Thanks for sharing. Lovely insight as to how the end of steam came about. Enjoyable commentary. 👍👌

Steffan, I managed to safe Enchantress and got her to Sandstone Railway where she lay untouched for years. About 5 years ago Glasgow wanted a big loco for their Transport Museum and so Enchantress was the chosen loco!! All going to plan until some big mouth twats in SA started doing their best to stop her leaving SA saying they had loads of work for her! Sadly they won and she has stood rusting away ever since and never been looked at ever since!! Where are the big mouths now????

Marvelous, Rich. Thanks so much for sharing this!

Hey, this video brings back great memories - fantastic!

I have loads of videos Stefan but many of them are not worth posting on KZfaq. The quality over the years has sadly faded. I only bought a video camera about 1987 so anything before that is only photos. Are you not on Facebook?? You can see loads of photos on Footplate memories etc on FB. As for Enchantress, she got rather stripped while awaiting purchase so I had to rebuild her and she did steam once after that. Now she lays rusting!! I will never get that anger out of my blood!!

Excellent!

Just trying to sort it out!! No idea what is the problem but might need to re-post tomorrow

"The big black one you're riding in the video?" Hope that doesn't ever get quoted out of context...

Aah, Richard...good to see you on the wrong side of the lens for a change! Is that your missus on the footplate with you?

My Missus??? The only missus I have is the big black one i'm riding in this video;-) A missus is simply too many problems;-) haha

Dam no sound ?????

The SAR 25s Stefan were far far more modern than anything that ever ran in UK. In fact most SAR locos were far more modern and better built than any UK machines. SAR spent money on their machines design where UK just built basic machines. The cabs of UK locos are terrible to work in and things such as spring gear, reversing gear, rods and many more things just show how much better SAR locos were. Take a 15F and UK 9F and compare!! The 15F wins hands down. Can you send me your email address?? Ta