Absolutely love these locomotives had the pleasure of driving and firing one of these beauty’s last week on the Great Central Railway for my 21st birthday treat!! To be precise it was (loco 73156) needless to say she was an absolute beast!! Would gladly do it all again all day everyday!!😁🚂
Good video! Love the sound of the standard 5! You can tell the trainee fireman is a little over cautious with checking the pressure gauge every 5 mins. This is good as he is really keeping a keen eye on things!
This is brilliantly done! Did you record this on a GoPro? I am strongly tempted to participate in the Bluebell Railway's Driving Experience days at some point in the near to mid-future. Is there any advice you can offer an amateur like myself? I have yet to have the chance to handle the controls of a full-sized loco in steam.
The best advice anyone could give you is this: On a steam locomotive, everything is hotter, dirtier, slower and heavier than you expect. _Everything._ You'll soon find out what not to touch to avoid being burnt; you'll go home caked in soot and thick, black grime; you'll've marvelled at the amount of time it takes to prepare the loco in the morning and put it to bed again in the evening; you'll ask for the fireman's help to lift something which he manages with one hand - and, without a shadow of a doubt, you will have had one of the most exciting and enjoyable days of your life. One last thing: anything powered by steam is inherently dangerous. If someone tells you to do something, you _do_ it, immediately! I hope you have a great time. :-)
Thank you for the advice. I know it is the patience and labour that one puts into preparing these things that pays off more rewardingly than any other machine.
One thing i noticed when firing steam engines, especially on camera. Is that when shovelling coal, you need to know where to place the coal, and i'm just thinking, when they look into the fire, how can they see anything when it is so bright, or is it just the camera that makes it look brighter than it really is?
I've seen firemen putting their shovel inside a firebox and guessing they were doing exactly what you've just said , but never understood how it worked .
A fireman uses the shovel to deflect the flames from the fire to see further into the firebox. He will be examing the shape of the fire and looking for any bright spots that may indicate the fire becoming thin and forming a hole which would be detrimental to the steaming of the locomotive.
and not even spilling any with all of the moving around the train was doing......lol and dont know how all those pots and cups were able to stay where they were also withy all of the moving around the train did
+Bill Cobbett A steam loco is an extremely loud machine, so it's very difficult to have any sort of conversation. The 'young lad' was another railway worker visiting from another railway; he'll've been used to the lack of conversation!
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Fastest way to tell get him out of the way of the crew during the approach to the station. An apology and explanation why was given at the end of the journey
steamingheaven Driver exchanges tokens with bobby who can either be drivers side or standing on the platform. Driver Ben did tap him on shoulder first not just lift him bodily out of the way!
Richard Helliwell The engine requires a two man crew which is a driver and a fireman, on a heritage like you normally have a 3 man crew driver fireman and trainee. In this video you see the fireman driving the trainee firing and the driver supervising. The forth person in the grey top is a footplate passanger who is there for a ride on the engine and is not apart of the crew
I believe there was a touch of sarcasm in my comment. I'm aware they do need a 3 man crew. Nowadays it would be unthinkable to have even a secondman in a train's cab. They did away with that in the 1980's.
What a stupid comment! A more sensible comment would be to congratulate the Bluebell for making sure that young people like these get trained to drive & fire these machines so that steam has a future. You do know that these are volunteers doing this work for the sheer love of it?
Wonderful to see a young but well drilled loco crew!
Joel Whitaker thank you!
Great to see these arcane skills being passed onto the youngsters!
At Severn Valley they still teach you :)
What a lovely place to be stood observing. Great sound too
Absolutely love these locomotives had the pleasure of driving and firing one of these beauty’s last week on the Great Central Railway for my 21st birthday treat!! To be precise it was (loco 73156) needless to say she was an absolute beast!! Would gladly do it all again all day everyday!!😁🚂
I have done this experience and It was awesome
Good video! Love the sound of the standard 5! You can tell the trainee fireman is a little over cautious with checking the pressure gauge every 5 mins. This is good as he is really keeping a keen eye on things!
This is brilliantly done! Did you record this on a GoPro? I am strongly tempted to participate in the Bluebell Railway's Driving Experience days at some point in the near to mid-future. Is there any advice you can offer an amateur like myself? I have yet to have the chance to handle the controls of a full-sized loco in steam.
The best advice anyone could give you is this: On a steam locomotive, everything is hotter, dirtier, slower and heavier than you expect. _Everything._ You'll soon find out what not to touch to avoid being burnt; you'll go home caked in soot and thick, black grime; you'll've marvelled at the amount of time it takes to prepare the loco in the morning and put it to bed again in the evening; you'll ask for the fireman's help to lift something which he manages with one hand - and, without a shadow of a doubt, you will have had one of the most exciting and enjoyable days of your life.
One last thing: anything powered by steam is inherently dangerous. If someone tells you to do something, you _do_ it, immediately! I hope you have a great time. :-)
Thank you for the advice. I know it is the patience and labour that one puts into preparing these things that pays off more rewardingly than any other machine.
Really love the whistle :)
One thing i noticed when firing steam engines, especially on camera. Is that when shovelling coal, you need to know where to place the coal, and i'm just thinking, when they look into the fire, how can they see anything when it is so bright, or is it just the camera that makes it look brighter than it really is?
As a fireman for 13/14 years if you place the shovel in certain ways, you can examine the fire to see into the fire, hard explain in words.
I've seen firemen putting their shovel inside a firebox and guessing they were doing exactly what you've just said , but never understood how it worked .
A fireman uses the shovel to deflect the flames from the fire to see further into the firebox. He will be examing the shape of the fire and looking for any bright spots that may indicate the fire becoming thin and forming a hole which would be detrimental to the steaming of the locomotive.
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Love the spirit . Typical Englishmen drinking Tea / Coffee hehe?
and not even spilling any with all of the moving around the train was doing......lol and dont know how all those pots and cups were able to stay where they were also withy all of the moving around the train did
XD
WHAT ABOUT EGG AND BACO ON A SHOVEL THEN !!!!
SORRY, BACON, I HAVE DOUBLE BLURRED VISION AND HAVE LOST BOTH LOWER LEGS.
Brilliant video. :)
Regards
Jake
You've come along way from driving at Exbury, Congratulations.
Just alot!
Great experience for you , all very quite there in the cab ...?
+David Howarth pointing and hand gestures normaly do the job, no need to have long conversations while operating a engine.
I think you might have spoken to the young lad a bit, though.
+Bill Cobbett A steam loco is an extremely loud machine, so it's very difficult to have any sort of conversation. The 'young lad' was another railway worker visiting from another railway; he'll've been used to the lack of conversation!
J'adore les chaussures cirées du conducteur du train...
Driving a train... sipping tea. That's British.
“Driver wetherall” overseeing.... you sure you didn’t mean jack whitehall overseeing... aside from the weight issue... rather uncanny
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why did the driver pull the boy like that
Fastest way to tell get him out of the way of the crew during the approach to the station. An apology and explanation why was given at the end of the journey
steamingheaven
Driver exchanges tokens with bobby who can either be drivers side or standing on the platform. Driver Ben did tap him on shoulder first not just lift him bodily out of the way!
I wouldn't worry too much I'm always in the way :P
hull to honsea old railway line when it was running
Great people.
Can not see
Overmanning or what! No wonder the steam engine was doomed. Dr Beeching was right after all!
Richard Helliwell The engine requires a two man crew which is a driver and a fireman, on a heritage like you normally have a 3 man crew driver fireman and trainee. In this video you see the fireman driving the trainee firing and the driver supervising. The forth person in the grey top is a footplate passanger who is there for a ride on the engine and is not apart of the crew
I believe there was a touch of sarcasm in my comment. I'm aware they do need a 3 man crew. Nowadays it would be unthinkable to have even a secondman in a train's cab. They did away with that in the 1980's.
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What a stupid comment! A more sensible comment would be to congratulate the Bluebell for making sure that young people like these get trained to drive & fire these machines so that steam has a future. You do know that these are volunteers doing this work for the sheer love of it?
So what?