Class 56 thrash, 56044 standing start up the Lickey - load 12.
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- 56044 departs Bromsgrove on 12/8/84 with the Bristol to Birmingham leg of 1Z36 F&W Railtours 'Paxman Collier 1' from Plymouth to York and return. This is from the DVD ' Pulling Power - Modern Traction Archive: Volume 12' by Lineside Video Productions, see: www.linesidevideos.co.uk
Was a guard years ago working back from Temple Meads to New Street with an old hand Derby driver called 'Ginger Turner' (R.I.P.) anyway, the 47 towing us was having big issues and Ginge got on the SPT at Cheltenham to tell the bobby "we won't make it up the bank without a run". Well, luckily the bobby gave us greens all the way up. Now I don't know how fast we were going at the bottom of the bank but by heck I was all but shaken out of my guards seat when we went over the points. The bank quickly stole the speed, and the slower we went the more black smoke came from the exhaust. By the time we reached the summit we were barely going more than walking pace, and the 47 resembled a steamer....happy days...
Love this story 😅
The start up pulling away sounds like Silver Machine by Hawkwind! Lol
Awesome power, and you can tell.
The Grid sounds amazing in full cry, sheer horsepower being unleashed.
Smart looking design, one of the better machines to grace british rails.🙂👊👍
Looks like a 47 😁
1984 and 56044 is just 6 years old. 56s a superb class to drive(well,the UK ones)and having driven both these and 66s,the older 56 wins for me. No computer controlled gubbins,just a good old fashioned heavy freight loco that needed to be driven.
they had lots of electronics on them . I worked on them from new at Canton
@@DOCTORDROTT All diesel loco's do. ..I've been working them for nearly 50 years!! I meant 'modern computer technology' not 1970's electronics! JG.
Just listen to how hard the traction motors are having to work!
she is having an easy time with less than 500 tonnes on the drawbar, been test running them with 2000 tonnes on over the years . That whistle is the turbos
@DOCTORDROTT The screaming is definitely the turbos. The low drone steadily building up as the loco increases speed sounds like traction motor whine to me.
@@7822welshsteam Traction motors don't whine , wheelset flange squeal. The 56's fitted with Brown Boveri turbos sound like a jet engine. I worked on these from when they were new. Build about 15 power units and did may test runs up to 3000 tonnes iron ore trains and 2500 tonne steel trains. 56038 was one with BB turbos and the most troublesome 56. Worked on 56044 many times. Also the low drone could be the Serck pump and fans running, Class 47's had a similar idea
That is just awesome!
I tried booking on this but it was fully booked! Any reason it stopped at the bottom ? for the entertainment?!
Bromsgrove was a booked pick-up point if I remember correctly.
Gridtastic, a big bad bruiser with attitude, cannot say that about a Class 68, a Skip in a sharp suit, hear that turbo shriek its bolllocks off , the DUFF DUFF ,DUFF of the big old, Davey-Paxman engine, howl of the traction motor reduction gears as the Grid get to grips dragging a rake of twelve coaches.
Rushton paxman
Not davey
I was on that tour. A brilliant day out!
a light load for a 56
ooooh that throb
Love it !!
RianTrace84.
the ruston paxman 16RK3CT is a similar engine used in the class 58s, this engine started its life in the UK in 47601, the engine used in the class 50s is a EE 16CSVT, a uprated 12CSVT class 37 engine.
The 16RK3CT is the direct descendant of the engine in class 50's with some internal modifications, even the bedplate assembly was the same.
The V12 variant used in the 58 was a later development of the 16RK3CT. Nothing to do with the 37.
Formidable.
i did not say the 16RK3CT engine had anything to do with a 37.
i did say the class 56 engine was similar to that used in the class 58.
perthdave100 actually it was 47901 I only remember that loco was the test bed for the rustons
Yeah they sure can give it some!
Had a pair of grids on a rail tour many years ago whilst in the Bristol area, 6,500 horse power unleashed from a stand still, with load 13, awesome sound and acceleration to match!
Easy
On it, I won the booby prize in the raffle, a pack of Western Post cards and a huge lump of coal with a yellow ribbon round it that I had to carry back to Carlisle😂
My favourite locomotive
Speaking. Living. X
Thrashtastic!
Wow
what sort of engine did these use? I saw one the other day up close and when it was idling it didn't sound like either a sulzer or an ee unit
It's a Ruston-Paxman 16RK3CT, basically an updated version of the engines used in the Class 50s
RianTrace84 hmmmm paxman
16 cylinders of entertainment to get things on the move!
Its got a hint hst valenta thrash about it.....
@@fatwalletboy2 Same turbo