British Rail-Didcot April 1992

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5 жыл бұрын

A vid taken on a sunny day at Didcot now. This features a wide variety of traction-08, 37, 47, 50, 60, HST, DMU & a class 165 Turbo on Inter-City, Network SouthEast and freight workings. The pair of 50s were on a railtour. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!

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@saintnick7 2 жыл бұрын

Those were the days indeed , that valenta scream was awesome

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, they sounded so much better with their Valanta engines......

@CullenRick 2 жыл бұрын

We really didn't know how good we had it back then. All that variety.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 2 жыл бұрын

And one of these HST's had one of the test Mirlees engines, they sounded very different to a Valanta.....

@boalbads Жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus is there any video of the MB190 engine? Sounds cool to listen too

@HST_Productions 3 жыл бұрын

Nearly 20 years now, crazy how much changed. Wires all over, no more towers, new trains. Nice clips :D

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, quite a snap-show in history now.....

@OlafProt Жыл бұрын

3:45 is fantastic! Agreed with others. So much more varied, it’s all very dull now. Nothing has any growl or exhaust fumes!!

@gibbo9089 5 жыл бұрын

In the days when there was more variety of motive power to spot on the network!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, Didcot was always a good spot to film some trains

@mixmam1 4 жыл бұрын

Great videos mate! I was born in 1996 which I'm so gutted about. Grew up in South London with the SWT slam-doors, but sadly didn't get to be around HSTs much when I was very young. And when I was old enough to start spotting, the Valentas were already on their way out! Feel like I've just missed-out on a glorious couple of decades for BR.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 4 жыл бұрын

I think we all feel the same.....i wish i had been born earlier and seen steam at work, Trolleybuses and trams....All we can do is chase and film what we see around us, it won't be long before it's history.......

@duncanbhaltaireanraigwilso9627 4 жыл бұрын

Not every day you see a video with a Mirlees Blackstone MB190 fitted HST Powercar. Very rare indeed.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 4 жыл бұрын

It was a good catch (although i did get all the HST power cars on vid!), and to get it powering away rather than storming along at speed, you get to hear it this way.

@duncanbhaltaireanraigwilso9627 4 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus There's still a few MB190 generating units knocking around. The same V12 version became popular as a backup generator with the MOD, and British Rail computer centres. I did a quick search there's currently one for sale with only 1350 engine hours. We can only dream that the 125 Group will be kind enough snap it up. They should have one of each engine type.

@williamradford8817 3 жыл бұрын

View of the nice new class 165 DMU, used today on the Gatwick to Reading route, in GWR green

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

I think they look very dull in GWR colours....It's much too dark, and needs something to break it up. NSE was a brilliant colour scheme though....

@MKTTransportVideos 5 жыл бұрын

Love the NSE liveried air conditioned Mark 2 on the back at 0:30!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 4 жыл бұрын

Sorry for late reply, must have missed it! It first appeared on the Waterloo-Exeters, i'm sure i have vid of it at Waterloo....

@edwardbarnes2702 5 жыл бұрын

Just found your channel, just left message on an earlier video re Acton main line, brilliant stuff captured so much like You I have and don’t know to get it out there.

@aljonflavin6760 Жыл бұрын

As usual terrific stuff , ACTION.

@williamradford8817 3 жыл бұрын

Didcot park way 1992, nice old L2 and L4 DMU's we had in those days.

@highdownmartin 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks sol. Interesting information. Couldn't happen now. No cooperation between anybody!

@RWL2012 5 жыл бұрын

That 165 would have been brand new!

@AndreiTupolev 4 жыл бұрын

Some nicely varied action. Very much the last days of the old school DMUs, though those Met Cams didn't look too bad in NSE version 2. That HST at 1:20 must have been one of the prototype re-engined cars; Mirrlees, were they? Great sound from the HST powering past at 9:48; that must have been a CrossCountry one with a buffer fitted power car.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 4 жыл бұрын

Yes 168 was a Mirlees one and X Country did have all the buffer fitted ones by this time. Funny to think now the Sprinters are as old s the DMUs are in this vid!

@billhall1983 4 жыл бұрын

Nice to see the Mirlees 125. I designed the governor/engine control system for them. There were four of them. I traveled about on them very much in the early days checking that all was working ok. I lost touch with them after a couple of years so I never did know how long they were in service. At the time of developing the system BR were promising lots more if these were ok but I think it was just an exercise to put pressure on Paxman to sort out their engine problems. The drivers seemed to like them as they could pull away a lot quicker.

@highdownmartin 5 жыл бұрын

Buffers out at 10.00 Unusual. Screaming Valenta

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 5 жыл бұрын

It was a power car that had been converted to run with MkIII sets and a 91 at the other end. When the 91'a first worked on the East Coast they ran to Leeds and the MkIV coaches+DVT's wern't ready in time so the 91's worked with a certain number of HST power cars which to this day still run with their buffers! Some are at work on the MML, ex Grand Central ones.

@etharebard-fortnite8407 5 жыл бұрын

End of an era

@MrGriser 5 жыл бұрын

The class 165's had just started running on the Great Western Main Line at that time.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, i remember them and the 166's replacing loco hauled Oxford & Newbury's.

@MrGriser 5 жыл бұрын

When did the 166's first enter service?

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 5 жыл бұрын

Quite possibly 1992, i can't remember now wether the 166s replaced loco hauled on the Oxford/Newbury's or 3 car 165's did until the 166's arrived.

@ABCDEF-yf4yu 3 жыл бұрын

Didcot Parkway where the line to Oxford diverges from the line to Bristol and South Wales.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, you can see the Oxford trains storming round the avoiding curve very easily from the platforms.....

@OlafProt Жыл бұрын

Does anyone know the reason for the dropped or lower platform? E.g. 8:05

@hellooldchap 5 жыл бұрын

Great sound from 43169- not heard those 4 since refurb.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 5 жыл бұрын

One of those with a Valenta VP185 engine fitted.

@43177VP185 5 жыл бұрын

That's one of the four power cars (43167-70) with the Mirrlees Blackstone MB190 engines - re-engined in 1994-96 with the Paxman VP185 engine.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, i remember that a few had experimental power units but couldn't remember what engines & which units. My platform 5 i used for quick reference was late 90s so explains why it said VP185!

@43177VP185 5 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus The MIrrlees units sounded pretty good, as your video shows. They weren't as reliable as the old Valentas, and were 3.8 tonnes heavier. 43167-70 were the first WR HST power cars to be re-engined with the VP185s - 43167 was transferred to the ECML in 1995 I think, and it lost its VP185 in 1999 for a standard Valenta unit. Thanks for sharing this video - they were good days indeed. SUBSCRIBED!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info. With my interests in railway, buses, underground and aviation not to mention real ale & working at beer festivals my head is a mass of facts, figures and memories (some work related & others pure crank related!) that i loose the plot sometimes!!!!!

@waleedarif9327 4 жыл бұрын

I was just a baby that year, but if it actually was 1992 again, I'd try to keep my promise to the one who watches us from above to be a good boy and not to make the same mistakes again.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 4 жыл бұрын

Never too late to make peace......

@waleedarif9327 4 жыл бұрын

Soi Buakhao I wish!

@DKS225 5 жыл бұрын

@2.03 43011 Before it was written off and scrapped after Southall in 1997 sadly one of three Class 43's to be scrapped the other two were 43019 after Ladbroke Grove two years later and 43173 following the tragic level crossing collision at Ufton Nervet in 2004 that claimed 6 lives including the driver Stanley Martin to which 43139 was named after in his memory.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, it was quite tragic that all 3 HSTs that were written off were on the Western. Ladbroke and Southall both involved staff from my depot, and we were a freight depot!

@hellooldchap 5 жыл бұрын

43173 was Southall, 43011 Ladbrook Grove and 43019 Ufton Nervet.

@EM-yk1dw 5 жыл бұрын

Great film again Soi, when the railway was cared for, and before the GW was desicrated by that farce of an electrification, grossly over engineered and mismanaged thanks to the incompetence of Network Rail, a company that seem to only be good at letting the lineside and permanent way go to wreck and ruin with Buddleia.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 5 жыл бұрын

Br had its moments, mainly due to lack of funds. With the amount of money in the industry these days we could have had a world class railway system!

@EM-yk1dw 5 жыл бұрын

Soi Buakhao well said Soi

@AndreiTupolev 5 жыл бұрын

Are you by any chance from Buddleia Salterton?

@EM-yk1dw 5 жыл бұрын

AndreiTupolev lol alas no but what a lovely part of the country

@muk8804 4 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that they used to run trains with no cab at the back - just on interconnecting door to nowhere on the back lol .

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 4 жыл бұрын

I assume you mean a conventional loco hauled train? It goes back to the dawn of railways, a locomotive at the front and wagons or coaches behind. The Inter-City 125's did away with this by having a power car at each end and unit trains have had this cab at each end system since the early days of London Tube trains. As time has progressed traditional loco haulage has disappeared and saves the need to run round locos at the destination point. Although there are still push-pull loco hauled sets, a loco one end and a driving van or coach at the other, run on the same principles as a unit train.

@muk8804 4 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus ohh thanks . I think I sort of get it now . Still a little confused . So they drive loco's from the back sometimes ? Up until the last 20 years were DMU'S and emu's with cabs at each end , not powerful enough for long distance high capacity trains ? Like now , there are the all sorts of hybrid D/Emu 's that they use for long distance .

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 4 жыл бұрын

@@muk8804 Inter-City trains had an engine at the front & coaches behind. At the terminus another engine was needed to take the train back again. Then the Inter-City 125 came along with a power car (engine with cab at one end only) at each end of the train. These were unit trains, the power cars can only work as part of a 125 set. The train is through wired so the driver at the front controls both power cars although sits at the front. Some IC trains have a loco at one end with an un-powered driving van (coach with driving controls to work the engine at the other end) at the other and again saves having to need another loco at the terminus.