Very interesting that this loco actually worked the NYMR in steam days

We need this engine back in running order! This is the "super power" engines before the pony truck was added for stability! Coal trains, anyone?

You're not the only one imagining what it must've been like to see this engine in service on the NYMR, Chris.

Glad the LNER preserved it.

I really hope this thing steams again some day! Something about 1275 really caught my eye!

As someone who works at the NRM and knows how busy it got with the Tim Peake exhibit on, I can imagine that was a pain to film. Yet, you made another fab sole slip! Great job, I’m gutted I wasn’t there the day you filmed it.

If you are interested, in Australia we still operated a few long-boiler locomotives into the 1960s and even as late as the early 1970s! The NSWGR had bought some from Robert Stephenson in the 1860s but most came from Beyer Peacock. The largest class was the A(93) class, later the Z19 class (in the 1924 re-numbering scheme). They got new Belpaire boilers, new cabs, and were often paired with a variety of tenders, often including bogie types originally built by Baldwin! The last of them were not withdrawn until the early 1970s (a class first built in the 1870s) because they were able to operate over poorly-laid, lightly-built tracks in places such as Darling Harbour Goods Yard, and on the "Pioneer Lines" (which in many ways were similar to British "Light Railways") which often had light 60lb flat-bottom rails, tight curves sometimes as little as 4.5 chains radius and steep 1 in 25 gradients.

Beautiful Locomotive! Let’s hope she steams again someday!

No. You're not the only one :P

No, I'm thinking that Would be Great Film if Ever happen's. We can only Dream. Great film

I declare that the internet shall refer to this engine as “Long Boiiiiiiiiiiiiii” from now on

Woah. Talk about a long boiler.

The wood in the cab is a very nice touch. That's something we just don't have here in the States.

Excellent episode, as always. I'm particularly jazzed about this one as I've wanted to learn a bit more about this particular engine for ages, but info about her is surprisingly hard to come by, mostly seeming to be condensed to "She's really old, and she looks weird." I actually thought she was much older, possibly dating to the 1850's, not the 1870's. Then again, in a sense I guess you could say it is considering that the design was little changed from the 1850's original. I was also unclear on the true revolutionary-ness of the Stephenson long-boiler concept and how much it differed from earlier designs, mostly because I just didn't know much about it. Basically, taking all of the locomotive evolutions that took place immediately afterward into account, it seemed like the long-boiler concept was a pretty obvious step, thus I was never clear on what made this engine so special in that regard.

She is a Beauty😃

Another Great Sole SLIP video :)

Absolutely wonderful.

Wow! Now this is another engine I would love to see returned to steam! And yes, what a sight this beauty would make with a coal train climbing up the bank to Goathland on the NYMR!

Another fantastic review Chris. Nicely done.

Great episode. Now we just need one on Tornado considering it's in the intro for every Sole Slip to date.

I too would like to see how 1275 would handle the Grosmont - Goathland bank, as a member of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.

Another great SLIP! Of all the LNER constituants, the North Eastern is the best represented in preservation. We've got a fair variety of NER locos, ranging from this and the Tennant 2-4-0 to the Q6 & Q7.

Noice

I could Image this going along th NYMR at some point in time

*cough* Robert Stephenson designed the long boiler, a design which he patented (October 1841) so that the maximum amount of heat could be squeezed out of the combustion products passing through the tubes.It had been found in the earlier Stephenson engines like Planet or Patentee, the smokeboxes were getting hot enough to melt zinc and tin. Part of the patent was having all the wheels under the boiler barrel. Cheers!

I have a suggestion for the next SOLE SLIP: the LNER J72 0-6-0T

Interestingly, here in the U.S. you will almost never see an 0-6-0 that does not have the firebox overhanging the rear axle, long boiler style. Some of them with freakishly long fireboxes to boot, the "doghouse" style where the firebox extends to the very rear edge of the cab footplate was common before engineers started pitching the boilers up high, putting wide fireboxes over the frames, instead of ridiculously long, skinny ones between the frames.

That’s a beautiful loco

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If only crash helmets were invented back then - they wouldve been very handy for the crew when navigating curves!

Yay! More S.L.I.P.S

1275 looks like Y112 Australian locomotive

Sole SLIP for LNER 8572 soon?

This loco needs to be handed over to the NELPG and made steamable again so we can witness that

192 built indicates it was a very successful design.

How about the Dubs Steam Crane? Perfect candidate for the SOLE SLIP.

Good work as usual guys, NRM still hate tripods?

This engine if possible could be restored and run special services on th NYMR

Do an Andrew barclay or a w4 peckett

Too many exhibits in the steam zoo will never be in running order because they're not "big name items".

Looks british and german and early american simultanously

So, here's a question I've been wondering. does the SOLE in SOLE SLIP stand for Single Original Left in Existence, or something else entirely?

Not bad the original North Eastern wasn’t too bad either

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I'll at MIT I wasn't a fan of the engine

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