Rare full power High Speed Train HST Intercity 125 departure - Taunton
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- After more than 40 years operating Intercity services from London Paddington to Bristol, Swansea, Plymouth, Penzance, Paignton, and many other places, the famous Intercity 125 trains are being retired from service. Enjoy this rare treat of a full power start from Taunton station - to celebrate the end of the 125 InterCity era. if you have never experienced a full power MTU station departure - this is for you. The engines may not scream like the original Paxman Valenta engines originally installed, but they still roar like no other engine, enabling a very fast station departure only marginally slower than the newer Class 800 trains that are replacing them on front line Inter City services. Enjoy.
Very clean engines
Great video.☺️
Edit: I prefer it when the HST’s had the VP185 Engines because of the screaming sound it made when it was pulling out of a Train Station.
I prefer when they had slam doors
Don't you mean the Valenta ? The VP185s sound like a bag of nails imo although they sound much better in the XPT due to a different exhaust system allowing some exhaust note as in `XPT at Wauchope'.
I wouldn't say it was rare seeing a HST at Taunton.
hello! Your videos are absolutely brilliant I love the thrill of getting on a train!! 😁
Omg same
Luckily I live in the west county so will still get to see and travel on the hst 'castle' sets but it will be a sad day on Saturday with the final running of a full hst set.
I travelled on one of the Castle sets yesterday..fantastic acceleration. Shame they are limited to 100mph!
@@railperf 100 max mainly because of reduced brake force from a shorter formation, but also the ATP equipment has been removed.
@@ChangesOneTim Is the reduced break force not proportional to the lighter weight of the stet?
@@N330AA in my day there was something in the rule book about short-formed loco-hauled trains including HSTs. Perhaps there's no hard and fast instruction nowadays.
OMG. I was hauled by that exact same power car 43071 almost exactly 1 year ago from Par Cornwall to London Paddington! Scary!
It looked like it about to hit top speed
I love your videos. Fascinated by various train acceleration and braking performance data so this is right up my street.
Is there any chance you could do some of the GWR Castle set HST gps recordings down the Exeter to Bristol ( or Cardiff ) where the line speeds are 100mph plus? Would love to see what their performance is like. Thanks
That was idling as it left, possibly notch 3, that wasn’t full power.
It wasn't idling when it left.
That was only in notch 4 ...
@@Solomon_C I've been driving these trains 14 years. I know what full power sounds like in an MTU, and that wasn't it.
@@Solomon_C No need to apologise. It's cool :-)
@@Solomon_C I drive both :-)
@@Solomon_C I've never driven a 91, as I don't work on the Eastern region.
But I prefer driving the IETs over the 2+4 HST sets we now have. Any electric train, or train in electric mode, will beat an HST on acceleration. In diesel mode, IETs are still faster at pulling away, but not by as much.
@@Solomon_C Only if there's an engine out.
Wow I’ve been on this train for the last few day and I’m still trying to find someone that gives a sh!t
???
The fuck does this mean