i know we can still find many steam locomotives in museums and on herritage lines but seeing them do real work on films like this just hits different

My dad (deceased) rode in the cab of a fireless steamer. It was Pennsylvania Power And Light Co. 4094. She is the worlds largest fireless steamer in existence, she is a 0-8-0. She rode so smoothly my dad said to me, in 1969 PP&L retired her and donated her to the Railroad Museum Of Pennsylvania. She is the worlds only streamlined fireless locomotive as well.

My grandad worked at Betteshanger Colliery and I spent many happy hours watching the locos there and Snowdown colliery, giving me a lifelong interest in industrial railways- indeed I have a layout depicting the kent coalfield on my liveaboard narrowboat, currently moored on the Oxford canal... many thanks fmc!

20:33 Ford no.8 is a lovely Peckett B2! The lining on her is beautiful!

I love the Pecketts! They are my favorite industrial British steamers. Steam may have been banned from the BR Mainlines, but these industrial Pecketts, Pugs, and other saddle tanks kept puffing and clanking around!

I remember in the early 1970s as a small child going to a ship launch at the Swan hunter Yard, (previously Furness), at Haverton Hill....long gone now closed for good in 1979, anyway they were using green coloured steam engines in the yard, I can vividly remember it...lost world now.....great video 🙂

We have Swanscombe No.6 at The Middleton Railway recently return top service

Thank you for a wonderfully nostalgic video. The locos at Snowdown Colliery are very familiar, as a group that I belonged to, The Ashford Railway Trust, negotiated with the NCB to remove and preserve both St. Thomas and St. Dunstan from the colliery to a site at Sellindge, along with a Sentinel shunter and the little Fowler 0-4-0 that appears briefly in the Snowdown segment. I had the privilege of driving the Fowler up and down the yard at Snowdown, after the closure of the colliery. Also of interest was the footage of the London Transport panniers, one of which I saw trundling through Hammersmith tube station sometime in 1970.

Back in the 60s the east London Tate and Lyle sugar factory had industrial locos. Far back in the mists of time the Greenwich Gas works now O2 site had industrial locos

My grandfather worked at Betteshanger after surviving WW1. Unfortunately the mine took its toll as he contracted an unknown disease at 50 and died a vegetable at 55...probably black lung. Enjoying this video very much...anyone know of any other videos on Betteshanger Colliery.

Fantastic program. I love how it’s all original sound and not dubbed in

So pleased to see Snowdown Avonside saddle tanks. The Canterbury and District Society of Model and Experimental Engineers had a visit just for us. St Thomas and the Austerity were steamed. Very friendly crew. Unforgettable.

Got to be the first time I have seen a fireless steam loco. Bet they had to be very careful not to run low on steam in the wrong place.

Industrial shunters always have such charm to them

Thank you for posting this masterpiece

Fantastic all the way through thanks!

Many thanks really whimsical and fascinating.

Within 6 yrs of this footage we'd have HSTs running, APT-E *and* Concorde.

brilliant video ,the last I new Irish loco supplied new built in the 1940s for the NCC ,NCC N0 4seen passing camera at 51.00 is the engine that was preserved and is still around today she is a fine engine ,nicknamed Jeeps after the American army jeep as they could do any work from shunting ,pulling freight and passenger duties a vey useful locomotive .

Thank goodness Kilmersdon survived. The driver clearly had a lot of affection for his engine- I wonder if he managed to buy her in the end..?

Great video! Excellent footage!

Also: TfLs last steam train . . . . That ran a year *after* Sadiq Khan was born (currently Mayor of London).

This is so good. Thank you.

Kind of sad seeing these just before scrapping.

Fireless locomotives seem like they would be very easy to drive not having to worry about managing water or a fire.

Wonderful video!

Is it just me or do videos released by Online Video tend to reuse a lot of their own footage and commentary? coz the bit about the LT steam crane was also heard in "UNDERGROUND TRAINS REMEMBERED VOL 1"

what on earth is this? It’s a re-cut of another documentary with different narration. Golden Age of Steam - Working Steam I wonder which came first!

15:50 Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 "Little Barford" (modelled in a slightly neater state, with different livery, in 00 by @HattonsModelRailways) 😍

Seems. some austerities had 3 cylinders if the sound track's accurate!

Hand S would have had a fit if they saw the the working on the Kilmersdon incline.which I luckily saw in operation plus a foot plate ride on the Peckett

l94 was not the last steam train to run on the Underground was it?

This was a lovely find of some great footage. Thank you. ps. How on earth did these poor people manage not to be killed and maimed by savage dogs or eaten by crocodiles? Not one of them was wearing a HiViz jacket.

priceless! shame about the music drowning out the loco's music

Combien d'heures d'autonomie avaient ces machines et à qu'elle pression était telles remplie 🤔

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Cool

The first 53:50 were a fantastic record of steam, thank-you. But what was the last 40 seconds all about?😕😆

Why were steam trains banned in Britain in the first place?

Industrial steam