West Coast Main Line Miscellany

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  • Опубликовано: 1 фев 2025

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  • @derekantoine4396
    @derekantoine4396 Год назад +1

    Wonderful footage documenting the sad transition from steam power to diesel, and electric locomotives. It is a shame seeing the beautiful duchesses on freight duties, what a waste. Thank you. (👍).

  • @modeltrainsandtracks
    @modeltrainsandtracks Год назад +6

    Thank you, another excellent video and great quality!
    While the steam footage is great, to see the early diesels (10000 / 10001, 10202, DP2 and the early electrics) was also a treat.
    Fascinating to see the WCML upgrade work - not a hiviz in sight but they still managed to do it! Also lots of wheelbarrows... Wonderful!

  • @updistant
    @updistant Год назад +4

    Just amazing footage, fantastic entertainment then and now.

  • @KevTheBusDriver
    @KevTheBusDriver Год назад +4

    Stunning footage! Enthralled for 21 minutes! Thanks!

  • @melvynwoodman5787
    @melvynwoodman5787 Год назад +4

    Filmed at the time of catenary installation 1963 with some 1964 after the switch on if my memory is working. Lovely stuff thanks.

  • @TerryD1471
    @TerryD1471 Год назад +8

    So grateful to see all of this footage. It was terribly poignant to see the Duchesses with the yellow stripe on the cab; it was like the kiss of death. Was the first clip deliberately cut to make us think that a single diesel 10000 was enough to pull the Royal Scot? Careful examination shows that it was the pair, which at 3200 hp, was almost as good as a Duchess!

    • @wasted-blaster.
      @wasted-blaster. Год назад +1

      What does the yellow stripe mean?

    • @TerryD1471
      @TerryD1471 Год назад +1

      It was applied to locomotives which were supposed not to travel under the 25Kv wires, being supposedly too tall and at risk of receiving a "flashover." In practice this never happened. Worse, the stripes were applied to some that weren't too tall, and not applied to some that were. They were applied during 1964, just before the Duchesses were summarily withdrawn.

  • @TerryD1471
    @TerryD1471 Год назад +2

    Absolutely belting footage. Love it! So glad I was there at the time.

  • @philipbradshaw4050
    @philipbradshaw4050 Год назад +2

    My time too. Live in Stoke, spotted in Crewe 1962- 1964. Still have some of my note books.
    Nice to see the prototype diesels. Only ever saw them stopped at Derby and Crewe.

  • @1BCamden
    @1BCamden Год назад +1

    Amazing, and in part in colour, thanks so much

  • @levelcrossing150
    @levelcrossing150 Год назад +2

    Wonderful footage, and the Duke was there too.

  • @christopherbentley5216
    @christopherbentley5216 Год назад +3

    Is some of the footage,Rugby. Showing a GCR Freight on the Birdcage Bridge running over?

  • @70053morayfirth
    @70053morayfirth Год назад +1

    Lots of lovely Duchesses!

  • @wasted-blaster.
    @wasted-blaster. Год назад +1

    Asking those in the know did these trains ever run at night? I dont see any lights on them?

  • @stevef9530
    @stevef9530 8 месяцев назад +1

    As others have all said, beautiful footage. What strikes me about the way things went is, ok time to change from steam to diesel and electric, I get that. But some bright spark had to have all the carriages blue, instead of maroon. Why? You can practically hear them saying ‘Let’s completely transform the look of British trains’. Twits.

  • @regal1668
    @regal1668 Год назад +3

    Brilliant view of 10000

  • @gainsbourg66
    @gainsbourg66 Год назад +2

    Didn't know this footage existed

  • @studio4436
    @studio4436 Год назад +2

    Thank You :-))

  • @tracya4087
    @tracya4087 Год назад +2

    wow