Probably the only Arriva service that arrived to its destination on time!

1:54 "Oh look Margaret there's a man walking his train"

That’s the most excitement Barmouth has seen years.

Well I've heard of Road Trains but that is just ridicoulous!

The event of the year by the looks of it in this small town ,they trailer's are brilliant love watching they heavy lifts or tight move's

If you read the information above you will see that the train had got stuck on the wrong side of a bridge after the bridge caught fire. The bridge I think was an ancient landmark and it needed renovating for more than a week before trains were allowed to cross. So I guess this train set was needed on some local line on the other side of the bridge and had no railway line available for it to get there. The area is just beside the sea, there is water cutting off the area from part of the mainland, there are mountains... not easy to lay railway lines here.

well done the first driver going around the corner with out touching the curb 👍

I like the tail lights on the first vehicle. A missed opportunity to display the destination!

We were actually there one day when this happened,fascinating how they managed to get through.

Good team work ! Keep em rolling guys.

1:30 _Mind The Gap_

How the hell did they get out of Barmouth ? Some tight narrowish bends on the way out. Good driving skills and thanks for sharing the video 👍

Little known fact: In the UK, residents often go hunting. When a suitable animal is not found, the residents will go for more difficult targets, like this one. What this video really shows is the townspeople parading their kill around the streets. Not shown is the ceremonial cooking and eating of the prey.

That was really awesome to watch. Really enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing. Big thumbs up from me and I've subscribed to you.

What a gorgeous church on the left!

Based on the Slough between Redditch and Studley see these guys all the time amazing skill

Wow! Now that's what I called driving skills👍

In Soviet Britain, train rides lorry.

Best thing about Barmouth is the road out of it 👍👍

I'd like to have seen these negotiating the A496 towards Dolgellau. Or maybe not, I've been stuck behind too many vehicles struggling along that route.

Wow it's hard even to fit a car through never mind a lorry and a train on the back. Them diver is skillful. And I love going to Barmouth every year☺

Touched the curb bro I have to fail your exam.

The locals whining that they won't be going anywhere today are probably the same locals who complained about tracks being blocked!

Well that's my manshed being delivered 😆

First driver kept unit off kerbs....well done.

Looks like the driver's had a good time driving trains around.

see these trucks alot on m25 m6 m1 great catch to see the skill

Typical alleys. Professional till the end. Nice job on showing how it's really done

It's a good thing the UK uses small trains. I couldn't imagine them trying to move a large American rail car through there. XD First the trucks would need more axles to hold the weight of them. Second the trailers would be longer still. Then the rail cars would also be taller when on the trailer. Aka...American trains haul trains. Not by trucks. And if it has to be by truck, you're usually getting the electric company involved, to move power lines and stoplights out of the way, police cars to close roads, and major rigging company's involved. It's often a massive undertaking since the truck and rail car could be pushing 300,000+ lbs. And you wouldn't get them through a small town like this.

I don't know, you wait for ages and then two of the buggers turn up!

Hats off to the truck drivers! Great job!

Beautiful town

Was at NorthWeald station on the EOR when a guy delivered a big Diesel , was Alleys , had a long chat with the driver , top bloke

Were the passengers on a bus behind this?

There are some amazing drivers around.

THE BEST DRIVER IN THIS PLANET THANK YOU

Thanks for explanation, I wondered why train not stay on the the rail tracks as it is much more easy to travel through the city it is in.

First train through Dolgellau in many Decades!

Why were the train's lights on?

This probably was the easy part,further out off Barmouth would also be a nightmare Well done Love Barmouth

I have seen a steam engine on a flatbed trailer being shipped by train from Massachusetts to New York.

would of liked to see the whole trip out to main road

These streets are a piece of cake for this driver.... you orta see him drive down the allelys 😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 plus he gets the train there quicker than if it was on rails

Did that bridge burn down across the estuary ?

There wasn't a fire on Barmouth Bridge at all. The carriages had to be moved via road from Barmouth due to rolling stock shortage following serious trackbed ballast wash out further along the coast at Towyn after a storm in early January 2014.

Nice bit of navigating Allelys

Years ago the guy steering the back wheels would have been standing on the back of the trailer operating a manual steering wheel directly connected to the wheels. It would have been a tough job. Nowadays it's all electronics and advanced hydraulic systems. Easy peasy.

LOL THE CITY PLANNERS OF THAT TOWN IN THE 1500s AND 1600s DIDNT DO CITY STREET PLANNING TO ACOMMODATE SUCH TRAFFIC AS THIS!! LOL 😂

Funny how the classification lights were on, on the trains

Very driver

One mistake and you are screwed, it would have been so difficult to reverse one of these low loaders.

Is it worth the stress?

Yeah barmouth is very tight i managed to deliver a lot of windbreakers in an 18 tonner only beacause we off loaded them at 7pm when it was quiet

that is cool as hell. 👏

Great ! Like the good old days !

Iwona would be proud of them.🇬🇧

The train better not be scratched!!!

they have done it with the 801

This is what they call a roadtrain

What was it doing on the beach in the first place?

I've walked down there

What a lorry like train.

Why this Class 158 can't ride the rails to where it's going i don't know, even if it can't go on it's own a Class 66 or something could do the job.

Surely there's another route, with wider roads

Correct title to video. 'diesel railcar set' on lorries negotiates Barmouth streets.

I’m from dolgellau which by Barmouth

Can't trains arrive by rail. Or did you miss your stop or something.

the powers that be should have cleared those streets

Why not by rail?

It wasn't towed because of a fire. It was towed due to flooding I think.

New meaning to rail replacement service

Is that the replacement trains for the bus service

....................and it arrived on time !

suprising how long these 158 units are on the road...dont look so long on tracks. like how the first one has red lights on lol

Why would people dislike this video?

Top tip for those people who spent more time writing "why take them by road???!!" than reading the sub-100 word explanation about why they were taken by road; try reading the explanation about why they were taken by road.

That truck driver is prob on half the salary of a train driver.

I think they're trained on the road...

I wonder how much that operation cost. It wouldn't have been cheap. Probably many thousands of pounds. Might have been more cost-effective to just leave it stranded until the bridge got fixed.

Bus Replacement >_>

It's the crazy uk where it's cheaper to do it by road than rail. Good god fancy being diverted when your behind the wheel of one of those. I've been driving arctics (that's semi's for our American friends) for years but never wanted to do oversize. Gentleman I tip my hat to you.

I don't think there are many of these Perkins 158s left now, Northern have lost theirs and EMT don't have many left.

That street is quite wide even by many colonial area streets in USA such as Boston central or other European countries. many are more like alley's.

Well trained drivers

The second truck had a better approach to the first corner. What do they do with those carriages?

Love the burger and chips beer swilling rear steerer. Almost stereotypical and possessing the right prerequisites for his job.

Did it arriva on time!!!!! '

Ets3 confirmed?

why would such a tractor unit require more amber lights than an emergency vehicle has blue emergency lights?

where and how did they craine these onto trucks

Where was this 158 heading to

Going to Barmouth and around Wales for trains in around a week! I hope not to see this

Would been nice to have had a start to finish, of the entire journey.

well You can tell did not get the drivers incense in usa....lol...great jobs guys

Looks like Mid- Summer there!!!!

I think that, that’s taking the idea of a replacement bus service just a little too far!

A train! HOLY SHIT its a train guys!

2 different lines first one was best

Beautiful~

Rail replacement service?