The Tale of the Diesel Hydraulics

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Күн бұрын

Greetings! :D
Once a much beloved part of the British Railways locomotive scene, the diesel hydraulics of the Western Region, ranging from the original and seldom remembered pilot scheme classes to the venerable Warships, Westerns and Hymeks, took what was originally a German design and tailored it to the unique characteristics of the former Great Western mainline out of London Paddington, proving in many ways that diesel-hydraulic traction was a superior form of locomotive design thanks to their marriage of lightness and sheer horsepower.
Sadly, the diesel-hydraulics would prove to be only a fleeting part of Britain's railway history, as from the moment they entered service in the early 1960s, it became apparent that their very existence illustrated the disjointed and disorganised execution of the Modernisation Plan for which they had been developed, and within a decade standardisation had taken over as order of the day for British Rail's long-term future, meaning all of these formidable locomotives were swept out of service after working lives of, at most, 15 years.
Chapters:
0:00 - Preamble
1:06 - D600 and D6300
8:35 - D800 Warship
12:53 - D1000 Western
17:40 - D7000 Hymek
23:34 - Service and Withdrawal
30:35 - Preservation
31:43 - Conclusion
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References:
- Key Model World (and their respective sources)
- Western Locomotive Society (and their respective sources)
- Wikipedia (and its respective references)

Пікірлер: 285

@heidirabenau511 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations on 100K!

@Rog5446 Жыл бұрын

The Hymeks were certainly the best performers, despite being of a lower power output. To put it bluntly, they were put on workings that required a more powerful unit and thrashed. However, they took the thrashings and delivered a performance that could only be expected of a Western class.

@pizzaplanettruck9761 Жыл бұрын

One additional fact worth mentioning is that a diesel-hydraulic, Class 52 No. D1015 "Western Champion", got to pull the funeral train of Winston Churchill on the return trip. This, together with the Western Farewell, saved five of the seven preserved Westerns.

@BJHolloway1 Жыл бұрын

It is clear why there are no longer any British locomotive manufacturers left in the UK. It is not because of the lack of competent engineers but political interference. These diesel hydraulics locos in the UK were obviously retired too early due to the choice to of diesel electric. A strategy employed to try to shore up the UK suppliers. It should be noted that the final design in Germany the V218 began service mid-to late 1960s still can be seen on mainline IRE and RE services today some 60 years later. The Germans seem to know how to build railway equipment, after all the HST eventually relied on their competence.

@countottovanshanoo822 Жыл бұрын

Whilst a fan of the hydraulics, their early demise was due in a large part to lack of ETH ("non standard"), often overlooked.

@chrislaarman7532 Жыл бұрын

Not only the class 218 is still in use in Germany. Several class 220 (original V200) are in use with private operators, and even most of the class 221 (upgraded version of the V200) that had been recovered from Greece have been refurbished and put into service by the privates (like track maintenance companies). There is at least one video (trailer of a DVD) of this refurbishment here on KZfaq ("The Train TV" channel, I think, in German).

@countottovanshanoo822 Жыл бұрын

@@chrislaarman7532 ".... in the UK"

@highdownmartin Жыл бұрын

We still have crompton EE type threes and Brush fours and some EEType ones as well I believe. They are old to ancient. A situation caused by lack of investment in our railways, brilliant resilient design and privatisation.

@drstrangelove4998 6 ай бұрын

Sadly true.

@746laurie Жыл бұрын

My Dad, who started work as an engine cleaner on the GWR in 1930, became a driving tutor on Warships, Westerns and Hymeks at the start of the introduction of those three classes. I still have driving instructions and fault finding manuals for various sub groups of the Warships.

@firetruck988 4 ай бұрын

you should scan and upload those, the internet will love you for it

@michellebell5092 Жыл бұрын

Just loved Westerns, always exciting to see them at Paddington and Reading during train spotting days. To me , like their Eestern Region counterparts Deltics, they have star quality.

@hoagy_ytfc Жыл бұрын

They also shared a lack of reliability with the Deltics ;)

@gregrudd6983 Жыл бұрын

@@hoagy_ytfc Both did not have EMD F/E levels of reliability

@GarethT902 Жыл бұрын

@hoagy_ytfc the deltics were very reliable did over 3,000,000 miles in service

@fuzzwork Жыл бұрын

The best looking and the most interesting BR Diesel, IMO

@Galacticmaster 8 ай бұрын

Love listening to these periods of history

@johnnyrvf Жыл бұрын

Between 1968 and 1974 I went to boarding school in Bideford, N. Devon. I remember some of the named Western class locomotives pulling the trains to and from Exeter from Paddington at the beginning and end of each miserable term. Oh such happy memories of my childhood and teens!

@pizzaplanettruck9761 Жыл бұрын

If I could, I'd go back in time and turn part of Swindon Works into a museum to preserve the following diesel-hydraulics: Class 41 D601 "Ark Royal" (spent years at Barry Island Scrapyard with Class 21 D6122, which I'd take too) Class 22 D6319 One Class 43 (idk which one) Class 42 D818 "Glory" Class 35 D7096 Class 52 D1000 "Western Enterprise"

@stevecooksley Жыл бұрын

I wonder if anyone on the Modernisation Plan committee thought that wiring up the entire network was the best way to go, not running portable power stations.

@daniellewis1789 5 ай бұрын

Yes, but they didn't have the funds to do so.

@andrewdarley8988 14 күн бұрын

@@daniellewis1789 Exactly so. In fact when they started designing the British Rail standard steam classes the concept was that they would last for 20 years plus until all the main lines could be electrified. Then when the modernisation plan was finally released it was decided that they would have to be phased out quicker than that. This meant that some of the best steam locomotives we have had only saw a life of about 10 years then further waste from the Ill conceived scatter gun approach buying huge numbers of different deisel locomotives, most of which fell by the wayside.

@muir8009 Күн бұрын

@@andrewdarley8988 it even sounds the "plan" for electrification was really on a nearly ad lib basis. Gerard Fiennes sounds like his big push for a fleet of deltics was because it was late in the pilot scheme era that it was learnt the East Coast wasn't to be electrified. DP1 of course being tested by both East Coast and West Coast, but nothing became of it until the non-electricification necessitated the push for squadron production. Most intriguingly, I think I've just repeated myself by altering some words with no reason whatsoever...

@user-xo8ft2ic1r 8 ай бұрын

Loved the hymeks and westerns. Rode westerns up and down every Saturday in my teens in Devon. Thought they sounded best... till I Heard a deltic.

@marcusnaish3410 6 күн бұрын

word for word what i as about to write.

@750VFR Жыл бұрын

I was amazed how much German manufacture or German technology you mention at a relative short time after WW2. Then I recall, having been born just after the war a German going to my Dad's place of work about 1954 to set up a Heidelberg printing press. We were still on rations, sugar I think was the last one, so whereas we won the war we seemed to.lose the peace. As always an interesting story you tell.

@drstrangelove4998 Жыл бұрын

I remember my parents getting a food parcel from my father’s post war friends in Germany, including bananas sent to us at that time when we in London were still on ration!

@toomanyuserids Жыл бұрын

You can thank my Marshall Plan funding parents 😁

@greatwolf5372 11 ай бұрын

@@toomanyuserids Definetely we funded the losers of the war. Japan, Germany, and now they are doing better than us😂

@ANDREWLEONARDSMITH 11 ай бұрын

Maybach Engines were used to power the Hindenburg Airship.

@bobtudbury8505 11 ай бұрын

@@toomanyuserids our marshall money was squandered b the labour party

@1258-Eckhart Жыл бұрын

The Westerns are to me the best looking locomotives ever, and their sound is only rivalled by the Deltics.

@simonbradshaw3708 Жыл бұрын

Sadly a baby warship (class 22) was due to be saved but was accidentally cut up by Swindon works. A project to build a new class 22 has sadly failed and I'm not sure what will happen to the North British power unit. Thanks for another really enjoyed video.

@WestRail642fan Жыл бұрын

how do you accidentally scrap a loco?

@dominicjackson2498 Жыл бұрын

@@WestRail642fan Communications breakdown. D6319 was sold for preservation but was scrapped by Swindon who hadn’t got the message before the new owners could retrieve their purchase. A duly embarrassed BR offered a choice of the remaining Warships for the same price which is how D821 came to be preserved.

@doddyvanstraaten2774 Жыл бұрын

I seem to remember the Scottish engine is going into a class 26 or 27 locomotive.

@HarryJamesBooks Жыл бұрын

@@dominicjackson2498 Poor Britain, always the victim... we actually got more than a third more Marshall Plan money than Germany. Germany used it wisely - and they had way more they needed to spend the smaller amount on - while ours went..... Good question... where did it all go?

@simonp1970 Жыл бұрын

The project hasn't failed, it is alive and well...

@Msfiona69 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this video.. I remember the class 52s etc when I went to Dawlish with my Parents on holiday .. Looking and listening to those locomotives on full power going past me on the sea wall was a sight to behold.. Memories I still have now, as I went behind 1015 Western Champion in May 2016 from Paddington to Plymouth Non Stop . It was a fantastic day.. 💞💞

@sski Жыл бұрын

Well done on 100k Subs! It's work like this video right here that earned every single one. Cheers!

@sjsadler8061 Жыл бұрын

Another cracking presentation from one of my favourite documentary makers .... Good stuff!

@rsc9520 Жыл бұрын

I agree! Ruairidh makes the best RR documentaries! Very detailed and great delivery. Thank You.

@richardananedickinson4812 7 ай бұрын

As a fireman at old oak common at the time of the change over at the time I personally felt that they were introduced without any proper and although nobody ever seems to mention it there were a high number of failures in the warship and western class where a steam loco was required to be called upon as a tow truck . I appreciate that there are a lot of enthusiastic people that admire this type of loco but in the cab doing 90 mph they were not a good ride

@michaelkaye9872 11 ай бұрын

Fabulous documentary

@hawkerhellfire9152 Жыл бұрын

Adrian Vaughan tells a wonderful story in one of his books of a Warship failing and its place being taken by City of Truro. That image always pops into my head when I see the Warship.

@jamesrobert994 Жыл бұрын

I’ve spent the last month or so watching train videos on loop and how much I’ve learned is amazing so thank you very much

@lumo1001 Жыл бұрын

Fabulous commentary on a period of British Railway history. Thanks.

@Byzmax Жыл бұрын

Outstanding work as usual.

@thedude_96 Жыл бұрын

I was just googling around about diesel hydraulics the other day and wondering if you had a video. Thank you for your time and dedication!

@DKS225 Жыл бұрын

Another desirable clip to celebrate having 100k subscribers. Congratulations Rory you deserve this.

@blatherskite9601 Жыл бұрын

What a superb, rivet-counting, presentation! Excellent! Full admiration for the level of detail that must have taken a lot of time in research.

@james.black981 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations on 100,000 Subscribers, its a reflection of the high quality and wide interest ranges they cover. Really appreciate the in depth look at all of them together instead of just one class here or there.

@nig87101 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant presentation, Ruairidh, thank you.

@feski1 4 ай бұрын

Richly and informatively written and narrated.

@rayaspo4893 Жыл бұрын

No begging for subscribers or likes just quality videos every time. Best channel on KZfaq

@pault6599 Жыл бұрын

Fab video as always. Lookign forward to seeing "Greyhound" back on the SVR rails in the coming weeks.

@EliteMaster254 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations on reaching 100k m8. I believe I speak for all of us when I say keep up the good work and we wish you all the best. Just remember to take breaks so you don’t burn out.

@grahamjenkins1236 Жыл бұрын

Ironically, diesel-hydraulic systems with Voith transmissions drives form the majority of the classes of the current DMU fleet.

@percyob1 Жыл бұрын

Utterly fascinating sir. Thank you

@tandemcompound2 Жыл бұрын

Ironic... a reliable MAN submarine diesel plonked onto an unworkable British loco and given a Royal Navy name

@hs1296 Жыл бұрын

Congrats on the 100K subs!! Love your videos!! Esp. the trains - had books on these when I was a kid and these just take me back!! ❤❤

@AVFCAM Жыл бұрын

Another excellent presentation.

@johnkeepin7527 Жыл бұрын

A couple of other historic items related to the withdrawal of two of them. The Warships were not fitted with train twin pipe air brakes (perhaps due to the tight fit for various things), so they were not compatible with modern rolling stock into the 1970s. The Westerns were not fitted with electric train heating (ETH), so fell out of use when air con stock, i.e. Mk2d/e/f came into service on the Western Region. Class 47s (some of which had ETH added) came into use on the South Wales services in lieu of the Westerns from the early 1970s.

@RobSchofield Жыл бұрын

Great! One of your best.

@s1914 4 ай бұрын

Your level of research and quality of your vids is outstanding!

@northernblue1093 Жыл бұрын

Excellent production.

@JacobT-1 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations on 100k Subscribers! Well deserved.

@andrewclarke6899 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for a much-needed expos'e of the BR Modernisation Scheme with disaster following disaster, culminating in the dreaded Clayton Class 17s. How that disaster was allowed to happen - an untested locomotive from an inexperienced builder designed for a traffic that was already rapidly disappearing - without anybody going to jail is beyond me.

@anthonystevens8683 Жыл бұрын

Another brilliantly narrated and educational video Ruairdh. Once again the short sighted along with the non joined up strategy of BR for the future post steam power. A shame as some of the hydraulic diesels has arguably a great personality compared with the box designs of many. I do appreciate the decisions made in the end but as you mention these classed seemed doomed prior to construction. Many thanks for sharing.

@patricklawless6597 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video! Highly informative.

@martinbradshaw7877 11 ай бұрын

As always, a brilliant and well researched video. I much enjoy your style of commentary. One point which you did not mention is that in later years, some class 42s or 43s were transferred to the southern region working out of Waterloo. I’m not sure how successful they were for how long they lasted, but I do remember seeing them. Thanks for great presentations

@lucashinch Жыл бұрын

I'm amazed how quiet British rail cars are typically. Our rail cars here in the US seem to produce more noise ofter loaded with "flat spots" from temporarily locked brake shoes. I've noticed this with both freight and passenger trains although less with the latter. Great video. Thank you

@ozenfant_ozn Жыл бұрын

precious films, 100k subs and not a single add.

@gritintheoyster Жыл бұрын

Really interesting video - I've never seen these machines in the flesh but heard much about them. This put it all into context. thank you.

@craigsibley8161 Жыл бұрын

Another great documentary 👍👍👍

@robinforrest7680 Жыл бұрын

Excellent ! Love that golden ochre livery.

@TheHylianBatman Жыл бұрын

Very, very interesting! The different ways people make things are so cool.

@Western-be2zs Жыл бұрын

Its also worth noting that orders for the Hydraulic classes were done in full before the pilot locomotives and their teething problems could be rectified so instead of one locomotive being taken out of service it's the whole fleet,and the maintenance facilities weren't up to standard and BR,s cost cutting didn't help either

@zanelindsay1267 Жыл бұрын

A very interesting and informative critique of this facet of British railways dieselisation.

@smudgycat6750 Жыл бұрын

And another great video, well done for 100K

@haymids Жыл бұрын

Congrats on 100k! You well deserve it!

@thewesternwonderer9065 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for a brilliant video, I love the Westerns

@auntbarbara5576 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful, thank you Rory. Aunt Barbara adores you!

@chrislaarman7532 Жыл бұрын

Me too: congratulations on reaching 100k subscribers, and thank you for the effort and sharing! :-) It seems to me that railway companies develop a preference for "electric or hydraulic (or even mechanic)" transmissions with diesel vehicles, and (back then) "single or compound" working cylinders with steam locomotives. However, as passenger services seem to grow into multiple-units, locomotives will become more of a goods-only traction power, likely to be ordered by major operators and rent firms, forcing the markets into off-the-shelf traction. Just think of the ubiquitous Class 66. And of hybrids with diesel for the "last mile", making diesel-electric the obvious choice.

@volvoolympianforever Жыл бұрын

A great documentary on my favourite diesel locomotives of British Railways! Although I’m curious as to why the class 14s are not included in the documentary?

@cmdrflake Жыл бұрын

100,000 subscribers is excellent congratulations! In the US🇺🇸 Southern Pacific’s diesel hydraulic experiment yielded generally higher maintenance costs. They did, however, produce higher tractive effort versus conventional diesel electrics- but at the cost of higher maintenance costs.

@BuckeyeNationRailroader Жыл бұрын

It was much more than that. Simply put the Diesel Hydraulics were not cut out for the North American Railroad work environment. Locomotives in the US are often notorious for working long hours on runs that sometimes take two to three days and travel up to over 2000 miles. The Hydraulics simply were not expected or built for this kind of work environment, and nowhere in Europe was this ever replicated. In addition to that the Diesel Hydraulic Engines that were used had more intricate moving parts increased the maintenance costs, and the different transmission system basically made them unable to be worked on in the North American railroad work environment at the time. Not only that, but the Diesel Hydraulics were proven to notoriously HATE going through Tunnels, getting so hot to the point the valvetrains often melted. It was ultimately these flaws that doomed the Hydraulic experiment in the United States, but it wouldn't be until the 1980s that the Diesel Electric was able to meet with the Hydraulics Power.

@cmdrflake Жыл бұрын

SP assigned the hydraulics to the Central Valley out of Stockton and Bakersfield where they did relatively well. They still disappointed SP with their extra operating costs even on the DH640’s from ALCO.

@BuckeyeNationRailroader Жыл бұрын

@cmdrflake They worked other parts of the system other thank just Bakersfield and Stockton, and even here they were not really that cut out for the North American Railroad work environment. By the time the German company was able to sort out the flaws of what the units were having, GE, EMD, and ALCO caught on to what the SP was wanting and so they offered a locomotive with none of the drawbacks of the Hydraulics. Simply put if you have ever heard of the Southern Pacific and Rio Grandes famous "Tunnel Motors" these are what essentially doomed the Hydraulic Experiment in the US

@pizzaplanettruck9761 Жыл бұрын

@@BuckeyeNationRailroader Even Russia doesn't have long trips like that?

@BuckeyeNationRailroader Жыл бұрын

@@pizzaplanettruck9761 I would guess not

@ritchiesiepman5511 Жыл бұрын

Congrats with 100K subs. I always enjoy your train history video's and i have a request for one. Can you make a video of the EM2 locomotives? They had an interesting career in 2 countries and 3 of the 7 locomotives still exist

@AndrewG1989 Жыл бұрын

Your channel has grown so much with lots of people who have subscribed to you and you are now at 100k subscribers. Congratulations.

@ianr Жыл бұрын

Well done on reaching 100k. 👏

@britishfilmguy Жыл бұрын

Congratulations on the 100k subs fully deserved to with these intriguing videos.

@alextomahawk139 9 ай бұрын

Narration is on point!

@odenviking Жыл бұрын

congrats on 100 k . and keep up the good work. 👍👍👍🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪👍👍👍

@davidashton3396 7 ай бұрын

Very informative to somebody like me with only a very sketchy knowledge of these classes - thanks!

@Sophiebryson510 Жыл бұрын

Congrats on 100k! Hope you’ll upload to your flickr soon.

@MrJob91 Жыл бұрын

Wow congrats 100k subs! Well deserved.

@Coxswain Жыл бұрын

Well done on a 100k subs Love ur vids

@huwdavies6650 Жыл бұрын

Had to pause when you talked about the D6100 series. You showed footage of D6103 and thought that it's number rang a bell. I have a Hornby Model of D6103 in a later configuration with Yellow Warning panel and Headcode box.

@adrianrosenlund-hudson8789 8 ай бұрын

Great video!

@lukeslocomotives Жыл бұрын

Well done on 100k!

@daszieher Жыл бұрын

Very nicely done 👍

@sauce2kgod193 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations on 100k Subscribers

@johnmoruzzi7236 Жыл бұрын

It’s easy to criticise the development of so many different locomotive types in the 50s but just like the civil and military aircraft industry there were many established designers / manufacturers and technologies to use and it was tempting and practical to get them to produce models suited to a particular role or region. In the end there was mass conglomeration and standardisation and with aircraft we ended up with just DC-9s, A320s and 737s instead of BAC 1-111s, Tridents, Mercures, Viscounts, Vanguards, Elizabethans, Yorks, Hermes, Comets, Caravelles, …..

@theextremeanimator4721 Жыл бұрын

Goncrats on 100K!~

@grahammaund7405 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@glennpowell3444 Жыл бұрын

I would imagine there were many operational issues with hydraulic seals leaking on these .Having worked myself with hydraulic machinery spare seals and hoses were massed in the spares sheds but still leave downtime when repairs are undertaken.

@gargarfinks Жыл бұрын

I remember this episode of Thomas the Tank Engine vividly. And congrats on the milestone!

@lylec7755 Жыл бұрын

Congrats on 100k subscribers

@andysedgley Жыл бұрын

Chapter Points: 0:00 Beginning 15:18: Start of the second sentence in the voiceover 😁

@robertcase4995 Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@darylcheshire1618 Жыл бұрын

I noted that in Victoria, Australia, diesel hydraulics were mainly used in smaller units such as shunting or rail cars. I have never heard of a say 2400HP DH. Presumably they would need a huge transmission with all the complications.

@declanjoyce8640 Жыл бұрын

Excellent...thank you..

@alan-sk7ky Жыл бұрын

Well done on the 100k Ruairidh 🙂

@simonmcowan6874 7 ай бұрын

I painted western ranger in Kidderminster paint shop with my mate, in BR blue, it's a huge job with a 4 inch brush, 15ft from the top centre to the tumble home, one starts from the bottom working as far as you can reach, the top man works down laying off into the lower level, fine enough, but it is 60 ft long! So, go for a wee, turn off the phone, and go for it.

@Hattonbank 7 ай бұрын

How long did it all take?

@simonmcowan6874 7 ай бұрын

@@Hattonbank ages, actually painting the blue took a day a side, but the prep took 2 weeks, sanding down the old blue, but beneath that the prestressed panels had up to 9mm thick filler on them, and water had got behind it, so it all had to be chipped off and refilled, that was a long job.

@simonmcowan6874 7 ай бұрын

@@Hattonbank the actual blue took 2days, but the preparation took 2 weeks, after sanding down the blue we found pockets of water behind 8mm thick filler over the stressed steel skin, that all came off, steel treated and re filled a big job. After 2 undercoats and flatting back the top coat went on. BR or rail blue paint was developed with Williamson's, to be hot sprayed, it's a very thick paint, so the heated paint or heated spray guns makes the paint runny enough to spray. The idea was thick paint wasn't designed to be varnished, so taking out an additional task. Also when the loco (and the BR carriage sets) went through the washing plants, the brushes would take off a thin layer of paint revealing a new bright colour beneath. Anyway, we didn't have that ability, so to make the paint flow, we used a little boiled linseed oil to keep the wet edge going, for the final coat we did add some varnish for a glossier finish. Hard work, made it up as we went along using our 30 years experience. Hope this helps.

@joelightrailway2362 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations 🎉 of reaching 100K subs.

@blackdog6345 7 ай бұрын

Another great video, i love the effort and attention to detail you put into these documentaries. i did have a little pointer for you though, at the start you credit the film as your own work, but i would advise putting the credit to Ruairidh MacVeigh specifically, in that case anybody could use the footage and you would still get full credit within the film itself. something to consider. thanks as always!

@Hushey Жыл бұрын

Cool looking train

@jamesaherne2779 Жыл бұрын

Nice one

@ElmarLecher Жыл бұрын

Most german diesel engines from past WWII till 2010 are diesel-hydraulic. Worked nice.

@Dylan_The_Aviation_King1234 Жыл бұрын

Congrats on reaching 100k subs!!! you deserve it! [btw not involved with the comment below v ]

@jackboid5087 Жыл бұрын

0:00 perfect

@rogercook6360 Жыл бұрын

I'm really surprised that you did not cover in this video the accident involving D1007 Western Talisman on the 19th of December 1973 at Ealing just west of Paddington when 10 passengers lost their lives and 94 were injured. Had it been included it would have made an interesting addition to the history of this class of locomotive.

@petersmith4455 Жыл бұрын

hi there,very interesting video,the western was one of the finest locos ever built, regarding north british company, there was a lot of clowning around up there especialy with the class 15 and 16.if they had bothered to test all their locos on a load bank or run them on test up the lickey incline then any faults could have been ironed out

@amp9930 Жыл бұрын

You make the best transport documentaries on youtube, thank you. Have you considered producing one on the history of AC cars, the oldest UK car manufacturer I beleive?

@1951GL Жыл бұрын

This is easily the best summary of the hydraulic experiment by the Western Region and the scattergun approach of the BR Modernisation plan. First class!!