British Railwaves: West Coast Electrification

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  • Electric traction is the most efficient way of hauling trains. Next time we visit the West Coast, prepare for Mk3, APT and InterCity! For now though, the pioneering work through the 60's and 70's to electrify Britain's first mainline.
    0:00 - Modernization Plan (Brandon - Sundown)
    3:43 - Over the Border (Brandon - Coastline)
    7:20 - Electrification Life (Brandon - Steel)
    I highly recommend checking out the two documentary films that inspired this: • Vintage railway film -... and
    • Vintage railway film -...
    The Railwave Playlist: • Railwave
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  • @RoseSupreme
    @RoseSupreme 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Old short BR documentary videos with 80s-inspired music is a vibe I never thought I could get behind.

  • @ioh969
    @ioh969 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Intercity makes the going easy. So much high voltage in one video I'm buzzing!!😆

  • @magnusaugust8489
    @magnusaugust8489 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I really wish you'd make more of these. These films are wonderful and inspiring! Pacing is just nearly sublime!

    • @Isee3
      @Isee3  ปีที่แล้ว +10

      More will be made...! We've got the APT and InterCity WestCoast todo yet. Might have a break and go a shorter....Glasgow based...video...

    • @Reaper1770
      @Reaper1770 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Isee3 i hope you consider making an Edinburgh based one, i've become a huge fan of your work. its my go to while building my scottish model railway

    • @Isee3
      @Isee3  ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Reaper1770 ScotRail will get some love for sure, don't you worry!!

    • @Reaper1770
      @Reaper1770 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Isee3 wooo hopefully 47 711 greyfriars bobby gets some representation

    • @fathernick9910
      @fathernick9910 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He doesn’t make them. They’re ripped-off 1960s documentaries. He doesn’t even speak English…”Railwaves”?!

  • @magnusaugust8489
    @magnusaugust8489 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    ... I must admit to having watched this about 20 times by now lol

    • @Isee3
      @Isee3  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad you keep coming back for more!

  • @danielfield2570
    @danielfield2570 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Travelling down the WCML now. Still see many of the fixtures still up, albeit modernised, testament to the ambition of that time.
    My only gripe is that the ECML, GW, GE and pennine routes as well as the whole network should’ve been electrified sooner!

  • @ewan8127
    @ewan8127 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    When Britain had greatness....

  • @Reaper1770
    @Reaper1770 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    wish me luck, i'm hoping to get an interview to go be a train driver

    • @nickk.9914
      @nickk.9914 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      How did it go?

    • @Reaper1770
      @Reaper1770 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nickk.9914bout to be qualified actually hoping to transfer to do inter urban trains such as the wonderful V set just after I take up

    • @Reaper1770
      @Reaper1770 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@nickk.9914 todays my final exam but hoping i make it through so i can take up on thursday. Lots of pressure but i think i can pull it off

    • @thepacerman
      @thepacerman 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      did it go well?

  • @johnson_street_IEMD
    @johnson_street_IEMD 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    brilliant insight into the begining of the WCML electrification

  • @ChadwickModelRailway
    @ChadwickModelRailway ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Loved the use of a slide rule.

  • @unutentequalsiasi5669
    @unutentequalsiasi5669 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good editing, love that!

  • @AFPCL_Gameplay
    @AFPCL_Gameplay ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really nice!!! 👌🆙🚊 I dropped a big 👍 for ya.

  • @erikaitsumi3852
    @erikaitsumi3852 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fantastic more Network Wave👍

    • @Isee3
      @Isee3  ปีที่แล้ว

      Plenty more to come! Japan Citypop Railwaves too perhaps, fellow KanColle person ;)

  • @rob_e_g8723
    @rob_e_g8723 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    These videos are great, I'd love to see you make one for the woodhead electrification 👍. Nice work well done, subscribed.

  • @bb-3653
    @bb-3653 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's a shame it's 2023 and nothings been done to improve the third rail to either a more efficient voltage, better the power supply or to remove it entirely amd replace it with overhead lines.

  • @sheepythesheep3379
    @sheepythesheep3379 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fantastic video sir!

    • @Isee3
      @Isee3  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Care for a British Rail now?

  • @TV-jz8vu
    @TV-jz8vu ปีที่แล้ว

    I actually really like this haha

  • @EM-yk1dw
    @EM-yk1dw 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Excellent film, sadly travel is not as comfortable as it was then.

  • @fatwalletboy2
    @fatwalletboy2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Brilliant. Old footage but better music too.

  • @PeteS_1994
    @PeteS_1994 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:33. I am guessing those pipes that are in the front of different British rail old trains are for coupling???

    • @Reaper1770
      @Reaper1770 ปีที่แล้ว

      Those are for im guessing brake pipe and vaccum hoses and cablea to do MU

    • @elizabetharas5748
      @elizabetharas5748 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They're mostly for linking up each wagon for the vaccum braking system.
      That's why in the steam era there were such things as "Fitted" wagons (wagons fitted with vaccum brakes and vaccum brake piping)
      and "Unfitted" wagons, wagons which did not have vaccum braking. You can tell the difference between them due to the lack of vaccum braking hoses.
      British Rail mostly used the screwlink coupler system for their couplings.

  • @shaunhenry1614
    @shaunhenry1614 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What’s the name of the music?

  • @ambiguoustv2287
    @ambiguoustv2287 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What ab a GEML railwave edit?

  • @kieranstravels
    @kieranstravels ปีที่แล้ว +2

    AC electrics my beloved

  • @BritishTrainspotting
    @BritishTrainspotting 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    fyi its modernisation not modernization, alot of spell checkers, such as the one built into Windows and Google's browser, default to american English, rather than real English.

  • @RealMagmaDash
    @RealMagmaDash ปีที่แล้ว

    do one about the 455 plss

    • @bussesandtrains1218
      @bussesandtrains1218 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just the 455s?
      Yeah, no
      Southern electrics though... That could work

    • @bussesandtrains1218
      @bussesandtrains1218 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just the 455s?
      Yeah, no
      Southern electrics though... That could work

    • @bussesandtrains1218
      @bussesandtrains1218 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just the 455s?
      Yeah, no
      Southern electrics though... That could work

    • @bussesandtrains1218
      @bussesandtrains1218 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just the 455s?
      Yeah, no
      Southern electrics though... That could work

    • @bussesandtrains1218
      @bussesandtrains1218 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just the 455s?
      Yeah, no
      Southern electrics though... That could work

  • @fathernick9910
    @fathernick9910 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Railwaves? More Chinglish

  • @TheDocster5
    @TheDocster5 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Overhead wires are really ugly. I love trains, but just outside Paisley Gilmour Street towards Glasgow, they've put new Overhead gantries and it's far too much, almost American. 😢 it really spoils the look of the railway.

    • @johnkelly1083
      @johnkelly1083 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I've always thought that the new gantries look over-engineered particularly in the reading area. The lattice masts that they have in Germany look far more elegant.

  • @andrewoverton5170
    @andrewoverton5170 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Can't watch this for the ridiculously loud and distracting music dubbed over the original commentary. Why?

    • @Ferreira0504
      @Ferreira0504 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This original documentaries are in the description.

    • @re57k
      @re57k หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This video's purpose is NOT for the documentaries. Rather it's for aesthetic purposes. It's the whole schtick of this channel in case you haven't figured it out yet.

  • @soundseeker63
    @soundseeker63 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good old BTC footage, but the music is intrusive and not fitting with the era of the footage.