British Diesel locomotive Guide 1970 - 2000 Classes 03 to 37
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มี.ค. 2015
- Photos and video (taken in the 90s) of various classes of diesel locomotives both on British Rail and on preserved railways in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Some in cab footage is included.
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I remember the unique class 13 (class 08 with de cabbed slave unit) that operated Tinsley marshalling yard near Sheffield. Certainly an interesting beast. Class 37 without doubt my fave here. Just love old Growlers.
Ahh the memories, fantastic footage. Love it.
Love watching the old deiselengine have saw Moast of them my fave is 37 class beautiful design thanks for posting this video.best wishes Michael Edinburgh
Love those class 37's. Burly sounding beast.
Absolutely - they look and sound the part!
The best locos going! I remember seeing them at Newport as a kid (strangley enough as Newport is in your video!) and being in love with them. Now 25 years on my son loves them as well!!!
Best thing about the 37s is that they could be anywhere. I remember waiting for the Clapham Junction service and West Brompton on the narrow platform shared with the District Line on the London Underground and having a double headed 37 train come snarling past at a fair clip in the early 2000s. If I think of a British Diesel Loco the Class 37 is always what I picture.
@@markwhickman351 unfortunately our local line doesn't see any freight engines unless we travel further a field. Class 37s and the like are something we don't see very often. At my aunts house though in the edge of the mainline to Cardiff we see literally everything you think of! My son also really likes the Class 66...are they on your list of favourites?
@@vxrdrummer used to see a lot of 66 locos on the morning commute, especially around the Purley aggregate depot. Not a huge fan, think they live up to their Garden Shed nickname too much.
Thank you David for another fabulous trip, "Down Memory Lane."
+Kenneth Willis You are most welcome. It is good to re-visit those memories!
Absolutely wonderful shots.
Fantastic rare clips, thanks 👍
Thank you. That brought back a few memories, especially the Class 33's. I used to spy those regularly hauling tanker stock on the line to the old BP refinery on the Isle Of Grain when I was a nipper. Happy days... :)
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Brilliant video David. Thanks.
Thank you for this video a much richer history, that of Brittains railways, compared to The Netherlands... Greetings, Loek van der Heide (Harlingen, nicknamed the sub-urb of London because the Frisian trade relationsships with London, Hull West Hartledpool import of the first steam engines via Dordtrecht & Zwolle, coal, export of Agro food, machines etc..... Long ago......
2:22 Yo dawg, i heard you like flatbeds, so we stuck a flatbed on your flatbed.
lol
Tractor Power! Beautiful sound!!
3:01 everybody gangsta till a tiny locomotive speed past a big sprinter
Yes, it is very wierd
@@trainsgb yeah, it’s even more weird when you realize a class 08 can only go 20 mph
Nice one.thank you.
That was a very interesting video. In Sri Lanka it is still the same. The 55 year old diesels hauling trains and still have the semaphore singling on most of the network.
Very nice production.
Some very nice footage, and photos. However; it doesn't need the background noises. (It spoils the slide show)
But some photos brought back great memories. Nicely done, thanks for sharing.
Oh give more these fine old tractors & these are the good old days 🇬🇧👏
I love the 37 Diesel class; remember the 1500 class Alco from CP (Portuguese railways).
Would of liked a commentary with this giving us more details of the engines specs n history, but still really good video for a nostalgic trip.
This is probably a good place to ask a question I have.
Recently (July 2022), I noticed that the train I catch between Ipswich and Woodbridge (on the Ipswich to Lowestoft line, although I suspect I do not need to tell you lot that!), had a pantograph up against the overhead wires. I know that the route is (mostly) unelectrified so I was wondering…
Does the driver manually raise/lower the pantograph and if so, when/where do they do this? For example, are there trackside signs telling the driver they need to do this?
Do all the modern passenger trains that run on a predominantly Diesel route, have the ability to run on EITHER* diesel or electricity where available?
*I’m aware that drive is delivered to the wheels by the same method (electric motors), with the difference being that Diesels produce their own electricity rather than drawing it from the overhead wires. What I meant in the above question, is can a modern Diesel loco turn off the engines and still run if overhead wires are available, effectively making them two in one?
While I’m here, could anyone tell me if there are/were any locomotives that run actually using a Diesel engine to directly power (well, via a gearbox I assume, but you know what I mean), the wheels?
Thank you in advance!
hi, very good. Interesting video showing locos from class 08 to class 37.
They need to bring back the Choppers and the Weedkiller Train. Line side vegetation is going nuts these days.
How we were spoilt for choice loco wise. Now it's all boring sheds.
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👍👍👍 Very good video. Is there one carrying on up from the 37?
nice
I grow up next to a railline my house used to rumble as class 37s would pass the by in the night
Love the trains
The Pilot brought back memories of shunting.
Great to have these reminders!
real talk tho, Train nerds are definitely going to heaven
Tappet sounds are very prominent in many engines.
24:01......Your not supposed to kick the bloody doors in !😂. The Rat for me was awesome, thanks 👍
15:30 was there a thomas convention or something?
Yeah because thomas is from UK
14:50 How can the train see where i't going? It's eyes are always shut o.O
No narration needed: 'one picture...'
Shame you stopped at the 37's, would've been nice to see some 42's and 52's (Warships and Westerns)
I’m not really a train buff, but love anything with an engine! Does anyone know why some of British Rail diesels had such big front ends on the locos, to point where the drivers window was tiny and they had to lean out the side window? Thanks.
In the case of the shunters, they mainly just used a standard steam loco layout because they were developed very early on (the 08 is basically just a BR refinement of the class 11 designed in WW2 by the LMS company. Same with the class 20, they're first generation BR diesels so they just basically made a diesel driven steam loco body.
Welcome to Island the Sodor.
Good video, but surely the Hymeks merited more than 5 seconds?!
Class 26 was a bit of a 'now you see it...'
I don't believe they were very reliable!
I played trainz simulator and on one of the routes there was a pile of rusty scrapped class 26's.
The Class 26s gave very reliable service for 25 years in the harsh environment of the Scottish Highlands and were the last of the Sulzer engined Type 2s to be withdrawn from service. Also one of the 'Class 26' pics (16.00) was in fact a Class 27 at Stirling, most likely on a Glasgow Queen Street - Dundee stopping service. The two Class 26s pictured were at Carlisle (15.56) and Kyle of Lochalsh (16.03)
Sounds like that 80's 'give the Scottish the crap' attitude. However, these locos were really put to the test in Scotland especially with the daily MGR runs.
What's more, the middle shot was a 27, not a 26.
Does anybody have videos of Class 28s (co-bo)? haven't heard their sound yet :( There are 2 videos 28s were seen, but not with engine sound...
The sole survivor is on the East Lancashire Railway, not sure if it works at the moment
What makes a Class 09 different from an 08?
They seem identical.
The 08s of which 996 were built had a max speed of between 15 & 20mph. The 09s of which 38 were built are exactly the same but have different gearing giving them a top speed of 27.5mph.
Oh my Lord I'm turning into a trainspotter
A very interesting video but some classes were missed out and some were just the blink of an eye
What happened to 14?🤔
I remember when I was a teen I went to London with my father on a business trip we got onto a train might have been the subway can't remember it was in a big train station. The locomotive on the train we got on it shifted gears like a car or truck would. Does anyone know what that name of those locomotives were? It was like being pulled by a tractor truck it shifted gears as we got going wasn't electric like most trains today.
That would probably be a diesel hydraulic locomotive, BR used them particularly in the Western Region before settling on Diesel Electric.
Do they all run the same type of diesel engine? They all sound the same. A bit like a tractor with a fat exhaust. They sound different to the locos here in Australia.
Good uploadBut where are the class 27's?
Unfortunately I never got video footage of them - may be some else can post their footage.
The 2nd class 26 picture is actually a class 27..... great job. @@david-othen
As of writing it, his video has displeased 40 Greta's.
What was the one that looked like a Deltic but it’s front “ nose” wasn’t as long?…in my teens…50 yrs ago we called it a “Peak”
44, 45 ,46 classes. The 40 were also EE.
I get a bit confused. Was a manic spotter in the 70s as a lad. I never see references to how we used to define engines. Am I remembering things wrongly? Eg English electric 3s and 4s, warships, westerns, Mighty deltics, BR 4s? Peaks, brush 2s and 4s. We never referred to them as Classes. I remember kestrel and falcon prototype Brushes? Was never interested in the Bugs as we called them. Remember many visits to paddington to see the different locos and hither green yard. EE1 shunters too. Grew up in herts on the kings cross line.
Not an authority and you mightve found it by now but my understanding is thst both names are correct.
When they implimented TOPS to keep track of the BR locomotives everything got a class number which would be the first part of the locomotive number.
So a class 45 "Peak" which might've previously been numbered D1023 would now be 45 007 or something like that.
My guess would be with the class numbers being more readily apparent its easier to refer to locomotives by them. Not to mention cases like the Peaks where class 44, 45, and 46 are all "Peaks" but with various differences in internals.
I might've got some stuff wrong but thats my rough understanding
You missed the class 10 the class 11 the class 12 and the class 13
Is the class 08 based on the diesels on sodor
It's the other way around
The characters are based off of them
Your missing quite a few classes
a friend from thomas the tank engine
1:06 it looks like mavis from thomas and friends!
A very small yard switcher!
nice, and intresting video to see those locomotives
Thank you.
Terry Weinhold no, Maris had cow catchers on her front and side
23:53 This guy was not happy about his soggy sandwich!
Love the 20s with the ' Weed Killer Train '. As it drives past, watch how clean the first rake of living quarters carriages are, then the Nasty Stuff !, 1st coach covered in I assume 'Dust', then the poor bastards hanging out the windows gasping for fresh air ! They look like you can see how working with this shit has fucked with there minds, reminds me of 'Painters' I knew that got high on the paint fumes in a confined spaces, so whats this crap they are working with !?
Looks it's boco
Its MAVIS
Their are actually so many classes that are Missing. If this video is Ever redone, It has to include Every class from the BR class 1 diesel shunter, up to the BR class 37, in Numerical Order.