Wait about 20 years and they may get a class 4000

Fun fact: This video is 4 minutes 50 seconds, representing 4:50 and the train thats in the video is the 450 class

🚞🚃🚃 (450 class)

Interesting discharge / vent from the rear of the engine compartment, anyone know what this vent is ? 2:04

What is the line speed? Has she been used under her own power yet?

I know the power cars were based on BR mk1s with mk3 bodies, but were the trailer's / driving trailer's built the same or were they built new but with B4 bogies?

Maybe it's a bit late to say but. Maybe this is where the next door opens.

70 class......river bush; river foyle; river roe; river lagan; river maine; river inver; river braid; river bann

Well worth saving for future generations to enjoy.

That arrived on my birthday!

Absolutely spectacular! Great work and great vid.

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can't wait, going this weekend!

The size of the turbo I have never seen a turbo that size and iam a mechanic

Great stuff and well done for acquiring this unit, it may be modern in appearance, but the sounds and engineering come from a long while back. As he said, the final flowering of the DEMU type. Hope she runs for many years. Still have happy memories of a trip to Northern Ireland and seeing these DEMUs running, even the 70's back then.

Nice to see one of these has escaped the excavators. Spent many happy years running the Southern Region DEMUs, lovely old reliable units. Saw the NIR units back in the 80's including a very memorable ride on a by then rare 70 class. Great stuff and very well done on you for saving this unusual DEMU. Rumour had it that at one time the Southern Region in the UK were going to do a similar rebuild on our 3D/3H units. The first time l saw a Castle class DEMU l wondered if it was a 210, by then withdrawn, but of course one look and a listen told me it was a familiar friendly old 4SRKT powered unit ! Pity a 210 power car or unit wasn't saved. But a 450 is just as good in my book. Are there still any plans afoot to save an 80 class ? Saw some nasty pics of those being scrapped, even those with the central doorlocking mods. Not nice !

Great video! I hope you'll get a class 80 to join it one of these days!

Often rode on their British equivalents from Reading to Basingstoke and Guildford, but never been on an NIR 450, or ridden on the DCDR, so this video is most enjoyable. Thanks.

Great to see this. will they be sticking the Antrim Castle name back up on it? Also you can take a cab ride from Coleraine to Portrush in this train in the Video called Belfast to Londonderry a drivers eye view, by Video 125.

Wonderfull!!!

Fantastic stuff. Thanks for showing us her being started up. Love it!

Fantastic video great to see that beast back up and running.

Something very different indeed, well done to all involved rescuing it, quite appropriate that the video length is 4.50!! A shade of what might have been if the line had never closed!!

Nice!