A Tribute to My Grandad!

In this compilation video, we pay tribute to my Grandad, Robert Barber, who passed away in August 2025.

Throughout my life we did so many things together and he helped to raise me to be who I am today. Without him, I don't know where I would be!

As a child and into his teenage years, he use to regularly trainspot in Derby, where he was born and even made the odd trip to Crewe during the 50s & 60s.

His favourite class of locomotive was the LMS Jubilees, spotting them all the time and in coincidentally, the four preserved ones, alongside of his other favourite classes such as the Britannias, Royal Scots, Black Fives, 9Fs, Crabs & 4Fs (Duck 6s as he would call them) to name but a few. He loved anything big, with big smoke deflectors and a good chime whistle!

This compilation aims to capture most of the locomotives he loved, saw in his life and some of his favourite steam clips captured on the channel with a different loco on every clip.

We would always go on many holidays, visit heritage railways and travel on steam and diesel railtours around the country together, or even watching the Green Umbrella DVDs featuring locos such as Flying Scotsman & Clan Line, which are memories I will more than cherish forever!

The stories he would tell me were fantastic of how he use to catch Jubilees from Derby to Newton Abbott when he joined the army

The time he saw the Prototype Deltic (DP1) at Crewe

The time a 4F hauled a holiday special back from Blackpool to Derby and went much faster than he expected!

The time he fell off of the Lickey Banker No. 2290 Big Bertha at a Derby Works open day as a kid, whilst trying to climb on it!

Locos featuring in this compilation include:

Western Region:
7802 Bradley Manor
6990 Witherslack Hall
5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
7029 Clun Castle
6023 King Edward II

Southern Region:
30120
926 Repton
34027 Taw Valley
34046 Braunton
34067 Tangmere
34092 City of Wells
35018 British India Line
35028 Clan Line


Midland Region:
3F 47406
Ivatt 2 Tank 41241
4F 43924
Crab 13065
8F 48624
Black Five 44871
Black Five 45212
Black Five 45428 Eric Treacy (Then numbered 5428)
45596 Bahamas
45690 Leander
45699 Galatea
46100 Royal Scot
46115 Scots Guardsman
6201 Princess Elizabeth
6233 Duchess of Sutherland


Eastern Region:
61306 Mayflower
60163 Tornado
60532 Blue Peter
60103 Flying Scotsman
60007 Sir Nigel Gresley
60009 Union of South Africa

BR Standards:

Std 2 78018
Std 5 73082 Camelot
Std 5 73156
70000 Britannia
70013 Oliver Cromwell
9F 92203 Black Prince
9F 92214

Others:
S160 5197


The amount I could write for Grandad would well exceed the word limit for YouTube descriptions!

THANK YOU for the memories, Grandad, you may be gone, but legends never die and I know that whenever I or my family are having fun and laughs, you will be somewhere close by in spirit, as that's what you were all about!

Rest easy, Grandad.


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