You know the Coronation steam locomotive was shipped to the USA to impress us but beside our old diesel Streamliners, it looked you know, funny, a dirty, smokey old steamer, messing up our clothes and we were all happier when you Brits had got it back and it wasn't long after that, you'd scrapped the lot.

@@keplermission4947 It took Britain till the 1960's, to switch to Diesel / Electric , for three reasons, The second World War destroyed much of the Rail infrastructure, all engines were wore out because of lack of servicing ( again, the War), Britain was Bankrupted, by --yep, the war. So couldn't afford the Diesl imports, BUT, we still had lots of COAL.

@@MrDaiseymay Not true ... but you know Britain has always fed your lower social classes, a load of Baloney. WWII no, never destroyed the rail stuff. No, no the war didn't cause the servicing issues and Britain wasn't bankrupted by the war but ... you know ... that's what you probably learned. No Britain was finished industrially by the year 1870 and John Ruskin tried to revive the old driving force but something had changed. Then as Germany and others caught up WWI happened and WWII same thing and Britain wasn't bankrupted then but in the 1950s, long after the war there was what we call the Suez Crisis, now in England you'll read a whole different story about that, it's completely covered up as an Israeli problem. So after that in the late 1950s there were the Dr. Beeching Cuts to the Brirish rail networks and after that Britain was Bankrupted because the USA called in your war loans because you were planning WW3 when the first two were still unpaid for. So the truth is that Britain just expired after 1870, something changed, and it caused wars and eventually the US stepped in and chained up your hand. You didn't have lots of coal. During the Empire before 1947 you imported coal from India, then you tried to get it from Germany and finally you got it from Poland but you NEVER had loads of coal. Your pits were useless, it was all lies and today we can talk about it on the internet. Clear up all the lies you know?

@@MrDaiseymay The truth is that your Napier engine for your so-called English Electric Deltic came directly from a WW2 fast E Boat and only the war could get the British to invest in industrial development and after WW2 Britain began quite well but the cost-cutters came in and the aim was to get cheaper labor. So the truth is Britain was you know, finished after 1870 and the Empire started to slip beneath the waves and England was finished and Prince Philip got Edward Heath to put you in Europe because you were finished. You had to pay a lot to stay in but the problem is hard to pin down, there's some problem and Scottish Independence isn't going to solve very much. Basically Scotland want away because England is dead, it's a rotting corpse.

@@MrDaiseymay You know ... the problem that happened in Britain before 1870 was the Great Irish Famine, or Famine of 1845-49 and immediately there was huge influx of Irish genius and they were a force, a very real force to be reckoned with and the legal machinery of Britain was being taken over by Irish immigrants, there were huge protests much as today, Nigel Farage is complaining you know ... but they lost. In the US the Irish question is very important and will be a problem very soon.

Yeah because uh ... you know steam rarely gets on its way. The Gresley steam engine 'The Great Marquess' was bought by the Earl of Lindsay in 1962 and retired recently from the Severn Valley railway as a non-runner but his son's daughter recently married the Duke of Notto in the Sicilian city of Palemro, birthplace of Carlo Gambino, the New York 'Fruit Seller' as he liked to be known. (Yeah that's the guy that 'The Godfather' films were based around). So uh I guess you Brits are you know getting married off to the CosaNostra people.

@@keplermission4947 that doesn’t change anything. They are still interesting. Perhaps a little jealousy?!

One part of it as my old newspaper boss used to say, the smell of smoke and oil, can't beat it. well a close quote it was near 30 years ago

It's the sounds and the smells. They look alive.

@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 It's not a machine its breathing it IS alive.

Good news, there are more episodes coming! Keep your eyes peeled!

George lol this is shit. He used a god damm phone. 💩👎

i love, if they hadn't hit it.... LOL!

I agree, very well made.

I truly feel like both try to strike a balance of form and function however A4s leant more towards function and the corrination leant towards form

Really? I've seen a lot more LMS film footage than LNER film footage; all the British railway instructional filmreels on YT that I've found, the vast majority have been from the LMS, with "maybe" one or two from the GWR.

Thanks for visiting, sounds like you enjoyed yourself. :) We're really enjoying bringing these stories to life

Yep, we've got those on the list, the Deltic is too important a loco to miss. Make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss it!

Oddly enough that's the only thing I don't really like about them. I don't know why but there's something about the whole Art Deco thing that's like a visual 'nails down a blackboard' to me. Not just choo-choos but everything. I'd rather see the DofH with her clothes off and all that gorgeous engineering on display. This is one of the things me and my bestest mate and drinking partner squabble about every time we visit the NRM. I do have to grudgingly admit that it's right she has her clothes on even if I don't really like it.

Pity she’ll never steam again.

Speed Whiskers! 😍Love that!😃

The 'Duck,' managed the ton 25 pulling 8, the Coronations were designed for the WCML and regularly pulled longer trains at sustained high speeds. Give me a Coronation over a Gresley A4 any day!

Yes, steam engines up to the late 50's had neither speedos or AWS (Automatic Warning System), which only begs the question: why with so much railway traffic, including the shunt-releases and the run-rounds, were there so few accidents?

An engine that would've benefitted from a mechanical stoker no doubt, but I'm sure the unions would have raised objections to it.

@@Shipwright1918 I once heard a story about a fireman here in America who had to hand-fire a Big Boy with a conked-out stoker. They were running light from I think Green River back to Cheyenne to get the engine into the shop to fix the stoker. That fireman was truly miserable when they pulled into Cheyenne! And the best part is that the dispatcher had wanted to give them a train to haul, but the fireman, understandably, put a stop to that idea right away. You’d have needed 4-6 men shoveling to hand fire that engine with a train behind it.

Quite agree: that (and 6257?) was modified somewhat, at least the pony truck arrangement and I think roller bearings throughout. There may have been other tweaks too.

@@johnclayden1670 yes the last 2 had the uglier pony trucks which didn't 'swoop' up like the stanier ones and the similarly ugly cut down cabside bottom as opposed the curved stanier design.

Many large American locomotives like the NYC Hudsons and the UP Big Boy had mechanical stokers because they burned coal at a rate that firemen with shovels couldn’t keep up with.

Honestly, I'm just as stunned. That coal pusher was a good half-step, but I think they would've been even more powerful with some mechanical stoking. The highest power output of the class was done with two fireman going at it, so I can't imagine how much easier a stoker would've made things

A couple of BR Standard 9Fs were fitted with mechanical stokers. Long story short, it wasn't very successful

Screw-type coal transport was used on boats and many engines, but did have the disadvantages of extra weight and complexity. It also may have been impossible to find the space on these engines.

@@garryferrington811 It would have led to various changes to the firebox, and the type of coal that could be used for classes fitted with mechanical stokers. The American/Canadian products for the SNCF (141R) had that kit on the coal fired ones, and the coal had to be ground down to the correct size for those.

They love any excuse for a sneaky cameo, that lot!

Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it.

Nope.

Not the largest by a long shot, but fast and efficient.