46233 Duchess of Sutherland Thrashes out of Holyhead!

Filmed Saturday 9th May 2009

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Autos & Vehicles

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• 46233
• 6233
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• Sutherland
• steam
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• train
• Holyhead
• kettle
• Welsh
• Dargon
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• 47
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• locomotive
• Anglsea
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[theamateurbasher]

Great to see 47798 back at Holyhead after a (very) lengthy absence!

6233 on top form as ever too; guess we'd better enjoy it while we still can eh?

5*

[video47]

Agree, and ....agree! yes love 47798 as I love all 47s, and 6233 definately did her bit too today, wonderful to see this here, never seen a steam train at Holyhead til today :-)

[bhyllsman]

Arguably the best class of loco ever to run in great britain and a wonderful restoration---they did not suffer from Gesleys A4 inside big end weakness----the only fault--they should have had American style automatic stokers----on test 2 firemen could not stoke that firebox to its full capacity!

[hiyadroogs]

@leeky7 On Oct 10th '09, while climbing Shap with 13 coaches & an idle 47, Duchess of Sutherland's DBHP peaked at over 2700. Not only is that over 600 DBHP more than a 47/57, but it is marginally more than an all out Deltic!

Although several modern class 5 freight diesels surpasses a deltic in tractive effort, the deltic is still in dbhp terms the most powerful diesel electric class ever to have run in Britain, meaning that the Duke & Duchess are more powerful than any UK diesel in rail hp!

[1position69]

@HoorayforOliver She will more than likely look just as good :) happy new year as well

[HoorayforOliver]

That's a shame, she looks so beautiful with her red livery.

[1position69]

@bessnbonnie The inspector came around about a month ago we have a years extension.

[bessnbonnie]

thought her mainline boiler certificate had run out?

[1position69]

I shall be working maintaing this engine amd running it on the mainline this year! She is being painted black soon.

[leeky7]

I remember an article in one of the railway comics about 1990, when 71000 was in its first season on the N Wales coast, saying how the Crewe North men, who remembered it from before, were very impressed with it now. The enginemen's impressions were that it was stronger than a 47, especially on the climb out of Holyhead. I know some drivers would disagree, but I think, in general, a class 8 Pacific will outperform a "Duff". I think a 47 would find it hard to match some steam climbs to Ais Gill

[silverdalesapphires]

Yeah, the old girl is pulling with "one hand tied behind her back"......I think the "Duff" would be more likely to break down than she would!" Sir Bill knew how to build engines!!!

[LMSStanier]

This vid is great. This is one of Stanier's finest class of engines if not the finest class.

47s have been pulled from some recent rail tours because of their unreliability. One tour company won't run them now.