We Rescued a HST Power Car - First Great Western GWR 43025 - Ely to Ruddington

We Rescued a HST Power Car - First Great Western GWR 43025 - Ely to Ruddington - EXTENDED EDITION

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Жыл бұрын

Another HST is saved!! 43025 leaves Angel Trains at Ely, Cambridgeshire and moved to Great Central Railway in Ruddington, Nottingham. Let's follow the power car together along the route from the A14, M1, A453 and also a stop at Leicester Forest East Services!
INCLUDING UNSEEN FOOTAGE FROM THE MOVE DAY!!
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@andrewtwinam8528 Жыл бұрын

I can always remember saying good bye to my aunt at Newport station in south wales. As the HST accelerated away and the click, clump of the carriages and then the rear power car, screaming as it whizzed passed us on the platform, then to deaccelerate, only for the driver to give it the beans again, was awesome when you're a 8 year old boy.

@BigPaul62 Жыл бұрын

These were beautiful trains to ride on, so smooth, quiet and fast as a passenger.

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

Definitely!

@robertp.wainman4094 Жыл бұрын

Far better ride quality than the ubiquitous Siemens used on most long distance routes nowadays.

@simonpegler9942 3 ай бұрын

Such a very passionate interview between Ely and Ruddington, thanks Steve, I would love to have feedback of the success of this precious unit! I so wish that Paxman Valenta engines have been saved somewhere though🙏

@Arkay315 Жыл бұрын

I think it would be great seeing a preserved intercity125 locomotive next to some preserved steam locomotives in a yard getting prepped to take enthusiast trains

@sandi43able Жыл бұрын

I loved these trains going through Leicester, these are favourite trains

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

They will be missed!!

@philbailey8082 Жыл бұрын

I grew up near the midland mainline between Leicester and Loughborough. I can still hear the scream of the valenta engines from the 1980s and 90s from when I was a kid playing in my grandparents garden which was near the line.

@thesimulatorguy4248 4 ай бұрын

That loud sounding truck. Was featured in a trucker tim video recently. A point of view inside it. Sounds sweet

@alanknoll5540 Жыл бұрын

That is an awesome video of moving a locomotive being moved from one location to it's new home. That move was done safely. I live in florida in the USA and we move big items here that require planning and routing for heavy things being moved

@truckdriver1982 Жыл бұрын

25:44 Aaa, a Swedish Scania V8 with straight pipes saying hello :) Cool video! :)

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

It sounded AMAZING

@josephcooksley3219 3 ай бұрын

Great Doco awesome i possibly travelled on that set as i worked all over the uk ... lol

@stuartjones8238 Жыл бұрын

These were a daily staple on my commute from Bath to Bristol (and Weston-Super-Mare on some occasions). Remember watching these scream by at full power as a child in Sydney Gardens in Bath. When FGW re-furbished these with the MTU power unit, I can't help thinking this is harking back to the days of the Maybach powered Westerns that plied these routes before the HSTs took over! Good Luck with this one, it will be lovely to see this one back to her best! You can still ride a HST here in the West Country down in Devon, as GWR created the 6-Car set "Castle" class, but you need to be quick as even these are being retired over the next 18 months.

@And_Zo Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video, thank you so much.

@SMX815 Жыл бұрын

Great video squire & you have done this justice 👍👏

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

@northernblue1093 Жыл бұрын

Good commentary, more interesting than I expected.

@Del-bm Жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks for sharing this with us

@ejc7129 Жыл бұрын

Great video 🤔 XC HST’s are still passed to run at 125mph between Colton Junction and York and between York and Darlington. When Cross-Country used to pool all Western Region power cars in the mid to late 1980’s, 43025 along with any other WR allocated power car could often turn up on Cross-Country services between the South West/South Wales, the Midlands and the North East/North West as well as its Western Region duties 🙂🇬🇧 I’ve travelled in the mid 1980’s on 43010, 43011 (now gone 😥) 43016, 43017, 43020, 43021, 43034 and 43037 of the original batch all on Cross-Country workings 😎👍🏽

@pqsaservices Жыл бұрын

Very interesting video. I live in Nottingham, so seeing 43025 being taken along roads I use every day was great! Just a correction, where you were talking about the right turn at 35min 22seconds, that route is the only way to go from the A453 towards Ruddington. If they had taken the slip road towards QMC, they would have been going in exactly the opposite direction! You needed to take the A52 towards Grantham to get to the A60 into Ruddington. I look foward to visiting the Ruddington location and seeing 43025 once it's been cleaned and prepared for running! Thanks for a great video. Jonathan.

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

I think I was mentioning that because of the weight of the load, there were certain places it could and couldn't go to, and one was that it couldn't go on the slip road there up to QMC and couldn't go on the QMC roundabout either. It was a very tight turn to get on there though, but fun to watch. Hopefully they will start her soon, and fingers crossed I will be there too.

@gb9727 7 ай бұрын

This train is now preserved by 125 group

@BritishRail60062 Жыл бұрын

I grew up with the HST's. Personally I would love to see 43025 painted into the original BR Blue/Grey livery. I am glad this one is saved! Great video mate and I have liked and subbed. Speaking of trains. from this month. I will be reviewing older Hornby retro train sets from the 1980's and 1990's. Starting with one from 1996. Peter.

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

Will have to wait and see what they’ve chosen for 025. Have you seen 159s newly painted livery?

@BritishRail60062 Жыл бұрын

@@TrainRealWorld Not yet but I will have a look at Flickr for it mate.

@Madonsteamrailways Жыл бұрын

I rode on a Great Northern Express from Edinburgh Waverley to London, King’s Cross. It was a lovely, smooth ride which took less than it would have done on another locomotive!!

@carolinecleaveley Жыл бұрын

the valenta scream was great but the only problem was the smell of brake blocks when slowing down. Well done saving another one. coming to the transport rally at ruddington soon so will be able to see your efforts.

@YorkshiretrainvidsLTD 4 ай бұрын

Around 27:13: 1980s: “when was the last time you had a business trip and your train had to stop for breakfast?” 2023: Lololololo

@daystatesniper01 Жыл бұрын

Good video ,remember seeing these on test from Derby going through Cudworth to Nevill Hill

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

Wow I would've LOVED to have seen that

@Batesandrw Жыл бұрын

I think the term you trying to think of is, ‘Risk of Grounding.’Great video and we’ll presented. 👍😊

@jonatday Жыл бұрын

High Centred I believe is the term, also Bellied out, great Video

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

Thankyou! Really enjoyed the day

@harrythompson6977 Жыл бұрын

she was a beautiful ride

@Harry_Townsend 4 ай бұрын

06:30 I’m lucky to be near Loughborough,I’ve been quite a few times!

@geoffhurrell8478 Жыл бұрын

I remember the scream of the Paxman Valenta, because I regularly travelled between London and Plymouth between 1974 and 2015. But I also remember the large bowsers of coolant located at principal stations. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the leaking head casket problem was traced to drivers swiping the controller between off and notch five.

@shauntronics Жыл бұрын

Hi, interesting video. With regards to the trailer steering, the escort driver in the van usually has a wireless remote to allow steering in tight spaces but out on the highway the trailer steering follows the angle of the fifth wheel coupling (the bit that attaches it to the tractor unit).

@AllenSmith81 Жыл бұрын

FYI - You can fly drones unless their is a flight restriction zone above the property. It being private property doesn't allow them to control the air above it. Its a common misconception that it does.

@barrieshepherd7694 Жыл бұрын

Sun 249 gm drones that is

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

Is it kind of connected to network rail where there is a restriction?

@barrieshepherd7694 Жыл бұрын

@@TrainRealWorld Network Rail don't control airspace but require permission for large or commercial drone flights. The CAA, who do control airspace, say that, for sub 250 gm drones, you can fly over; Commercial sites including: shopping centres warehouses business parks Industrial sites including: factories docks rail and transport hubs (but not airports or other flight hubs) It's unfortunate that many people, including the police, do not know the rules and think they can stop flights over "their property" - unfortunately they do not own or control the airspace. There are many KZfaq videos around railways and I linked to obe in another comment.

@AndrewStrydomBRP Жыл бұрын

@@barrieshepherd7694 "Require" is a lie, they don't have a claim over the airspace, realistically the most they can do is ask you to politely tell them. Only in some classes of drone (heavier) are you actually required to get structure owner permission to fly over it, that's the CAA's blanket rules and not NR's rules.

@barrieshepherd7694 Жыл бұрын

@@AndrewStrydomBRP I think that is what I said.

@dj_paultuk7052 Жыл бұрын

Using a GPS speedo on my phone i see 125 to 127mph most days on the Reading to Paddington 0735 train. Occasionally i get on the slow train with the new rolling stock and they still do 113mph which is impressive. Very smooth too.

@brianfearn4246 Жыл бұрын

Great video, with the new class 777 slowly coming into use with merseyrail I would imagine that the old class 507 -508s will end up at Ely as I think they are owned by Angel trains .

@darrenhillman8396 Жыл бұрын

You may be correct, but given that Simms at Newport have had all the previous 507/508 stock, then I think all of them will ultimately end their days there. BREL York built great units, as can be seen in their longevity.

@craigdoig9486 Жыл бұрын

Great content

@Max.railways Жыл бұрын

Well done man

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

Thanks, really enjoyed the trip!

@ThomasWhiteford 10 ай бұрын

(Just come across this video) We have some ex Western region Hst,s here in Scotland that Scotrail got that currently run as Inter7city from Edinburgh & Glasgow to Inverness & Aberdeen

@MEANASSJAMSTER Жыл бұрын

I rode in the guard van from London Paddington to Swansea on one of those units ...the sound is simply sik PHAT RUDE!!! ...the train that sounds a bit like a plane... - only recently noticed that THEY don't actually TILT!!! ...the track is very tilty instead...

@user-tr9kh9pe7w Жыл бұрын

well ahead off there times still look modern ,superb too ride on the mk3 s

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

Very far ahead, and still very much so. they will be missed!

@ConfusedRaccoon Жыл бұрын

interesting to see the rear sets of tires scrubbing like that on sharper bends.

@Del-bm Жыл бұрын

Another great video from Les, you would think they would do something about them weeds

@Kapparie Жыл бұрын

24:38 that most rear left set of tiers is really getting battered there. That is probably the one that got blown later on.

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

ooo yea great spot! that does look bad being dragged like that

@user-zt1er1uj6i Жыл бұрын

You missed out, hearing Valentas screaming out of Donnie absolute bliss. "virgin trains back in the day" quote made me laugh. 😂😂😂 handful of years ago nothing.

@redmozzy Жыл бұрын

Great video and information. I do wonder what you heard at Ramsgate though as HSTs never ran down there. I'm an ex signalman from that area.

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

Virgin definitely went down there with the 47 but I remember seeing a HST as my aunty literally lived next to the bridge, and the back garden was next to it (down the verge) and I distinctly heard the HST (PC either end) but maybe once or twice.

@redmozzy Жыл бұрын

@@TrainRealWorld I'm guessing it was a test train. Maybe the network rail one? Maybe a "special". In the 12+ years I signalled around there, I never once saw an HST. They did send some mk3's around East Kent once and the ends of the coaches were a bit scraped up from some of the curved, tighter platforms 😂

@redmozzy Жыл бұрын

@@TrainRealWorld the viaduct next to the station? I was there when a train ran through the buffers and the bogie ended up on someone's garden!

@mrclass43 Жыл бұрын

Hi Mega are you going to the Midland Railway for the HST opening Day on the 1st of July. They are running 43048 in EMT livery and 43159 in the old midland mainline livery.

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

Tempted but busy on 1st… but hopefully I can try and go on 2nd but gotta see

@mrclass43 Жыл бұрын

@@TrainRealWorld ok I'm going on the 2nd too so it should be nice

@johntate5050 Жыл бұрын

You can fly a drone over a public place if it's below 250g and you're flying from a public place. Private businesses don't own the airspace above their premises.

@blackterminal Жыл бұрын

Hello from New Zealand. This is cool. Will it be restored to running order? Thanks for the video.

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

Hello New Zealand!! Yes it will be restored to full running order and going up and down the mainline on heritage trips 😊 sounds like things so far have gone well

@simonpegler9942 3 ай бұрын

I’m joining the 125 group

@scotttait2197 Жыл бұрын

You can fly a drone over if your standing on public ground and there are no air restrictions.

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

I know there are restrictions over Network Rail track and thought this might be included in that

@AndrewStrydomBRP Жыл бұрын

@@TrainRealWorld Network rail's claim over the airspace above railways was disproven already in a FOI request when someone challenged them to show the law that applies to it and they came back with nothing. There is very few rules for a

@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 Жыл бұрын

This train is scrap already? This train looks modern I used to see these trains at Leeds station all the time

@henrys_trains_westcoast Жыл бұрын

I know this question is not about the HST but how many class 153s are in the background

@wonderland1985 Жыл бұрын

The article should be ‘an’ before HST.

@TrainDriver1953 6 ай бұрын

125 fasted speed was 148.5 mph down to the west country

@petersmith4455 Жыл бұрын

hi there, pity it has not got the Davy paxman engine in it, MTU make a ghastly sound in comparisson

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

Paxman are long gone so limited parts. 125 group are restoring 1 to Paxman with a LOT of changes, but 025 will stay as MTU where parts are still readily available 😊

@Hilux5972 Жыл бұрын

Great video to see the power car being loaded. But I’m sorry I had to mute it. Too much talking for me.

@driver288 6 ай бұрын

So. How many HSTs are still in service, and what is going to happen to this one you rescued? Private collection? Museum or heritage railway?

@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 Жыл бұрын

Are you saving the rear driving car too?

@youreds91 Жыл бұрын

Would this have gone by rail to Ruddington if the new A60 bridge was open?

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

Sounds terrible but it’s cheaper to transport via road 😬 also there isn’t a link to Ruddington on the rails

@harriergr7728 Жыл бұрын

I don’t think the track has been relaid on the new A60 bridge, so the link to the Midland mainline is still closed.

@DonaldTrumpIsGreat 4 ай бұрын

Right I've Got To Break Into Ely Papworth Sidings Eventually And See Those HSTs There

@TrainRealWorld 4 ай бұрын

ummmmmmm dont!

@brianwillson9567 Жыл бұрын

The reengining was relatively late in the life of the hst, was it worth it? To me HST equals the Valenta scream.

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

I think the life-span of the Valenta was coming to an end hence VP185 and MTU. I really hope the HST will continue through the years!

@TheDaf95xf Жыл бұрын

I hated them in the beginning as they replaced loco hauled trains but over the years I got too like them lol 😆 VP engines were good at the beginning 😂 Good luck with this project matey as it’s another classic engine saved 👍🏻

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

It’s nice to see the history of British railways, but at the end of the day, it’s about eco side of things, and safety and changes happen. I just wish the new train seats were comfier nowadays

@justinobrien3593 Жыл бұрын

the truck sounds like a like a loco at 26 mins lol 😆

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

It sounded AMAZING!! Possibly not legal mind you…

@velodavid1287 Жыл бұрын

Do you know how much the 125 Trust paid for this power unit? I know transporting them is expensive but it makes me wonder how cost viable these units are for heritage lines?

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

Sorry I can’t mention that…

@peterhynds7231 Жыл бұрын

Shame it does not have its original power unit the MTU engines they have now are no screamers!

@noooo_safechat2589 Жыл бұрын

What’s wrong with the HST anyway? Why’s everyone removing them?

@simonh317 Жыл бұрын

How much does a train like this cost to buy?

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

I can't say the actual price 43025 was bought at, think of a couple of zeros and a k at the end

@simonh317 Жыл бұрын

@@TrainRealWorld so a lottery win would be needed :( - damn childhood dream of learning to drive one

@Happymali10 Жыл бұрын

So...the truck runs in the UK, has a British registration and belongs to a British Company. Why is it LHD?

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

Sometimes happens when its imported, or with the corners with mirrors etc, it sometimes needs to be LHD

@trainundertaker Жыл бұрын

Was bought second hand

@barrieshepherd7694 Жыл бұрын

Some good drone footage of the storage at Papworth - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7B4dZyHycuwYKc.html

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

It would’ve been in there back in December

@trevorharris9582 Жыл бұрын

An HST

@user-oz2wn3lj5s Жыл бұрын

ভাবছি একটা রোলার কিনবো

@harrythompson6977 Жыл бұрын

you don't know filming laws dont give people advice ♥

@Senselessdust 11 ай бұрын

its a shame that these trains are going soon! they are gorgeous locos!

@incargeek Жыл бұрын

Shame this one has the MTU lump in it.

@TrainRealWorld Жыл бұрын

I know its not the Valenta or VP185, but still a good engine to get it upto 125mph

@stuartjones8238 Жыл бұрын

As a Bath based Train user. All the First Great Western Class 43's were refurbished with the V16 MTU lump and the new Front during the 2000/10's so you won't find a FGW HST with a Paxman lump in it!