Vintage railway film - The diesel train driver, part 2 - Driving the train - 1959
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2020
- This vintage railway film, part two of a four part series produced by British Transport Films in 1959, was made to teach train drivers about the then new diesel multiple unit railcar trains being introduced to replace steam trains. This film deals with the operation and driving of the DMU railcar.
As a boy in the 1970s I used to travel on these trains a lot with my parents. I would look through the glass door between the front carriage and the cab and watch the driver. Sometimes they would let me into the cab. Those were the days!
That’s concerning. Did the driver do anything inappropriate to you?
@@assistanttrailerparksuperv6839 No absolutely not. They let me into the cab because they could see I had a boyish curiosity about how the train was operated. I'm not sure why you had to put a negative spin on it. Typical of today's times I guess.
@@johnnyb8825 well I would never let my young lad go into a drivers cab. You never know what could happen.
@@johnnyb8825 sometimes it’s best to know when to put a muffler on. This was one of them.
@@assistanttrailerparksuperv6839 the fuck? How can a person do anything pornographic to a young child when there’s a *GLASS WALL* between them and the passengers that allows the passengers to see everything the driver does and sees.
Great film. Depot is Lincoln. End station is Skegness.
Wrong
@@assistanttrailerparksuperv6839which station is the one at the end then? I'm curious
i thought it looked like skeggy too
How nice, simple, and tidy everthing was back then. ^_^
Systems protocol for heavy machinery. 'PC' now.
I love these old films... they're so well made, 18 minutes felt like 5 minutes. So interesting. Thanks for sharing!
nice information. kudos to such a diligent video.
Amazing, almost Victorian technology in the post-War era. And everything made in Britain.
Yes that "almost Victorian" level of technology still being used at the dawn of the jet and nuclear weapons age is odd.
It's interesting how they got around the limitations of their time. They didn't feel limited at all.
Some day people will be watching videos of us, and saying "They actually cleaned their own homes? Had to drive their cars with a big circular mouse-thing?"
Wow...MANUAL TRANSMISSIONS on these powered passenger units!! Reminds me of the European short-line converted buses (with train wheels) - except for not having a steering wheel, they were (some still are) driven like a manual transmission lorry!
My grandfather used to drive steam locomotives for British Rail. He said when they switched to diesels he didn't like it as much as you no longer had someone else in the cab to talk with.
I've always loved this film . "How to nick a 101 "
Seriously though a lot of thought went into these films . The whole concept of diesel never mind the unique transmission would have been brand new to their intended audience .
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Spectacular!
Much more to it, than I thought, I would imagine the new trains are more straightforward to operate, than these old things, but they lasted well into the 2000s and still the mainstay of the heritage lines....
Very well made information video. Really interesting stuff 👍
So superbly explained that one could become engine driver easily fabulous video nicely filmed
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My uncle had a drivers box like that, proud of those diesel engines leaving steam.
this is absolutely great
What memories...found myself 14 years ago when I drove a diesel electric locomotive. Its been designed in...1959
I wish things were so clearly explained these days
Fascinating ! Most excellent 😁😁😁
It constantly amazes me how much effort was put into producing the mechanical visualisation in these films, especially given the primitive production tools of the time
made in china 🇨🇳
I think the technic back in the 50s, 60s was anything but primitive :D
Very very valuable footages .
Thank you very much .
I love this video clip very much .
Aug. 8th 2022 Mon. 04:24 am
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Excellent films these. I'm sure I saw them in the days whilst I was at school in Grimsby. However, East Lincolnshire line. Those units worked frequently on the Grimsby-Louth-Mablethorpe-Perborough -Lincoln-etc plus Doncaster and Sheffield lines. Looks like Skeggy was the terminus it visited, certainly not 'Meggies', the only other seaside terminus in Lincolnshire.
Worked on these diesel engines and the "self changing gears" gearboxes ,they are giant version of the Wilson Preselector car gearboxes.
Wow! The excitement never ends with this diesel train film.
One vital piece of driver's equipment is missing. His tea can !
And his watch to make sure he doesn't leave on time!
And his porn mags
And his piss bottle
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Nice stuff.
love it, good old class 101 DMU
Not a hi-vis in sight, brilliant
Brilliant! Though passengers sat at the front of proper DMUs could watch drivers, and some of the regular practices didn't exactly follow that guidance!!! Poor old Tyseley DMUs took a pounding....
hi Thanks Outstanding Video SeND Again
Excellent. Thank you for posting
Were excellent 👌
I loved riding this train from Portley-on-Wine to Savages Unfit-in-West by The-WeWuzKingz-Downs. Cheers.
YESSSS ?
Podobný, jako start letadla...
Now can you go over that again please !
Brilliant stuff. The Train Sim World 'games' have got me back into the world of the railways again and one of the most enjoyable trains to drive in the game is the Class 101.
Interesting to know that you should only coast in 4th gear. I wonder if my habit of starting off in 2nd (1st seems to be rather shortly geared) to save time on gear changes would be frowned upon as well...
Oh yes indeed! You’d cause all manner of gearbox damage - their brake bands are not designed to be able to slip, which starting in 2nd would cause. You’re fired! 😆😉😆
I don't play TSW2 much as I prefer TS Classic but the online manual for the first generation DMUs mentions the need to coast in 4th gear. You can do all manner of gearbox damaging things without incurring any penalties but it's more enjoyable to drive as realistically as possible.
The drivers' manuals are available online and they cover everything that this film does but in even more detail. For example, you must be traveling at less than 10 mph when you select neutral and you must be stationary when you shift out of neutral.
老式柴油客車 早期Sop就做得很好！🤩🤩🤩
I would have thought the engines would have been started up with the the main shed door opened first. It is more involved than a layman would think.
My thoughts exactly. But health wasnt a big issue back then.🙁
1jm puzzled when driver has duplex gauge to the pressure when guard checks the train red or buff card red train not to be moved buff not to be moved or with permission years manager or signal man on hap stock as two coaches eco trains 4 coaches guard checks train that all pipe right please either coaches to coaches at the back a thick pipe called jumper cable gives electric though the train contact driver ok tiebreaker test driver puts brack held should read 85 and90 if don't read could be handled above the in wrong posion
@@michaelphilpot1912 What? That made no sense at all in any known language!
@@Twittler1 that's what I thought
The two "bell" sounds from the guard brought back memories?
Yeah, from literally yesterday. The RMT will be insisting on laughable 1930s work practices long after trains have become history.
And as someone who used to regularly watch New St drivers ripping the guts out of clapped out Tyseley DMUs, it's amusing to see how driving should've happened! Zero brake, to full brake approaching Sutton was the everyday norm. As well as crunching the gears.
Happy days!
damn could they have made this any more diffucult ! get in turn key, get out lock door, start engine one side, walk around to the other side and start engine, unlock door, get in, turn off brake, get out, lock door, turn off engine, walk around other side, turn off engine, unlock door get in !! is this why trains are always late...great film though !!
3440 City of Truro: I was there at Didcot, in the 1950s!
That terminus station the train pulls into is Skegness.
Yes, I read the sign too.
Love the driver still wearing his ( plastic) steam driver's hat.
see my comments to "tamar"
It's still funny that you bring you own brake lever to the train.
Its actually a good safety feature as if there are some trespassers who get inside the cab they are unable to release the brakes.
I love the way the narrator speaks.
Probably never did an honest day's work in his life, but he talks down to us all.
Funny. Rather, I say.
It always seems like the same guy did all British information films/newsreels back then, but I guess it was different people who sounded the same
@@rovertaw22 Oh, rather.
I'd say so.
Jolly good!
Cheers.
Strange watching a film made the same year I was born 62 years ago
I would have thought that at least the two engines would have been automatically synchronized.
All I heard was, "When starting pull the handle out 'till she screams, then pull it some more!"
Staff in training, looks they are on the right track here, oh what's the point, I hope there is no buffering on this video , i could signal the destination but still stationary here .....
Love the security, if any one watching this that has been a bus driver you know what i mean !!
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🚅🚞🚞This program is very good.. By this view of procedure for cabin operations on engine of the train..by railway locomotive engineer..views of before and after with same time of oparatings also are very informable.
This video is very informable with enjoyfull.. Thankyou for this different
of the video. ❤️🧡💛💚
They were using toggle switches the bulky instruments and leavers, yet digital touch systems and display was not involved.
By the time the driver gets the train ready to go it will be quitting time!
Not exactly. All this becomes second nature for a driver.
If TH-cam had been around at the time of the Great Train Robbery this would have made a perfect instruction manual!😄
Nope. That train had a diesel-electric locomotive. Different kettle of fish altogether.
@@Twittler1 Yeah I know......just said in humour mate.
@@Bulletguy07 Oops! Soz! 😬😬😬
Interesting old film. Always found diesel-mechanical drive a peculiar thing to use in something as heavy as a train, but it's even stranger when it's a manual gearbox. Do wonder why, if the controls are electric, why not put an electric interlock in the system to block the driver from throttling up before the gear is engaged?
That's a steam engine driver driving a diesel 😊
Green uniforms weren't introduced until the middle 60s which were then replaced with blue uniforms in the 70s.
7:33, that belt is gonna fly off in the road. It's going crazy. Look out!
lol, there is a little play in that belt!!
I wonder If Sir Lofty Voice-Over ever drove any type of rail conveyence ?
Unlikely...He probably is a voice over Actor reading a script.
This is like conducter training for kids.
these vids were around east anglia, mainly norfolk
10:24 It's Daisy the Diesel Railcar!
what are for DETONATOR CANISTER???
Dealing with terrorists.
If the train breaks down an explosive detonator is placed on the rail some way behind it to warn following trains of the obstruction. The cannister contains the detonators.
9:36 I notice that the driver didn't acknowledge the 2 buzzes, with a return 2 buzzes. I guess this procedure was only adopted later on?🤔
Correct
it so bizarre that the brake and drive handles were separate , were they that worried that trains be stolen
And next week, how to build a box girder bridge.
Think about how much better this training film would be if Richard Burton narrated?😀😎
James Mason 😁
Now you know why there was a British Empire.
look's like the Space Shuttle was less complicated to start...
I wonder how often these trains were damaged by driver mishandling.
Why?
@@olivertwist3920 Because the video makes it clear that changing gears quickly causes wear.
@@sylviaelse5086 And? Each railway vehicle has speed levels to switch. In Germany I drove railcars from the 1980s, which were not damaged as a result. They can even handle rough handling.
@@olivertwist3920 The issue wasn't switching at the wrong speed, but completing the switching process itself too quickly.
@@sylviaelse5086 Railway vehicles have to have that. I shifted with feeling while others jerked shifts.
This is like Japanese KIHA-train😂
The engineers don,t wave from the trains anymore, not like they did back in 1954.
The takeaway is.....the gear box can easily be damaged. Yikes.
The engineer was being a little too aggressive on the throttle and rpms when the diesel engines were cold! You have to keep the rpms low until the engine/engines have warmed up and the lubrication and cooling fluids have started to flow and warm up! Otherwise, you can seize up the bearings and pistons very easily,and very quickly, thereby turning the diesel engine into scrap metal very quickly!
In the real world which I was part of we revved em from cold to keep em running and build up the air. Main problem was low water on blue squares. Watering cans at most larger stations ! Blue squares was the coupling compatability code. Was common name used for dmu by drivers on my patch. Preston
Manchester
@@zedcharlie Thanks for sharing your experience regarding the diesel electric locomotives 🚂 That really does make sense!
why was this recommend and why did I watch it all :D
Minute 05:00 did the trains were running on tyres in the old days?
Yotam amity’s has always happened when 😊
Streetcar type railway car.
He leaves his flask on the ground when unlocking and entering thr cab,
Oh crap, I forget the third step, could you please repeat!!!
Anyone know what route that was ?
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Why is it so complicated?
Anyone know where this was shot?
last station is skegness
Old Eastern region, Lincoln to Skegness, one of the places passed through on route was Wickenby (closed in 1965)
@@chriswhite2710 Ta muchly!
Afrika.
@@coloradostrong No Sorry Mostly White British People here then, though there was a few Asians or Africans who were serving in the Merchant Marine or the Armed forces, l also saw an African working for the railway, when I was a kid,he was a fireman.
Quite a hassle !!!!
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The engineers don't wave from the trains anymore, notlike in 1954
By the time the driver prepares this train
The next imagine is cobwebs and a skeleton with a his hat on sitting on the seat 😂
There are less procedures to start A380 😆
@1:50notice painted on the wall of the train "Car No. 56009" But the satchel that stores the levers and keys has "50009" not "56009" on it.
However @5:09 in the rear cab notice painted on the wall it says "Car No 50009"
Very strange
In the early days the two car sets were formed with corresponding numbers 50009 one end and 56009 the other. 50009 being a Motor Brake Second and 56009 being a Driving Trailer Composite.
@@paulebberson4884 thank you so much for the explanation. We had similar trains to these in Canada back in the 1960s.I think they were referred to as Rail-liners. Usually two were coupled together and went between two cities. I used to take the rail-liner between Moncton and Saint John New Brunswick every weekend for a year.
hold on these aren't diesel electrics?
plain diesel, mechanical gearbox ;)
Why does the gear selector have a Bitcoin logo 😂😂
No mention about going on strike?
Easy, bout as simple as installing an app on my Iphone.
They didn't have automatic transmissions on these trains? Learn something new every day.
Shamefully some of these were still in passenger service into the early 1990's.
dont think drivers do this now...lol!
What if it doesn’t start ? Call the AA?
Chris
01.44 look at the CAR No then the satchel No......
05.20 Ah he has the satchel for that car
@@COIcultist it is most likely the satchel box has the number for the Motor car but it works for the whole set
Imagine giving such inside information out to 'all and sundry' nowadays. *They* would have an 'AwayDay' and a half ... Stay free. 😎
Not sure what you mean. This is a training video, which was intended for internal consumption only: it wouldn't have been released to the public at the time it was made. However, these trains were withdrawn from service 20+ years ago, so it's hard to see any danger in making the information public now.
Going by the 'Train Simulator' ...simulator series most of the systems used even on the modern trains is basically public information.
Same with Flight Simulator and how some of the airplanes are at 'reference' quality (I think the Airbus A320 was done on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020) so can presumably be used as a training tool.
@@beeble2003 Good reply.
These train made me want to drive them but certainly not the boring heaps of glass and plastic you see going about now though
I've followed all the instructions but I still can't get the bugger moving
Good Grief! The Egyptians had better tech building the pyramids.
Discipline
after 10 years, they went to the moon.
Skegness ???