The LNER's experimental locomotive - The 'Hush-Hush'

In this video, we take a look at the LNER's attempt to succeed where the LMS failed in the world of high-pressure steam

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[altermike]

Rev. W. Awdry had a galaxy brain, I finally get the insult Gordon took such offense to

[West_Coast_Mainline]

“Galloping sausage”
This made Gordon very cross

[colevarela]

"Duck called me a galloping sausage"!

[frenchsteam]

My Great Great uncle [J.G.Eltringham] was one of the drivers on the Hush-Hush -he was not noted for anything but normal driving and only drove the loco because he was one of the senior drivers at Gateshead.

[countluke]

Gresley really has surprisingly low failures in his books. The man was a genius.

[aegontan]

He seems to be a "Thomas" worthy character!! Since his/her name is hush hush, I can imagine that he or she has a rather quiet personality

[abloogywoogywoo]

Shame the rebuilt loco wasn't preserved. Imagine working in that big cab!

[jasonadams]

1:46 Gordon: (gasp)
Gordon’s mind: Something was said, not good. What was it? Don’t yell at Gordon! No, that’s okay. What is it? ‘Galloping Sausage’! (Gasp) They called you ‘Galloping Sausage’!
Gordon: HOW DARE YOU CALL ME THAT!!

[michaelmitchell]

The funny thing is about this locomotive due to its wheel arrangement of four leading trucks six drive wheels and four trailing trucks this locomotive would’ve been called a Hudson here in the United States after the Hudson type locomotives used by the New York central railway

[Hogger]

It wasn't "high pressure steam" per se that didn't work - it was the "Water Tube Boiler" - many railroads tried water tube boilers but they were unsuccessful because they were hard to clean as locomotives use an open cycle and it was nearly impossible to provide perfectly clean water. Ships use a closed cycle where the same water is used by virtue of condensers.

[Kashi-K]

and what some people dont know, is that Union of South Africa's tender actually belongs to Hush-Hush

[TacticalTeapot]

Great video! I believe this loco derailed quite spectacularly at Peterborough in 1955, renumbered at that time as 60700.

It is a shame the loco was not preserved, however the tender is currently preserved on a different engine.

[richardbradley]

1:07 Gordon's thankfully forgotten third cousin twice removed

[carribob]

One note about the Yarrow Watertube boiler was that after it was removed when 10000 was rebuilt, it ended up being used at Darlington Works for pressure testing. The boiler was finally scrapped in 1965 (6 years after 60700 (Which was the BR Number for the W1) was scrapped.

[stratman]

i received my model train version of 10.000 hush hush from hornby yesterday....and i am pleased to say that it runs as good as it frankly i'm chuffed

[User-O]

I've just pre-ordered one of these for myself.

[kenhanks]

The Delaware and Hudson (D&H) in the US, primarily in states of New York and Pennsylvania, under the leadership of Leonor Loree, experimented with several monstrous 2-8-0s (and one 4-8-0) that had up to 500 psi in the 1920-30s.
Though they developed approx a huge 80, 000 lbs tractive effort, and could "couple to and pull out everything in the yard", the maintenance requirements went into orbit and they were also short lived.

[roytompkins]

As a youth my greatest delight was to see the Cornish Reviera going through our local station under full steam when collecting train numbers

[garryferrington]

Britain's sole Hudson! A number of American railroads attempted to utilize the same concept, but it never got beyond experimental locomotives.

[swagboyspeedrunner_mario]

This dude: *shows the galloping sausage*
Gordon: OOOH the indignity