The Great Britain XVI - Over 2000 Miles Behind Steam

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The Great Britain XVI - Over 2000 Miles Behind Steam - April 2024

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A another year and another Great Britain tour.
Organised by The Railway Touring company, the tour would feature Black 5's No.44871 and No.45407 'The Lancashire Fusilier', along with No.34067 'Tangmere'.
With the operator WCRC only allowed to operate CDL fitted coaches, the tour would see Mk2f's as the only available option. This would also limit the motive power to air braked only.
This video covers day's 2 to 8 of the tour as it battles through the weather, on its journey to Kyle of Lochalsh.
Thanks goes to Simon Roberts for allowing me to borrow part of his audio at Edge Hill.
Also a thank you to James Corben for planning and providing the title/thumbnail photo.

Пікірлер: 11

@1Goldsteam 4 ай бұрын

I was on the whole trip and these are wonderful quality clips to watch - thank you so much for sharing them. Alan

@stevebeswick3699 4 ай бұрын

Great filming and sound thanks. good old maid of all work Black 5s save the tour again.

@04clemea 4 ай бұрын

Yeah they certainly produced a soundtrack.

@harnettyrailways 4 ай бұрын

Great footage of The GB XVI & it was great talking to ya at Penrith on the Friday while waiting for Tangmere to pass by. Richard

@04clemea 4 ай бұрын

Cheers Richard, yes good talking to you too

@ntsteam59 3 ай бұрын

Another great account of this year's tour, shame no footage of first and last days.

@eisenbahntraeumer 4 ай бұрын

Awesome work! Great footage with awesome sound! Thumbs up.

@04clemea 4 ай бұрын

Thanks. Despite constantly getting bowled by clouds, it's come out alright in the end.

@eisenbahntraeumer 4 ай бұрын

@@04clemea Absolutely!

@wgj4813 3 ай бұрын

I am sorry to disagree a little. The concept of the Great Britain rail tours was pure steam haulage round Britain for a week. Now it is a steam engine fronting the train irrespective of its ability to practically haul the train as a diesel is always provided at the back to push the train. The photography is always good no quibbles about that aspect.

@04clemea 3 ай бұрын

The diesel was there primarily to provide power to the coaches. It's not for pushing the the train constantly, if it did, it was only for a short section. For the leg over the Heart of Wales Line, they left the diesel behind, because it was out of gauge for the route. The batteries on the coaches lasted the journey, before being plugged back into the diesel in Swansea. This year's trip was the best they could do under the circumstances and was a steam hauled trip round the UK.