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My son met Anthony at locomotion last week. His passion for the project was clearly on show and loves that people are watching these videos and then being inspired to visit all their sites. Highly recommend anyone who hasnt been, to visit all their museum sites and see these engines in person AND maybe stumble across all the hosts of these videos and share your appreciation for them in person!

Very well made video as per usual , now Cheltenham is back please keep her in as last ran BR green ,also any chance one day of seeing Mallard in as last ran BR green even if for a year only

The Yanks need to send back OUR Locomotion nameplate

It is 15.5 bar.

The directors asked Churchward why his locomotive cost twice as much as those of one of their competitors. His retort was that one of his would pull two of theirs backwards.

Difficult to hear the speaker through the - really annoying - music.

Nice to see LNTN get a mention!

Steam locos are so fascinatingly complicated to operate, and vary so much.

This Shinkansen uses British plugs at 10:44 (instead of the usual USA junk), what a surprise!

An excellent and informative video of my favourite NRM locomotive. Would love to see an additional video on the exhaust steam injector and maybe a GWR Churchward combined vacuum, ejector and steam brake (City of Truro might have one as Lode Star has a separate vacuum brake and ejector with no steam brake) but understand they’d be omitted for being very technical for general viewing!

Where is the brass splasher beading??

Is all that gleaming steel chromium alloy? What kept these parts from rusting?

Why would it float

I don't know why the narrator uses G.J. Churchward's name as though he was in the dock, accused of a crime. If you see the nameplate of the 4073 class named after him, it is as I have used it here. The Directors and everyone else on the GWR referred to him as Mr. Churchward. They do the same with Brunel and if you look at the Tamar Bridge with his name on it, it is I.K. Brunel.

Imagine if the chronology had been slightly different....if Churchward had taken charge slightly later. Suppose that he had got the GWR to buy deGlehn / du Bousquet 4-6-0s instead of Atlantics. Compounds that could climb Dainton with a decent load. Could have totally changed the direction of British locomotive development.

Oh, so this has an inverse Gresley conjugated valve gear! Also question I’ve had for a long time, why do most brake handles have the drilled holes in them?

As for steaming certain locomotives again there are some that are out of the question now. Even though they did get revived after the end of BR steam in 1968. The GNR 'Single', the Midland 'Compound'. You can add 'Green Arrow' and Lode Star too. The GNR loco has a very poor firebox & the driving wheel tyre is at scrapping thickness,. 'Green Arrow' still has its original cylinder block, which is now badly cracked. Lode Star looks to have very thin tyres all round & who knows about the state of the boiler? I don't suppose it has been surveyed. As for 'Evening Star'... I rode behind it on the Scarborough Spa Express which was many years ago. The locomotive is the 3rd newest steam locomotive in Britain & was never thrashed on freight trains, which was what it was designed for. On the modern railway a speed limit may apply on account of it having smaller driving wheels, but it definitely has the low-down grunt.

Thanks for posting that, Anthony. Black 5s were the most numerous loco around Stockport when I was a child, so they've always been a firm favourite.

If there was no dome, how did they get steam out without risk of water coming out too ?

Can we see a video on the beautiful Livingston Thompson. To represent the Narrow Gauge audience??

One loco that should be restored to steam.

JCCravens locos were not amotly colection he was a great engineer .You enthusiasts all seem to be tared with the same brush His2_4_0 long boiler machines wernt agreat sucses but his 7ft singles were exceptional and were on the top Brighton London early morningexpresses for many years he was also a colegue of vaulvegear Joy at the railway foundry Stroudly was rather to have comeafter Craven ttfn&t

A wonderful engine and video , well done team

Fascinating! Thank you very much!

Any chance of this loco steaming again?

I'm glad I never had to work on one but its a beautiful machine. Elegant as were all its followers. Nice explanations .:I believe lode' is an old Norse word meaning 'the north' or 'Pole' star. ?-)

It’s kinda surprising they didn’t put the valve gear on the outside , with bell cranks driving the inside cylinders, reversing the layout.

Thanks Anthony for another great video

It’s interesting to see the differences between a GWR and LNER/LMS locomotive, great video

Beautiful engineering. Truly beautiful to behold.

I wonder why Swindon didn't re-fit brass beadings to the splashers when preparing it for display in 1962? They removed the outside steam pipes and fitted a tall safety valve casing to present a pre WW1 appearance.

They rlly thought we wouldn’t notice them making a cheeky swap with footage of the Stirling single instead of 737 at 6:20

One of the class members is 4002 “Evening Star” the locomotive built before Lode Star

What’s her boiler like?

I really appreciate this top drawer tour of the Star class. Thanks so very much.

Why were some railways right- hand drive and others left-hand drive ... why not standardize driver position like they standardized the track gauge? Any advantages to left-hand verse right-hand positions?

A worthwhile enhancment would be to replace corks with a proper closure with a hinged cap with projecting lug which could be opened with the spout of the oil can. This is a standard fitment on Swedish steam locos.

What's above the pit now that lode star has moved?

Great insight into a great engine.Thank you for these videos.

Lode Star's trailing pair of driving wheels are of a different (later) pattern to the leading and middle pair. The trailing wheels are from the "Castle" class with webbing reinforcement and the crankpin is between the spokes, whereas the other four driving wheels have the crankpin in line with the spoke and have no webbing. It's likely the trailing pair were swapped in when Lode Star was being cosmetically restored following withdrawal. Closer examination of the number stampings on the wheel hubs should show which engine previously had the trailing pair.

Churchward's Saint Class was described by OS Nock as the "keystone in the arch" and was arguably the most important engine built in Britain as it was such a huge leap forward in loco development. Churchward was interested in "balance" and the avoidance of "hammer blow" to avoid track damage that a two cylinder engine like the Saint might cause and that was also why he was interested in those four cylinder French locos that were bought. Churchward's engines were considered ugly when introduced and they were beautified by Holcroft- with the curves instead of the previous drop ends and these curves debuted on the Star. Both the Saint and the Star had the same boiler which had very high pressure and very high degree of ( for the time) superheating- and that was revolutionary in Britain back then. Arguably, the Star was complicated and maybe developing the Saint further would have made sense. Clearly, the Star was the start of a family of successful engines that also extended to the LMS when Stanier left the GWR for that railway. During World War One the brass beading was removed from the splashers and for some reason this was not replaced when the engine was restored for display- although the later "elbow" steam pipes were removed as they were a later addition. The Saint really was the engine that brought the Great Western into the 20th century- not the Star and Stanier's Black 5 class- a very close but mixed traffic derivative of the Saint hauled Britain's last steam train in August 1968 which sums up the reality of the importance of the Saint class.

Ditching Brussels gauge was a mistake but not as bad as new Zealand going for a very narrow gauge.

The front end on GWR locos was an abortion. Never progressed beyond the 1930,s. Stanier took it to the next level with the Coronation Pacific,s.

I take it the "king" class was developed from this ?

It would be great to see a view of the running gear from an inspection pit!

It looks like a saint locomotive

GWR lode star