A Spectacular Slip from Flying Scotsman on her 100th Birthday - 24.02.2023
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Exactly 100 years after her first day in service, 60103 Flying Scotsman passed through Carlisle on her return from Edinburgh to the East Lancashire Railway at Bury.
Although running with nothing but her support coach, she gave us a spectacular departure - one to remember!
It was a gloriously sunny day - too sunny for easy outdoor filming - and we had another visitor in the morning, Inter-City's Scottish Push-Pull Tour with 47 712 Lady Diana Spencer as motive power.
The two visitors livened up an otherwise quiet day at the Citadel.
Superb shots ! 👍
Thanks ib - sorry, but I've only just spotted your comment. Best wishes.
@@schoolshorts You're very welcome 😀
That was a good day and seen flying Scotsman was bonus
- - - and not as desperately busy as it usually is when 60103 is about.
@Tim Geaney very true as we know normally way more there then that day
Great content. Well filmed.
Thanks TBP - glad you enjoyed it. Best wishes.
Great video Tim, really enjoyed it.
Glad to hear that Bobby - many thanks and best wishes.
Oi what a sumptuous engine! May we enjoy many more years of this glorious engine! Wonderful capture! - queen of the railway, ms. nirmal 💕🚂
At my age, I suspect that the Scotsman will long outlast me - well, I hope so, for everyone else's sake! Best wishes to you.
what a great selection of locomotives and trains in1 day. Well done Sir, and a detailed and clear commentary to go with it. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing Tm, great to see the wheel spin.
I grew up in Darlington which was home territory for the Gresley A3s and A4s. Violent slips were the norm for departing trains in the 1950s when I was a young spotter. It isn't just the Gresley machines - Oliver Bullied's Southern Railway Pacifics are, if anything, even worse, as the present-day Carlisle spotters will confirm.
Fantastic video. Flying Scotsman knows how to put on a show. Always been my favorite Locomotive.
She (he?) certainly put on a show that day! Best wishes.
Been through Carlisle station quite a few times as a little boy (1950’s) going up to Edinburg and on over the magnificent Forth cantilever rail bridge into Fifeshire to visit grandmother.
Threw pennies from the train while crossing the bridge for good luck.
Wonderfully busy station, plenty of action.
Flying Scotsman is spectacular.
Enjoy all you vids Tim, keep up the good work!
Thanks Britboy. So long as the videos are enjoyed I'm happy to put in the hours filming and editing. Carlisle is a great filming station - light, airy, spacious, with a friendly staff and more steam trains than anywhere else in Britain. Best wishes to you.
Unfortunately I left behind my love of steam, quite jealous of your access to a busy station, I’ve lived in the USA since 2000 in the land of throw away mentality.
Of course my home town of Wigan in the UK is well known.
Hi Tim very good camera work as usual cracking video well done
Thanks Michael - the Scotsman certainly put on a show for us! Best wishes.
Well done, Tim. "Haggis", as we unruly convict descendants downunder in the colonies refer to "Flying Scotsman", was the one loco that hid from me during my big trip to the United Kingdom back in 2018. I enjoyed a pleasant Sunday afternoon in Carlisle during my trip and your coverage of Friday last brought back some fine memories. The ScotRail livery push pull set was a pleasant surprise to me. I wasn't aware of this set until viewing your coverage. Thanks again for this video.🙂
You're welcome Michael - and greetings to all your fellow "unruly convict descendants downunder" - hope you get the chance to visit us here in the frozen north again!
Fantastic video Tim, I don’t normally comment on these types of videos but I felt I had to make an exception here. Your narration is simply sublime, it gives me a sense of nostalgia. I think it reminds me of being a kid again and watching the old Thomas the Tank Engine episodes with Ringo Starr narrating. Thank you for putting this on the internet
Thanks Zamzawed - I guess nostalgia is what it's all about - certainly, the majority of cameramen present on these occasions are men of a certain (advanced) age! It's heartening to see how many enthusiastic youngsters are now joining our ranks - there's hope for the future. Best wishes to you.
Great video Tim! Scotman looks magnificent!
Doesn't she just? Hope I'll look as good at 100!
Brilliant footage Tim. Some good variety and Scotsman never fails to impress.👍👍
- - - she's certainly looking well - - - best wishes to you.
Nice filming Tim, the old loco looks like its straight out the box well done and thanks for your informative compilation. Cheers Brian
Thanks Brian - good to hear from you. Best wishes.
That really was a spectacular wheel slip! I caught her coming south from as she passed the push pull, wish I'd had the opportunity to get them together! FS is returning on the 9th July, you can guarantee we'll be there!
The date has long been in my diary!
@@schoolshorts mine too! Its the Wee Ones birthday!!!!
great video Tim nice veriety and the awesome slip of the Scotsman was awesome 😄👍👌 take care. Syd
Thanks Syd - a departure to remember!
There should have been a brass band playing "Happy Birthday To You" when she stopped
Even many of the die-hard regulars were totally unaware that the Scotsman was coming through on that day so it might have been a tad difficult to arrange a brass band - although it would have been a lovely idea!
Great video!!
Thanks - I enjoyed making it.
Despite the sun making it difficult to see the screen the drone footage came out quite well. All in all a good day out and a great start to my weekend away in Scotland
Ah - but you haven't seen the footage that I had to cut out!!! Thanks Colin - hope the model exhibition turns out well.
@@schoolshorts Oh well the editing was good and my friend Calvin from USA has watched. He says the resolution looks good. I have recommended he has a look at some filmed on a less challenging day. Scotland was lovely as usual. My room had an excellent view across the water and the exhibition really good. Thanks Tim
Very interesting content Tim, thank you. I'm intrigued, having lived in Carlisle for ten years, '69-79', I took a keen interest in the station and visited as often as my parents would allow me yet I had no idea that there were three stations at one time?
Have a look at this old Ordnance Survey map of Carlisle
maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.3&lat=54.88843&lon=-2.93153&layers=6&b=1
It doesn't show the other passenger stations but just look at the number of different goods stations belonging to the different railway companies (Carlisle was served by seven different companies before the grouping of 1923).
At least at ground level virtually all of the original station still exists and is in use - unlike so many of our once great stations which are now a shadow of their original selves. Also, there are plans to extend the station on the west (or Platform 1) side - quite ambitious plans - so the future is looking good for the Citadel.
Anyone who doesn't love the Flying Scotsman, hasn't got a heart.
Unfortunately her popularity has led to problems with crowds and trespassing on the railway - I have met railwaymen who are not so keen on her!
What a beautiful shiny loco (66054 I mean 😜)
What else could I have possibly thought that you meant?
Looks like I missed an interesting day - double headed 56s on the logs as well as the push pull excursion and Scotsman returning to Bury. By the way there was a fourth station at Canal!
You did indeed Les - and there were others which I missed. An interesting-looking engineer's train ran through the station just as I was buying a coffee from John's barrow. Whilst I was sat drinking it an Avanti Voyager arrived from the Sou'-Western - driver training, presumably.
I must do some detailed research into Carlisle's stations. I have an old O.S. map on-screen in front of me just now - it shows goods stations galore but Citadel is the only passenger station shown. The map is from the 1888-1913 series but doesn't have a publication date - presumably the other stations had gone by the time it was produced. Something for me to do in the coming weeks when there are few trains to film!
@@schoolshorts in the coming weeks you are going to have extra trains on your doorstep when Carstairs is closed for two weeks!
Great video Tim. Your right about the unreliability of trains at Carlisle. The problems with Avanti and Transpennine Express are absolutely ridiculous. It has got so bad I won't plan a trip to Scotland via Carlisle.
The amazing thing is that the authorities seem to have been unaware of the situation with TPE until a week or so ago. At present the only company operating out of Carlisle whose trains I feel I can rely on is my local, ScotRail - cancellations have been few and far between.
@@schoolshorts I feel sorry for the station staff at Carlisle having to take the brunt of passengers frustrations.
I understand TransPeninine have lost their contract.
- - - and not before time!
What a beautiful sight! She draws the attention just like a world famous celebrity but she's not human...she's a machine. Brilliant! I still hate those European style smoke deflectors though. She looks like a grand old girl with the wrong size hat on.
I do agree with you on the smoke deflectors. Gresley designed beautiful engines but they had their weaknesses and the corrections added years after his death (double chimneys, German smoke deflectors) may have solved or alleviated problems but did nothing for the appearance of his classic machines.
However - she still draws the crowds!
She did the same thing in Oct 2021 while at platform 4. I was a few feet away from her when all six drive wheels spun on the spot and she stayed stationary. Quite scary at the time!
She was suppose to run the return leg York to Carlisle and hand over to Tornado the following day but was withdrawn from service after developing problems at York if memory is correct. Hope she's OK this time.
The Gresley Pacifics were always prone to slipping. I grew up with them in Darlington - wish I had a fiver right now for every violent slip I watched when I was a boy.
@@schoolshorts Great videos love to see them. I know about the original station or what remains of it up on London Road. Is the other Kingsmoor north of Citedal Station?
I have memories of the traveling past the glorious old good yard on the way out of Carlisle on the Cumbria Coast Line as a child. Pity its no more.
Careful...I remember Blue Peter trashing her motion during a slip.
True - but that was rather an extreme case. I grew up in Darlington and, as a boy, regularly saw Gresley, Thompson and Peppercorn Pacifics slipping violently as they started heavy trains away from the station - none ever came to harm.
Great video, at carlisle station now a 37 just went through and i recorded it in a timelapse!!! So frustrating as when you slow it down it has very few frames and id a bit blurry. Sorry for commenting this on your video i just felt like getting my frustration out. Great video btw
Thanks TV23 - keep experimenting - it's the way to find out what works for you and what doesn't - you won't always get it right but you'll learn from experience.
I filmed the 37 which you saw as it came up the old Glasgow & South Western. Filming from the air, I couldn't get its number and RTT didn't identify it. On its way to Kilmarnock having travelled from Derby via York, Durham, Hexham, Carlisle and Dumfries.
Keep up the good work.
@@schoolshorts I have the number, 37800 I still have a video just not that good quality, it’s fine though I won’t make that mistake again now!
@@TRAlNVlDEOS Thanks for the number - I'll be able to use it in the video which will, hopefully, go up tomorrow.
@@schoolshorts No problem!
I just wish she was back in apple green with 4472 on the side.
Ah well Cap'n - we can't have everything! One of these days perhaps.
The NRM has a stick up their ass about pre BR livery’s for mainline runners so I don’t ever think she’ll return to a good livery soon
Interesting video. I don't know how the driver managed to spin the wheels like that virtually light engine, having a bad day perhaps.
He also seemed to over do the preheating of the cylinders for a loco that was already in service.
I can never understand why the oily exhaust steam from the cylinder preheat is directed forward onto the rails !
Of course can't help adhesion.
All Gresley Pacifics were rather prone to slipping as I remember from my boyhood days in Darlington in the 1950s.
20:00 Shoulda brought a Castle / Scooby
Thanks Tim i thought there would have been more folks there to see F.S. See you next time.
It wasn't well advertised Tony - I only heard about it a day or two in advance and there were people there who had travelled considerable distances to see the Push-Pull who were totally unaware that 60103 was also running that day. I suspect that past experience with trespassers has led the authorities to give minimal publicity to the Scotsman's timings. It only takes a few idiots.
Is the narrator taking the piss with his voice?! He sounds like Mr Logic from Viz!
The narrator has never even heard of Mr Logic.