Seen a video from The Spiffing Brit which said how to break the algorithm a few years ago. You tube is funny like that. Before Christmas another You tuber I watch was Demonetized and You tube algorithm was promoting the video they made moaning about You Tube. 🤣
Happy New Year, Jago, and thanks for the video. Until I failed an eye examination, I worked as a conductor / guard on the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway, and as such have travelled behind 419 more times than I can remember. She's a fine engine. I'm not sure about how I feel about her being painted LMS Crimson Lake, as she never carried that livery. There is a curious anecdote about 123 which you may enjoy. The exhibition which 123 was built for took place in The Meadows in Edinburgh. The nearest railhead was the CR's Lothian Road Goods, which had also been their original Edinburgh terminus from 1848 to 1870. Lothian Road Goods, roughly where Festival Square stands today, was around one mile from the exhibition. So how would one deliver a 42 ton locomotive in the days before low loaders? Quite simple; they drove it. From Lothian Roads Goods, two lengths of track were laid up Lothian Road, and 123 driven onto them. When it reached the end of the track, the length from behind was lifted, and placed in front of 123, which then was driven onto that stretch. They repeated this process all the way up Lothian Road, Earl Grey Street, Brougham Street and Brougham Place, and thus to the CR part of the exhibition. At the end of the exhibition, this process was reversed to return 123 to Lothian Road Goods.
Technically there is one more nearly-Caledonian locomotive preserved. The Dunalastair 4-4-0 express engines were so good that Belgian Railways bought 5 copies from Neilson Reid in Glasgow (with CR permission) and eventually had over 400 similar engines! They hauled the crack expresses. One of them has been preserved in Belgium, so you can see a close derivative.
"Unfortunately the East Coast won the race to the north". Tut Tut, misfortune fell on the West Coact in the name of Shap Fell. So great was this obstacle that for a time the west coast route went via Fleetwood where it became a steam ship journey to Scotland. Two different courses that really suited different horses. The irony is that in these days of heritage steam everyone wants to see steam engines putting out steam so where better than the climb up Shap.
What a lovely start to a whole stack of over 150 upcoming Jagos this year. I found this channel half way through last year, and I must admit, finding this channel is one of the greatest achievements of this year.
I actually traveled up to Scotland in hopes of seeing the last two locos here, only to find out instagram a couple days before they were both WAY down south. Oh well, if that Crimson livery is to be applied I'd DEFINETLY love to see 419 in it! Cheers!
There is ONE MORE, albeit as an honorable mention. It never worked for CR, but is liveried as such! Here in the USA, there is a beloved full-scale theme park locomotive at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia, built in the 1974 by Crown Metal Products, that is liveried as a beautiful blue Caledonian Railways 4-4-0 bearing the nameplate "Balmoral Castle", which has been pulling visitors around the park for nearly half-a-century. (The park is themed around an idealized nostalgic vision of pre-Great War Europe, with distinct lands for England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Germany, and France; Its sister locomotive is liveried as Preussische Stadtsbahn).
Don't really understand why SRPS repainted 419 from Caledonian blue into BR black, it's such a dull livery that so many other preserved locos already use. The LMS is a nice livery, but it does feel like missing out on the key identifying feature of the loco to not have it running in Caledonian colours.
Easy answer; because they can. Slightly more complex possible answer; because it looks more historically accurate with the stock most commonly used on heritage lines, because it is a livery the locomotive wore in service, and because they can
I hate it when a steam locomotive (unless built after 1948) is in a BR Green or Black. It so repetitive and boring.. Even though it’s ’inauthentic’, I loved it when 34027 “Taw Valley” is painted in SR wartime black, it was different and I am also happy that the LMS Mogul is in lined LMS Black.
Most of the Caley engines that even lasted into British Railways tended to be the 812, or their many family members. There's a common trend I've noticed in which Scottish 0-6-0's lasted well into the 1960's, with the final examples gone by 67 if your looking to the former LNER Section, and it was quite a mix, those final engines being a pair of Ex-NBR Holmes C Class, at the ages of 70 and 67 respectively, both of which outlived two generations of their successors in the forms of the extremely powerful J37 of William Reid, of which Four lasted till April of that year, who also were joined that month by the last Gresley Engines 65901 and 65929 of the even more powerful J38. Pre-Grouping Scottish engines were simply, built different in very rare cases out living their successors.
Caledonian Blue is the best shade of blue (812's shade is particularly stunning), but being a Scotsman of Glaswegian flavour, of course I'd say that lol None of the Scotish pre-grouping railway companies didn't fare all that well in preservation (The Caledonian & North British are the best represented, with 3 survivors each). The Highland Railway, Glasgow & South Western Railway & Great North of Scotland Railway each only have one survivor (the first two examples you captured at Riverside alongside 123). The sole Highland representative (Jones Goods No.103) is noteworthy as being the first 4-6-0 loco to be built in Great Britain (same wheel arrangement as the LSWR N15s & SR Lord Nelsons, LNER B1s, the GWR Saints/Halls/Castles/Kings and the LMS Royal Scots/Patriots/Black 5s/Jubilees to name some of the best-known types), in September 1894. Glad she's still with us given her significance. If I ever won the lottery, I'd pay good money to get all 4 pre-grouping steam locos at Riverside back in running order; a man can but dream. My locomotive geekery aside, Happy New Year Jago!
Was not expecting a new video for the year. Wishing you another excellent year. I’ll be ready for whatever content you decide to throw at us lazy railfans surrounded by printed documents.
Happy new year Jago 🥳 Glad you went to Spa Valley Railway to see 828 & 419 in action there. 828 is most seen Caledonian steam locomotive on the Spa Valley that I see every time I go there.
I often forget just how beautiful Caledonian Railway locos are, possibly because I’ve never actually seen one in person. No. 123 is my favourite for how nice it is, but the Dunlastair 4-4-0s look pretty good too. I wish the 0-4-4T wasn’t repainted into BR Black because its old blue livery was stunning.
I absolutely adore the CR, their liveries and their locomotives.. I wish more were preserved and I would absolutely love it if the Spa Valley sent 828 back home to Scotland as they have had her since March 2022
Leaving a like and a comment to give the algorithm the idea that lots of viewers LOVE steam train videos and want to see more! (Well, that’s the case for this viewer anyway.). Wishing you a happy, healthy New Year, and looking forward to a variety of “self-indulgent” videos in 2025!
Thank you. I like a steam episode. It's the combination of stuff that was technological cutting edge (sometimes) in its day, and is now pleasantly nostalgic. Also, in a world of automation and beyond, technologies whose workings are visible on the surface are very consoling. I'm not engineering savvy, but to be able to look at a machine and begin to trace how it works is very--idk--grounding.
Love the contrast, the steam locomotives, and then seeing the new end of video bumper (which you change each year), love seeing the DLR stock and, what I presume to be a Tubestock 96 train
Happy New Year from Seattle, Jago! The algorithm does not always know best, certainly not with heritage steam locomotives. We've glad you're here and still making videos.
Agreed, who needs an algorithm when you have a willing audience. Brilliant start to the new year. Thank you. You raise an interesting point about pre-preservation. This has led to the recent phenomenon of New Builds to fill the gaps. Tornado perhaps the best known example, though several others are gaining attention. Rumour has it the the GWR North Star broad guage engine was one such casualty by accident, having been stored for a number of years.
I had the greatest time at the Riverside Museum a few years ago on a tour to Scotland. I wasn’t even aware it was there, stumbled on it, and spent half the day roaming around. Strongly recommend!
Yet another interesting video from Jago to welcome the New Year! Plus a new updated outro at the end! Please keep up the good work as your video`s always bring a ray of sunshine to many a dull winters/summers day.
I did enjoy the gala the Bo'ness line did a few years ago with 828, 419 and the two Caley coaches. It was great fun, and wonderful to see a solid lot of pre-grouping livery together. It was a beautifully painted line.
Thank you for narrating a bit of history for all of these. I'd love to hear you talk about a family of locomotives, like the pannier tanks, across multiple designers and their effects.
Thank you for this - really enjoyable! As an addendum to your map of the Caledonian. it did operate a piece of railway disconnected from its main network - the 'Port Line': the Castle Douglas to Portpatrick, built mostly through the wilds of Galloway, originally on the promise of a new harbour being built at Portpatrick for the mails to Ireland. It was an Island of Caledonian blue amid the Glasgow & SW green at each end - though I believe at one point the line was worked jointly with the GSWR. In the end both railways became parts of the LMS, so all became maroon. Look forward to your videos in 2025
Happy New Year, Jago. Stuff the alogarithm, more steam is needed 👍 2025 is of course the 200th anniversary so hopefully that could lead to some interesting videos, the more steam the better
Interesting that the footage of both working locomotives is on the Spa Valley Railway in Kent! I was quite startled on visiting it in 2023 to find 828 resplendent in Caledonian blue in the workshops. Not an engine I had expected to see on that trip, but saves the rail fare to Scotland!
What an unexpected delight on New Year's Day. There was some pretty stiff competition between the Caly, the North British and the G&SWR that was just as intensive they were allowed to run steamers. The Caley ran some fine engines and steamers. Captain James Williamson was secretary and manager for the Caledonian Steam Packet Co., Ltd. for the steamer side and responsible for some innovating stuff with compounding and triple expansion. A brother, Alexander Williamson was Marine Superintendent of the G&SWR. Family get togethers must have been really interesting after a good dinner. The Caledonian blue is a particularly nice shade too. There's a rather nice book on the Qintinshill Disaster - published on its Centenary in 2015 I think. Glasgow Youth Hostel had a copy for some time till it disappeared in the last year or so which is a shame. The cover has a fine picture of the disaster and shows at least one Caley engine, mangled and burnt. They're some lady cyclists in the field beside. If anyone likes original colour photography, it might be worth a look. The level of colour detail with edges and tones appears too precise and correct to be tinted and the jury is out as to if it has been digitised.
What's wrong with steam trains? My first experience on a train was a steam train, on A4 60009 'Union of South Africa, when I was seven years old. Otherwise, we used the British Rail BEMU powered by lead-acid batteries, converted from the diesel powered Derby lightweights.
A very Happy New Year, Jago,and blessed next 12 months! One of the non-survivors was the Caley Dunalstairs 4-4-0's,really great little engines,and now,a classic Victorian design! At least there was a history written about them,and posterity has some grasp of the recent past! Thank you,for giving the Caley,a much overdue recognition! Thank you! Thank you 😇 😊!
However, the Dunalastairs were so good that Belgian Railways bought 5 copies from Neilson Reid in Glasgow (with CR permission) and eventually had over 400 similar engines! One of them has been preserved in Belgium, so you can see a close derivative.
Caledonian Railway locomotives were originally painted in deep blue. However, they got into the habit of mixing the blue paint with white paint ( which was much cheaper), so that's how the distinctive Caledonian blue colour evolved.
Lovely stuff sir. The working engines on the Spa Valley are wonderful. Saw them last summer and they made a fine sight (and loud sound) starting up out of Eridge!
Great video, really enjoyed it. Like a lot of people here ( I would guess) I have one of the Triang 123's and I'm currently doing a CR 4-4-0 from a DJH kit. As my railway is set roughly between 1957 and 1977 it'll be lined black for the one but CR blue for the other!
Lovely to see the steam trains, and particularly the fireman working hard at the end; my late father was a fireman on the trains during the war, and beyond.
The algorithm hates Steam Trains... yep can agree with that! But it still a epic video you made Jago. Shame there only 3 locos preserved from the Caledonian Railways but like you said, they got rid of them before the preservation movement happened
55189 reminds me of the fairly ordinary engines that used to work the Glasgow suburban lines in the early 60s, before the entire network was electrified and saw the introduction of the Blue Trains (as they were called). I wouldn't be at all surprised if 55189 had actually pulled a passenger coach I was in.
I always wanted to go try ride the Caledonian Sleeper. I am still thinking about it this year. Very interesting to see how the locomotives were made for such long journeys.
Sod the algorithm, this is a delightful way to start 2025, God knows we need these moments of joy in these troubled times. Happy New Year, Mr H.
Seen a video from The Spiffing Brit which said how to break the algorithm a few years ago. You tube is funny like that. Before Christmas another You tuber I watch was Demonetized and You tube algorithm was promoting the video they made moaning about You Tube. 🤣
Happy New Year, Jago, and thanks for the video.
Until I failed an eye examination, I worked as a conductor / guard on the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway, and as such have travelled behind 419 more times than I can remember. She's a fine engine. I'm not sure about how I feel about her being painted LMS Crimson Lake, as she never carried that livery.
There is a curious anecdote about 123 which you may enjoy. The exhibition which 123 was built for took place in The Meadows in Edinburgh. The nearest railhead was the CR's Lothian Road Goods, which had also been their original Edinburgh terminus from 1848 to 1870. Lothian Road Goods, roughly where Festival Square stands today, was around one mile from the exhibition. So how would one deliver a 42 ton locomotive in the days before low loaders? Quite simple; they drove it. From Lothian Roads Goods, two lengths of track were laid up Lothian Road, and 123 driven onto them. When it reached the end of the track, the length from behind was lifted, and placed in front of 123, which then was driven onto that stretch. They repeated this process all the way up Lothian Road, Earl Grey Street, Brougham Street and Brougham Place, and thus to the CR part of the exhibition. At the end of the exhibition, this process was reversed to return 123 to Lothian Road Goods.
In the comic Pogo, the is an arc were a steam train is moved in this method. On closer examination the track panels are ladders.
That must have been a wonderful sight.
Great story! Thanks!
I like the ending of the video, I noticed every year you change them. I was watching for what you would do this year… Very cool! 👍
Technically there is one more nearly-Caledonian locomotive preserved. The Dunalastair 4-4-0 express engines were so good that Belgian Railways bought 5 copies from Neilson Reid in Glasgow (with CR permission) and eventually had over 400 similar engines! They hauled the crack expresses. One of them has been preserved in Belgium, so you can see a close derivative.
What a pleasure to enjoy the new year with a bit of steam and beautiful steam locomotives. A great start for the year.
Stuff the algorithm ……….. with more steam trains. 👏👏👍😀
Happy New Year Jago 😀
The livery on that 812 is just beautiful.
I can't imagine how many hours were spent painting that.
"Unfortunately the East Coast won the race to the north". Tut Tut, misfortune fell on the West Coact in the name of Shap Fell. So great was this obstacle that for a time the west coast route went via Fleetwood where it became a steam ship journey to Scotland. Two different courses that really suited different horses. The irony is that in these days of heritage steam everyone wants to see steam engines putting out steam so where better than the climb up Shap.
What a lovely start to a whole stack of over 150 upcoming Jagos this year. I found this channel half way through last year, and I must admit, finding this channel is one of the greatest achievements of this year.
I actually traveled up to Scotland in hopes of seeing the last two locos here, only to find out instagram a couple days before they were both WAY down south. Oh well, if that Crimson livery is to be applied I'd DEFINETLY love to see 419 in it! Cheers!
Nothing starts my year better than watching the first Jago video of 2025 :D
Wait. How did you start your last year, then?
Algorithms be damned! Let them get all steamed up! You can post videos on steam engines at any time as far as I'm concerned!
Happy New Year Jago!
There is ONE MORE, albeit as an honorable mention. It never worked for CR, but is liveried as such! Here in the USA, there is a beloved full-scale theme park locomotive at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia, built in the 1974 by Crown Metal Products, that is liveried as a beautiful blue Caledonian Railways 4-4-0 bearing the nameplate "Balmoral Castle", which has been pulling visitors around the park for nearly half-a-century. (The park is themed around an idealized nostalgic vision of pre-Great War Europe, with distinct lands for England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Germany, and France; Its sister locomotive is liveried as Preussische Stadtsbahn).
Thanks for that, Jago. A fine video for Hogmany. Lang may yer lum reek.
Happy New Year from Liverpool Jago! Please continue to be the indulgent creator to our content hungry viewers. 👍
That felt like a day off work for New Year's Day. Quite approriate, whatever the algorithm thinks. Happy New Year, Jago!
Love it - thank you. As a proud Scot- it makes me happy to see these locos.
Don't really understand why SRPS repainted 419 from Caledonian blue into BR black, it's such a dull livery that so many other preserved locos already use. The LMS is a nice livery, but it does feel like missing out on the key identifying feature of the loco to not have it running in Caledonian colours.
I agree
Because they're a group of....
Easy answer; because they can.
Slightly more complex possible answer; because it looks more historically accurate with the stock most commonly used on heritage lines, because it is a livery the locomotive wore in service, and because they can
@@andrewemery4272 they are a great group and I think it was for a photo charter or something
I hate it when a steam locomotive (unless built after 1948) is in a BR Green or Black. It so repetitive and boring..
Even though it’s ’inauthentic’, I loved it when 34027 “Taw Valley” is painted in SR wartime black, it was different and I am also happy that the LMS Mogul is in lined LMS Black.
Happy New Year Jago .Great start.
Happy New Year, Jago.
Side note: 828 is normally based at the Straphspey Railway whilst 419 is based at Bo'ness and Kinniel Railway
Most of the Caley engines that even lasted into British Railways tended to be the 812, or their many family members.
There's a common trend I've noticed in which Scottish 0-6-0's lasted well into the 1960's, with the final examples gone by 67 if your looking to the former LNER Section, and it was quite a mix, those final engines being a pair of Ex-NBR Holmes C Class, at the ages of 70 and 67 respectively, both of which outlived two generations of their successors in the forms of the extremely powerful J37 of William Reid, of which Four lasted till April of that year, who also were joined that month by the last Gresley Engines 65901 and 65929 of the even more powerful J38.
Pre-Grouping Scottish engines were simply, built different in very rare cases out living their successors.
Hi Jago, Happy year, always a pleasure to see you put a video up. Many thanks.
What a great New Year's surprise. All the best for 2025!
Thank you. And I like the new outtro.
Happy New Year!
Love to see the Spa Valley Railway getting some love
Caledonian Blue is the best shade of blue (812's shade is particularly stunning), but being a Scotsman of Glaswegian flavour, of course I'd say that lol
None of the Scotish pre-grouping railway companies didn't fare all that well in preservation (The Caledonian & North British are the best represented, with 3 survivors each). The Highland Railway, Glasgow & South Western Railway & Great North of Scotland Railway each only have one survivor (the first two examples you captured at Riverside alongside 123).
The sole Highland representative (Jones Goods No.103) is noteworthy as being the first 4-6-0 loco to be built in Great Britain (same wheel arrangement as the LSWR N15s & SR Lord Nelsons, LNER B1s, the GWR Saints/Halls/Castles/Kings and the LMS Royal Scots/Patriots/Black 5s/Jubilees to name some of the best-known types), in September 1894. Glad she's still with us given her significance. If I ever won the lottery, I'd pay good money to get all 4 pre-grouping steam locos at Riverside back in running order; a man can but dream.
My locomotive geekery aside, Happy New Year Jago!
What a great way to start 2025, thank you for all your hard work
Nothing like a Jago video to start the new year.
Happy New Year Jago and thank you SO much for the hours of informative and utterly entertaining videos !
Fascinating. Here in the USA, an 0-6-0 locomotive would only be used for switching duties. Excellent photography.
Was not expecting a new video for the year.
Wishing you another excellent year. I’ll be ready for whatever content you decide to throw at us lazy railfans surrounded by printed documents.
I have footage of every HST numbered 43 007. I won't be sharing it though.
*Happy New Year* Jago.
Good morning and Happy New Year from California. Steam and coal smoke in the morning.
Happy new year Jago 🥳 Glad you went to Spa Valley Railway to see 828 & 419 in action there. 828 is most seen Caledonian steam locomotive on the Spa Valley that I see every time I go there.
I often forget just how beautiful Caledonian Railway locos are, possibly because I’ve never actually seen one in person. No. 123 is my favourite for how nice it is, but the Dunlastair 4-4-0s look pretty good too. I wish the 0-4-4T wasn’t repainted into BR Black because its old blue livery was stunning.
Bugger the algorithm! Keep making these stream related engine videos.
I absolutely adore the CR, their liveries and their locomotives.. I wish more were preserved and I would absolutely love it if the Spa Valley sent 828 back home to Scotland as they have had her since March 2022
A good new year to you and everyone from Indiana.
Leaving a like and a comment to give the algorithm the idea that lots of viewers LOVE steam train videos and want to see more! (Well, that’s the case for this viewer anyway.). Wishing you a happy, healthy New Year, and looking forward to a variety of “self-indulgent” videos in 2025!
happy new year Mr Hazzard
Thank you. I like a steam episode. It's the combination of stuff that was technological cutting edge (sometimes) in its day, and is now pleasantly nostalgic. Also, in a world of automation and beyond, technologies whose workings are visible on the surface are very consoling. I'm not engineering savvy, but to be able to look at a machine and begin to trace how it works is very--idk--grounding.
Love the new end card, by the way. Bus, DLR and tube in tandem, the perfect microcosm of London transport and your channel's subject matter.
8:30 The algorithm is a monster then. 😆
Thank you for new video and Happy New Year.
Happy New Year sir. The video is especially relevant as rail is celebrating 200 years this year 2025
happy new 2025 mr. jh keep them coming,always good.
Love the contrast, the steam locomotives, and then seeing the new end of video bumper (which you change each year), love seeing the DLR stock and, what I presume to be a Tubestock 96 train
Happy New Year from Seattle, Jago! The algorithm does not always know best, certainly not with heritage steam locomotives. We've glad you're here and still making videos.
Happy New Year Jago, keep up the good work
Agreed, who needs an algorithm when you have a willing audience. Brilliant start to the new year. Thank you. You raise an interesting point about pre-preservation. This has led to the recent phenomenon of New Builds to fill the gaps. Tornado perhaps the best known example, though several others are gaining attention. Rumour has it the the GWR North Star broad guage engine was one such casualty by accident, having been stored for a number of years.
Happy new year Jago! Thanks for your continued excellent videos! Here’s to 2025!
I had the greatest time at the Riverside Museum a few years ago on a tour to Scotland. I wasn’t even aware it was there, stumbled on it, and spent half the day roaming around. Strongly recommend!
Yet another interesting video from Jago to welcome the New Year! Plus a new updated outro at the end! Please keep up the good work as your video`s always bring a ray of sunshine to many a dull winters/summers day.
I did enjoy the gala the Bo'ness line did a few years ago with 828, 419 and the two Caley coaches. It was great fun, and wonderful to see a solid lot of pre-grouping livery together. It was a beautifully painted line.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERY-RAILWAY-FANS-AROUND-THE-WORLD ! 😃
A very happy new year Jago ! Why the large tender with the 828 ? Were the water pick-up points far and few between on the Caledonian?
Happy New Year Jago... Good to see the new years start with a good head of steam. I particularly like 828 which I have seen at the SVR.
Lovely video for starting the year. New end video cue as well! Happy new year! 🥳🌟
A great video to start the year, Jago! Happy New Year!🚂🍻🎉
What a splendid Name Dougal Drummond. You'll have had your tea .
I'd say the algorithm is at fault - I'll happily watch old steam trains for hours.
Happy New Year!
Ahhh just lovely. Thank you, Jago
Wonderful! Proper trains. Not in a tunnel! Happy New Year.
Thank you for narrating a bit of history for all of these. I'd love to hear you talk about a family of locomotives, like the pannier tanks, across multiple designers and their effects.
Happy new year mate!!!
Happy new year from Stockholm
Thanks for the video, and Happy New Year, Jago!
Happy new year Jago, and thank you for a special and much appreciated video. Best wishes for 2025!
Thank you for this - really enjoyable! As an addendum to your map of the Caledonian. it did operate a piece of railway disconnected from its main network - the 'Port Line': the Castle Douglas to Portpatrick, built mostly through the wilds of Galloway, originally on the promise of a new harbour being built at Portpatrick for the mails to Ireland. It was an Island of Caledonian blue amid the Glasgow & SW green at each end - though I believe at one point the line was worked jointly with the GSWR. In the end both railways became parts of the LMS, so all became maroon.
Look forward to your videos in 2025
See 0:34
I don't know what's wrong with the algorithm, I love a good steam train video from Jago.
A Happy New Year To You, Sir! Best Wishes For 2025...!
Happy New Year, Jago.
Stuff the alogarithm, more steam is needed 👍
2025 is of course the 200th anniversary so hopefully that could lead to some interesting videos, the more steam the better
Happy New Year!
I enjoyed riding behind 419 a few years ago. The site of a Caledonian blue loco on the Churnet Valley was quite striking!
Interesting that the footage of both working locomotives is on the Spa Valley Railway in Kent! I was quite startled on visiting it in 2023 to find 828 resplendent in Caledonian blue in the workshops. Not an engine I had expected to see on that trip, but saves the rail fare to Scotland!
What an unexpected delight on New Year's Day. There was some pretty stiff competition between the Caly, the North British and the G&SWR that was just as intensive they were allowed to run steamers.
The Caley ran some fine engines and steamers. Captain James Williamson was secretary and manager for the Caledonian Steam Packet Co., Ltd. for the steamer side and responsible for some innovating stuff with compounding and triple expansion. A brother, Alexander Williamson was Marine Superintendent of the G&SWR. Family get togethers must have been really interesting after a good dinner.
The Caledonian blue is a particularly nice shade too. There's a rather nice book on the Qintinshill Disaster - published on its Centenary in 2015 I think. Glasgow Youth Hostel had a copy for some time till it disappeared in the last year or so which is a shame. The cover has a fine picture of the disaster and shows at least one Caley engine, mangled and burnt. They're some lady cyclists in the field beside. If anyone likes original colour photography, it might be worth a look. The level of colour detail with edges and tones appears too precise and correct to be tinted and the jury is out as to if it has been digitised.
Went to the Riverside Museum recently - excellent range of transport items, well worth a visit (and an OK restaurant)
What's wrong with steam trains? My first experience on a train was a steam train, on A4 60009 'Union of South Africa, when I was seven years old. Otherwise, we used the British Rail BEMU powered by lead-acid batteries, converted from the diesel powered Derby lightweights.
Brilliant video, 123 my favourite locomotive of all time, thank you jago .
A very Happy New Year, Jago,and blessed next 12 months! One of the non-survivors was the Caley Dunalstairs 4-4-0's,really great little engines,and now,a classic Victorian design! At least there was a history written about them,and posterity has some grasp of the recent past! Thank you,for giving the Caley,a much overdue recognition! Thank you! Thank you 😇 😊!
However, the Dunalastairs were so good that Belgian Railways bought 5 copies from Neilson Reid in Glasgow (with CR permission) and eventually had over 400 similar engines! One of them has been preserved in Belgium, so you can see a close derivative.
Happy New Year Jago! 3:13 maybe they could have gone into shipbuilding and created a flag-locomotive ship???
Happy New Year Jago.
Caledonian Railway locomotives were originally painted in deep blue. However, they got into the habit of mixing the blue paint with white paint ( which was much cheaper), so that's how the distinctive Caledonian blue colour evolved.
Lovely stuff sir. The working engines on the Spa Valley are wonderful. Saw them last summer and they made a fine sight (and loud sound) starting up out of Eridge!
OF COURSE I liked it!
Rain and steam is a nice ambience to boot.
I like your steam train videos 😊
Happy New Year
Hi Jago. Welcome to the New Year. May it be a happy and healthy one.
These more historic videos are my favorite, and I love the steam.
Great video, really enjoyed it. Like a lot of people here ( I would guess) I have one of the Triang 123's and I'm currently doing a CR 4-4-0 from a DJH kit. As my railway is set roughly between 1957 and 1977 it'll be lined black for the one but CR blue for the other!
Lovely to see the steam trains, and particularly the fireman working hard at the end; my late father was a fireman on the trains during the war, and beyond.
Donald and Douglas would be very proud of you doing their railway justice. Oh and btw, I was in Glasgow back in July and I saw 123.
Happy new year Jago, hope you have a good 2025.
The algorithm hates Steam Trains... yep can agree with that! But it still a epic video you made Jago. Shame there only 3 locos preserved from the Caledonian Railways but like you said, they got rid of them before the preservation movement happened
Babe wake up, new year Jago Hazzard video dropped.
55189 reminds me of the fairly ordinary engines that used to work the Glasgow suburban lines in the early 60s, before the entire network was electrified and saw the introduction of the Blue Trains (as they were called).
I wouldn't be at all surprised if 55189 had actually pulled a passenger coach I was in.
I always wanted to go try ride the Caledonian Sleeper. I am still thinking about it this year. Very interesting to see how the locomotives were made for such long journeys.
Happy new year Jagi and Caledonian Railway!
Hey, Algorithm, steam trains are nice!
Wonderful choice of a topic for the day, Jago.
Happy New Year to Jago and everyone.
Happy New Year, Jago. Always enjoy your videos. Looks like it was a spot of lovely weather (not!) shooting at the Spa Valley. Keep up the good work.
Happy New Year Jago and algorithm :)