The host/narrator's voice is so soft, calm, and laid back, it's almost disconcerting.

That fire reminds me of when I was younger and we used to get them all the time on the Embankment coming into Widnes North from Manchester. Don't know how Steam Trains kept setting them on in the 1990s. 😂 Love classic trains. Good work 👍

As with all your films, so professionally done. The earlier films you made such as steam at Manchester Victoria and the industrial archives are now priceless for future railway historians and enthusiasts. Thanks.

Happy memories of camping at Harmans Cross, waving at the trains going by. As soon as we parked up my wife realised why we’d chosen that precise spot!

I've always loved Swanage since our family holidays in the late fifties/early sixties there. Our caravan park was next to the line, and we would sprint down there at the sound of a whistle. Great video, thank you so much.

I came here for my Birthday last year. Great fun!

Thanks Johnathan for a good update about The Swanage line. Very needed, as support is very necessary and sparce of late... I'm a Southern Railway person as my modelling has been focused on West Country class locos. Good footage. Thanks Best regards to the Swanage team! Rodney Vancouver Island

Alright Gandy posted some brand new recordings of steam. Very nice great to see you making videos. I look forward to each one. Shame we never met at a live steam club when you were still in the States. We would have had lots n lots of fun steam conversations.

Best ever. Wonderful to watch.

Thanks for your video Johnathan, your a lucky boy getting to be on the footplate 👍.

A brilliant film as always!

I was sweating with the poor ol fireman jus watching this.🙄 Secret with a Bulleid is to fill the back end right up over the mouth piece, in the morning blacked out & keep it that way all day. They will help themselves by the blast. Run with the doors on 2nd notch so you can fire over the front n keep back corners up. Remarkable how much more comfortable cab is on a hot day. No black smoke or blowing off either. Needle stays put on red line or (wherever you prefer it) & you just work injectors accordingly. Works a treat!! Simples.🙂 Learnt this off my ol BR mates who used to work these for real. Coal consumption goes down too!!🙂

So nice to have the lubricator oil box inside the cab with lines leading off from there. Peace of mind.

Love this ...gets across the hardship and accomplishment of driving a powerful Pacific....well done ✔️ 👏

As the climate warms, Steam engines will have to be banned during the hot summer days. With regards to the fire... on the contrary, the Firey's will be very happy the fire is out.... It's always better to calls the fire brigade, even if you think you might be able to put the fire out.... the worst case scenario is you don't call them, and you don't put the fire out...! Great video... loved every second of it... cheers

what a lovely railroud cant wait to be in u.k for vacantion next month to visit swanage railway also for vicktorian weekend cheers from netherlands

Hi . I am here today 17 Oct 2022 sunny day railway is great place to visit.

2:03 Ha that happened to me the other day I was filling the water tower Then the over flow was on and around the shut off valve Let's just say after clean a fire box It was kinda pleasant

Beautifully done as ever!

Excellent work. Has the feel of one of the original steam videos with the tone of the narration. If you made it black and white and cut the modern bits out it would be tricky to tell !

Brilliant that Jonathan , great flavour of the line. Camped there in the field adjacent in Harmans Cross. Based purely on the location! As another comment says very similar to your archive videos so same great quality. Cheers for sharing

Excellent video.I used to work on Swanage Railway. You have captured the hard work out in very well.

Great documentary on the footplate, top job.

What a great vid!😃

That's the benefit of driving the loco backwards - you don't get a tender behind!

Been on this trip many times including last month

Imagine still closing railways in 1972. I never know why ‘memorials’ are not put up to remind people of the names of those that destroyed our railways. No wonder they get away with it; we let them off. We need to let them know they will also be marked out in history for their actions.

I'm old enough to have visited Swanage and corfe castle in the days of br steam, a br standard class 4 tank and 2 bulleid carriages

Great video..Swanage is a fab place

Beautifully filmed and edited…subscribed. 👍👍

me and my mate were there when the loco caught the grass on fire

3:09, I agree,.. sounds exactly like my 3 cylinder Shitroen C1 😀

The connection to Wareham has been restored, and is dependent on operations by the TOC.

13:37 That engine has a lekker proper British whistle

I'm waiting for the day the Environmentalists start chasing after the remaining steam Locos being maintained and ran. I'm hoping they fall under some type of preservation act.

When running into Corfe on the return at 9.02 there’s my brother Danny in the light shirt and tie standing at the booking office door. 😁

I'd have taken a footplate ride on the "Ancient" loco. Lol. I have a love affair with pregrouping passenger steam. Then it's off to the big stuff. Not a fan of the Rebuilt Bullied but his air smoothed originals aren't bad.

The man that got an unwanted shower was he called Steven. If so he is my neighbours son

You do not mention the fact that the footage of the T9 is at least 2 years old as it’s boiler ticket expired in August 2020 and therefore is not currently running.

Question for the more knowledgeable then me out there: What’s with the rags drivers use whenever they operate the throttle? Is it to just keep any grime from their hands off of the throttle bar or something else?

I’ve seen several videos of engines running without baffle plates while working on the Swanage Railway. Why is this? Thanks.

Hi Johnathan! I'm 16 and love live steam! Always have and for the past few years I've been collecting knowledge and I feel I know a good amount. The thing is I only know live steam in the hobby sort of manner and I'm thinking on saving up for a miniature coal-burning locomotive. So I was wondering if you have any good sources to correctly learn about all the parts so I can keep my fingers. Thanks!

I think if the governments of what ever political persuasions had their heads screwed on properly would give financial aid to these heritage lines so they can connect to the railway network for Tourists and Tourism. Don’t forget We British were the first at Railway’s

At least that brushfire didn't spread. Lucky. Otherwise a lot of English countryside could have been more than chinged. That would not have put the railway in good stead with the authorities or public.