A Mallard wrap on a Azuma Loco would have been a superb way of celebrating this important event, Mallard 75 was a year of celebrations, thank you.
@georgegarthwaite5194
Жыл бұрын
Mallard has always hade a spot in my heart
@richardharrold9736
Жыл бұрын
Shame the 126mph claim is still being perpetuated so long after it was proved to be bollocks. Even Gresley himself didn't accept it had done it.
@xylicable
Жыл бұрын
Nice little film! Well done everyone involved.
@Mortimer50145
Жыл бұрын
I should have remembered that if it's my dad's 85th birthday, it's also Mallard's. PS: my grandpa who was a steam enthusiast called him Nigel...
@airspeed_alive
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful! The nation is proud of the railway pioneers!
@andrewsgarage796
Жыл бұрын
Remember the original Best Regards Andrew
@fabiogfeller9071
Жыл бұрын
And for the 100 Anniversary fire up Mallard
@richardharrold9736
Жыл бұрын
It will never happen. It's completely knackered. Plus the 126mph record has been completely debunked.
@itzmespencer
9 ай бұрын
It’ll be too expensive as the last time Mallard hasn’t ran in 35 years, if it had to run again it would require a massive overhaul that would cost millions of pounds. The NRM is funding the maintenance of Flying Scotsman which already costs 4 million pounds. If u include the other A4s and other locomotives at the NRM. It wouldn’t make sense of them to move Mallard
@voidjavelin23
3 ай бұрын
@@richardharrold9736 debunked by who? americans? yea right
@richardharrold9736
3 ай бұрын
@@voidjavelin23 no, by British analysts. Look up Bryan Benn, an expert on locomotive performance (and also on owls) - he goes into the exact details of why Mallard could not have reached 126. At best, it equalled the German record of 124.5 - and as the German machine set that on level track and didn't break, whereas Mallard had the aid of gravity and suffered terminal mechanical failure as a result of the attempt - morally the record still belongs to the German 4-6-4 (whose run had British observers aboard to verify - it was no Goebbels propaganda operation).
@voidjavelin23
3 ай бұрын
@@richardharrold9736 give me the link to the article
@williamevans6277
Жыл бұрын
It feels like it happened so long ago, when actually it was only 85 years ago
@TERRYBARTLETTRAILMAN28
Жыл бұрын
Hi LNER I never ever been up to York because the price has been too high for me as I'm Autistic and I always wanted to travel up to York to go to the Railway Museum to see the famous A4 I've been to Kings Cross to see steam trains depart including Flying Scotsman, Tornado, Union Of South Africa, Sir Nigel Gresley, Bittern, Mayflower, Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Sutherland and a Deltic diesel engine they are on my KZitem Channel I did train spotting up there too once I would again soon and if its possible I would like to have a day out with a friend to go up to York on one of your trains for the day to the Railway Museum in order to see Mallard
@niallstewart2383
Жыл бұрын
I consider that Sir Nigel Gresley is not only one of the railways greatest chief mechanical engineer of the 20th century but also one of the great heroes of the 20th century and that mallard setting the 126 mph record is one of he greatest achievement of the London & North Eastern Railway.
@richardharrold9736
Жыл бұрын
Mallard never did 126. Even Gresley only accepted 125, and that was with considerable acceleration downhill in a very short space of time. Suspiciously so. The real record is 05.002's 124.5mph on level track.
@niallstewart2383
Жыл бұрын
I understand where you are coming from but the papers from the dynamometer car shows that Mallard have reached 125.5 mph so Mallard have only have beaten the London Midland Scottish railways coronation class speed record but also the flying hamburgers speed record and 05 002’s as well and if you are not convinced then try to the National Railway museum at York and they will tell you that Mallard did achieve 126 mph.
@richardharrold9736
Жыл бұрын
@@niallstewart2383 Mallard was not capable of developing the drawbar horsepower to produce that acceleration. The dynamometer trace is wrong. There's a massive spike in it from about 118mph. 05.002 is the real record holder.
@niallstewart2383
Жыл бұрын
Please try to understand about Mallard speed record the Nazis where using 05 002 as propaganda and Sir Nigel Gresley was a anti Nazi and he wanted to beat Nazi Germany speed record so he used Mallard to beat the speed record.
@richardharrold9736
Жыл бұрын
@@niallstewart2383 bollocks. It had nothing to do with politics. It was a three-way battle between the LNER and DRB steam guys and the Flying Hamburger diesel. The fact is that Mallard didn't actually beat 05.002's record.
@Andrewjg_89
Жыл бұрын
The Mallard is still a iconic steam locomotive. Great video once again LNER.
@richardharrold9736
Жыл бұрын
But not as iconic as the real record holder, the DRB class 05.
@mizangii
Жыл бұрын
Well done Jonny , lotsa hugs from mam in law Ang xxxx 😘
@richardharrold9736
Жыл бұрын
Mallard isn't the real record holder, though. The German 05.002 is.
@johnblair8146
Жыл бұрын
A Pennsylvania RR T-1 class went 140 mph+
@richardharrold9736
Жыл бұрын
@@johnblair8146 no, it really didn't. Nothing has ever beaten 05.002's 124.5mph.
@johnblair8146
Жыл бұрын
@@richardharrold9736 Mallard is the OFFICIAL record holder. The T-1 's speed is UNOFFICIAL but there's a new build of a T-1 in process. so the T-1's speed may well be verified. Any German record at that time could be easily dismissed as an invention of Josef Goebbels.
@richardharrold9736
Жыл бұрын
@sketchysaturn1740 no, it wasn't. The first genuinely verified 100+mph in this country was its classmate Papyrus doing 108.
@richardharrold9736
Жыл бұрын
@@johnblair8146 the T1's claim is demonstrable bollocks just like City of Truro's. Mallard's record is also dubious, but it's close enough to be somewhat believable. In reality, it did not beat 05.002's 124.5mph, which was verified by multiple British observers.
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