71000 Blitzes Beattock at 57 mph

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This video is now available on a brand new DVD: 'Uphill & Down Dale, Northwest Mainline Steam, 2007-2011'. Go to http://www.linesidervideo.co.uk/dvds for more information.

BR 8P 71000 Duke of Gloucester on the first leg of the last day of the North Briton railtour. The Duke is seen charging towards Beattock Summit at a frosty 8.35 and then crossing the Eden at Wetheral on the Newcastle-Carlisle line.

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  • Class video. I haven't come across it before now, but this is up there with any of the best of the professional efforts.

  • Thank you very much - I had to get up at 4.00 in the morning to see this, and I'm now very glad I did.

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  • wow 

  • Beautiful images, excellent choices of places! And I'm crazy about trains!!

  • It´s amazing how steep the climb looks, perhaps that´s due to the lens but a lovely video none the less.

  • 13 on and no rumble lump to drag around at the back. Great!

  • Great Video, 5 Stars!

  • Brings it all back. In the 60s a friend and I used to stay with my Granny in Moffat, not far from Beattock, which then had a fleet of Stanier and Fairbairn 2-6-4Ts to bank heavy trains up to the summit. Sometimes the drivers would allow us into the cab for the entire trip up and back. Once, a driver jammed the reguator open with a bit of coal, and then did his football pools. Only now can this dangerous story be told!

  • FAB x

  • the freeze frame at 1.31 is awesome, forget the speed that it is supposed to be doing just marvel in the excellent footage

  • I believe the phrase is "not bloody hanging about"...

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