{"id":7462,"date":"2026-01-02T12:50:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7462"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:49:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:49:39","slug":"the-lovely-sound-of-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7462","title":{"rendered":"The Lovely Sound of Steam&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were on our way back from Bedale on Monday morning when we realised that we were following one of the last few runs of the Black 5 which has been heading up the Polar Express.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When heading the Polar Express the loco is in steam but not really doing much work as it&#8217;s actually being pulled one way and pushed the other way by the Class 47 on the other end of the train. We live on a slight rise so we would hear the chatter if the loco was doing any &#8216;work&#8217;, this has been absent on the Polar Express for the last few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However on two of the running days between Christmas and the New Year the steam loco actually does the work of pulling the train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Getting back to Monday, Chris joked about racing the train and we soon caught up to it just before Crakehall crossing. From there we moved ahead and I was able to pull up in a farm lane just to the east of the village where we could see the train coming from a long way off so I decided to try an video it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apologies about the slight glitch in the middle where I got out of the car to get a better shot as it came closer. &#8211; What a lovely sound!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lancashire Fusilier on the Wensleydale\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/grGiL3unVk4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were on our way back from Bedale on Monday morning when we realised that we were following one of the last few runs of the Black 5 which has been heading up the Polar Express. When heading the Polar &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7462\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wensleydale-railway"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7465,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462\/revisions\/7465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}