Deltic Decimates the countryside. (and it turns up mob handed)

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  • Опубликовано: 13 янв 2025

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  • @MrKnowwun
    @MrKnowwun  5 лет назад +30

    I know what the classic Latin meaning of decimate is, the modern idiom is used in this video under artistic license . ANY COMMENTS ABOUT IT WILL BE REMOVED

    • @VadoVoodoo
      @VadoVoodoo 4 года назад +14

      Touchy!

    • @richardwild3971
      @richardwild3971 4 года назад +1

      DOYLE

    • @hcrun
      @hcrun 3 года назад +8

      "Modern idiom"? What "modern idiom"? There is one definition and one only.

    • @anthonyglee1710
      @anthonyglee1710 3 года назад +7

      I would just stick to plain English to avoid confusion.

    • @ralph5407
      @ralph5407 3 года назад +6

      Great, censor comments you don't like, very democratic.

  • @mikeroberts5646
    @mikeroberts5646 7 лет назад +62

    All my life I,ve loved my German Trains from kid on,but I have to say this British brute looks awesome however little I know about English Trains
    Wow awesome color scheme too
    Don’t worry Ladies and gents this German loves your cars older that is,love you Brits as well

    • @MrKnowwun
      @MrKnowwun  7 лет назад +5

      check it out at 93 mph ruclips.net/video/uDm8oG1yB4Y/видео.html and 100mph at night ruclips.net/video/1scc2h5PflU/видео.html, - nothing quite makes a noise like a deltic with its engine gunned,.

    • @samsmithsonite1595
      @samsmithsonite1595 6 лет назад +1

      Mike Roberts ruclips.net/video/2BFoiCHuAxc/видео.html

    • @stormwarrior5241
      @stormwarrior5241 5 лет назад +1

      Love you too Man!

    • @AlexEssex8
      @AlexEssex8 5 лет назад +2

      I think Deltics (along with Vulcan bombers and Lightning fighters) do look brutal and sinister but beautiful because of it!

    • @Bulletguy07
      @Bulletguy07 5 лет назад +1

      @Mike Roberts.....and this Brit loves your Autobahns which are a pleasure to drive by comparison to our motorways!!

  • @TheFlyingBusman
    @TheFlyingBusman 5 лет назад +17

    The Deltic sounded mean just idling but on full chat..... wow! I used to lie awake in bed every week night for the express service from Doncaster to Hull to pass just after 10pm pulled by a Deltic. That sound just carried on the night air like no other.

    • @jameswhite5780
      @jameswhite5780 2 года назад

      Haha same in Swindon used to hear a Class 50 late night early morning parcels probably chugging through the countryside
      The sound of the clag through the air was something to behold

    • @firefox3187
      @firefox3187 Год назад

      Yep same here. Was like a rugby team of Brian Blessed’s slowly bumbling along past 1-2 miles away

  • @68xperfectx
    @68xperfectx 5 лет назад +8

    The sound of the Deltic in full song takes me back to being 6 years old stood at my parents bedroom window waiting in anticipation of the Deltic pulling out of the station, could hear it three miles away. Loved watching and listening to them thundering past at 100mph. Modern trains are sterile now, all sound the same with no individuality.

    • @AndreA-ke2id
      @AndreA-ke2id 3 года назад +1

      @shaun truman. These days you're better off staying at home and listen to your vacuum cleaner. Same sound as all the plastic trains today.

  • @tractorsmachinesro1405
    @tractorsmachinesro1405 4 года назад +9

    Great rail therapy....I like IT!!!!....ALL THE BEST from ROMANIA!!!!

    • @danielsellers8707
      @danielsellers8707 Год назад

      Your country built the first 30 of our class 56 locomotives in the 1970s. Greetings from England.

  • @laurencehughes4964
    @laurencehughes4964 10 лет назад +13

    awesome. pieces of our railway heritage and history thank you for sharing.

  • @MarioStahl1983
    @MarioStahl1983 4 года назад +8

    😂 These old iron horses seem to last forever. Indestructable!

  • @888johnmac
    @888johnmac 9 лет назад +125

    typical.. you wait ages for a train then 5 turn up at once

    • @keith6400
      @keith6400 7 лет назад +7

      and there's no seats available

    • @jeremycaldecoat1699
      @jeremycaldecoat1699 6 лет назад +1

      I only counted two.

    • @al66class59
      @al66class59 6 лет назад +4

      (Sarcasm) doesn’t come across when typed.
      He’s referring to each of the locomotives in the convoy as one train. 5 locos in convoy, 5 trains at once.

    • @neildeakin4454
      @neildeakin4454 5 лет назад +1

      ahaha, sadly there was zero trains, just locomotives

    • @GWR-fd1up
      @GWR-fd1up 5 лет назад +1

      @@neildeakin4454 well there was one train and 5 locomotives

  • @hubs37
    @hubs37 6 лет назад +28

    I love all the birds singing and twittering to one another, so peaceful and idilic

  • @sheepfarm7560
    @sheepfarm7560 4 года назад +1

    Love these engines brilliant video you have done .

  • @piusais721
    @piusais721 6 лет назад +7

    I lived just behind bentley station and loved watching the diesels, how i miss it!!

  • @irelandbloke
    @irelandbloke 6 лет назад +4

    Superb 👍🏻

  • @myriaddsystems
    @myriaddsystems 5 лет назад +7

    Chunky beauty of unstoppable, uncompromising power, absolutely gorgeous. We won't see her like again 😣😢

  • @timgrist9649
    @timgrist9649 8 лет назад +3

    What a treat to see this procession.! Thanks for posting.

  • @johnwilliams9240
    @johnwilliams9240 5 лет назад +4

    Started my working life at English Electric Vulcan Foundry, Newton-le-Willows, 1964 Technician Apprentice.
    Rows of Deltics and one GT 3, now all gone.

  • @TheAudiostud
    @TheAudiostud 9 лет назад +17

    I wasn't old enough to appreciate "Steam" I grew up with these Dirty Rotten smelly Oil Burners and I loved them, I enjoyed reading Andy Houghtons anecdote takes a man blessed with a curtain amount of knowledge, to rescue the situation with out to much fuss, you can tell a man from Wigan, But! you can't tell him much…

  • @danlaplain8212
    @danlaplain8212 6 лет назад +4

    Nice to hear some of coming back In service to help out.

  • @msmirandagirl
    @msmirandagirl 10 лет назад +20

    Love it!! There is no replacement for displacement!!

  • @mekydro
    @mekydro 11 лет назад +2

    Lovely. I saw this cavalcade pass Woking, but alas was at work so only glimpsed it out of a window.

  • @Finsami71
    @Finsami71 4 года назад +1

    'Alycidon' . Always gives me shivers. Respect.

  • @mattstowell8481
    @mattstowell8481 9 лет назад +20

    That's a lot of lovely hardware, right there.

  • @DaveIncredibleW
    @DaveIncredibleW 5 лет назад +3

    the Deltic has always been my favorite train, nice video

  • @peteotoole8383
    @peteotoole8383 3 года назад

    first part started to drift off sound was so peacfull 😂😂 then the on coming storm great video

  • @china-trip
    @china-trip 2 года назад

    Wow... !!! My best friend, It's always great. Your video is excellent quality. We liked and enjoyed to the end. Thanks

  • @PhilPage227
    @PhilPage227 5 лет назад +1

    Fabulous to see those beasts together.

  • @sre331l
    @sre331l 11 лет назад +51

    A Deltic on test at Vulcan foundry had the same governor/limiters fitted at both ends, not normal practice but they wanted to test her on the dynomometer...to cut a long story short all the engineers ran when they failed and she showed 3000rpm and over 7000hp causing smoke to rise from the windings.....it took one of the old hands who had taken a part time job of an evening cleaning the shop floor to take his broom to the fuel cut off valve to avert disaster. One Engineer in his haste ran through the personnel door in the hanger doors into what he thought was the night sky. It turned out the hanger door was half open and it was a black painted wall! He recovered a few months later after a long stay in Billinge Infirmary. 2-stroke diesels, perfect balance, shame the fuel consumption was so bad!

    • @michaelmcneil4168
      @michaelmcneil4168 6 лет назад +1

      What was the fuel consumption?

    • @rogertycholiz2218
      @rogertycholiz2218 6 лет назад +1

      They were no more fuel guzzlers than the American EMD locomotives.

    • @PhilPage227
      @PhilPage227 6 лет назад +1

      Amazing story. My first two kids were born at Billinge.

    • @samsmithsonite1595
      @samsmithsonite1595 6 лет назад

      Andrew Houghton ruclips.net/video/2BFoiCHuAxc/видео.html

    • @alejandrayalanbowman367
      @alejandrayalanbowman367 6 лет назад +3

      @Matthew Lund That's the trouble, these days, they got rid of the old-timers who knew what they were doing and took on a load of management trainees and oiks off the street who are not railwaymen, all in the name of privatisation. Glad I retired on redundancy in 1993.

  • @TomsSteamVideos70013
    @TomsSteamVideos70013 11 лет назад +2

    Great video. You was lucky to get them to stop there! Some lovely thash coming from Alycidon. I'd love to see that beast on the mainline. Tom.

  • @neilbolger2679
    @neilbolger2679 2 года назад

    These DELTICS are great sounding machines. And I'm that the 33captain Bill was there too. Seen it a few times and I miss the 33 sounds in Portsmouth greatly. Nice little engines. Great video

  • @chuckydickens7258
    @chuckydickens7258 11 лет назад +4

    Deltic 9000s are my favorite locomotives. I'm holding an Identical model of D9002 in my hand even as I type.

  • @daviddun4162
    @daviddun4162 Год назад

    I used to dash across the Mytery (the Wavertree playing fields ) in Liverpool to the embankment to see the blue Deltic with a yellow arrow sweep by towards Lime Street Station. must have neeb about 1957 or 58.

  • @delta7155
    @delta7155 11 лет назад +2

    Used to watch Deltics running full tilt along the straight past Abbots Ripton. Great sight, fantastic sound!!

  • @simoncroft2158
    @simoncroft2158 5 лет назад +1

    A rare sight indeed ! Thumbs up

  • @ItzzOliOfficial
    @ItzzOliOfficial 4 года назад +1

    Amazing video, beautiful british machinery

  • @arch9enius
    @arch9enius 7 лет назад +4

    This thing was a lot louder on the platform at Medstead & Four Marks... but the 37 was getting all the attention

  • @Boatman248
    @Boatman248 5 лет назад +1

    What a brilliant runner!!

  • @DaveInBridport
    @DaveInBridport 11 лет назад +1

    Such a distinctive exhaust note

  • @stephenpowell5912
    @stephenpowell5912 4 года назад

    More power, Love the BR 5 in this from the Class 55, 33, 47, 20 and the 37 💞 Great Vid

  • @jamesbutterson5218
    @jamesbutterson5218 3 года назад +1

    The birds are chirping so peacefully and then! The ole chugger pull's up 😂🐦🕊️🐝🚂💨

  • @derekhartley5157
    @derekhartley5157 5 лет назад +1

    I'm in my late seventies now, but can remember when I first saw a Deltic, I was probably about 13/14 years old, I was with a few mates at Northwick Park (before the hospital was built) in Kenton, Middlesex -( but now north London) which is on the west coast main line from Euston. The line has a steady incline up from London. The usual express trains were headed by Coronations, Royal Scots or Princess class steam locos, often double headed by a black five, and usually passed us at approximately 40-50mph, working hard, belching clouds of smoke. But on one particular day, no smoke but a heavy throb of a large diesel engine from a light blue Deltic with 12 coaches at a speed we all estimated at approx. 65-70 mph. I then thought "this is going to be the end of steam" This sight made quite an impression on me, and to this day when I see a Deltic (especially in blue) on RUclips or in railway films/ Museums, my mind goes back to that sight I had nearly 60 plus years ago.

    • @newforestroadwarrior
      @newforestroadwarrior 5 лет назад +1

      The light blue Deltic was the first prototype. It is now in the National Railway Museum.

  • @trainsofthewest265
    @trainsofthewest265 10 лет назад +1

    Nice!!! If only it was like this today. Still, these will be the good old days one day!

  • @rentaghost
    @rentaghost 8 лет назад +8

    Brilliant footage. Diesel overload for any Diesel fan. Good work. Thanks for posting ;-)

    • @samsmithsonite1595
      @samsmithsonite1595 6 лет назад

      rentaghost1975 ruclips.net/video/2BFoiCHuAxc/видео.html

  • @AldofromBordeaux
    @AldofromBordeaux 11 лет назад +3

    1 word : Prfect
    thank u sharing that gem

  • @mattseymour8637
    @mattseymour8637 5 лет назад +1

    Nice sounds from the Deltic and good shot

  • @Lawrence5987
    @Lawrence5987 10 лет назад +11

    Heavy metal thunder-it's music to my ears. Great British engineering at it's best!

    • @2760ade
      @2760ade 4 года назад

      Judas Priest in locomotive form, yeahhh love it!

  • @williamkelley7654
    @williamkelley7654 9 лет назад +6

    Nice, no noisy clanging signals in the background too!

  • @middley1964
    @middley1964 10 лет назад +1

    Lucky getting that lot all at once ! great footage !

  • @bjoe385
    @bjoe385 5 лет назад +4

    Why couldn’t I have been born 70 years earlier so I could drive these things.

  • @chrisst8922
    @chrisst8922 4 года назад +2

    One of the most recent times anyone bothered to put the TOPS number on a train.

  • @CPRail4744
    @CPRail4744 11 лет назад +1

    Awesome!!! Love that sound...Greetings from Canada!

    • @MrKnowwun
      @MrKnowwun  11 лет назад

      Thanks and greetings to you too. Hows that cold weather of yours?

    • @CPRail4744
      @CPRail4744 11 лет назад

      Actually warming up again, and where I am in western Canada (British Columbia), it never really got the Polar Vortex thing.
      I was in the UK for three weeks in 2011 and travelled everywhere by train, and loved it. Can't get your scenery and railway network out of my head!

  • @rammergramps
    @rammergramps 11 лет назад +1

    great catch that is for sure loves the sounds

  • @stephenpowell5912
    @stephenpowell5912 Год назад

    Iconic footage of Class 55 deltic Locomotion ❤️❤️❤️

  • @Passengervehicles
    @Passengervehicles 11 лет назад +1

    Excellent videos

  • @MikesMovies
    @MikesMovies 5 лет назад

    There is just no other look or sound, iconic locos, I've watched this before, Great video. would there be a chance of using some of the audio to go with a model rail video I am planning please?

    • @MrKnowwun
      @MrKnowwun  5 лет назад +1

      yeah sure, copy what you want.

    • @MikesMovies
      @MikesMovies 5 лет назад

      @@MrKnowwun Many thanks, moist kind :)

  • @Crewecabking
    @Crewecabking 6 лет назад +1

    Lovely video I need to see D9009

  • @timosha21
    @timosha21 2 года назад

    I'm a tram 🚋 and I approve this video! Ding ding!

  • @christophersharp317
    @christophersharp317 5 лет назад +2

    I absolutely love it :) such beautiful machines, though it has to be said that little songbird sings way louder ;)

  • @terryburton851
    @terryburton851 3 года назад

    pure joy THANKS....

  • @Ashfaq1999
    @Ashfaq1999 5 месяцев назад

    Great video 😊

  • @sitarnut
    @sitarnut 5 лет назад +2

    Looking at the front coming at me I realized it looks a bit like a caterpillar, or the larval stage of Mothra... anyway, I love the Deltics... genius engine.

  • @MrSwinny88
    @MrSwinny88 11 лет назад +6

    why do 4 people dislike this vid, its bloody awesome.....power!

    • @tiki2950
      @tiki2950 5 лет назад

      Needs a tripod for the camera. Too Jerky.

    • @iandocwra1169
      @iandocwra1169 3 года назад

      Far too much extreme zoom causing motion sickness, perhaps?

  • @r3playretro
    @r3playretro 9 лет назад +1

    My favourite diesel loco

  • @am74343
    @am74343 6 лет назад

    What is that weird "spaceship" noise when the other train passes by at 4:07?

    • @MrKnowwun
      @MrKnowwun  6 лет назад

      Its a space ship, landed right behind me. Or the regenerative electric braking of the EMU

    • @davidjones3758
      @davidjones3758 6 лет назад

      More than likely some foreign crap

    • @wharris302
      @wharris302 5 лет назад

      That is the far superior EMU.

  • @martiniv8924
    @martiniv8924 3 года назад

    Taken for granted as a kid, most lamented the loss of steam , me it still puts the hairs up on the back of my neck 🤪

  • @whitemoor66
    @whitemoor66 11 лет назад

    Nice vid. I filmed her last July on her first run up the ECML after returning to the mainline again, and she sounded awesome then too.

  • @jonnybottle
    @jonnybottle 11 лет назад +2

    I imagine Mirrlees Pioneer would be one of the first to have a Mirrlees Blackstone engine, made in Stamford

  • @N00N01
    @N00N01 3 года назад

    And the liveries
    55: Br green
    33: Br blue
    47: Br green(2 tone)
    20: Br blue
    37: Br large logo(grey and yellow for cabs and cab sides)

  • @dn5751
    @dn5751 9 лет назад +20

    That's the most measly horn I've ever heard.

    • @TarHeelBrit
      @TarHeelBrit 6 лет назад +3

      True but their might be horn restrictions in place.

    • @Meddled
      @Meddled 4 года назад

      Michelle D. Deltics just have squeaky little horns.

  • @MrKnowwun
    @MrKnowwun  11 лет назад +1

    Yup, the very same, one stop up from Alton.

  • @argonaut6386
    @argonaut6386 2 года назад

    Can someone please tell me the difference between the number shown on the front and the side?

    • @MrKnowwun
      @MrKnowwun  2 года назад +1

      The number at the front is the "head code", an old system that showed the type of service it was, and the route it was taking. OZ = Light engine to Motive Power Depot or not to work a train. The number on the side is the class of loco and the build serial number.

    • @argonaut6386
      @argonaut6386 2 года назад

      @@MrKnowwun Thanks very much for replying 👍

  • @mikesuch9021
    @mikesuch9021 2 года назад +1

    🎶There's a little hotel
    called the Shady rest,
    At the Junction. 😉

  • @johnbrown9092
    @johnbrown9092 6 лет назад

    What a catch. Well done.

  • @dakariszulu
    @dakariszulu 8 лет назад +3

    Is it me or does the Class 37 look depressed at being at the rear?

    • @ajmedia1274
      @ajmedia1274 5 лет назад

      Still my favourite along with the class 40

  • @ianpalmer7758
    @ianpalmer7758 5 лет назад +2

    Fantastic theres some proper pulling machinery there long live the deltics beats the crap they use these days !tug of war a deltic vs modern day

  • @DiggerEvans
    @DiggerEvans 7 лет назад +1

    fantastic

  • @Goodchappy
    @Goodchappy 10 лет назад +1

    I like the almost silent horn @ 4:46 LOL !

  • @HomeMoviePerson
    @HomeMoviePerson 11 лет назад

    Great shots.

  • @giuseppegulino
    @giuseppegulino 6 лет назад +2

    grazie di cuore per questo bellissimo video con un gruppo di stupendi locomotori ELETTRO DIESEL grazie veramente per bel lavoro un caro saluto giudeppe

  • @davidjones3758
    @davidjones3758 6 лет назад +1

    British design and built brilliant locomotives with style not like the locomotives we have now got now

  • @ghoulunathics
    @ghoulunathics 5 лет назад +1

    1:52 lmao it has a face like it had to leave all of it's loved ones behind forever=D

  • @thrunsguinneabottle3066
    @thrunsguinneabottle3066 5 лет назад

    Deltic was the most powerful diesel locomotive in the world, apparently. Yet BR built only 37 examples. Did BR not see a possible market for such a product in overseas territories? Or was it too blinkered by nationalisation, to think of exporting a fine product? Even allowing it to be built under licence would have made sense.

    • @StaxRail
      @StaxRail 5 лет назад

      It wasn't BR. English Electric (the manufacturer) even put an American style headlight on DP1, the prototype, but people just didn't care, other than BR who didn't have anything suitable to replace the A4's on the ECML, so they ordered 37 of them

    • @thrunsguinneabottle3066
      @thrunsguinneabottle3066 5 лет назад +1

      @@StaxRail I still think someone missed a splendid opportunity to win export sales. I doubt the thing even amortized its own development costs.
      And in the 1950s, Britain was desperate to earn foreign currency.
      My guess is that Britain was just not commercially savvy in these times.

    • @StaxRail
      @StaxRail 5 лет назад

      @@thrunsguinneabottle3066 nah, more that the intended export markets had already got their diesels, eg the ALCo F7

    • @thrunsguinneabottle3066
      @thrunsguinneabottle3066 5 лет назад

      @@StaxRail But one of the problems with early diesels, was that they were not as powerful as the steam locomotives, which they were intended to replace. The Deltic was the first which was MORE powerful.
      English Electric must have been a fantastic company.
      It also built the Lightening fighter aeroplane, refrigerators and even bus bodies. Where did it all go wrong?

    • @StaxRail
      @StaxRail 5 лет назад

      @@thrunsguinneabottle3066 it wasn't EE's fault. The export market, eg America, had already been using diesel for a decade and had managed to develop their engines, such as the F7, so that they were powerful enough. Because we didn't start to modernise until 1955, we were left in the dust

  • @Michael_Michaels
    @Michael_Michaels 3 года назад

    This sighting is the equivalent to a jackpot!

  • @MrAtlas40
    @MrAtlas40 4 года назад

    I'm not from the UK. What is the purpose of the SPAD! signal? I know what a SPAD is, but why the signal? Thank you.

    • @MrKnowwun
      @MrKnowwun  4 года назад

      Its basically a hi-vis repeater, this will explain www.railsigns.uk/sect8page2/sect8page2.html

    • @MrAtlas40
      @MrAtlas40 4 года назад

      @@MrKnowwun Thank you. I've checked out the link.

  • @topautos
    @topautos 7 лет назад +1

    Super loco !

  • @ridefast0
    @ridefast0 6 лет назад

    Did nobody spot that all the non-Deltics were being pulled backwards by the Deltic?? Must have been picking up supplementary power from the third rail to pull off that stunt.

  • @herrbohnen
    @herrbohnen 10 лет назад

    Must be difficult to see where you're going , what is in the "Bonnet" area ?

  • @wharris302
    @wharris302 5 лет назад

    Love 55s, one of my favourite locomotives, the 37 isn't bad either,shame it wasn't runnning. The other two don't interest me that much however.

  • @toonmag50
    @toonmag50 5 лет назад +2

    I think these locomotives were Dr Who's arch enemy.

  • @Domdeone1
    @Domdeone1 5 лет назад +2

    How dare you-you stole my future..

  • @stormwarrior5241
    @stormwarrior5241 5 лет назад

    So is it 'towing' five dead engines or push/pull 4?

  • @masonsmainlineroblox
    @masonsmainlineroblox 4 года назад

    How did you get on the rails

  • @johnmoran7117
    @johnmoran7117 5 лет назад

    That's quite a sight.

  • @MikesMovies
    @MikesMovies 9 лет назад

    Great stuff

  • @nablicman
    @nablicman 11 лет назад

    Jolly good show.

  • @Michael_Michaels
    @Michael_Michaels 11 лет назад

    It's a shame there wasn't any close up high revving!

  • @PoxyMoxon97
    @PoxyMoxon97 11 лет назад +1

    My God! You lucky Bugger!?!?! X'(
    Just one thing though, your description...it's a BR Class 55* 'Deltic'...not a '57' because they Revamped Class 47's...which a 47 is the middle loco in Two-Tone Green livery in this video ;)
    Hope that helps, but great catch! Like, Sub..and obvious comment ;)

  • @multimapping8303
    @multimapping8303 9 лет назад +2

    Dat sound! O.O

  • @theodyssey-seawandererofca2053
    @theodyssey-seawandererofca2053 5 лет назад +1

    Those birds were loud eh!

  • @KINGANDCASTLE
    @KINGANDCASTLE 11 лет назад

    Nice one. D9009 due at Didcot GWS over May zBank hols.

  • @valvlog4665
    @valvlog4665 5 лет назад

    6yrs on -- excellent. How did you get it to stop? Tied a kitten to the track?

    • @TheEnglishTrainSpotter2021
      @TheEnglishTrainSpotter2021 5 лет назад

      VAL VLOG no it’s Single track after there so it had to wait for the other train to pass

  • @smithpm81
    @smithpm81 6 лет назад

    Great video