Bob Dunn

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@Beatlefan67 3 күн бұрын

When you see a train, you must wave. It's the law...

@joginns778 Ай бұрын

Very poor video to much time waisted watching the drivers control,😮

@DavidFennessy-yj7du Ай бұрын

I remember these big hydraulics at Paddington as a child on my yearly journey to Fishguard and over the sea to Rosslare, they looked very impressive sitting there at the buffers in Paddington, they had a paraffin smell and looked as though they had come from Paris or something, such was their dynamic appearance!!!

@milehighclassics Ай бұрын

Is that a class 50

@74HC138 4 ай бұрын

I love the sound of the horn, it sounds like a startled goose

@octopus680 4 ай бұрын

I drove Champion last Monday on a drivers experience course and i would recommend to anyone -and it was on both engines too!

@clivedytor2069 4 ай бұрын

I have come late in life to these train videos. What fantastic fun they are!

@duxberry1958 7 ай бұрын

50,s back home

@rumrum-y8o 7 ай бұрын

I like the panoramic views from the loco👍

@kevinstaddon8517 9 ай бұрын

Back where it belongs.

@philtennant2435 10 ай бұрын

These were magnificent machines. Good to see that a few of them have been preserved. They could pull a heavy train up steep hills. Especially from a standing start. Like a 12 wheel drive with 2 sets of six wheels fixed and turning together. Good old fashioned torque converters and gear boxes and the sound of two Maybach prime movers. What clever engineering.

@MannyAntipov 10 ай бұрын

Was that a vape in his hands at 0:16?!

@stevebarbier5602 11 ай бұрын

Magical Westerns.............................and of course Maybach music..............................thank you !!

@rodgertaylor2387 Жыл бұрын

Great footage and to be in the cab as well something else

@Broadercasting Жыл бұрын

Nice to hear the bell in the cab rather than a different flavour of squeak! #AWS

@DOCTORDROTT Жыл бұрын

Well done, you started the same years as I did, I finished in 2021

@choirboyfromhell1 Жыл бұрын

This is fabulous! My favorite class of BR loco on a legendary grade! Making transition at 01:40?

@30041946 Жыл бұрын

Excellent.

@ronholfly Жыл бұрын

Remember collecting numbers with my Ian Allen book on the Lickey incline, it's a shame Big Bertha has gone now, all that puffing as it pushed passengers and freight trains up that famous incline.

@alcatel4539 Жыл бұрын

Awful camerawork. A constant view point would have been far better.

@DerekMastin-n5z Жыл бұрын

What a bloody awful horn

@Shads5 Жыл бұрын

For such an impressive iconic locomotive that’s a pathetic horn 😂

@ocaphoenix5347 Жыл бұрын

Congrats! Enjoy & many thx!🤗

@fatwalletboy2 Жыл бұрын

Id love to go up the lickey standing start from Bromsgrove behind a class 87.......the air raid siren noise would be great.

@markwaldron1679 Жыл бұрын

That sound is brilliant

@fatwalletboy2 Жыл бұрын

Seems these might have been very frustrating to drive .here the driver.opens the throttle at Dawlish and gets pedestrian levels of acceleration, lots of thrash noise but very poor pick up......

@g7usl Жыл бұрын

No. Driver sits on the LH side!

@Denjwj Жыл бұрын

I can still picture Westbury driver Robin Gould leaning out the window of a Western at Westbury station, long gone now but never forgotten, such a lovely man.

@m3hnl Жыл бұрын

there is still a locomotive named after robin 56049 robin of templecombe he drove western champion in 2009. there is an awesome video when he powers away at par in Cornwall enjoy

@funkydozer Жыл бұрын

As a naive and suggestible kid 45 years ago, a friend talked me into walking into that tunnel with him. With our bikes. We got past the bend where you lose sight of the entrance and a train came the other way. Never run so fast in my life since, we made it back to within a hundred yards of the entrance and the train was on top of us, full speed 8 car Deltic express from Exeter, we hit the deck headfirst in a tangle of spokes and sprockets and hugged the tunnel wall as it blasted by 3 feet away, horn blaring and carriage lights strobing past. I will never forget the suction trying to pick me up by the feet. We walked our bikes down onto the beach and within 15 minutes a yellow transport police engine cruised slowly along the track, presumably looking for bodies. On another occasion, the same friend made me climb along the cliff face to the right of that tunnel entrance towards the parson and clerk rocks at high tide. The memories that almost kill us are the ones that last the longest, presumably to stop us doing dumb shit again.

@davebarclay4429 Жыл бұрын

Good to see the Class 50s back on their original territory. I still remember them from Glasgow Central in the days when they worked the non-electrified section of the WCML between Glasgow and Crewe.

@Crepello100 Жыл бұрын

Something I forgot. Amateur vids often use zoom, like to zoom in on the engine or the view ahead. That wouldn't be appropriate for a professional video of the run - kills the sense of speed which is one of the attractions of mainline running.

@Crepello100 Жыл бұрын

They miss a trick here. Why not mount a camera looking forward and film the entire run. Then sell it as a video, including for all of us that can't for whatever reason be on that train, or as a memory for those that were. Make it copyright and enforce that so it doesn't turn up on YT as a free to view thing. If cab conversations need editing out, simply record sound from turther cab of first coach. I recon they'd sell hundreds of these videos, maybe more than the 500 people who paid to be on that train. No tour organiser has ever done this so we just get amateur filmed bits, handheld, poor sound, just the slow running cos of wind sound issues, or whatever. They'd make more money that way and why not? These preseved locos cost a fortune to maintain.