What's In A Name?

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Mid Hants Railway 'The Watercress Line'

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Flying Scotsman, Mallard, Canadian Pacific. All names that made a locomotive more than just a number. Today we turn back the clocks and find out more about how a struggling Southern Railway went from a PR problem to a PR master using their very own destinations.

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@joshslater2426 2 ай бұрын

Even if some railways never named their locos often, at the very least a lot of them had nicknames. The L&YR had Highflyers and Lanky Tanks, the NER had Rail Crushers, the LNWR had Jumbos, the GCR had Pom Poms, the H&BR had Tinies, and the GER had several such as Buckjumpers, Gobblers, Hikers and even Humpty Dumpties of all things.

@kenalexander8714 2 ай бұрын

Excellent video as usual. Very informative and interesting to see how loco naming came about. Love the films from the past added in as well.

@tonylarkin7564 2 ай бұрын

Great video Will, keep up your Excellent Work and Presentation. 👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

@avv397 2 ай бұрын

It all started in the very early days, Rocket, Sans Pareil, Novelty, etc. This followed in the wake of the stage coaches, many of which had fancy names

@tjmfarming9584 2 ай бұрын

Very informative video. Over here in Western Australia we were known for naming some of our locos on both the Government railway (WAGR) and some of the long gone private railways (MRWA) Off the top of my head some of our named engines were: The WAGR C class 4-6-2's which I do recall were named after wood types "Black Butte" especially The WAGR P, PM and Pmr's were the 'River' class The S and W class 4-8-2's also bore names (although I think the W's only gained theirs in preservation...) Others were the MRWA F class diesels named after shires, (for those who don't know what they look like, think narrow gauge shrunk class 20's) and in the Westrail days their P class diesels also bore names of shires, of which are still in service.

@generalslee0 2 ай бұрын

Excellent narrative! You do it so well and don't waste a word. A lot of hard work and research I'm sure. Thank you. 👍

@silvesterpeel5379 2 ай бұрын

Great video, mate. The VR (Vline) named their locomotives. City of - Melbourne (steam) N class desiel Swan Hill, Bendigo, Ballarat, Geelong, Warnambool and more. G class Mike Moy, Peter Pan and Kevin Sheedy Express, to name a few.

@davidberlanny3308 2 ай бұрын

Well done Will and team that was truly excellent. Thoroughly enjoyed watching. All the best!!

@stretchedits 2 ай бұрын

Hi, Another very interesting video, thank you so much. You really seem to enjoy presenting these videos, and you do it so well. Look forward to the next one, all the very best Dave.

@2010ditta 2 ай бұрын

That was well done. Great archive footage too. All the best.

@FZ1nbiker 2 ай бұрын

Nice video Will. the island platform at Horstead Keynes looks like it could do with some TLC.

@jgodfrey546 2 ай бұрын

Another great production! FWIW, 1 of the original "Canadian Pacific" plates resides at Exporail in Canada...

@scottfw7169 2 ай бұрын

😎 "Summer comes soonest in the south" 😄 I grew up in the USA southeast seeing our own Southern Railway in the Carolinas and Georgia; and, yes, summer indeed comes sooner in that south, after all, Macon, Georgia is at 32-something degrees N latitude and Marrakesh, Morocco, is at 31-something degrees N latitude.

@johntait491 2 ай бұрын

That was really interesting and informative Will. Thank you. 👍

@nealhove Ай бұрын

Excellent video Will thank you. Made even better with the GWS Didcot and the Bluebell being included.

@geoffreyallibgham9337 2 ай бұрын

I could be wrong but I read that Battle of Britians were n' t identicle to West Countrys but were slightly narrow in the Cab due to the smaller Loading Guage on the Tunnels on the Boat Train Lines .

@keefr22 2 ай бұрын

Really good informative video, really enjoyed that!

@ferroviestazioni7323 2 ай бұрын

Nice🎉Video

@andrewbatty8954 Ай бұрын

Very good. Informative and concise.

@petersmith4455 2 ай бұрын

hi Will great video, i have learn't something to day, take care

@johnholt890 2 ай бұрын

Great video it’s pronounced Tin tagle Castle I think.

@alsmith5604 2 ай бұрын

Another great video.

@bobwilcox1147 2 ай бұрын

If I may ,the castle is pronounced tin-TA-gel, other than that, up to your usual high standard Will!

@scottfw7169 2 ай бұрын

What's in a name? That Canadian Pacific logo in video thumbnail brings to mind that sometimes nothing beyond marketing ploys was in the name, for instance, here in the US the "Saint Louis - San Francisco" Railway went from Dallas, Texas, to Pensacola, Florida. _(umm wait a minute, isn't Florida the opposite direction from San Francisco?)_ Although I will give them 1 point of credit for actually going to Saint Louis. I live along old Missouri Pacific tracks & it got no closer to the Pacific than Colorado and Texas, before it was absorbed by the Union Pacific, which actually does make it to the Pacific coast. And then there was the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific, commonly known as the Rock Island, which likewise didn't go further west than Colorado. It appears that for some time in this continent's history, "Pacific" was the magic word of big plans intended to attract big money from investors.

@scottfw7169 2 ай бұрын

I wrote that before starting the video and was pleased with how quickly marketing was brought up in it! 😁

@SouRwy4501Productions 2 ай бұрын

I don’t know why, but I think it would be cool to see one of either the Battle of Britains, the West Country class, or the Merchant Navy class locomotives wearing an American Southern Railway 3-chime step-top whistle.