Hats off to them, they are running a main line railway and these things happen. I saw plenty on BR

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

They did a fantastic job to be fair. Great day overall. I hope you enjoyed the video!

I loved the opening of this video with the awesome wheelsip by Swithland Hall!!! Great stuff!!! 😍😍😍😍🚂🚂

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching!

Great part 2 buddy

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

Thank you very much Sam! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I see myself a few times in this video, someone from church told me I was in a video from this gala filming the 8F 48305. The trains on this day were well late but at least all the volunteers managed to try the best to put thing right. :)

I was there next to the Hall when it did that huge slip, so much so it's partially diveted the rails.

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

Was it that severe! My god! It certainly was a sight! I hope you enjoyed the event!

i was on the double headed Standard 2's train which took an hour in total to get to Leicester, then another hour to get back to Quorn, where i bailed as it was 1645 by that point, and as you said in your video the timetable was shot, original plan was to do another trip when 78018&9 had got back to Loughborough. It was a very unseasonably warm day, which didn't make it any more comfortable on the Mk1's either. Still had a good day even though i had camera failure on my main dslr (good job i kept the older one)

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

Oh woah so I made a good decision to bail at Rothley then! Yeah now you mention it it was unexpectedly hot for the time of year! Did you end up doing anything else after you got to Loughborough? Thank you for watching!

Hardly a disaster - just more time to enjoy steam engines in steam.

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

Agreed. It was such a good thing to see that pannier blast past!

Excellent shot. Like😁!

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

I have to add that this is very rear occasion for the GCR to have the timetable go wrong in a major way because of the double track it’s normally easy to pick things back up tbh

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

Yeah that's true. To be fair though, they did a great job at recovering it! Thank you for watching!

I've had much worse on the national rail network- and on motorways for that matter.

Great Video Bud Keep up the Great Work

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

Thank you ever so much! I really do appreciate it! Also, just wanted to say, thank you. You are one of the main people that made me think, 'yes I'd like to start a KZread channel', and look where I've got to now! Thank you again ever so much!

@LaZeRJET

9 ай бұрын

@@TheGreatWesternGuy Your Very Welcome bud.. My Autumn Steam Gala From the MHR Video is Uploading Right now but i wanted to see your Gala looked way more Cooler

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

@@LaZeRJET haha it was a great day to be fair! I'll definitely be watching your video when it uploads! I've always wanted to go to the Mid Hants railway!

@LaZeRJET

9 ай бұрын

@@TheGreatWesternGuy oh you'll love it... video will be up soon

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

@@LaZeRJET fantastic!

Lovely video of the train ride by the way.

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

Oh thank you! I'm glad you liked that! 😁

I would love too see British locos, but... Im American

Sometimes things don’t go to plan! On that day, I came across a classic Autumnal difficulty with wheel slip - in this case on the Watercress: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aIGJm8qsfc3Jmbw.html One of the timetabled ones ended up being around half an hour late, with one or two others cancelled and the odd extra added as they went along.

What were the locomotive problems then?

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

So, the pannier tank was meant to do an express (non-stop run) though Quorn and Woodhouse and Rothley, ending up at Leicester North, but ended up sitting outside Quorn for about half an hour. It isn't confirmed what the issue was, but rumour among the staff was the loco suffered a steam leak and therefore lost excessive boiler pressure, owing to the sudden stop and the quite brisk departure.

@MaximumPressureSteam

9 ай бұрын

​@TheGreatWesternGuy Yeah, I wondered what had happened. I managed to chase it from Woodthorpe to Kinchley Lane, which was unexpected!

@maghost_rider5698

9 ай бұрын

@@TheGreatWesternGuy I would suspect that the pannier was stopped due to aformentioned signaling issues and not any form of steam leak.

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

@maghost_rider5698 that might be a possibility. However, everything was on time apart from that, and the signal was down for 20 minutes, so it had permission to move.

I couldn’t make it the event but I noted from another video that D6700 took part in the event and 92214 didn’t appear in that video

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

Yeah both of those were operational. I think D6700 was mainly on the freight.

@michaelthomas6138

9 ай бұрын

If you are available this weekend the two visiting engines are running on the 14th and 15th from information I’ve seen. Possibly one each day. Check the website for timetables.

@terrier_productions

9 ай бұрын

@@TheGreatWesternGuyoh ok thanks

@terrier_productions

9 ай бұрын

@@michaelthomas6138ok, I might not but thanks for letting me know

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

@@terrier_productions no worries

I’m guessing heritage railways either can’t afford turntables, or there isn’t enough room for them, or both.

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

For the vast majority of them, yes. However the Great Central has one at Quorn and Woodhouse, which isn't as convenient as having one at the end of the line. To add to this, it is right at the back of a goods yard, so access is quite difficult.

@ThatCoalSoul

9 ай бұрын

Yes that's kinda true.

@johnkeepin7527

9 ай бұрын

The only one I’m aware of that can turn (most locos) at both ends is the West Somerset, with a turntable at Minehead and the triangle at Norton Fitzwarren. The latter is useful for turning visiting steam hauled specials locos, while the special is often taken on to Minehead with one or two local locos.

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

@@johnkeepin7527 oh yes you're absolutely right! I'd forgotten about that!

@ThatCoalSoul

9 ай бұрын

@@johnkeepin7527 There's one at the end of the line at Yeovil as well ...sure of it.

The saying of pee ups in a brewery springs to mind here 😅

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

😂

I'm sure if you were in the mangers shoes during the event you'd feel the huge pressure to keep the trains moving rather then complain on a petty video. Can't bash a railway for trying their hardest to make the day run as smoothly as they physically can.

@TheGreatWesternGuy

9 ай бұрын

Yeah no absolutely. I completely agree. They did a really good job getting things back on track. I realise that it came out quite the opposite in the video, but yeah.