Excellent piece of historic material - BUT........! Please could the commentator sound more interested in what he is talking about and also stop breaking sentences up with unnatural pauses mid stream. As in "and fifteen were built between 1872 ...........and 1874 to 1880" or somesuch.
According to the map shown Salisbury is not part of the SR network ! The information for the Schools class is partly nonsense. The Terriers seen are actually Class A1X which had been rebuilt from class A1. The Southern Railway third rail system was 660v DC. BR began raising the voltage to 750v DC in the 1960's, once older EMU types had been withdrawn. The Southerns steam hauled freight services were replaced by diesel & electric Classes 33, 71,73 & 74. Locos such as the US built class 66 only arrived post privatisation, another thirty years later. So much of the info on this video is nonsense. A very amateur production. Not impressed.
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Excellent piece of historic material - BUT........!
Please could the commentator sound more interested in what he is talking about and also stop breaking sentences up with unnatural pauses mid stream. As in "and fifteen were built between 1872 ...........and 1874 to 1880" or somesuch.
Aspect ratio is wrong.
According to the map shown Salisbury is not part of the SR network ! The information for the Schools class is partly nonsense. The Terriers seen are actually Class A1X which had been rebuilt from class A1. The Southern Railway third rail system was 660v DC. BR began raising the voltage to 750v DC in the 1960's, once older EMU types had been withdrawn. The Southerns steam hauled freight services were replaced by diesel & electric Classes 33, 71,73 & 74. Locos such as the US built class 66 only arrived post privatisation, another thirty years later. So much of the info on this video is nonsense. A very amateur production. Not impressed.