Thank you for sharing this video, I have very fond memories of this tour despite being 14 at the time. Me and my Grandfather were by one of the support coach windows on the other side of the train, although I see my own much younger self sticking out of this side a few times! It was a fantastic day thank you for letting me relive it!

@Steamclips

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Alex and thank you for your kind and most interesting comments. It can be quite spooky to unexpectedly discover your younger self on video but in your case it sounds like the experience was a pleasant one! Best regards, Alan

Marvellous:The captions are a great touch.What a day.Thank you very much.

@Steamclips

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you your kind feedback Graham, I really appreciate it. Best regards, Alan

Ladies & Gentlemen may I present the great Alan, the renowned railway magician who tonight will astound you with another of his excellently shot videos plucked from his drivers grease top hat. Sit back and enjoy the show folks, nostalgia like this will clear away those staying indoors blues (Cheers Alan👍😊)

@Steamclips

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Bob, you are definitely promoted to Head of Publicity! Thank you so much for your warm and amusing feedback. Best wishes, Alan

There’s a professional window hanger…. Goggles and all! It’s not fun unless you get smuts in your eyes! Brill video. I’ve managed never to see No9 but I did see sir Nigel Gresley through march station many years ago. Beautiful locos.

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

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

fantastic filming and fantastic job by engine crew fabulous

@Steamclips

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it John but probably not as much as I did! Many thanks for your kind and much appreciated feedback. Best regards, Alan

Brilliantly filmed. Thank you for sharing this with us.

@Steamclips

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Colin and thank you for your kind and very much appreciated comment (which I almost missed!) Best regards, Alan

A throughly enjoyable watch from the archives, Alan, many thanks for uploading it. Excellent sounds and visuals that 'take you there' on a nostalgic journey. Interesting to reflect on the state of the S&C at that time - vegetation everywhere and temporary speed restrictions but still the old jointed track in abundance, happy days. Great to see the Garsdale water stop too - much missed, and a great performance getting away from there and up to Ais Gill. Amusing to see a younger version of myself in the video too, but I shall not say where..! I believe this was driver Gordon Hodgson's last steam run before retirement with EWS (before he came back for West Coast and gave many more happy years). Many thanks indeed.

@Steamclips

4 жыл бұрын

Hello David and thank you so much for such a kind and interesting response, I really appreciate it. Even though to my mind anything from the 2000's is "modern" I have to pinch myself to be reminded that the lad hanging out of the window on the climb to Settle probably has kids of his own now! (am I close?) And as you say, so much has changed on the S&C and (thankfully) on the Ribble Valley Line, which was pretty rough back then. I will personally miss 60009 as it was one of the first loco's I filmed from the lineside when I switched from "stills" in 2000. Best regards, Alan

@Linesider1

4 жыл бұрын

@@Steamclips Haha, no I wasn't onboard but was filming from the lineside (not trespassing I hasten to add!). You're most welcome, really enjoyed watching it.

Fantastic sound... what an engine!!

@Steamclips

4 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more Al, thank you for your valued feedback. Regards, Alan

bloody hell shes singing sounds fantastic

@Steamclips

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Dan and thank you for your passionate comment. What you say is so true! Regards, Alan

Nice video 👍👍🚂👌 Greetings from Germany Gert

@Steamclips

4 жыл бұрын

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

Did the North Wales Coast Express 20 odd years ago behind No 9, fantastic memories !!

@Steamclips

3 жыл бұрын

Nice to get your interesting feedback John. Regards, Alan

Fantastic film,....just looking at how run down some of the stations were. The difference in the track when on wooden sleepers as opposed to the later concrete ones. As a note, the fireman did an excellent job with little evidence of too much black smoke. Lovely film, I shall watch it again when I have the time

@Steamclips

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Stephen and thank you for your kind and very much appreciated feedback. It is a great way to loose yourself for a while! Best regards, Alan

Thank you for re-uploading this video. A really wonderful soundtrack amply demonstrating the power of an A4. Thirteen on is a good load but during WWII my late father had a run behind Mallard with 20 on! He timed it and said it was doing a mile a minute for some of the journey. Do you know who the driver was on number 9? Thanks again.

@Steamclips

3 ай бұрын

Hello Nigel and thank you for your kind, interesting and very much appreciated comments. I am afraid that I do not know who the crew were on this run. Best regards, Alan

@Steamclips

3 ай бұрын

Just had an idea! and it worked out. My very good fellow KZreadr and excellent cameraman "Linesider1" posted below that the driver was Gordon Hodgson on his last turn before retirement.

Can't keep a good videographer down, eh. Just catching up to last year, even tho there's an improvement this year and you can be out in the wide world again. Thanks for keeping us enthusiastic, Alan

@Steamclips

3 жыл бұрын

Nice to get your kind feedback once again. Best regards, Alan

wow its incredible for an A4 to do that

@Steamclips

3 жыл бұрын

I thought that too Terry! Regards, Alan

That’s terrific Allan they are about to get 60007 sir Nigel gresley back on the mainline this year

@AdamsRailClips

4 жыл бұрын

Even if they do, it will most likely not running any tours this year...

@Steamclips

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the nice feedback Scott. Best regards, Alan

@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329

4 жыл бұрын

@@Steamclips as always allan

@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329

4 жыл бұрын

@@AdamsRailClips but if the lockdown is ending then yes they will restart the railtours for later this year including june to december

Wow.

"Gentlemen! Synchronize your cameras!"

Why the stops at Settle Jct and Langcliffe?

@Steamclips

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Bruce and thank you for your question. We were bedeviled by trespassers on the day which certainly accounted for the stops at Settle Junction and Blea Moor boxes where the crew were given advice. Am not sure why we stopped at Langcliffe but there is a caravan park near that location and there were spectators everywhere I remember. Regards, Alan

Shame N°9 will be gone for the foreseeable future.

#Steamclips - I am not surprised regarding the pulling power of an A4, in the locomotive steam trials the unsung hero of the A4 class which also should have been preserved in the national collection is 60033, Seagull. Who when not knicking chips whilst storming past the seafront at Dawlish, was putting everyone else's engines to shame in the Western region who were finicky about their engines due to the Western's gradients. Yet did we get an A4 as a British Railway Standard Class, no we ended up with LMS designs instead done to the constraints of a light Pacific Class of locomotive designed by OV Bullied, these Southern engines were blasted off the Western region by the A4. The class 6 was either loved or hated by its crews with poor steaming performance. These engines were a lighter version of the Standard Class 7 design aimed at increasing the route availability of the locos. Class 7s were better than the Class 6 and was slightly less Marmite to their crews. Both the class 6s & 7s would be out done by the superior tractive effort of the A4s which was the heaviest of the three loco types. So one could argue whether anything was learnt by the Steam trials in the first place!

@Steamclips

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Bill and thank you for your really interesting insight which I enjoyed reading very much. I would have to agree with you regarding the worth of the 1948 B.R. exchange trials but the 1925 exchange between the GWR and LNER brought real benefits to LNER locomotive designs, especially regarding valve events and draughting. Regards, Alan

@billmmckelvie5188

3 жыл бұрын

@@Steamclips- When I was reading your video description it was nice to know that she had still got her great tractive effort and thrilling her passengers. It is sad that number 9 will be no longer with us on mainline steam. So thank you for posting, It was good of the GWR to allow a competitor to do a technical evaluation of their locomotives. However I suppose with them not being 'near competitors helped. Thanks for your compliment most appreciated. I am waiting for a video of a platform announcer (probably working his last day) on a Network Rail station saying: "Will passengers stand well clear of the platform edge as a 'real train' is passing!" It is great seeing these locomotives pulling 13 coaches which makes you ask why have we got over crowding now! Regards Bill

Lovely old-school video, but needs more adverts.

When will those idiotic trespassers learn? I've a good mind to create a model railway video about trespassing on railway lines. Sorry if I sounded out of tune with myself, but it annoys me to see an incredible journey like this spoiled by trespassers. Preserved Railways have suffered this problem themselves. We can easily live without it. Nice to see No. 9 and Princess Elizabeth working hard in any case.

@bobingram6912

4 жыл бұрын

Tresspassers - on a par with Lockdown rule breakers, they don't give s 💩 about anyone else 😠

@Steamclips

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your passionate feedback Kelly, there are always going to be the few who spoil it for the many. We were lucky to be allowed to proceed on the day, other tours have not been so lucky and have been heavily delayed by such incidents. Best wishes, Alan