@@DigitalDiabloUK hahaha yeah thought I’d pin a comment to explain error in the video! Also if anyone else is interested you can pause the video at 1:15 in the still image it shows the final prep paperwork with the correct date on it! 10/04/2019
I think they’ll take a while to hit their niche. They have great potential though. 125’s could be a really reliable stand in for the first generation DMUS.
@@sjokomelkone of the most boring sounding engines in the industry ! Fitted to locomotives that were originally built with the most amazing sounding engines in the industry.
@@WhiskeyGulf71I think the MTU engine sounds pretty good tbh. Certainly better than the engines you get on diesel trains these days. But yes I think the velenta and VP 185 engines sound better.
Thats a brilliant video. A new age of preservation now. HST is a very iconic train and for some of us as old as the train itself. Through our childhood this train has been spotted, photographed and videod in many guises. Your doing a great job and long may it continue. 👍
Lovely video, covering the whole process, incl some neat drone work. I imagine anyone who could was clamouring to have a go at the controls. Good to see some in preservation, it won't be long before people are coming to ride behind these and rekindle memories past
hi guys, driven these since 2003, our depot stopped driving them about a year or so ago, my old depot still has them as 2+4's, miss driving them, wish I'd stayed at my old depot. thank you for preserving them, means I can visit and relive the good times,. cheers Rich
Hi rich, i bet you have some awesome memories with these workhorses. No worries it is great to have them preserved on a line, defo pop down if you are in the area!
These HST's are glorious - it's a shame that they couldn't be used on the mainline for longer, but it's great that you've got a selection of locomotives and coaches at Colne Valley. I note an Ex-EMR power unit, some ex-LNER coaches and what also appeared to be an Ex-EMR 1st Class coach.
So nice to see these iconic beautiful British transport legends preserved. Which restoration path are these power cars undertaken? I look forward to my full 2023 range Hornby Intercity 125 western region BR Blue with the two class 43 power cars and 7 MK3s, and the IC 125 executive livery with the two power cars and 8 MK3s.
@@BOBPTransportVideos Fantastic I've always loved InterCity 125s, in every livery. They are my favourite passenger trains along with two other BREL products, (the BR Class 370 APT-P and InterCity 225s BR Class 91 locomotive, MK4 DVT and a rake of 9 MK4 carriages). especially as a small child I grew up in Devon mostly. And I remember being four it was 1995, and I stood at the now disused bridge at Newton Abbot. And I could hear the screaming paxman valetta engine (which was equally terrifying in a good way and amazing) of the Class 43 HST power car and along it came speeding past and I could hear the seven MK3 coaches clacking one by one until the rear Class 43 HST power car screamed too as the train went past. I wanted this train then. There wasn't a Hornby InterCity 125 train set available in 1995. But I did get the Hornby InterCity 225 train set from Argos that Christmas. But the next year Christmas 1996 aged 5 I had the very special 20th Anniversary Hornby High Speed Train set limited edition. I think it was bought new from Newton Abbot's indoor market's "Model Railway Shop" it came with three MK3 coaches ( two standard open and an extra including special TRBF buffet car). I only ran the rolling stock. As there was already a separate layout. I still have both of these sets with both of them with all if it's original packaging, contents, bags, paperwork, certificate, locomotive operation, instructions warrant, cards advertisement slips, the mini 1995 the Intercity 225 set is also housed in it's transport distribution outer mail cardboard box, and 1996 A5 catalogue, the still sealed original Hornby 1996 polymer three sheets trackmat all sealed with the trackmat instruction sheet too!
I am happy to see my favourite passenger train preserved. Who knows, maybe I could pay for a driver experience day in the future in one. Oh and a GE Class 60.
I ran very quiclky up onto platform 2 oneday in 1976 to see the ass end of one of these making a great sound and dissapearing dowm the platform, never forget it, the first sighting of one. Still the fastest diesel in the west lol. All things come to an end and in this case are not taken over by anything better which is sad..BYe BYe HST x
If only GW, LNER & GC kept their class 43 fleet. It’s not the same without them. Glad to see some class 43s have been saved by train heritages. We last saw class 43 at Butterly last year but stopped running due to faults with the train.
@@vastjonea awww wow that’s great! I asked those on butterly site on fb what’s going on were they going to fix it they said they weren’t sure but watch this space. But glad it’s back up running shame we missed it. They got the spooky train running before Halloween do you know?
My brain is strange, I couldn't even imagine that you'd just written the date wrong, I was tying my grey matter in knots trying to work out if it actually meant 23rd April 2010, and this video was from 2014, when I read it was a typo I let out a sigh of relief.
Hi , I love watching this video, thank God for you Guys being able to save these machines. Are you at the limit as regards your Mk3 trailers, or are you aiming to purchase some more?, again, great video thanks.☺
This is awesome. its sad it wont get past 25mph (heritage line speed ?) Id love to come and take a ride. starts on the first press of the button !!!!!!!!!! 🙂
I know theyre pretty old now, but I still find it hard to believe these sleek monsters are now at preserved lines :S Will the lights be changed back to the originals or will they keep the new (ish) round LEDs? Nerdy question I know XD
In the first cab video the speedometer is dead, that is because the GWR ATP system was active. We isolated it in the station and the final cab shot shows the Speedo working again 👍
Mentioned in the description we had a line block and possession of whole line for our test runs and shunts, signal passed with permission so we can shunt over onto the crossing
We are keeping 43071 in FGW, atm we are working on freshening the livery when we can! We have already sorted out a lot of the corrosion on 71s body work
It's great to see a HST preserved but I don't think these engines will be happy trundling along at 25 mph when tbey could reach 125 mph in days gone by
Sorry all there’s a typo in the video! 43165 worked its last train into Ely on 10/04/2019 not 2023, has has not been started since that date 🤦♂️
I was very confused at how a 4 month retired train had such tatty paintwork, but makes more sense now.
@@DigitalDiabloUK hahaha yeah thought I’d pin a comment to explain error in the video! Also if anyone else is interested you can pause the video at 1:15 in the still image it shows the final prep paperwork with the correct date on it! 10/04/2019
Awesome. Well done
Glad you sorted that out. I was confused 😂
Thought I'd gone back to the future! 🙂
Who would have ever thought these would be on a heritage railway. Makes me feel old!
I think they’ll take a while to hit their niche. They have great potential though. 125’s could be a really reliable stand in for the first generation DMUS.
That was a surprisingly quick start for an engine that hadn't been used in about 3 years!
Indeed! These MTUs seem to have done quite well considering their storage time
German engineering 😉
Aye…although many of us rued the passing of the Valenta, the MTUs are good engines per se, and kept us with the HST much longer than otherwise!
@@sjokomelkone of the most boring sounding engines in the industry ! Fitted to locomotives that were originally built with the most amazing sounding engines in the industry.
@@WhiskeyGulf71I think the MTU engine sounds pretty good tbh. Certainly better than the engines you get on diesel trains these days. But yes I think the velenta and VP 185 engines sound better.
The HST is such an iconic design! I'm so happy to see some operating on a heritage line!
Some have been taken to Mexico for the Trans Isthmus Railway (Transistmico).
Pretty sad that basically the same engine is in revenue service still in Australia as the fastest train between the two largest cities.
Yes agreed, my daughter visited Amy branch line and they have some carriages from 1785, they are beautiful and they have 12 wheels which was unusual?
Awesome. Glad to see another HST make it to preservation, great work fellas
Thank you very much!
I worked on these power cars at Old Oak Common back in my FGW days.
Great to see them coming back to life. Well done chaps.
Are there any Valenta units left? It'd be nice to hear one again.
Nice video and it's great to see these HST's making their way on to heritage lines.
It sure is!
I’m booked on a HST at the Nene Valley Railway next weekend. Iconic British engineering, bacon rolls and real ale.
Thats a brilliant video. A new age of preservation now. HST is a very iconic train and for some of us as old as the train itself. Through our childhood this train has been spotted, photographed and videod in many guises. Your doing a great job and long may it continue. 👍
Thank you!
Fantastic video. Thanks.
Glad you liked it!
Lovely video, covering the whole process, incl some neat drone work. I imagine anyone who could was clamouring to have a go at the controls. Good to see some in preservation, it won't be long before people are coming to ride behind these and rekindle memories past
Ooo thank you! Yeah drone is a new addition to my collection, we do offer HST driving experiences at the CVR on these fine machines!
@@BOBPTransportVideosand most excellent they are too! Highly recommend it, best couple of hours I’ve spent in a long time!
Fantastic Lewis.
Cheers nige!
Beautiful engine sound on start up and great to see it running. Great filming also, love all the angles you was filming.
Thank you 🙏
I live 3 minutes away from this, and had no idea this was going on. Thanks for the video
That was a nice clean start-unlike some of the preserved locos that have started from cold after being stood around for ages!!
that's...uh...because...it...is much younger...than the aforementioned engines...you speak of.
hi guys, driven these since 2003, our depot stopped driving them about a year or so ago, my old depot still has them as 2+4's, miss driving them, wish I'd stayed at my old depot. thank you for preserving them, means I can visit and relive the good times,. cheers Rich
Hi rich, i bet you have some awesome memories with these workhorses. No worries it is great to have them preserved on a line, defo pop down if you are in the area!
Just as exciting as a steam train. A pinnacle of loco design
WHOOPEE. GREAT TO SEE. Thank you
Thank you!
Just needs that line extended to Haverhill and to Halstead, get a bit more speed up, those HST's love it!
Intercity 125 remember when it was introduced amazing machine
Fantastic to see 43's in preservation but I'm not a fan of the MTU power plant, I grew up in the days of the screaming Paxman valenta HST's
HST IS Valenta.
Nice locos but they sound better with a screaming valenta as they was scary as a kid lol 😆
A Good video of these 125 mph flying machines!
Ah the Valenta, lots of smoke on start up
@@brianwillson9567the last Valenta-engined HST was in 2010 with Grand Central.
Excellent video. Glad to see the test running going well. 😀
Cheers mate
Exellent😊
Glad to see another HST making it to preservation, great work fellas
Nice to see another one of these work horses being kept alive. Back bone of the Intercity network for decades.
😊😊
beautiful - we share the same sentiment as those who saw the end of steam.
So nice to see these great iconic locos still running they have still got more life in them
Kev Beighton Parkway Sheffield
Still sounding Superb, Just wish GWR still had them instead of the IET trains as the HST Sets were So comfortable Compared to the IET Concrete Seats.
Next you’ll be wanting STEAM TRAINS !!!! IET SEATS ARE JUST FINE !!!
Beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤❤, new sub 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Im so happy the HST's are getting preserved
Great video. Thanks for uploading. Me and my son do train adventure videos and still want to ride this train.aybw one day.
Great first time start engine looked immaculate inside hope you will keep the same livery best FGW 👍
71 will be kept in FGW we are working when we can to re vitalise it, 165 will be painted into a different livery!!
@@BOBPTransportVideos maybe GWR green livery would work..
Good to Classic 43 running ❤
The classic WBD40 in the cab! Awesome vid!
hahah yep, thanks for watching!
Fantastic. I remember these coming into service in the late 70s....now they are retired i feel very old.
I think i need to pay CVR a visit...
These HST's are glorious - it's a shame that they couldn't be used on the mainline for longer, but it's great that you've got a selection of locomotives and coaches at Colne Valley. I note an Ex-EMR power unit, some ex-LNER coaches and what also appeared to be an Ex-EMR 1st Class coach.
Great to see. Every preserved line should have a short set :)
Agree to that one!
Nice to see in preservation, fond memories of the hsts and nice to see some are making it into preservation
super job
I thought these locos were still in service. Grand job you have done there
Well done 👏
MTU 👍👍👍
Great video Lewis!
Cheers mate!
Sweet As!
A lovely fresh bit of paint and sorting out those rusty exhaust's on the top of the unit, and this beauty will look pretty much brand new
Excellent 👍👍
So nice to see these iconic beautiful British transport legends preserved. Which restoration path are these power cars undertaken? I look forward to my full 2023 range Hornby Intercity 125 western region BR Blue with the two class 43 power cars and 7 MK3s, and the IC 125 executive livery with the two power cars and 8 MK3s.
We are planning to re paint 43023 & 43165 in due course!
@@BOBPTransportVideos Fantastic I've always loved InterCity 125s, in every livery. They are my favourite passenger trains along with two other BREL products, (the BR Class 370 APT-P and InterCity 225s BR Class 91 locomotive, MK4 DVT and a rake of 9 MK4 carriages). especially as a small child I grew up in Devon mostly. And I remember being four it was 1995, and I stood at the now disused bridge at Newton Abbot. And I could hear the screaming paxman valetta engine (which was equally terrifying in a good way and amazing) of the Class 43 HST power car and along it came speeding past and I could hear the seven MK3 coaches clacking one by one until the rear Class 43 HST power car screamed too as the train went past. I wanted this train then. There wasn't a Hornby InterCity 125 train set available in 1995. But I did get the Hornby InterCity 225 train set from Argos that Christmas. But the next year Christmas 1996 aged 5 I had the very special 20th Anniversary Hornby High Speed Train set limited edition. I think it was bought new from Newton Abbot's indoor market's "Model Railway Shop" it came with three MK3 coaches ( two standard open and an extra including special TRBF buffet car). I only ran the rolling stock. As there was already a separate layout. I still have both of these sets with both of them with all if it's original packaging, contents, bags, paperwork, certificate, locomotive operation, instructions warrant, cards advertisement slips, the mini 1995 the Intercity 225 set is also housed in it's transport distribution outer mail cardboard box, and 1996 A5 catalogue, the still sealed original Hornby 1996 polymer three sheets trackmat all sealed with the trackmat instruction sheet too!
Planned livery, please?
10/4/23 ? That's like 5 months ago!
Oh god you got me there that’s a typo 🤣 worked it’s last train 10/4/2019
It must be like driving through Wales for this high speed inovation🙃
I use love watching the HSTs flash past on the lines with my late father
hi great video, good to see hst power cars, just as well i don't have to fill the fuel tanks.
Nice vid , bentuk lokomotif yang sangat inggris sekali dan berjaya di era nya
dan sebagai ikon kereta british rail
I have never seen a HST on a preserved railway before, that's kinda cool.
Still have my Intercity 125 clip on driver’s tie somewhere.
Oh wow
i wonder why the startup sounds good
These are still used in Australia for intercity services, rebadged XPT.
Indeed they are, different loco however draws alot of it's charicteristics from the HST
Hopefully they'll get repainted eventually back to the better heritage blue and yellow intercity paint job.
A repaint is planned in future for 165! We are working when we can to refresh 71 and keep it in FGW
Great job guys. Is she going to be repainted into the original BR livery
Thank you Martin! There is a repaint planned in the long run chosen livery is a secret so far!
I agree I miss seeing the intercity logo
Memories are made of this haha
@@amacca2085 BR and Intercity are my two favourite livery’s for those.
@@amacca2085 an iconic livery for the hst
Nice bro
It was a surprise to find 071 ended up preserved of the ones from the GW fleet, so far at least.
I am happy to see my favourite passenger train preserved. Who knows, maybe I could pay for a driver experience day in the future in one. Oh and a GE Class 60.
I ran very quiclky up onto platform 2 oneday in 1976 to see the ass end of one of these making a great sound and dissapearing dowm the platform, never forget it, the first sighting of one. Still the fastest diesel in the west lol. All things come to an end and in this case are not taken over by anything better which is sad..BYe BYe HST x
Best british trains ever
If only GW, LNER & GC kept their class 43 fleet. It’s not the same without them. Glad to see some class 43s have been saved by train heritages. We last saw class 43 at Butterly last year but stopped running due to faults with the train.
It was running again earlier this year. Me and my mate went there for the whole event
@@vastjonea awww wow that’s great! I asked those on butterly site on fb what’s going on were they going to fix it they said they weren’t sure but watch this space. But glad it’s back up running shame we missed it. They got the spooky train running before Halloween do you know?
@@LoneSheWolf09 idk
Bet that WD40 was used quite a bit during prep!
Really nice to see it working and surprised how quickly it started.
I can't believe that these are now seen as vintage locomotives
My brain is strange, I couldn't even imagine that you'd just written the date wrong, I was tying my grey matter in knots trying to work out if it actually meant 23rd April 2010, and this video was from 2014, when I read it was a typo I let out a sigh of relief.
Hi , I love watching this video, thank God for you Guys being able to save these machines. Are you at the limit as regards your Mk3 trailers, or are you aiming to purchase some more?, again, great video thanks.☺
Only a hint of smoke! Compare that with a Valenta or VP185 😁
Yep hardly anything!
Are there any of these things still with their Valenta-branded hearts?
It was start like the loco was used daily😉
I like the can of WD40 in the cab......solves everything☺☺
hahah always handy to have
This is awesome. its sad it wont get past 25mph (heritage line speed ?) Id love to come and take a ride. starts on the first press of the button !!!!!!!!!! 🙂
Thank you! It is a shame to see them reaped from their line speed but even better to have them kept running in preservation!
@@BOBPTransportVideosMaybe a trip to Great Central to use their 60mph ability ?
That green 3 car multiple set at the station, is it from Swanage Railway??
New South Wales Railways is still running these old bangers on a daily basis. This one looks pretty new in comparison.
Nice, will the line be expanded? You must be running out of space!
I know theyre pretty old now, but I still find it hard to believe these sleek monsters are now at preserved lines :S
Will the lights be changed back to the originals or will they keep the new (ish) round LEDs? Nerdy question I know XD
Proper ☺☺
Perfect ulez poster campaign vehicle 😂people will flock
WD40 well placed to get things moving!
Hopefully you'll get the track suitable for a high speed run 😆
Lovely locos. Did they manage to get up to max running speed of 148.5 mph on full afterburner on the Colne Valley line? 😉
That was a Pacman powered unit not an MTU.
I can tell one of the jobs that needs doing is fixing the speedometer as I noticed it didn’t move when the loco moved.
In the first cab video the speedometer is dead, that is because the GWR ATP system was active. We isolated it in the station and the final cab shot shows the Speedo working again 👍
Pity line not longer
I Definitely miss them trains Shame that Gwr got rid of them for public transport
Back in original br colours i hope
Starts like an EMD
It needs a repaint
I highly doubt that’s the highest priority lol
We are concerned with the mechanics at the moment are paint will be performed in the future
I must be missing something: how is 5:26 not a spad?
Mentioned in the description we had a line block and possession of whole line for our test runs and shunts, signal passed with permission so we can shunt over onto the crossing
What’s the plan for a livery long term?
😍😍😍 hopefully Colne valley don’t bloomen change one of those FGWs into another livery.
They need a paint job if they last
We are keeping 43071 in FGW, atm we are working on freshening the livery when we can! We have already sorted out a lot of the corrosion on 71s body work
Sorry, if this seems rude. We’re you gifted these or did you have to buy them?
So is it planned to be used for passenger tours
It's great to see a HST preserved but I don't think these engines will be happy trundling along at 25 mph when tbey could reach 125 mph in days gone by
Wish it was a paxman valenta
If it hadn’t worked since 2023, how hasn’t it been started for 4 years???
Typo in the video, amended in the video description, you can see the paper work in one of the locos cab shots where you can see the correct date 👌
I note the can of WD40 in the cab - just in case!
So when the first 125mph run 😂😂
Still plenty of life left in these old girls yet.