70013 Oliver Cromwell - Wandering AT SPEED!

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Күн бұрын

BR Britannia Class 7MT 4-6-2 no 70013 Oliver Cromwell on the Railway Touring Company "Wandering 1500" to Sheringham and the NNR. Tour should have departed from London Liverpool Street, but was switched to Kings Cross due to gauging issues. First we catch Ollie at Meldreth, where in 1952 Ollies sister loco "Britannia" pulled the the Royal Train carrying King George VI's body through the station on its journey from Sandringham to London. Residents gathered on the platform to pay their last respects to the King. Then a water stop allows us to get to Lakenheath in Suffolk, where only 8 trains a week actually stop! In 2013 only 104 people used the station, last year a massive 500 people used those 8 trains......

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@davidpendry7731 8 күн бұрын

Majestic

@MrSteamMad 10 жыл бұрын

Great captures and Oli sound really well. Its a big thumbs up from me. All the best Barry

@AJGossTrains 9 жыл бұрын

Fantastic stuff!!!! Stomp stomp, smashing!!! : )

@JPSteamMediaTM 10 жыл бұрын

Excellent! It was good trip, except for arriving back at Highbury an Hour Late! Should have been out the other side at Meldreth! Thanks for sharing, Jack

@robertduncanmuir 9 жыл бұрын

I cannot get over how quickly that was going in the first shot!

@MrKnowwun 9 жыл бұрын

About 75 mph

@noelist 10 жыл бұрын

nice shots, sounding good, cheers.

@sirjohng1 7 жыл бұрын

I had the sheer joy of a holiday trip from Liverpool Street to Cromer pulled by Britannia in the mid 50s with silver service restaurant car (and the soup barely moved in the dish). At Norwich the train split and our part was taken over by an 0-6-0 tender engine for the onward section to Cromer. The Britannia driver claimed over 90mph top speed but that might have been bravado to excite the train spotters. Part of the old Cromer station is still there but mostly the area is now a supermarket. Great video, great memories, thank you.

@MrKnowwun 7 жыл бұрын

Might well have been my father on the shovel/regulator (he qualified up mid 50s) out of Liverpool street. His fav loco was 70037 "Hereward the Wake"

@sirjohng1 7 жыл бұрын

MrKnowwun : What? MrKnowwun senior at the controls? Spooky! Lol.

@JPSteamMediaTM 10 жыл бұрын

Hi Tom, reason for being so late was because the man with a fire tanker to fill 70013 up with water at Mark Teys loop, he lost his keys and couldn't get into range. We then had to struggle onto Witham with hardly any water, took 20 minutes for the tanker to get to the station, took 20 minutes to take the water, and left Hour and a half late, but managed to make up 30 mins. Jack

@bus2birds 10 жыл бұрын

Hi Jeff, smashing capture a Like from me. Mike

@biglittlerailroad874 7 жыл бұрын

i would agree, she is a remarkable steam locomotive

@ivanreis1538 6 жыл бұрын

VERY GOOD!!!

@bigslydoc 5 жыл бұрын

Jeez!! The footplate crew weren’t hanging around that day. It looks like they’re doing well over 75mph on that first clip!

@MySteaming 2 ай бұрын

Wandering at Speed! If you're on about the 'sideways' movement of the locomotive, it's called Hunting! Hunting is when a locomotive 'rocks' from side to side at speed. It's due to the Motion (the piston thrust) on either side of the locomotive being (deliberately) not applying thrust at the same time. This makes the locomotive alternatively push it wheel flanges against the rail on either side of the track, producing the rocking motion when viewed from the front. It's called Hunting...

@MrKnowwun 2 ай бұрын

Err no, I was not "on about the "sideways" movement of the locomotive". Had you read the intro you would have seen the tour was called " Wandering 1500".

@SecondValveSteam 10 жыл бұрын

Great video, apparently the Tysley Panniers were supposed to run this tour?

@MikesMovies 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! ok to lift some of the audio please?

@MrKnowwun 3 жыл бұрын

of course.

@lasalleman 5 жыл бұрын

One serious steam locomotive!

@simonsadler9360 Жыл бұрын

Not surprised , is it an optical illusion or are those rails wavey ?

@charliestrains9987 5 жыл бұрын

Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

@MrKnowwun 10 жыл бұрын

Its called a "differential speed restriction" Different speed limit for different classes, in this case (the rule varies according to local rule book) I believe 45 MPH for freight and 75 for passenger traffic.

@kristinajendesen7111 3 жыл бұрын

SP is for Sprinters e.g. Class 158/9s, HSTs and above can do 75mph. Anything else below a sprinter classification would have to do 45mph including Ollie.

@exb.r.buckeyeman845 7 жыл бұрын

Is that 90mph?

@KenBrownekb71000duke 9 жыл бұрын

Great performance from Ollie and crew and nice can work too Jeff. The sound of Ollie receding into the distance on the second clip was very clear. Were you using an external mic? Most enjoyable, thanks from Ken

@MrKnowwun 9 жыл бұрын

thanks, yes using an external directional mike

@KenBrownekb71000duke 9 жыл бұрын

MrKnowwun . Thought so, it certainly pays off Jeff. I'm about to upgrade to a cam that will take an external directional mic and just wondered how you find the results, but ur vid "speaks" for itself, ta for the info.

@elrjames7799 2 жыл бұрын

Why is Oliver Cromwell dragging the 65 ton diesel?

@wiestbound 10 жыл бұрын

Gee, I didn't know some countries still used steam locomotives for mainline service.

@MrKnowwun 10 жыл бұрын

These are special heritage tours or excursions powered by steam trains, but they are run on the main railway routes, sharing the tracks with modern motive power.

@wiestbound 10 жыл бұрын

MrKnowwun Seems like there's more excursions in England than here in America

@MrKnowwun 10 жыл бұрын

trainzguy101 We have an "open network" policy. A single government entity owns and operates the railway network and infrastructure (Network Rail) , and Train Operating Companies (TOC's) pay a franchise to use certain routes on a daily scheduled basis, or pay one off fees to use the network on a non regular scheduled basis. So TOC's hire Steam Locos to run one off excursions. Thats why you get lots of steam videos from the UK, because there are about 200 main line steam excursions a year.

@KG84C 6 жыл бұрын

Any Irish on that train?

@Gordon669 8 жыл бұрын

Ok after viewing a few steam loco vids (beautiful as they are), can someone explain the diesel loco at the back? Cheating? A little extra pushing power? what

@MrKnowwun 8 жыл бұрын

+Gordon Urquhart Firstly if you peruse my vids, you will see plenty with no diesel on the back. Sometimes its there but just dead weight as in the lakenheath scene. Its there for various reason, a quick shove on a busy main line to get acceleration required by tight modern timetables, sometimes to provide electric power for heating carriages, and sometimes for shunting the stock around at the other end, you can't turn steam locos round in many places any more. Sometimes its just plain insurance.

@NewRailBasher 6 жыл бұрын

Gordon Urquhart p

@victorgrasscourt3382 4 жыл бұрын

I never knew that steam engines always had to have a diesel in tow

@theextremeanimator4721 4 жыл бұрын

It's unfortunately rare that they don't

@railfreightdrivergallagherGBRf 4 жыл бұрын

Diesel is only in tow for train heating,required shunting of stock,and should the lead loco need a shove. As a former driver,I used to enjoy days as the 'assist' loco. Great video.

@JPSteamMediaTM 10 жыл бұрын

Lost his keys to get into the gate around the yard.

@HughFromAlice 10 жыл бұрын

V nice shots as per usual. What does the speed restriction sign mean with 45 underneath and SP75 on top? …☁☁☁⁘⁙☁☁⁙..☁……Hᴜɢʜ….Lɪᴋᴇᴅ…..ツ

@scopex2749 4 жыл бұрын

It does RUIN photographs and video when they strap a Scotrail 57 on the back of these main line excursions 😢

@stephenphillip5656 3 жыл бұрын

Personally I prefer the diesel loco at the rear of the train- they used to put it immediately behind the steam loco. It's there for 2 reasons- 1 backup in case (perish the thought) the steam loco fails as there'll be an alternative loco to get the Special out of the way of scheduled services (*BIG* financial penalties for blocking scheduled services) and 2 it provides electric heating for the carriages as the steam heating system was done away with years ago. HTH.