Britain's NEWEST LOCO! Betton Grange DEBUT DELIGHTS
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Published 2024-05-28
GWR new build Grange 6880 ‘Betton Grange’, fresh out the box from Tyseley works hauling her inaugural passenger trains at the event, taking us on a ride along the Cotswolds between Cheltenham Racecourse - Toddington | 27.05.2024
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All Comments (21)
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Marvellous effort getting this locomotive completed and running. Congratulations to everyone involved.
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I m no fan of the GWR but the last two Swindon products that I rode behind back in 1965,in regular service,were 2 Granges 6859,railtour,and 6815(I think) on a Gloucester-Cardiff parcels train,this was on 4/10/65 so I ve always had a soft spot for these 4-6-0s.Well done to all for building Betton Grange.
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I am so pleased that the Grange has been resurrected. They weren't glamorous like Castles and I barely used to give them a second glance when I saw them in the late 50s and early 60s. But at least they weren't those moguls. What would I give to have paid better attention. I do remember one charging down Dauntsey bank with its tender wobbling from side to side.
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Extraordinary. Building new steam locomotives in 21 st century.
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Great footage. Betton Grange has got to be one of my favourite engines. The engineers have done a superb job.
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Incredible as it may seem, Betton Grange is already no longer Britain's newest locomotive- 32424 Beachy Head moved under its own power for the very first time yesterday!
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Great video! Nice to see a varied collection of GW locos especially the star of the show,( and nice to see a Scammel Scarab put in an appearance at the end!)
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Wow fabulous !! I didn’t know this had been built … another fabulous addition to our steam heritage, and a new old station as well … Building these old,fashioned locomotives is a great way to provide amazing engineering skills to young people. Unlike my own field, electronics where everything is becoming more abstract, you have to make everything unless you outsource everything to farming China 😡😡😡😡
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My favourite loco, just great to have a working example. Congrats to all those who made it possible
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I concur entirely ,and it’s annoying. I’ve been telling people for years ,train is being pulled by locomotive or engine. Like Douglas Bader was told,’ never never call it a plane ..It’s an aeroplane’! Absolutely delighted with the continuing big interest in saving and appreciating these magnificent British Steam engineering marvels. (Lump in throat now). 😊
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Great!!!
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What a very pleasing, relaxing video to watch. England's green and pleasant land gliding by, interesting exchanges and of course the sounds of the engine itself. What a shame it and the down train were both coupled back to front. . Presumable both will be the "right way round" for their return journeys but at what appears to be a quite extensive yard at the end of the video I wonder why there was no turntable there.
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Betton grange of course is a 3rd new build engine after lady of legend in 2019 and tornado in 2008
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As we have not had the chance to take a journey on this line as yet it would have been nice to have had some commentary and at the very least the names of the stations it was stopping at. You have missed a great opportunity to promote this heritage line as well as the engine to a wide range of potential future passengers
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And engines with trains leave from and arrive at RAILWAY stations not train stations!
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Just a slight correction - we need to get things right. Betton Grange is an ENGINE, a TRAIN is what it pulls!
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I'd love my DI (driving instructor from Salisbury, now retired), to see her or especially to fire her. He said that they were his favourite engines to fire when they got the odd chance at Salisbury in the 60s. No doubt he got chance for the odd drive too.
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Betton Grange’s paint job is pretty good; unusual to see the smoke box door look like a mirror! I went there on the Saturday, which seemed to be the best of three weatherwise: https://youtu.be/er-6E8LV980
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as there are no coaches attached it is an ENGINE or locomotive...not a train!!!!
