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@Railfanner12 2 күн бұрын
Awesome video! Saw this engine at Taunton and got some recording on my channel too. I liked, keep it up!
@DartmoorAR 14 күн бұрын
Damn it! I used to live very close to Didcot, now I live in Plymouth. It’s much harder to see industrial trains now. And I miss them…
@justinobrien3593 22 күн бұрын
thunder-birds are go on the sleeper tains to Scotland.
@justinobrien3593 22 күн бұрын
not often you see class 08/09 gronks in stations nowadays in the 1980s there was always one in main uk 🇬🇧 train stations.
@ninja2kernow Ай бұрын
I spent hours in the 70s when i was a child watching these shunt in plymouth.Full no hse.
@pipandkitty2004 Ай бұрын
Many thanks for sharing this…so wonderful to see
@ashthemainman Ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@charlottevictoria.hubbard7472 Ай бұрын
The little shunters are fantastic to watch. I remember seeing them in Leicester station. There is on e on the Great Central Railway in Loughborough.
@MrLoveshy69 Ай бұрын
My home city ❤
@benmh0269 Ай бұрын
devious
@supertrains156.66 Ай бұрын
Is so cool a small locomotive add all those cars so satisfying
@stephenpowell5912 Ай бұрын
Classic Gronks ❤
@prof.hectorholbrook4692 Ай бұрын
I didn't know the Night Riviera from Penzance STILL had a Plymouth portion.
@ashthemainman Ай бұрын
This started from Plymouth rather than Penzance due to engineering
@ConProductions Ай бұрын
Great catch
@XxBec3509 Ай бұрын
Looks like a model 😅 oo guage
@barrythedieselelectricstea5217 Ай бұрын
excellent shots 👍lovely loco's the only i know of in Kent is at Ashford International sidings nearest we've had to them on the main line was class 20s last year
@jess.hawkins Ай бұрын
Lol "fast train" 😂 -they gotta be joking!
@carlwilson1772 Ай бұрын
They are brilliant aren't they. Always a joy to see one, there is one at the DMU depot in Inverness. They can trace their lineage back to the initial batch of shunting locos to this basic design made by LMS in the late 1940s. They look like they are from that era with the cab design and the connecting rods. Even the whistle is a toot instead of the two tone br thing. The fact that they are still in use shows how right the early design was.
@ashthemainman Ай бұрын
Don’t change a classic - there a a reason it’s always loco plus a rack of coaches - they can change the formation to fit demand now dow 😅
@fp4man542 Ай бұрын
I miss seeing 08 shunters grumbling their way round mainline stations. Such a rare sight these days.
@barrysmith1651 Ай бұрын
I drove these in Australia,in Victoria we called them F class
@ashthemainman Ай бұрын
Are these British made to like the HSTs we shipped over?
@petercollingwood4108 Ай бұрын
You love your picture phizzals don’t ya. 🤦♀️
@davidsims200trainstranspor5 Ай бұрын
Man this is a pretty cool to still see a Class 08 or 10 at work on the mainlines. Bet it’s not everyday yall see these old timers still running.
@TomedysTrains Ай бұрын
Splendid video! It's so cool to see the Class 08 diesel shunters still soldier on. It's interesting to think that they were first built in the steam era shortly after the original Great Western ceased to exist and now, in 2024, there's at least one working on the modern Great Western Railway wearing that railway's livery.
@andrewbennett7756 Ай бұрын
There should be more of these little hard working locomotive on you tube .the unsung loco of br
@fgwHST43009 Ай бұрын
Why does it sound squeaky?
@ashthemainman Ай бұрын
Cause it’s so clean
@reynardbizzar5461 Ай бұрын
Plymouth North Road station. Must hold the record in the UK for the biggest station with the least train movements. Five to six departures an hour typically 😂❤🚂🎥👍🙏
@ashthemainman Ай бұрын
One to London, one to Penzance, one to Cardiff, one to the north, one to Gunnislake (2hours)
@reynardbizzar5461 Ай бұрын
@@ashthemainman I remarked to the train man on the platform some years about the station being so big with so few trains, and he replied , “ ah but you should see it when it gets busy”. Yes eight trains an hour😂😂 .I guess it was much busier in the days of steam. A tiny place like Ryde St Johns Road has four trains an hour. Thanks for sharing.🙏
@paulkeith9680 Ай бұрын
" the train approaching platform 8 does not stop here" - lies! It did stop. Furthermore at rhe speed of an 08 you could jump it if you wanted...
@ChilternRailPhotography Ай бұрын
0:30 very fast train
@vectorbrony3473 Ай бұрын
These locomotives are the stuff of legend. Designed and built in 1952 and 72 years later they are still doing the same job with nothing to compare it to for shunting and slow moving. They can move 1000 tons on the level and reliable. Great to see them keep up the hard work.
@justinobrien3593 Ай бұрын
thunder-birds are go-go-go 😊
@justinobrien3593 Ай бұрын
quite rare to see a gronk in a train station nowadays!!!
@421mog Ай бұрын
* railway.
@joekauffman9690 Ай бұрын
It’s diesel from Thomas the tank engine
@davidsims200trainstranspor5 Ай бұрын
More like Arry or Bert
@swearingkevo Ай бұрын
28th and 29th March 2024 ????? It’s only the 16th …. You film in the future 😂
@ashthemainman Ай бұрын
It’s correct in the video - that would have been a arse to redo lol
@bfapple Ай бұрын
Is this 08 fitted with TPWS then?
@neilonaniet Ай бұрын
Yes.
@speedbirdconcordeBOAB Ай бұрын
08836 ( D4004) entered service in November 1960. The old girl is looking smart for 63 years old. 👍🏻
@DartmoorAR 14 күн бұрын
Approx 1 year older than my own mother.
@DartmoorAR 13 күн бұрын
@@speedbirdconcordeBOAB Well she isn’t shunting trains. What’s her excuse?
@charlie8562 Ай бұрын
Forgot to look, but why no trains just after plymouth, engineering works or something?
@ashthemainman Ай бұрын
Resigning in the Truro area
@paulmcmanus9408 Ай бұрын
Class 08 owe the railway nothing. They are the stalwarts of English Electric epitome. Superb machines.
@MannyAntipov Ай бұрын
Now when will GWR sub an IET diagram for one of these 08s? 😅
@ashthemainman Ай бұрын
They did do a tour with 08s and a HST a few years back
@stev6free146 Ай бұрын
Wow
@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne 2 ай бұрын
Ex Derby driver here. Fond memories of working the 'Jocko'. You really don't see many out on the main lines these days.
@CoffeePot31 2 ай бұрын
That's not a Great Western Railway engine, that's a British Railways Class 08.
@ashthemainman Ай бұрын
If you watch the video the livery is literally GwR 😀
@CoffeePot31 Ай бұрын
@@ashthemainman It was built as a BR Class 08, I mean.
@ashthemainman Ай бұрын
@@CoffeePot31 the confusion is the current branding on the great western- being called great western railway rather than before first great western - if you know what a Class 08 is you know this is British Rail Made. So if this was a freight liner Class 08 that’s all you would say.
@mattconco Ай бұрын
By that logic a class 800 you see at Plymouth is NOT GWR but is Hitachi - its ofc both - Livery/operator vs manufacturer
@johnselekta 2 ай бұрын
Nice, vid, thanks. Seen this 08 many times from afar. I wanna get down myself if time, any idea when the sleeper is back to terminating at Penzance? Or has that ship sailed already?
@ashthemainman 2 ай бұрын
Already back to Penzance but will be back again at some point
@NorthKentTransport1 2 ай бұрын
A rare sight to see a mainline 08
@ashthemainman 2 ай бұрын
I think only here during engineering works and powercar turning and Penzance maybe now
@petersmith4455 2 ай бұрын
hi, great video, but it is a BR 08 not gwr, pity the westerns are around anymore, we have put up with these confounded 800s which we never asked for,
@ashthemainman 2 ай бұрын
Well, it is a GWR 08 and the livery is GWR Green - 😜 makes it definitely a GWR British Rail Class 08. Vs. Maybe before First Great Western.
@James47298 2 ай бұрын
Love it, last of old school action
@user-xh3lz9xt4l 2 ай бұрын
It's not a GWR 08 but a BR 08 it maybe in GWR livery but it's a BR design
@ashthemainman 2 ай бұрын
GWR is the train operator- it’s a GWR British Rail Class 08 >_<
@user-zr5yj1od5q 2 ай бұрын
Cool
@RailroudHobby 2 ай бұрын
Awsome video i subscribed u chanal
@cedarcam 2 ай бұрын
It's sad to see them go but the railway has to progress, we lag far behind other countries now. Hopefully not everything will be scrapped and our heritage railways will use some parts to keep our history alive.
@ashthemainman 2 ай бұрын
They are in a scrap pile at these locations currently- don’t look like much care on them to be moved to other heritage locations
@cedarcam 2 ай бұрын
@@ashthemainman That's a shame. The same happened up here in Yorkshire with most of ours but the East Lancs and North Yorkshire Moors railways got a gantry each that are now in use on their lines. This is the end of two era in a way as the HST will not be around much longer either. I miss those too.
@user-hi4pp4cj7m 2 ай бұрын
Its got an RG shed code on the cab( Reading)?
@trevorhoughton863 2 ай бұрын
Used to be at Reading, as there shunter, transferred when I think a couple of LA’s 08’s were out of use & Reading I assumed didn’t really need an 08
@jcale1000 2 ай бұрын
Still going strong! Was Gloucester Horton Road’s trip shunter for many years. Fond memories of her on local trip work and trundling up and down to Gloucester Yard. Didn’t know she’d be transferred to Laria though.
@davejones1664 2 ай бұрын
She was at Old Oak Common for a few years too. I worked on her there.