Tunstead to Peterborough 66615
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มิ.ย. 2024
- It’s a gorgeous afternoon in June 2024 and our intrepid freight driver is despatched to deliver 22 MWA wagons to Peterborough where another intrepid driver will take it forward the next forty miles or so to Brandon near Ely. 66615 is in charge of 6Z12 and does a fine job. We have two world exclusives! A trip through the brand new loop at Bamford and another through the new Dore Curve loop. We get an important message from the signaller who routes us through the lower level Trent Junction which leaves Driver Vinny having to spare no horses on the fast line to Sileby just bin case we are followed by an EMR fast express. Vinny gets this thing eating out of his hand (not his first rodeo) as it storms past the delightful famous signal box at Oakham. Finally, we finish with an update on the Landslip near Duffield which required a realignment of the track.
Well done on raising so much money for charity! 👏 I've been subscribed for many years and enjoy your channel immensely. Cheers from British Columbia!😊
Without the support of people like you, we wouldn’t have done so well. Thank you.
Although I've never asked the 'toileting' question in the comments, I have to admit I was bursting to know the answer.
So thankyou for relieving my curiosity on that one Mr Coffey. 😁
Several puns in one comment. Good stuff David 😉😂
That was awesome. Thank you so much for posting this content. Getting to see such footage and yet still raise money for a good cause can't be a bad thing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
A welcome surprise for a Sunday evening. Thanks :)
Enjoy!
Great video Don. It always amazes me how fast these freight train go these days. I remember as a kid they used to crawl slowly making a squealing noise as they went.
Yes, they crawled around at one time. The squealing noises still happen when the flanges contact the rails.
Thanks for the slow-mo through my hometown of Stamford 😃 Thanks to you all for a great vid.
Glad you enjoyed it!
While they look nostalgic and all... I still find it hard to understand how there are still semaphore signals in use on lines in the UK....!
This is a real nice scenic trip... love the cab views and thanks for sharing...
They’re an endangered species but in some locations they remain as you see. They will be removed in upcoming schemes.
We often see trains like this arriving in the sidings at Woking .
Thank you for that. I now better understand the impact of the changes on our local line. As ever, Don, excellent video and captions. Thank you to Vinny, the driver.
Much appreciated John 👍
Thanks Don. I hear the USA / Canadian engines can be smelly as they have toilets in them
Maybe so. They travel much greater distances and for many hours so probably a necessity.
Yesss another video to enjoy this evening! however im not sure if its just me but the max quality i'm getting is 360p
They occasionally stream better on the second day after buffering (no pun intended).
to don coffey I enjoyed the video of drivers eye view from paul chapman at London uk 🇬🇧
Thank you Paul, much appreciated buddy.
Hopefully we'll have a premier in the middle of an England game?
It might be a good idea 😉
Dr Beeching was bought in by the government of the time to make the railways more profitable. Yes... BR at that time closed a lot of lines. However, the 2nd part of his report bought in InterCity travel and containerised freight trains.... the precursor to Freightliner.
Unfortunately, there was a lack of foresight from BR when the lines were closed and sold off...
It had its pros and cons but I think they sold off the land too quick before measuring the impact.
It still seems weird to me that when my parents were teenagers living in the Greater Manchester area the first miles here were still part of a main line headed to what I always knew as the GMex centre rather than Manchester Central. I suppose we usually think of progress moving forward with time, but not always.
The Hope Valley Line was effectively the line that ran into Manchester Central. The nearest you can get now is the Metrolink Line into Deansgate Castlefield. See the East Didsbury to Rochdale video.
right a red signal did he dissappear into some bushes lol
Congratulations on that fantastic donation ,Don . A question if I may ? The track side signs that look like a national speed limit sign on a road , seem to have many aspects . Are they based on semaphore signals ?
I can’t think which you mean. There are small signs with a diagonal line which are temporary or emergency speed limits that were terminated earlier than published. I hope that’s what you meant.
Are these the two stone viaducts in the intro clip to "BBC North West"? (at 19.00 approx. here)
That’s the ones Spud, impressive aren’t they.
Don, thanks a lot for this video. I enjoyed it a lot as I do all your videos! But hopefully you will know this:- I noticed that the signal with position 1 route indicator into the loop at Bamford has been plated DE. Do you happen to know what DE stands for? Thanks a lot, Alan.
Yes Alan, it stands for Dore to Earles. Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Great Video as always Mr Coffey, but i have a question. With two thirty seven's working together you have roughly the same power available as a single sixty six. With the two thirty seven's working together that power is transferred to the track via twelve axles while the sixty six is transferring the power by only six axles. isn't "wheelslip" a problem with such a heavy load especially on a wet track?
Apparently, if you put two 37s in multiple, they don’t add up as you’d expect and there are losses. The only time you see two 66s double headed are on the occasional Jumbo which is 4000 tonnes.
Really curious to know why “Norman’s Bank” is named as such now 👀
Really enjoyable video once again Don, cheers!
I would like to know too James but my enquiries so far have been fruitless.
Heavy haul division of freightliner shut down?
Not that I’m aware. That train in the video is Heavy Haul.
G'Day Don from Australia. As always, a great video. Being 3 and a half hours running time, how long does it take to upload to You Tube?
Good to see you Richard. I think it took about three hours to upload then another hour or so to finish processing and checking. There’s no rushing these long videos.
freight train drivers probably earn well in access of perhaps £1,600-2,000 per week
Hello, Don. You asked, so damn the torpedoes, here goes. First, as an American, my opinion of "The Beeching Issue" is worthless, and it's none of my business. I acknowledge this. As a lover of British Railways of ALL kinds, I will say that I HAVE an opinion, regardless of its worth. Dr. Beeching was hired to generate a list of all the stations and railway lines that were either not generating or losing revenue, and recommend their closure. Did he generate hatred, YES. Did he put people out of work, YES. Did he do the job he was hired to do? YES. I think the closures were already in progress, and he just accelerated the procedure. That being said, I hate him for the loss of the Somerset and Dorset. This opinion is a result of the data I have been presented with, and is subject to change, provided you have sufficient evidence. I welcome any rebuttals, provided they are unemotional and civil. Oh--Norman's Bank is named for a person called Norman, who owned a financial institution 😁🧐. Prove me wrong. Cheers, Don
Good to see you Chuck. I think it’s safe to say that the root cause of the Beeching Report was the car. The public were losing interest in the railway and we were entering an era of personal transport being a status symbol. The vultures were waiting and the road lobby moved in. It’s a shame so many rural lines were lost - my local branch to Hayfield went with them but they were haemorrhaging money at an alarming rate. I think British Railways Property Board went crazy selling land that would make reopening a route virtually impossible. It’s a shame but it’s progress I suppose.