On Shed January 2011 Edition
"Preserving the steam locomotive legacy..and more..on film."JANUARY 2011 EDITION
5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe at speed passing Twyford hauling the official first train out of the re-opened Birmingham Moor Street terminus. 11/12/2010 (C)Richard Harris
Contents:
Welcome and site news..
Video and photographic highlights
Feature:"Around the World in 80 Railways"-8. Vienna to Berlin
Along The Trans Siberian...
Half a century ago - Spotting on the Great Central Main Line - January 1961
Brazilian Railways Old Pictures
Railroad Gandydancers . Courtesy: The BullMooseLine on YouTube Trailers Ton Pruissen Films (CamdenMSS on YouTube)
Christian Wolmar: December Newsletter
National Railway Museums Model Railway (1st December 2010)-Courtesy Sim0nTrains on YouTube)
For The Modellers
Developing steam traction...still?
On This Day
Keep Up To Date with Railway News
===================================================================
WELCOME
A warm welcome to our 453 members (at 18/12/10) and 1,437 friends on Steamtubes Facebook page. We can now enjoy 1,870 videos and 8,239 photos on Steamtube, and share in the group pages too. A total of 50,000 page views were noted for November 2010.
We have been especially pleased to have Marc Bostyn join us...most especially for the insight we are now getting of railways in Belgium....and some very interesting paintings too,Marc!
You will likely have noticed that our home banner and page has been further refined and amended to help all our members and visitors to quickly see what is on offer.
The "762" Club, "Flying Scotsman" and Steamtubes DVD Productions can be easily accessed from the front page links.And we have included a link to UK Heritage Railways and UK Steam Tours.
The Railway Children charity can also be accessed from the front page..please consider making a purchase of our (and TRFF)s "Steam Trains in the West Country" DVD...£3-25 from the sale of each DVD goes to the Railway Children to help them with their important work. We would encourage all to consider how Steamtube wants to be able to put something back to rail related causes.
May we remind everyone about POTM (Photographer of the Month), free listings on Steambay (where you can advertise your unwanted railwayania), Steam Tube Productions DVDs, and the Links page where they can list their own links to their own railway related sites - all the benefits of being a Steamtube member!!
===========================================================
Video Highlights
This is just a small selection of the videos uploaded this last few weeks...thank you all for the splendid efforts you make, and for the quality of your films.
It is apparent from page view figures that archive footage scores well...so if anyone knows of a good source of archive footage as yet unused or unpublished, we would love to hear of it...and see it, of course!
We shall look forward to this next months offerings...the snow throughout the UK should provide the perfect backdrop to steam locomotives at work.
Thank you all for your continuing and consistent support!
=============================================================
Photographic Highlights
An abundance of material here to choose from! As ever, our contributors demonstrate a love of and for the subject, as their work so clearly shows. Keep them coming!
========================================================================
A Visit to the National Railway Museum, York
A Visit to the National Railway Museum, York is a must for the railway enthusiast, as the following recent video, (from the NRMs YouTube channel) clearly shows...
So, when will you and your family visit??
=====================================================================
"Around the World in 80 Railways"- 8.Vienna to Berlin
"Around the World in 80 Railways" has now reached Vienna......We shall now turn north towards Berlin........
Euronight train Wien - Berlin (with through cars to Düsseldorf) is leaving Wien Westbahnhof. (utti1980 on Youtube)
This next clip shows scenes from the train as it leaves Vienna toward Prague....not where were heading, but giving us a picture of Vienna, which we are now putting behind us on our trip...
Thanks to travelandtransitions on Youtube
For travel ideas and assistance, visit http://www.travelandtransitions.com./
Waiting For A Train At Berlin Hauptbahnhof (ralfm0051 on YouTube)
For ideas on what to do in Berlin, visit http://tourist.visitberlin.de/en
Railway 9 beckons............
=====================================================================
ALONG THE TRANS SIBERIAN RAILWAY
Across the Kan River...and beyond towards Irkutsk
=====================================================================
Half a century ago - Spotting on the Great Central Main Line - January 1961
1961 unlike the winters of ‘62 and ’63 which were to follow began quite mild. I hadn’t been to Woodford or the Great Central for some months when a friend suggested that we should cycle to Charwelton the next Saturday morning if it was a nice day. He had heard that V2s were still appearing on fitted freights between York and Woodford, indeed they were to continue on these workings for some time to come. We arrived at the road bridge, from where a staircase led down on to the platform, at 10am and stayed until noon. We waited some time for the first train which was a Annesley – Woodford ‘runner’ bound for ‘The New Yards’ just south of Charwelton’s troughs. Its 9F No 92031 would be whisked off to Woodford shed, turned on the triangle, watered and if necessary coaled before returning to the Down ‘New Yard’ to head back to Annesley with a load of empties. I used to be amazed by the rapid negotiation of the Woodford shed turning triangle that these monsters made. The 9Fs hardly seemed to stand still for more than a split second before moving on to the next section of the triangle. I heard a yarn, which was possibly true, that on one occasion an engine went straight through the buffer stops into the farmer’s field, new buffers were quickly placed behind the loco so that the ‘runners’ were not delayed. The yarn went on to tell how the loco was dragged out of the field the following weekend by means of some temporary track and heavy chains with 4 or 5 locos tugging!
9F 92203 Black Prince waits for the road....(P.Lewis)
Next up was a real surprise, O4/8 no 63796, one of the Robinson 2-8-0s that had been rebuilt with a B1 type boiler, came through on the up line running light. It was shedded at Gorton at the time. By this time they were quite infrequent visitors this far south unless substituting for an Annesley 9F on a ‘runner’. Next came an Annesley Black 5 on a down semifast, amazingly the only LMS interloper we were to see that morning.
A Robinson 2-8-0 at the Great Central Railway Gala 2008(Dick Bodily)
Not long after a fitted freight appeared from Catesby tunnel headed by an ex NER B16 61417 heading for Woodford from York, where a Woodford WD or WR motive power would take over, possibly a double chimneyed 9F, for its journey via the SMJR to Bristol or Cardiff. Almost immediately we heard the three cylinder beat of another B16 heading north from ‘The New Yards’ with a similar working, this time 61468. Both ‘Bloodspitters’ were of the B16/3 Thompson rebuild variety and from York shed. They were popular locos with GC line men, especially now that allocated LNER locos were rapidly being replaced at their sheds by ex LMS engines with their unfamiliar injectors, and were often....shall we say ‘borrowed’ by Woodford or Leicester for passenger turns to Marylebone. Next 92078 burst into view in a cacophony of sound, smoke and blurred motion, running perhaps a little too fast and braking hard for the New Yards on another ‘runner’. Eventually what we had come to see appeared, a York V2 60839 on the next southbound fitted freight. We had only seen the one but the B16s and O4 were more than adequate compensation, so as the next train was hauled by 92031 again, heading home to 16D, we decide to make our way home as well. Dick Bodily
=====================================================================
Brazilian Railways Old Pictures Courtesy: BrazilianExplorer on YouTube
FOTO 1: Tunel da linha Mairink-Santos da EF Sorocabana 1932. FOTO 2: Vista interna do túnel 18 da linha Mairink-Santos da EF Sorocabana 1934. FOTO 3: Túnel do Rochedo da Estrada de Ferro do Paraná 1880-1884. FOTO 4:Utilização de carroças para a abertura de túnel da linha Mairink-santos 1929. FOTO 5:Bueiro em arco da Companhia Mogianade Ferro. FOTO 6: Bueiro no córrego Itaguá Mirim,ramal Faxina(atual Itapeva)a Itararéda EF Sorocabana,construido entre 1888 a 1909. FOTO 7: Ponte de Ferr sobre o rio Mogi Guaçu na cidade de mesmo nome 1904. FOTO 8: Ponte sobre o rio Mogi Guaçu no ramal de Santa Rita da Companhia Paulista. FOTO 9: Reconstrução dos pilares do viaduto Pindaíba no KM7 do ramal de Guaxupé da Companhia Mogiana de Estradas de Ferro 1912. FOTO 10: Ponte sobre o rio Camanducaia,em São Paulono ramal de Socorroda Companhia Mogiana. FOTO 11: Ponte sobre o rio Mogi Guaçu no ramal de Santa Veridiana da Companhia Paulista. FOTO 12: Ponte da Estrada de Ferro do Paraná entre Morretes e Roça Nova no alto da Serra do Mar. FOTO 13: Antiga ponte de ferro em Guatapará no rio Mogi Guaçu 1920. FOTO 14: Ponte Francisco de Sá da EF Noroeste do Brasil(NOB) sobre o rio Paraná inaugurada em 1926. FOTO 15: Construção do viaduto7 da Linha Mairink-santosda EF Sorocabana,em 1934. FOTO 16: Inauguração da ponte Ayrosa Galvão,sobre o rio Tietê1903. FOTO 17: Ponte sobre o rio Mogi Guaçu no ramal Passagem-Pontal da Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro. FOTO 18:Passagem superior na linha de Rio Claro-Itarapina da Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro. FOTO 19: Trem em Minas Gerais. FOTO 20:Assentamento de trilhos no rio Abunã na EF Madeira-Mamoré 1909. FOTO 21:Terceiro plano inclinado na Serra Nova,São Paulo Railway. FOTO 22:Colonia ferroviária de Bebedouro,Companhia Paulista. FOTO 23: Escritório da Construção do ramal Faxina(atual Itapeva a Itararé da EF Sorocabana. FOTO 24:Projeto de elevação da fachada leste da Estação da Luz. FOTO 25: Proj. das torres da Estação da Luz. FOTO 26:Estação da Luz em construção no ano de 1900. Foto 27:Estação da Luz sede da São paulo railway no inicio do sec.XX. Foto 28:Estação Ferroviária de Cruzeiro-SP. FOTO 29:Estaçãode caieiras da SPR (São Paulo Railway) 1922. FOTO 30: Estação de Barretos inaugurada em1929 da Companhia Paulista. FOTO 31: Estação de Batataes da Companhia Mogiana foto da déc.de 1910. FOTO 32: Estação de Amparo da Mogiana, 1910. FOTO 33: Estação de Dois Córregos,da Companhia Paulistacontruído em 1912. FOTO 34: Estação de Guedes Companhia Mogiana,1910. FOTO 35: Plataforma da estação Ferroviária de Limeira da Companhia Paulista. FOTO 36: Estação de Pedregulho da Companhia Mogiana foto da segunda déc.do séculoXX. FOTO 37: Estação de Piracicaba da Companhia Paulista. FOTO 38: Frente da Estação de Pirassunungada Companhia Paulista. FOTO 39: Estação de Sertãozinho da Companhia Mogiana,1910. FOTO 40: Estação de Santo Aleixo no ramal de Serra Negrada companhia Mogiana,1910. FOTO 41: Segunda estação de Alto da serra(Paranapiacaba)contruida em 1899. FOTO 42: Estação de sorocabaconstruída em 1929. FOTO 43: Vista de Alto da Serra (Paranapiacaba). FOTO 44: Estação de Valinhos,da Companhia Paulista 1918.
======================================================================
Railroad Gandydancers . Courtesy: The BullMooseLine on YouTube
Columbia, SC (April 18, 1929) -- Fox Movietone News -- Courtesy of the USC Newsfilm Library - Railroad Gandydancers construction on the worlds largest earthen dam, a project, that is proof of the great technological strides being made in the south. Sandwiched in between shots of steam shovels and industrial cranes is this crew of African-American railroad gandydancers repairing and moving large sections of railroad track to the intricate raps and rhythms of an expert caller
======================================================================
Trailers Ton Pruissen Films (CamdenMSS on YouTube)
This film encompasses scenes from all the films by Ton Pruissen with commentary in English, and most differ substantially from the individual trailers for each film. Follow this link: http://www.camdenmin.co.uk/archive-ra...
======================================================================
Christian Wolmar: December Newsletter
Dear subscriber A busy end to a busy year. As the transport system snarls up yet again, and the inevitably voices call for ‘something to be done’, those same voices demand lower taxes and a laisser faire attitude from government. I remember once making Digby Jones, late of the CBI and a minister under New Labour, lose his rag because I asked why the CBI kept on asking for extra spending on transport, and yet always wanted taxes cut. It’s the same now. The cost of providing for eventualities like the extreme weather ‘events’ we have had lately would be so great that taxes or fares would have to rise. Of course the train operators and other agencies could, at times, do better, but overall up till now it has not been worthwhile to make the investment. That might, of course, be different if climate change leads to these conditions becoming much more common. Rant over. There’s no shortage either of news or of extra items on the website. Moreover, with nearly 10,000 unique visitors in November, the site is attracting record numbers, perhaps because, reluctantly I have began to tweet quite frequently and, in truth, finding the twitter debates great fun. My hashtag is simply @christianwolmar. Join in the debate. The website is also attracting more comments than ever before, and as usual these are generally of a high standard and well-informed. They certainly help me to keep up with ideas and thoughts, and I have recycled them numerous times in subsequent writings. I have been rushing around the country giving my illustrated Engines of War talk, and have one more gig this year, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, just off Parliament Square, at 6 30 on Wednesday December 9th. Right, on the site there are several new items in addition to the usual fare. I wrote another summary of my book, this time for BBC History which is here I also reviewed a book, by Paul Atterbury, for another BBC magazine, here. I also wrote a Guardian piece for their smarter cities supplement. Then there are the usuals. The first new Rail column covers the Comprehensive Spending Review , as does my TSSA column since it was THE subject of the month. My other Rail column was an open letter to Sir Roy McNulty arguing that there was, indeed, a silver bullet: vertical integration. I received considerable feedback on that from within the industry, including from some surprising sources, supporting the idea. McNulty’s preliminary findings, which were prepared for the government in time for the CSR are due out within the next few days and will give us some insight into where he is heading, though by no means his final conclusions. Hope coverage does not get swamped by the blizzards, to mix metaphors. Finally, there is my Transport Times column, which is on the sad plight of the American passenger railways. I am also still trying to clear the space underneath my bed so get your Xmas presents here: I still have lots of signed hardbacks of Fire & Steam and Stagecoach at £5, Blood Iron & Gold at £10, and Engines of War at £15. All plus £2 75 postage each. Either pay by PayPal to xian@pro-net.co.uk or email for an address for cheques. I have, unfortunately, run out of Subterranean Railway hardbacks. Early compliments of the season, to suit the weather, to all my growing number of subscribers Christian Wolmar =======================================================================
National Railway Museums Model Railway (1st December 2010)
In the National Railway Museum in York, they have a model rail layout.While I was waiting to film the JR-West Japanese loco, I took a few minutes to film their model railway....
Features stock from LNER, Midland Railway and Great Western Railway, this layout feature an town life and an country life
(Thanks to Sim0ntrains on YouTube)
======================================================================
FOR THE MODELLERS
Simon Martin has kindly given "On Shed" permission to make use of some of the excellent films in his series at www.britishrailwayseries.com Here is a third example.......
"Hawk Aye!" - Original Air Date, 27th August 2007.
This is the third episode of "The British Railway Series", in one part, with partially restored soundtrack. There are annotations showing the many problems with the filming and various character/face mixups and similar!
You can find more information on the original Episode Three here: http://www.britishrailwayseries.com/e...
Music composed by Kevin Macloed.
The contents of these videos, including all text and photos (except where credited otherwise) are ©Simon Martin 2010
======================================================================
Developing Steam.....still?
The development of steam traction provides us with a list of engineers who endeavoured to refine further the basic model, once established.
The basic component parts...firebox, tubular boiler, cylinders, smoke-box and blast-pipe..remained standard. Successive engineers developed the steam locomotive further.
With a 13% efficiency (that is only about 13% of the energy generated by a steam locomotive was applied to tractive power) there was plenty of room for improvement, especially with the competition looming from both electric and diesel powered locomotives during the early 20th century. A seemingly inexhaustible supply of cheap coal perhaps gave a false view of steams economic longevity.
As to developments, James Beattie (of the London & South Western), fitted a water tube within the combustion chamber..a development furthered by Dugald Drummond whose D15 and T9 classes had casings each side of the firebox to ease access to the lateral water tubes.
Churchward (GWR) began to make regular use of limited feedwater heating with the top feed system from 1913 onwards new builds...with a sytem that both sieved out impurities in the water, and pre-warmed it before reaching the hottest point around the firebox.
R.M.Deeleys assistant (Cecil W. Paget) at the Midland Railway produced a revolutionary 2-6-2 with outside frames and eight (8)inside cylinders, set in two groups of four...one set of pistons entering one group of cylinders as the other set simultaneously exited the other cylinders, providing a balanced motion.This proved to be a one-off.....
This was the fate of the 1929 Gresley (with Yarrows, Glasgow marine boiler makers) designed LNER 10000 4-6-4,with a boiler pressure of 450 psi) known as the Hush-Hush,which spent as much time off the rails as on them..and was later rebuilt as a standard "A4"...running in this form from 1935 to withdrawal in 1959.
The LMS fared less well. Its revolutionary locomotive 6399 "Fury" (1930) was fitted with a triple part boiler...the first super high pressure part was set at 1800 psi, and the two other parts were set to 950 psi and 570 psi, with fire tube super heaters attached to the boilers. A fatal trial run (February 10th 1930) and further trials led to the abandonment of this project, and the locomotive was rebuilt as a Royal Scot and renamed "British Legion" 46170 (the last numbered of the class)
Later, the LMS developed the "Turbomotive" on a Princess Royal 4-6-2 frame (No 6202)
dispensing entirely with the traditional pistons and valves, steam being raised to drive the vanes of a turbine wheel. This engine worked from 1935 the London-Liverpool service. Like other revolutionary designs, it spent a lot of time in the workshops, and in 1949, after a turbine failure was rebuilt as a conventional 4- cylinder "Pacific", renamed "Princess Anne"....but coming t
On Shed January 2011 Edition
No comments:
Post a Comment