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That bloke was doing a good arm exercise

When I first saw the start I though oh she's stuck on dead center and driver has reversed a bit to get her off dead center. As she went forwards the second time that's what I think happened for if she still went in reverse then that a problem with the valve gear. That happened to her on a series of mainline runs on the North Wales coast in the 1990's. She was in Llandudno Junction station in full forward gear but continued to go in reverse. What was worse was it was a press run and Clan Line was substituted although with the press being fed loads of booze I doubt they even noticed the engine had been changed. She looks nice in the black livery with sunshine lettering and I wonder if one day they'll paint her in malachite green with sunshine lettering. She's been painted in all sorts of unauthentic liveries over the years from maroon with the nameplate Hogwarts Express in the hope that she would be the engine to be used in the Harry Potter films but the producers thought she looked too modern for their films. She's been painted in purple for the late queens seventy years of reign. BR green of course and now black so malachite and BR blue are future liveries perhaps. Canadian Pacific was in BR blue at one stage so why not Taw Valley

Fantastic video Kev the 37s are a fantastic locomotive at doing loads of thrash

It is like getting barked at or told off by a pitbull or a bulldog.

I think the New Hall at Locomotion is a bit bigger and it's got quite a lot of locomotives then the Main Hall but because they have 2 halls at Shildon they can probably get some more small locomotives in Main Hall. But overall it's brilliant

As one of the team who restarted Inter-City (Rail Blue Charters/Cargo-D) I still smile that some of the original Porterbrook and Angel Trains stock from Long Marston and Kineton is making people smile. The first of the MK3's were actually painted in a Mercedes used car resale-prep body shop, and the finish on them was pretty staggering

Thats really cool. Lucky you!

A slight pity about those maroon Mk2 coaches because if it was a full blue/grey set that could very nearly have replicated a scene from the late 80s/early 90s! The Mk4 sets look splended in LNER swallow livery. Once they go I will not be travelling on the ECML if I can avoid it. I find the IETs totally un-enjoyable to travel on, especially over longer distances which is supposedly what they were built for....?

On it! I was second coach back from the 37! Great thrash the whole journey. Your train actually bowled me out of the 91! I was waiting in the vestibule for it to go past and didn’t realise it had! 🤣

I hope a full Intercity 225 train gets preserved as a charter train. I know there's a Class 91 in the museum at Bo'ness.

Wow 😎

Is this roughly the 90s?

Excuse me Sir, is this your Tardis?

I saw this rake with the 37 parked at WGC on 13 Dec. In the darkness i thought I was seeing things!

Hoping that WCRC dont destroy the BG rake. It was a delight to see.

Wow 11 coaches isn’t that longer than normal train lengths of the era? Always seem to remember that the big inter city train sets were about 9 coaches? Also… this probably a really dumb question I’ve never asked… what does the C1 mean on the end of the coach … seem to see it on different coaches of different times ?

Slow-mo...

Wow🎉

Noice but can you show us in normal speed aswell?

I saw that 37+rake on the Grantham to Skegness line a couple times a few days ago

1980s & 1990s vides geez

Wow 😮 .. what a capture.... pure heaven 😊😊😊😊

'Inter-City'

"Like trains, you wait hours and then"...

One in a million shot there mate! Nice little step back in time

Wow ❤ the 1990-2000s fleet. Not a of the Azumas...

No HST on the far left line ? Rubbish...

This is the age... of the train!

It looks like you were back in the 90s untill we see the west coast coaches. That's an beautiful once in a life time shot.

1:04 looks like the 1980s

I had the same experience last week on 11/12/2024 about 5pm I was on a intercity 225 service to leeds a class 91127 I was coming out of Doncaster i passed a west coast class 47 top & tail it was like being in the 1980s/90s again! good video 🥰

The Intercity coaches are being hired to West Coast while their own fleet of coaches is fitted with central door locking.

Think that's the rail tour finishing at Norwich or heading back from Norwich.

Wow! Is that a Deltic pulling all that! Thanks so much for sharing.

Serendipity, old man, serendipity. BR really spoiled it for the generations that followed with the simple, elegant and unforgetable blue and grey livery. Even the carmine and cream was memorable. The present ones are like fireworks - bright, flashy and short-lived.

Well, yes, that was indeed surprising!

You tease!

And an 800xx series Mk1 Kitchen Car too, albeit not from original build batch.

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What a moment. Right back to the 80s! Gotta love how they don't even bother putting a support loco on for the 37 😂

Must have been a real strain on the OLE pulling the 1.21GW required to transport that Azuma back to 1989.

Silly Q - to OP what loco / cab were you in when you shot this lucky Video ?

Very nice! I bet you could make the same video with a VHS filter on for more authenticity. 😂

37 pulling 12 rake wow, just shame MKF2 isn’t the same throughout as original inter city livery .

Amazing capture! Talk about lucky😂 Thanks for sharing.

Love it. Such a shame about the stupid maroons in that set. The people in the fresh air coach directly behind the loco scored a winner though.

If that was sat. 14th December that heritage special had brake problems coming outta KGX! Hope all had a great day out. But still, what a video capture!!! Thanks for sharing.

The best things have already happened fact

Daughter was in Haywards Heath station the other day when Merchant Navy Pacific "Clan Line" rolled through with a train. Back even further in time!

Great stuff ,proper loco hauled trains with carriages with good seats ,a buffet car ,oh what went wrong eh ,