I travelled to school everyday between crewe and stoke-on-trent on those swindon cross country dmus in the 1970"s. It's a shame only one trailer was preserved.
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus4 жыл бұрын
I always found the original DMU's to be really interesting with all the different classes, a lot of which could couple to one another (i know a few types were within class only). With the sheer amount of different types they were never all going to be saved especially if they had asbestos in them!
@tomtalk245 жыл бұрын
I remember going to Berrys as a kid in the 90s. Too late for anything, just saw lines in the ground. Was very depressing and stuck with me forever.
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus5 жыл бұрын
Sadly for me there wasn't a stack of locos there but units and coaching stock will do....
@darylcheshire16183 жыл бұрын
They look more modern than ours. In the mid ‘80s VR were still running wooden cars on the Geelong line. We reckoned BPL stood for bouncing passenger lounge. Asbestos brakes was just a pretext for auctioning off the remaining Tait cars.
@pipandkitty20048 ай бұрын
I loved travelling by train in those old carriages it was an adventure when we were young ,you didn’t feel like you were imprisoned like you do now completely sealed in no fresh air and squeezed into your seat like a rat in a cage
@chris-io1ki5 жыл бұрын
Great video for the wrong reasons! Sad seeing those DMU's and all those 501s waiting for the cutters torch!
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus5 жыл бұрын
It'll be lines of 315's & 317's soon. And perhaps the 455's not far behind, not forgetting the 314's are also coming off. In 2020 Merseyrail will start 507 & 508 replacement so the scrapmen will be busy for a bit!
@wurlyone46853 жыл бұрын
Anyone know anything about what the "Fulmar Express" was? (sticker on the side of one of the units featured). Had a quick Google and nothing turned up.
@gileragfr1255 жыл бұрын
loved them 501 emus miss them well built and long lasting
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus5 жыл бұрын
They were gold solid BR EMU stock, the same build basically as the 302s, EPBs & SR DEMUs. I only ever got video of them in service once and you can see them here kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKSqhWOqlphjiMU-enjoy!
@simonroyle28064 жыл бұрын
I helped someone push their broken down Mini into this yard when i was at Leicester Poly. I seemed to recall they had a big sign with "Every Scrap matters".
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus4 жыл бұрын
Yes, metal is metal......lol I hope he got a few quid for it!
@alanbartlett95233 жыл бұрын
I remember chasing those Mk1 sleepers up and down the WCML in the day, got most of them then they were all withdrawn. Hey Ho!
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus3 жыл бұрын
I rememeber riding in them on both the East Coast & West Coast back in 1979/81.....quite an experience but quite comfy!
@callumderry9104 жыл бұрын
3:59 sounds like someone just mined a stone block in Minecraft
@prof.hectorholbrook46924 жыл бұрын
VERY sad to see all those hitherto WONDERFUL BR Mk1 SLSTP, SLEP & SLF Sleeping Cars awaiting disposal. They were quieter & MUCH more comfortable than the new ridiculously noisy & rough-riding CAF Mk5 Sleeping Cars, hauled by slow freight locomotives, and now employed on the Caledonian Sleeper "services" on the WCML.
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus4 жыл бұрын
I haven't had the pleasure yet....although i've had 92s for haulage on railtours....thay are not that slow and good for around 80mph.....
@prof.hectorholbrook46924 жыл бұрын
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus But not when the Sleeper is trying to make up lost time though mate: in 2011 with a 90 on the Up with the Anglo-Scottish beds we were 43 down at Lichfield TV and only 27 late into Euston. Thanks to some 107mph running (GPS) with a 90!
@prof.hectorholbrook46924 жыл бұрын
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus .....hey Soi, have a look at the last 5 mins of this vid' to see what I mean about how CRAP the 92s are for the Sleepers... kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHSWZneAaK91oJI
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus4 жыл бұрын
@@prof.hectorholbrook4692 Yes, the 90s are much better suited to high speed running...and are cleared for 110mph as well! Although in theory a 92 should be fast enough if all is well, but nothing in reserved if it's all gone to pot! The best sleeper run i had was on a Mk I with Deltic 021 at the head......back in August 1981....happy days!
@prof.hectorholbrook46924 жыл бұрын
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Oh yes! Thanks for your interesting reply Soi! My best memory on travel in an Anglo Scottish Sleeper was in 1979 from Euston to Inverness in a Mk1 Sleeper: My long train departed Euston behind "Roarer" 82008 and - it being a Mk1 Sleeper - I could hang out the window in my berth as we tackled Camden Bank, ROARING all the way to Queens Park!! Engine change at Coatbridge Yard in those days for 2 x Class 37s north. Happy days indeed!!
@Goodchappy5 жыл бұрын
@1.55 that Class 501!, like a headless chicken. To think I probably went on that from Watford junction to college in the mid 80s.
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus5 жыл бұрын
I remember them out of Broad Street as well. A sleepy country station in the heart of London! Then a nice sedate ride, trundling around inner North London to Willesden to see a few more trains. happy days!
@Goodchappy5 жыл бұрын
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Yes. Most of them said Broadstreet on the front. Some said Croxley Green...or Poxley Green as the West Indian guard used to call it.
@AaronOxfordExmouth19896 жыл бұрын
Wow! Just wow.
@JackTheOfficeWorker4 жыл бұрын
I miss those trains from Vic Berry's Scrapyard
@moskva_channel4 жыл бұрын
In Russia, these units of motor-Car Rolling Stock could travel for another 30 years.
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus4 жыл бұрын
In the UK a few did! A couple of single car DMU's ran with Chiltern Railways until 2017, that is 30 years after this vid was made. But i know what you mean, in Rusia a whole fleet would have been kept running rather than in thsi case just a couple of odd units.
@moskva_channel4 жыл бұрын
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Russia. No Rusia.
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus4 жыл бұрын
@@moskva_channel Slip of the finger i'm afraid.....
@brianfearn42469 ай бұрын
Those bars across some of the windows were to prevent passengers from sticking ther heads out of the windows in the narrow tunnels 😊
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus9 ай бұрын
Yes, the old North London line class 501's.... Hampstead Tunnel was the reason why.....
@brianfearn42469 ай бұрын
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 👍
@danielferstendig4 жыл бұрын
sir topham should have saved these trains.
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus4 жыл бұрын
The grim reaper comes for them all sooner or later.....
@Godsgryl4 жыл бұрын
There’s passenger cars stacked like domino’s
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus4 жыл бұрын
All waiting for the chop sadly.....
@Kirbybellars5 жыл бұрын
Was the fire there the reason it berry scrap yard closed? I remember as kid going to my grans when it was on fire
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus5 жыл бұрын
It was due to be closed and redeveloped but strangly had a fire first! It never regained it's glory after but still kept in business just long enough to get any payout due!
@fatwalletboy25 жыл бұрын
Marking the end of BR Mk1 inter city sleepers...... Did all this old stock contain asbestos?
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus5 жыл бұрын
Some did and was disposed of carefully by specialist contrators.
@glenjarnold5 жыл бұрын
fatwalletboy2 I did wonder that too!
@v11cu965 жыл бұрын
Just in the heaters wasn't it?
@leeosborne37933 жыл бұрын
@@v11cu96 No, they were absolutely riddled with the stuff.
@brianfearn42469 ай бұрын
Asbestos was used in many things including buildings as it was a good fire retardant until it was discovered to be dangerous if inhaled 😊
@annescholey65464 жыл бұрын
Asbestos was a big problem then.
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus4 жыл бұрын
I seem to recall Vic Berry had a special unit for dealing with contaminated stock, as well as MC Metals in Glasgow.
@brianfearn42469 ай бұрын
Asbestos was used as a fire retardent until it was found to be dangerous to health.
@villevirtanen005 жыл бұрын
All is indirectly Thatcher 's fault..
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus5 жыл бұрын
Trains have always been scrapped since the start of them. But yes, in the 1980s BR was loosing freight traffic big time which resulted in more locos having no work than would otherwise have been the case. The 80s sadly was when the road lobby really got a hold of government policy.....
@doveronefoxtrot44175 жыл бұрын
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus And now virtually nothing travels by rail freight, mostly only aggregate, meanwhile we are all slowly dying of road traffic pollution.
@Godsgryl4 жыл бұрын
The thumbnail is so funny
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus4 жыл бұрын
For some reason all the thumbnails run at 3 x spped by the look of it....
@bullyinspace Жыл бұрын
Sad sight.
@PreservationEnthusiast5 жыл бұрын
Cutting torch destruction frenzy !
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus5 жыл бұрын
Wait until i upload a Routemaster scarp vid i took way back in 1985, i caught the whole process on film!
@PreservationEnthusiast Жыл бұрын
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Wow brilliant, I'll check it out thanks!
@Jeagles5 жыл бұрын
Dad: Why you crying so damn loud
@ronyardley38335 жыл бұрын
Well done.up your won
@sgthree3 жыл бұрын
I'd rather travel in the newer stock, as they are much safer in a crash where these Mk1 type carriages peeled open like a banana as was seen in far too many incidents including Clapham.
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus3 жыл бұрын
Newer stock is safer but no train is 100% safe, railways are heavy engineering and when things go wrong the forces involved will rip anything apart!
@sgthree3 жыл бұрын
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus but you saw when the Pendolino came off the track due to a faulty point, compared to even the Mk 3 coaches on the HSTs that folded in half at Southall and Ladbroke Grove, and how the newer stock stayed together in one piece, whereas the older stock (and I am thinking in particular Clapham Junction) just peeled apart like a banana. I know which train I'd rather be in.
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus3 жыл бұрын
@@sgthree The Pendo only came off the track and some of it dowen an embankment, in the other two cases (both of which were in the area i worked as a driver) they hit other trains. At Southall the MkIII's caught themselves on the poking out edges (once they had derailed) of JHA wagons (which are very unforgiving being used for heavy aggregates) and that stoped them dead and the forces of the moving HST still had energy to disipate so bent the coaches round. And at Ladbroke Grove it was a head on collision, the newer Turbo came off worse there, the front coach all but disintegrated while some of the HST coaches caught fire which distorted them. There were very few deaths on the HST happily, so the MkIIIs did the job they were designed for there! I agree that much older slam door stock would have indeed come off very badly in either of these accidents.....
@ronyardley38335 жыл бұрын
Destoyed from the inside in
@tappy723 жыл бұрын
wouldn't it be safer to stack them Jenga style?! looks well dodgy.. and heartbreaking :-(
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus3 жыл бұрын
They never fell down, there was a fair bit of weight in each of them that kept them in place.....
@ronyardley38335 жыл бұрын
Britan today x
@isakjohansson71345 жыл бұрын
Thats sad...
@frostycola423 жыл бұрын
put one in a museum instead to scrap
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus3 жыл бұрын
Some coaches and units survive, most being on heritage railways. But Br had so much stock there was no choice other than razor blades......
@lenholloway43904 жыл бұрын
I know, lets zoom in, no wait, zoom out and then zoom in again and out again and back in again. Its really so bad that its unwatchable.
@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus4 жыл бұрын
Perhaps you could make a film or two for KZbin....and i can see your style?.......
@wurlyone46853 жыл бұрын
It's useful zooming in to be able to see the details, that relate to for example, depot allocation to depots that no longer exist. The panning is nice and slow, compared to what a lot of people pan way too fast. Good work, IMO!