for your kind words glad you liked the video

  • @petersmith4455
    @petersmith4455 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    hi, great video, all rolling stock very well turned out, well done to who ever was responsible,those new trains look so ugly , who asked for them in the first place ?

    • @stephenlaws7752
      @stephenlaws7752  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad you liked the video

    • @NickGillings-vf3ye
      @NickGillings-vf3ye หลายเดือนก่อน

      The asked for boring metal tubes with uncomfortable, seats , no character whatsoever.

  • @MervynPartin
    @MervynPartin หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful apart from a chime whistle full of water. it certainly looks smarter now than when it was tucked away inside Didcot shed in the early 70s.

  • @anthonywarrener1881
    @anthonywarrener1881 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a superb locomotive !

  • @bertieboys669
    @bertieboys669 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I filmed Blue Peter yesterday in Doncaster

    • @Micheal_stone
      @Micheal_stone หลายเดือนก่อน

      Post it on you’re TH-cam channel than

    • @bertieboys669
      @bertieboys669 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Micheal_stone it is on my channel

    • @bertieboys669
      @bertieboys669 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have

  • @ianlaws3857
    @ianlaws3857 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A beautiful testimony to vintage engineering

  • @garybrindle6715
    @garybrindle6715 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Steam engine 'Blue Peter' first main-line run since 2001 ... There's a naming ceremony at Kings Cross at 1300 beforehand

    • @tooleyheadbang4239
      @tooleyheadbang4239 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      So that's what Anna Massey was doing with the flag...

  • @stephendavies6949
    @stephendavies6949 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Arguably, an example of the pinnacle of steam locomotive design and engineering in the UK, BP looks just stunning in BR Express Blue.
    Can't wait for Bachmann to produce a model of her. No doubt they'll want the thick end of £300 for it, though.... 😢

    • @terrier_productions
      @terrier_productions หลายเดือนก่อน

      You’re think of Hornby. If Bachmann produced BP in BR Express Blue, it would most likely be a Bachmann Collector’s Club Exclusive. They did the same with a blue-version of “Linda” in 009 gauge

  • @mridontknowu7473
    @mridontknowu7473 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Not me seeing myself in this 😂

  • @marcdelente2456
    @marcdelente2456 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Les trains d aujourd'hui me laisse de marbre oui vraiment autant que je craque devant un train tracter par une locomotive a vapeur c était tellement plus beau en quelques mots un vrai train.

  • @simonmiles3506
    @simonmiles3506 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I saw the exact 225 and Blue Peter at Conington

  • @JoshHemingwayMetcalfe96
    @JoshHemingwayMetcalfe96 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Beautiful steam engine

  • @DTAM-Aviationshorts290
    @DTAM-Aviationshorts290 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bro I was there with you and saw it. I also passed it on the train there

  • @billywindsock9597
    @billywindsock9597 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don’t think I’ve seen a better turned out loco. Blue is fine when it is this clean. Would it look better in green? Maybe.

  • @davefreeman7629
    @davefreeman7629 หลายเดือนก่อน

    great video nice one.

    • @stephenlaws7752
      @stephenlaws7752  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad you liked the video Thanks

  • @johnwood2684
    @johnwood2684 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Will the children's TV show of the same name include this loco's return to working order in their programme?

  • @johnholt890
    @johnholt890 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When are we now going to get an A1,A2,A3 and A4 gathering?

    • @kristoffermangila
      @kristoffermangila หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Possibly some big LNER anniversary and the host is NRM in York.

    • @terrier_productions
      @terrier_productions หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kristoffermangila and sponsored by Hornby who will capitalise on the event and sell new models for £250 - £300 each because that is who Hornby is now

    • @ansonleeXD
      @ansonleeXD หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kristoffermangilaHopefully in Mallard’s 100th anniversary of breaking the record in 2037

    • @kristoffermangila
      @kristoffermangila หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ansonleeXD a possibility.

    • @tooleyheadbang4239
      @tooleyheadbang4239 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      When we finally get a Gresley A1 and a Raven A2.

  • @tridentmusic5570
    @tridentmusic5570 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lovely Locomotive..Shame about all the Zombies.....London eh?

  • @alanclifford1337
    @alanclifford1337 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great A2 - more powerful than the A1.

    • @bob-sb2zu
      @bob-sb2zu หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nonsense just different wheel size

    • @ncs8730
      @ncs8730 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      But no more beautiful. I think Tornado and Blue Peter make a great duet.

  • @steverowland1686
    @steverowland1686 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Is this same engine that named on tv show Blue Peter year ago

    • @RoyCousins
      @RoyCousins หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The very same

  • @joshc140
    @joshc140 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Was this it’s inaugral mainline run?

  • @richardchamberlain8527
    @richardchamberlain8527 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    60532 is one of the most beautiful steamers I've seen. Thanks to her owner for keeping her running.

  • @bob-sb2zu
    @bob-sb2zu หลายเดือนก่อน

    I suppose it had to be painted blue so as not to confuse the kiddy winks !

    • @frankbagshaw6886
      @frankbagshaw6886 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I hope you really know why it wears the express blue livery.

    • @bob-sb2zu
      @bob-sb2zu หลายเดือนก่อน

      There's no historic reason for it being BR blue ,no A2 ever was.This loco was built LNER green with British Railways on the tender but wasn't fitted with double kylchap and multiple valve regulator,by then I believe it was in BR green .

  • @andrewdarley8988
    @andrewdarley8988 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I dont understand why they want to propagate these shortlived BR colour schemes. The only locos that ever looked good in express blue were the A4s. Similarly the maroon coach livery made the blood and custard look guady

  • @derekferguson385
    @derekferguson385 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Modern trains are so boring.

    • @huwprice881
      @huwprice881 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Each generation says the same, Blue Peter is beautiful and fabulous, but in terms of efficiency and speed over a given route an absolute dinosaur.

  • @DavidFennessy-yj7du
    @DavidFennessy-yj7du หลายเดือนก่อน

    They can’t have looked as ponced up as this when in service, they would have had a patina, soot collected around the boiler ring areas, maybe some limescale coming off the safety valve area, they were working machines in their day not some..‘gleaming’..exhibit, I go to the heritage lines and the loco is all spit & polish with pensioners in leisure wear knocking about like something off a Saga holiday

    • @markydh83
      @markydh83 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Isn’t that the point? They *are* effectively moving museums and there’s nothing wrong with looking after them and having them gleaming 🙄

    • @tooleyheadbang4239
      @tooleyheadbang4239 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@markydh83 Express Passenger locos were always kept clean in the days before BR, apart from war-time.
      The track-suit-bottoms age came later.

  • @petercollingwood4108
    @petercollingwood4108 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The coppers 😂

  • @OneHundredPiplup
    @OneHundredPiplup หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cool!!! How long has that train existed?

    • @tooleyheadbang4239
      @tooleyheadbang4239 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Not long. It's made up of a sad assortment of ex-BR Mk 1 and Mk 2 carriages, in a vaguely 'historic' livery.

  • @levelcrossing150
    @levelcrossing150 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As beautifully turned out as it is, is there a problem that they are now looking like museum pieces?

    • @kristoffermangila
      @kristoffermangila หลายเดือนก่อน

      Depends on a variety of factors, but owners of steam locomotives nowadays want their machines to look sharp. Just as an example, even if it is in black, Union Pacific #4014 is kept nice and clean by its crew every time its on tour.

    • @markydh83
      @markydh83 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No, because that’s what they are.

    • @ncs8730
      @ncs8730 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      They are not looking like that. They are looking like that when they sit still in museums.

  • @TamasKiss-bv9hz
    @TamasKiss-bv9hz หลายเดือนก่อน

    👍👍👍❤🤍💚

  • @martinlintzgy1361
    @martinlintzgy1361 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Im always disappointed to see a diesel engine at the end of a steam train

  • @alantraish3368
    @alantraish3368 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Shame hoskin owns it

  • @markgoddard2560
    @markgoddard2560 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow! A clean engine, an out of tune band, a woman struggling to undo a curtain over the engine name and an emergency spare diesel on the end in case the steam train breaks down. Can you get any more English?

  • @ianmcarthur3554
    @ianmcarthur3554 หลายเดือนก่อน

    NOT A VERY GOOD WHISTLE

  • @user-gb6mk4vx1g
    @user-gb6mk4vx1g หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Beautifully clean, but a HORRIBLE colour. It looks awful. The Blue A4s didn’t look nice either. Whereas the BR green suits GWR locomotives, Apple green is best for GNR/LNER locomotives. Malachite green looks as good, too. Blood and custard, looked shabby. A steam train with a diesel on the back, or anywhere else, isn’t a proper steam train. Better to have light engines dotted around standing by, where the lines weren’t given away and turned into Carparks

    • @terrier_productions
      @terrier_productions หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Just be happy she’s back.. unless you own her or have had some part in her return, I don’t think your opinion on her livery matters.
      Diesels are there to be used as generators a well as being there for insurance reasons but what if the leading steam engine fails and there is no diesel on the back to help?
      As enthusiasts, the railways we know and love are long gone, the glamor and elegance of rail travel is no more - it’s all about getting from A to B as quickly as possible which is exactly why I prefer heritage traction of all shapes and sizes.
      Just be happy that we (as the UK) are one of the best countries for preservation. Hundreds to thousands of locomotives of different gauges still exist thanks to volunteers.
      The colour of a locomotive or a coach shouldn’t matter - it’s clear that LSL wanted to a ‘What if’ livery and I’m in full support of that.

    • @huwprice881
      @huwprice881 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's a beautiful colour, and the variety is surely to be welcome?

    • @johnholt890
      @johnholt890 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@terrier_productionstotally agree but one query is it a What If? I thought all BR Express engines ran in blue at one point?

    • @johnholt890
      @johnholt890 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I think it is rather wonderful that this is still permitted even occasionally on the UK National railway in 2024.

    • @rodneycooperLMSCoach
      @rodneycooperLMSCoach หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Oh I don't know it's not that bad and beautifully carried out. Blue was an early BR experimental colour for some class 8 locos in the early 1950's, for some A4's in LNER days and a throw back to Caledonian blue of the 19th century. I know they have to have diesels on the back of some trains but it never looks right to me.