The Push-Pull Scottish Tour at Inverurie and Aberdeen (and some other stuff) 47712 & DBSO 9707

A handful of HSTs around Inverurie, followed by 47712 propelling the Push-Pull tour. Featured: 47712, DBSO 9707, D9500, 2-HAP 4311, 43036, 43125, 43129, 43141, 43143, 43145, 43152, 43168, 43176, 43179 and a 73.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Some good clips thanks, I recently rode an HST from Inverurie to Inverness and it was a lovely ride. The Push-Pull Tour was good, and you caught a silly family crossing the tracks in front of it. I saw the excursion three times that weekend, and the Class 47 was belching out smoke like on your film on each occasion. Needs an air-filter!

[@25kv]

I spotted the family while filming! In their slight defence (they should have looked too!), the alarm at that crossing doesn't give a huge amount of warning, and probably even less for a train passing through non-stop. ;) Many thanks for watching!

[@josephturner7569]

The Guards compt always stank of fish after an Aberdeen run.
The cleaning sheds, 10 minutes from the station, sold it at the door.

[@butikimbo9595]

Very nice video. Old scottish tradition of push-pull should in my opunion be kept by using a non-motorized trailer in one ends of HST sets as 2 locomotives on a 4 car only formation is unnecessarily over powered and fuel consumption on a non Intercity route and the newly refurbished SCOTRAIL charter formation is the best example of the ideal loco hauled temporarily measure, although using the streamlined, more realiable and surplus Mark 3 and Mark 4 spare stock of DVTs instead of DBSOs. Thank you for sharing.

[@25kv]

I think the original intention was to have most of ScotRail's HSTs as five-car formations, which may have been a bit much for a single power car to keep 170-timings on, but the driving trailer idea is an intriguing one. Perhaps the DTS vehicles from the Mk3 Class 442 "Wessex" units could have been repurposed! ;)

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[@brianwilder5878]

What is the EPB doing there and what is it's future?

[@25kv]

All I know is that it arrived mysteriously sometime last year. I'm assuming that it, the Class 14, the CCTs and the two Class 20/23 bogies are owned by the same person, and are eventually destined for some project, but I've not found any other reference to them yet.

[@brianwilder5878]

@@25kv Many thanks

[@Mr_Spliffy]

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