Love the dog on the hill at 5:03 he's like "TRAIN TRAIN TRAIN OMG TRAIN" Bless the lil fella.

@Steamclips

6 ай бұрын

Hi, thank you and sorry for my late response. Your comments show that you notice the detail, not everyone does! Many thanks for making me smile. Kind regards, Alan

Oh, and what a splendid shot at6:50.

@kiha201

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for introducing this part,I agree you ✨ I Like also 2:22 〜with an animal and a bird👍

Fireman seems to know his, or who knows these days her, their or zhis, business. Keeping it just on the boil with a feather at the safety valves in the approved Great Western fashion

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Andrei, the blow-off on Rattery Bank is pretty impressive but might have raised an eyebrow back in the day! but as you say, things seem to have been well controlled otherwise. Kind regards, Alan

Brilliant photography - a most enjoyable ‘watch’. Many thanks for sharing this superb collection of images.

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hello John and thank you for such kind feedback, I really appreciate it. Best regards, Alan

Excellent : Thanks Alan for your dedication, planning, video and editing skill!

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hi and thank you for such kind feedback, I really appreciate it. Best regards, Alan

Fantastic captures from some very nice locations of an awesome machine in action, thank you for putting this wonderful video together and sharing.👍

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hi and thank you for such kind feedback, I really appreciate it. Best regards, Alan

Superb! thanks for making the effort at the three locations.

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hello David and thank you for your kind and very much appreciated feedback. Best regards, Alan

Great video, excellent action footage with plenty of atmospheric views. Thanks for sharing Nick

@Steamclips

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for such kind feedback Nicholas, I really appreciate it. Best regards, Alan

As picturesque a steam-locomotive video one could ever expect to see!! Just so satisfying on many levels!! Thank you!!

@Steamclips

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for such kind feedback John , I really appreciate it. Best regards, Alan

Many thanks for sharing your video of Thursday run. I was intending to chase "The Big Red Machine" but unfortunately due to a family emergency had to for go my day out to Devon. However your choice of filming locations were the same as the ones I was aiming for, so once again thanks. Once again the Duchess put in another great performance.

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hi and thank you for your kind and very much appreciated comments. I hope that I have compensated in some small way. Best regards, Alan

Thank you absolutely brilliant.

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

The pleasure was all mine David! Thank you for the kind feedback, it is very much appreciated. Best regards, Alan

Very nice mate,love the Border Collie tearing across the field 😄 @5.00..Thanks.

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

... and also the white Alpaca from 1:56! Thank you for your kind and very much appreciated comments Jerry. Best regards, Alan

@jerrydowse5061

2 жыл бұрын

Your welcome..missed the Alpaca.😾🤙

The Duchess working hard. About time. They normally wrap it in cotton wool. Fantastic filming, that last shot was amazing. The sound out of synch with the slip shows how far away from the track you were, because sound travels slower than light! A brilliant performance and film.

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Ian and thank you for your kind and astute comments. Approximately 3 seconds per Km (4.7 seconds per mile) so quite interesting to work out the distance from loco to microphone! Best regards, Alan

Superb Alan , good to see her doing what she was built to do 👍

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Stephen, always nice to get your input. She is a mighty beast and it was a great days filming. Best regards, Alan

Excellent video Alan. Superbly captured of the Duchess , who put on a spectacular performance. Well worth the chase. Kind regards C&A

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hi folks, here we go again with another season! Thank you as always for your wonderful support. Best wishes, Alan

Thank you for sharing this classic engine!

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hi and thank you for such kind comments on my two recent uploads, I really appreciate it. Best regards, Alan

Wonderful sights and sounds summing up what we love about steam. Nice extended footage at Rattery. As for Treboul .. ! Thanks for sharing

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Keith and thank you for such kind feedback, I really appreciate it. Best regards, Alan

The Stanier pacifics still look stunning in their correct LMS livery Those gradients made this Duchess work for it's passengers. Many thanks for making these video's, you have a new subscriber.

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Allan and thank you for kind and interesting comments, I really appreciate it. Thanks also for your subscription... Welcome aboard! Best regards, Alan

Absolutely stunning video!! I also happened to see the Duchess destroy one bank as she blasted through Tiverton

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Jacob and thank you for such kind feedback, I really appreciate it. I like to film the climb you refer to at Pugham Farm, you get a nice long shot there! Best regards, Alan

Well captured, it's back up as far as Plymouth today for turning and back up tomorrow for London Victoria tomorrow all being well. It was interesting to see it run a few miles between Barry and Cardiff, Cardiff and Barry for turning with Bahamas and Leander as three!

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hi and thank you for your kind feedback, it is very much appreciated. Best regards, Alan

Fabulous Filming Of The Type Of locomotive That I Used To See Hurtling North And South On Crack Express's Through My Home Town Of Bletchley . Many Thanks.

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Robin and thank you for your kind and most interesting reminiscences, they are very much appreciated. Best regards, Alan

What a Big Beautiful Beast! 'Course she'd look better in GWR colours. Nah - just kidding. Fantastic machine, though, all the same. Didn't the LNS use Belpair fireboxes, or is this a rather low-profile one? (Do you recall the motivation for that Beatles' song: LNER Rugby?) Which is Whiteball... the claypits back of Bickley Road and under the unfortunately-named Gropers Lane? For years I'd driven that road on the way to New'un Abbot without knowing the tracks went under it. I wouldn't want my washing hanging out anywhere along that line!. Interesting how the foreshortening at 5:55 make the track look so uneven... I swear I could see the Duch dipping and weaving along there. Another superb video, Alan, thankyou so much for taking the time and effort to capture this event so beautifully for us. I know it's a chore (tongue in c), but someone has to do it, right? BTW - how did you manage to get to all the locations in such short order? Your motor-bike must have fair dashed along. Again - many thanks.

She’s really going for it Alan

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Well said Scott. A

@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329

Жыл бұрын

Yeah

Great video, thanks for sharing

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind and very much appreciated feedback Andy. Best regards, Alan

Great sound and action. Re Beambridge - Seventy years ago, I stood in the brick rear yard, alongside the metal hand-pump for lifting the water supply for the Beambridge Railway Cottages. These used to stand against the ‘up’ (towards Paddington) mainline, in the thick of the copse that grew through their bases once demolished a few years later. It waswhere my maternal Great Uncle & Great Aunt lived and ‘Uncle Jack’ worked on the GWR down mainline of the Bristol to Exeter railway (going uphill) between Rockwell Green, Wellington & Whiteball Tunnel. The thunder of Collett’s green giants, suitably banked from Wellington for the climb to Whiteball shook their cottage & it’s seven neighbours. The spill of hot embers falling through the grid, cascaded onto the ballast, as the Castles or Kings were helped up the climb by the lowly banker - with their full rake of carriages for the west. Until the 1960s, the A38 used to pass beneath the Beam Bridge, on the approach toward the eponymous ‘Inn’, as from Brunel’s time the line laid through the south Somerset hills. Stirring memories.

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Peter and thank you for your kind and really interesting reminiscences, I just love hearing stories like that, stories that will fade and be lost if not retold to others. Best regards, Alan

Great stuff Alan steam at is best thanks to you ripping around the countryside to capture such happenings 😉 atvb t ..

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Terry. Many thanks for your always welcome feedback. Out again today, looking for speed this time! Best regards, Alan

@tadpoles10

2 жыл бұрын

@@Steamclips Have a great weekend Alan .. 👍 .. 🏍

Great video thanks

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Frankie and thank you for your kind and very much appreciated feedback. Best regards, Alan

Brilliant wonder video. Reminded me when I took a steam engine from Leeds to Morecambe. Many years ago. Sadly, on the way there was a train yard with several steam locomotives steaming their last. Heart breaking!

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Edward and thank you for your kind feedback and interesting reminiscences. Who would have thought all those years ago that we would still be enjoying steam power on the mainline 60 or so years later!! Best regards, Alan

This the territory of the Kings, Halls, and Castles but this beast absolutely made mincemeat of the these famed inclines. Kudos to the fireman and driver. I've spoken to the driver twice this year and I don't know his name! and what a fantastic locomotive.

Fantastic that 😃

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for such kind feedback Steve, it is very much appreciated. Best regards, Alan

She's working out big time. Nice video👍🏼

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Elias and thank you for your kind and very much appreciated comment. Best regards, Alan

Very well put together footage.

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Timothy and thank you for your kind and very much appreciated comment. Best regards, Alan

beautiful unicorn - still trying to find chance to see her

Oh Alan, you spoil us☺ She's just a slip of a thing but so powerful and elegant❤ Would have been more visually appealing if they'd put all the crimsons together?? Better turn the volume down now!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Bob, always a pleasure to get your "special" feedback. Out again tomorrow to capture some fast running (with luck!). Best regards, Alan

@bobingram6912

2 жыл бұрын

@@Steamclips Oh, in that case I'll keep the volume turned up!! Happy filming, take care👍🏻

Wonderful video Alan :)

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Simon and thank you for your kind and very much appreciated feedback. Best regards, Alan

I often wonder which of the gradients is the most formidable. I remember watching a video of an LNER B1 steamy, if I remember correctly, battling her way up Whiteball Bank with a heavy passenger train. With no banker to assist in the rear, the LNER tender engine was slowing down, feeling the weight behind her. Somehow, without either slipping or stalling, she made it up through Whiteball Tunnel to the top of the incline. An incredible performance on the whole, I'd say.😂🙃

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Kelly and thank you for your valued comments. It is a mixture of factors that effects the ability of a "steamie" to climb steep gradients, the least of which is power and the most important is adhesion. On the day, the track conditions were ideal so 6233 could take a good run at the bank. Same day, same loco but look what happens when adhesion is poor at 4:22 and if the whole climb is like that, nothing gets up! Take care, Alan

@robinnicholson4009

10 ай бұрын

I would suggest that Bincomb bank out of Weymouth is one of the toughest

Great shots, would love to have a copy for myself as we were actually on the train, so we could not see the brilliant shots you took

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hi and thank you for your kind and very much appreciated feedback. I am sure that you had a fantastic time. Best regards, Alan

Gorgeous beast

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Amen to that Joe!! Kind regards, Alan

Beautiful loco gorgeous shots. Thankyou for this video. I've got the Hornby model of late 70s. So pretty I displayed it on the windowsill (absence of a model railway). Unfortunately I didn't realise red goes pink when exposed to sunlight. (Same problem 30 years later with my red Alfa.) It also can't be converted to dcc shame. Just put it on a dc test track still runs. I have Princess Louise a more recent model it has single exhaust funnel but Sutherland has two. Anybody out there like to explain the reasons for this?

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Mervyn and thank you for your kind, interesting and much appreciated feedback. Best regards, Alan

Absolutely superb footage. I've been to Penzance by rail and done all the branches but hard to commit to a 'GB' tour like this as often not advertised far enough in advance to obtain reasonable airfares from Australia, with COVID-19 compulsory mask wearing on the airlines another 'YKK' factor.

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Edmund and thank you for such kind and interesting comments. Next year maybe? when the world has finally come to terms with Covid, global conflict notwithstanding!! Best regards, Alan

Great vid showing the sheer power of these locomotives. Great tribute to driver but most of all accolades must go to the fireman as they are greedy beasts

@Steamclips

Жыл бұрын

Hello David and thank you for your kind, interesting and much appreciated feedback. Best regards, Alan

*How on this Earth the Victorians constructed a Rail Way through Devon defeats me its all UPS & Downs !*

Main Drive Wheel Slip at 4:36 mins..

How do the British grades work? We used percentages for our grades so idk what it means by 1 in 80 or 1 in 90 etc

@Steamclips

5 ай бұрын

Hi and thank you for your question. The British system uses "rise" (vertical distance) and "run" (horizontal distance) to define a gradient. So a 1 in 80 is a rise of 1 unit (say feet) for every 8o feet of run. To convert to your more familiar system you divide rise by run then multiply by 100. 1 in 80 therefore equals 1/80 x 100 = 1.25 percent. Kind regards, Alan

@threepea1151

5 ай бұрын

@@Steamclips really helped! Thanks

Alan Sen BLOOODY rational,. Yah done it Gaiman's you got the wheel slip on Ratury bank. Bit of old engine oil on the rail was it??? Lol

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Steven, glad I pressed the right buttons with you on this one!! I really appreciate such kind feedback. Best regards, Alan

👍🏻

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Rob. Alan

S someone said being a fireman on this was extremely difficult because the firebox is SO large? Is this true,please ?

@Steamclips

10 ай бұрын

Hello Robin and thank you for your interesting question. When it comes to difficult, it depends what you mean. It is true that fireboxes on 4-6-2 locomotives are large but they are also shallow compared to a firebox which has to fit between the frames as on a 4-6-0. From a technical point of view, correctly firing a 4-6-0 is more difficult and has to be done with care in order to continually allow air to pass through the deep fire. However, the big 4-6-2 firebox takes a lot of fuel to start with, which means initially a bit more physical effort from the fireman but is far less technical, to put it simply, you just need to spread it around! So I would say that overall a 4-6-0 (Pacific) fire is easier to manage. Hope this helps? Kind regards, Alan

@robinnicholson4009

10 ай бұрын

That is extremely kind of you to include such a handsome reply. I think one of these very large engines ascended Bincomb Bank. That is a great test because of the standing start in Weymouth

That's what it was built to do proper engine.

2:00 *That's not fair Play the Western Region had at best the KING Class at 40,300 lbf V the Mighty 40,300 lbf (180 kN) Beat it on Trials !*

"Destroys"?

@Steamclips

Жыл бұрын

Hi and thank you for your questions/queries regarding adjective nouns used in two of my clips. One meaning of "Destroy" given by the Concise Oxford Dictionary is: "neutralise (the) effect of", pretty apt I would have thought when a locomotive makes "light work" of feared climbs. "Flatten" is commonly used to describe an effective lessening of the grade due to the power of the machine climbing it. Many car reviews for example use this phrase when describing impressive hill climbing abilities but again, the C.O.D. gives a definition of "flatten" as "to humiliate (belittle)" which again is apt when a fearsome reputation is "destroyed" ! Kind regards, Alan

@penelope8557

Жыл бұрын

@@Steamclips Thank you, Alan.

Great Video but..............why use the word destroy when you really mean conquer? Limited vocabulary?

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Although grateful for your two words of praise I am even more amused by your tirade and mild insult concerning a single word in the title which you have clearly misunderstood. “Destroy” is perfectly well chosen for two reasons: The Oxford Dictionary gives one meaning of the verb Destroy as (to) attack, perfectly apt wouldn’t you say? The second reason is that the word Destroy is an alliteration (look it up!) to the word Duchess, which helps the title scan as in a tabloid headline. I could equally have chosen Demolish, Dominate &etc. but not Conquer. Lack of forbearance, open-mindedness, respect, knowledge, fresh air, a life?

@jcmgt

Жыл бұрын

Nah, destroy rocks. 🙂