Australia's Great Western steam locomotive - Pendennis Castle

In today's video, we take a look at the life and travels of Pendennis Castle, the second steam locomotive to ever circumnavigate the globe

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[TrainFactGuy]

Luv grate westun,
Luv me castles,
'Ate Scotsman (nothing against 'em, just don't like 'um)

Simple as

[photographerjamie]

Can we appreciate the fact that this engine didn't bankrupt its owners like a certain other steam loco in the video. Gotta love the castles :)

[iankemp]

The Castle class were more economical than the original Gresley A1s, as the 1925 trials showed - not just down to coal. But Gresley learnt from this, modified the valves to give better steam flow and produced the A3s. In due course all the A1s, including Flying Scotsman, were converted to the better A3s. You could say that Pendennis Castle helped Flying Scotsman to realise its full potential.

[exveefan]

If you look at Australia's history, We have a lot of locomotives imported from England, from little narrow gauge tank engines to mighty Garratts. :-)

[DoubleX]

She does look beautiful. I've seen the video about Flying Scotsman's Australia tour and it also showed a bit of Pendennis Castle here. A very beautiful locomotive which is sadly not as well known. Nice vid 👍 thumbs up

[robertbate]

In 1976 prior to departing to Australia, Pendennis ran a farewell run from Birmingham to Didcot and return. On its return trip it was detached from its train at Knowle and Dorridge to run light back to Tyseley, the train forwarded by diesel. I was then in my teens a checker/shunter at Dorridge yard. I had the great privilege of detaching Pendennis from its train, closely watched by the big boys of course. A day I will never forget. I'm glad that it safely returned home though 😀😀

[chrisso]

I work on the former Hamersley iron railway (now Rio tinto). The carriages and water tender shown in your photos of pendennis castle in the Pilbara (pronounced pil-bra with a short A sound BTW 😉) are still there. I have photos of them somewhere. They are sadly very dilapidated now though. I also have several other photos of Pendennis Castle in the Pilbara that I have sourced from various places.

[percyengineproductions]

as someone who lives in Western Australia, all i can say is... im glad u made this!

[jonathanhodges]

Been in the cab twice! own a piece of its original boiler strap and own two oo gauge models one being customised to look like how it is now! Safe to say i'm its biggest fan

[DomQuartuccio]

Great to see some Aussie content from you, more please!

[TobyOliverHenryFan]

Nice to hear a Thomas and friends line!

"There are two ways of doing things, The Great Western Way and the wrong way."

[Jtube]

Cool! Hope to see more stuff about Australian steam engines!

[johnjephcote]

The Castle's superiority over the GNR/LNER A1 was its long travel valve gear. Of this, the LNER took private note at the Darlington Celebrations.

[THOMARIUS.]

Duck will be pleased his quote got used. (4:25)🦆

[AutismTakesOn]

Thomas: I'm the first engine to go around the world!
Flying Scotsman: Um...
Thomas: Second engine...
Pendennis Castle: Excuse me?
Thomas: ... Alright, third engine! But first tank engine, mind you!

[brenlc]

Flying Scotsman: You’re not the only British engine to travel.
Pendennis Castle: Yes, but I’m the only one to do it successfully!

[NewController]

The events of the loan to the LNER, also provided the spark for the creation of the LNER A4 class

[cyberqueenie]

Pendennis castle would have been a fun Thomas character as Flying Scotsman's rival

[saltymyntt]

I was just learning about this loco the other week! Glad to see you cover it here. Keep up the sweet work :D

[lukechristmas]

I am a fan of Pendennis Castle and I'm happy that you made a video about it's life sailing across the globe and how it spent most of it preservation life in Australia in the later half of the 20th Century.