Severn Valley Railway (England) - 2024 Spring Diesel Festival - 4K
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ค. 2024
- When I saw the impressive line up of diesels due to appear at the Severn Valley Railway - 2024 Spring Diesel Festival, I decided it was too good to miss. I booked my accommodation and rail tickets to what promised to be the ultimate British diesel event and it turned out to be even better than my expectations. On the Friday I visited the intermediate stations to chat with the volunteers, look around the attractive stations and shoot video of diesels, most of which have been in preservation longer than were part of the British Rail fleet. One interesting conversation I overheard went something like “you know you are getting old when you see HST's starring in a heritage railway event”. On the Saturday I travelled the full length of the line, stopping off at all stations to enjoy and record the action. There were rumours that even more people attended the Diesel Festival than the Steam Gala and judging by the large number of people crowding into the trains, that could well be true. Another notable feature was the average age of the visitors, many of which were under 30 years old, far too young to have seen regular steam on the mainline, but old enough to have seen the last of the first generation diesels, like those running at this event. All those youngsters bodes well for the future of railway preservation, after all they are tomorrows volunteers and visitors. I spent the Sunday recording trains at various viewpoints along the line. The Severn Valley is a scenic location with plenty of good vantage points to watch trains, please join me to watch the best diesel gala I have ever had the pleasure to visit.
Locomotives in operation during my visit -
Rail Adventure Class 43 HST Power Cars & Colas Rail Class 43 HST Power Cars
GB Railfreight Class 73 No.73119 'Paul Taylor'
Class 37's No.37409 'Loch Awe' & No.37263
Freightliner Class 59 No.59206
GB Railfreight Class 69 No.69009 'Western Consort'
Class 20 Locomotives courtesy of Michael Owen No.20048, No.20142 & No.20189
Class 46 'Peak' No.182
Class 14 'Teddy Bear' No.D9551
Class 17 No.D8568
Class 33 No.33108
Class 40 No.40106 'Atlantic Conveyor'
Class 52's No.D1062 'Western Courier' & No.D1015 'Western Champion'
Class 50's No.50007 'Hercules' & No.50035 'Ark Royal'
To plan your own Severn Valley Railway adventure or to learn more about the line, please click on this link - svr.co.uk/
Track gauge - standard-gauge - 1,435 mm ( 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Hello Tim Flynn from the Severn valley railway glad you enjoyed your self and it was a pleasure meeting you
Excellent compilation, Tim. Thank you for sharing.
Hello Peter, I'm glad you enjoyed it. The Severn Valley Railway really know how to stage a diesel event.
Tim, your filming & stills have added to the record of the event! You’ve added to the event for those (like me) who could not attend in person.
More grist to your mill!
@@Pjs75 The real credit belongs to the people who made the event possible, those who saved the railway in the first place and all those owners who keep their locomotives in almost as new condition for us all to enjoy. I appreciate your kind comment and I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Fantastic footage - the shots over Victoria Bridge were particularly magnificent! Was nice to meet you there!
Hello Anthony, the Victoria Bridge is unique in British heritage railways, it quite a walk to get there, but it's definitely worth the effort. I was good to see you too.
@@Timsvideochannel1 I might have to venture there sometime!
Excellent coverage of the festival, wonderful photography. thanks for posting.
Thank you for your kind comment, it is really appreciated.
Yes...excellent coverage, thank you.
Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed the video.
Another reason to watch your videos. Always well constructed and informative, with beautiful scenery. Relaxing to view, and look forward to. Thank you, Tim for the labour going into these. Hoping the families are great. See you on the next! 😊
Hello Martin, sorry I'm late replying, I've been away shooting more videos for this channel. I really appreciate your kind comment, it means a lot to me and it goes without saying we both owe the Severn Valley Railway a big "Thank you" for putting on such a wonderful show. I've just returned home from visiting Mum for an ice-cream and chat, she's awesome for her age. I hope you are keeping well and if all goes to plan, I should be able to publish the next video sometime next weekend. Best wishes. Tim 😊.
@@Timsvideochannel1 That you for the conversation.
See you on the next. Hoping mom is doing well!
This is really nice to watch this awesome train going through
the beautiful countryside of England here and I really enjoyed
the nice train stations thank you.🇬🇧🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🇬🇧
Hi, I'm pleased you enjoyed these wonderful scenes. For most younger railway enthusiasts these diesels are more relevant than steam locomotives, because they are too young to have seen steam on the mainline but they do remember the first generation diesels, a few of which still run on the mainline today 😊.
Qué hermoso y acogedor lugar , sería hermoso terminar nuestros días ahí, gracias , felicidades.
Es uno de mis lugares favoritos para filmar trenes. Es un lugar relajante para caminar junto al río y hay algunos pubs maravillosos junto al agua entre el ferrocarril y el río. Me alegra que hayas disfrutado el vídeo.
Thank you for sharing. I didn't know such festival existed. That's something I want to attend to, for sure.
I wasn't aware that such an event existed 3 months ago until I clicked on someone else’s video, as soon as I was made aware of it, I knew I had to attend.
@@Timsvideochannel1 Good thing you did! :)
@@StrassenbahnBen TH-cam is a great source of information.
Hi Tim! Good sound from the diesels, fine session 👍👍👍. Best regards from the Mühlviertel, Hans 🍻🍻🍻🇦🇹.
Hello Hans, I love the throaty sound of first generation diesels, they take me back to my train spotting days in the late 60's and early 70's. The class 52 Western diesel locomotives were and still are my favourite class of diesels 🍻🍻😊.
Really nice Tim, wish there were class 55 or 23 at the display.
Hi, I'm pleased you enjoyed the video, a Deltic and a Baby Deltic would have been the icing on the cake, the autumn diesel gala might provide a surprise. Out of interest I used Google to check on progress with the new build Baby Deltic, it looks almost complete - www.babydeltic.co.uk/news-23-may-2024
@@Timsvideochannel1 Awesome Tim, thx for the link.
train journey my favorite 😊❤
Hi, I'm pleased you enjoyed the video 😊.
🥸Really nice views of British summer day !!! LOL
It was a very good day, sunny weather and an interesting line up of Diesels 😊.
@@Timsvideochannel1 We need some rain here dry as hell !!! 😄
@@sellier-bellot22 We've had a very wet winter over here and we'd love to have some of your sunshine.
There's quite the variety of locomotives here. Are many of them "one of a kind" models, or are they widely distributed? I've always been curious about that.
Hi, most of these locomotives are survivors from once substantial classes, such as the Class 50, 52, 33, 73, 46, 37, 20, 43 and 40 whilst others such as class 14 & 17 saw short service lives on the mainline due to various short comings, they were built in smaller numbers, the class 14's were only 5 or 6 years old when they were sold off and snapped up by private companies for use as shunters or for short trip workings. The class 69 is an interesting example, being a recent rebuild of the once numerous class 56's.
British Rail 🙂
A reminder of the good old days.
👍🙂❤️😊
🚂🚃🚃🚃😊❤.
The Severn Valley...... in between the Six Valley and the Eight Valley! LOL
Six was afraid of seven because seven eight (ate) nine. 😆
Hello Neil. The River Severn gets its name from the Latin word Sabrina, named by the Romans. This was eventually Anglicized to become Severn. The Welsh name for Sabrina is Hafren, when translated it means boundary ... hmmm there is logic to your answer Neil, but here's the thing, I can't find the Six Valley and the Eight Valley with Google Earth.
@@Timsvideochannel1 Just a little play on words on my part! Harmless fun! LOL
@@neilforbes416 I liked Mediawatcher's reply, nothing wrong with a bit harmless fun 😊.
@@neilforbes416 And people would be analysing you trying to figure out why you do it.
What a beautiful railway, There's something special about the old rail stations, signal boxes & semaphore signalling thanks Tim for another great journey. PS your hst is our xpt & it's been running for 40 years it will still be running for another 40 if the nsw gov has it's way.😏😁
Hello Robert, the Severn Valley Railway brilliantly captures a British secondary railway in the 50's & 60's. There are some excellent books about the line featuring fascinating photographs of the railway when it was still part of the national network and one thing that comes across is how little the stations have changed in preservation, they have always been in delightful locations, with attractive buildings, surrounded by beautiful scenery. HST's started running in the UK in 1976 and they are still running as short formation units in the West Country and Scotland. Their replacements are ghastly, uncomfortable IEP's, featuring a very bumpy ride and possibly the most uncomfortable seats in the modern world, a plank with a nail sticking up is more comfortable to sit on. The British Rail MK 3 carriage was and is still the best carriage to run on Britain’s railways. I wish our rail operators had decided to keep the best train ever to grace our national network for another 40 years, instead of replacing them with the lousy bone shaking, poor quality units we are stuck with now and for many years to come.
@@Timsvideochannel1 Thanks Tim why was it closed down?.
@@robertcoleman4861 The line became uneconomic due to local mines and industry along the route closing, passenger trains alone didn't provide enough income to make the line viable. A common story throughout the Beeching era, when the value of the railway to the local community wasn’t taken into consideration.