Amazing video! I always viewed steam trains as the big ol' belchers hauling logs out of the forest! These are graceful! Thanks from Vancouver Island Canada!
That last pan at the end was absolutely incredible! That's a hell of a shot and it takes a lot of talent to pull something like that off. Thanks for sharing this awesome video!
Philip Ernst: Man, that IS-"fast-food"! Love the "rooster-tails" they toss-up! Cross-bred with gazelles, I reckon? I'd never paid that much mind to it, til now...!☺
they can - if they really want to! I lived on a farm half my life, and believe me, if a cow wants to run at you, it'll run, and the only thing that'll save you from being trampled is the electric fence ten yards away, so get legging it!
Linesider Video great footage takes me back to my childhood when the London to Glasgow train used to come through st albans station flat out I used to mess myself great to see
We in the States had and still operate some pretty powerful steam powered locomotives. That said, you folks over there had and still operate steam powered bullets! Wow!
I'm going to speak in favour of the LMSs' Turbomotive here, it ran in regular service with no known issues and with wartime maintainance. I'd call that a success, though BR didn't want to machine a new bunch of turbines for a one-off locomotive when they overhauled it postwar.
To be fair, the US had some speed demons itself when it came to steam. The Milwaukee Road's Twin Cities Hiawatha holds the world record for being the fastest regularly scheduled steam passenger train. The Class A Atlantics and Class F7 Hudsons pulling it operated at speeds of 100+ mph on a routine basis (FASTER than just about all of Amtrak's trains today!), and between two of its key station stops, the train would've had to operate at an average speed of 88 mph just to keep the schedule. Likewise, the Chicago & Northwestern Railway's Twin Cities 400 also managed to exceed 100+ mph quite frequently, literally running at about 400 minutes from Chicago to Minneapolis. Not to mention the PRR T1s, N&W Class J Northerns, and UP FEFs were all said to have the capability of easily exceeding 100 mph.
Its a stimulation. The engine in the back is ment to give it power so it can stimulate Mallards 126 mph record. If it not for the engine in the back, then the A4 in this video would not be going the speed it is at.
Wow those connecting rods are flying around, no wonder Mallard was knackered afterwards - you would need even bigger wheels to sustain this sort of speed.
Tony Martin what you're saying as that train is going by that locomotive is high-stepping that's a term when a locomotive has big wheels then your standard locomotive yes that is definitely called high-stepping.
shoveling that much coal would be difficult, but using the method of "little and often" (many british fireman carried this motto) it would not be that difficult. Also, yes, I have fired a steam locomotive so I do know what is like
The average American steam locomotive of the last 2-3 decades of steam would never make it with hand shoveling. A Big Boy locomotive could go through 10+ tons an hour on some of the bigger grades. American firemen would have a motto of "A lot all the time"... You've got to remember that American locomotives were often twice the size and power of the typical European one. And they often had longer runs, especially out west.
I know this fact very well, but for British locomotives, they were a much much more manageable size. Another thing to consider is if you are firing right you don't need that much coal. It is possible to fire a large American locomotive at high speeds if you can do it right. Unfortunately most firemen don't, and put WAAY too much coal on.
It's strange how, because we've become so used to high speed running on the railways today, that those record breaking speed achieved my Mallard don't seem so amazing...Thant's progress for you!...Good work as always David....Bob
+Robert Masterman Thanks Bob and an excellent point - and on-board a train racing down Shap today, most take it for granted what it has taken to progress to this point. The only problem with doing these videos is it makes the originals look very boring! ;)
in America, we have less than 500 miles of track that can support 100+ MPH speeds, with 25,000 miles being rater for 79 MPH and the rest (160,000 some miles) being 60 at best, of course with a few exceptions
Class 47: Y'know I went 126mph hour too.... A4: You did not t'was all me! Probably coulda gone faster without you holding me back :D Nice edit man. Quite convincing .
they were built for 100 MPH, for example, Union Pacific 844 was built for sustained speeds of 110 MPH with a 1000 ton train, but 844 has a boiler pressure of 300 psi, vs the A4 250 psi, 844 has 80" drivers where the A4's have 84" drivers, but more importantly, the loading gauges are vastly different, so Union Pacific could fit more power in because they had more space. Even so, the New York Central Niagara's produced way more power than an A4 even with a tight loading gauge. Another thing to think about was both had mechanical stokers that could keep up with the fuel consumption of 100+ MPH, where the Mallard was hand fired, so keeping a fire hot enough to make enough steam for running at high speed was a very tough job that would keep them from being able to run fast for very long distances.
+Henry Overzet The Mallard was going DOWNHILL. This is why it broke the speed record. If not for the downhill run, then the Milwaukee Road F7 Baltic (As the Milwaukee Road called them) could have easily taken it, had Mallard not been running downhill that day
2716 Productions oh, the F-7's already beat the mallard on a regular basis, there was a frenchman who catured a Hiawatha doing 120 when they were only slightly late, the Milwaukee road had THE engines, they were much better than the mallard in almost every way
Spectacular video Linesy :-). I like it heaps and heaps :-D :-D :-D. Wow!! :-D. Look at the amazing class A4 Pacific "Streamlined Streak" steam locomotive streaking and speeding past certain mainlines in the UK? The "Streamlined Streak" certainly was speeding and streaking along the line like they used to years ago :-). Now we have the HST's and HS1's and all that which are high-speed related :-/ :-). Oh well, but technology with trains have changed a lot ever since time flew by. But the 21 century onwards, technology has improved massively, it still is improving now such as today. But technologies from both the future and the past can't always be perfect. But steam technology is very interesting to elderly people who saw it in the past did you know that? The steam technology as in when steam engines were in action so many years ago? If you did that's brilliant, if you didn't then that's ok, I wouldn't judge you if you didn't :-). Alright then, have a nice day Linesy, plus I wish you all the best and stay awesome :-). From your friend Foxy :-).
Well done Linesider! From memory corridor coaches were 52 tons each. So that's an 11 car consist (including 2 Pullmans) is well over 600 tons. The boat anchor at the back is another several tons and, importantly doesn't seems to be running. The Gresley chime whistle adds to the nostalgia!
Fantastic footage, only thing I don't understand, is why these days every steam loco on mainline tracks has a diesal loco on the back? it kinda fecks up the nostalgia.
I wonder what captain slow (James May) would say. Jeremy Clarkson drove Tornado when she was new, and on that a4 James will have been swearing his head off.
"And everyone watched in absolute awe as Spencer rushed down the rails pulling a diesel with his train all on his own at such unimaginable speeds for a steamie!"
Someone commented about shoveling coal; it either has a mechanical feeder like Big Boy does or it uses fuel oil or diesel. Judging from how clean the exhaust is, I'm pretty certain it's not burning coal.
The mallard is not under steam and probably will not ever, that is the Union of South Africa. The video is sped up, so the train is only doing 75 or so. The Mallard and Union Of South Africa are the same class of engine (A4), but the same engine.
In the 50s when I was still under 10, I travelled several times to York to spot A4s. I lived in Normanton. I never saw one. My first was at Kings X on a school visit. When we walked up the platform, there was 60015! My life had a meaning. This was in the day when kids could go on trains.
126 mph is the fastest speed for any steam engine as achieved by the Mallard at Stoke Bank Lincolnshire in 1938. A4s cruised at around 80 to 90 mph which was still fast for the1930s.
At 0:17 you can hear the typical sound that propagates from the rails when a train is approaching at speed, only this time it has a fast "pulsating" rhythm, surely caused by the locomotive's running gear.
I can't even imagine how fast the rods must've been moving to make a steam powered locomotive move at 126 miles per hour. In America 125mph is the second fastest train in the country, and standing at a station when that train come frying through, is pretty freaking scary. But a god damn stream locomotive moving just barely faster than that... Is freaking insane.
They actually did this in Switzerland, during WWII, when there was a shortage of coal, and they didn't have enough electric engines. They just stuck a bunch of pantographs atop tank engines, put electric heating elements inside the boiler, and called it a day! However, this method of power transmission isn't really efficient, and was only reasonable during wartime conditions. The engine efficiency of steam locomotives is simply too low, topping off at around 20%, meaning that for all the calories within the coal or oil you put into the firebox or burner, only 20% is turned into useful movement energy, and the rest is wasted on maintaining the constant heat of the locomotive, to keep it operational. Compare that to marine and locomotive diesel engines, which, usually have an energy conversion efficiency of 45%, but there have been ones that topped of a 54%. That may not seem much, especially these days, but back in the day, when oil was cheap, and coal was getting increasingly expensive, this 25% difference may as well been considered the difference between continued operations and bankruptcy. Even today, people would be reluctant to return to coal due to all the trouble it would take to get it, and the environmental laws tied to it, so most "new steam" technology projects are actively working with the idea of using biofuel or waste-fuel to run their engines.
I am an ex railwayman, the A4 doing 126 m.p.h is fantastic But understood that the class 47 on the rear of the train is normally restricted to 75 m.p.h and unless they changed the rules a bit ( I left B.R as it was then 1980) and a train was govern by the lowest speed of any vecial attached to the train, which is the max speed of a train??
As another commenter hints, maybe with 21st century engineering applied, which could include computerized engine monitoring like Tornado, steel alloys that minimally expand or deform with temperature, tighter tolerances, smoother bearings, very reliable lubrication, extra injectors, and above all a mechanical stoker, maybe A4s with the same basic design could sustain 100-120mph dependably for long distances?
WHEN THIS A4 MALLARD DID 126 MILES PER HOUR BACK IN THE STEAM DAYS THERE WAS NO DIESEL AT THE BACK OF THE CARRIGES TO HELP PUSH IT ALONG A BIT LIKE IN THIS VIDEO BUT I LOVE STEAM GREAT WORK
AND americans didnt wanted to break that record if they wanted they would kick your ass and this shit reached 202 kph the up fef reached 193 kph even tho it didnt have any aerodynamics if it had aerodynamics then it would reach 220 kph americans locomotives WERE faster but they were never recorded cuz americans didnt give a fuck about that record now look at this compare that thing to the big boy which is better? usa
Amazing video! I always viewed steam trains as the big ol' belchers hauling logs out of the forest! These are graceful! Thanks from Vancouver Island Canada!
Blimey, that diesel is keeping pace beautifully, both engines synchronised for speed perfectly.
A lovely video, thank you.
That last pan at the end was absolutely incredible! That's a hell of a shot and it takes a lot of talent to pull something like that off. Thanks for sharing this awesome video!
If cows could really run that fast (0:58) they might not end up on our dinner plate so often.
Fences.
Philip Ernst: Man, that IS-"fast-food"! Love the "rooster-tails" they toss-up! Cross-bred with gazelles, I reckon? I'd never paid that much mind to it, til now...!☺
LOL..I just saw those cows..lmao they were almost as fast as the train!
Even at that speed, cows can't out run bullets.
they can - if they really want to! I lived on a farm half my life, and believe me, if a cow wants to run at you, it'll run, and the only thing that'll save you from being trampled is the electric fence ten yards away, so get legging it!
That poor old 47 on the back must have been wondering what was going on. 😁 Great vid as usual, thanks for the entertainment.
+Draco 10 (Mee Notnow) Many thanks - yes a good old spin for the oil can ;)
Linesider Video great footage takes me back to my childhood when the London to Glasgow train used to come through st albans station flat out I used to mess myself great to see
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Sounds like a diesel
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We in the States had and still operate some pretty powerful steam powered locomotives. That said, you folks over there had and still operate steam powered bullets! Wow!
outs were actually faster
Well it was a test run.
I'm going to speak in favour of the LMSs' Turbomotive here, it ran in regular service with no known issues and with wartime maintainance. I'd call that a success, though BR didn't want to machine a new bunch of turbines for a one-off locomotive when they overhauled it postwar.
To be fair, the US had some speed demons itself when it came to steam. The Milwaukee Road's Twin Cities Hiawatha holds the world record for being the fastest regularly scheduled steam passenger train. The Class A Atlantics and Class F7 Hudsons pulling it operated at speeds of 100+ mph on a routine basis (FASTER than just about all of Amtrak's trains today!), and between two of its key station stops, the train would've had to operate at an average speed of 88 mph just to keep the schedule. Likewise, the Chicago & Northwestern Railway's Twin Cities 400 also managed to exceed 100+ mph quite frequently, literally running at about 400 minutes from Chicago to Minneapolis. Not to mention the PRR T1s, N&W Class J Northerns, and UP FEFs were all said to have the capability of easily exceeding 100 mph.
Interestingenough4 Don't forget Southern and Western Pacific's GS Series
Get Rid of that deadweight at the back and you really would get 125 mph.
Im suprised that thing did not derail
I agree. Lose the 57 on the back and she'd happily go that fast
Network Rail requirement to have a backup locomotive on a steam set, quite understandable when running a vintage loco on a modern railway.
Its a stimulation. The engine in the back is ment to give it power so it can stimulate Mallards 126 mph record. If it not for the engine in the back, then the A4 in this video would not be going the speed it is at.
2716 Productions I doubt if the Cl47 at the rear would be capable of reaching 126mph if it hadn't been attached to the back of Union of South Africa!
Wow those connecting rods are flying around, no wonder Mallard was knackered afterwards - you would need even bigger wheels to sustain this sort of speed.
or, as I believe, 'modern' materials and hi tech engineering that could withstand it.
With three-piston designs, like the A4s, the reciprocating masses were fully balanced.
so why was the Mallard crippled after drifting downhill
Problem with one of the big end? bearings on the centre crank, later fixed. That's what test runs are for.
Tony Martin what you're saying as that train is going by that locomotive is high-stepping that's a term when a locomotive has big wheels then your standard locomotive yes that is definitely called high-stepping.
The 47: STOP STOP STOP
Spencer: HURRY HURRY HURRY
The coaches: YOU CAN'T GET AWAY YOU CAN'T GET AWAY
I wouldnt want to be the one shoveling the coal lol
You'd be called ''Mungo' for a start, though I suppose that was a perfectly good name for 1938.
lol
shoveling that much coal would be difficult, but using the method of "little and often" (many british fireman carried this motto) it would not be that difficult. Also, yes, I have fired a steam locomotive so I do know what is like
The average American steam locomotive of the last 2-3 decades of steam would never make it with hand shoveling. A Big Boy locomotive could go through 10+ tons an hour on some of the bigger grades. American firemen would have a motto of "A lot all the time"...
You've got to remember that American locomotives were often twice the size and power of the typical European one. And they often had longer runs, especially out west.
I know this fact very well, but for British locomotives, they were a much much more manageable size. Another thing to consider is if you are firing right you don't need that much coal. It is possible to fire a large American locomotive at high speeds if you can do it right. Unfortunately most firemen don't, and put WAAY too much coal on.
It's strange how, because we've become so used to high speed running on the railways today, that those record breaking speed achieved my Mallard don't seem so amazing...Thant's progress for you!...Good work as always David....Bob
+Robert Masterman Thanks Bob and an excellent point - and on-board a train racing down Shap today, most take it for granted what it has taken to progress to this point. The only problem with doing these videos is it makes the originals look very boring! ;)
in America, we have less than 500 miles of track that can support 100+ MPH speeds, with 25,000 miles being rater for 79 MPH and the rest (160,000 some miles) being 60 at best, of course with a few exceptions
Steam is amazing even standing still. HSTs, TGVs just don't have the majesty.
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i wouldnt mind seeing that pass by my house every so often, sure would be a nice change from the modern ones we have.
Class 47: Y'know I went 126mph hour too....
A4: You did not t'was all me! Probably coulda gone faster without you holding me back :D
Nice edit man. Quite convincing .
The UP 844 managed 120 without the fancy aerodynamics, I wonder if it could have ever competed against the Mallard.
Jesus christ, that thing's fast.
BatteryMaster Multiverse that's what they were built for
they were built for 100 MPH, for example, Union Pacific 844 was built for sustained speeds of 110 MPH with a 1000 ton train, but 844 has a boiler pressure of 300 psi, vs the A4 250 psi, 844 has 80" drivers where the A4's have 84" drivers, but more importantly, the loading gauges are vastly different, so Union Pacific could fit more power in because they had more space. Even so, the New York Central Niagara's produced way more power than an A4 even with a tight loading gauge. Another thing to think about was both had mechanical stokers that could keep up with the fuel consumption of 100+ MPH, where the Mallard was hand fired, so keeping a fire hot enough to make enough steam for running at high speed was a very tough job that would keep them from being able to run fast for very long distances.
+Henry Overzet The Mallard was going DOWNHILL. This is why it broke the speed record. If not for the downhill run, then the Milwaukee Road F7 Baltic (As the Milwaukee Road called them) could have easily taken it, had Mallard not been running downhill that day
2716 Productions oh, the F-7's already beat the mallard on a regular basis, there was a frenchman who catured a Hiawatha doing 120 when they were only slightly late, the Milwaukee road had THE engines, they were much better than the mallard in almost every way
Henry Overzet but the thing is, is that the Mallard was going downhill. But yea, that is why the F7 is my favorite
this video nearly brought me to tears! Wonderful engineering and a reminder of my youth!
Brilliantly done again David. It looked funny watching the animals and cars at that pace. C&A
+EMuksteam Thanks C&A - yes some definite speeding for the feds to sort out!
At 0:55, you can see animals in the fields running from the train.
Spectacular video Linesy :-). I like it heaps and heaps :-D :-D :-D. Wow!! :-D. Look at the amazing class A4 Pacific "Streamlined Streak" steam locomotive streaking and speeding past certain mainlines in the UK? The "Streamlined Streak" certainly was speeding and streaking along the line like they used to years ago :-). Now we have the HST's and HS1's and all that which are high-speed related :-/ :-). Oh well, but technology with trains have changed a lot ever since time flew by. But the 21 century onwards, technology has improved massively, it still is improving now such as today. But technologies from both the future and the past can't always be perfect. But steam technology is very interesting to elderly people who saw it in the past did you know that? The steam technology as in when steam engines were in action so many years ago? If you did that's brilliant, if you didn't then that's ok, I wouldn't judge you if you didn't :-). Alright then, have a nice day Linesy, plus I wish you all the best and stay awesome :-).
From your friend Foxy :-).
Well done Linesider! From memory corridor coaches were 52 tons each. So that's an 11 car consist (including 2 Pullmans) is well over 600 tons. The boat anchor at the back is another several tons and, importantly doesn't seems to be running. The Gresley chime whistle adds to the nostalgia!
GRAND PA OF HIGH SPEED RAIL. LOVE TO SEE THIS AGAIN AND AGAIN.
ehem great grandma
Super 👍nice quality in color !*****
Top video. Thank you.
I love how many people dont read the description and are like IT'S FAKE, IT'S SPED UP!!! well yeah... duh
Jake Darling Haha, they do grate after a bit! Next time I'll have to include some sort of on screen warning ;)
Jake Darling I don't fucking see it, or you making it up
lol
looks like its all speeding up there mate the train wasn't going that fast it was doing around 75 mph
The chuffing sound is way higher than normal so it proves its fake
Great camerawork and slick editing!
Wonderful. Absolutey beautiful scenery, and very well filmed....
The Diesel Loco at the rear almost looks like it's hanging on for dear life. Awesome video.
I could have sworn that 47 was swinging around on the back Dave!! Nice video to dream along to tho! Thanks Ken
Ken Browne haha quite right ken, the fastest 47 out there ;)
That sounds so nice over those nice smooth rails. Almost like my HO Model Train.
Thanks. Interesting indeed. Looks good and rather surprisingly believable. Can we have more, please?
+billhook72 Many thanks for the encouragement, much appreciated. More on their way!
Marvellous speed, excellent confidence of Drivers, beautiful maintained Track...Wow
....Thanks for sharing..
Was this one of those years that Network Rail insisted on a diesel addition?
Great video...Looks pretty good at speed. Like MrBahnySteig said those Cows at 00:59 could certainly shift...Made me smile....Bets wishes....Steve.-:)
+Steve Lewis Video Channel. Many thanks again Steve - yes i wouldn't want to be in that field with them moving like that!
I am sure that mighty engine can pull a lot more than what they showed. Fantastic video.
Fantastic footage, only thing I don't understand, is why these days every steam loco on mainline tracks has a diesal loco on the back? it kinda fecks up the nostalgia.
What amazes me is how it is possible to generate the steam to power the engine in such large amounts and so fast. Simply incredible!
great video... Why more speed?
A drunk falls down into the subway and exclaims, "Boy, has THAT guy got a set of trains!"
Whoever the fireman is, give him a raise.
Mallrd is the concord on rails. Amazing speed and beatifully picturised. Really awesome. Steam locomotives have always attracted me.
Wow
Whoa, Pikepetey are you a train enthusiast? Just curious
What a fantastic machine, those con rods going ten to the dozen. Why do people give this a thumbs down is beyond me.
Would totally be amazing if that were real, am I right?
good to see this old loco at speed. thanks.
I wonder what captain slow (James May) would say. Jeremy Clarkson drove Tornado when she was new, and on that a4 James will have been swearing his head off.
Interesting to see what it would have looked like.
00:56 Have you ever seen a COW run so fast? 🐄🐮🏁
1hourOfLove No I haven't ever.
Like Gazelles!
and the wind "slaking the grass"
What cow
That implies video has been fast forwarded 😑
Oops!! Seems like it's even faster than electric locomotives. Superb :)
Can we please just use these again for main service? Pleeeeease!!!?
That is just amazing. Was that a diesel at the back to power the coaches? Us over in the States have to half the diesel behind the tender.
"And everyone watched in absolute awe as Spencer rushed down the rails pulling a diesel with his train all on his own at such unimaginable speeds for a steamie!"
Someone commented about shoveling coal; it either has a mechanical feeder like Big Boy does or it uses fuel oil or diesel. Judging from how clean the exhaust is, I'm pretty certain it's not burning coal.
Now that's what I call SPENCER
exactly what I said :)
And that's what I call UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.
Captain Slow and thats what I call, GET A FUCKING DEEPER WHISTLE THAN THAT SHIT
at least they have fences and gated crossings SO THEY DON'T SOUND IT INCESSANTLY
that's because the american railroads don't give a crap, and if you have a whistle that doesn't sound like crap then you want to use it.
I really want to see some footage (if it exists) of the footplate crew on this particular run.
But not fair with that diesel-electric loco at the end!
Alexus TM all UK rail tours now have a diesel electric at the rear as cover
And as someone told around here, for power supply to the wagons!
@@4lexeiTM i think its also to help breaking. If union of south africas breaks failed the class 47 would help to slow her down
Love it Dave cheers for sharing keep the vids coming
+Richard Harnetty Thanks Richard, will do!
British High Speed Rail LNER Class A4 Pacific
Incredibly fast and aslo elegant!
Fantastic video
Just look at the shape and dynamics of her.....She does 126 mph stood still !!! An Icon of the age of steam !!!!!
The mallard is not under steam and probably will not ever, that is the Union of South Africa. The video is sped up, so the train is only doing 75 or so. The Mallard and Union Of South Africa are the same class of engine (A4), but the same engine.
I know the video is sped up,but it still looks fantastic ! :-)
In the 50s when I was still under 10, I travelled several times to York to spot A4s. I lived in Normanton. I never saw one. My first was at Kings X on a school visit. When we walked up the platform, there was 60015! My life had a meaning. This was in the day when kids could go on trains.
Isn't that BR 57 just to help the A4 up hills and stuff? The A4 is doing all the pulling power, isn't it?
The diesel is just for lighting the coaches and if the loco fails. Occasionally they may be used for assistance on hills
Unic Trains. Success for you channel. Tahnks
It's stunning to see an old locomotive in the UK running even faster than a new electric train in my country!
HERMOSA LA MALLARD .................beautiful the Mallard
Very nice, I do like this set!
What would happen if someone coupled up Mallard, Flying Scotsman, and City of Truro?
so satisfying to watch
It seems like those diesels on the back end are just being dragged along.
I why was the diesel at the back?
Just if ur wondering what the name is, it’s Union of South Africa. Pause at 0:22
The best and most beautiful steam locomotive of the story. WOW!!!!!
What a beautiful machine!
Wow! That's a very fast ♨️steam 🚂engine! Great videos. Thank you .
126 mph is the fastest speed for any steam engine as achieved by the Mallard at Stoke Bank Lincolnshire in 1938. A4s cruised at around 80 to 90 mph which was still fast for the1930s.
At 0:17 you can hear the typical sound that propagates from the rails when a train is approaching at speed, only this time it has a fast "pulsating" rhythm, surely caused by the locomotive's running gear.
Bet the wear and tear on that thing are immense
I can't even imagine how fast the rods must've been moving to make a steam powered locomotive move at 126 miles per hour.
In America 125mph is the second fastest train in the country, and standing at a station when that train come frying through, is pretty freaking scary. But a god damn stream locomotive moving just barely faster than that... Is freaking insane.
Gotta love the A4s.
Why there’s a diesel locomotive attached at the back?
That poor diesel would be saying: "Oh please god, uncouple me off this speedie!" That diesel would never travel as fast as this beast! :D
@0:52 LoL! Watch those poor animals on the field, terrified & run for their lives!
@1:02 Music to my ears! Great video.
Now that is a sight to see.
Kinda makes a person wonder if the overhead high voltage could supplement the heating of the boilers to cut back on the coal or fuel oil.
Daniel Ramsey Great & rare good 💡idea! Perhaps someday soon.
Thanks.
They actually did this in Switzerland, during WWII, when there was a shortage of coal, and they didn't have enough electric engines. They just stuck a bunch of pantographs atop tank engines, put electric heating elements inside the boiler, and called it a day!
However, this method of power transmission isn't really efficient, and was only reasonable during wartime conditions. The engine efficiency of steam locomotives is simply too low, topping off at around 20%, meaning that for all the calories within the coal or oil you put into the firebox or burner, only 20% is turned into useful movement energy, and the rest is wasted on maintaining the constant heat of the locomotive, to keep it operational.
Compare that to marine and locomotive diesel engines, which, usually have an energy conversion efficiency of 45%, but there have been ones that topped of a 54%. That may not seem much, especially these days, but back in the day, when oil was cheap, and coal was getting increasingly expensive, this 25% difference may as well been considered the difference between continued operations and bankruptcy.
Even today, people would be reluctant to return to coal due to all the trouble it would take to get it, and the environmental laws tied to it, so most "new steam" technology projects are actively working with the idea of using biofuel or waste-fuel to run their engines.
Interesting idea.
it would be lovely to see these do a 126 again... maybe on their 100 anniversary?
Why there is diesle locomotive on back side?
Wow ! it's incredible mennn.. I liked it.. Keep on moving..
Like Mallard Speed Record At 126 mph (204 km/h)
Is the Diesel at thee back pushing?
Feels like you're riding on a Eurostar when you ride an A4 going 126.
Notice the world's fastest cattle running in fear as the steam-powered Shinkansen screams by at 0:53
"Speed's nothing to me. Why, one of my Doncaster cousins went at 126 mph."
-Gordon the Big Engine
Also, that diesel is not having a good day.
How about a T1 at 130?
I am an ex railwayman, the A4 doing 126 m.p.h is fantastic But understood that the class 47 on the rear of the train is normally restricted to 75 m.p.h and unless they changed the rules a bit ( I left B.R as it was then 1980) and a train was govern by the lowest speed of any vecial attached to the train, which is the max speed of a train??
As another commenter hints, maybe with 21st century engineering applied, which could include computerized engine monitoring like Tornado, steel alloys that minimally expand or deform with temperature, tighter tolerances, smoother bearings, very reliable lubrication, extra injectors, and above all a mechanical stoker, maybe A4s with the same basic design could sustain 100-120mph dependably for long distances?
Vídeo maravilhoso. Lindo trem. Linda conservação da malha ferroviária. Exemplo a ser seguido por outros países.
WHEN THIS A4 MALLARD DID 126 MILES PER HOUR BACK IN THE STEAM DAYS THERE WAS NO DIESEL AT THE BACK OF THE CARRIGES TO HELP PUSH IT ALONG A BIT LIKE IN THIS VIDEO BUT I LOVE STEAM GREAT WORK
what is that diesel doint there
Dear all you americans claiming that you beat our A4 record, please, get lost, thankyou
You ever heard of the PRR T1?
DMHDTrains - Too the everywhere
AMEN.
they could go faster that that little can
but the mountains and freight fucked it up
so american railways are
and will always be better!
AND americans didnt wanted to break that record
if they wanted they would kick your ass
and this shit reached 202 kph
the up fef reached 193 kph
even tho it didnt have any aerodynamics
if it had aerodynamics then it would reach 220 kph
americans locomotives WERE faster
but they were never recorded cuz americans didnt give a fuck about that record
now look at this
compare that thing to the big boy
which is better?
usa
@el genio comentó suck your dick bruh one of our 1900s steam trains beat your record 🙄
What technical aspects of the Mallard allowed it to reach such speeds?
Those cows were doing 90mph across the field!!!!!
ivatt442 ! Steam cows are also fast due to dierriahs.
Now that is faster than 90 mph for a steam locomotive in Back to the Future Part 3.