Reminds me on how I tried roasting a hot dog on Strasburg #3 (the little Cagney engine) here in the states. Looks like your culinary experience beats mine by a good Country mile! Cheers, boys!
Blimey WOT sort of driver would put tomato sauce on his eggs and bacon. Its got to be Brown sauce Daddies or HP, this is the sauce that help Britain to rule the world and win the War. Great Video Many thanks
My father was a driver on 4 shed at Derby, and when they were issued with a new shovel with holes drilled in it , the first port of call was the workshops to get them welded up!
Nice Video and 45212 is the best black 5 out there and can't wait to see her back out running. but i see her every saturday as i'm a volunteer on the KWVR where she is at the min.
Having spoken to a number of footplate crewmen on who used to work from Norwich & Stratford - Being Norwich to Liverpool St on the GE, they never recalled doing this...Interesting really. I don't mean to put this down I think it's great fun I work on the footplate myself :-)
@@trajan231 Mainline, both worked on the Norwich to London Line one from 1944-1994 the other 1955 1964 but did go further afield on express, freight you name it they did it.
I personally have done that, it takes some practise but when done even if you burn your bacon or whatever, it's definitely a unique way to cool breakfast :D
@g7usl I should have phrased it this way. Keeping the firebox door open for extended periods of time will allow cool air to enter the firebox and cause some issues. a slight drop in pressure can be a result. Also you cause stress on the staybolts witht he heat and cooling.
@Kleman09 What you say is true but cooking of this sort would take place while the engine is not being worked, as shown in the video. Out on the main line it would be a different story while the engine is being worked hard. Firemen fired through the flap in order to keep the heat within the firebox. Only bad firemen needed the firehole door fully open. I was firing on the Eastern Region for 14 years so, I know what I'm talking about.
“What on earth is that smell?” Asked the Shunter. “What smell? we can’t smell a smell” An engine crew was nearby, preparing a enthusiast train. “A sort of morning smell. You know what I think it is? A Fry up. Where’s Engine No. 5025?”
That fireman is a good chef. Just as an aside it did occur to me that a loco fire is not the best to slow fry a tomato until it's thoroughly cooked through and gooey. Although I didn't agree with him I am reminded of what James Robertson Justice said on being complimented on his cooking (in the film `Very Important Person'); "Cooking requires no intelligence. Were it otherwise women would be no good at it." !!!!
The issue with cooking like that is the longer you leave the firebox door open, the more boiler pressure you'll lose as a result of cool air entering the firebox.
When cooking bacon over an open flame, how do you prevent it from catching fire? I tried cooking bacon over the grill once and the entire pound of bacon caught fire and was completely incinerated.
From what I've heard, the trick is how you set the fire up. Similar to cooking on a campfire, they get the fire down to hot coals before cooking. In this case though, I guess he just keeps the shovel above the flames as much as possible.
Ive had fried egg on toast on a fireman’s shovel on the footplate of a steam loco when I went to India in 1972 obviously no bacon as Indians don’t eat meat. Place Muzaffapur Junction locoshed
Those mushrooms look a little lame too like they came out of a tin. Has to be brown sauce definitely. And for 59n - you can rent the Yorkshire Steam video for £1.99 if you have a UK IP address.
in the good old days of steam this wss a daily ritual for engine crews.cant believe these guys get away with this with the stupid nanny state healt and safety bollocks we get rammed down our throats these days.
You can not beat that aroma, sizzling sausages spitting bacon hot grease, and the smell the old girl gives out when shes just coming off heat,john.
My grandad worked for the GWR in the 1930s and often told me about doing this
yummy
Reminds me on how I tried roasting a hot dog on Strasburg #3 (the little Cagney engine) here in the states. Looks like your culinary experience beats mine by a good Country mile! Cheers, boys!
Can’t beat a shovel fried breakfast
Blimey WOT sort of driver would put tomato sauce on his eggs and bacon.
Its got to be Brown sauce Daddies or HP, this is the sauce that help Britain to rule the world and win the War.
Great Video Many thanks
I think it was probably the tomato ketchup that came over here after 1942 that won the war mate.
@@highdownmartin bleedin Yanks, and of course it was America and WW2 that was the genisis for instant coffee another great invention, NOT!
This is the best thing ever. And he has done a good fry up too!
My father was a driver on 4 shed at Derby, and when they were issued with a new shovel with holes drilled in it , the first port of call was the workshops to get them welded up!
Haha brilliant. That breakfast looked lovely!👍
We used to do a nice footplate fry up on the Barry Railway too. Marvelous!
What a great time honored tradition! Thanks for the video! (Now I'm hungry!)
Good to see the traditions being kept alive
Hopefully, If I can take up a job as a Steam Train driver, I wouldn't mind trying a foot plate breakfast.
Please do not refer to it as a steam train, it's a steam locomotive, the train is the part pulled by the locomotive.
Do forgive me, @@haroldpearson6025. I am training, You know! 🤣
Nice Video and 45212 is the best black 5 out there and can't wait to see her back out running. but i see her every saturday as i'm a volunteer on the KWVR where she is at the min.
I love On The Buses! The film was on the telly the other day with the fish & chips scene in it. Classic!
This was uploaded on my 5th birthday!
Looks delicious
Having spoken to a number of footplate crewmen on who used to work from Norwich & Stratford - Being Norwich to Liverpool St on the GE, they never recalled doing this...Interesting really.
I don't mean to put this down I think it's great fun I work on the footplate myself :-)
Were they main line crews or shunting crews?
@@trajan231 Mainline, both worked on the Norwich to London Line one from 1944-1994 the other 1955 1964 but did go further afield on express, freight you name it they did it.
I was half expecting the fireman to sneeze, just as he was lowering the shovel with eggs into the firebox.
A meal for kings
I personally have done that, it takes some practise but when done even if you burn your bacon or whatever, it's definitely a unique way to cool breakfast :D
This is the most British video ever lol I love it
I've done this at didcot railway centre, and it's good to get you going in the morning
Quality.
Good job on the eggs also.
A proper British breakfast that.
I think the other trick was to put potatoes wrapped in tin foil in the smoke box. Av a lovely baked potato.
What a great way to have a fry up. I feel hungry now!
John Middleditch- Fireman
John Walker- Driver
Just saw a Fast Show sketch. Afraid I can’t take this serious! 🤣
Foreman checking staff doing work whilst skiving himself
very good like it thats one way to cook the full english breakfast and probably quicker as well with that kind of heat don't blame them good on them
What a great idea!
the best way to cook i think had my 1st cooked on city of truo
I always make my driver a lovely fry up:)
Imagine if you had a shovel filled with eggs, and the blower sucked them out the chimney. "Any one on the station want eggs?"
You also can dry your socks on injector pipe or place a teapot on firebox guys :) . Nice video.
I want a footpkate fry up now
PLATES - ....Pure luxury.......!!!
@g7usl I should have phrased it this way. Keeping the firebox door open for extended periods of time will allow cool air to enter the firebox and cause some issues. a slight drop in pressure can be a result. Also you cause stress on the staybolts witht he heat and cooling.
@Kleman09 What you say is true but cooking of this sort would take place while the engine is not being worked, as shown in the video.
Out on the main line it would be a different story while the engine is being worked hard. Firemen fired through the flap in order to keep the heat within the firebox. Only bad firemen needed the firehole door fully open. I was firing on the Eastern Region for 14 years so, I know what I'm talking about.
Tip-flap only on the Eastern!
...I want to try that now lol
This diet NOT recommended by the British Ministry of Health, but then none of those twits can operate a steam locomotive!
It's Thomas's driver and fireman.
I know a guy who used to put his jacket tatties' in the ash pan of the loco, at the end of the day he'd dig them out and have them for tea.
Cooking bacon & eggs inside Thomas's firebox.
'' i ate you Butler !, thing is the Black five was designed to have a fire within the engine, Stan's Bus wasn't when them chips caught light !
“What on earth is that smell?” Asked the Shunter.
“What smell? we can’t smell a smell” An engine crew was nearby, preparing a enthusiast train.
“A sort of morning smell. You know what I think it is? A Fry up. Where’s Engine No. 5025?”
mmmm that bacon looks good!! that a black 5 class loco?
288jh yes it is. And the bacon does look good.
I'd eat it!
How do they clean the shovel...? Or do they have one just for cooking? lol
70 ton microwave. =) great stuff.
That fireman is a good chef. Just as an aside it did occur to me that a loco fire is not the best to slow fry a tomato until it's thoroughly cooked through and gooey. Although I didn't agree with him I am reminded of what James Robertson Justice said on being complimented on his cooking (in the film `Very Important Person'); "Cooking requires no intelligence. Were it otherwise women would be no good at it." !!!!
does this series exist only on DVD now? Can't find it anywhere!
The issue with cooking like that is the longer you leave the firebox door open, the more boiler pressure you'll lose as a result of cool air entering the firebox.
Err no.
Great! :))
@Kleman09 B.S. I used to do it regulary and for 17 years of my life on the steam.
does that locomotive use a combined vaccum steam brake
This has certainly aged since it was first made.
are the god old fryup
do you know where to dl this, see it or buy it? I can't seem to find it :(
When cooking bacon over an open flame, how do you prevent it from catching fire? I tried cooking bacon over the grill once and the entire pound of bacon caught fire and was completely incinerated.
From what I've heard, the trick is how you set the fire up. Similar to cooking on a campfire, they get the fire down to hot coals before cooking. In this case though, I guess he just keeps the shovel above the flames as much as possible.
If the the whole lot catches pull the shovel out of the door way and it normally just goes out again. Or blow it out. Done this a few times!!
That's ok, I prefer my bacon _almost_ charcoal-ed! 😁👍🏼
thats how you do it :D
Ive had fried egg on toast on a fireman’s shovel on the footplate of a steam loco when I went to India in 1972 obviously no bacon as Indians don’t eat meat. Place Muzaffapur Junction locoshed
Those mushrooms look a little lame too like they came out of a tin. Has to be brown sauce definitely. And for 59n - you can rent the Yorkshire Steam video for £1.99 if you have a UK IP address.
Proper grub
I ment footplate
in the good old days of steam this wss a daily ritual for engine crews.cant believe these guys get away with this with the stupid nanny state healt and safety bollocks we get rammed down our throats these days.
I think a boiler full of water at 200 psi is a bit more dangerous than cooking an egg!
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