No. 6207, A Study in Steel - Princess Royal Class - vintage LMS film - 1951

Went on to Google after watching this...turn out it was involved in a serious accident. Involving the death of 24 people.when in was hit from behind by another train...a very interesting film to watch

It really is easy to see how Britain has now lost the plot.

Very good

Simply superb! British workmanship was really excellent and rightly Britain produced from pin to locomotives till WWII. Your products had a class. That apart, Britain was unfortunately compelled to yield its position to U.S. America joined the war at a very fag end after Britain had exhausted all resources. This was a ploy. But here you made Indians as cannon fodder in the war. Your selfishness to rule over the world was your greatest blunder. You lorded over India and reaped immense wealth from here and that is how you could wage a war and lead a luxurious life. You prompted Poland to fight against Germans and when India became a hot potato in early 1946, you hurriedly abandoned her and cut my country into two. Your Churchill, never wanted India to gain freedom as that so-called statesman knew that Yankees will run over you. He also knew that if India becomes independent, you will not be able to run your country as there was no resource as war ruined you. So, he wanted to retain hold on India. He lamented at Attlee when independence was declared.The political scenario changed all because of your arrogance when you sang, "Rule Britannia, ........" ! The clock has gone 360 degrees. Today your Prime Munister has an Indjan origin. All said and done, 18th and 19th centuries belonged to Britain and the great rapid strides Britain made is indeed praiseworthy. India produced food and other raw materials and you exported to your country and gave us the fruits of Industrial Revolution.

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This is awesome

Such a nice film. Much better than some of the newer "guy with a cellphone" videos I see today.

Cool, Shame we don’t make anything anymore

Maybe we are watching Henry’s overhaul…. It is a Stanier black 5 isn’t is?!?!

Deafning work. Thank you.

Когда уже покажите как жаровые трубы монтировали в котле?!

It was a very beautiful time, railway drivers, engineers, laborers and other staff worked with hard work and dedication, but now it is not like this, the entire railway inventions were said to be in corruption.

Princess Royal Class locomotives......my uncle Percy was a fireman on the LNWR, and then a fireman/driver/top link driver on the LMS, and then BR up to his retirement around 1965. When asked what was his most hated locomotive on the LMS, his response instantly was Princess Royal Class locomotives. Why? So poor at raising steam, even when correctly fired, presenting problems for both the fireman and driver. If he saw this video he would say don't bother with the effort and materials building this.......better to build a Princess Coronation Class........or a Black 5 locomotive. They both steam better, are less trouble to operate, and do the intended job better than this.

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Thanks for sharing these. Found your channel recently and I’m enjoying the videos.

And where are the videos of today’s heaving engineering in the uk. There aren’t any. They are all German or France or Italian or other EU countries. The modern Tories don’t care about any industry which involves risk for them. They have sold off our car manufacturing to foreign companies. The Tories only want profit without risk. So you pay them for your banking, insurance, mortgages, financial services, fuel, energy, food and soon to be health care. All the things you hav3 no choice and have to buy. And they happily screw you for them.

It is indeed amazing that the British were still building steam locomotives when the year before, across the pond, the last one was built and diesels were seen as so much cheaper to operate and more efficient in virtually every way. It's almost absurd...and embarrassing.

No matter how advanced the steam engine could be developed it could never effectively compete with diesel and electric locomotives. And that is still true and likely will always be so.

i really like the song in the introduction.

How the hell can sand be used to make a perfect wheel? I can't even build a sandcastle successfully.

A film made by the LMS in 1935 when 6207 was built at Crewe. Obviously it was reissued by British Railways if the cited date is 1951.

Made In Britain" engines at least many of them lasted till 1995 in India. And the one of the Darjeeling and Nilgiri railways the 100 year old steam engines still remain in service.

Look at the size of that inside cylinder block, and think what a nightmare it would be to make one of those nowadays.
Not impossible, but VERY difficult and expensive.
Then it has to work properly, AND be tested for certification and insurance.
(Not complaining, safety is paramount on the railways).

The brilliance of britain , now hard pushed to find a british made clothes iron .!

The one time I need captions, they don’t even work.

So much skill, gone forever!

A whole expertise lost.

I wonder what all those feminists think of this?

Rather tell girls that they can do anything they want and just like men. Perhaps they should concentrate on their own God given abilities, instead of wasting time with a career and dying alone with a dog.

But not any more. Envious eyes regarded Crewe works, and Wolverton, and the associated coal and iron mining, and realised there was profit to be made by selling them off. The true reward for hard work and skill in this country was the dole queue.

Lots of ladies there 😮..more equality be good..

Locos taken to France to help in WW2 , always the sffort to build & maintain them kept Britain running, very low unemployment , mainly deliveries rapid , homing pigeons a treat , & they were cheap to use . Couldn't believe a single now from Birmingham to London £80 ! Can go by bus from Valencia to Romania for that , a 2 day journey 2,400 km , just had it confirmed that your living in the lap of Luxury gov have banned woodstoves , now as well as having TV licence police ( free in Spain ) you now have the woodstove police .It is unbelievable , pensioners hoarding candles , so sad , this Xmas all of to the Carribean or shooting in Scotland , whats that strange machine over there Sir Edward , well I'm not sure Jacob , it may be a secret weapon , fumigating people , quick it's making strange noises , start the Rolls & leave quickly, can't now the driver is in the wine shop buying crates of Guinees , grandad can't live without it , hope we have bullet proof glass !

6207, Good Luck and Good Running - except for those crashes your going to have in the future!

When I was young in Essex steam was king ,even when 7 used the steam line from Tollesbury to Kelvedon sitting with mum & dad on the balcony carriage, Apparently just after I was born King George visited still there the hexagonal tower A .A guns & homing radio forr bombers & fighters , don't know if still there , rotating steel gun shelters . the pier was a point to sail or steam from , cut down in case Germany invaded .no attempt to rebuild aged 8 eent on the CornishRivieraExpress wonderful King class .very comfortable & food & drink cheap . We were visiting uncle David a flight artificer at Culdrose , he later flew as flight engineer on the first Jumbo. Oh those lovely locos. The days when Sheffield was full of forges on a visit we saw the huge steam rolling mill on compressed air red-hot steel rolled to rail tracks , in Spain the palm tree scrapers still prefer a Spear & Jackson spade , Special Sheffield steel for ploughshares !.

The men who conceived, designed, built, operated and maintained these amazing machines were themselves amazing. In an age like ours when men and boys are too often denigrated by assorted elites, feminists etc it’s good to be reminded of what our forefathers achieved. They built the civilisation we are now destroying by various forms of “political correctness”.

LMS 6207 had a tough life being involved in a couple fatal crashes.

My Grandfather worked in the Brass Foundry at Crewe Works from the 1930's to 1978. What skilled workers and shame on Crewe Council for destroying 150+ years of history. At least Bentley Motor Cars - formally Rolls Royce, is still in Crewe.

One of my favourite films. Thanks for sharing this!

Working in the foundry ? Don't forget your tie!

I reckon, sadly, these skills have been lost

Des chefs d oeuvres sur les rails merci pour ces merveilles. Et 1000 merci pour ces précieux documents.

A great example of how to make an informative documentary; narration and film. NO PRESENTER, who inevitably these days would be acting like an 8 year old.

Staggering and quite moving as well. All those skills and time and processes producing something beautiful and wonderful. Long may these lovely beasts be with us .. and powered by God's good coal; NOT by climate protestors' recycled hair-oil or something

When Britain stood on its own two feet and everybody was guaranteed a job and house on leaving school, everybody rented. Now we need imports from all over the world to survive - inc Russia. The irony. The poorest countries in the world could cripple Britain if they threw an embargo

You can blame thatcher for the decimation of our heavy industries and the skills went with them.

This is SO incredible to watch. The skill of these workers is so impressive.

The skills were amazing, the lack of safety gear was astonishing!

Good stor.....

Absolutely fascinating! one might say 'rivetting' (do you see what I did there?)