they literally use the same seats on ScotRail and GWR

That really seems to be a things with refurbishing trains lately. Let’s all give them hard seats regardless of wether it’s commuter or long distance.

LOL, those are the same seats (Grammer IC3000) on both GWR and Scotrail. And the same as on Railjet.

@@agent_605 Scotrail may have specified different padding though.

@@markoobid2005 I'd bet you that the seat cushions can be specified by the customer..

Coach C. It can even take a tandem bicycle.

Isn't it grey?

Weather is just geography 🕊️

Nice touch of humour :D I also noticed that some inscriptions were translated to Scottish Gaelic, which is a very nice detail in my opinion. _ScotRail - Rèile Na h-Alba_ sounds much more fascinating

They should add: Stay out. Bar fight training room.

@@marcleslac2413 Right, but to be believable should be applied to a door with a lot of room behind, as to say the whole coach.

@@paolomargini7904 ikr

It's not due to the fire suppressant system - they've had that system for many years now. The area can be used for luggage easily, the reason it isn't is because when they were introduced, nobody wanted liability for the loading or unloading (Station side or train crew side).

Thats sounds like a nice ticket, I didn;t realize you could do that. I was on the Ffestiniog this summer, It is pretty neat.

I can confirm that: when I travelled on a Virgin Train HST from King's Cross to Edinburgh in 2016 our luggage was taken on the platform in London, put a sticker on it with our destination and we found it unloaded on the platform in Edinburgh. The train was bound to Aberdeen.

They were designed originally as guard compartments (a place for the conductor to stay) however it was extremely loud and uncomfortable so it got used as storage etc.

Originally it was the train guards area and for bicycles and bulky luggage etc

@@harrischalk yes that's right !

I always wondered were they ran those converted 153's. Been on the glasgow to mallaig but didn't notice or they didn't have it that day (it was back in covid). What city got added?

it was always intended to lengthen 17 or the 26 (now 25) sets to 5 car, however there have been many faults reported with the 5th coach due to them being refurbed at a different time, so scotrail are thinking of scrapping the 5th coach in all sets

At least you weren't crushed onto a 2car 158

Yeah hopefully they go to five- Luckily I was there in covid so a lot of the trains were pretty empty. Except when they ran a 170 instead or a 158 where it should have been a 170. When I was in the England and Wales this summer trains were stuffed.

und die Bahn fährt :-)

so auch bei uns in neuseeland :-)

Glasgow ist eine Top stadt Kann man Mit Deutschen und Englischen städten nicht vergleichen

@@BLACKSTA361 Die Schotten sind halt echte Schwaben.

@@BLACKSTA361yeah Glasgow is terrible, basically the same as most other industrial cities in the UK

I agree with your point about electrification. Thankfully Scotland is getting on with it, with all the Glasgow-Edinburgh routes now done, as well as the lines to Stirling, Dunblane and Alloa, and Glasgow to East Kilbride is currently in progress.

Certes... pas mal.... dis-je en nouvelle-zélande

you cant have seen a powered rail on a train from southend to london, that line is electrified at 25 KV AC with over head wires all the way

I would love to see that!

Oh yeah, I would definitely like to see a review of the Belfast-Dublin "Enterprise".

They are getting withdrawn

They are expensive to maintain, and have poor availability. ScotRail built a new maintenance depot for them near where I live (Lenzie), presumably because the existing depots couldn't cope. I'm making the most of them while they are still around as they are a joy to ride on. Better, now that they have six bike spaces instead of two (long story behind that).

@@Clivestravelandtrains i doubt theyre expensive to maintain, spare parts are abundent and theyre very simple and easy things to maintain. theres really no excuse for them having poor availability, the GWR HSTs were phenominally reliable. i presume its due to lack of expertise in maintaining them up in scotland whereas all the GWR depots had 40 years of experience in maintaining them. still pretty poor though, its not like HSTs are new to most of the lines theyre serving in scotland

@@Trainman10715 People in England blaming people in Scotland for having a lack of expertise is very common unfortunately. It's not so much the spare parts, it's the labour cost of maintenance, plus downtime. Older trains - like older cars - need more maintencance. There's a lot of comment about this on the rail foum website. I normally run my car for 10 years - I know from experience that after that time it is more often off the road and costing me more to maintain. That's normal with the ageing process. Yesterday I was at Lenzie station watching trains, and two Glasgow-Aberdeen runs normally HST were covered by Turbostars. If you watch my film on here about Dalnaspidal you will see me express disappointment at seeing only one HST during a day spent in that area.

@@Clivestravelandtrains its got naught to do with whos scottish and whos english and everything to do with the fact that the GWR depots had 40+ years of expirience with them and therefore will have more expertise in maintaining them than the scottrail depots as a matter of fact, its the only explanation as to why trains that were phenominally reliable with GWR are now underperforming with a differnt operator. some people will try to make a political issue out of everything, its very common unfortunatly the labour and cost of maintainence were lower with with GWRs hsts than their current IETs, so theres no reason that the maitainence and labour be any more expensive in scotland, theyre very reliable machines when used properly. their downtime was also very small with GWR, their powercars were doing something like 13000 miles between major failures in 2019, compare that the the 2500 miles between failures that the new northern class 195s were getting in 2019. theres no reason the HSTs should do any less miles between breakdowns in scotland. cars and trains are not comparible, normaly with trains (so long as spare parts are still abundant) older trains tend to be cheaper and easier to maintain than newer ones and they end up being cheaper to operate, this is due to a number of reasons. this is also why its taken so long to withdraw a lot of BR kit, its also why BR used trains for 40 years before replacing them, back before leasing was a thing and they owned all their trains it was cheaper to keep old trains going than to buy new. rail forum sites aught to know this really, BR era trains with their good build quality, simplicity, and lack of digital stuff to go wrong, only become expensive to maintain once pools of spares run dry cars are different as theyre only really designed to last around 5 years (or till whenever the warranty runs out) as that forces you to buy a new car so its in the manufacturers best interest. all the BR trains however were designed and built to stringent BR specifications and so they were build with BRs best interests in mind (a lot of BR kit was outright built by BR too) and BRs best interest were to build them to last, not for them to only last for a few years like cars. admitadly these standards have waivered a bit with post privatization trains and, with leasing, they are now moving to a model more similar to cars where theyre built to the manufacturers specs, so of course they will be designed to go obscolete after a certain anount of time, about 20 years, as its in the manufactures best interests. it is a shame that scotrail arent taking care of their HSTs, if they took care of them like GWR did/are still currently doing then they wouldnt have a problem. while the HSTs are reliable and resiliant things and can take quite a hammering before showing problems, they will still require some degree of care given to them. it is also possible that the modifcations they recieved before being introduced by scottrail were bodged and dont work properly, again its a shame to ruin what was very reliable kit before

sim...concordo com vc,,, aqui na nova zelânda

I rode a class 800 of GWR from London to Bristol last week for the first time, and oh my goodness... The worst seat I've ever been in, by far! I couldn't even find a comfortable position to take a nap despite being exhausted at the time. Even local city buses have way better seats than those infamous 800s! Thankfully these trains are fast and the ride was very short.

It's not so much for longer services, the sets work primarily the hourly Edinburgh / Glasgow - Aberdeen services, and the less frequent Edinburgh / Glasgow - Inverness services. Oh, and some Aberdeen - Inverness services. The five car sets are generally kept to Edinburgh / Glasgow to Aberdeen, I don't think any are diagrammed to Inverness.

@JohnSmith-zx3ch You'd be correct, don't think I knew as much back then so made that assumption

It was the Tay bridge that collapsed not the Forth bridge.

@@AML2000 Yes I realized that after I wrote that. The Forth bridge was built after the Tay Bridge collapse. The nearby Tay bridge was a girder bridge. As a result it was decided to redesign the Forth bridge as a super strong cantilever bridge.

It was 7 or 8 coaches (depending on region) and originally they had two buffets. Compartments in the powercars were for the guard before the TGS (2nd class coach with a guard space) was made due to noise complaints

@@Danse_Macabre_125 I certainly don't remember being on an HST with two buffet cars. Maybe that was on other routes besides what I used.

@dblissmn Both WR and ER had them SUPER early in their life, by the 80s I'd be willing to bet they all had one

@@Danse_Macabre_125 With a total of 117 HST-specific buffet and kitchen cars of various kinds and 608 HST-specific trailer firsts and seconds in BR's order by the time the HST delivery was complete, that would have been highly unlikely. Certainly the ECML services I used in and out of Leeds were 2F, 1 buffet, 5S or similar. But I should point out, I never used the HST prior to the mid 1980s, and in looking up consists in response to your comment it appears that the use of both a kitchen and a buffet car was quite common early on but rare indeed after the mid 1980s.

I have a feeling the numbers were mixed up!

Gwr have castle sets operating from Penzance to Cardiff

@@s125ish Well then that’s way far from old Thatcham and Newbury.

The van got removed at refurbishment, and replaced with a horrible wee cupboard bedudevthe cafe bar

Even when they did run a full schedule in covid it they weren't that common unless you were going on the highland main line at a peak time. Did you get a chance to go on the West highland line?

@@Blackburnian737 Sadly no, a trip to Oban was scuppered by a cancelled afternoon return train. We did accomplish the main purpose of the visit though - to visit the four heritage lines (Bo'ness, Strathspey, Keith and Caledonian).

GWR has announced that they are retiring its HSTs by the end of this year (2023). CrossCountry is only using its HSTs for a limited number of services between Plymouth and Leeds or Plymouth and Edinburgh. Once GWR ends HST operations, CrossCountry may well lose access to HST maintenance facilities at GWR's Laira depot, so might be forced to retire its HST fleet. ScotRail may well be the only operator still running HSTs after the end of 2023.

Yes there is . Will take a while

The Waverley used two ramps for vehicles to access and egress the station. All manners of vehicles used to drive in to the station, from private cars and taxis and vans for newspaper trains. Mail too even further back. The south ramp shown was the exit ramp, the North ramp (currently being the one used for deliveries to the station), was the entrance. The taxi rank was where the extended platforms 5&6 are now, with the Motorail facility and car park were there at the far end.

@@Dunkcanio Cool, thanks!

As said in the video it was closed ;)

Trolley should be back but the buffet was hardly used before covid

Not surprised, the original Paxman Valenta engine was an absolute screamer under full power! Apart from one museum power car set, all the current HST’s use the more efficient and quieter MTU V16 4000 power units.

Well, the Inter7City service doesn’t serve Dunfermline, Scotland’s 8th city, at least not in regular service so the Inter7City name still works

@@agent_605 Until May 2022 there was one set used for the Cardenden commuter diagram in the morning, and another in the evening. Dunfermline was still a town then though!

Because the Government have consistently failed to invest in our railways, including electrification

because we use diesels away from the wires, just like every other country

@@agent_605 apart from our railway budget being the largest per passenger mile in europe, its a simple case of its too expensive and causes too much hassle to do large scale electrification, we will never have a fully electrified network

@@Trainman10715 our budget being so high is simply an indication that we are incredibly wasteful and inefficient.

Not properly. Great British Railways was proposed to make the system more uniform, but was not a complete nationalisation and now looks set to be binned off. Quite a few individual operators are now publicly owned however, with ScotRail being owned by the Scottish Government since April