Railwatch Part-1 of 3 HST cab ride plus Donny PSB. 3 part video 2 & 3 are linked!

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  • Опубликовано: 16 дек 2024

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  • @JulianShagworthy
    @JulianShagworthy 7 месяцев назад

    I'm starting as a driver with Avanti soon - my only regret is that I wasn't born 20 years sooner and got to experience driving these incredible old workhorses. Fantastic and insightful video, thanks for uploading.

  • @tgirljj
    @tgirljj 17 лет назад

    you have so made my year!!!1 i have looked for this programme for years!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH

  • @bwhugul
    @bwhugul 15 лет назад

    From 3:04 the quality of the audio when the Valenta is in the background is the best I've heard. You really appreciate what it's like in the cab and it's probably more interesting hearing inside the cab than outside.
    There are very few videos out there that haven't been dampened down for narration or have been filmed on digital cameras rather than 'proper' camcorders.

  • @bobbyo7822
    @bobbyo7822 9 лет назад +1

    Great stuff. I work at Donny PSB.

  • @BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne
    @BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne 4 года назад

    Covid-19 boredom brought me here...but boy am I glad it did...

  • @MrGrumpygit488
    @MrGrumpygit488 15 лет назад

    I read somewhere that the HST powercars were actually used to help push the train along, because leaving the Valentas idling was causing problems with the piston rings. So thats 5 mk3s & 6000bhp!

  • @Thunderer0872
    @Thunderer0872  15 лет назад

    Same anywhere when Reggie rail went over to sprinters, The Portsmouth Cardiff used to be a 33 and 5 mark 1's most trains you could get a seat. FGW have finally started using 3 car 158's in the past couple of years, but it's still not enough in the peak hours and worse on Fridays!

  • @Imatt33
    @Imatt33 17 лет назад

    I remember this from when i was a kid, love comment by driver (we are now winding it up!). The Load regulator fails before they reach York. Valenta sounds fit though.

  • @ELPaso1990TX
    @ELPaso1990TX 13 лет назад

    Could not imagine a tv show like this nowadays thanks to the chaos of privatising BR. Plus we had decent trains then like the HST rather that the voyager rubbish that dosnt even tilt despite the cramped carriages. Bring back British Rail !

  • @Thunderer0872
    @Thunderer0872  17 лет назад

    indeed that was because the MK4 stock wasn't ready and the HST power cars had buffers fitted, just in case a 91 had to haul south and not push!

  • @bwhugul
    @bwhugul 15 лет назад

    At 2:32 onwards it is significant to me, because the Liverpool-Norwich train on here is 8 carriages long, yet nowadays it is only 2-carriage Class 158s!
    Even if the locomotive hauled trains in the 1980s ran at half the frequency of today, today's service is a massive and unacceptable downgrading, especially considering how overcrowded that service is now.

  • @Thunderer0872
    @Thunderer0872  16 лет назад

    Yes they tested the 91's on 5 mk3 sleepers and a HST buffered power car as the DVT.

  • @Thunderer0872
    @Thunderer0872  17 лет назад

    Yes indeed the Consist was HST power car 5 MK111 sleeper coaches and a Class 91 pushing this was the basic test formation. plenty of spare sleepers as at this time a lot less sleeper services unlike mid 1980's, no more ECML sleepers at the time of filming.

  • @Thunderer0872
    @Thunderer0872  17 лет назад

    P.s anything of worth (train footage) is already posted (check my main videos page). I am not able to send or make copies for anyone sorry.

  • @Thunderer0872
    @Thunderer0872  14 лет назад

    @CheekyBandit What the 47 and coaches? maybe not some workings were still loco hauled until 1990/91 on transpennine that could have been a Liverpool - Norwich normally 31's but it could be an additional?

  • @smiffy1071
    @smiffy1071 15 лет назад

    nice to hear the valenta screaming away in the background...

  • @Thunderer0872
    @Thunderer0872  14 лет назад

    @back2frinky No different from day time either any obstruction is just as difficult to avoid as stopping takes nearly a mile at line speed!

  • @montyburns56
    @montyburns56 16 лет назад +1

    Is that passing train at 5' 30" one of those HST/91 combos or am I seeing things?

  • @darrowby1972
    @darrowby1972 16 лет назад

    The drivers name was John Swaby - Doncaster based Inter City Eastern region

  • @MrGrumpygit488
    @MrGrumpygit488 17 лет назад

    Geez,that 91 was being tested! They used mk3`s & a HST powercar as a DVT.

  • @Thunderer0872
    @Thunderer0872  12 лет назад +1

    Blame the TOC's that have taken over since BR... the plan was to have everything Electric but the TOC's went for cheaper traction and some of their destinations are off the wires so unless Hull and Scotland (Aberdeen & Inverness) get wired with OHLE then you get 220 and Grand Central HST's etc....Ironically it's called progress! :)

  • @bwhugul
    @bwhugul 15 лет назад

    That's 5 mark 3s and 8,340hp! Because the '91's have 6090 and the HST powercars have 2,250hp.

  • @blueb0g
    @blueb0g 12 лет назад +1

    No, that's the right order...

  • @Thunderer0872
    @Thunderer0872  16 лет назад

    Correct.

  • @Thunderer0872
    @Thunderer0872  17 лет назад

    Feb 1989

  • @Thunderer0872
    @Thunderer0872  11 лет назад +1

    perhaps they meant ! ..... ? Next.

  • @Thunderer0872
    @Thunderer0872  17 лет назад

    About 95% but it's mostly this lot talking about something they knew nothing about....

  • @g7usl
    @g7usl 12 лет назад +1

    Then buy Rail Simulator 2012 and you will?