My grandfather drove these 37s to maerdy colliery from Aberdare to phurnacite plant abercwmboi

I’ll leave it up forever

Excuse me you "think" you were a train driver back in the 80s? Well unless you have dementia or amnesia you either were a train driver or not.... Which is it

I think you're on the wrong site mate, you want the "grammar for advanced arseholes"

@@benconway9010 A sad attempt at mobbing. With no mob. Just a knob: You!

@Ben Conway: Try reading the comment again; it seems like you failed to understand its meaning

Neil Robinson your welcome

@Steam Guy yes but I think a lot of excellent maintenance has a lot to do with it

3:09am I've just started...

taffboyslim Lol try 4:21am I know what you mean

I've just finished watching at 11pm.

i did the same thing

I'm the same

I don't even remember saying that!

I agree that these trains hauled by class 37s were a sight to see and to listen to, although I I think they were responsible for making my husband deaf.

gguru1 glad you liked it

Simon Murray I used a scart enhancer, basically filters noise out of the picture.

You can thank Thatcher and the conservatives for that.

Llandeilo Junction no worries keep history going, I’ve been on the railway from BR

Please do, Michael, am enjoying them all. I get excited watching our Aussie trains, as well...something about rail, you can't beat it for long land travel and unlike a car, you can get up and walk along the carriage to stretch your legs..and sometimes on an overnighter, into the dining car too...lol.

Who would you get to work in them? Horrible places, dangerous and the ever present risk of dust on the lungs.

1001saar I thought so the passenger service starting Monday with loco and coaches, I’m very happy I’ll be working them

TazmanKRS it was vhs I put it in dvd and cleaned it up a little

TazmanKRS you can clean vhs videos up with a macro decoder

Michael Richards the videos where not recorded by myself they are just links on KZfaq

if they was for a power station a lot of power stations tipped them over to empty them. if it was house coal yes both doors used.

I believe they used Suzler engines in these mainly because they could order them to the correct HP rating - Alco basically said you get what we give you - The NSW railways in Australia were constantly under powered because Alco and GE refused to make engines to the HP requested by the NSWGR

The engines were originally English Electric 12CSVTs they fit the same sorta role as Alcos too its a good comparison

No one seems clever enough to answer... 😄

Different top RPM's and about 15 years age difference, plus they are made by different manufactuers entirely for certain applications, same reason all petrol cars don't sound the same

Good question, I’d like to know why it had that distinctive sound.

HST has wrong gearing for freight,Power cars generally have higher revving engines like cat or Cummins for quick stop starts .Class 37s and 40s etc have big old slow revving engines that give huge torque at low rpm ideal for freight .Class 66s have 2 stroke diesels and sound like worn out washing machines ( only joking)

John Moore your welcome, I have no idea how much coal they transported though

The hopper type wagons carry 33 tons of coal. The brown box like mineral wagons are 21 ton minfits. The hopper wagons were mostly used on MGR trains to power stations and the like. Locomotives hauling an MGR train had to be fitted with electronic slow speed control which the driver engaged at loading and unloading sites. This allowed the train to maintain a constant fixed slow speed while being automatically loaded and unloaded without stopping. The number of wagons varied with the route and the type of locomotive used over it, but was generally about 30 to 35. That makes around 1100 tons of coal per train. The reason why the wagons appear not loaded to the top is because the pulverized coal they were originally designed for would gradually settle after loading. Quite a reasonable article here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry-go-round_train

@@markturner4219 the MGR wagons was classed as 26 / 32 tons . also if the coal was fine and wet you was able to get up to the weight without filling to the top . i used to work MGR trains out of knottingley.

DEWI MORGAN yep I love it, I work on them

The Pie Train port talbot steelworks I think

Britton Ferry, not far from the station there.

Wynne Davies lol

Black Wave! THe difference of the Welsh language

jarhead4God over what area are you referring to

HM& JMH no idea just got this video to upload of a colleague as we work on the valley train for the last 27 years

Wheel slip backs the power off.

@@antimosh are you sure that's what it is??

@@antimosh Wheels were not slipping. Just lots of power going through those wheels, much more than is needed for what its pulling. There is a speed limit set there, hence power on, power off.

@@skankhunt-43 what time index? first few setting off with loaded coal are, Last scene is to. Classic slip with sudden interruptions of power.

Why was it then out of curiosity?

They do sound like that’s what there doing but that’s not how there driving it.

Can’t help English people pronouncing welsh names they go all phonetic

Spot-on, Dunc !👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

ohhhh please upload

Something like that.

We have American locomotives here in UK Class 59s, 66s and 70s.