Some may not know but the 180's are actually the only diesel-powered high-speed trains in the world with diesel-hydraulic transmission, So in essence its the worlds fastest diesel-hydralic train when it doesn't catch fire.
Diesel-hydraulic has acceleration comparable to modern electric traction, and even for the 180s time, was an incredible improvement. Shame that just like the APT, they rathered to keep the old or make something more primitive than to work out the flaws.
A brilliant train for the driver, passengers and FGW. Yes it had its initial reliability problems entering service but it had great performance, fast, comfortable, good ride quality and excellent on board facilities when they were running properly. Sadly missed when they moved on. I preferred these little gems to those current day Japanese Things we have to endure today!!
Excellent filming . . . Shame about how the units themselves turned out to be reliability wise 😅😅 Though not so unreliable that they haven't managed a long career - to this day indeed, I believe EMR have just taken delivery of the former Hull trains sets.
EMR dumped them earlier than planned due to poor reliability and now the whole lot are at Grand Central which, by no coincidence, has the worst cancellation rate in the country.
@@anthonyholroyd5359 indeed it was. They have nearly twice as many trains as they need to run their services but still regularly cancel due to lack of available units.
Comfy seats but that’s about all these have going for them - the air con rarely worked and the engines had a nasty habit of exploding or falling off the train 😂
Some of The Music In This Film Is The Same Music I Remember Bean Feachred In a Trailer By Video 125 For Driver's Eye View's Of Different Train Routes And Journey's.
FGW " We want a train that can be reliable for years to come Alstom " a decade later and they are already replaced with more cruddy units the class 80x. First why dont you just keep the HST, and the valentas if possible. Plus the class 80x sounds like some sort of spaceship when they accelarate out of a station
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Some may not know but the 180's are actually the only diesel-powered high-speed trains in the world with diesel-hydraulic transmission, So in essence its the worlds fastest diesel-hydralic train when it doesn't catch fire.
But...
You'll be going nowhere.
Diesel-hydraulic has acceleration comparable to modern electric traction, and even for the 180s time, was an incredible improvement. Shame that just like the APT, they rathered to keep the old or make something more primitive than to work out the flaws.
1:50 I thought he was gonna throw that luggage on the train like it is nothing
Good to see the VSOE train as it was know then at Bristol Temple Meads!
Excellent, informative and entertaing video.
Really nicely produced video! Such a shame that the trains never reached their full potential with FGW.
Great video guys
It’s not a class 180 film without Paul tyreman...
Now there is Paul Tyreman in the comments.
@@TheArkamedBat You'll be going nowhere
good video there video125 i remember watching tracks on VHS tape but unfortunately i cant find it on DVD
The adelante’s now with grand central and EMR.
Not EMR anymore :(
Now all with Grand Central, breaking down in a siding near you soon 😂
A brilliant train for the driver, passengers and FGW. Yes it had its initial reliability problems entering service but it had great performance, fast, comfortable, good ride quality and excellent on board facilities when they were running properly. Sadly missed when they moved on. I preferred these little gems to those current day Japanese Things we have to endure today!!
We need urgently to have here Mr.Paul Tyreman (Now there is)
Excellent filming . . . Shame about how the units themselves turned out to be reliability wise 😅😅
Though not so unreliable that they haven't managed a long career - to this day indeed, I believe EMR have just taken delivery of the former Hull trains sets.
EMR dumped them earlier than planned due to poor reliability and now the whole lot are at Grand Central which, by no coincidence, has the worst cancellation rate in the country.
@@Bungle-UK was it not a Grand Central 180 that had that dragging brake that caused chaos on the ECML the other week?
@@anthonyholroyd5359 indeed it was. They have nearly twice as many trains as they need to run their services but still regularly cancel due to lack of available units.
what is the music used at the start of the film?
The class 180 is a state-of-the-art, high speed *faliure*
Comfy seats but that’s about all these have going for them - the air con rarely worked and the engines had a nasty habit of exploding or falling off the train 😂
This station was used in the filming of Paddington film
Hence the Paddington name.
@@TheArkamedBatyep
4:38 when Stella was decent.
Gameboy Color!
2 of them!
But... there have been problems.
And some failures.
You'll be going nowhere
how did this train get somewhere,this train should be going nowhere
Maybe the only Class 180 to go somewhere.
GWR Class 180
Some of The Music In This Film Is The Same Music I Remember Bean Feachred In a Trailer By Video 125 For Driver's Eye View's Of Different Train Routes And Journey's.
“More spacious than the Italian trains?” Even though it is also Italian 🤔
Not Italian, "Adelante" is a Spanish word, these trains were built in the UK by a French company
@@Danse_Macabre_125 they was only put together in the UK
2:12 dEsPaTcH
New nickname for the Class 180: Atrás (Adelante means forward in Spanish, and Atrás means backwards).
"you'll be going nowhere"
Remember this forever: You'll be going nowhere.
You'll be going nowhere!
Yay! Now it's a proper Class 180 video.
You'll be going nowhere, Mr Paul Tyreman.
This is an impostor.
Yes Paul Tyreman Is Here 👍
How did this train move
.....your interlock circuit won't be made and you'll be going nowhere
It didn't.
FGW " We want a train that can be reliable for years to come Alstom " a decade later and they are already replaced with more cruddy units the class 80x. First why dont you just keep the HST, and the valentas if possible. Plus the class 80x sounds like some sort of spaceship when they accelarate out of a station
2020 and it's not in full hd?
It wouldn't be. It was filmed in 2001 for FGW BEFORE they entered service. Video 125 didn't go HD until 2009.
2001 video
The adalante is rubbish
The Class 180 is a complex state of the art High Speed Failure.
You'll be going nowhere.
Not as Bad As The So Called Class 800 I'd Rather Go On The 180 👍