35028 Clan Line - A Dramatic Run Up Hemerdon Bank - The Cornishman 2018
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- 35028 'Clan Line' makes the rarest of trips over the Devon Banks and also makes her first visit to Cornwall in preservation as the renowned powerhouse heads the Cornishman from Bristol to Par. The locomotive has a gained a reputation in recent years as possibly the most prolific hill climber of the mainline fleet and on June 17th, we would see her tackle the heavily graded Devon and Cornish banks. The westbound run was exceptional, topping Dainton at 35 and although not featured here, we do see Clan Line twice surging up Tigley and Rattery Bank, she is firstly seen at Follaton where she slips on the lower part of the climb then at Tigley, on the more arduous section of the bank, an excellent 32mph and in the pouring rain !
The highlight of the run for linesiders and passengers, is the ferocious Hemerdon Bank, and this is where all the drama unfolded. Tackling the 1/42 bank is always a challenge, but given the consistent rain and load 10 on hook, and a big slip further down the bank, it meant the Bullied dug it's heels in with the sanders working overtime ! Once under the summit bridge there was still more to come with a volcanic exhaust being produced on the easier grade, which continued towards Hemerdon Sidings ! Stirring stuff and well worth the five hour wait despite the grim conditions !
We finish off the day at Burlescombe and Whiteball tunnel, where we see the Merchant Navy charging her way up the hill after a pathing stop at Tiverton Loop and once again it was raining !
Despite the weather and early start, this was certainly not a trip to be missed. A big thanks to all who were involved ! I hope you enjoy the steam, there was plenty of it ! - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
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Watching this video makes you proud to be British (Engineering at its finest). A big thank you to all the volunteers who make this possible.
10 on !
Great video, which I watch more than once a year.
Grossartige Aufnahmen. Herrliche Landschaften, keine störenden Fahrleitungen, lange stilreine Züge und hart arbeitende Maschinen. Ganz grosse Klasse.
Amazing video. Don’t you just love the sound of a Bullied in full chat.🇬🇧
The sheer volume of steam she produces when pulling hard is incredible. Beautiful shots, thank you.
Wow, great filming, Liam. The wonderful Clan Line running like a sewing machine and no lump of useless pig iron tacked on behind the last coach , either. Just brilliant.
Stunning video. The best I have seen. Takes me back to the early 50'/60's, in fact I think I got a tiny bit of grit in my eyes when watching this. Well done to everyone concerned. I am going to share this with my grandsons who love this sort of thing. I can't think why. ;)
Amazing performance particularly on Hemerdon, not just the climb but the acceleration once over the top and still blowing off, footplate crew up for it that day.
Incredible boilers on the Bulleids ! Superb footage, thank you.
brilliant photography, brilliant engine and superb work by the footplate crew. What an amazing loco.
That was music to my ears, mate. Nice to see a loco crew that was having a good hard run and the loco seemed to be enjoying the run also. Sounded awesome.🖒
What a stunning capture some of the best clips of steam working hard ever .Fantastic !
Brilliant, Liam and Phil, this video speaks for itself and will be a tough act to follow (though no doubt you will succeed in that!). Many thanks for your endurance. Kind regards, Bob.
Wow! this is amazing, also i want to give you+your camera/speaker 1m pounds for picking up that hammer blow! this deserves to be on home page without ppl subscribing!
Stunning show, simply superb Liam! Ta mate, great footage!
An excellent video , great shots with plenty of steam, just like old days, Thank you both
Superb footage, really enjoyed watching !
What a stunning set of clips, very well captured and thanks for showing.
Cheers Peter. Glad you enjoyed it.
Superb loco, and with a magnificent free steaming boiler - climbing Hemerdon she has the temerity to blow off steam.....astonishing!
Rumour has it, she'll be given another crack at the banks, hopefully dry weather this time.
Adrian Norris th-cam.com/video/JDuJ3zHIvU4/w-d-xo.html
With the LeMaitre ejector, working hard creates a strong but steady draught, especially with 6 beats per rev. It was apocryphally said that the Bulleid boiler would steam on eggshells!
Somebody once said Bulleids can't climb gradients, they should watch this footage. Excellent machines
Excellent video. Brought back memories in the late fifties of that oh so slow up Hemerdon but frightening coming back as we came into Plympton & Laira at full tilt. As a boy I used to call them 'Cling Clangs' because of the noise they made as they came on Platform 3 I watched from the end of 7 & 8 as all good train spotters did in those days. Just brilliant, thanks
What a spectacle ! As ever brilliant filming in slightly ‘Pour’ (wet) conditions - keep em coming please.
Absolutely awesome footage - well done indeed. Cheers John
Excellent video, well done for getting some good shots despite the less than ideal conditions
Nice video great camera work as usual I am really enjoying your lovely videos and camera work keep it up I am really looking forward to seeing your next video bye for now Philip
The both of you deserve an award for capturing all these stunning clips in one day Liam...10/10 from me....Bob
Bob, you're too kind. maybe a medal for waiting around for the return, but then we would all deserve one, as there was plenty of enthusiasts around, even five hours before it's due.
Clan Line rules in the south, British India Line rules in the north. OVSB may not have been happy about the rebuilding but I do think he would be gratified by the current performance of these two FINE locomotives.
Just doing what comes naturally. Doing it rather well by the look of it. Great shots, thanks.
And plenty left in the tank too !
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Very sure footed,and blowing off to! Fantastic
A quite outstanding performance from Clan Line Liam, particularly in such atrocious weather conditions and over these grades! The sight and sound of her blasting away up Hemerdon was really stirring and music to my ears, blowing off steam amazingly, and hardly a slip which I never noticed anyway! Since I've heard for myself the recently returned 35018 British India Line, I have a new found respect and admiration for these Bulleids, they're outstanding performers. Well done to you too Liam for managing so many clips in great positions, you're a bit of a master of the art of presenting videos!! Best wishes mate! Ken
Ken, I'm glad you enjoyed it, and as always thanks for your kind comment. I'm led to believe there was a few big slips further down the bank which cost the crew about 10mph and a few mini slips near the top were reported by the driver post run ! This locomotive goes from strength to strength ! Hopefully we will see it tackle the Northern Fells in the near future. Kind regards, Liam
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All those who say Bulleids can't climb hills should watch this and not a duff in sight.
I have seen her tackle the notorious Goodrington bank unaided on the Torbay Express
@@kenmcdowell5325 I travelled behind Clan Line a few years back over the Portsmouth Direct with its long 1 in 80s which had a tough reputation in steam days prior to electrification in 1937. She hammered up the banks and seemed well in command, a great experience. As she's now approaching her 50th anniversary on main line steam specials, and has been in working order for nearly all that period apart from a major overhaul in the early 2000s. I wonder if she would be the steam engine that has run most miles in preservation. One long-distance round trip must clock up as many miles as a week's continuous working on heritage lines, and there are not many other locomotives that have been so continuously out on the main line.
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I have never witnessed it myself but I believe BIL has put in some special performances over shap and the S&C
Magnificent machines, my 2nd favourite locos after the mighty Duchesses
Excellent vid Liam she is working very well there cheers Steve ..
Quite simply one of the best TH-cam clips I've ever seen thank you to you all! PS I didn't mind the HST at the end seeing that those trains' days were already numbered as far as express passenger services were concerned.
beautiful shots!
All hail to this mighty locomotive and outstanding footplate crew.
By goodness that was a purposeful ascent - the Bulleids were known to be exceptionally free steamers and it looks as if, with the conditions on the day, it's just as well!
Thanks for an exceptional piece of film
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What an immense loco she is! Superb video.
Indeed she is, thanks for the comment.
Fantastic sound!
Re-building the Merchant navy clas was one of the soundest engineering decisions BR made. Stripping away Bullieds excentricities reavealed what a fine engine lay underneath. Capacity to raise steam that coped with heavy demands over extended periods was what counts on the S Devon banks. The kings handled it well on the high octane coal they were designed for but their smaller fireboxes stuggled with the later lower quality coal.
Nice to see such a clean exhaust (mostly) and as usual... no shortage of steam.
Awesome performance! Superb video captures!
Thanks Steve, a great show for all concerned.
Magnificent work and super sound effects. The loco has plenty of steam to spare on the climbs.
Thanks Rod, she could of probably took another coach.
Great video! The only thing missing for me is the sound of the what-a-to-do, what-a-to-do, what-a-to-do of steel wheels on the jointed rail tracks. That would really take me back to the days of my youth.
Reminds me of my trip on "The Strongbow Express" across the Hope Valley in the 1970s
Grand! Thanks.
Volcano on wheels Superb !!
Fantastic shot there mate
Nice driving, and shovelling!
Top Filming !! Awesome Loco !!!
Very underated the merchant navys when they were rebuilt it transformed them into power houses .
What a stunning loco I’m totally southern bias but such power
Great video :)
Sanders worked perfectly !
I look forward to seeing what the P2 can do once she is built.
That shall be interesting indeed
I thought this class were supposed to be quiet sounding, this proves me wrong. Very nice sounds.👍
Well, they're quieter in most conditions than a typical loco, the Lemaitre blastpipe does 'soften' the blast significantly. Compare at e.g. 4:30 on this video with e.g. a double-chimney Jubilee (which is far from the sharpest blast around) - see th-cam.com/video/TriqBgKmhh8/w-d-xo.html at 13:30 for example.
Myself, I love the 'soft' Bulleid blast.
Magnificent.
Very impressive performances - especially on Hemerdon, compared with Duchess of Sutherland on 28 April 2019. Thank you for posting these shots.
I was thinking exactly the same: slightly less powerful than the Coronations, but handled it with ease. We never saw much of the merchant navy class up here in the North, but I have to say, they're fine looking (and sounding) engines. The driver really knew his stuff, too.
The Bulleids (both types) did well on the Devon banks in the 1948 interchange trials.
@@johnriggs4929 I'm not sure that they are slightly less powerful than the Coronations. We'll never know for sure. In the 48 trials, it was a West Country that took the prize for max DBHP.
Magnificent performance. I'd love to see her up north taking on Shap, Ais Gill & Beattock!
You can see BI Line doing just that.
@@derekthompson3907 Think man, think. As a fraction of total pollution, it's not even in the data noise level.
I was privileged to be punter on her second northbound run over Ais Gill with 13 on IIRC (lol just found the evidence), stopped at Settle Jn for a Pacer off the branch, and 36mph @ summit.
Doesn't look as though she's aged much in -what- 30 years or so. Brilliant loco builder, wonderful support team. maybe a donation on the way,,,
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Most of what you is steam, water in gaseous form.
Clan Line is now approaching her 50th anniversary on main line steam specials, and has been in working order for nearly all that period apart from a major overhaul in the early 2000s. I wonder if she would be the steam engine that has run most miles in preservation. One long-distance round trip must clock up as many miles as a week's continuous working on heritage lines, and there are not many other locomotives that have been so continuously out on the main line.
Superb shots - what a pity the weather was so poor.
Thanks very much, though I would of taken these conditions instead of a hot and humid day. I like to see steam out of a steam loco lol
Fair comment. I must be getting soft in my old age! LOL
Hmmmm can't beat clan line she's a credit to people who run her on mainline 😁😁😁😁
Absolutely, without them, this engine would cease to exist !
I was raised on a diet of duchesses hammering up the WCML, but what magnificent machines these are both in built and rebuilt form.
A credit to the designer
impressive indeed
Why does the train get longer? Great Location + Great Train = Great Video. Thanks.
Some great clips there in terrible conditions. Good to see you again at flax bourton , did you see my clip there ?
Will get round to it Kev, I've got quite a backlog, good to catch up briefly.
Hats off to Mr Bullied!
nice video
What a magnificent machine , where's Candian pacific nowadays?
.Was on this trip in the company of non enthusiasts who likened it to being HST hauled!
Excellent stuff and didn't the footplate crew do well with excess steam at the summit?
An exhausted fireman
Great video! Thanks! Sorry, these steam-lok on this route is better with a few wagon. 10 wagon are top much!!
Ulfert Jürgens well, she managed fine with 10 here!
1:50 - No.28 acts as starting pistol for the cow marathon
Well noticed! 😂😂😂
Harold Gasson would be very proud.
wao..full power speed
I'll bet that cleaned the tubes out a bit!
Your video looks like a continuous "Kodachrome" picture postcard, incredible!
Looked like it was never really troubled to me....
Excellent footage, really top notch. Given Clan Line is a Class 8 locomotive, it shows quite how excellent Tangmere was in 2014 (?) when it went over the top of Hemerdon at 33mph on load 9, in admittedly better conditions. I was in the second coach and the exhaust roar was absolutely spine tingling. Sadly no footage it seems :-(
It was 29 over the top with Tangmere, which performance logs have confirmed. Only 60009 & 71000 have gone quicker over the top. I'd say Clan Line would have gone one better than Tangmere and 60009 if the conditions were dry. Thanks for your comment.
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@@sknn497 thanks - that was a different week to the run I was on. Whilst the 29mph on that date was officially recorded, the run I was on was quicker based on reports from on board, but no official record it seems.
This shows that what I said on the dutchess of Sutherland video a lighter slightly less powerful locomotive is better able to take those banks
Exactly why BR didn't scrap them but rebuilt them.
modified the drive gear etc , the original was run in oil baths which which leaked onto the wheels
So this is Clan Line's very first time over the infamous Devon Banks? Looks like she left one hell of a first impression.
No, the last time she went over the banks was nearly two decades ago, though it's her first time into Cornwall in preservation so I'm told.
Oh, right. But am I right in saying she's the first Merchant Navy over the banks? I know it's not the first Bullied, Tangmere's been over them several times.
The last time a Merchant Navy ran over the Devon Banks was in 2000, which happened to be Clan Line, so no, not her first time. The run into Cornwall was the first time a Merchant Navy has run into Cornwall possibly since steam days !
Ah, interesting. Yes, that was a bit of a brain fart on my part, since I already knew that Clan Line is now taking turns on the Torbay Express, so of course she's been over the banks before. But at least she now has the honour of being the first preserved Merchant Navy into Cornwall. Shame that on that particular day, the weather became extremely Cornish.
If I'm going to be pedantic, The Torbay route doesn't do the Devon Banks, although the Torbay does have a few hills on it's route. Churston and Torre are the main climbs. In railway terms the banks start after you take a right at Aller Junction after Newton Abbot.
Bullieds have come to grief on many climbs, if you can get a run at Hemerdon its not so bad, for a long time there was speed res at the bottom that made it difficult, be interesting to see what speed Clan was doing at the bottom...? Good effort in those conds/load never the less.
The comments note that she slipped near the bottom which cost maybe 10 mph, yet still put up this fine performance, battling over the top at a good speed with 10 on.
Not bad for a Pacific !!!
Behind "the Clan" cream and brown back from town
8:20 - was I the only person going “shiiiit the paintwork”?
are the age of steamnice .i do like my class 37 and deltics as well as steam
A 37 would never create this kind of drama ! On the other hand, I would like to see more of the Deltics, great locos !
Why all the steam between the tender and first coach, was there a leak somewhere ?.
No, Clan Line always does that. Apparently it's some kind of steam heating thing in her tender, but I'm not quite sure what it is.
Clan line is now dual braked, ie; air and vacuum. She was built with only vacuum and when converted to air, the society fitted the steam driven air compressor to the rear of the tender. This is the exhaust steam you can see
One would think that other main line bulleids such as Braunton and Tangmere would have a similar thing?
They have, but are fitted in different places on the loco and exhaust up the chimney.
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OK, you tell me, where else you can get 9 passenger cars full of people up a long hill for the price of one lump of coal?
It's just like 34046 braunton but the tender it's different
Clan Line is a rebuilt Merchant Navy class. Braunton is a rebuilt West Country, which is a very slightly smaller 'lightweight' version of the Merchant Navys.
I was going to say it seemed a bit of a slog compared with how, say, 34067 or 60009 has done it in the past, but if there was a yellow at the summit then that's some skilled driving in proceeding at caution while keeping the momentum going. That amount of smoke is rather atypical though. Perhaps a fireman not so familiar with a Bulleid?
The amber signals which were reported from on board, were found to be false. Though apparently the loco did slip near the top a few times, though these were only minor and hard to tell with the amount of steam and smoke which was present, Info came from the crew, so I am happy to believe it's legitimacy. She was blowing off all day on the banks, although not up Tigley.
@Alexander Challis Hi - very belated reply - I can comment because I was on the train and, by chance, I know and spoke at length to the man who was in the left hand seat from Plymouth. The yellow aspect, which worried me for a minute, is a colour light that reverts to a restrictive aspect very quickly after the front of the train passes it and so, if you are looking out of a coach window, you would have seen yellow. The footplate crew saw green. However, she did lose her feet, twice I think, early on, the second time quite badly in that it was a big slip that took time to catch - on a 1 in 42 you lose momentum very quickly and you cannot get all the power on immediately, hence the quite correct comments about losing 9-10 mph as a result of those slip(s). Having said that, the driver said he was always confident he had enough in hand to get over the top and was happy to leave the engine to pick up speed after the summit, with the terrific acceleration we saw. Also, again as we saw, steam production was never an issue. Great boiler design but also excellent firing from a GW crew who would not have been so familiar with this locomotive and its grate. What a terrific day! Thickmike
Electric
Looks like cannabis growing along the side of the track! See about 2min 22s in as the camera pans right.
Unfortunately it wasn't !
It's Hemp Agrimony - Eupatorium cannabinum. Very similar, hence the name, but native and not narcotic!
Betcha she could use much less fuel by using it more efficiently (and dumping much less schmutz up the stack). Meaning: bituminous coal contains much heavy oil. Proper combustion efficiency means allowing entry of air in proportion to burn it all. Of course this sort of low-pressure recip steam is inherently very low efficiency, at least health hazard downwind could be reduced.
health hazard? I think you're over reacting a bit
Wow, a keyboard expert. I'm awestruck at your obvious hands on knowledge!
What a Pratt there is no heavy oil in bituminous coal
Must be firing the old girl on car tyres.
Get some Welsh coal for the old girl.
environmentalists dislike this
Amar Kurniawan : What? The diesel powered passing train or the well fired steamer? After taking into account the refining and shipping, probably both on a par. And, with electric trains, still mostly burnt gas or oil just in a concentrated area.
Glad to hear it, honestly !
One of the best reasons I can think of for doing anything is that environmentalists dislike it.
I agree !
Childish idiot.