I have travelled many miles on HST's all over the country. I shall miss them on our main routes but i will make a point of chasing them in Scotland and the west country.
That was a very fitting tribute to the East Coast HST's Soi. And thankfully given 43206 and 43312 now reverted back to 43006 and 43112 respectively and intermediate MK III's have been preserved we hope given they were repainted back to their original colours so this may not be the last time we see this HST set if they plan to run tours with them. As for that odd arrangement with a 43 and a Class 91 given the MK IV Stock and DVT's were late in delivery when they were both operational they produced a staggering 8550hp on tap.
Lovely to see this video after I saw the LNER HST Farewell Tour pass through Northumberland yesterday. I can’t remember the HSTs running in BR blue and have always preferred the executive/swallow liveries because that’s what I grew up with. But seeing a full set in the original livery, I couldn’t help being impressed. Thanks for posting this!
It was posted today specially to coincide with the East Coast farewell run. Not living in Potters Bar anymore i wasn't in a position to see it sadly but this is my tribute to them-enjoy!
I remember 43066 neville hill must have run out of no 3s so cut down a no 8 loved the unique white roofed 43038.anyone renenber the hst with the cab stripes think it was used on holyhead services.
I thought these old 125s went out in the late 90s. The newer trains were in use in 2004. I travelled on these old 125s as a child & i'm in my 40s now. We have had GNER, Virgin & LNER 225s since then and now the fantastic Azuma .
The 125s have been in traffic since 1976 and were only withdrawn from service last year. Most were taken off Cross Country work in the early 90s but extra sets were used on the East and West coast routes instead. None apart from accident victims were withdrawn before 2018/19
I was fortunate enough to get many a cab ride when the HST'S were moved to cross country work through Basingstoke down to Bournemouth and that Valenta scream you can't beat it
Got to hear and see the 125 at York Station a couple of times as a lad over 40 years ago. York Station has cathedral like acoustics, that sound is still ingrained in my memory.
Great footage, i am sad to see the HSTs leave front line service on the ECML. I have fond memories of them back in the 80's and 90's. We need to retain the HST sets for future generations to enjoy on tours and the like.
I believe the BR painted set is going off on hire (i presume?) to LSL for charter use, which will be nice. They can go to just about anywhere on the rail network!
As a rail enthusiast it’s rather depressing looking at what we have running about now compared to the variety of trains we had back then they were simply a lot more interesting to.
I remember in my youthful days of being disappointed that it was a 125..instead of a class 26/27..47...or 37...who knew that many years later I'd be delighted to see one
I've liked then since i first saw one at Swindon in the summer of 1976, just before they entered squadron service that autumn. Wonderfull trains although they did replace loco hauled stock. Never had the chance to drive one although have been road learning in the front of them on the Western and Midalnd Main line......
@@martinnevey7258 I thought 4they were 4 and 5 coach trains?.....When we are free again i hope to visit Scotland and will chase a few HSTs....amongst other things!
nice too see all the different Intercity liveries and also Darlington station when it didn't have any overhead power lines - probably I was getting off one those trains at Darlington and first shot was train coming from the south pulled into the south platform then going back south.
The Midland Main Line has some running still in full length sets while short formed sets are running in Scotland and the West Country......But they have lasted well, the first sets were delivered in 1976......
I grew up around these beauties, my mum, dad and uncles worked at Glasgow Central Station in the 80s. I spent my childhood there, its the smell that takes me back especially in the mornings when they would cold start. Anyway greetings from Scotland.
They had them fitted to workedas DVT's with the first lot of 91s that were delivered. The MkIV coaches & DVT's were late being delivered so it was a good way of using electric power on the Leeds runs, as seen on my upload here ruclips.net/video/9idEw7nes7A/видео.html
Very interesting shots at the Cross when everything was HSTs. Was that one at 11:40 taking part in a sponsored clagging competition? Interesting HST formation with a class 91 in place of one power car too; must have been one of the early running-in trials. Was it scheduled to shunt into the siding at Retford or did the 91 fail? a very unusual propelling move there.
91s ran scheduled passenger services for a short period using HST sets due to late deliveries of Mk4s. The HST power car provided traction and train supply, so the formations had up to just over 8,000hp to use!
@@hexagon7895 The clagging HST must have sat there idle-ing for quite a while. The HST+91 was as Hexagon 789 says as BR had 91s but no MkIV's so they used MkIII's. But the on train power supply was a different voltage so the HST power car was just left idling to provide the power. But this didn't do the engines themselves any good so after a while they did indeed provide pwer as well! The one going into the siding at Retford was because we ran over a bike frame placed on the track by vandals and it damaged the brake pipe on the coaches. We sat for ages between Donny & Retford. They used the Down road to run trains Up road, we only just caught this train, if we had missed it we would have got back to London quicker! But i'd have missed out on the unusal move to film. We got turfed out and the HST propelled the train into the unelectricified siding and then us passengers and train crew awaited a train back to London. Lots of services whizzed by and we though b***tards! Why not stop one? But control had a plan, an empty set working back to Bounds Green was stopped specially for us so we all had an empty train to climb upon, so all ended well for us!
I went to Stanley Grove Primary School in Manchester. The main line out of Piccadilly is right next to it on a raised bank. Many times while in the play ground you’d see these screaming slowly past. The sound was incredible as well as the smoke. I remember once, a class did a school assembly about their displeasure about the air and noise pollution from the train line that was next to the school garden. No doubt it was all due to the Class 43s driving past.
@Qasim Mir Too bad your class didn't hold an assembly to see how many kids were into mechanic, engineering and other such subjects. Machines are what build empires.
@@derekstuart5234 Never could stand those self rightious types that dissaproovingly look down their noses at everone through their tortoise shell horned glasses, expecting you to conform to their opinionated views. Rather pupils get grit under their nails and oily clothes while studying engineering, a trade or the sciences, that bored unoccupied youths sniffing glue behind the bycicle shed.
@@trespire Well actually, when I was in year 4 I compiled a presentation about Concorde to show its abilities and its supreme technology. Another time was when the subject of our technology class was hovercrafts. I was the only one who already knew how they worked, I then brought my own remote controlled hovercraft in so my class mates could see how they worked.
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus that be awesome 😊 Oh and incase yiu might be intrested Rail Riders are back check there website n find on fb 😊 you get discounts on railways heritage n much more
Yes, all filmed by myself. I have been videoing since 1985, all forms of transport but especially railways. And RUclips has got my interest levels up again and i'm at it again where-ever i go!
I designed the engine control system for the four power cars that had the Mirrlees MB190 engines. I spent quite a lot of time travelling about in them. Anyone know what happened to them?
London Kings Cross E.C.M.L in 1985-1992. the changing of the Intercity livery. End of the BR blue and white. Good old Intercity 125/class 43's live on in a new livery "L.N.E.R E.M.R"
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus great video, can you please tell me when the original livery on the HST was phased out altogether, you see it mixed with the executive livery a lot, and did I even see it with the swallow livery too!?
The driver who jumps off the moving train at 08:04 would get hammered for doing that these days, especially without an orange safety vest. Looked like the light was fading too, so even more dangerous to do such a stupid thing. How times have changed!
We didn’t have snowflakes back then either which was an even better thing, also there weren’t so many snitches going about squealing on each other in workplace to I should imagine.
Trainspotting lost a huge chunk of its appeal for me the day the HST was retired from the ECML. No variety, only one IC225 unit and the rest is boring, foreign crap like the Azuma.
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Real shame. Passengers are not allowed to travel in comfort now, that rancid Hitachi rubbish. Nice one Soi.
I have travelled many miles on HST's all over the country. I shall miss them on our main routes but i will make a point of chasing them in Scotland and the west country.
8:19 Feller suddenly thinks "Oh shit, i should still b in the cab, its still bloody moving". 🤣
Ahhh heaven the sound of the valentas 😀
Yes, plenty of thrash & screaming from HST's back in the day.......
That was a very fitting tribute to the East Coast HST's Soi. And thankfully given 43206 and 43312 now reverted back to 43006 and 43112 respectively and intermediate MK III's have been preserved we hope given they were repainted back to their original colours so this may not be the last time we see this HST set if they plan to run tours with them. As for that odd arrangement with a 43 and a Class 91 given the MK IV Stock and DVT's were late in delivery when they were both operational they produced a staggering 8550hp on tap.
Yes, it was an interesting use of an HST! I have an upload here showing this arrangement at work ruclips.net/video/9idEw7nes7A/видео.html, enjoy!
Lovely to see this video after I saw the LNER HST Farewell Tour pass through Northumberland yesterday. I can’t remember the HSTs running in BR blue and have always preferred the executive/swallow liveries because that’s what I grew up with. But seeing a full set in the original livery, I couldn’t help being impressed. Thanks for posting this!
It was posted today specially to coincide with the East Coast farewell run. Not living in Potters Bar anymore i wasn't in a position to see it sadly but this is my tribute to them-enjoy!
I remember 43066 neville hill must have run out of no 3s so cut down a no 8 loved the unique white roofed 43038.anyone renenber the hst with the cab stripes think it was used on holyhead services.
I thought these old 125s went out in the late 90s. The newer trains were in use in 2004. I travelled on these old 125s as a child & i'm in my 40s now. We have had GNER, Virgin & LNER 225s since then and now the fantastic Azuma .
The 125s have been in traffic since 1976 and were only withdrawn from service last year. Most were taken off Cross Country work in the early 90s but extra sets were used on the East and West coast routes instead. None apart from accident victims were withdrawn before 2018/19
I was fortunate enough to get many a cab ride when the HST'S were moved to cross country work through Basingstoke down to Bournemouth and that Valenta scream you can't beat it
I have been in the front of them when road learning although sadly never signed them or had the chance to thrash one......
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus my dad used to work on them at Heaton Depot at Newcastle when they first came out absolutely fantastic train
How I remember that deafening valenta engine standing at Reading waiting for my service to Penzance as a young lad
Yes, the Valenta's screamed well!
Got to hear and see the 125 at York Station a couple of times as a lad over 40 years ago. York Station has cathedral like acoustics, that sound is still ingrained in my memory.
Great footage, i am sad to see the HSTs leave front line service on the ECML. I have fond memories of them back in the 80's and 90's. We need to retain the HST sets for future generations to enjoy on tours and the like.
I believe the BR painted set is going off on hire (i presume?) to LSL for charter use, which will be nice. They can go to just about anywhere on the rail network!
As a rail enthusiast it’s rather depressing looking at what we have running about now compared to the variety of trains we had back then they were simply a lot more interesting to.
Thank you, really enjoyed that
I remember in my youthful days of being disappointed that it was a 125..instead of a class 26/27..47...or 37...who knew that many years later I'd be delighted to see one
I've liked then since i first saw one at Swindon in the summer of 1976, just before they entered squadron service that autumn. Wonderfull trains although they did replace loco hauled stock. Never had the chance to drive one although have been road learning in the front of them on the Western and Midalnd Main line......
we have them still up here in Fife. .doing the fife to Edinburgh runs...only 3 carriages. .sad to see them reduced to that
@@martinnevey7258 I thought 4they were 4 and 5 coach trains?.....When we are free again i hope to visit Scotland and will chase a few HSTs....amongst other things!
Not much variety up here..but there are some well kept quaint stations
nice too see all the different Intercity liveries and also Darlington station when it didn't have any overhead power lines - probably I was getting off one those trains at Darlington and first shot was train coming from the south pulled into the south platform then going back south.
I live in North America and have only visited the UK once. And now these beauties are coming out of service! Such a shame.
The Midland Main Line has some running still in full length sets while short formed sets are running in Scotland and the West Country......But they have lasted well, the first sets were delivered in 1976......
I grew up around these beauties, my mum, dad and uncles worked at Glasgow Central Station in the 80s. I spent my childhood there, its the smell that takes me back especially in the mornings when they would cold start. Anyway greetings from Scotland.
great footage and sounds!
My pleasure! A chance for all to see these fine machines at work over the years......
Hst with the buffers look really weird considering all other hst never had buffers
They had them fitted to workedas DVT's with the first lot of 91s that were delivered. The MkIV coaches & DVT's were late being delivered so it was a good way of using electric power on the Leeds runs, as seen on my upload here ruclips.net/video/9idEw7nes7A/видео.html
Great viideo thanks apart from EMR, ScotRail and CrossCountry theyre the only operators of the HST
I will have to get myself off travelling again this year to chase them around!
Very interesting shots at the Cross when everything was HSTs. Was that one at 11:40 taking part in a sponsored clagging competition? Interesting HST formation with a class 91 in place of one power car too; must have been one of the early running-in trials. Was it scheduled to shunt into the siding at Retford or did the 91 fail? a very unusual propelling move there.
91s ran scheduled passenger services for a short period using HST sets due to late deliveries of Mk4s. The HST power car provided traction and train supply, so the formations had up to just over 8,000hp to use!
@@hexagon7895 The clagging HST must have sat there idle-ing for quite a while. The HST+91 was as Hexagon 789 says as BR had 91s but no MkIV's so they used MkIII's. But the on train power supply was a different voltage so the HST power car was just left idling to provide the power. But this didn't do the engines themselves any good so after a while they did indeed provide pwer as well! The one going into the siding at Retford was because we ran over a bike frame placed on the track by vandals and it damaged the brake pipe on the coaches. We sat for ages between Donny & Retford. They used the Down road to run trains Up road, we only just caught this train, if we had missed it we would have got back to London quicker! But i'd have missed out on the unusal move to film. We got turfed out and the HST propelled the train into the unelectricified siding and then us passengers and train crew awaited a train back to London. Lots of services whizzed by and we though b***tards! Why not stop one? But control had a plan, an empty set working back to Bounds Green was stopped specially for us so we all had an empty train to climb upon, so all ended well for us!
I went to Stanley Grove Primary School in Manchester. The main line out of Piccadilly is right next to it on a raised bank. Many times while in the play ground you’d see these screaming slowly past. The sound was incredible as well as the smoke. I remember once, a class did a school assembly about their displeasure about the air and noise pollution from the train line that was next to the school garden. No doubt it was all due to the Class 43s driving past.
That and few somkey first gen DMUs.....lol
@Qasim Mir Too bad your class didn't hold an assembly to see how many kids were into mechanic, engineering and other such subjects. Machines are what build empires.
No, it was due to extreme left wing militant teachers with their demand that everything in the World must be exactly to their liking.
@@derekstuart5234 Never could stand those self rightious types that dissaproovingly look down their noses at everone through their tortoise shell horned glasses, expecting you to conform to their opinionated views.
Rather pupils get grit under their nails and oily clothes while studying engineering, a trade or the sciences, that bored unoccupied youths sniffing glue behind the bycicle shed.
@@trespire
Well actually, when I was in year 4 I compiled a presentation about Concorde to show its abilities and its supreme technology. Another time was when the subject of our technology class was hovercrafts. I was the only one who already knew how they worked, I then brought my own remote controlled hovercraft in so my class mates could see how they worked.
13:39 is a station near me, well it's like me, in Fife; Inverkeithing!
Memories 😊
I aim to please, lots more to come both up-to-date and historic......
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus that be awesome 😊 Oh and incase yiu might be intrested Rail Riders are back check there website n find on fb 😊 you get discounts on railways heritage n much more
@@RichardsAdventuresthanks, I will check it out when I'm home from my week in Manchester
Are these stuff u recorded yourself absulutely brilliant footage
Yes, all filmed by myself. I have been videoing since 1985, all forms of transport but especially railways. And RUclips has got my interest levels up again and i'm at it again where-ever i go!
11:55 an INTERCITY class 43 starts up it's engines. I have seen a Class 43 start up its engines with a black cloud of diesel smoke
It had idling for quite a while and you get a build up of exhaust. Once under way it gets blown through and is much less smoky
You can pull hundreds of people at over a 100 mph using fairy dust and pixie farts.
Coal and diesel is what powers our civilization.
I designed the engine control system for the four power cars that had the Mirrlees MB190 engines. I spent quite a lot of time travelling about in them. Anyone know what happened to them?
I believe they were replaced by the MTU engines when the main fleets were re-engined.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Is there any video of the ones with MB190 engines? They were mainly Paddington to Bristol or down that way
When Paxman (GEC diesels) launched the VP185, nine power cars got the new VP185 engines, including 43167-70.
One appears in one of Soi's videos. I can't post links here, but if you look up "British Rail- Didcot April 1992" 43168 appears
@@AndreiTupolev Thanks for that. I have watched it. Many happy days travelling about in them checking all was ok. 🙂
London Kings Cross E.C.M.L in 1985-1992. the changing of the Intercity livery. End of the BR blue and white. Good old Intercity 125/class 43's live on in a new livery "L.N.E.R E.M.R"
But not for long sadly......But like the East Coast A4s, some will live on in Scotland!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus great video, can you please tell me when the original livery on the HST was phased out altogether, you see it mixed with the executive livery a lot, and did I even see it with the swallow livery too!?
The driver who jumps off the moving train at 08:04 would get hammered for doing that these days, especially without an orange safety vest. Looked like the light was fading too, so even more dangerous to do such a stupid thing.
How times have changed!
That's how the railway was back then......
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Yeah I realise that.
We didn’t have snowflakes back then either which was an even better thing, also there weren’t so many snitches going about squealing on each other in workplace to I should imagine.
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus It sure was...Happy days
@@jasongoulden2938amen to that.
Where's the station at 13:32?
I think it's in Scotland,though not sure where.
It's Inverkeithing near Rosyth, just north of the Forth Bridge.
Trainspotting lost a huge chunk of its appeal for me the day the HST was retired from the ECML. No variety, only one IC225 unit and the rest is boring, foreign crap like the Azuma.