Railway Roundabout - Two Caledonian Pickersgill Bogies - Perth to Aviemore

the film of the two fourfouras known as cally bogies commenced where the last film finished the second of the two engines was 544 86 which it had a more recent coat of paint than her sister as she bore the post 1957 British Railways totem on her tender this totem was a subject to some acrimony between British Railways and the College of heraldry apparently only a left facing line had been submitted to and approved by the College British Railways produced both left and right hand versions to ensure the LAN always faced forward as only a left facing one had been granted the right hand one was illegal and thereafter the line on the right of the engine looked back from whence he had come the four furrows made a number of extra movements for the camera the use of these engines had been specially arranged for this program once again demonstrating the excellent working arrangements that the railway roundabouts team enjoyed with British Railways by this time the locomotives were members of a class of 48 machines which had been produced under the superintendency of William picker skill between 1916 and 1922 they were effectively the Caledonian railways final Express passenger design and were the descendants of a famous line of classic Scottish for furrows which had commenced during the reign of Dougal Drummond from 1882 to 1890 Drummond who was responsible for the t9s which we saw at the beginning of this program introduced the inside cylinder for for a layout on both the North British and Caledonian railways his successes on the latter notably Lambie and McIntosh developed the design gradually over a feared of years progressive enlargements became known as the Dan Alistair's the engines all being named the cantatas final version was the Dan Alastair 4 Series and these were updated during pickers guilds regime becoming the basis of the design of the new engines which were unofficially dubbed John Alastair Phibes these were very successful engines in the class survived intact until 1953 when number 540 481 was scrapped after an accident the remainder disappearing between 1959 and 1962 the locomotives reversed down onto a train in Perth station this was not my upon the train which was to be filmed that was the overnight males on sleeper which ran nightly from you--some to Inverness arriving at Perth in the early hours which would have made in filming impractical therefore a dummy run was arranged for the previous day and this is what we see here with the locomotives making a number of false starts for the cameras [Music] that right house came up to Scotland the following day both Pat and John had full-time jobs with railway roundabout taking up a lot of their spare time the official trip was first filmed at Blair Eiffel as the light became sufficiently this station stood at the foot of the long climb in Granite Mountain which was always known to the Highland men as the hill Blair Apple shed housed a number of locomotives for banking use the radio program was also produced under the title of railway roundup the sounder quarters for this was Eric Russell who seen climbing aboard the second engine with his cumbersome equipment with John Adams the lineside Patrick riding on the pilot engine and Eric on the train engine the show was on the road [Music] note the vintage male coach behind the standard BR gov or general utility van John Adams was able to get ahead of the Train in a number of different places as he was driven by a legendary Scottish cameraman Bill WJ V Anderson who knew the line intimately [Music] [Music] the 16 mile climb from Blair to the summit and from octa included seven miles at one in 70 the train then ran downhill to aviemore where the final views were filled the train ran onto in finesse via slot summit on the new direct route and the engines were to return to Perth later in the day with a train on the old Highland routed via dhaba which joined the new route at having more

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Published: Sat Apr 14 2018