Diesel Report 1 - July 2024

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Welcome to our first Diesel Report! In this series of videos we will collect together clips of the interesting and unusual diesel movements we have spotted on the railway near where we live. Locations include Twyford Station, Charville, Sonning Cutting and Reading Station on the Great Western Mainline.
Locos in this video
Class 69 69009
Two class 43 HST power cars (numbers unknown)
Class 60 (number unknown)
Class 37 37219 - Jonty Jarvis powering the Ultrasonic Test Unit
57602 Restormel Castle and 57605 Totnes Castle on the Night Riviera
43059 and 43058 on The West Highland Pullman
50007 (Thunderer) and 50021
7 unit (triple length) Turbo on the Henley Regatta train at Twyford
Class 59 59001 - Yeoman Endeavour (double heading with a 66)
Class 47 D1924 Crewe Diesel Depot and 47593 - Galloway Princess hauling the English Riviera Express
Class 52 D1015 Western Champion on the Westbury Wizzo
HST power cars 43055 and 43059 on the Midland Pullman
A few different class 66s
We hope you enjoy the video!

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@user-sr4re4uu9i 19 күн бұрын

Great video Simon, a diesel report sounds like a great idea. It's good to report current rail movements and activities within Reading and Twyford. The rail tours were very interesting and it's nice to see older classes of diesel on the mainline. I've noticed a train on your Facebook page that you were curious about, well I reckon it is another track maintenance unit possibly for cleaning weed and leaves on the line. A couple of days ago, I invited my friends over to my place and we made a diorama for the upcoming Awdry extravaganza at the Talyllyn Railway in Wales. The scene we created was from the story super rescue from the book Enterprising Engines written by the Rev W Awdry in 1968. It was great fun to make and we all enjoyed every moment of it, now it has been sent to Wales it will be on the event's Livestream! I hope you will like it too. Keep your steam up Simon. Take care Kevig

@SimonsTrainAdventures 18 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching. The Awdry Extravaganza sounds amazing. We’ve never been to the Talyllyn Railway but it is top of our list when we’re next in Wales.

@YoGemmy 19 күн бұрын

Cool new series! I like it.

@SimonsTrainAdventures 18 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@georgethomas7814 19 күн бұрын

Well done .... i hope the rain didn't dampen the spirits. It would be so good to model that four track cutting on a layout. Maybe over the top of your storage tracks. The train movements including the special tour trains could be included in a running session. I liked the top and tail units and the light engine movements. both elements are not duplicated in model railways.

@SimonsTrainAdventures 18 күн бұрын

I think I read in Railway Modeller about a year ago that someone had built a huge and very detailed model of Sonning Cutting, which included that bridge. A good idea to run those formations on the model railway. We might do some of that in our next running session!

@georgethomas7814 17 күн бұрын

@@SimonsTrainAdventures Think I found it: JOHN SOUTHERN'S MODEL OF READING STATION AND SONNING CUTTING A SCALE 1 8 MILES!

@SimonsTrainAdventures 16 күн бұрын

@@georgethomas7814 That sounds like the right thing. It looks incredible. And John Southern was the guy that built Dobwalls Family Adventure Park in Cornwall, which was an enormous 7.25" American Railroad based theme park. I used to love that as a child. It was a staple of our family holidays in the 90s. Very sad it no longer exists as I would have loved to take Simon.