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Nice bit of real action!

You can tell right away that this was filmed just before Covid because everyone looks happy....One of the places I am going to visit sometime this coming summer. Thank Alan....

Good capture

Excellent video Alan, from your archives. Nice departure. Kind regards C&A

Awesome old video! Thumbs Up 8 All the best from Romania Andrew

Super video, nice coal train and loely engine sound! Good work! Thumbs Up Greetings from Romania & Happy New Year Andrew

Interesting video, greetings!

Well, that's a good 'un! Reckon 15 isn't far off . . .

Always good in the yard.

Hi Alan. Just noticed that there is possibility of a steam tour to holyhead on 13th. If not steam, its a diesel tour. If it goes!,,,.kind regards C&A

No tilting

Excellent video Alan. Well captured. Hope you're have a good year of capturing rail tours in North Wales. Kind regards C&A

Nice one of the coal train Alan. All the best for 2025. Jeff.

Happy New Year, and thank you for showing us! Wonder how much diesel would be saved by sticking to the WCML?

Beatiuful video ,greetings 👍🌲🚂

Nice video Alan. That's an old film. We remember those days. Have a great filming new year. Kind regards C&A

V ery good , sight and sound!

Good one Alan.

Like 1 Amazing video!!

South Wales was railway heaven 37 s pacers and hsts alll now gone 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

It's a 1960s diesel engine, which depends entirely on the temperature of the combustion chamber to work properly. The tolerances of the engine components were far lower than something made today (same as any internal combustion engine) so it took a while for the engine to heat up to its operating temperature and work as intended.

Nothing like the smell of burning diesel on a cold morning.

I was on this job in 2013 at Oxford on a 60. Flat batteries charged and a very cold engine. ruclips.net/video/1YbnZHnG04M/видео.htmlsi=TINVzLgFYwu8yWMz.

My job was to start up the 37's at Godfrey Road sidings ( this location ) ready for service. Cold start caused a lot of smoke. Settled down when warmed up

That’s a superb piece of footage Alan and a thoroughly enjoyable watch, wishing you and Jane a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, cheers nige 🎄🚂

At 1 minute I saw a piece of junk I'd never class as a train with character. A bus on rails, that's what I call them. The 37's here remind me of the days I used to go all over the country, where the variety of locos was absolutely amazing. Today, it's lost its appeal for me as I don't like modern traction. Time flies so fast it doesn't seem that long ago the UK was rife with lots of different traction that were interesting.

Too bad we dont get Smellovision on here! 🥴 I bet that put a hole in the ozone over Newport that day. Bloody beautiful tho. God i luv tractors.

This was normal I had the job to start all the class 31s 47s 08s up over the Christmas period at Bounds Green depot to stop them freezing and ready for there duties the following day the whole depot and yard was thick with diesel fumes it’s was a sight back in the good old days happy times back then 👍🏻👍🏻

And we got rid of steam because it was Smokey noisy and took a long time to get started😁

Helps to do a little research before you title the video. Neither of those 37's are "rather sick" !!

That's normal

Not sick, just lazy.

I used to look forward to the day when Pacers would go extinct. As for the 37, that’s normal. No glow plugs, no block heater and the “Cold Start” button just dumps more fuel into the cylinders. Added to that, the engine’s governor works with oil pressure so they do surge badly until warmed through. Oooooh all that unburnt diesel!!!!!

Terrific, as another Welsh Lass once said, THOSE WERE THE DAYS.

Nice to see the old rail freight liveries and regional rail colours, fare do it wasn't perfect back then but better than the rainbow railways of today.

Not sick just cold.

Green peace would love that 😂

I can smell it now and it smells beautiful, thank you for posting.

Got to love a couple of cold start tractors - back in the day I was on a Christmas loco pre-heating turn at Didcot and I had 11 class 37`s running like that, after about 10-15 mins you could not see the station or station road, at some point when the exhausts get hot enough but the locos are still over fueling (Most of the white smoke) you can get some very loud back fires and a few towers of flames out of the exhaust stacks, when they are only running on part bank you can get some epic smoke rings out as well. Great video, brings it all back - thanks.

A splendid train presentation !!

What a difference now at that place!

Good grief.

Superb old video footage Alan. Great shots of the class 37 start ups. Cheers - Allan. 👍

Nice video 👍❤️

Like 1 Beautiful capture!!

Great sound from the 37.👍

This is normal for then back in the day. You have to wind up those engines for 2-3mins before they start and then only one by one the cylinders would cut in slowly. All the smoke you see is all the unburnt diesel burning off in the exaust system. I remember Clapham Yard at four in the morning being so fogged out I had to walk forwards to check to see if the Shunt signal was off before we could leave. Two engines coupled together both doing what we call half fart running share the charging systems between them and keep both sets of batteries on both engines charging. We used to call that DONKEYING. The fuel that engines used back then was 85% diesel and 15% old used recycled filtered engine lube oil. When the engines got hotter they would run a lot clearer but on a first or a cold start they would smoke badly some times there was fire seen out the top. what you filmed was mild compared to Clapham yard in winter....

Nice video and photo of the log train Alan. 👍 Cheers - Allan.

Good coverage there!

Good capture.👍