J15 Bashes The Buffers at Sheringham

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Published 2022-06-28
reuploaded as I cannot find the original anywhere so I thought I'd do a good deed for everyone.

here's 65462 (now GER 564) back when she was in BR condition reversing to run round her train at Sheringham. driver must have not paid attention to the pretty small headshunt between the points and the gate and you can see the engine propels herself forward.

I don't know if this was before or after this accident but there's now a sleeper plank resting on its chairs over the rails in front of the gate to probably help driver not go bonk again.

if you do happen to be around in the Norfolk area, do go visit the North Norfolk Railway to see their fleet and their sole surviving B12 and Y14 (J15).

I don't know the actual date this was filmed as I'm not the original lad who filmed it and I don't know who did either, just reuploading for the masses
All Comments (21)
  • @MilkDrinker218
    When you JUST sat down and your mom calls you from the entire other side of the house
  • @SeaSwine9
    The best bit is that they steam up again after the bang like "Haha what buffers? We didn't hit any buffers :3"
  • @Ever_2008_ARG
    I love how it just jolts forward right after hitting the buffers
  • @olly5764
    While I'm lothed to be an arm chair inspector, the blows around the front end just before he clouts the blocks suggest that he has had to pole the loco (throw the reverser over and open up to stop) a fact backed up by how rapidly the loco takes off after the bump. Its possible that far from being unaware of their situation, they may have been having brake issues, hence taking drastic action to stop
  • @bussesandtrains1218
    by the way this was a common(ish) practice in steam days because stopping and starting a steam locomotive is very slow, so they just cut off steam, slowed it, threw back the reverser and opened up the regulator. its quicker than a steam engine's sub-par breaks, flicking the reverser, waiting for the steam to build up and slowly creek away because of bad acceleration (unless its a shunting engine) and even still its a bad idea to apply full power to a train of any type because of physics (steel+steel produces little friction which is good for efficiency and speed but not for acceleration)
  • @Del-bm
    Nice short video, thanks for sharing
  • @-FreeMiner-
    Earthquake material that bump was 😮