Vintage railway film - InterCity 1250 - 1982

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  • @lukegreen5341
    @lukegreen5341 Месяц назад +1

    0:43 This Famous Train Station Kings Cross Was Opened In 1852 By The Great Northern Railway. When The London And North Eastern Railway Took It Over In 1923 This Is Were Flying Scotsman Left London In England And On Route To Edinburgh In Scotland In The United Kingdom On 1st May 1928. Awesome. Thanks Mate. X❤

  • @adamquirke6024
    @adamquirke6024 Месяц назад

    Remember this film so well, especially the soundtrack. First watched it in early 90's when I were a nipper

  • @europa2000man
    @europa2000man Месяц назад

    I don’t know why, but this film makes me emotional. Maybe it’s seeing the 125s here in their glory and knowing that they are going to the scrap yard fast

  • @europa2000man
    @europa2000man Месяц назад

    Them Intercity 125s were probably the best trains ever built and the most iconic trains to come from British Rail. It’s a shame that they are fast disappearing, just like all the good things to come from times past. The only thing people seem to keep from the past is bad things like bad memories of things that went wrong. They never see the positives that came out of back then.

  • @europa2000man
    @europa2000man 3 месяца назад +1

    Does anyone know what the name of the music track is? I love that synthesiser sound.

  • @markrobert6028
    @markrobert6028 2 года назад +1

    Where's Jimmy? After all, isn't this, "The Age of the Train"?!

  • @ÆCME
    @ÆCME 2 года назад +2

    Thanks for giving us these film's,
    Another Superb Piece of Gold ⭐
    A Great Britain once loved & luckily were there ...🥲

  • @djtrainspotter
    @djtrainspotter 2 года назад +18

    Hittin the playback speed X2 for 2500mph!

  • @R08ERT
    @R08ERT 9 месяцев назад +2

    I use to see this video at the national railway museum in York
    Back in the 80s.

  • @simaesthesia
    @simaesthesia 2 года назад +8

    The music is ace!

  • @Mediawatcher2023
    @Mediawatcher2023 2 года назад +2

    In Australia we have a similar tra8n called the XPT

  • @a11csc
    @a11csc 2 года назад +6

    what a gem the old paxman valenta

    • @MervynPartin
      @MervynPartin 2 года назад +2

      A good engine that sounded wonderful.

    • @ItsRainingDonuts
      @ItsRainingDonuts 8 месяцев назад

      "Did you threaten to over rail him?"

  • @prestidigitation2301
    @prestidigitation2301 2 года назад +7

    I have this, on a VHS compilation, called “Great British Trains.” It has the fantastic Blue Pullman promotional film on it, with the wonderful pre-composed music, test team aboard, staff in the Pullman uniforms; serving boiled eggs, coffee, dodging the executives of the time with their broadsheets, and engineers testing on board equipment, emergency stop….(“testing, one, two, three, foo-ur”).
    Blooming Marvellous!
    R.I.P - B.T.F, you are sorely missed.
    Thanks for the upload.

  • @djtrainspotter
    @djtrainspotter 2 года назад +7

    I remember my visit to York Railway Museum in July 1987 and watching this on a screen several times, before completing a most excellent day of spotting up from Kent.

    • @metrocammell1
      @metrocammell1 2 года назад +2

      I remember seeing this at the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate in summer 1983, back then I must have watched it at least six times, funnily enough I still remember the music to it..
      Tried searching for this a few times and couldn't find it .. first time I've seen it in about 39 years...

  • @markrobert6028
    @markrobert6028 2 года назад +1

    I was just waiting for Roy Budd "Carter Takes a Train" to spark-up.

  • @reynardbizzar5461
    @reynardbizzar5461 Год назад +1

    Look at the old sweat driving the train 😂 ex steam man no doubt ; bet he’d seen better days back then in ‘82 👺

  • @Railsww
    @Railsww 2 года назад +1

    These were the days….

  • @scoopjeff
    @scoopjeff 2 года назад +2

    Wow check the size of that First class yellow stripe!

  • @StewartBarnard
    @StewartBarnard 2 года назад +3

    Best train to hit the British rails

  • @azuma892
    @azuma892 2 года назад +4

    When HS2 opens they should do a remake of this. :)

  • @dbrailways
    @dbrailways Год назад +1

    Excellent, I’ve been looking for this for ages !

  • @2112theoden
    @2112theoden 2 года назад +1

    And at one point Cleethorpes.I remember when I was a kid hearing them go past early in the morning on the first train of the day.

  • @MarkAtkin
    @MarkAtkin 2 года назад +2

    I saw the title and assumed it was a typing error!

  • @Thornaby37
    @Thornaby37 2 года назад +2

    The days when the East Coast Main Line had proper trains
    Unlike the Hitachi rubbish we have now

  • @johnspurgeon9083
    @johnspurgeon9083 2 года назад +1

    I still think the London to Brighton beats it with the complete journey unbroken by clips of people etc (which probably hide breaks in the footage!).

    • @MervynPartin
      @MervynPartin 2 года назад

      If I remember rightly, the London to Brighton film did have clips of the driver, but both films are great. I used to have the 8mm copy of the London to Brighton run.

  • @spiralfirst6488
    @spiralfirst6488 2 года назад +1

    In the year 2000 we'll actually travel this fast....

  • @JamesPetts
    @JamesPetts 2 года назад +3

    Who takes a baby in first class...?

  • @EliasSchmid00
    @EliasSchmid00 2 года назад +1

    This is actually just about the cruising speed of Concorde…

  • @user-yw3cy8pn3b
    @user-yw3cy8pn3b 2 года назад +2

    If trains went that fast people would get off at the other end looking like metalheads and would've forgotten why they took the train journey in the first place.
    INTERCITY - Getting you there on time whether you like it or not!

  • @memofrf
    @memofrf 2 года назад +1

    Must have been such a leap as a driver. Steam to diesel.

  • @metrocammell1
    @metrocammell1 2 года назад +3

    For heavens sake, Bring Back British Rail..!

  • @devansh8846
    @devansh8846 2 года назад +1

    How do you even get these videos?

    • @timhuggins1993
      @timhuggins1993 2 года назад

      Downloaded or transfer recorded from dvd box set

    • @user-yw3cy8pn3b
      @user-yw3cy8pn3b 2 года назад +4

      Can you imagine him disguising himself as a train and just wandering through the archives? That is what he does and nobody notices.

  • @Then.72
    @Then.72 2 года назад

    Again this was when the UK had industry! Remember the HST ? It was too advanced and made the passenger’s sick and all they do now is let the the passengers tilt with the train. Brilliant engineering just like jet powered VTOL that the British designed but it’s all been sold

    • @nkt1
      @nkt1 2 года назад +2

      The train in the video is the HST. You’re thinking of the APT. The sickness issue was quickly resolved by reducing the degree to which it tilted. The government declined to fund upgrading the WCML to accommodate the APT’s service speed of 155mph, thus limiting it to a maximum of 125mph. As such, the business case for operating such a specialised, expensive and high-maintenance train evaporated, so the project was cancelled. The tilting technology was sold to the Italians, but much of the rest of the design formed the basis of the very successful InterCity 225. Passengers are not left to “tilt with the train” on the WCML. Tilting Pendolinos and Voyagers have been in service for over 20 years.

    • @Then.72
      @Then.72 2 года назад

      @@nkt1 I agreed the APT ( advanced passenger train) That was counterbalanced inside for the passengers to keep them level! My mistake and you are correct that this government would not fund like supersonic VTOL and most UK industry is now gone or foreign owned

    • @nkt1
      @nkt1 2 года назад +1

      @@Then.72 Tilting trains are not counterbalanced to keep passengers level. They tilt into the curves, in the manner of bicycles and motorcycles, so as to reduce, but not eliminate, the centrifugal force on passengers, thereby increasing comfort.

    • @Then.72
      @Then.72 2 года назад

      @@nkt1 yes that is what I have put in my first comment! The APT not HST was too advanced being counterbalanced which caused seasickness to the passengers and letting them tilt with the train was the answer

  • @johngibson4641
    @johngibson4641 2 года назад +1

    That trains goin more like 500 mph and the only shots that were real were the inside the cabin shots which is a vast difference hahah.
    Cheers from John in Australia

    • @nkt1
      @nkt1 2 года назад

      By my reckoning, if the external shots were to be accurate, the train should have passed the camera in less than half a second.

  • @RHR-221b
    @RHR-221b 2 года назад +1

    *Gimme a ticket for a FAST train ...* 'We are now travelling at Mach 1.6866888!'
    No offence, B B R. Thank you for your creations.
    Stay free. Rab 🍻 😎 🌠

  • @PWBERRETT
    @PWBERRETT 2 года назад

    A lot of the film looks like its been sped up. 125 MPH isnt that fast.

    • @MervynPartin
      @MervynPartin 2 года назад

      That's why the publicity film was called Intercity 1250

  • @ajm2212
    @ajm2212 2 года назад

    'Hmmm' not my reality of travelling by 125 trains in the late 70s & early 80s, as if we all travelled 1st class 'really'? sometimes you managed to get a seat on 2nd class 🤣

  • @monstermax22
    @monstermax22 2 года назад

    Pity about the cheese-laden music…

    • @Chasworth
      @Chasworth 11 месяцев назад +1

      Its good for ya

    • @europa2000man
      @europa2000man 3 месяца назад

      What’s wrong with it. I like it and it’s a whole lot better than the stupid music they put in stuff now. Just another reason why I don’t like nowadays much.

  • @cJ-cr8gp
    @cJ-cr8gp 2 года назад +2

    Wow. Looks awesome. In reality It was just awful. It’s so heartbreaking to realise “British Railways” actually were and became about the worst in the world.

    • @ErraticPT
      @ErraticPT 2 года назад +2

      Actually not the worst, but a lot of potential was wasted. Other countries took advantage of this to improve their infrastructure, while we did the research and then made little to no use of it because the penny pinchers were in charge.

  • @brickleyyard4966
    @brickleyyard4966 2 года назад +1

    Lol BR the joke of a railway company the will all ways be

    • @bazzacuda_
      @bazzacuda_ 2 года назад +13

      Not as much of a joke as your English exam results were.

    • @RHR-221b
      @RHR-221b 2 года назад +4

      @@bazzacuda_ 🍻 😎

    • @Ass_Burgers_Syndrome
      @Ass_Burgers_Syndrome 2 года назад +3

      @@bazzacuda_ LOL!!

    • @mikehitchen3153
      @mikehitchen3153 2 года назад +2

      Based on what facts?

    • @metrocammell1
      @metrocammell1 2 года назад

      Total joke it is now..since it was all sold off to foreigners and privatized. We once had a railway system providing a service in the National Interest and the subsidy back then was a fraction of what it is now. Is this what they mean by 'progress' or is it just a race to the bottom? Even now I would sooner get a train to London from Doncaster, rather than waste 4-5 hours on the M1 going nowhere slowly, with a bunch of ugly German cars forever stalking my back window....