Steam Bus Tackles Steep Hill

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13 жыл бұрын

A bus with a difference! A unique Sentinel steam bus powers its way up the steep bank at Lindale-in-Cartmel in Southern Lakeland. For more great images see www.heritagephotoarchive.co.uk

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@xstraightedgefishingx 11 жыл бұрын

Think you hear a train, but you see a bus.

@crossleydd42 10 жыл бұрын

I recall seeing steam lorries around until about the mid-1950's. Most of them survived the war, and were even activated during it, because there was no shortage of water/coal, unlike petrol/diesel vehicles, which suffered from tightly-regulated supplies. Most of the steam vehicles I saw were tankers tar-spraying the roads prior to re-surfacing. They were well suited to going very slowly!

@kenhowarth2 12 жыл бұрын

You are right - it was really odd to hear it. There was a reminder too that it was a technology of its time. After I had finished taking the final shot in the clip, the bus suddenly came to a halt. They literally ran out of steam and had to wait five minutes for the boiler pressure to rise before continuing. KH

@donfink7063 7 жыл бұрын

The sound of a steam engine working hard, is so much more satisfying than a diesel or petrol engine.

@rgadave 11 жыл бұрын

My father worked at the Sentinel factory in Shrewsbury in the 1940's.

@Liberty.Francis 10 жыл бұрын

I'm giving her all she's got captain

@MrPenobe 11 жыл бұрын

i think i can, i think i can, i think i can. I know i can!

@samanli-tw3id 8 жыл бұрын

ALL ABOARD THE CHOO CHOO BUS!!

@Stanlazy 11 жыл бұрын

A time when the fuel came from Britain and not the Middle East and when no-one was in a tearing hurry to get no-where special!

@jzxmissile 10 жыл бұрын

Beats walking .

@rollsroycemerlin4321 9 жыл бұрын

I'm seeing a bus and hearing a locomotive. Surreal. So 'scuse my ignorance, but is there someone stoking a fire somewhere as well as a driver?

@stanleycarter6275 9 жыл бұрын

The boiler is vertical you don't Stoke it you turn the blower on

@KrisDouglas 9 жыл бұрын

It has a vertical boiler, the coal goes in the top of it and the boiler is in the cab with the driver :)

@doktorbimmer 7 жыл бұрын

*Thank god for Rudolf Diesel!*

@knurlgnar24 10 жыл бұрын

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.

@inglian02 11 жыл бұрын

Extraordinary. It sounds like a Black 5.

@allanrussell353 10 жыл бұрын

Heaven forbid if you had to pick up a passenger on the hill, it would take a day to get going again...

@MattMunro74 9 жыл бұрын

Everybody would have to wait at the bottom

@rclass707 12 жыл бұрын

Nothing like hearing them work up a hill.

@timsimmk 12 жыл бұрын

Great sound!

@AsloAso 12 жыл бұрын

in the Steam era there were alot of machines & vehicles other then trains which ran on steam.

@mikego18753 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate.

@DrFerazza 12 жыл бұрын

So strange to hear that puffing and chugging coming from something besides a steam train engine.

@komerwest9520 8 жыл бұрын

I think I can I think I can. I knew I could I knew I could.

@bentregear3713 7 жыл бұрын

This engine is part of the Saunders collection in stotfold

@MikesMovies 9 жыл бұрын

Now I could easily like this kind of bus!

@holden1180 9 жыл бұрын

All i can say is awesome. When starting to slow down put more coal on the fire. On the hill you can hear the real power of steam. Phil

@ExiledPiasa 10 жыл бұрын

here comes the 8:15... steam vehicles are some of the coolest.

@sentineldg8 9 жыл бұрын

There is a fireman who looks after the water in the boiler aswell. as the fire

@kenhowarth2 11 жыл бұрын

Not quite - it ran out of steam at the top of the hill. KH

@MrTruth111 7 жыл бұрын

Poor old thing:) Going steady.

@MattMunro74 9 жыл бұрын

Bloody hell Dunedin New Zealand would kill it

@b43xoit 12 жыл бұрын

Single-acting cylinders?

@CJA150179 11 жыл бұрын

Two cylinder, Double acting.

@caseyjonesfan 11 жыл бұрын

i bet the driver was like crap again lol

@Flynno19 9 жыл бұрын

oh my gosh how strange

@Sentinel7109 11 жыл бұрын

No, double acting. It's a one-stroke engine!

@zebrashark23 11 жыл бұрын

That just ain't right

@archechme 9 жыл бұрын

May as well walk.