It is of it’s time 😀

Agreed on all counts. Railways should have switched over to electricity 100 years ago. UK Politicians have spent over 100 years thwarting this in various ways. The Grouping of rail companies was their first move. If this hadn't have happened the LS&BCR would have extended their 6700v ac electrification and perhaps the Midland would have electrified Derby to Manchester. York to Newcastle and Middlesborough would have been electrified at 1500v dc too. Politicians play dumb but act crafty.

My Uncle George started his career with the LNER in 1946 but asbestos killed him prematurely. He was probably exposed to it as a carriage cleaner later a signalman.

Yeah they started putting the end plates on and all of a sudden it was a dance party! Was a nice video like you said though.

Grenville Bamford - sorry? I didn’t quite hear that? 👌😁

I'd forgot prefabs were made of asbestos. I had a schoolmate who lived in one. The first time I went to visit him I couldn't open the door - the door opened outwards! Unlike regular houses, presumably to save space.

@@trek520rider2 I think that as in sweden doors open outwards to stop snow falling in the house every time you open the door, it was to sweep bomb debry away (bomb sites were filled with powdery concrete from bomb blasts :(

There are loads of houses that still have mixed asbestos/concrete materials - e.g. corrugated roof covers for things like garage blocks (mine had until a few years ago, and was built in the early 1980s). Quite a few other materials, also decorating things, e.g. with the trade name ‘artex’ texture material. That used to have a certain amount of white asbestos in it, and was used in my place when new. So there’s a certain amount of it in my place.

Nuthing like a nice set of hooters.

@@fdegeorge2000 24 inch Grovers!

Asbestos also helped to prevent rust.

Must have been a Voodoo train:-)

So it’s not great now, post Tory brexit, with 11 years of Tory governance? What went wrong then?

Bloody awful kettles...

Philip Hearn as a retired kiwi driver who was qualified for both US and British diesels I can say that the Brit mainline units were crap. Which is a shame because I’m an Anglophile in most things.

The Dutch took a fleet of 350hp shunters with EE engines that are almost identical in layout to the Class 08.

They did know, Asbestos related lung cancer was identified in the 1930s.

@@beyergarret123 oh, ok, well they where not very conscientious about it!

@@TDIMAXDIESEL No Max, they certainly wasnt, the stuff was everywhere on the railway, not just on the locos, I was affected by it in the 70s working on the Permanant Way and my cancer didnt appear until over 30 years later, although in remission at the moment thankfully, it was and probably still is a time bomb for many people.

@@beyergarret123 wow, this is incredible! Thanks!

@@beyergarret123 as far as I can see the link was discovered in 1943 in Germany but ignored until a 1960 study conducted in South Africa.

My Granddad was an engineer on this - he died before I was born. He is in a white boiler suit with a black beret.

@@cathypearson5844 Wouldn't it be lovely to have met them. Did he live in London ? My Grandfather lived in Willesden

@@mrpepperman He lived in Rugby. It would have been great to know them- to hear the stories. They are part of history

@@cathypearson5844 I’d loved to have met my grandfather, I thought if he’d lived down south they might have gone to the same pub and my Dad who also worked on the railway might have known him

Torque is not relevant at all because it is electrically driven. This means you can simply run either engine at its maximum power point, to have literally any amount of torque to the wheels as long as you stay within the rating of the traction motors. Same is valid for CVTs. 1600hp is 1600hp. A higher or lower torque number merely says at which engine speed the power is delivered. In other words, if you spice up Bugatti's engine a bit to deliver 1600hp, it can haul as heavy trains as the big diesel can. The main difference is that the Bugatti is designed to be very lightweight, and not designed to run at maximum power for hours on end, hundreds of hours per year. It will wear out quickly in train service.

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LimaVictor not really beacuse if you theory is right i could have a 1200 cc bike and a 1200cc tractor if you put a generator on the bike it will stall out because it has not enough torque but the tractor despite having less hp will continue to run

@@pietrorita You clearly do not understand the physics behind it. The more powerful engine will allow you to draw the biggest amount of power from the generator. A kilowatt is a kilowatt, regardless where it comes from. The tractor may be able to spin the generator at a lower speed, but it will not get up to the rated speed of the generator if its power is too low. The bike engine, properly geared and assuming its power output is high enough, will not have any problems as long as it is running at the rev range in which it can supply the required power. It is all simple physics. Read some old text books.

LimaVictor yes you are right excuse me for the misunderstanding! :-)

There was no interest from the presevationists at that time for preserving diesels, they only wanted steam at that time.

Sad to hear. These two diesels were an iconic milestone in UK rail traction. The 37s appear similar so a 1947 design was a "Right First Time" technology. Well done Ivatt. He should have been knighted!