Perrygrove 2024 Steam Gala, filmed by Teddy
2024 Perrygrove Railway Gala, featuring footage from Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Teddy (my 9 year old son) filmed all of this footage whilst I was either driving an engine or shuffling trains around like a giant train set.
Locos featured are Haywood “Katie” from Ravenglass, “St Egwin” from Evesham and “Jack” from Steam workshop, unfortunately the wheel profiles on Jack were too fine for the track at Perrygrove resulting in some quite unfortunate derailments whilst I was driving it on Saturday morning so the loco was stood down for the rest of the weekend.
Home fleet locos were 2023 built “Mr Hallworth”, “Anne”, “Spirit of Adventure”, “Lydia” and “Soony”.
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Katie is performing superbly! Tom, in your experience, what is the secret to getting the launch-type firebox to steam well? Tradition says that the Heywood boilers didn't steam well, but she seems to be unaware of that tradition!
@littlenobby
22 күн бұрын
Perrygrove is very similarly set out like one of the estate railways Heywood built and marketed, 3/4 mile long with sharp curves and short steep gradients. Katie settled right in and worked incredibly well with the box filled up at the bottom and left well alone until we were at the top. The more draw on the fire on the uphill bits the better it steamed. I believe they have had issues with it elsewhere because of the longer less steep but faster paced layout of the track on railways like Ravenglass where she struggles to keep up with demand. A slower pace but lugging stuff round is what she’s built for. Looking forward to her next visit.
@cricciethcastle5077
22 күн бұрын
@@littlenobby That's really interesting - thank you for taking the trouble to give a detailed explanation.