Those Great Locomotives

Those Great Locomotives - GER S69

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11 ай бұрын

Locomotives which have captured the imagination of many, not with their size or strength- but sheer charm. The Great Eastern Railway's S69 was, for all it was worth, a well-travelled design that could go anywhere and attempt anything, despite being drawn up as the most powerful express locomotives for the Great Eastern by Frederick Russell. From Norwich to Aberdeen, how did they fare?
SOURCES & CREDIT:
Scan of a map of the Great Eastern Railway by The British Library - Image taken from page 106 of 'Holiday Notes in East Anglia, ect', No restrictions, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Photograph of a GER class T19 by Unknown author - This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the Bulgarian Archives State Agency as part of a cooperation project. The Bulgarian Archives State Agency provides images, which are public domain. For attribution/citation of the source, Bulgarian Archives State Agency, please use the identification numbers of the document's fonds, inventory, archival unit and sheet., Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Drawing of a GER S46 by W.J. Gordon, Our Home Railways; How They Began And How They Are Worked; Vol 1Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, London, 1910 - Archive.org (archive.org/details/ourhomera...) Google Books digitisation of public domain book., Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Photograph of Ipswich Goods Yard by Harry Walters - Smith Suitsall postcard, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Portrait of James Holden taken from LNER Encyclopedia. Taken no later than 1925., en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
Portrait of Stephen D. Holden taken from LNER Encyclopedia, Fair use, en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
Photograph of S.D. Holden posing with the GER Class A55 'Decapod' - Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Photograph of an ex-LNER B17 by Barry Lewis - My Very First Photograph - 61623, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Map of the Great North of Scotland Railway territory by Afterbrunel at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Oxyman using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Photograph of a GNSR K Class by London and North Eastern Railway - Barclay-Harvey, Malcolm (1950) A History of the Great North of Scotland Railway, facing page 186: Ian Allan ISBN: 978-0-7110-2592-9., Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Website sources:
www.gersociety.org.uk/index.p...
www.lner.info/locos/B/b12.php
www.nnrailway.co.uk/portfolio...
www.lner.info/locos/D/d14d15d...
www.keymodelworld.com/article...
www.lner.info/article/tech/va...
www.lner.info/locos/B/b17.php
www.keymodelworld.com/article...
www.gersociety.org.uk/index.p...
www.gersociety.org.uk/index.p...
www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/60...
preservedbritishsteamlocomoti...
www.mandgn.org/overall-Locomo...
Literary sources:
'Great North of Scotland Railway Album' by A.E. Glen, I.A. Glen and A.G. Dunbar, published by Fraser Stewart Books
Video sources:
'SOLE SLIP: LNER B12 8527' by ‪@ChristheXelent‬
• SOLE SLIP: LNER B12 8572
LINKS
Discord server - / discord
Twitter - / teawithcaramel1
Outro music: Kevin MacLeod - Fiddles McGinty
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Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
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Railworks Train Simulator B12/1 by Caledonia Works - caledoniaworks.com/product/ge...
Channel icon by Dean Walker - / lookitstrainart
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Пікірлер: 39

@FlyingScott 11 ай бұрын

Nice

@madduckuk 11 ай бұрын

I wouldn't have been able to get through the video without saying it.

@HyperCat72 11 ай бұрын

Nice

@awesome-xk8vj 11 ай бұрын

Hay Flying Scott. Can you make video about the BR Class 17's and the Gresley B17's please.

@HyperCat72 11 ай бұрын

@@awesome-xk8vj mate, I doubt he's gonna take requests. Still worth a shot ig

@JojoCat2008 11 ай бұрын

(Click Tongue) Nice.

@spankflaps1365 11 ай бұрын

The B12 pulling the teak articulated set on the NNR… this is one of the most beautiful train ensembles in the world.

@joshslater2426 11 ай бұрын

I have a big soft spot for Great Eastern locos, and the S69 is one of my favourites (at least in its pre-grouping shape). It was the perfect expansion of the Claud Hamiltons and looked equally majestic in their dark blue liveries. Good thing one was preserved.

@exarkun42 11 ай бұрын

I love this series. You put a lot of research into it, bringing up often forgotten aspects of certain engines. The example here is Thompson being directly responsible for the 1930s rebuild.

@davidatkinson2167 11 ай бұрын

Yes. Thompson was at Stratford at the time and everything was worked out, approval gained, but all incorporated on a single locomotive. The result was the successful B12/3 however as CME Gresley took the credit. A B12 also achieved the first 90mph on the GER at Diss. They were also utilised on Ambulance trains during WW2. This was due to their size and low axle loading.

@exarkun42 11 ай бұрын

@@davidatkinson2167 The boss taking the credit for somebody else's great achievement. Some things never change

@davidatkinson2167 11 ай бұрын

Thompson was a far better and quite able engineer than people gave him credit for. Perhaps things would have been different with him if there hadn't been a war on during his tenure.

@GelatoTaco 11 ай бұрын

I would absolutely kill for a model in a GER guise w/ the Belpaire-esque shaped Firebox.

@eddierools 11 ай бұрын

Aaahhh, love the B12/S69's... I really do wish we could've gotten an RtR model of the S69/GER condition of the locomotive in OO scale. Don't get me wrong, the newer B12's look fantastic, but I've always fancied the belpair version with the skirts

@muir8009 9 ай бұрын

This is an awesone channel: really great graphics, looks so right. One of the nicest Claude Hamilton models was the old pre WW1 bing gauge 1 model.

@LegoMiester14 11 ай бұрын

Great video! The B12's are honestly one of my favorite steam locomotives, and I always love hearing more about they're history.

@ZeroWinter812 11 ай бұрын

This Engine is by far my favorite British steam engine. And its not really a famous engine overshadowed by the other classes of the later LNER but now you've given it its time to shine. this was very "nice" documentary on the class and later variants of it. I even learned things about it I didn't know.

@stephendavies6949 Ай бұрын

The B12 is a handsome loco, and I often run my model. I now live in former GER territory, and so it is a firm favourite. Thanms for naking shch an interesting & entertaining video.

@firstnamlastnam2141 11 ай бұрын

They really do look good in any color. Very much like the ultramarine myself.

@AW.Dry_and_Co. 11 ай бұрын

3:28 Here we have a GER s69 And here is toby :)

@scottlewis775 4 ай бұрын

Can’t believe someone else remembers that joke. 😂

@cameronebert4454 11 ай бұрын

Ah yes, the B12. One of the most elegant 4-6-0s that thundered down the rails. Also, if you had to reinvent all seven of the idols in the Splatoon franchise as UK steam locomotives (I know that this is off topic but I still want to ask), what would you choose and why?

@benedictinespirit779 11 ай бұрын

This is amazing i really like this sort of locomotive history videos with railworks footage

@thomasgray4188 11 ай бұрын

these locomotives always manage to look so picturesque. There's a reason i, as a Western and Southern fan, bought one before i got a bullied.

@OfficialTrainzGod 11 ай бұрын

ah yes the best ten wheeler

@Mikado_Mika 11 ай бұрын

I have a suggestion. Polish EN57, these are working since 1961 and are remarkably good and reliable.

@DuckyLTD69 11 ай бұрын

PLEASE talk about the J36

@canadaw.e6461 11 ай бұрын

Hello! i, uhm...would like to suggest a Locomotive class namely, the LNER O4...or the GCR 8K, or the ROD 2-8-0- well, its all of those, and its a class personally special to me, and a class i believe has earned the title of greatness, since...well, lasting from 1913 at least, to nearly the end of steam, and several going through war.