The age of STEAM TRAINS is RETURNING

Thank you all for your comments! I'm reading what you say and there are certainly a lot of good points raised regarding the effectiveness and practicality of this venture. There will be a new Guide Rail episode on the first Friday of each month. Looking forward to talking about the 5AT project at some point!

Who's revolutionary now, Diesel?- Duck, 2024

We are so back

If this succeeds then the class should be called the Phoenix class

This smacks of distraction-tech. Hydrogen, in all its many guises (colors) still has to be made from something else, and therein lies the problem. It takes energy to make hydrogen, a lot of energy, and that must be factored into the overall equation. Just because the loco itself is efficient and "green" isn't helpful if its fuel-making process is inefficient and energy-intensive. When you look at the big picture, hydrogen is simply not a sensible alternative to existing technologies. Britain should be electrifying all its lines, and doing so without any further delays. If India (with one of the world's largest rail networks that moves more than 9 billion people each year) has already electrified 95% of its broad-gauge lines and will electrify the remaining 5% very soon, then there's no excuse for Britain to not electrify its entire network. Even if the electricity is generated from fossil fuels, it's easier to control pollution at a few large power stations than at a vast plethora of individual locomotives and trains. This is the only efficient way to power trains: anything else is just a distraction.

euh electric locomotives/ multiple units are indirect steam powered trains ! The majority of Power plants use steam turbines to produce electricity.

I just have to ask, WHY?! I'm a steam fan, but it just makes SO MUCH more sense to just electrify the railroad and use electric locomotives instead of going through the hassle of generating and storing hydrogen and then using that to generate steam to turn turbines. Esp. since to get hydrogen, you either get it from fossil fuels or electrolysis which takes tons of power when compared to the energy you get out. It's up there imo with battery locos.

“BOOM! I’m back, dummy!” -Steam

LONG LIVE THE ERA OF STEAM ENGINES

"Different designs are very fussy on what fuel they use." I think this was proven very well by the camelback locomotives of the US. Giant fireboxes to burn coals with extremely low BTUs. The Strasburg railroad had an 0-4-0 camelback that they tried to use high-BTU coal in and it went... poorly to say the least.

Another dead end. Not because of steam, but because of hydrogen. Creating, compressing (or even liquefying) hydrogen, then expanding and "burning" it is extremely wasteful. 80% of the energy is lost as heat to the environment. Storage of hydrogen is also a big issue. I bet on synthetic fuels, made from green hydrogen, without any storage or transportation of hydrogen itself. Synthetic fuels that can be distributed with the existing infrastructure and stored as easily and safely as fossil fuels will be the future. Costly, sure, but from a practical point of view much better. And certainly not worse than using hydrogen directly in terms of efficiency. Of course, the most efficient way will remain to install overhead wires and run directly on electricity. At least on main lines with frequent service.

I like steam locomotives and all but does no one else find it weird that the assumption is that after 220 years of development we've barely developed the steam locomotive but in half the time we've achieved all we can from diesel-electrics

Wait, what? Wow! I am happy that steam is returning from a while now! Steam Engines is always my passion and one of the reasons I created my channel! Thanks for the video! Keep up the good work Terrier55Stepney!

Looks like we're coming back full circle to the age of the steam Era, I'm so excited for where rail travel will go.

I love that he used the song "fury the high pressure engine's theme" by S.A Music while talking about the leader's problems, lol

this is such a nice break from all this "hyperloop" and "pods" garbage. it's nice to see some real innovation in the places where it matters the most.

3:56 that locomotive deserves a video all to itself, looks futuristic, strong, awesome too. 😊

Steam engines: "haha, did you miss us bit-"

Instead of turning Hydrogen into Steam, why not use the Electricity we’d use to make the Hydrogen directly with electric locomotives? It’s much more efficient, you’d just need to build more overhead wires

Say Terrier, I was wondering if you heard of Sam Mackwell and his efforts to bring back steam in New Zealand. He doesn't have much on his YouTube channel but he does have a working boiler that utilitizes Advanced Steam principles as developed by L.D. Porta. He's planning on using the technology for farming, especially since he designed his boiler for biofuels, wood, and bagasse.