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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ม.ค. 2015
- The infamous Devon Enthusiast 'Doctor Death' is seen standing infront of me, as most of the train bellows the obligatory mark at the good Doctor. This was the Paignton & Dartmouth steam railway's Rat running day featuring D7535 (25185) and it is seen here departing Goodrington sands on the 4/5/13.
Enjoy! - ตลก
August 2022 and 'Death' is still with us. Saw him at Newton Abbott, still with his coat and step ladder.
He sure is!
Hes been seen today in 2024. He must have a portrait in his attic.
Lovely telephoto shot there Howard with the water park in the background. A pity the bellowers drowned out some of the noise from the 25. I remember hearing something about "Doctor Death", but the story has slipped my mind............
+MrDeltic15 He's a very old bloke that thinks he can do what he likes because he can. The most widely accepted story is that he was some high class lawyer in Wills and Probates
I met him just the once - really ticked me off as he is a rude and vile man
@@Trek001 Death is ( was) a pain in the ass numerous times he stopped trains by being line side with no high vis on. Very nearly git banned from numerous railways.
Love the 25's.. very distinctive horn.. back in the 80s I could hear a 25 through the night 3 miles away from the nearest railway...
Love the rat THRASH. nice video Howard!!
I do like your LOL as the good doctor dismounts from his stepladder.
Doctor Death a legend.
Great vid 👌 great to see this
Oh you can see death at the end of the film climbing down from his ladder
10 years today
I thought someone was going to come flying off the waterslide and land in front of the train.
That was one of the most dangerous ride in history.
Ahh, it makes sense - the famous older chap that haunted Devon railways with if over enthusiasm!
Why did the rat shut off power going going up the hill?
25mph speed limit
Shut off power just at the right time so you can hear all the train bellowing DEATH!
Death ? Who ? Where ?
yoww is that a waterslide back there?
Good footage, but behaviour like this doesn't do much for the 'image' of bashing, or trainspotting.
The image of bashing and trainspotting already couldn't be any worse! At least this vid shows that some trainspotters have a good sense of humour rather than the more typical "boring veg with a Camera stood on a platform for hours on his own for hours on end!"
Helen Coleman Football can be entertaining and it’s generally normal. Bashing is alright but people who flail are idiots.
@@owenevans83 how are people who flail are idiots? the whole purpose of bashing is to flail
@@danielptfcs no it’s not, it makes you look like an idiot. The point of bashing is to get mileage and get pissed, no need to flail.
@@grannyjone why is it bad? I've never heard of that
What's a "Rat running day", please? I know school-kids took the steam train to Churston Grammar back along - is that who's on it now?
Rat is the nickname for this loco
I'd imagine RAT is an accronym for "Real Ale Train" - a type of train that serves a lot of beer. Probably explains the bellowing!!
Laffing here!
why is he called Death???
Because his spotting activity should have lead to it. He was notorious for being in iffy locations, often illegal in railway bylaws.
@@roamingthepaths7363 Oh right often wondered that for years!
I remember, years ago there was a website / blog / forum that was about spotting trainspotters. There were several people regularly featured, and he was notorious on there.
Because he died 2 years before he was born .
Because he was Harold Shipman. When not out murdering old grannies he was instead filming trains.
Good video... Thanks Simon H for explaining why the word DEATH is in the title of the video and I'm glad I read the comments before commenting... I was expecting to see the seagulls to get splattered by the 25
Is that a waterside in the background?
It is 👍
DEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
You're a tad late with this XD
But where's the need for speed? It's just as informative now as just over a year and a half ago.
Who Died?
My enthusiasm.
@@eleanorkennedy669 OK????????
It says "Death" there because the guy at the back at the train is famous around the trainspotting community, he has the nickname "Doctor Death"
@@uqinovia8826 *B r u h*
the lads
That’s 1.03 I will never get back
Like Noah’s Ark.
Dreadful! 🙋♂
Shouting abuse at an old man. Disgusting behaviour. I wonder if it makes the perpetrators feel big and clever?
richard myer Maybe they shouted ‘Old Scrote’?
It's a tradition centred around the spotter called dr death if you see him you shout DEATH as Loud as possible
I should think Dr death killed that vintage 117 dmu why the hell did they cut the cabs off???? some preserved railway that I must say 😠
Bad behaviour not good that's not the way to be run a service they should have been told to keep calm Richard Courtney Adelaide south Australia
It's an old tradition centred around a spotter called dr death and if you spy the good doctor you have to bellow DEATH as loud as possible
Saddos.
Cheer up... All in good fun!
Trainspotting..about as enthralling as watching paint dry.
I used to find it fun but in more recent years your description is about right
As a child at the tail end of steam, loco spotting was quite interesting. As well as the new fangled diesels, there were steam locomotives that were nearly new as well as some that were very old indeed. Trains were inter-regional, so unusual stuff often came through on the main lines.
Coal was still king for commercial and domestic power, and until 1962 British railways were a common carrier, leading all kinds of weird and wonderful stock and movements. Even in the era of this Class 25, train movements had a certain fascination and much of the infrastructure was Victorian. Now you'd have to be very keen indeed to track foreign built multiple units covered in advertising, or liveries made by the colour blind. However rail transport is much more popular than it was 40 years ago, which is the only thing that matters.
Collecting engine numbers is no more or less pointless than collecting anything else of little/no value.. what I loved about my early teenage years as a rail enthusiast was the adventure that I looked forward to every weekend - travelling all over the UK for next to nothing, seeing the country, meeting people & making new friends, learning to be independent and how to figure stuff out for myself.. every weekend was like a treasure hunt/detective game, using the BR computers to figure out how to intercept particular engines that were hauling passenger trains.. it was a blast and a f**k sight more enthralling than plenty of other pastimes that kids got involved in then and now.. I'm only the tiniest bit interested in it now but I look back on those days with great nostalgia..
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That was just fictional story
Flailers and bellowers really pxss me off. these are supposed to be adults, as long as they are "having fun" they don't care about spoiling other's videos etc.
Grow up you wet wipe