0053 - Safe to Save

[@SodaPolycarbonate]

The limited clearance segments followed immediately by footage of an HST passing through are a hell of way to illustrate a point.

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

It gets the point across

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

5:00 those majestic 1930s SR cast concrete signal gantries...

[@ianjones4116]

Even worse if it's a DVT leading . "Whispering Death " we called them . 🙀👍

[@DonFelixGallardo]

The rails still loudly vibrate when a train approaches

[@Robdc89]

​​@@DonFelixGallardotrue but say a train is going at 90mph, it's only about 4 seconds after you hear a train approaching, until it reaches you, that's barely enough time to register it's coming than to take avoiding action.

[@DonFelixGallardo]

@@Robdc89 plenty of time

[@DonFelixGallardo]

@@Robdc89 I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… Anyone who manages to get themselves hit by a train has won a Darwin Award of some kind. Trains are very large, fairly loud metal behemoths and literally only go where the rather narrow track allows them too. It’s not hard to get out of the way

[@riverhuntingdon6659]

Takes me back to the "1066 Electrics" and the days when CIG stock ruled the Brighton line, and the old DEMUs across the Marshes. Happy days for me they were. Nice.

[@Richardsrailway]

14:12 I think he’s already had enough juice for one day guv !

[@Ravelinn]

Great Memories of PRE-PTS.. im sure i saw this video , or one similar to it,,

[@clayz1]

. 2:51 The signaling room: why do they all use rags on the handles? I’ve seen that in a few vids now.

[@SilverGear_]

@@jackrussell9094 That and it keeps the mechanical aspects of the levers gunging up and becoming stiff and awkward to work with. It's also a matter of hygiene when it comes to corroded metal as it can cause infection, not to mention the germs that would be passed from one signaller to another day after day if they weren't cleaned.

[@ryguy2006]

"Don't use anything metal..." Literally next frame: **Using metal equipment**

[@grahamwootten890]

Made in 1992. So not Patrick Troughton narrating as he died in 1987.

[@1952grafton]

This was filmed in part on the line between Morton in the marsh and Evesham in 1992.

[@ThomasMoody]

Don't say that at 0:38 the liquid sprayed over the camera as the train passed was sewage from the toilet someone just flushed!

[@pooletrainboy]

may well have been lol

[@dkbmaestrorules]

@@Saucy-ws6jc that's completely untrue, there are still some trains in the UK that flush directly onto the track

[@ThomasMoody]

@Percy Harry Hotspur I must have been 13 or 14 when I made that comment - completely forgot about it. Regardless, I'm 3/4 the way through an integrated masters degree in electronic engineering so I may be able to provide a response to your question. The UK hopper toilet does not just pass 'solids and liquids' straight through an open hole in the floor and onto the track - so it's unlikely that a direct path would be made between the person and a live rail. Also, the metal features of the chassis and toilet fixtures will be connected to electrical earth/ground by design, and so if any arc were to pass up through a conductive stream towards the train, it would be diverted away by structure of the train.

[@chriswalford4161]

IP Freely : Wrong. Many trains still discharge onto the tracks. Exeter St. David’s offers a good exhibition of turds, for example. Although it is true that the government promised money for retention toilets many years ago, I think they found something else to spend the money on.

[@scottishtrains9761]

It probs was lol

[@vhayes2257]

16:00 "in an emergency, detonators are used to protect the site". Then we see these little bombs going off. Eh!? What the HELL is the point of that?

[@OlanKenny]

Warns approaching trains that there is danger ahead.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

A very loud bang and a jolt to tell the driver of the danger.

[@SilverGear_]

Those are detonators. It was to illustrate that detonators are explosives which are applied to the rail head near the site of an incident, exploding when the top is depressed by a wheel or some stupid sod's foot. Their main purpose is to act as an audible and sometimes visual warning of danger to the driver of the train passing over them and because of the fragments that can be produced from a detonator explosion they should be avoided.

[@chriswaring5565]

THE MUSIC WAS A BIT NAFF DID SOMEONE FLUSH BOG AT 10:11 ON THE H.S.T 125 LIKE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FILM? CAMARA MAN GOT SOMEONES PISS ON HIM

[@mattval6293]

Omg state of the tracks 4:40

[@DaveInBridport]

Is it true that 750V DC attracts hawks?

[@ricks.4772]

Yes, like your Mrs's

[@BritishTightEnd]

Birds use magnetic fields to navigate and so can be attracted to these potentially

[@DaveInBridport]

Quite right. Hawks love direct current.

[@pickledegg1989]

Does anyone know the piece of classical music at the beginning and the end? It's not identifying on Shazam.

[@barbaraannecortina7899]

Actually, Darren, it's from 1992.

[@rmc57uk]

Narrated by the producer, David Dore of Spa Films.

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

Made when Dore was 49. His birthday is in December; he was born in 1942.

[@chriswaring5565]

THE CESS ISN'T THAT BRAD PITS BROTHER? HA HA HA!

[@Skylerjones624]

Whats the train at 10:42

[@lewisculverwellvlogs9789]

@Jamie-Lee Harley Thornton I thought he class 302s were withdrawn and retired in 1998

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

Tyne and Wear Metro uses 1500v DC overhead.

[@DonFelixGallardo]

Wow that’s a high voltage for DC

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

@@DonFelixGallardo Some countries use 3,000 volt DC overhead, like Poland.

[@nigelkthomas9501]

Why would a phone not be for emergency 999 calls? Surly an emergency call should capable of being made from any phone at any time otherwise help would be delayed.

[@fetchstixRHD]

I'm assuming the way the phone is wired doesn't allow for external calls to be made, at least not directly. I think I read somewhere in the sectional appendix that calling 999 on some railway phones will still direct your call to the railway, who'll then have to place a phone call to 999 themselves and connect your call. That said, someone more informed will know the full reason, whether they're able to share it is another matter altogether...

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

The fire control centres won't know the locations of railway telephones, unlike BT phoneboxes. It is similar to the mobile phones and emergency calls so the Highways Agency introduced position identification signs.

[@pineappleroad]

it's possible that the phone doesn't even have a keypad, and it auto dials a pre-defined number when the handset is lifted (most railway phones, at least nowadays, are like this)

[@Robdc89]

Well signal post telephones are only connected to the signalman, although at stations platforms have plug in telephones that can call the signal center, as well as emergency services, usually if there is an emergency either on the rail or train, drivers or railwaymen will make an emergency call to the signalman and ask them to call the emergency services.

[@fred6059]

Never pee on the third rail

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

Or overhead lines.

[@Themusiic09]

​@@DaveDVideoMaker How would you pee on there.

[@Richardsrailway]

Fireman lookout ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Devkumar43072]

Many electric trains can run at line speed on their batteries so this program needs updating

[@JamesCleevely]

this was made 24 years ago, it will have been replaced many times since then!

[@Devkumar43072]

Cheers and the SR old emus can coast to a safe place to stop this including the 421s, 455s and other emus like the 365s as with 319s

[@TheDankEngineer]

someone tell this man that BR dissolved already.

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

It’s now called NR.

[@fetchstixRHD]

AFAIK there have been very few trains with traction batteries? Up until now there's been the Underground battery locomotives, the 379 trial (now removed), the 230/D78 prototype and TfW units, and soon the 777s and 756s (and if you include them, the Birmingham trams)? Most of those have been only in recent times (and I don't think I've missed any - the 803s don't count as their batteries aren't used for movement?)

[@SignallerSCR]

14:53 leg boom

[@dave41184]

Are there more modern versions of this around to watch?

[@cassiecassie7112]

Doubt it proper scare films are too much for kids born after 2000 there parents would probably call the daily mail and start a petition. >.

[@TheArkamedBat]

What would happen if you pee on 750 V DC 3rd rail?

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

I believe a short circuit.

[@TheArkamedBat]

@@DaveDVideoMaker LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

What’s so funny about that?

[@awp2902]

Why do they need to use rag to switch track

[@martinsigsworth9042]

Sweat would make your hands slip - the rag prevents it

[@ianjones4116]

@@martinsigsworth9042 Sweat Rusts his nice Levers too. Fact. 👍

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

It’s now NR, not BR.

[@AutoUnder]

And will soon be GBR

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

Is that for real?

[@AutoUnder]

@@DaveDVideoMaker Yup! Railways are being renationalised

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

Is that an acronym for Great British Railways?

[@AutoUnder]

@@DaveDVideoMaker yes it is, couldn’t be bothered to type the whole thing and you used acronyms too

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

Dave Dore is retired now.

[@TheJononator]

It was

[@WolfieRich1]

Who is narrating this? It sounds like Patrick Troughton

[@GeorgeASFTHM]

He sounds like a cross between Bruce Forsyth and Jon Pertwee.

[@FishbedMyBeloved]

He died before this was made

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

It’s Dave Dore. Retired 20 years after this was made.

[@Hgplayz451]

10:01 12:56

[@blogscastmania9707]

subed!

[@56independent]

What if the casulty is female? :p

[@timtim8468]

However!