@@ScienceChap The chime whistles were American design and made under licence in Britain after WW2. The original American made chimes were removed during the war to avoid confusion with air raid sirens. Also remember that Merlins were made by Packard in America as well as Britain. It's a wonder no American has pointed that out here - they're usually right onto that sort of detail..
There is no other country in the world who manufactured steam locomotives that were as good and looked as good as this, something we can be proud of, great film, thanks.
I disagree You didn't have 6000hp locomotives that could pull 1000 ton trains at 100mph on level track or run 15,000 to 25,000 miles a month ( a New York Central Niagara ) As far as looks, I like some of your engines , but this thing looks like a fish or a loaf of bread on wheels ( yeah, I know about the A4 speed claims ) Also, some of your engines, even in the twentieth century, had small cramped cabs that looked like they were tacked on behind the boiler as a seeming afterthought, making them look kind of naked or out of proportion, Steam locomotives should have full sized cabs with double side windows. ( my opinion )
@@davefrompa5334 RUBBISH, the A4 locomotives are the race horses of the steam age, and nothing you say can change that, Yank locomotives are as poor as their cars!
@@robertday8619 Really ? What part of what I said about the Niagaras isn't true ? Also. there were other US engines , mostly 4-8-4's, that were at least comparable. As far as "race horses" are concerned , the Milwaukee Road Hiawathas ran the fastest REGULAR SCHEDULED steam train service ever. You might want to check out "Giants of Steam" by Jonathan Glancey and "Locomotive Practice and Performance in the Twentieth Century" by Cecil J. Allen ( both British authors ) Also, Andre Chapelon believed the claims that the Milwaukee Road Atlantics and Hudsons ( Baltics ) achieved or exceeded their two mile a minute design speeds on schedule setting runs, as recorded in his book " La Locomotive a Vapeur," They probably weren't using a dynomometer car ( just the loco's speedometer) but at that time, most US roads didn't care about top speed bragging rights, just what was practical in regular service. In any case, I say US passenger locos had the best balance of speed AND power
@@davefrompa5334 we built glamorous, fast, good looking locomotives and not highly powerful ones that could travel far, because we didn't need them. We could build powerful, like the 9f but that's all we needed. America, however did need fast locomotives, but still got outdone (not by much) by European locomotives like the German streamliners and the a4. Case closed
Being from the US, my first thought was "wow, how's he/she taking that good a picture while driving?" but then I remembered the wheel is on the right over there. :P Great footage! :D
I'm 56. I remember these going up the east coast of Scotland in my youth. The most stunning thing about them was how slow the wheels seemed to be turning, and how breakneck and breathlessly quickly they went past.
I’m in my late sixties, so I’m too young to have seen one of Gresley’s beauties in service, but I get overcome with nostalgia watching this. Thank you ❤️.
Not only am I in my early 20s, but Im also American 🙃 I would absolutely love to see one of these beautiful metal beasts in person, it's the stuff of dreams
@@hobmoor2042 I’m from Shropshire, so they weren’t in service here. I bet they were a sight to behold. I aim to visit the National Railway Museum and hope to see Mallard there.
@@Pluggit1953 , Taken my grandson(5) a few times to the York museum, well worth the trip. I think Bittern and Sir Nigel Gresley are at Crewe being overhauled.
I am now sixty nine and saw them many times .The only one I can recall seeing with certainty was Andrew K McCosh one day at York.Sadly my Ian Allen combine is long gone.
Very impressive, you don't often get a shot like this. Amazing how the loco seems to just lope along, i kept thinking of greyhounds watching the motion working.
@@bussesandtrains1218 Interestingly enough, during the 1948 Locomotive Exchanges, the A4s came out as the most economical Class 8 express locomotives of all...
Simple reason why Mallard overheated her middle cylinder bearing - on making the 126, Duddington completely shut the regulator. The Germans, who had more experience of extreme high-speed steam running, had this happen years previously, and had learned to 90% close the regulator, thus allowing SOME steam through to the cylinders. If Duddington had done this, Mallard would have been unscathed.
Great Video, this is absolutely the best way to see a steam loco in action. I've done one myself in NZ although not quite so good (the traffic was going faster than the train!).
Last time I saw steam like this was in 1968 chasing after the last remnants of UK steam. The clanking of the coupling rods is an embedded memory. Long live steam!!!
Clanking of buffers in the marshalling yard another embedded memory! Also the irregular beat of a small engine hauling a heavy coal train through the countryside.
I remember this particular loco as a child in the mid-fifties. It hauled our train from Perth, and over the Forth Bridge. If my memory serves me correctly, we were en route to Kings Cross.
Top speed is 85mph cab leading. The famous 126mph run was not the average for the class and the engineers all advised against it. Hell, that 126mph run ended up partially melting the inner cylinder for Mallard.
not to mention Mallard had one of the most daring daredevil drivers on the whole of the LNER, if it wasn't for the help of Joe Duddington and his Fireman Tommy Bray, Mallard wouldn't be the famous blue beauty we all love, legend has it that Duddington even wore his drivers cap back to front to prove how daring he was :) Shame that there are a lot of A4 bashers out there... they're just jealous of Mr. Gresley's awsome designs...
Superb video, i remember these as a lad going through Hornsey Stn, they used to do about 70mph going north and south, great sight when you had a double express both ways. Thanks for posting this great video.
This is great. There's loads of pictures of A4s and quite a few films of them travelling past the camera at speed, but a long closeup of one of these beauties hurtling along at full steam - with the actual sound they make, and the valve gear doing it's stuff - is a rare treat indeed. 10 out 0f 10
I was a train spotter in the 1950s with my Ian Allen train spotting book for the LNER. I remember standing on the platform at Grantham station watching these magnificent engines tearing through with the whistle howling and the cab lit up from the open fir door on occasion. One regular train springs to mind called the Elizabethan. Always on time at 11 am if memory serves after all those years
Great bit of film, i've stood on that footbridge near the end and watched the steam trains coming up the hill from Llandudno Junction so am surprised at the speed and how easily the train is moving on this section as it must have stopped at the junction. john
*sigh* you’re lucky... you get to drive along the road filming a magnificent A4 Pacific that alongside the same road you’re driving on... the only trains I see are Class 156 sprinters
Great footage. I travel this stretch of road regularly and have always thought it would be a great location for a train chasing sequence - you've proved me right! Well done. BTW i think she's doing about sixty.
An S-4 once hit 112mph, they were good locomotives, but i would say that the Milwaukee Road F7s were the fastest hudsons, if your looking for a loco to keep up with an A4, then the F7 might be your best choice.
I would so love to be on that foot plate, I'm am off course all for the many privet steam railways up and down the country and I have been on the footplate off a number off steam locos doing a steady 15 to 25 mph. They just look so much better going at 70, I don't know weather its the noise, steam and smoke, the blur off the pistons or just the countryside flashing by but it just seems right watching them flat out, After all its what they were built to do.
Excuse me An A4 is not a train!!!!! Itsa locomotive!! The locomotive Pulls the train!carriages. And in 1938 mallard A4 hailing 7 carriages reached 126 mph. Down stoke bank world record for steam!
Somebody placing the remark about topgear....I wish steam locomotives like that would be presented in a more sexy, attractive, pasionate way that may attract more people that normally wach topgear. I mean, if you love speed, these steamlocomotive are your thing. I have been in trains doing 330 km/h, and even one (the maglev) doing 430 km/h (see mrcastlehunter) but nothing gets close to the sensation of speed and power you get when travelling at 75 m/h with a steam train.
Best vid I've ever seen and I've worked on the 'Duke'. I've tried many times to pace locos and never managed it anything like as well as this. Bloody brilliant and credit must go to your driver. Hugh.
Cool! reminds me of the time I raced Bittern as "Dominion of New Zeland" from the old Sheffield Millhouses sheds to Sheffield Midland and just made it in time to see it stop at the station for a rest.
I measured the wheel rotation at approx 170RPM and with 6Ft8inch dia wheels that makes the loco going at approx 40MPH! It looks much faster than that however? I wonder what speed it was going?
I agree with kiwitrainguy that the speed is about 42mph. I worked it out as 251.327" circumference and timed 60 revolutions in 18.95 seconds - which is arbitrary accuracy, I know. But the sums work out to between 42 and 45 mph. Interestingly Mallard was travelling 3 times as fast when she broke the record. Imagine this clip played back at 3 times the proper speed!
Beautiful shot from the car! Gives a great picture and sound of one of the finest steam locomotives of Great Britain !!! Sorry it was over so quickly! Railcaphunter
I'm 53 and I recall it being in British Rail engineering workshops (whist I was apprenticed) for bearing work in Spirngburn /Glasgow in umm, 1978 (or there abouts)
With the later engine upgrades, it was possible that the Class A4 could have reached 130 mph as predicted, but no further attempts at a steam speed record were ever made after the Mallard.
There was an attempt planned for the autumn of 1939, but a certain war got in the way. Gresley was confident of a 'minimum' of 130mph. The choice of loco was down to three - the Kylchap trio (Mallard, Seagull, and Peregrine).
Fantastic, such grace such power and the glow from the fire box, real machines with real men driving ! we can only wish we made them like that again in the UK
Sarahandwills. thank you for a lovely video of this fantastic loco. I know that the loco was going a wee bit faster than the 42 mph that someone has worked out that it was doing. Well Done to the both of you.
Really good video I'm a huge Railway fan great job I have seen this engine at newcastle and been hauled by one 2 of its sisters bittern and sir nigel Gresley Great vid.
th-cam.com/video/swWh45knSms/w-d-xo.html ; Greetings this steam train and others are in a very interesting railway museum visit and how you can take a ride on a steam train
The difference is that train is only allowed to max at 90 today, in its say it was 120 mph beast and it didn’t need to stop between London and Edinburgh, not many cars do that ! Even less drivers That’s all I’m saying
Hi Sarah, I'm a volunteer at Barrow Hill roundhouse, near Chesterfield. We have a gala this weekend called "East Coast Giants", three A4's are with us, Dwight D Eisenhower, Dominion of Canada and Bittern. I would love to show this film on a big screen in the Archive section with others. It would be on a PPt loop and would screen every 30 min or so. I would make sure your name is on it. A "yes certainly" would be great!
To anyone hating on this, calling it obsolete and stupid, don't forget, Mallard, the most famous of these engines hit a hundred and twenty-six miles an hour in 1938. Cars back then could barely reach forty and nowadays they don't do much more now on the roads (unless the driver is suicidal of course)
That machine still looks sleek and purposeful even today.
... the most beautiful "Pacific" steam locomotives ever built ... the A3's and A4's of the British Railroads ...
In my opinion a Gresley (or BR) chime whistle is one of the most beautiful sounds known to man.
3 words.... Rolls Royce Merlin.
@@ScienceChap One word... Bach.
no words: ....
Hancock three chime whistle from the N&W J Class for myself.
@@ScienceChap The chime whistles were American design and made under licence in Britain after WW2. The original American made chimes were removed during the war to avoid confusion with air raid sirens.
Also remember that Merlins were made by Packard in America as well as Britain. It's a wonder no American has pointed that out here - they're usually right onto that sort of detail..
There is no other country in the world who manufactured steam locomotives that were as good and looked as good as this, something we can be proud of, great film, thanks.
I disagree You didn't have 6000hp locomotives that could pull 1000 ton trains at 100mph on level track or run 15,000 to 25,000 miles a month ( a New York Central Niagara )
As far as looks, I like some of your engines , but this thing looks like a fish or a loaf of bread on wheels ( yeah, I know about the A4 speed claims ) Also, some of your engines, even in the twentieth century, had small cramped cabs that looked like they were tacked on behind the boiler as a seeming afterthought, making them look kind of naked or out of proportion, Steam locomotives should have full sized cabs with double side windows. ( my opinion )
@@davefrompa5334 RUBBISH, the A4 locomotives are the race horses of the steam age, and nothing you say can change that, Yank locomotives are as poor as their cars!
@@robertday8619 Really ? What part of what I said about the Niagaras isn't true ? Also. there were other US engines , mostly 4-8-4's, that were at least comparable. As far as "race horses" are concerned , the Milwaukee Road Hiawathas ran the fastest REGULAR SCHEDULED steam train service ever. You might want to check out "Giants of Steam" by Jonathan Glancey and "Locomotive Practice and Performance in the Twentieth Century" by Cecil J. Allen ( both British authors )
Also, Andre Chapelon believed the claims that the Milwaukee Road Atlantics and Hudsons ( Baltics ) achieved or exceeded their two mile a minute design speeds on schedule setting runs, as recorded in his book " La Locomotive a Vapeur," They probably weren't using a dynomometer car ( just the loco's speedometer) but at that time, most US roads didn't care about top speed bragging rights, just what was practical in regular service. In any case, I say US passenger locos had the best balance of speed AND power
@@davefrompa5334 we built glamorous, fast, good looking locomotives and not highly powerful ones that could travel far, because we didn't need them. We could build powerful, like the 9f but that's all we needed. America, however did need fast locomotives, but still got outdone (not by much) by European locomotives like the German streamliners and the a4. Case closed
@@torfossberg1137 Fair enough
Being from the US, my first thought was "wow, how's he/she taking that good a picture while driving?" but then I remembered the wheel is on the right over there. :P Great footage! :D
Lol
At least he understands that the world isn't all America like some people
YEAH KAREN I'm WATCHING YOU!
@@RufusBoi2008 lol
we have a4 too its call eizenhower
We'd have done the same for your left hand drive, i would bet .
remember this loco was running at this speed in the 1930's,when cars could just about reach 40mph.
you should also say what the top speed (125MPH) of the A4 was as well
@@Night_Star6248 Top speed was around 90.
@@wtf-hc3tp look up what top speed mallard achieved
@@Night_Star6248 Yeah, down a hill.
Oh right... she busted herself in the process, meaning it wasn’t meant to travel at those speeds.
@@wtf-hc3tp then why did one of the operational A4s do it
Raw power at it's best..After all these years..This is still a brilliant clip..
I
1800 HP from the fastest steam locomotives.
I thought pacing shots were impossible in the U.K. This is awesome!
I'm 56. I remember these going up the east coast of Scotland in my youth. The most stunning thing about them was how slow the wheels seemed to be turning, and how breakneck and breathlessly quickly they went past.
I’m in my late sixties, so I’m too young to have seen one of Gresley’s beauties in service, but I get overcome with nostalgia watching this. Thank you ❤️.
Not only am I in my early 20s, but Im also American 🙃
I would absolutely love to see one of these beautiful metal beasts in person, it's the stuff of dreams
@@hobmoor2042 I’m from Shropshire, so they weren’t in service here. I bet they were a sight to behold. I aim to visit the National Railway Museum and hope to see Mallard there.
@@Pluggit1953 , Taken my grandson(5) a few times to the York museum, well worth the trip. I think Bittern and Sir Nigel Gresley are at Crewe being overhauled.
I am now sixty nine and saw them many times .The only one I can recall seeing with certainty was Andrew K McCosh one day at York.Sadly my Ian Allen combine is long gone.
I've seen all.6 preserved at both York and Shildon what a sight 6 A4s
Very impressive, you don't often get a shot like this. Amazing how the loco seems to just lope along, i kept thinking of greyhounds watching the motion working.
Let’s not forget the poor fireman shoveling coal as fast as the wheels are turning. 🥵🥵🥵
it mast be torture shoveling on a fuel-hungry bullied pacific with and enclosed cab in mid-july with a fur suit, ey?
In the day most drivers would help out with the firing.
@@bussesandtrains1218 Interestingly enough, during the 1948 Locomotive Exchanges, the A4s came out as the most economical Class 8 express locomotives of all...
Thanks for sharing - i love these engines... just graceful.
if they had these in the late 1800's, back to the future part 3 would have been a shorter film.
Simple reason why Mallard overheated her middle cylinder bearing - on making the 126, Duddington completely shut the regulator. The Germans, who had more experience of extreme high-speed steam running, had this happen years previously, and had learned to 90% close the regulator, thus allowing SOME steam through to the cylinders. If Duddington had done this, Mallard would have been unscathed.
These gentle giants are magnificent. Their whistles are cute.
Rode behind this beauty on an excursion over the Settle & Carlisle line in 2014, was quite the ride.
Great Video, this is absolutely the best way to see a steam loco in action. I've done one myself in NZ although not quite so good (the traffic was going faster than the train!).
Spellbinding, the con rods are hypnotic and you can actually hear the engine breathe and that whistle!!!!!!!
Thank you for doing this.
So spectacular to see an A4 doing what it does best
It’s still amazing, when one considers all the mechanical action involved, that these magnificent machines can reach and maintain this speed!
Thank Sir Nigel Gresley for that :)
Timeless and ageless beauties they are.
Last time I saw steam like this was in 1968 chasing after the last remnants of UK steam. The clanking of the coupling rods is an embedded memory. Long live steam!!!
Clanking of buffers in the marshalling yard another embedded memory! Also the irregular beat of a small engine hauling a heavy coal train through the countryside.
I remember this particular loco as a child in the mid-fifties. It hauled our train from Perth, and over the Forth Bridge. If my memory serves me correctly, we were en route to Kings Cross.
just crusing along at 70 mph only another 56 miles an hour in her!!!
The LNER A4s are speed
Top speed is 85mph cab leading.
The famous 126mph run was not the average for the class and the engineers all advised against it.
Hell, that 126mph run ended up partially melting the inner cylinder for Mallard.
@@jayk-pianist7532 I agree 85 to 90 is what they were built to do normally
@@jayk-pianist7532 cab leading?
@@DavesWings yeah. Aka, the engine facing forward instead of tender first.
That train is like a really tall guy running its so easy for that train to cruse.5 Stars
not to mention Mallard had one of the most daring daredevil drivers on the whole of the LNER, if it wasn't for the help of Joe Duddington and his Fireman Tommy Bray, Mallard wouldn't be the famous blue beauty we all love, legend has it that Duddington even wore his drivers cap back to front to prove how daring he was :) Shame that there are a lot of A4 bashers out there... they're just jealous of Mr. Gresley's awsome designs...
Superb video, i remember these as a lad going through Hornsey Stn, they used to do about 70mph going north and south, great sight when you had a double express both ways. Thanks for posting this great video.
Especially good to see her running as I understand 60009 no longer has main line certification, and that she is destined for static display!
Sad to hear that.
She's on the East Lancashire Railway thought,so maybe you can see her
very hipnotic watching the traction rods and the piston rod.
This is great. There's loads of pictures of A4s and quite a few films of them travelling past the camera at speed, but a long closeup of one of these beauties hurtling along at full steam - with the actual sound they make, and the valve gear doing it's stuff - is a rare treat indeed. 10 out 0f 10
The union of South Africa is beautiful.
@Soviet Silver Link ☭
No!!!!!
I was a train spotter in the 1950s with my Ian Allen train spotting book for the LNER. I remember standing on the platform at Grantham station watching these magnificent engines tearing through with the whistle howling and the cab lit up from the open fir door on occasion. One regular train springs to mind called the Elizabethan. Always on time at 11 am if memory serves after all those years
What a fantastic clip. A beautiful A4 and so well captured! Really well done.
Great bit of film, i've stood on that footbridge near the end and watched the steam trains coming up the hill from Llandudno Junction so am surprised at the speed and how easily the train is moving on this section as it must have stopped at the junction.
john
Steam Punk at its finest. My grandfather was a fireman on a steam locomotive before they started replacing the old steam engines with diesel electric.
*sigh* you’re lucky... you get to drive along the road filming a magnificent A4 Pacific that alongside the same road you’re driving on... the only trains I see are Class 156 sprinters
Great footage. I travel this stretch of road regularly and have always thought it would be a great location for a train chasing sequence - you've proved me right! Well done. BTW i think she's doing about sixty.
imagine if it was mallard
@Soviet Silver Link ☭ u must have poor knowledge for steam locomotives.
I sped the video up to 2x the speed. It's not a huge change, but it still looks cool as hell.
What greater thrill than pacing a beautiful steamer at speed with a clear stack.
A study of Streamline Moderne in motion!
that has just made my day 100 percent better! nice race .
Nicely filmed, kept her in shot....Loved the vid, thanks for uploading
the way he looked at you lol. I Really enjoyed this masterpiece, as a steam fan this made my day.
AWESOME!!! You are very lucky to have this footage. What are the speeds?
60009 is going like 50-60 and the car is going 40-50
Never expected to see a uk train chasing video - great work and excellent video!!
Poetry in motion - fantastic! - and it all looks so effortless as well. Thanks for sharing
This locomotive is Union of South Africa. Am I right?
I have done that many a time, race against a steam locomotive. I always won on that part of the A55 though outside Mochdre.
I'm so jealous that you were able to do this!
Bloody brilliant! top work
An S-4 once hit 112mph, they were good locomotives, but i would say that the Milwaukee Road F7s were the fastest hudsons, if your looking for a loco to keep up with an A4, then the F7 might be your best choice.
I would so love to be on that foot plate, I'm am off course all for the many privet steam railways up and down the country and I have been on the footplate off a number off steam locos doing a steady 15 to 25 mph. They just look so much better going at 70, I don't know weather its the noise, steam and smoke, the blur off the pistons or just the countryside flashing by but it just seems right watching them flat out, After all its what they were built to do.
Brilliant Video. Love the A4's and it was fascinating to watch that. Dave
Good job. I know how difficult that is and well done to the driver.
Not many people could say they were able to see that, let alone recordit. Very lucky & well done indeed :)
Excuse me An A4 is not a train!!!!! Itsa locomotive!! The locomotive Pulls the train!carriages. And in 1938 mallard A4 hailing 7 carriages reached 126 mph. Down stoke bank world record for steam!
Somebody placing the remark about topgear....I wish steam locomotives like that would be presented in a more sexy, attractive, pasionate way that may attract more people that normally wach topgear. I mean, if you love speed, these steamlocomotive are your thing. I have been in trains doing 330 km/h, and even one (the maglev) doing 430 km/h (see mrcastlehunter) but nothing gets close to the sensation of speed and power you get when travelling at 75 m/h with a steam train.
What a beautiful engine 💖
thats excellent for a loco to come up and race alongside you
Brilliant filming!
Best vid I've ever seen and I've worked on the 'Duke'.
I've tried many times to pace locos and never managed it anything like as well as this. Bloody brilliant and credit must go to your driver.
Hugh.
Thats what I was thinking. Beats me though. I also wonder if maybe it has to do with the 3rd cylinder timing?
You have an adorable avatar btw =3
Union of south africa one of my favorite A4's but she can't beat my most favorite A4 golden fleece number 60030
14 was the greatest steam locomotive ever built IMO ;-)
Super upload thanks
Thats a truely great video. Well done! Theres not many videos out there like this one. great addition to the youtube community. Thanks!
Great Vid! Not many people get to see/film this.
Remind me again, why people think cars are somehow cooler than trains??
It isn't a train, it is a locomotive, what it is pulling is a train. Terrific loco though, keep them running.
Cool! reminds me of the time I raced Bittern as "Dominion of New Zeland" from the old Sheffield Millhouses sheds to Sheffield Midland and just made it in time to see it stop at the station for a rest.
It looks like she's barely even trying. What a beautiful machine, doing what she does best.
Fabulous footage, the A4's really are fantastic, just looks like it's ticking over. Thank you for uploading. 5 stars.
Best modern video I've seen of an A4 at speed, great shots, well done thanks for posting.
I measured the wheel rotation at approx 170RPM and with 6Ft8inch dia wheels that makes the loco going at approx 40MPH! It looks much faster than that however? I wonder what speed it was going?
I can see the driver and fireman inside the loco
I agree with kiwitrainguy that the speed is about 42mph. I worked it out as 251.327" circumference and timed 60 revolutions in 18.95 seconds - which is arbitrary accuracy, I know. But the sums work out to between 42 and 45 mph. Interestingly Mallard was travelling 3 times as fast when she broke the record. Imagine this clip played back at 3 times the proper speed!
Nice clip of one of the finest steam locomotives ever.
Race? She was playing with you.
Beautiful shot from the car! Gives a great picture and sound of one of the finest steam locomotives of Great Britain !!! Sorry it was over so quickly!
Railcaphunter
I'm 53 and I recall it being in British Rail engineering workshops (whist I was apprenticed) for bearing work in Spirngburn /Glasgow in umm, 1978 (or there abouts)
With the later engine upgrades, it was possible that the Class A4 could have reached 130 mph as predicted, but no further attempts at a steam speed record were ever made after the Mallard.
There was an attempt planned for the autumn of 1939, but a certain war got in the way. Gresley was confident of a 'minimum' of 130mph. The choice of loco was down to three - the Kylchap trio (Mallard, Seagull, and Peregrine).
Wonderful! Well filmed!
absoutley fantastic video you dont often see them like this well done
Fantastic, such grace such power and the glow from the fire box, real machines with real men driving ! we can only wish we made them like that again in the UK
They do
I saw her sister "The Dominion of Canada" this past weekend.
Why did u subscribe to rail gyankosh?
Sarahandwills. thank you for a lovely video of this fantastic loco. I know that the loco was going a wee bit faster than the 42 mph that someone has worked out that it was doing. Well Done to the both of you.
Nearer 60mph😉
Quality footage my friend & a good road to race trains on. God bless the A55.
What a wonderful piece of film. Thank you.
The A4s makes speed look so effortless
well filmed..thanks
LoL ive never seen anything like it!
Really good video I'm a huge Railway fan great job I have seen this engine at newcastle and been hauled by one 2 of its sisters bittern and sir nigel Gresley Great vid.
th-cam.com/video/swWh45knSms/w-d-xo.html ; Greetings this steam train and others are in a very interesting railway museum visit and how you can take a ride on a steam train
And this is how i came into railfanning
Damn! Best UK train film I've seen in years! Great work!
Holy shit. My mans racing spencer
The difference is that train is only allowed to max at 90 today, in its say it was 120 mph beast and it didn’t need to stop between London and Edinburgh, not many cars do that ! Even less drivers That’s all I’m saying
What a stunning machine that is.
Hi Sarah, I'm a volunteer at Barrow Hill roundhouse, near Chesterfield. We have a gala this weekend called "East Coast Giants", three A4's are with us, Dwight D Eisenhower, Dominion of Canada and Bittern. I would love to show this film on a big screen in the Archive section with others. It would be on a PPt loop and would screen every 30 min or so. I would make sure your name is on it. A "yes certainly" would be great!
Absolutely fine
To anyone hating on this, calling it obsolete and stupid, don't forget, Mallard, the most famous of these engines hit a hundred and twenty-six miles an hour in 1938. Cars back then could barely reach forty and nowadays they don't do much more now on the roads (unless the driver is suicidal of course)