Who needs a Pacific when a "go anywhere, do anything", 10-wheeler Black 5 (complete with masculine-sounding whistle) can do the job perfectly well?

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

Love a Black 5

@stephendavies6949

2 ай бұрын

@@LeslieGilpinRailways Yeah, Black 5s & 37s: paradise

That was a busy day Les. Great action as usual.

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

I'm glad that you enjoyed it David

I am not a train enthusiast but recently started to watch your channel I never knew there were some many steam trains came to Carlisle or passed through.

@LeslieGilpinRailways

20 күн бұрын

Thanks for looking in! Yes there are often two or three steam trains in per week especially over the summer. Apart from a few weeks in winter, hardly a week goes by without one.

Those 156's don't half speed along on their way to Dumfries 😊 Good catch with the Prestwick tanks.

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

I;d hoped to get the Prestwick tanks again but rain and bad light put paid to that

great video Les superb filming nice mixture as well really enjoyed it , the black 5 looked and sounded awesome thanks for sharing Les top man do take care a t b syd👍

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! The B5 does sound the part

i seen you today at carlisle on plat 4 and 2, the test train was nice to see

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

Yes it was - a regular visitor too.

Nice one Les , good to see 44871 with Tangmere having some maintenance work 👍🎥

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

It sure is. I hadn't realised Tangmere had been unavailable!

nice video Les! a lot of sweet catches :)

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed

Always fun to watch the different trains. Thanks for sharing.

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

Thanks I;m glad you enjoy them

@laycock1504

2 ай бұрын

Do love watching your vlogs and the video camcorder. The Sony, AX 53's very good pictures.

Hi Leslie 👍 enjoyable as always thank for sharing. Andy

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Absolutely awesome collection specially the steam engines 🚂👋🏻🤗😍🥰👌👍🏻💯🚅🚈🚂

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

Many thanks

Excelente video amei movimentação de trem 27:26

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

Thanks

I went to Hellifield to see the steam train on ECS from Carnforth to Carlisle was disappointed to see 44871 really wanted to see Tangmere.

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

For me it was the opposite - Tangmere has been heading north quite frequently of late, being West Coast's only Air Braked loco. But hey its steam!

Excellent video

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

Loved the birds at Etterby

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

Always a lot of avian noise

Fresh delays and confusion today with a freight train derailed at Hardendale!

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

Yes it did cause problems along with a landslip on the Tyne Valley route

It was a lovely day but 2 hours would be a long wait there with nothing to do. Nice they had to use a Black 5. I wondered how long Tangmere would last with all the runs it has been doing recently

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

Can't beat a Black 5! I agree Tangmere has been overworked of late

Do you use two cameras when trains pass under bridges,never miss your posts thanks

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

Sometimes. Depends where I'm at. Here it was all done with one camera. If I'm somewhere quiet then I put one on the tripod.

0:52 - 1:10 beautifully illustrates that golf influenced song 'Straight Down The Middle'. Is that Black 5 the only preserved loco with non-standard smokebox plates? Did you realise that the service back from Appleby was a palindrome? I wonder how many waiting to go South would have been quicker to take Northern to Leeds and then TPE to Manchester?

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! When lines are closed for engineering I dont think logic oor speed of travel comes into the operator's thinking. The Scottish Region numberplate comes, I assume, from that loco having been used on the Jacobite in the past.

@roboftherock

2 ай бұрын

@@LeslieGilpinRailways Now that's intriguing. I was 20 when steam ended in Scotland and right to the end, my area's locos had standard white on black smokebox plates. So I'm wondering where this 'Scottish Region' coloured numberplate originated. I do not believe it to be historic.

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

@@roboftherock I don't have info to hand and would have to ask around, but my understanding was that certain shed did put blue front numberplates on locos.

@roboftherock

2 ай бұрын

@@LeslieGilpinRailways OK, Les. It will be interesting to learn what you come up with. Possibly someone else reading these will know.

@roboftherock

2 ай бұрын

@@LeslieGilpinRailways Les, I found a book in my local library 'Stanier Black Five Locomotives'. There are pictures of 44871 pre- and post-preservation. All show the stadard white-on-black smokebox plates. Your earlier assumption may well be right. If that's the case then WRC have created a false and non-heritage visual in a heritage railway setting.

where is this 1:34 location

@LeslieGilpinRailways

2 ай бұрын

North of the city behind the tip on a back road to Rockcliffe

@roboftherock

2 ай бұрын

@@LeslieGilpinRailways What a lovely description. So precise!!