Defiantly agree there. I wouldn't like to see any steam loco get cut up. But there a lot more fun when you can here them with the smell the hot oil and smoke.
45 minutes of pure pleasure and impressed by locations where filmed. Only downside, two grandsons on my knees shouting with excitement, but to see their little faces shining with excitement is something else. I believe you have just won another 3 fans for you website. Many thanks
This is one of the reasons I want to visit the UK so badly. Looks as if steam trains aren’t nearly as rare of a sight over there than they are here in the US. The shots of them blasting across the countryside, without a diesel helper engine, make me smile.
Actually, if you do the math on a higher power locomotive like this one, it is as powerful as the current fleet of diesels. Keep in mind, that trains that were pulled to very high speeds by one Steam locomotive, are now pulled by many diesels. I saw somewhere that this steam locomotive is somewhere around 10K horsepower. The big boys in the US UP fleet were also very high horsepower, and they were used in the early diesel days to help the trains to get over big passes where the diesels were just not powerful enough.
3RTracing actually modern trains are more powerful, the most powerful steam train has around 6000bho and that's big boy, modern electrics can have way over 10,000bhp and like 300,000 traction effort or something crazy like that
@@michaelserby7697 Most of the time it is independent associations with a desire to keep them running. They also run museums in conjunction with their heritage railways, which are often closed down lines who are no longer in use.
In technical world, nothing is more beautiful than a running railway steam locomotive. The performance of the running gear is really a wonderful sight.
I'm french and I have known steam machines when I was young boy. We lived in suburb of Paris and sometimes,for her shop, my Grand Mother bring me to Paris to buy merchandises .We arrived at the great station named St Lazare.There were many steam machines but also all these of the electrified railroad network.It was in the mid sixties and juste before the seventies. In that moment when I write these lines ,I'm also reading a book writen by Clive Lamming ,a notorious specialist of the topic.Title is : British trains and railroad networks from tradition to modernity (1901-2000)!!!!Published in french by Atlas editions several years before. So I want to congratulate the author of this video such his work is perfect.Pictures,variety of steam machines,only the sound of these beautiful trains in stations ,counties , night and day. It is merely extraordinary to see the same machines I discover in my book ,but this time in live . From dream generates by pictures to reality nowadays!!! And we have also all the descriptions of the trains , names and types of machines.Very very respectable work. A great documentary on the British legends of the era of steam machines : Mallard,Bulleid,Flying Scotsman ,City of Truro and so much etc etc... For me these machines have a soul.At a moment we can see a steam machine and after, a recent train issue of modern technology.In the first case soul of man is speaking to us, in the second case, as modern cars :zero interest ,robotic work , no name ,no dream , no magical feeling. As for us with the TGV : a train to bring people from "A" point to "X" point, but not to travel ,to visit country , to spend our time to take time.... A triple hurrah to the British engineers who conceived these extraordinaries machines : William Dean for his "City of Truro" the first to reach the barrier of 100mph, George Jackson Churchward young engeineer implicated in Great Western Railway realisations, Nigel Gresley for his K, A1, A4, Herbert William Garratt who saved the Beyer-Peacock Company, Chief mechanical engineer C.B.Collett, William Stanier And so and so . Thank you so much to give the possibility to see these historical legends of the British railway steam machines!!
It's not only that you are a great photographer: you clearly are a very generous person who lends us your time and your eyes to get the perfect angle so that WE can enjoy the perfect images. You have captured fleeting moments in England and I've been living through them this Sunday afternoon in Brasília, Brazil, and feeling overwhelmed by joy and gratitude. All the best!!!!!!
Thank you - for the countless track-side hours, the gallons of gas (petrol), the inclement weather - the hot, the cold, the wet. And then countless more hours editing. Thank you. From my point of view, it was all thoroughly worth it. Cheers!
I love it when they're running clean. The staged glamour shots with massive clouds of steam and soot pouring out of the locomotive are eyecandy, sure, but when it's running clean it feels like a living, breathing animal, a piece of history in the present. And you can't beat that.
This brings back memories. My grandad was manager of LNER and I stood on a few plates when I was young. It faded out for a bit and I lost contact with the UK as I lived in Germany then China over 10 years. When I came back I was stunned at the steam revival! Good on you all the enthusiasts. Keep them going. Its not history, as history is something that gone. Steam is not gone, just had a little nap, now she's back!
@@jamesleopard8518 Correct. A good reason too, because George Carlin, who is one of my favorite comedians, was the narrator for the series that I found out later. Plus, I'mma steam engine fan.
The speed at which those bars are moving on the wheels is unreal. Solid steel weighing a lot moving so fast it makes you feel like it defies the laws of physics or is going to time travel.
This is one of the things I love most about steam engines; they've all got their own personalities. The sound of their wheels and pistons whirring along the rails, their whistles, you'd have to look hard to try and find two engines that sound so similar, and even then, there's bound to be a few small differences. We should seriously bring steam back into regular service around the world. Bring back the railroads!
This is a great combination, my son and I have watched this hundreds of times. the variety of shots, landscape, weather and engines after years this is still the go to!
A wonderful collection of steam at its best. Much appreciated. "I thank heaven for the thrill of the steam that remains, Once a boy - now a man, but still waving at trains".
I served my time with British Railways at Gorton Tank Manchester as a 'Fitter', working on these magnificent beasts. but familiarity breeds contempt and I failed to see the beauty of the product. Thank God there were people with cameras and foresight who recorded them in full flight. The main 'Con Rod' which ties the wheels together took 8 men to lift it onto the wheels and to see it flying round as if it were made of balsa wood gives some idea of the massive strength of these machines. my sincere thanks to you guys with cameras and brains enough to know how to use them. this display of strength and speed makes 'Jurassic Park' look like childsplay.
You have just made an old man very happy. It bought back my childhood!! Many thanks for an excellent video which had good quality at full screen on my PC.
I'm American and I can see Great Britain has some really gorgeous steam engines. I see the "side pipes" of engines are all enclosed. I like the colors of the engines, too. That was a great shot of a Mallard.
After nationalisation in 1948 some British Railways locomotives had exposed pipework in the American style for reasons of efficiency, but they were the exception. There were even some US locos running on British tracks, mainly shunters (switchers) left over after the war.
Steam trains and some beautiful English countryside. A nice combination. Haven't seen anyone capture the countryside like this is any movie or video on the internet before. It really is like I imagined.
I always think it was kind of the loco makers that they put a lovely coal fire in the cab just to keep the drivers warm and to cook their meals, or am I missing something? Ha Ha!
I just absolutely love looking at the coupling rods of large steam engines, especially when they’re at high speeds. Just watching the mechanics work is amazing
Just listen to the beautiful whistle Clan Line 10:08,and,followed by the glorious fluttering,and,almost mournful whistle of Brittannia at 10:37. Magnificent,absolutely magnificent.
There's nothing but the joy and the happiness of seeing a restored steam train chugging along at 100 mph through the rolling pastures of England. America can never match the willpower of British railways. When I saw these these steamers hustling their restored carriages along England's countryside they brought tears to my eyes.
attention metra commuters , this train does not stop. attention metra commuters , please stand behind the yellow line . i love british steamers at speed . good catches .
What some lovely images and footage! I've always loved steam trains for the variety and colour of the engines, that plaintive whistling noise, the roar of the wheels on the rails, the smell of the steam and engine oil in the station as they pass and the feeling of watching Victorian/20th century engineering that still exudes so much power as they pound out the miles to their destination. Thank you for sharing these, this video has definitely put me in the mood for a trip on the Severn Valley steam railway soon!
What a treat for a freezing cold afternoons viewing in boring Switzerland. Im not a train buff but I enjoyed every second of the film. Anyone who says the sight and sound of one of these beauties thundering past does not move them must simply be dead inside.
Makes me a little misty eyed! I may be foolish, but as a Brit. (80) now living in America for over 30 years, this brings back many happy memories of train spotting as a youth in the "good old days". Nice footage. Makes me very happy to see.
Thank you so much. This film has everything! - drama, romance, beauty, nostalgia, not quite everything - the smell! But no worries, my 75 year old brain can still recapture the acrid fumes up my nose from when I was a kid. I've got goosebumps I didn't know I had! Best regards. PS: if you make a DVD call it 'Locomotive Porn' you'll sell a million!
After buying several Corgi steam legends locos,I just had to see this! Wonderful, just wonderful.Thanks so much and all the very best from Madrid Spain.
Wow! This is absolutely fabulous! I have always bemoaned the fact that camcorders came along only after steam locomotives disappeared. Thanks to UA-cam, I can view these beauties again.
You have done a wonderful job making this video, it gets played several times per day for my 3 year old grandson who cannot get enough of it ... especially the Doppler effect at 19:00, the best example on UA-cam.
There's something so awesome about being able to see what drives a steam train forward as opposed to not seeing it in an electric/diesel train. I mean seriously the steam, and all that visible machinery moving, there's just something amazing about it. It's as if you can see the human effort and ingenuity that went into it all right there before your eyes. Love these things.
+Ponysynth One Official That's actually 4464 Bittern, functionally and cosmetically identical to Mallard, but Mallard is apparently too prestigious and famous to run, so she's been on static display for a while now, which I find a little odd as 4472 Flying Scotsman has just returned to mainline service and is one of the most famous steam locomotives in existence. Ah well, Bittern is still a fabulous locomotive.
Congratulations on a great compilation. This has obviously taken patience, skill, knowledge and research of timings and locations plus excellent editing. Thank you so much for sharing it. Bob K.
This is very impressive with the engineering of this equipment. Often these steam trains were built decades ago. I rode on a steam train in the Grand Canyon with my wife about 10 years ago and it was a lot of fun.
I am of that generation (born 1942). You actually got used to steam trains so that if the engine was commonplace (e.g. a Black 5) it all became a bit boring, believe it or not. Knowing what the real thing was like has given me a subversive attitude towards engine cleanliness. All very well express engines looking shiny and spruce but when you see a routine mixed-traffic loco (a Hall, say) done up to the nines it just looks unreal. Halls should be at least grubby otherwise they look like brickies at a wedding. Apologies to all brickies, skilled people.
Me I love but I was born in 2009 and only saw Thomas the tank engine and then saw a tank engine in real never seen flying Scotsman or tornado but been to NRM
Magnificent compilation. Thank you for taking the effort and time to post them up. I'm of an age when I saw most of those at speed when in British Rail daily service. 70013 Oliver Cromwell especially poignant. 1951, standing on Stratford Station in East London following my parents divorce hearing in the nearby court, I saw out bound from Liverpool Street the East Anglian Express. Flashed through the Station very fast but not fast enough I could not read the nameplate on the Smoke Deflectors. Vivid memory for obvious reasons and sewed the seeds of a lifetime's interest in transport. With flashing golden con-rods, 70013 looked brand new that day. Later, I discovered it had left the works where it was newly built not long before I saw it.
God they are beautiful, every single one of them, they were the backbone of Britain during the dark days of Europe, the thought of being there at that time watching them fly past the country fields on a cold crisp day and thinking, “God speed you legends, we’ll chase them all the way back to Berlin with the finest locomotives in Europe! Keep up the good work chaps!”
Absolutely magnificent! Some of the finest footage of high speed steam I’ve ever seen and I’ve watched plenty. I like the minimum use of telephoto lenses so that a real impression of the speed was experienced especially on wide screen TV and surround sound, what a treat. Thanks so much for posting.
What a buzz! Remember listening to the old locos moving around late at night from my bedroom window and feeling so excited to get the chance to even hear them. A feeling I had forgotten until watching them here, what a feeling!
What a beautiful edited video. You captured the essence of this piece of engineering history perfectly,well done 👍 The sounds of this beauties coming towards you at great speed and the plumes of smoke coming from the funnel, a sight to behold. Breathing in the smell the burning coal in the smoke, as they whistle by. I understand we must move forward, but that era was so exciting to see and hear. I cannot deny that there was a lump in my throat and tear in my eyes seeing them stretching their legs again. Thank you so much everybody for your time and effort to relive those halcyon days.
They may be old but they still have plenty of steam left in them *Badumtss* I’m so glad that steam engines are still in use or are at least preserved on heritage railways or in museums, these old girls ran the age of trains and do not deserve to be scrapped so suddenly! I know it may be hard to preserve them but at least we can still watch them on UA-cam today or visit them in museums before they could get scrapped! The steam locomotive is the most iconic and unique of either diesel or electric which don’t really stick out, unlike their steam counterparts. Seeing an engine with a cylindrical boiler really does change the boringness of all locomotives looking square and boxy!
As a bit of a weather nut there's one thing I envy about the MidWest and that's the vast distances you can see, good for chasing tornados. In Britain you can see to the next bend in the road which may be as much as 100 yards.
An absolutely fantastic video, the best compilation of high speed steam I’ve come across on UA-cam. The clip of Clan Line at Keynsham 19 mins in 😍 just incredible. Thank you for sharing!
Beautifully put together and a joy to watch with the lights down low, sipping a whisky with 7.1 surround. Thank you for all your hard work in editing and travelling.
I'm no train spotter, I couldn't care less about numbers or makes of engine, but there is something just so undeniably beautiful about a steam train, especially at high speed. Such an gorgeous feat of enginerring.
Wunderschön diese Dampfgiganten in voller Kraftenfaltung zu sehen. Das war noch Kunst in der Technik ! Wie farblos sind dagegen jetzt die Elektroloks ? Es war so schön aber es kommt nie wieder. Wenn wir, in meiner Kindheit, im Sommer,. nachTirol auf Urlaub fuhren, ging mein Vater mit mir immer vor die Lok anschauen. Da stand sie da, die mächtige, schwarze Schnellzugslok mit ihren, über 2 Meter hohen, schlanken Rädern. Zischend und fauchend wie ein Tieger vor dem Sprung. Dieses Bild von Macht, Größe und dabei filigraner Eleganz, bleibt mir, bis heute im Gedächtnis haften. Es war wunderschön und hatte noch Stil, aber es kommt nie mehr wieder. Wir müssen Britannien danken, daß es scheinbar, noch so lange, den Dampfbetrieb einsetzt und behütet.
Wow! What an excellent video, Top notch stuff here! I know people are probably going to jump down my throat, but i wish steam locomotives moved this fast in the US!
Yeah, I don't really ever make dedicated trips to Museums. It's nice to see Cosm. restored locomotives, but its also sad in a way because they're cold. There are a few places in the US dedicated to Mainline steam trips, but none of them ever seem to allow speeds like this.
***** Well there are quite a few steam locomotives out here that are restored and running, and yeah, I wish the trains had a little more power in them, but our whistles will make you stop in your tracks.
k tanner Yes, if there's one thing we know well its how to make a great sounding whistle! My problem i guess is that where I'm from in the US its almost completely 'steamless'. The nicest locomotives are out west, running in some of the blandest scenery in the country, yes it's cool they can run faster but scenery is a big part of videography and photography. I wish it was possible to 'spread their wealth' so to speak and allow locomotives to visit the Northeast, haha.
@@mildly_miffed_man1414 why as they only took their ideas off us like the Americans stole a lot of ideas off us even the names of some of their towns and cities
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Love seeing them at speed. Much nicer to see them out doing what they were designed to do rather then stuck in a museum.
+mark pritchard The best way to preserve any machine is to maintain & use it as designed.
+trespire Does this include a shapely bird?
Tom Burcher
If the shapely bird is autonomously articulated & self powered, then absolutely.
mark pritchard being museumed is still better than meeting the cutter's torch
Defiantly agree there. I wouldn't like to see any steam loco get cut up. But there a lot more fun when you can here them with the smell the hot oil and smoke.
14:30 is a really nice one, seeing the smoke and a silhouette in the distant fog, and then you see the steam engine rush by. I love it.
45 minutes of pure pleasure and impressed by locations where filmed. Only downside, two grandsons on my knees shouting with excitement, but to see their little faces shining with excitement is something else. I believe you have just won another 3 fans for you website. Many thanks
They still have that sense of pride like they’re saying, “IM COMING THROUGH, OUT OF MY WAY!”
So very true. They have a life of their own. The sound of the engine and the coaches on the rails is like a maginifucent, frantic symphony.
This is one of the reasons I want to visit the UK so badly. Looks as if steam trains aren’t nearly as rare of a sight over there than they are here in the US. The shots of them blasting across the countryside, without a diesel helper engine, make me smile.
The desail helper engine is to power the coaches. Not to help the train
@@ZazzelTheGamerPretty sure the diesel at the back is to run the train in the opposite direction out of stations with no run-around track
And the coaches are probably steam-heated as they are Mark 1 coaches , but I may be wrong
@@TheRedFloofball_Foxyi think he was talking about usa trains having diesel helpers
Wouldn’t count ya luck on it
Splendid. So skillfully executed. I had no idea there was this much steam still in operation in the UK.
There's about 200 operational steam locomotives in the UK today
Holy crap avweb is on train UA-cam!
Pretty much the only place steam engines are still used regularly.
Well steam locos are only used on railtours now-a-days
long, LOOOOONG, may it be so!
They may not be as powerful as diesels or electrics but jesus they are beautiful !!!
Actually, if you do the math on a higher power locomotive like this one, it is as powerful as the current fleet of diesels. Keep in mind, that trains that were pulled to very high speeds by one Steam locomotive, are now pulled by many diesels. I saw somewhere that this steam locomotive is somewhere around 10K horsepower. The big boys in the US UP fleet were also very high horsepower, and they were used in the early diesel days to help the trains to get over big passes where the diesels were just not powerful enough.
They are capable of as much power as many modern diesels, but they require more maintenance, and are prone to slipping.
3RTracing actually modern trains are more powerful, the most powerful steam train has around 6000bho and that's big boy, modern electrics can have way over 10,000bhp and like 300,000 traction effort or something crazy like that
The most modern little electric engines go 250 kph through the alps (new Swiss base tunnels)
heelfan1234 As i suspected just a pathetic troll looking for some attention
A big thanks to the people that have restored and keep running these magnificent locos running! without them they would only be history.
Who maintains these great steam trains ? ♥️ 🤔 😎
@@michaelserby7697 Most of the time it is independent associations with a desire to keep them running. They also run museums in conjunction with their heritage railways, which are often closed down lines who are no longer in use.
In technical world, nothing is more beautiful than a running railway steam locomotive. The performance of the running gear is really a wonderful sight.
I'm french and I have known steam machines when I was young boy.
We lived in suburb of Paris and sometimes,for her shop, my Grand Mother bring me to Paris to buy merchandises .We arrived at the great station named St Lazare.There were many steam machines but also all these of the electrified railroad network.It was in the mid sixties and juste before the seventies.
In that moment when I write these lines ,I'm also reading a book writen by Clive Lamming ,a notorious specialist of the topic.Title is : British trains and railroad networks from tradition to modernity (1901-2000)!!!!Published in french by Atlas editions several years before.
So I want to congratulate the author of this video such his work is perfect.Pictures,variety of steam machines,only the sound of these beautiful trains in stations ,counties , night and day.
It is merely extraordinary to see the same machines I discover in my book ,but this time in live .
From dream generates by pictures to reality nowadays!!!
And we have also all the descriptions of the trains , names and types of machines.Very very respectable work.
A great documentary on the British legends of the era of steam machines : Mallard,Bulleid,Flying Scotsman ,City of Truro and so much etc etc...
For me these machines have a soul.At a moment we can see a steam machine and after, a recent train issue of modern technology.In the first case soul of man is speaking to us, in the second case, as modern cars :zero interest ,robotic work , no name ,no dream , no magical feeling.
As for us with the TGV : a train to bring people from "A" point to "X" point, but not to travel ,to visit country , to spend our time to take time....
A triple hurrah to the British engineers who conceived these extraordinaries machines :
William Dean for his "City of Truro" the first to reach the barrier of 100mph,
George Jackson Churchward young engeineer implicated in Great Western Railway realisations,
Nigel Gresley for his K, A1, A4,
Herbert William Garratt who saved the Beyer-Peacock Company,
Chief mechanical engineer C.B.Collett,
William Stanier
And so and so .
Thank you so much to give the possibility to see these historical legends of the British railway steam machines!!
Knowing how much one of those side rods weighs, and seeing it get slung around that fast is a terrifying thought!!!
0_0 Indeed.
I didn't know you were a Train Buff, Fluttershy.
flying in a jumbo jet that weigh 300 tons and more is even more terrifying
My thoughts too. They must have been made of the finest forged steel.
@@topbanana8438Nah trains are more terrifying because you feel the wind when they fly by
My intrusive thoughts would become the death of me
It's not only that you are a great photographer: you clearly are a very generous person who lends us your time and your eyes to get the perfect angle so that WE can enjoy the perfect images. You have captured fleeting moments in England and I've been living through them this Sunday afternoon in Brasília, Brazil, and feeling overwhelmed by joy and gratitude. All the best!!!!!!
Fantastic coverage
Everything looks so cozy and Englandy.
+Brock Landers Lol
Makes me want to move there
I'm an American fan of Nigel Farage and UKIP - GO BREXIT!
So rainy...
+Andrew Chaston um... here in Canada we have the most and the cleanest water in the world so...
This was the Golden Age of train travel. The tracks were well maintained , and steam engines were hella fast .
Watching steam engines is better than watching bullet trains.
Agreed
Ohhh thems fightin’ words…. Both equally so satisfying.
Yeah obviously but bullet trains are still cool. You dont need to pin everything against themselves
They sound better too.
Your’re right there my friend
14:28ff is one of the loveliest train shots I've ever seen. Great videography!
+Rob Crawford
Yes, it's so mesmerizing. I like the one right after it, too.
Rob Crawford just lovely
Rob Crawford I agree Rod stunning
Yup!
True
Thank you - for the countless track-side hours, the gallons of gas (petrol), the inclement weather - the hot, the cold, the wet. And then countless more hours editing. Thank you. From my point of view, it was all thoroughly worth it. Cheers!
I love it when they're running clean. The staged glamour shots with massive clouds of steam and soot pouring out of the locomotive are eyecandy, sure, but when it's running clean it feels like a living, breathing animal, a piece of history in the present. And you can't beat that.
Totally
Put this on for my 2 year old son so I could get on with my work...half an hour later I'm still glued to the screen (as is he!)
This video worked... too well.😂
This brings back memories.
My grandad was manager of LNER and I stood on a few plates when I was young. It faded out for a bit and I lost contact with the UK as I lived in Germany then China over 10 years. When I came back I was stunned at the steam revival!
Good on you all the enthusiasts. Keep them going. Its not history, as history is something that gone. Steam is not gone, just had a little nap, now she's back!
"Well, little Thomas, now you know what hard work means don't you?"
- Gordon
carmonajr18 *EXPRESS COMING THROUGH!!!*
Gordon was by far my favorite.
My favorite is the flying scotsman
It sounds like you are a Thomas The Tank Engine fan
@@jamesleopard8518 Correct. A good reason too, because George Carlin, who is one of my favorite comedians, was the narrator for the series that I found out later. Plus, I'mma steam engine fan.
The speed at which those bars are moving on the wheels is unreal. Solid steel weighing a lot moving so fast it makes you feel like it defies the laws of physics or is going to time travel.
I'm an American-railroading guy, but I just cannot stop replaying 0:37. It's gorgeous!
Indeed
I agree. Very lovely shots of the train and the countryside.
❤Love it!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!!
American engineering at it's finest ❤
My 2 year old has just watched this with the biggest grin on his face. Thanks for the huge upload 😁
That would of always put the largest grin when he’s older :)
This is one of the things I love most about steam engines; they've all got their own personalities. The sound of their wheels and pistons whirring along the rails, their whistles, you'd have to look hard to try and find two engines that sound so similar, and even then, there's bound to be a few small differences. We should seriously bring steam back into regular service around the world. Bring back the railroads!
As a kid, I used to trainspot at Waterloo station. I can still visualise these beasts lined up at the platforms, breathing heavily. Magic.
This is a great combination, my son and I have watched this hundreds of times. the variety of shots, landscape, weather and engines after years this is still the go to!
A wonderful collection of steam at its best. Much appreciated.
"I thank heaven for the thrill of the steam that remains,
Once a boy - now a man, but still waving at trains".
I served my time with British Railways at Gorton Tank Manchester as a 'Fitter', working on these magnificent beasts. but familiarity breeds contempt and I failed to see the beauty of the product.
Thank God there were people with cameras and foresight who recorded them in full flight. The main 'Con Rod' which ties the wheels together took 8 men to lift it onto the wheels and to see it flying round as if it were made of balsa wood gives some idea of the massive strength of these machines. my sincere thanks to you guys with cameras and brains enough to know how to use them. this display of strength and speed makes 'Jurassic Park' look like childsplay.
You have just made an old man very happy. It bought back my childhood!! Many thanks for an excellent video which had good quality at full screen on my PC.
I'm American and I can see Great Britain has some really gorgeous steam engines. I see the "side pipes" of engines are all
enclosed. I like the colors of the engines, too. That was a great shot of a Mallard.
After nationalisation in 1948 some British Railways locomotives had exposed pipework in the American style for reasons of efficiency, but they were the exception. There were even some US locos running on British tracks, mainly shunters (switchers) left over after the war.
Steam trains and some beautiful English countryside. A nice combination.
Haven't seen anyone capture the countryside like this is any movie or video on the internet before. It really is like I imagined.
s0nnyburnett same
I always think it was kind of the loco makers that they put a lovely coal fire in the cab just to keep the drivers warm and to cook their meals, or am I missing something? Ha Ha!
They go Howling thru the countryside, enough to scare a Wolf!
I just absolutely love looking at the coupling rods of large steam engines, especially when they’re at high speeds. Just watching the mechanics work is amazing
Just listen to the beautiful whistle Clan Line 10:08,and,followed by the glorious fluttering,and,almost mournful whistle of Brittannia at 10:37. Magnificent,absolutely magnificent.
Awesome footage, well shot and a lot of hard work chasing trains going that fast ...
There's nothing but the joy and the happiness of seeing a restored steam train chugging along at 100 mph through the rolling pastures of England. America can never match the willpower of British railways. When I saw these these steamers hustling their restored carriages along England's countryside they brought tears to my eyes.
Theres something about steam that stirs the soul.
Yep steam engines are the best.
YES.
Two of the greatest sounds, steam locomotives and a Merlin engine in a spitfire 😊
@@harrythered4-4-0production8 shovels the coal?
Alliteration moment
attention metra commuters , this train does not stop. attention metra commuters , please stand behind the yellow line . i love british steamers at speed . good catches .
I need to go to England! Beautiful landscape, weather, and of course trains! The perfect post card!
One of the best steam videos I have seen on youtube, great filming and the clarity is superb along with the sound.
I'm Australian so getting to see British steam for 45 min straight is awesome.Thanks man!
Best collection of history I've seen....touched and seen most of them in my youth
My two year old is obsessed with trains. Thank you so much for this video, perfect for rainy afternoons.
What some lovely images and footage! I've always loved steam trains for the variety and colour of the engines, that plaintive whistling noise, the roar of the wheels on the rails, the smell of the steam and engine oil in the station as they pass and the feeling of watching Victorian/20th century engineering that still exudes so much power as they pound out the miles to their destination. Thank you for sharing these, this video has definitely put me in the mood for a trip on the Severn Valley steam railway soon!
Me on the tracks: oh no I'm going to get ran over by a steam engine steam engine runs over me me: ahhhhhh!
45 minutes of pure Beauty and Joy.
What a treat for a freezing cold afternoons viewing in boring Switzerland. Im not a train buff but I enjoyed every second of the film. Anyone who says the sight and sound of one of these beauties thundering past does not move them must simply be dead inside.
steam trains where probably the biggest invention in travel history in my opinion
I agree with your opinion 100%
@@keshavleitan7800 i saw it, thanks
Makes me a little misty eyed! I may be foolish, but as a Brit. (80) now living in America for over 30 years, this brings back many happy memories of train spotting as a youth in the "good old days". Nice footage. Makes me very happy to see.
487 people without a Soul, fantastic film thank you.
Thank you so much. This film has everything! - drama, romance, beauty, nostalgia, not quite everything - the smell! But no worries, my 75 year old brain can still recapture the acrid fumes up my nose from when I was a kid. I've got goosebumps I didn't know I had! Best regards.
PS: if you make a DVD call it 'Locomotive Porn' you'll sell a million!
Hope you're doing well
After buying several Corgi steam legends locos,I just had to see this! Wonderful, just wonderful.Thanks so much and all the very best from Madrid Spain.
Dog train??!?!!?;!!!?!?
@@battleshipfan3435 no the model company dumbass
Wow! This is absolutely fabulous! I have always bemoaned the fact that camcorders came along only after steam locomotives disappeared. Thanks to UA-cam, I can view these beauties again.
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You have done a wonderful job making this video, it gets played several times per day for my 3 year old grandson who cannot get enough of it ... especially the Doppler effect at 19:00, the best example on UA-cam.
There's something so awesome about being able to see what drives a steam train forward as opposed to not seeing it in an electric/diesel train. I mean seriously the steam, and all that visible machinery moving, there's just something amazing about it. It's as if you can see the human effort and ingenuity that went into it all right there before your eyes.
Love these things.
The Mallard locomotive... It's so beautiful...
The one in the video was actually the Bittern but the looks are very similar :)
These make we recall Japan's many years ago, steam trains sound pretty cool.
+Ponysynth One Official That's actually 4464 Bittern, functionally and cosmetically identical to Mallard, but Mallard is apparently too prestigious and famous to run, so she's been on static display for a while now, which I find a little odd as 4472 Flying Scotsman has just returned to mainline service and is one of the most famous steam locomotives in existence. Ah well, Bittern is still a fabulous locomotive.
deafyboy86 Union Of South Africa!!!!
Toby Larone when I was younger I was let into the cab of bittern
A relief to have some steady camera work and absence of cheesy commentary. Great collection of clips.
Congratulations on a great compilation. This has obviously taken patience, skill, knowledge and research of timings and locations plus excellent editing. Thank you so much for sharing it. Bob K.
Diesels: Power
Electric: Speed
Steam: F**king epic
This is very impressive with the engineering of this equipment. Often these steam trains were built decades ago. I rode on a steam train in the Grand Canyon with my wife about 10 years ago and it was a lot of fun.
I wish I lived back in the era in which steam locomotives pounding up and down the main line was an everyday sight
I am of that generation (born 1942). You actually got used to steam trains so that if the engine was commonplace (e.g. a Black 5) it all became a bit boring, believe it or not. Knowing what the real thing was like has given me a subversive attitude towards engine cleanliness. All very well express engines looking shiny and spruce but when you see a routine mixed-traffic loco (a Hall, say) done up to the nines it just looks unreal. Halls should be at least grubby otherwise they look like brickies at a wedding. Apologies to all brickies, skilled people.
Daniel Smith they still do I heard that a new p2 is built
Agreed!
I wish I was born at that time too😢
Me I love but I was born in 2009 and only saw Thomas the tank engine and then saw a tank engine in real never seen flying Scotsman or tornado but been to NRM
I TOTALLY agree with Dave Cooper Excellent camerawork and well chosen locations makes this an extremely enjoyable video.
These trains give me goosebumps... seriously they are brilliant
HOLY CRAP SUCH NASTOGIA I SAW THIS WHEN I WAS 2 WATCHED IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN THANK YOU FOR THIS WORK OF ART AND CHILD HOOD MEMORIES
Thanks, many memories for a 70 year old.
Magnificent compilation. Thank you for taking the effort and time to post them up. I'm of an age when I saw most of those at speed when in British Rail daily service. 70013 Oliver Cromwell especially poignant. 1951, standing on Stratford Station in East London following my parents divorce hearing in the nearby court, I saw out bound from Liverpool Street the East Anglian Express. Flashed through the Station very fast but not fast enough I could not read the nameplate on the Smoke Deflectors. Vivid memory for obvious reasons and sewed the seeds of a lifetime's interest in transport. With flashing golden con-rods, 70013 looked brand new that day. Later, I discovered it had left the works where it was newly built not long before I saw it.
Of course steam trains have to be fast. You need to outrun the Dementors
Raize J haha
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That is the best harry poster reference I've ever heard
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Best video on steam I've seen in a long while! Thanks!
God they are beautiful, every single one of them, they were the backbone of Britain during the dark days of Europe, the thought of being there at that time watching them fly past the country fields on a cold crisp day and thinking, “God speed you legends, we’ll chase them all the way back to Berlin with the finest locomotives in Europe! Keep up the good work chaps!”
Thank you for posting this. My 2 year old niece is mesmerized by this footage and constantly wants to watch your "choo choo show".
bloody wonderful...makes my heart pound watching these beauties ...thankyou for filming them x
My two-year-old is a bit obsessed. Honestly, thank you!
Absolutely magnificent! Some of the finest footage of high speed steam I’ve ever seen and I’ve watched plenty. I like the minimum use of telephoto lenses so that a real impression of the speed was experienced especially on wide screen TV and surround sound, what a treat. Thanks so much for posting.
What a buzz! Remember listening to the old locos moving around late at night from my bedroom window and feeling so excited to get the chance to even hear them. A feeling I had forgotten until watching them here, what a feeling!
Eight years on , still love your work , thank you
I thought I'd get bored after three minutes and before I knew it, I had to pause it halfway through for supper!!! Excellent video!!
That is an absolutely exquisite selection of clips.
22:53 OMG. Double steam train! DOUBLE STEAM TRAIN ALL THE WAY!! OMG!!! WOOOOOW!!!!!
Nox Xelor Those are Henry and Rebecca.
@@samanli-tw3id u right
What a beautiful edited video.
You captured the essence of this piece of engineering history perfectly,well done 👍
The sounds of this beauties coming towards you at great speed and the plumes of smoke coming from the funnel, a sight to behold. Breathing in the smell the burning coal in the smoke, as they whistle by.
I understand we must move forward, but that era was so exciting to see and hear.
I cannot deny that there was a lump in my throat and tear in my eyes seeing them stretching their legs again.
Thank you so much everybody for your time and effort to relive those halcyon days.
They may be old but they still have plenty of steam left in them *Badumtss*
I’m so glad that steam engines are still in use or are at least preserved on heritage railways or in museums, these old girls ran the age of trains and do not deserve to be scrapped so suddenly! I know it may be hard to preserve them but at least we can still watch them on UA-cam today or visit them in museums before they could get scrapped!
The steam locomotive is the most iconic and unique of either diesel or electric which don’t really stick out, unlike their steam counterparts. Seeing an engine with a cylindrical boiler really does change the boringness of all locomotives looking square and boxy!
Great quality video. We could never have imagined such clarity in the 1960s!
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Beautiful rolling green hills in a beautiful country.Regards from the USA Midwest where the corn is head high.
As a bit of a weather nut there's one thing I envy about the MidWest and that's the vast distances you can see, good for chasing tornados. In Britain you can see to the next bend in the road which may be as much as 100 yards.
As much as I love my big powerful steam engines, I gotta say that it's very exciting seeing steam at this speed! Love from 🇺🇲
Thanks for watching! 😄
An absolutely fantastic video, the best compilation of high speed steam I’ve come across on UA-cam. The clip of Clan Line at Keynsham 19 mins in 😍 just incredible. Thank you for sharing!
Beautifully put together and a joy to watch with the lights down low, sipping a whisky with 7.1 surround. Thank you for all your hard work in editing and travelling.
14:02 That one is just so beautiful. Love the video! So cool!
30:43, Never thought I would see a tank engine on this video going that fast!
I love the Steam Locomotives from England! They looking very elegant.
I'm no train spotter, I couldn't care less about numbers or makes of engine, but there is something just so undeniably beautiful about a steam train, especially at high speed. Such an gorgeous feat of enginerring.
Wunderschön diese Dampfgiganten in voller Kraftenfaltung zu sehen. Das war noch Kunst in der Technik ! Wie farblos sind dagegen jetzt die Elektroloks ? Es war so schön aber es kommt nie wieder. Wenn wir, in meiner Kindheit, im Sommer,. nachTirol auf Urlaub fuhren, ging mein Vater mit mir immer vor die Lok anschauen. Da stand sie da, die mächtige, schwarze Schnellzugslok mit ihren, über 2 Meter hohen, schlanken Rädern. Zischend und fauchend wie ein Tieger vor dem Sprung. Dieses Bild von Macht, Größe und dabei filigraner Eleganz, bleibt mir, bis heute im Gedächtnis haften. Es war wunderschön und hatte noch Stil, aber es kommt nie mehr wieder. Wir müssen Britannien danken, daß es scheinbar, noch so lange, den Dampfbetrieb einsetzt und behütet.
Thank you for filming these trains .It is really magnific!!
Steam in the English countryside.....Superb !!!!!! Beautifully filmed too !
Wow! What an excellent video, Top notch stuff here! I know people are probably going to jump down my throat, but i wish steam locomotives moved this fast in the US!
Hell, I wish I saw steam locomotives in the U.S. more than just purposefully going and finding one to look at in a museum.
Yeah, I don't really ever make dedicated trips to Museums. It's nice to see Cosm. restored locomotives, but its also sad in a way because they're cold. There are a few places in the US dedicated to Mainline steam trips, but none of them ever seem to allow speeds like this.
***** Well there are quite a few steam locomotives out here that are restored and running, and yeah, I wish the trains had a little more power in them, but our whistles will make you stop in your tracks.
51NAPA True, your chime whistles are simply amazing. :-)
k tanner Yes, if there's one thing we know well its how to make a great sounding whistle! My problem i guess is that where I'm from in the US its almost completely 'steamless'. The nicest locomotives are out west, running in some of the blandest scenery in the country, yes it's cool they can run faster but scenery is a big part of videography and photography. I wish it was possible to 'spread their wealth' so to speak and allow locomotives to visit the Northeast, haha.
Thanks Ty the invite to your work and I will
Never thought steams run this fast. Preity good stuff glade to look them back on tracks.
Fastest steam engine was 202 km/hour. I saw in national geography
@@Vande_Matram_ the engine's name is Mallard
British steam trains are the best, full stop.We invented them, we mastered them!
All hail the queen...
Long live the Empire
"We"
At least give credit to the Americans the big boy is pretty cool
@@mildly_miffed_man1414 why as they only took their ideas off us like the Americans stole a lot of ideas off us even the names of some of their towns and cities
Truly thanks for you great work so that we may share your joy :)
Wonderful stuff!! Thanks so much for this! :D (23:53 .....shivers down my spine!) :D
Beautiful,beautilful,beautiful. I can watch this over,and,over,and,over.