Britannia calls into Atherstone for water 24th May 2024
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Friday the 24th of May 2024 saw a positioning move for BR Standard Pacific class 7MT number 70000 "Britannia" as it took an empty coaching stock set to Southall in readiness for a railtour over the following weekend to Norwich. Seen here as the movement stopped in Atherstone for Britannia to take on water from a road water tanker we have the train arriving and being hooked up to the tanker before I moved to the London end of the platform where an unexpected train passed by heading North on the far line, 2 class 67s in Pullman livery hauling the British Pullman set on a railtour, this is then followed by Britannia departing Atherstone station with plenty of steam and then finally my usual still images from the videos (plus one of Britannia while she was stationary in the station) to finish the video.
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Good haulage there, 12 coaches and a diesel on the rear, Brittania still has plenty of pulling power...🙂
Nice to see the Brit being watered and having the Pullman pass in the other direction!
nice to see my good old friend Mr bob hart driving britannia
I can remember being pulled by Britannia from Reading to Paddington more than once, back in the sixties before the Beeching axe fell!
Great British Engineering - I love it with pride.
Nice work .
3:35 oh snap two tours at the same time one stopping for water and one passing through in the other direction
I was born in 1950 and by '53 the railway bug bit me. I can remember the Britannia design and all the other BR standards looking so modern back then as it still does to me today. That bug started in 1953 when I was taken to the centenary celebration and open day at Doncaster plant, what a day. I never saw Britannia until the Virgin Crewe goodbye open day, what a beautiful piece of locomotive engineering she still is. Thanks for posting as these creaking old bones make travel difficult nowadays.
I took the day excursion with Sappho on the Settle to Carlisle and return..we stopped at Appleby for a while to take on water..she was the "Braunton" locomotive that day..my recommendation is avoid long tunnels..it was choking for a few minutes..apart from that one of the best days I've ever had..up through the Yorkshire dales which I'd never visited before..or seen Carlisle..my only criticism if you can call it that is regulations these days in over safety conscious Britain of the 21st century is there must be a backup Diesel..there was no backup Diesels in the 1950's when steam trains ran all effing day..I want authentic experience..if the loco breaks down I want to sit there for hours and tell myself this is genuine 1950's travel
Just appreciate we still have steam on our main lines and accept that there are also other reasons for requiring the diesel.
Although you might be happy with the 50's type experience (and yes, I too am of the era) I'm sure Network Rail and other TOC's wouldn't be impressed.
PS, in the 50's & 60's assistance was readily available if required, often in minutes not hours 😂.
Why is one front lamp on the middle bracket?
It was an empty coaching stock move so headlamps were set to the correct head code for the move.
service indication code
Is that a water filter in-between the hose ?
It’s a one way valve, I believe, adding a second device to prevent the water in the tender running out once the generator on the water bowser is switched off, the pipe from the bowser to that was removed before that was removed from the tender.
Two railtours at the same time now that’s legendary
Completely unexpected too, none of us knew that the Pullman tour was coming past so no one had cameras ready to film/photograph until it was well into the station area, it’s why my shot of it is in one view not panned.
@@Warbler-Productions still incredible tho
A couple of years ago I went to Nuneaton and two trains on the trot (both stopped) were southbound steam hauled specials on the same platform....
@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne I should have another video coming tomorrow, 35018 “British India Line” is passing through shortly after 16:00 and, as long as I’m back from work in time, I plan to go and video it, not stopping for water though as it’s a fairly light load of only 6 coaches plus diesel so it’ll be watering in Rugby.
Nice one 👌