Driving and Firing - The Western Engines (Part 1)

Join the drivers and firemen aboard the Great Western engines for live footplate action sequences as you've never seen before. A team of Great Western enginemen from the days of steam are reunited with their engines.

We start on the footplate of the Rocket, before moving forward exactly a hundred years to the GWR pannier tanks in order to discover how little had changed since Stephenson's day. We then ride on a Dukedog, a throwback to the Victorian era, and find out (with the help of a slippery tunnel) the limitations of low adhesion weight and the 4-4-0 wheel arrangement.

Then it's onto Churchward engines, forerunners of the Halls, plus 2-6-2 Prairie Tanks and 2-8-0 freight engines in both tender and tank form, and a surviving Mogul at work.

Locomotive's featured in the video include both original and modified halls, 1400's, 5700's dukedogs, 2800's & 2884's plus many other engines.

All content in this video is © of it's original owners Go Entertain/Green Umbrella. No profit is being made on this video by myself & all rights belong to respective owners.
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