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Two historic steam locomotives, can enthusiasts save them from the scrapmans blowtorch. Can they survive an epic journey across Turkey's remote terrain. How will they cope with disaster when their steam dream disintegrates. Optimism is the one thing that never dies.
Two enormous engines, one team on a mission to move them. A Titanic task that will test the nerves of the people who dare to do. MONSTER MOVES
Two enormous engines, one team on a mission to move them. A Titanic task that will test the nerves of the people who dare to do. MONSTER MOVES
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00:02Two historic steam locomotives.
00:06Can enthusiasts save them from the scrap man's blowtorch?
00:10Anoraks don't do this sort of stuff. This is the man's world.
00:14Can they survive an epic journey across Turkey's remote terrain?
00:19There's a definite smell of electrical burn in it.
00:22It's very pungent, to say the least.
00:26How will they cope with disaster?
00:28No matter how much preparation you do, something can always go wrong.
00:32When their steam dream disintegrates.
00:36We've only got to hit one of these bad joints and we'll be off the road.
00:40Optimism is the one thing that never dies.
00:43Failure is not an option.
00:46Two enormous engines. One team.
00:51On a mission to movement.
00:53A titanic task that will test the nerves of the people who dare to do monster moves.
01:06Toddington, Gloucestershire.
01:08Home to a band of merry men firmly stuck in the steam age.
01:18Every weekend they fire up the restored relics of that golden era.
01:27The most obsessional of these steam devotees is Mike Hoskin.
01:33What's the best thing about steam locomotives?
01:37Well, it's just the whole behaviour of the locomotive.
01:40It's the squeaks.
01:42It's the noises.
01:44It's the issue of steam.
01:46It's the smell.
01:47The whole thing is just alive.
01:49It's just working.
01:51It's a machine working beneath your feet.
01:54They certainly are the nearest thing that man has built to a living thing.
01:59And it's just incredible.
02:02Unbelievable.
02:03Unbelievable.
02:05Mike's pride and joy is a pinnacle of British engineering.
02:10Astania 8F.
02:12In 1941, she was one of 20 locomotives Winston Churchill exported to Turkey to encourage them to stay neutral in
02:20the war.
02:22Delighted with the endurance of these locos, the Turks dubbed them Churchills.
02:27When they were replaced by diesels in the late 80s, Mike feared they'd be cut up and lost forever.
02:35So he rescued one from Turkey with help from his son and heir, Kev.
02:41It took Mike 20 years to restore her to her former glory.
02:47But Mike's haunted by the 8Fs he had to leave behind.
02:50Right, where are we? Turkey.
02:53He spends most of his spare time searching for any Churchills that have escaped the scrapyard.
02:59It was only by chance, I thought, of the idea of using Google Earth to try and identify what locomotives
03:06still remained in Turkey.
03:07If you know where to look, and you know what you're looking for, if you look very, very carefully, you'd
03:12be surprised what you can see.
03:15And I can clearly see in this image that there is a line of steam locomotives there.
03:21You can just about make out that it's a tapered boiler of a Stania 8F.
03:26And I can say at this point in time that I know pretty well where every single extant 8F is.
03:35Mike has located two Churchills he thinks he can rescue, but he needs help.
03:41Come on Kev, nice shine to that crescent and star.
03:44Along with his grown-up son Kev, he's teamed up with solicitor Chris Brooks and railway rescuer Andy Goodman.
03:53They're taking time out from their day jobs to bring both locos back from Turkey for restoration.
03:59If we could, we'd live to a thousand and we'd save every steam engine that is out there.
04:04We feel we're the best, the only chance to save these locos.
04:09We are 8F knots. We're Stania 8F knots.
04:12And if we can bring them back from Turkey, then that will be a crowning achievement.
04:21In the town of Sivas, the team arrives to inspect the locos.
04:25They have just 10 days to complete the rescue plan before they go back to work.
04:31There we go. They're in that road there.
04:33And here they both are in all their majesty.
04:36A few remnants of our wonderful British locomotive engineering.
04:40Still alive and kicking. Just.
04:44They may look a bit tired, but the general fabric of them is good.
04:48It's all superficial surface rust.
04:50So it's just basically a case of taking them down to the last nut and bolt,
04:55taking them apart at the last nut and bolt and rebuilding them.
04:58I think somebody did realise somewhere there was a significance
05:01because they have, somebody's daubed on the side in paint,
05:05do not dispose or do not, you know, do not destroy in Turkey.
05:09So somebody's obviously realised that sometime in the past
05:12there may be an interest from overseas.
05:15Given a reasonable sum of money spent on them,
05:18they could be put back into working order.
05:21And something like this can be transformed into something of absolute beauty and magnificence.
05:26We do enjoy these sorts of challenges, don't we, Andrew?
05:29Yes.
05:33No rot. Solid as the day it was built.
05:37Good old British engineering.
05:40Their first challenge is deciding the best way to get the Churchills home.
05:45There are three ways we can move these locomotors out of Sevis.
05:47We could pick them up and put them onto low loaders and have them roaded out of town.
05:59This seems like a good option, except that Sevis is ringed by mountains.
06:06And the roads are too steep to move 90 tonne locos safely.
06:11The second and probably the most romantic one would be for us to have the locomotives renovated, repaired,
06:18and put into steam and steamed out of town.
06:27Romantic it might be, but it took Mike 20 years to renovate just one 8F.
06:33So making two engines steam again could take the rest of his life.
06:38The one that we are going to have to run with is to have them taken out of the town
06:42in a freight train,
06:43and that will go to a port, and then we will ship them back to the UK from there.
06:47Only one port in Turkey can cope with loads of this size.
06:53Izmir.
06:55Getting them there will be a massive challenge.
06:59The docks are hundreds of miles to the west of Sevis.
07:03The two cities are linked by an 850 mile rail track.
07:08But there are no direct trains.
07:11So the team will have to hitch a series of lifts on different freight trains heading west.
07:20Unfortunately, Turkish freight trains don't run to a set timetable.
07:25So it will be very hard to keep the schedule.
07:30The team has help from Turkish railway engineer Fahri Polat,
07:34who used to maintain the Churchills in the Sevas engine sheds.
07:38This is the last time that an 8F will ever be on this shed ever again.
07:43And that will be it. That will be the end of steam at Sevis.
07:46Forever.
07:48All a little bit emotional.
07:51Churchill.
07:52Churchill.
07:535,5 Locos, Sevas.
08:00England, here we come.
08:02The team has raised £100,000 to cover buying and repatriating the Locos.
08:16We are now the proud owner of two more 8Fs.
08:22So all we need now is a bit of good luck and a tail wind behind us tomorrow
08:27and we'll be on our way to Izmir.
08:29The team's up before dawn to start their 850-mile journey from Sevas to Izmir.
08:35An ungodly hour in the middle of Turkey.
08:38The Locos have been split because it's weaving out the weight distribution
08:42over some of the bridges down the line.
08:44So we've got one Loco right at the front of the freight
08:46and the other one's almost right to the back.
08:48So we're just walking down now to load up the rest of the stuff on the other Loco.
08:52Basically, there's no timetable, there's no schedule.
08:55All we know is we're leaving here at 5 o'clock this morning.
08:58How are you?
08:59How are you?
09:00Great to see you.
09:02Have you got any chai?
09:05Leaving Sevas, both Locos will be towed 120 miles to the town of Kayseri.
09:11A journey that should take seven hours.
09:16Before they can set off, they must make sure the Churchill's own brakes work.
09:22They will be powered by airlines connected to the diesel Loco.
09:27But as soon as they attach the first Churchill, there's a problem.
09:36That's the air brakes.
09:37So that's basically providing the braking power for the train.
09:41Because it's going...
09:42A bit of wood or something that can jam in the hole?
09:43A bit of wood?
09:44A bit of wood.
09:45A hole about half inch by way.
09:48They'll have to stem this leak before they can go.
09:54That's a twig, that might do.
09:56So what are you going to do with that?
09:57I think they're just going to hammer it in like a bung.
10:01It's a bit of a damp stick here.
10:03It's going to happen to be really good if you hammer it in.
10:06It's going to happen to be really good if you hammer it in.
10:23Mate!
10:23It's been rectified but now we've got another leak.
10:25What you have to do is get the pipe, prise it up, get that long bar we've got, smack it
10:32against something to flatten it, yeah?
10:34Right, there's the hammer.
10:37Hammering the pipe shut should seal the second leak.
10:45I'd hoped that we would actually be able to just pipe her up and get off, but I think we
10:50were going to get this.
10:52Hopefully they'll be happy with the repair, even though it's a bit of a bodge.
10:57But the train inspectors are not convinced.
11:05It'd be nice to get away, because we've been told that if we're not off this road by seven, we
11:11don't go today, I don't think.
11:21Mike's determined not to be beaten by the leaks.
11:24What we can do is get two hammers and flatten the thing.
11:27It will take two minutes, give us five minutes and we can do this.
11:30Two minutes. Come on.
11:32Chris?
11:33Need to find a bigger bit of wood?
11:35No, no, no, no. No, no. No good, no good.
11:38They're desperate to take both locos together, but time's against them.
11:43No, no.
11:45No.
11:46What are we going to do now?
11:49Where's the next train?
11:51Yadin?
11:55Well, we might as well take the other one off as well.
11:57Take that off.
11:58You can't split us.
12:00Other Churchill.
12:01Two Churchill's shared.
12:03Not one, two.
12:05And that one.
12:05Can't split them.
12:07Whether both go or we don't go.
12:14The freight train driver won't wait any longer, so the Churchills are left behind.
12:20The repair, half an hour, tops.
12:23But then, unfortunately, we've got to wait another day now for the freight train at the same time tomorrow morning,
12:27so...
12:29So, another day in Seamus.
12:31Oh, well.
12:45There's no shortage of leaks to fix.
12:53We're at this end now.
12:54It's never-ending.
12:56This is a bodge.
12:58Big bodge.
13:02It looks like it hasn't worked again.
13:05So, I don't know what they're going to do now.
13:09It's around the back.
13:10How's he going to do it?
13:11You can't see.
13:12We're all gone.
13:15Fahri improvises a way of patching the final leap.
13:19The line's out of use for the rest of the day after our train departs tomorrow.
13:23The maintenance for the rest of the day, so we need to be on that train.
13:30Failure is not an option.
13:34With the 8Fs finally safe for travel, the crew celebrate the Turkish way.
13:41He's here.
13:42All right.
13:43More tea breaks than British Railways.
13:46It almost is.
13:48Well, it's what makes the world go round, doesn't it, actually, isn't it?
13:54Thank you very much.
13:55Cheers.
13:56A successful start tomorrow, then.
13:58Yeah.
14:02Straight out the yard tomorrow.
14:04Really?
14:04Yes.
14:05Anyhow, there we go.
14:06Very good.
14:07Cheers, all.
14:08There wouldn't be any challenge if we did it the first time and it worked.
14:11Really?
14:13Is that how we do it?
14:14Is that right?
14:15Yeah, that's how we do it.
14:16That's how we do it.
14:17Three hours later, they're summoned back to the yard.
14:21There's space available on an afternoon freight train to Kaizeri.
14:25We are ready for action.
14:27Ready for a night on the footpath of an 8F.
14:29Let's wait and see if we can get out of the yard, first of all.
14:32Once we start rolling, that'll be a bit of a sigh of relief, I should imagine, all round.
14:39Here we go.
14:40Here we go.
14:41Fantastic.
14:42Brilliant.
14:44Look at Siva's shed as we leave now.
14:54Great start.
14:56Fantastic.
15:05Fantastic.
15:07We're going.
15:09Dead on.
15:10Dead on.
15:10Quarter to five.
15:12There you go.
15:12Quarter to five.
15:13Quarter to five, as I said.
15:13My goodness.
15:16There you go.
15:23Wow, it was worth this in a night's sleep, eh? Fantastic, really brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
15:35I've been blubbing like a baby.
15:42What's that? Nothing's alright.
15:46It's all a bit too much.
15:51After a triumphant departure, four miles down the line, they grind to a halt.
15:59That's a smashing start. That's a really great start.
16:02So only about another 985 miles to go.
16:07But, you know, come on. Come on, baby.
16:11It's one small step, one big step for the 8F.
16:16Our next job is to try and stop this window from opening because it's...
16:20Oh, bloody hell.
16:22It's deteriorated even more now.
16:25Just a little bit of it.
16:31Oh, dear.
16:33I don't think we can reglaze it now.
16:36Ahead, it's single track, so they have to wait their turn.
16:41As soon as this is through, we'll get a green light and off we go.
16:57The reason we're waiting is we've had to wait for a local, we think, from Samson, and now Farhi's told
17:03us that an express is coming.
17:07So, once that's through, we should get a green light. Off we go.
17:20We left on time, quarter to five, and we made about seven kilometres, and we've been waiting here now for
17:30about 50 minutes, 55 minutes.
17:35So, hopefully, this isn't going to be the way it goes. Hopefully, we'll do 55 minutes travelling and 10 minutes
17:43waiting.
17:49Three hours later, the express finally clears the line.
18:07Well, at last, we're actually moving, Andy.
18:09It's about time. After about four hours, blimey.
18:13I didn't think we was going to get going again tonight.
18:17Through the night, the Churchills make steady progress towards Kayseri.
18:22Four hours later, they approach a mountain pass.
18:26They start to slow down as the diesel is straining to pull them.
18:31He's obviously struggling. It's a very steep gradient, this, with the weight of the train we've got behind us.
18:47He's got a lot of power, but he can't do anything with it.
18:50We are literally inching, inching.
18:53We're almost at the top of the incline by the look of it.
18:58He's almost got it over.
19:01Oh, that's true.
19:04There's a definite smell of electrical burn, and it's very pungent, to say the least.
19:10Very strong.
19:13Chris spots trouble ahead.
19:16It's on fire now.
19:17It's on fire, is it?
19:19It's on fire now.
19:21It's on fire, is it?
19:24I said any minute now, there's going to be a big bang.
19:34Oh dear.
19:36So we're powerless, aren't we?
19:37Hang on.
19:38He's trying again.
19:41He's obviously trying to see what he has got.
19:45But you can smell it. It's absolutely incredible.
19:53He's repping his engine, but he's got no drive.
19:57Oh, cri, now we're going backwards.
20:02Check the bike, so it's got a deer.
20:07It was a fantastic, fantastic share of sparks.
20:11So I would think, I mean, I don't know, but I would surmise he's perhaps cooked a traction motor
20:18under that boga, which means he's got no power now.
20:22Well, certainly there were showering sparks from both the front and the back.
20:26What does that spell for our progress tonight, then?
20:28I would think that's just about put a finish to it.
20:31With the diesel powerless, they'll have to wait for another loco to rescue them.
20:37By the time they get moving, it's light.
20:41It's still a real huge challenge.
20:43So it's that that I keep pinching myself about, thinking, wow, we're still doing this.
20:49You know, we're sitting on the back of an 8F in the middle of Turkey.
20:53We're looking at another 8F, and it's just almost beyond belief.
21:01Just as the gentle rhythm lulls them to sleep, they're about to have a rude awakening.
21:11He shouldn't be making this noise.
21:20It's worse on the other side, I think.
21:23Whether a spring's collapsed, it might have done.
21:27Whether it's catching on that, I don't know.
21:32It's definitely making a hell of a noise.
21:36They have no way of alerting the driver to tell him to stop,
21:39so they can't investigate the noise.
21:42If we can get to Kayseri, we can check out what's been banging and clanking.
21:49It might just be an old steam engine banging and clanking, though.
21:5430 miles down the line, when they finally reach Kayseri,
21:57they're able to investigate what's wrong.
22:01The boxes look OK.
22:03OK.
22:05OK, yes.
22:06There's something clanking, though.
22:09This must have disintegrated. It's gone.
22:13It looks like the white metal's gone.
22:17This is a potentially disastrous problem.
22:21Each of the Churchill's axles is surrounded by a white metal bearing
22:25that allows the axle to rotate smoothly.
22:28But on Chris and Andy's engine, one half of this bearing has fallen out.
22:33The axle has become unstable, causing the wheel to jump around.
22:38This bouncing wheel could easily derail the loco, dragging the whole train over.
22:49Obviously, somewhere in the early hours this morning, when we started moving again,
22:54that piece has just come out, and we suspect it's actually laying in the track somewhere.
22:59So what we're going to go and do is look for the proverbial needle in the haystack,
23:03because now we're going to have to go and find it.
23:05It's about 11 inches long.
23:06I know what they look like.
23:07You know what they look like.
23:08I mean, it's about that big, and it's like a half round shape, you know.
23:10It's the same shape as the coal that you've got there when you look in there, basically.
23:14We can find it. Let's get cracking.
23:15I'm sure we'll find it.
23:16If they fail to find the missing part, they may have to abandon the whole expedition.
23:24Three days into their journey, they begin the search for the lost bearing,
23:28but they don't know how far back it fell off.
23:31Anoraks don't do this sort of stuff. This is the man's world.
23:36Things we do for the love of steam engines.
23:39Confidence is high. Edit, guys.
23:41Oh, yes.
23:41Oh, yes.
23:45The team is gambling that the bearing has fallen out
23:48where the axle was under the most stress.
23:51The most likely place is 30 miles back towards Sivas,
23:55where a series of curves climbs up a steep incline.
23:59The search party will split up with Andy heading west on his own
24:04and Chris and Mike heading east.
24:09OK, we're going to go that way.
24:12Andy, you're going that way.
24:14All right. We'll see you soon.
24:16Da la.
24:20We're just walking across the fields to the point where the locomotives started behaving badly,
24:27which is where we think it threw the brass.
24:30So we're going to make that our starting point.
24:37Chris, you'll find it, won't you?
24:39It's your locomotive. You're looking after it.
24:42We've got two teams on the go.
24:45We should be able to find it very quickly.
24:48I'm pretty sure by the time we were on this one here, Mike,
24:51it was giving it some serious.
24:53Around this curve here?
24:54Yeah, serious.
24:55Right, OK.
25:00The formation's quite wide, quite clean, so even if it bounced out, we should be able to see it on
25:05either side as well.
25:06But this is where we expect to find it, in the forefoot.
25:10Severs, here we come.
25:13That's nearly 120 miles.
25:22This is not normal activities for preservationists.
25:26So this makes us really getting on for the diehards, I suppose.
25:30We're walking along this main line.
25:33It's surreal.
25:36We're just going to have a look over the sides to make sure it hasn't bounced down into the ditch.
25:44Can't see nothing.
25:46It hurts your bloody ankles walking on this stuff, doesn't it?
25:51This is another place it could come out.
25:54Rattling across the point.
25:57The trouble is it could easily have bounced out left or right down an embankment, if that's the case.
26:02It would be very, very difficult to find.
26:04What happened?
26:23After three hours of fruitless searching, Mike receives a call from Andy.
26:27Hello, Andy.
26:28I can't hear you very well because we're blowing a gale up here.
26:33Where are you?
26:34Hello?
26:36Oh, well done, well done.
26:39It's alright?
26:40Go up.
26:41Yee-haw!
26:44Found the beep thing.
26:48We just spent two hours going the wrong way.
26:58Oh dear.
26:59Even Andy was getting excited.
27:02Thanks sweet **** for that.
27:04Sense of relief.
27:06Ah, relief.
27:07We can't even put it into words.
27:08Fantastic.
27:09Total, total ecstasy.
27:11This must be the first time in the history of mankind that two guys have hugged one another over a
27:16bit of brass.
27:18But as you'll see, it's a very important bit of brass.
27:22Let's go.
27:25Andy's standing waving his arms like a male.
27:29Let's just check he's got the right bit and he's got half a bloody painting or something.
27:33And someone's cutting off.
27:36And he goes, is this it?
27:37Oh, shit.
27:39We'll give him a big hug.
27:40We'll give him a big hug, yeah.
27:42As long as he's got the right thing.
27:44I went, I saw, I found.
27:46He found.
27:48Look at him standing up there like the proud conqueror.
27:51Look at that.
27:52His chest rippling.
27:54Yeah, look at it.
27:55The pride and passion and...
28:04There it is.
28:05Well done, me old sausage.
28:08Well done.
28:10Here we go.
28:11This is the offending part.
28:13Here we go.
28:39That is more valuable than the crown bloody jewels.
28:43Right.
28:44Howdy ho.
28:51These are just little things being sent to test us, just to test our resolve.
28:55See, nothing beats us.
28:57Where did you go back to?
28:58Cebus?
29:00No, no, no.
29:03There she is with all her glory.
29:05I can't guess.
29:06White metal's all right, is it?
29:07Yeah, it's a little bit off the corner, but no worse than we've seen before.
29:09Right, let's get it in then.
29:10We're damn lucky because there's very little damage to it.
29:14So, thank you.
29:16OK, lift and separate.
29:22Once the lost part is back in place, the Churchill will be ready to roll again.
29:30It just goes to illustrate that on a venture like this, anything go wrong,
29:34and no matter how much preparation you do, something can always go wrong.
29:37If it can go wrong, it will go wrong.
29:40So, back to the hotel for a wash, maybe a bite to eat, a pint, and an early night.
29:48The following day, they're up early to hitch another lift.
29:52The next leg is 115 miles to the town of Ulukishla,
29:57but already the team is a day behind schedule.
30:08We're a bit late away. We should have been away at 8 o'clock.
30:11It's now 9.07.
30:12The train is made up.
30:14The train examiner's walking down through just to check everything,
30:17so our diversion will be off fairly shortly.
30:19Well, here we go now.
30:22The adventure continues.
30:23Very good, too.ì—ˆ
30:54This is what it should all be about.
30:56A nice leisurely plod across the Turkish landscape.
31:00Absolutely stunning.
31:01This has got to be the best bit by far, so far.
31:05We can have a few more days like this, I think we'll be made up.
31:12What do you reckon, Kev?
31:14That's how it's brilliant.
31:33Yesterday was a day of strife, real anxiety and a bit of despair actually when we lost the brass.
31:42But ten hours kip and a sunny day and everybody's in great spirits.
31:47Rugged, fantastic scenery.
31:49The diesel's working perfectly today, unlike the diesel yesterday.
31:54It managed to blow itself off.
32:10After ten hours of trouble-free travel, the Churchills arrive in Ulukishla.
32:16By now, it's not just the locals that need lubricating.
32:20Jar-rate the hips.
32:24Oh, oh.
32:28I think his glasses are steaming up.
32:32I've got a feeling this is going to cost me, dear.
32:35Watch your lung bite down.
32:36Yeah.
32:39Brilliant, that.
32:40I didn't realise you're hitting us with that mobile.
32:50On the morning after the night before, Andy's feeling a bit fragile.
32:59I don't think I did much for east-west relations last night with one's dancing.
33:05Trying to dance in a pair of size 12 hobnail boots is not a good idea, really.
33:12So that was the problem, was it?
33:14Definitely, definitely. The fact that I was creaking and old ages catching up, it got nothing to do with it
33:19whatsoever.
33:21The old Churchills creak on into the hills to the journey's halfway point.
33:27The extra weight is not helping this heavily laden train on steep gradients.
33:34It's about to stall, I think, which means he'll lose momentum. And we're on a fairly steep hill.
33:41Rather than risk blowing his engine, the driver reverses back down the slope.
33:47We're going back. We've decided we're going back to Seabus, do it all again. Take two.
33:54I think the driver has decided to set back, get on the level and take a run at it.
34:01It's not only a fairly steep incline further around the hill, but it's also a very tight bend.
34:06Might be a repeat of the other night, isn't it?
34:09It's a case of when, I think, isn't it?
34:11I was going to say, yes, yes. We've managed to blow one Turkish state railway logo up.
34:15So you'll have to see whether we do another one.
34:18We might work our way through all the classes, mightn't we?
34:28Once on the flat, the driver accelerates back towards the hill.
34:33Here we go. We're going to take a run now at the hill.
34:37And we expect the diesel to really work hard now, get a bit of speed up, a bit of momentum.
34:42And then hopefully get round the bend. Otherwise we'll be coming back again.
34:47And getting hit by a tree.
34:50He's certainly going faster than he approached this hill before.
34:54Yeah, we're getting quite a lick up now, actually.
34:56Hey, yes, really giving it some.
34:58Yes, he's not hanging about this time.
35:00I've got to make it.
35:02I think we should go over here at some speed, actually, over the top.
35:06Oh, blammy. I hope his brakes are working.
35:10It'll start to hit the incline now.
35:13It'll start to slow down a bit, I think, now.
35:16Come on, keep going.
35:19He's not going to do it, hasn't he?
35:21It's done very well to get this far.
35:23God, dear.
35:25They don't half give these engines some hammer.
35:28You can hear it stopping.
35:31No. No. That's it.
35:33That's it. It conked out again.
35:36No. No.
35:38Let's go down.
35:44Once again, they stop short of the summit.
35:48They'll have to wait for another diesel to come to the rescue with more pulling power.
35:55Chris makes use of the weight to brush up on his Turkish.
35:59D-resh yapmak.
36:02Alışveriş yapmak.
36:03Yeah. So, in theory then, G is shock.
36:07G.
36:18When the second loco finally arrives, it catches the team unawares.
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38:30go before they reach Izmir it's been worth it to have gone through the
38:40experience is almost worth it but to be saving these locos it's just it's just
38:46amazing it's just unbelievable it's it's it's so exciting yeah it tried up we
38:53transcend our tiredness but this is so exciting it's a it's a trip of a lifetime
39:00it's an adventure of a lifetime and it's it's an achievement because we're
39:06going to save these locos but just when they and their driver are heading down
39:12the home straight a new fear emerges the driver's going really too fast actually
39:18I mean he's got an instruction not to exceed 40 kilometers an hour we're well
39:24in excess of that the track's not really good enough not for this
39:28and we're trying to attract his attention somehow or other to try and get him to slow down
39:33a bit but the driver's not responding to their signals I mean we've only got to hit
39:39one of these bad joints and we'll be off the road I mean you know see it's that serious
39:51the driver slows down entering a station and far he seizes the opportunity to alert the station
39:57master fortunately the driver doesn't ignore a red light the crew is safe but angry he's in danger of
40:12wrecking the freaking train yeah god it is worrying actually the fire is up there now with the
40:18station master um we're probably gonna have to end up having a word with the driver
40:43yeah any more yeah any more you'll get
40:53the driver seems to get the message and the dots a gentler cruising speed after eight long days and
41:02eight hundred and fifty hard miles the crew finally has their goal in sight
41:19no problem he's been asleep all the way
41:39great stuff yeah great well it's a mirror
41:50these two old girls have made it all this distance I've been so brown for so long
41:55it's incredible but it's great we're here we just knew we'd get here but fantastic
42:01achievement great team effort well done everybody next day the ship arrives that will take the
42:12churchills back to England well she's on the way I am now good old girl hey
42:34there she's up she has left the railway keep this right of progress up we'll be on course for the
42:41end
42:41of the day we're rocking on now we're racing off we might actually actually make the sailing
42:54we've saved them and that's the important thing for us we've saved them I've just never in my wildest
43:01dreams thought that one day they would actually be saved in my lifetime so I'm pretty chuffed to bits
43:06about that yes yes yes finally it's been an enormous uphill struggle I think we've all enjoyed it
43:14all but we're really looking now to getting these locomotives back home and chasing them up and seeing
43:19them seeing the restored and running order again we made it happen I just think through yeah guts
43:24determination commitment and passion it's just really a combination of all those things but I don't
43:30think we'll never forget it the rest of our lives we never forget it they were built to steam they
43:35were built to work and that's exactly what they're going to do again 70 years away from the UK now
43:42they're finally back for their place of birth it's where they rightfully belong a very fitting end to
43:48their long careers over in Turkey we're just devout hardcore railway preservationists and we just wanted to
43:53make sure that we could do something to save as much of our railway heritage as we could hey this
44:02is
44:02to a job well done yeah fantastic venture and adventure yeah well done well done team what up guys
44:26well done team what up guys
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