Steam back on the Underground

[Paulus]

After 41 years a steam locomotive is back in the tunnels. The venue was Baker Street last saturday night/sunday morning as a test for next years 150 years anniversary of the Metropolitan Railway, and the start of the London Underground.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i33KnnY6e24&feature=youtu.be

 

[tyred]

Lovely, nothing nicer than standing on the platform being showered in soot, smoke and cinders while obeying the no-smoking signs. Modern trains are nowhere near as interesting.

 

[subaqua]

Lovely, nothing nicer than standing on the platform being showered in soot, smoke and cinders while obeying the no-smoking signs. Modern trains are nowhere near as interesting.

cinders generally don't get dropped down behind escalators where they smoulder on grease for a while before hitting the flashpoint and melting flaming grease onto rubbish accumulated under them starting an inferno .

but yes , i agree that steam is something special.

 

[Linford]

We live in a sanitised world free of the smells of hydrocarbons burning now. It wasn't that long ago that you could see loads of houses with coal fires. Now if someone lights one, you can smell it from streets away.

Bet the people will pong a bit after using that train. It was stinky enough being sat on a 1960's diesel shuttle train a couple of weeks ago when were int the station.

 

[subaqua]

We live in a sanitised world free of the smells of hydrocarbons burning now. It wasn't that long ago that you could see loads of houses with coal fires. Now if someone lights one, you can smell it from streets away.

Bet the people will pong a bit after using that train. It was stinky enough being sat on a 1960's diesel shuttle train a couple of weeks ago when were int the station.

one of the phrases we hear in the summer when we put the wet woodchips on the BBQ to hotsmoke " yer norralowed a bonfiyer" as yelled by the chavvy bint who lives a few doors down. ironically she smokes like a chimney and you can smell when she opens the backdoor of the house

 

[growingvegetables]

We live in a sanitised world free of the smells of hydrocarbons burning now. It wasn't that long ago that you could see loads of houses with coal fires. Now if someone lights one, you can smell it from streets away.

One of the subtler pleasures of cycling around villages east and south east of Leeds - some of the (once) mining villages still have houses heated by coal fires. Wonderful smell as you ride through - funny how some smells can be so nostalgia-laden.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Every time I smell either a coal fire or a wet slate roof I'm transported back to memories of Craghead, Co. Durham in the early 60's.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Every time I smell either a coal fire or a wet slate roof I'm transported back to memories of Craghead, Co. Durham in the early 60's.

I'm transported back to the exciting day when two fire engines turned up at my aunts after her chimney caught alight.

 

[vernon]

I'm transported back to the exciting day when two fire engines turned up at my aunts after her chimney caught alight.

I remember the exciting day when a fire engine turned up ay my granny's house when I set fire to the chimney. I watched the spectacle through singed eyelashes and squirming to ease the pain of a slapped arse.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I'm transported back to the exciting day when two fire engines turned up at my aunts after her chimney caught alight.