Brilliant from an American from across the pond

Lol, she's alive. Priceless. As a kid, my first train journey was on one of these from Portsmouth to Southampton, and that started a love of trains that is still with me now, almost 50 yrs on.

Marvelous! I miss the sound of these going through ore and chugging into the tunnel you could hear it from a mile away

I miss these running in and out of Portsmouth . The old Hampshire units that is of course . Although we (Portsmouth ) had a visit from the Hastings unit back in January. Was so grand . I do miss them . Great video of this old beast firing up to life

Dig a digga...dig a digga.......diga digGgaa..DIGGGA DIGGA DIGGA DIGGA DIGGA RUMMBLY RUMBLY ROAR! SUPERB!

I love the thumpers. wangled a journey in one whilst doing my RN apprencticeship several decades ago! If only ide had a recordeing device!

Amazing! I love the sound these things make.

Congratulations! Nice to hear her idling.

I used to work at Eastleigh Railway Works they were hard work on the underframe we hated working on them.

Well done & great stuff. In fact couldn't be better.

Nice job! Well done to those involved

The lad is WELL chuffed 0:45!

well done she can be added to the list of working class 205's like 1125 at the watercress line, 1132 at the Dartmoor railway and 1111 at the Epping ongar railway

fantastic

Miss those old units. Spent many happy hours on them working between Hastings and Ashford, even through to Brighton occasionally. I believe I'm right in saying this is 1101, the first of the Hampshires, minus centre trailer ? They always went better as 2-cars. A 2HAP with a built in generator I was told they were many moons ago.

Well pleased.

What was wrong with it?

I can see where she gets her name! 😁

Boss to engine driver ‘ want you here at your usual time at 6:00 . Driver to boss ‘ WTF 2 hours before I’m due out’ Boss to driver ‘ Don’t want to hear it, just be here , you’ve been here long enough to know these thumpers take 2 hours to get going

Did these thumpers share the same engine as class 20s?..they sound very similar at full pelt... 😬

Why do diesel engines on trains take so long to start?

First time in 7 years ! Yes and it doesn't sound to healthy, call a fitter !!!!

Oil

I thought the 31s had the nick name of thumpers? And after hearing this I certainly think the name goes to the 31 way more of thumper than this

‘This is so awesome it’s better then sex

I needed to know why they don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they could extend the unused abandoned underground stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock and that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into six cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on those six cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo D10M, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers. A Stock Trains and also having 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it bigger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those 4 European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Train tunnel into a High-Speed train? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Train line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those 4 European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 37 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project that is OK for London Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly line and also build brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street and also make another brand new tunnel train station in Chingford could they extend the DLR. All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo TD102KF, Volvo D10M, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Six carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and they can order Every 17 Octagon and Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique minor no.13 and unique small no.10 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 117MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 117MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 16 Tonnes for all of the 117MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are Told!! And please do something about these essential Professional ideas Please Prime Minister of England, the Prime Minister of Sweden, the Prime Minister of Germany, the Prime Minister of Italy, the Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.

Don’t have to be an engineer to know this sounds and looks like a horribly inefficient engine

I never understand why they don't rev them a bit after getting them started?