70000 Britannia doing 100mph!

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Just a little bit of fun. Did a couple of (rough) calculations and worked out that this is how 70000 'Britannia' would be like, if she was doing 100mph in steam days. In reality, she was doing about 65-70mph.

The location is Newton St Loe near Bath, now obviously in today's modern world, Britannia wouldn't do 100mph, but just imagining the sight of why the Britannia class were such powerful express engines and possibly the best that British Railways ever made.

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Now that's a lot of heavy spinning iron. To me, it's amazing how it stays together.

roadtoad

My grandfather, who died in the late 90's, was an engineer for CN RAIL from 1943 to 1985. He travelled from ottawa to many outlying areas such as algonquin park, montreal, toronto, etc(unsure of how many places he actually went to though). On one trip, the locomotive was travelling at over 60mph and derailed because of ice buildup, he ended up slamming into the controls and his arm went into the firebox, which was at full burn, his glove ended up melting to his arm and he had some burns on his arm but never lost his arm or any function of it. They had to cut the glove off to get his arm out of it. We still have the glove in storage, along with his retirement plaque. He always told us about how he felt operating the steam versus the diesel, saying the steam was like a living and breathing creature you had to tame or she would kill you in an instant. The diesel was boring, basically, to him. These steam locomotives are something to behold, if you have never been in the cab of one or even been near one, they are massive and beautiful. Oh, one more thing, to anyone who has visited the science and tech museum in ottawa - the locomotive out front? it's the 6200 steam locomotive - my grandfather put that loco there back in the late 60's once it was taken out of service.

mercury-nctm

It really is amazing how a 100, 000 pound pressure cooker can go that fast.

VinnyMartello

Who needs adult sites when this exists?

kingkramer

The connecting rods look like they are literally about to fly off.

pex_the_unalivedrunk

When this baby hits 88 mph... You're gonna see some serious shit!

JessicaPilotGirl

The engineers that were able to design and put this machine together to achieve this deserve a lot more recognition than just a demonstration.Just incredible.

larryhall

The connecting rods flipping from top to bottom faster than the eye can see is a thing of beauty.

zacharyrollick

Imagine how tight the tolerances have to be on those drive wheels, to prevent a total disaster at that speed. It almost doesn't look real. But amazingly, it is.

sabyegrp

Fun fact:
This train could reach 200mph.
You just have to set the playback speed ar x2

oneparticularlysmartape

Simply the best ever filmed footage hope this footage will become a timeless classic.

rediscoverinfo

"He did it, I'll do it! He did, I'll do it!"

TheChoujinVirus

My grandfather was a steam engine driver in india, he use to tell me how his clothes use to get black due to the coal which was used to operate the engine. Also the horn was pretty different, rather than having a switch horn they use to have a thread like thing which on being pulled produced noise.
Now he is retired but till now he gets amussed on seeing old steam engines and starts to explain about their parts.

AshutoshJha-kl

I'm proud of my great-grandfather who was a "A grade driver" in Indian railways and he used to drive this steam locomotive in 1935 in indian railways.

kunalyadav