I saw Dub Dee at the Severn Valley Railway Spring Steam Gala earlier this year, and she was quite the powerhouse! A little sluggish on that line, but does the job very well. I was more impressed by the Coal Tank, considering how much of a fine condition she's in for her age.

very enjoyable watch, thank you for posting. A word of thanks for the review of the Gaugemaster Combi Controller, I was impressed by the slow running and slow pull away. So I bought one and wow! amazing control slow running without jitters and slow pull-aways are amazing. Even smokey joe performs as if DCC controlled. Brilliant, thanks again.

Wow. Looks like you had a fantastic day out. Some lovey shots of both locomotives. Great video.

Absolutely superb video showcasing Northern Rail, thanks for uploading Will :)

You're not half wrong about the soot danger. My friend John & I went to the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways last year while we were on a Study Abroad in Chester (The rest of the students went to tour Conwy & Caernarfon Castles. I like to joke that while they were touring those castles, we were riding the little trains through God's castle). Both times we ended up in the open-sided coaches at the very rear of the train, which were very nice for getting the breeze & getting great shots of the scenery & the train. The problem started on the WHR to Caernarfon. Not long after we started, a bit of soot flew into my eye & it hurt like hell. I tried to wipe it out with my handkerchief (Pro tip: Always have a proper cotton hanky/repurposed hand towel in your pocket), but it was no good. I wanted to buy some water from the concession lady so I could damp it down & try to wipe the soot out that way, but she only came once at the start & then never again (I must admit, I was not impressed with the WHR's service). Finally, I had to go up the train in search of some water. I finally found a nice lady who was willing to give me a splash of her water (she had, like, 5 water bottles in her bag. Don't know why she'd have so many). After that, I was able to get the soot out of my eye & enjoy the rest of the journey.

I've been on that 37 n this railway it's ace

Great vid will can't wait to see your new model railway

Great video. I really enjoyed seeing such a nice railway.

The loco of many names. WD, Dub Dee, Austerity, the list goes on!!!!!!

Love the video, thanks for the mention had a great day, good to meet you too!

Great video will looks like you had a great time it's a great line to ride on

Absolutely wonderful.

I love it! You must come down to the the Epping Ongar some time - it's so much fun! Last weekend was their diesel gala but next weekend it's steam!

I actually went on this railway in 2003 when I went on a trip to England with my Mum and two of my brothers. We went up to Howarth to see the bronte sisters house and came upon the railway by accident. We took it from Howearth to Keighley and back to Howarth

Amazing video mate. I have been to the KWVR before and it was fantastic.

I never knew you'd visit the KWVR! I live right by it!

I hope you enjoyed it there it's really nice when it's not bad weather and I work there myself and sometimes people are very nice it really depends

The class 37 will always be my favourite train, we usually get 2 DRS 37's hauling nuke flasks running through Chester going into wales, love the sound at about quart past 6 in the morning when they open the growler up and get her up to speed heading towards flint.

Really did enjoy It had a good day too.. Joe

I would love if you could come done to the watercress line for the autumn gala this year and I would be more than happy to show you around.

Hey will! The steam locomotive is a riddles WD austerity 8F and that 37 is gorgeous! Keep up the great work. Isaac.

I'm so annoyed I live so close to this railway (up the road from Haworth station), I wish I could have met you, my mum even had a hair salon on the same street as the model shop. i also have seen that beautiful class 37 in the flesh. It is weird to see somewhere I know very well on your video. Thanks for the nice videos

My second favourite Railway of all time.

The Lancashire and Yorkshire loco use to work on my local Isle Of Axholme Joint Railway (Long gone now) its a L&Y Class 25

Great stuff, this is my local railway as I'm from Yorkshire. Been going to that line for many years now as its always nice to go there.

A great video Will lovely class 37. A bit odd though. One end split head code and the other a 37/4 style

i actually visited the keighley and worthvalley railway when i was visiting the uk in 2017

You should try the kent & East Sussex railway it's amazing

That WD 2-8-0 has quite a voice!

Another great video, Will. You waxed quite lyrical about the 8F (or WD Austerity as someone has commented) but I agree that, although the diesels sound great, they don't quite have the magic of the steam locos. I also agree that a camcorder gives better footage than a smart phone or tablet and are much easier to handle than a tablet!!.

The 8F's whistle reminds me of our Norfolk and Western Hooter whistle which is pretty famous over here.

90733 is Austerity Loco built by The Vulcan Foundry for the War Department back in World War 2, it spent the latter part of its working career in Poland up until 1977 where it was moved back to the UK for preservation... Just thought id add this in as a guide :)

Again just to clear up the misunderstanding between Stanier 8F and WD 2-8-0. 90733 is of the latter class which were based mechanically on the 8F but modified for shorter working lives given the constraints of materials availability during the war. Designed by R.A. Riddles and built in 1943 (852 x Stanier 8F built 1935-46). Many were distributed far and wide e.g. Europe, North Africa and Hong Kong. Of the 935 built, 733 came into BR in 1948 were numbered 90000-732 in BR use, there was no 90733. The reason this loco is numbered as such is because having found its way to Holland in WW2 it was sold on to Swedish State Railways in 1953. It was repatriated to the UK in 1973 by the KWVR, who appropriately numbered her "next in series" as is the case with Tornado.

Wonderful video of the KWVR Will. I always enjoy myself when I'm up there. The steam loco in the video is actually a WD 2-8-0. The KWVR do have an 8F though. Cameron

Lovely video ,,, nicely narrated and a good watch with some outstanding shots,,,, many thanks,,,,,,, Alan

Great job I love these on tour videos because I'm in the usa so I can't see these irl and these vids let me look at those great lines

Went there, it's so nice.

"Probably a Yorkshire-thing" YEP! :-)

Try the North Norfolk Railway. It's a lovely line with great scenery and some brilliant locos.

The 'Restaurant Car' at 3:40 is the oldest preserved Mk 1

I cannot describe how jealous of you Brits I am. Because I live in the US, I don't get beautiful locomotives such as the 8F or Class 37 featured in this video. I just get rather ugly looking diesel engines that are comparable to Daleks when it comes to design.

Try the south devon railway, its a 7 mile long railway, known for their panniers, also has a great model shop and musem.

The to locomotives in the video were the 8f and coal train have been to the severn valley railways steam gala weekend in March 2015.

When the driver opens up the throttle in keighley on 37 that’s what they usually do

Did you notice that the 37 only had split headcode boxes at one end?

Feel foolish now that I didn't go on that day in the end myself haha

Ah you were around my neck of the woods

Very nice, love my steam engines glad you had plenty of footage of the WD Austerity, I know how you feel about people in your way, I had the same problem when photographing the LNER D49 at the North Norfolk Railway. IC82 do you not like your wheel spin?? I love it when you see A4's doing it as A4s sound and look really powerful...

Lovely video of a lovely line, went there in January. The snow just went so well with the gloss black of their 4F that day. Just wondering, would you ever consider coming to the Ribble Steam Railway in Preston, Lancashire? I volunteer there, we're only a small 1 1/2 mile line but we have some very interesting industrial stock as we are an old dock line. DP1 is also here with guided cab tours on Sundays until October. I'd love it if you'd come down one day, possibly for DP1's 60th as we're just running EVERYTHING that can bloody move on that day. So would you ever consider it? Once again, lovely video!

I only went their myself last Saturday! Ugh, missed you by a few days :/

BTW The steam loco wasn't an 8F. It was a WD austerity 2-8-0 90733

this is where the 1960s film the railway children was filmed

My favourite railway out their go 2ce a week DMU Wednesday and on Sunday Green/Blue Timetable

Hi will I was on a train trip around England and I when to a miniature railway and children from up north I think were shouting all the way saying stuff like "look real track ""it a steam train!!!!" I make the journey so long and was make it a bad time there

did that 37 have different light variants at each end? definite lack of symmetry for my ocd! XD still, looks great there!

1:37 BATMAN!!!!! :D

19:40 only Will would start reviewing the real life Class 37.

Hope you come to one of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway's Gala's, Cotswold Festival Of Steam (May 23rd-25th, got 2 Bullieds! Hopefully 36005 (P&O) will be steaming by then! *fingers crossed* also there's the main Diesel Gala in July, with D7076 (Series 2 'Hymek'). :-) P.M me on twitter if you need any info etc. Now work in the diesel dept. So can always find out if I don't know :-)

I am also a volunteer on the kwvr in the carriage and wagon department so if your every back then let me know. By the way Oxenhope it's at the top of the line not the bottom. In response to and earlier comment, there is only one coal tank left.

7:05 best moment ever... coffee and train :')

You should go to the spa valley railway in Tunbridge wells

I've been there so many times. I only live 5 mins away from there

Hey have any of you guys everbeen inside of a bigboy's cab before because I have and its huge !

What is the water that is coming out from under the forested on the steam loco when it was in the station taking on water

Try out 75078 lovely loco and a smooth run down

I'm going here today

7:50 the 8f WD where designed by Robert Riddles, not bij Stanier

Will you need to get one of these 8fs

And realistic crew fingers.

Do you think you'll go to the didcot railway center?

Check out the nnr poppy line

8:56 you want people in your way of the camera, trying being at the streamliners at Spencer event a year ago in North Carolina, the amount of inconsiderate people were outrageous, but at least there were lots of people there to see those beauties of the 50's

I have been there

7:00 Class 333 you are talking about

Yo should visit the churnet valley railway :)

ic82 you should go to Bo'ness or strathspey railway

The engine is austerity not stanier the stanier 8f is very different in size wieght and had steam heat fitted the austerity's didn't and only had a top speed of 55 compared to 80 from stanier hope that helps

@ 7:55 RONG !! Locomotive identification fail !! This comment is RIDDLED with error , this is the W.D. Austerity repatriated from abroad , designed by a contemporary of Stanier , R.A. Riddles but not the great man himself !

I would just like to point out that its not a Stanier 8F it's a WD Austerity still great video.

It will of been Chris Smith on the 37075

Hope you enjoyed it will it was my pleasure to get you into the coal tank

go to the Embsay and Bolton abbey steam railway

It’s not an 8f it’s a 2 8 0 austerity designed by Robert riddles

24:53 it's a shame about how sad that guy is ( end of first maroon coach)

go to kirklees light railway plz plz plz

Go great central railway I live near there and go there a lot great line and model g scale railway

We don't get any good trains over here in America

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Lol

This is the sort of thing that confuses me with you. You say about how much you love the Stanier 8F's, but you failed to notice the locomotive you're looking at isn't one. You even said "That's not a Stanier tender" and it still didn't click.

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The steamy is not described as an 8F. It was not designed by William Stanier. The engine is a War Department 2-8-0, and my kind of engine to get dirty with. I have a pair of goggles to wear, so I'm a lucky one. How on earth can you love that ugly and stinky box-on-wheels? It chokes me to death. Its fumes choked you, so you can't love it in the same way as we love steam engines. Diesels sometimes break down and never move again, unless a shunter can tow the unreliable machine back on shed. When a steam engine breaks down, it will move to gentle coaxing from the Driver. Unreliable diesels are for non-believers. Electrics have got it all wrong. Steam engines, which are far more reliable, have the power that will pull us along. Diesel fumes are horrid and pollute our clean atmosphere. Smoke, steam and soot are kinder to us. You should have stuck with the steam engine all day long. That unreliable diesel should be on the scrap heap, if you want my opinion. Stick with steam engines. You'll enjoy it a whole lot more, believe me. Happy train riding.