The inspiration for Montague on Thomas and Friends

I love how they look, such a unique little tank engine design!

You know what I say: *QUACK, QUACK, QUACK!!!*

When I was a kid in Weymouth in the 1950's there was always a pannier tank running back and forward at Weymouth station, usually with a short wheelbase shunter's truck in tow. Now and then they would be used as bankers to help trains up the hill on the way to Dorchester. Thank you for posting this.

We named ours Duck after the Rev Awdry character.

Most of the major city stations had a pannier tank station pilot sitting quietly in an adjacent siding, with the white feather wafting in the breeze from the brass chamber pot. That day's duty was much prized by the loco men, as they could have a long chat whilst whiling away the day, waiting for the next job, and get home for dinner that night and a cleansing ale down at the local Rubbedy Dub, without doing all that shovelling of coal and frequent cranking of the reverser and regulator, to try and coax along a very lengthy, heavy and unbraked rake of Welsh coal wagons on a wet and leaf layered line. The driver of the Auto coach was always a bit apprehensive as they approached the buffers at the end of the terminus line because he had control of the regulator, but crucially not the brake, hoping that the other driver wasn't chatting away to the fireman. Thanks for another informative video of the unsung heroes of God's Wonderful Railway and a great example of Collet's design skills, from the humble tank to the majestic king's.

“There are two ways of doing things, the wrong way, or the great western way, and I am great western so I-“

5700s were never fitted with gear for push-pull auto working. The illustration you showed was of the somewhat different 6400 class, still a pannier tank but lighter and differing in nearly every detail.

You know, the officially well-knowingly obviously obvious Thomas and Friends character known as Duck the Great Western Railway 57OO class pannier tank engine himself certainly happened to basically have been officially well-knowingly obviously based on the well-known G W R class 57OO class pannier tank engines designed by Charles Collette himself!

Now that's what I call mixed-traffic!

I believe one of the many stories these little engines were involved in was when one was stolen, because two men wanted to drive her. They drove her, and made it down the line quite a ways before being halted by a Signalman. Most train robberies are about stealing the trains cargo, but this train robbery was stealing the engine.

No model railway is complete without one. I run mine with an autocoach or a few cattle trucks.

863 built...I wonder if it was successful.

you should a video on the GWR 4900 Hall and 6959 Modified Hall Class locos

Hello There I needed to know why they don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they can extend the unused abandoned underground train stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock and that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into Five cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on those Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers. A Stock Trains and also having 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it more Larger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Railway tunnel into a High-Speed Railway lines? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Railway line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. Then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 47 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project if that will be OK for London Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from the Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden more Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly Line and also build brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street can they also make another brand new underground train station in Chingford and could they extend the Piccadilly Line and the DLR right up to Chingford? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and can they order Every 37 Octagon and Every 17 Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13 and unique small no.11 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 142MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 142MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units, can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!!!!!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 17 Tonnes for all of those 142MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are told!!!! And please do something about these very very important Professional ideas Please? Prime Minister of England, Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Germany, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.

hi there, we used to have 9682 at southall railway centre i think its at the west somerset rly now.great to see one in the railway children film of 1972. but ithink the Jinties ruled the LMS

Anyone know if they will keep 5775 in it's Railway Children colours after it's overhaul or not? I really like the fictional livery and don't want them to change it.

Could you do a video about the 1400s?

Correction to your commentary - the 6 coupled locos were always referred to as Oh Six Ohs and NEVER as Zero Six Zeros - even though that would have been semantically more correct

The great Western way is to do work without fuss

Why didn't someone tell production the right way to say wheel arrangements?? What a shame

THATS NOT THE GREAT WESTERN WAY YOU BIG LNER EXPRESS ENGINE! said duck IM THE FLYING SCOTSMAN THE MOST FAMOUS ENGINE IN THE WORLD HOW DARE YOU! said flying scotsman YOUR JUST OVERATED AND CANT DO A SIMPLE JOB RIGHT! repplied duck he snorted at scotsman and puffed away muttering somthing to himself...

Hey kids! Don't listen to the awful AI voice in this video, go watch something with a real human in.

Please, please, please, educate your commentator to pronounce things correctly. The 5700 class was called the fiftyseven hundred class NOT five seven zero zero. Consult someone who knows about railways before making these potentially interesting but ultimately irritating efforts