Hot and Steamy - Caution
It's a while since I posted something from my steamy video collection. Edited to be suitable for all audiences. 😂
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Thankyou for showing this!
I didn't know any of these auto-trailers sets had survived, let alone restored to running order..
Which railway?
[For anyone a bit puzzled by the apparent lack of a locomotive, these were designed for short branch-lines with no locomotive turning facilities at the terminus. The power-coach has an integral boiler, motion-work and driving-cab. The rear of the two-coach train has a second cab used by the driver for the return trip, with its controls linked to the "power-car" end. A sort of steam multiple-unit. The vast majority of branch-lines though were worked by short trains drawn by conventional locomoties "run round" the train at the terminus by using a parallel track, without turning it round. A steam-locomotive runs equally well in either direction, but a journey of even a few miles in reverse must be very uncomfortable for the driver. ]
I didn't know any of these auto-trailers sets had survived, let alone restored to running order..
Which railway?
[For anyone a bit puzzled by the apparent lack of a locomotive, these were designed for short branch-lines with no locomotive turning facilities at the terminus. The power-coach has an integral boiler, motion-work and driving-cab. The rear of the two-coach train has a second cab used by the driver for the return trip, with its controls linked to the "power-car" end. A sort of steam multiple-unit. The vast majority of branch-lines though were worked by short trains drawn by conventional locomoties "run round" the train at the terminus by using a parallel track, without turning it round. A steam-locomotive runs equally well in either direction, but a journey of even a few miles in reverse must be very uncomfortable for the driver. ]
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@FreddieUK Thankyou for that! I'd honestly thought them something of a rarity even in their heyday.
The short (c.8 miles) branch-line to Abbotsbury, in West Dorset, used one at times, judging by old photographs.
This branched from the main line about 3 miles from Weymouth Station, where there was also a big running shed as Weymouth serves main lines to both London (ex LSWR / SR) and Bristol (ex GWR).
Passenger traffic on the branch was always light, and the gradient nearly flat apart from a steep section coming back up to the junction, so this was an example where the auto-coach was ideal.
(The line's goods demand not much better, certainly not meeting original hopes, and a proposed extension Westwards never happened. It did not even survive long enough for the Marples a.k.a "Beeching" cuts.)
The short (c.8 miles) branch-line to Abbotsbury, in West Dorset, used one at times, judging by old photographs.
This branched from the main line about 3 miles from Weymouth Station, where there was also a big running shed as Weymouth serves main lines to both London (ex LSWR / SR) and Bristol (ex GWR).
Passenger traffic on the branch was always light, and the gradient nearly flat apart from a steep section coming back up to the junction, so this was an example where the auto-coach was ideal.
(The line's goods demand not much better, certainly not meeting original hopes, and a proposed extension Westwards never happened. It did not even survive long enough for the Marples a.k.a "Beeching" cuts.)
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@FreddieUK Be careful... it can be addictive! I once spent about two late-night hours learning how to scrap ships, India style - and how to use steel plate cut from a hull, to make a replacement bucket for an excavator.
(That was wonderful to watch. The chap who did it, mainly on his own, had very steady hands, and was a real expert at flame-cutting shapes to chalk lines and welding them together with very simple equipment. I'll not look at a 'Harvest Morn' conflakes carton again without thinking how he cut templates from one! The finished bucket fitted the tractor arms as if made in the original factory.)
(That was wonderful to watch. The chap who did it, mainly on his own, had very steady hands, and was a real expert at flame-cutting shapes to chalk lines and welding them together with very simple equipment. I'll not look at a 'Harvest Morn' conflakes carton again without thinking how he cut templates from one! The finished bucket fitted the tractor arms as if made in the original factory.)
