Excellent filming. Being old (!), I recall going round Toton diesel depot just after it opened. Steam shed still there at the time (opposite side of mainlines to new diesel shed), mostly full of withdrawn 8Fs.
I was there Saturday but unlike you my mobile does not have the zoom capabilities. so I've been cross referencing my images with your video to confirm each locomotive. Very much appreciated. Ps. Where can i obtain the music you use please
@@_RabbitLeader May be, until the spares arrive. If the cab is destroyed, it is cheaper to ask for a new cab. But my impression of UK railfreight is a decline in number of trains..
@@class77sncb Who knows but when you see Class 66s standing idle not to mention many other locos standing idle, why go to great expense repairing a cab when money can be saved by using as a source for spare parts. Other operators are storing Class 66’s!
@@class77sncb How is cheaper to buy a new cab? Cheaper than what? If this is spare, it is money saving by not buying a a replacement cab and simply taking parts from it rather than import from Canada.
Too many assets for too little work. The Americans were Smart enough to sell up right when the coal power stations started to be switched off and unlike freightliner EWS didn’t have a glut of intermodal to fall back on.
you can definitely see class 47 design in a class 60 so 1960s design altered slightly to build the class 60s in the late 1980s early 1990s! I bet half of these loco's was barely worn in when they was dumped and left to rot away in 2000 onwards!!!
@@justinobrien3593 60s were unreliable. Most have been in scrap lines longer than they were in service. Everything went against them, privatisation, heavy freight dried up, 60mph top speed and low reliability.
Your content is always excellent but sadly you are letting yourself down by your rather limited grasp of written English! "....what a mess OUR railways ARE" is the correct way of putting it. You're welcome! (Subscribed) 😀
@@class77sncb the global export market is shrinking year in year out. The UK has lost its coal mining industry and the country is shifting to alternative sources of energy. The steel industry had been in decline for years. A lot of the locomotives at Toton have been stored for years, since way before Brexit. It is easy to blame Brexit, and Covid too, for decline in anything, is that factual? No...
@@simonp1970 There is no way out for UK ! Nearly bankrupt and broken ! Listen to the new premier ! Brexit and the loss of a lot of industries.. The class 60 at Toton were stored, because the cost per mile were higher then using a class 66. And now the market is further shrinking, because continental industries have found other suppliers outside UK !! There are FACTS and no OPINION ! It is cheaper to buy .,g. chinese or korean machinery for construction work than British made ones.
@@class77sncb which is the same for the rest of the world.. chinese cheap crap has flooded the market, the UK is the 6th largest economy in the world, hardly bankrupt.. The 60s were stored because the work wasn't there.. in addition, DBSchenker really aren't doing very well.. look at GBRF, DCR and Freightliner by comparison...
Back in the BR Blue days when the 20s and 45s were being withdrawn they did not survive as long as the 60s that are there now. DB management poor.
Excellent filming. Being old (!), I recall going round Toton diesel depot just after it opened. Steam shed still there at the time (opposite side of mainlines to new diesel shed), mostly full of withdrawn 8Fs.
Sad sight to see so many locos not earning revenue anymore. Appropriate music too.
@@werringtonjunction I know it's so sad mate.
I was there Saturday but unlike you my mobile does not have the zoom capabilities. so I've been cross referencing my images with your video to confirm each locomotive.
Very much appreciated.
Ps. Where can i obtain the music you use please
wrong privider ???
Strange to see Class66’s languishing but a few will be used for spare parts especially if had a significant crash.
Waiting for spare parts ??
@@class77sncb Will probably be cannibalised for parts for other locos as and when needed. That is the usual way at TMDs if they have plenty of locos.
@@_RabbitLeader May be, until the spares arrive. If the cab is destroyed, it is cheaper to ask for a new cab.
But my impression of UK railfreight is a decline in number of trains..
@@class77sncb Who knows but when you see Class 66s standing idle not to mention many other locos standing idle, why go to great expense repairing a cab when money can be saved by using as a source for spare parts. Other operators are storing Class 66’s!
@@class77sncb How is cheaper to buy a new cab? Cheaper than what? If this is spare, it is money saving by not buying a a replacement cab and simply taking parts from it rather than import from Canada.
DB have too many assets to manage.
Too many assets for too little work. The Americans were Smart enough to sell up right when the coal power stations started to be switched off and unlike freightliner EWS didn’t have a glut of intermodal to fall back on.
@@HJDore that's what's wrong with the private sector. The companies with the greatest assets are not always those with the biggest books.
@@HJDore They have intermodal , but mostly between UK and the continent!
you can definitely see class 47 design in a class 60 so 1960s design altered slightly to build the class 60s in the late 1980s early 1990s! I bet half of these loco's was barely worn in when they was dumped and left to rot away in 2000 onwards!!!
@@justinobrien3593 60s were unreliable. Most have been in scrap lines longer than they were in service. Everything went against them, privatisation, heavy freight dried up, 60mph top speed and low reliability.
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Your content is always excellent but sadly you are letting yourself down by your rather limited grasp of written English!
"....what a mess OUR railways ARE" is the correct way of putting it.
You're welcome! (Subscribed)
😀
the consequence of BREXIT means: less freight upon the rails to the continent !
Don't talk nonsense....
@@simonp1970 Proof??
@@class77sncb the global export market is shrinking year in year out.
The UK has lost its coal mining industry and the country is shifting to alternative sources of energy. The steel industry had been in decline for years.
A lot of the locomotives at Toton have been stored for years, since way before Brexit.
It is easy to blame Brexit, and Covid too, for decline in anything, is that factual? No...
@@simonp1970 There is no way out for UK ! Nearly bankrupt and broken ! Listen to the new premier ! Brexit and the loss of a lot of industries.. The class 60 at Toton were stored, because the cost per mile were higher then using a class 66. And now the market is further shrinking, because continental industries have found other suppliers outside UK !! There are FACTS and no OPINION ! It is cheaper to buy .,g. chinese or korean machinery for construction work than British made ones.
@@class77sncb which is the same for the rest of the world.. chinese cheap crap has flooded the market, the UK is the 6th largest economy in the world, hardly bankrupt..
The 60s were stored because the work wasn't there.. in addition, DBSchenker really aren't doing very well.. look at GBRF, DCR and Freightliner by comparison...