Locomotive Class 31 cold start at Meldon Quarry Dartmoor

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  • Опубликовано: 6 апр 2021
  • Locomotive 31 452 cold start Meldon Quarry 7th April 2021 prior to departure to Great Yarmouth
    by road
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  • @andrewlawson5779
    @andrewlawson5779 3 года назад +47

    20 Benson & Hedges, 2 cups of tea and this loco's ready for the day😁

    • @nigeljames6017
      @nigeljames6017 Год назад +7

      It is the British way !

    • @adammoss5284
      @adammoss5284 10 месяцев назад +1

      Trying to work out which spluttered more...? Lol

    • @andrewlawson5779
      @andrewlawson5779 10 месяцев назад +3

      @adammoss5284 The way I am first thing in the morning the locomotive will be moving well before I do

  • @chriswilson2431
    @chriswilson2431 2 года назад +29

    Wonderful to see another old loco spluttering into life again. Long live heritage traction!

  • @ziggengineering7861
    @ziggengineering7861 День назад

    Here we have each cylinder taking its turn to have a go on the piston ring they borrowed from a Austin Allegro ! 😄
    📣Get some brake & clutch cleaner down the bloody inlet boyos!” 🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @Mechknight73
    @Mechknight73 Год назад +9

    I always did find it entertaining how these engines seem to "start" with about two cylinders, then the rest join in once the first pair are firing. Although some people would love to sample the tune it's playing for a drum solo

  • @73Datsun180B
    @73Datsun180B 8 месяцев назад +3

    I didn't realize class 31 had several hit n miss engines as a power-plant lol🤣

  • @SpoonyMcSpoonface
    @SpoonyMcSpoonface 2 года назад +19

    Some excellent noises. They really ought to be sampled for a drum track 🎼🥁

    • @giork2828
      @giork2828 Год назад

      Hot For Teacher, by Van Halen (and covered by @Chiara Cotugno, of course) ruclips.net/video/nZe8worlDCM/видео.html

  • @treborsrednuas
    @treborsrednuas 2 года назад +7

    Wow! Thats special, thanks for sharing this. I used to cycle the granite way upnto Meldon often and get a mars bar at the buffet car (now gone sadly) when I was growing up in Okey 20 years ago. The sidings were lined with those diesles and carriages just melting away like a sad rusty scrap yard. So lovely to see this video though when it was all alive.

  • @BegudMaximan-zp2tc
    @BegudMaximan-zp2tc 10 месяцев назад +3

    That was a bit of a struggle, but aging locos get like that way, at least it runs once it warms up!

  • @Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge
    @Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge 2 года назад +8

    Built in the late 1950s, what a goer!

  • @raygale4198
    @raygale4198 2 года назад +6

    I'd say that was a win, started fairly evenly for a cold engine. Not sure the engineer poking individual pumps into full fuel helped but probably helped identify the slow to light off cylinders.

  • @ColonelStraker
    @ColonelStraker 11 месяцев назад +3

    Quite honestly, it sounds like my ten-year-old lawnmower, when I start it up 😂

  • @smallrails6831
    @smallrails6831 10 месяцев назад

    Love the video and loco sounds

  • @eddherring4972
    @eddherring4972 10 месяцев назад +7

    I’d love to see this towed into London ULEZ today (September 2023) and then started.

    • @394pjo
      @394pjo 8 месяцев назад +2

      Agreed. Cranked up on a bitterly cold day opposite Khan's office.

    • @stephensaines7100
      @stephensaines7100 Месяц назад

      And I'd love to see you breathing it.

  • @Grid56
    @Grid56 11 месяцев назад +3

    Ah another standard EE startup!

  • @soldier-Dave
    @soldier-Dave Год назад +2

    What we used to call a “brush” loco in my seventies days

  • @danielcapo1991
    @danielcapo1991 2 года назад +2

    nice start 👍

  • @nomon95
    @nomon95 Год назад +4

    Starts only in orne cylinder,later two,later three.....at the end more cylinders working.
    This issue Is because compression pressure Is a bit low.
    The ideal ignition fuel temperature Is 500.....550 celcious.
    In the cold start in old machines,this happen frequently.
    The flames are consequence for the clag (fuel sprayed as steam)in all exhaust system.A single spark make the clag to ignition AND,of course,flames are present.
    When the engine Is hot and all the cylinders working,the clag Is no present AND the engine run normal.

  • @nigelterry9299
    @nigelterry9299 Год назад +2

    A grumpy startup!!!

  • @steffanharaldjanzen6600
    @steffanharaldjanzen6600 2 года назад

    Bloody hell Dave Law aka Skinny has been on board

  • @gambeersagar6838
    @gambeersagar6838 8 месяцев назад +1

    Wonderful

  • @_RabbitLeader
    @_RabbitLeader 20 дней назад

    It looks exposed to the risk of vandalism being stored overnight in such a location. Surprised to say the least!

  • @TheSurlySoutherner
    @TheSurlySoutherner 2 года назад +1

    Sad to see so much of the old Heritage stock leaving Dartmoor :/

  • @cannadineboxill-harris2983
    @cannadineboxill-harris2983 7 месяцев назад +1

    I needed to know why they don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they can extend the unused abandoned underground train stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into Five cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on those Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers. A Stock Trains and also having 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it larger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Railway tunnel into a High-Speed Railway lines? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Railway line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. Then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 47 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project if that will be OK for London Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from the Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden more Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly Line and also build brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street can they also make another brand new underground train station in Chingford and could they extend the Piccadilly Line and the DLR right up to Chingford? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and can they order Every 77 Octagon and Every 47 Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13, unique small no.11 and unique small no.10 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 147MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 147MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units, can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!!!!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 18 Tonnes for all of those 147MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are told!!!!! And Please do something about these very very important Professional ideas Please? Prime Minister of England, Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Germany, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.

  • @Sergey322
    @Sergey322 3 месяца назад

    What’s up Mile197. Сan I add your video to my channel?

  • @livestocknetwork320
    @livestocknetwork320 7 месяцев назад

    We demand the link between Plymouth to Exeter Central be restored!...

  • @kopasz9140
    @kopasz9140 2 года назад +2

    That guy with his TDI at 6 a.m.

  • @cpeast
    @cpeast 2 года назад +3

    Firing up the old tractor 🚜 🔥

  • @andrashennel3765
    @andrashennel3765 9 месяцев назад

    It really makes me think. Why the BR diesel locos sounds so different. All other diesel loco sounds simmilar-ish but you know Just from the sound, that it is a BR loco.

  • @norburycrossing3426
    @norburycrossing3426 10 месяцев назад

    Peds!!!! ❤🔥

  • @Bodgemiester
    @Bodgemiester Год назад +2

    All this could be saved by an engine pre heater left on a couple of hours before starting

  • @robertfeeley9738
    @robertfeeley9738 Год назад

    Why get a new one when the old one is top noch

  • @madanto2394
    @madanto2394 10 месяцев назад

    Congestion charge probably £1.200,000-

  • @curtchase3730
    @curtchase3730 2 года назад +4

    At what point did the engineer let up on the starter?

    • @chief9938
      @chief9938 10 месяцев назад +1

      He didn’t.

    • @CreRay
      @CreRay 7 месяцев назад

      Somewhere around 1:00

  • @crazyfroggie6546
    @crazyfroggie6546 10 месяцев назад

    Sounds like a steam engine getting going,

  • @mikebryan7060
    @mikebryan7060 Год назад +1

    My word. What year would that engine have dated from? Mid 80s.,?

    • @milepost197
      @milepost197  Год назад +2

      Class 31 locomotives were introduced in 1957

    • @mikebryan7060
      @mikebryan7060 Год назад +3

      @@milepost197 oh thank you. I am no train enthusiast but love these videos of filthy diesel engines blowing out smoke, soot and flames and they splutter into life. It reminds me of my student days travelling on endless BR trains.

  • @jackfinlayson9161
    @jackfinlayson9161 2 года назад +6

    Where are all the tree hugger posts about global warming etc? 😂😂😂

  • @roberthaydon7973
    @roberthaydon7973 6 месяцев назад

    Another D5600.

  • @garymay8905
    @garymay8905 7 месяцев назад

    Look at that lovely muck

  • @cpeast
    @cpeast 2 года назад +3

    Be sure to keep the choke on and let it warm.

    • @cidertom5140
      @cidertom5140 2 года назад

      Diesels don’t have chokes

    • @cpeast
      @cpeast 2 года назад

      @@cidertom5140 of course not i was just kidding 😅

    • @cpeast
      @cpeast 2 года назад

      Of course diesels don't have sparkplugs either! I will tell my kids that.

  • @BobSmith-ui4qu
    @BobSmith-ui4qu 2 года назад

    It is not a no co2 engine.

  • @davidfalconer8913
    @davidfalconer8913 11 месяцев назад

    Imagine if your car did this ( before going to work ) ... ( ? ) ....... DAVE™ 🛑

  • @stevenkerry3101
    @stevenkerry3101 2 года назад +1

    Deltics don't they just sound amazing .

  • @user-cv2ud6yf2j
    @user-cv2ud6yf2j 6 месяцев назад

    😂needs tune up

  • @animaltvi9515
    @animaltvi9515 7 месяцев назад

    Nearly as much smoke as my old ford cargo. .

  • @bryankincaid6064
    @bryankincaid6064 2 года назад +2

    greta is going to love you lot ....blah blah blah

  • @gooldii1
    @gooldii1 4 месяца назад

    A Symbol for all Cars with Ice Motor.
    All disgusting Chesters!

  • @iansomers376
    @iansomers376 2 года назад +2

    British Railways wanted to get rid of steam locos because they were ‘ inefficient and dirty ‘!

  • @johnbrown9092
    @johnbrown9092 13 дней назад

    Eat your heart out Greta!!!😂

  • @stephencampbell9384
    @stephencampbell9384 6 месяцев назад

    Don't shoot that barrel ;)

  • @TheNorthDevonOrganist
    @TheNorthDevonOrganist 10 месяцев назад +1

    some new piston rings would help.

  • @user-rm2sh6gt7l
    @user-rm2sh6gt7l 2 года назад

    Ну хватит небо каптить и без того дышать нечем !

  • @macmckenzie1242
    @macmckenzie1242 Год назад +1

    Refugee from scrap heap.

  • @robertfeeley9738
    @robertfeeley9738 Год назад +1

    Need a fuel preheated and the show is over

  • @robertmarsh3588
    @robertmarsh3588 Год назад +1

    Very entertaining, but surely worse than a steam loco for the environment?
    I love the class 31 btw..

  • @1947acw
    @1947acw 8 месяцев назад

    Get a tripod. ?????????????????????????/

  • @beautifulcatastrophe
    @beautifulcatastrophe 2 года назад +1

    Look at the air pollution

  • @brianblessing8369
    @brianblessing8369 2 года назад +2

    must been using crappy/shitty diesel fuel with all the popping and banging goin on

    • @combatrailfanfilms848
      @combatrailfanfilms848 2 года назад

      No. Deltic Prime mover. Normal ops.

    • @SpoonyMcSpoonface
      @SpoonyMcSpoonface 2 года назад +8

      @@combatrailfanfilms848 it’s an English Electric engine not a Napier Deltic.

    • @nikkihicks5693
      @nikkihicks5693 2 года назад

      Fuel has nothing to do with it...

    • @cidertom5140
      @cidertom5140 2 года назад

      @@nikkihicks5693 yes it does it’s exploding like a petrol does in the exhausts at times hence the backfiring and sometimes flames.

    • @CreRay
      @CreRay 7 месяцев назад

      @@cidertom5140 No, that's external combustion. It happens when combustion is so late and incomplete that it can continue in the exhaust.Backfire does not occur on diesel engines.

  • @BegudMaximan-zp2tc
    @BegudMaximan-zp2tc 10 месяцев назад +1

    That was a bit of a struggle, but aging locos get like that way, at least it runs once it warms up!

    • @moelSiabod14334
      @moelSiabod14334 6 месяцев назад +1

      Just the odd stuck valve, let it warm up for 10 mins and then they will all join the quire to sing a fine old tune.