British Railwaves: West Coast Electrification

[@SegaMario]

Old short BR documentary videos with 80s-inspired music is a vibe I never thought I could get behind.

[@ioh969]

Intercity makes the going easy. So much high voltage in one video I'm buzzing!!😆

[@johnson_street_IEMD]

brilliant insight into the begining of the WCML electrification

[@magnusaugust8489]

I really wish you'd make more of these. These films are wonderful and inspiring! Pacing is just nearly sublime!

[@Isee3]

More will be made...! We've got the APT and InterCity WestCoast todo yet. Might have a break and go a shorter....Glasgow based...video...

[@Reaper1770]

@@Isee3 i hope you consider making an Edinburgh based one, i've become a huge fan of your work. its my go to while building my scottish model railway

[@Isee3]

@@Reaper1770 ScotRail will get some love for sure, don't you worry!!

[@Reaper1770]

@@Isee3 wooo hopefully 47 711 greyfriars bobby gets some representation

[@fathernick9910]

He doesn’t make them. They’re ripped-off 1960s documentaries. He doesn’t even speak English…”Railwaves”?!

[@jimmyviaductophilelawley5587]

This is great! The juxtaposition of 80s soundtrack on top of the old BTFR(?) films works for me! Good stuff!

[@magnusaugust8489]

... I must admit to having watched this about 20 times by now lol

[@Isee3]

Glad you keep coming back for more!

[@danielfield2570]

Travelling down the WCML now. Still see many of the fixtures still up, albeit modernised, testament to the ambition of that time. My only gripe is that the ECML, GW, GE and pennine routes as well as the whole network should’ve been electrified sooner!

[@Reaper1770]

wish me luck, i'm hoping to get an interview to go be a train driver

[@nickk.9914]

How did it go?

[@Reaper1770]

@@nickk.9914bout to be qualified actually hoping to transfer to do inter urban trains such as the wonderful V set just after I take up

[@Reaper1770]

​@@nickk.9914 todays my final exam but hoping i make it through so i can take up on thursday. Lots of pressure but i think i can pull it off

[@thepacerman]

did it go well?

[@Reaper1770]

​@@thepacerman i got in and qualified however the random schedules and middle of the night shifts really drained me. So i've gone back to school to become an electrical engineer for the railways hopefully.

[@ChadwickModelRailway]

Loved the use of a slide rule.

[@ewan8127]

When Britain had greatness....

[@AFPCL_Gameplay]

Really nice!!! 👌🆙🚊 I dropped a big 👍 for ya.

[@unutentequalsiasi5669]

Good editing, love that!

[@erikaitsumi3852]

Fantastic more Network Wave👍

[@Isee3]

Plenty more to come! Japan Citypop Railwaves too perhaps, fellow KanColle person ;)

[@rob_e_g8723]

These videos are great, I'd love to see you make one for the woodhead electrification 👍. Nice work well done, subscribed.

[@sheepythesheep3379]

Fantastic video sir!

[@Isee3]

Care for a British Rail now?

[@bb-3653]

It's a shame it's 2023 and nothings been done to improve the third rail to either a more efficient voltage, better the power supply or to remove it entirely amd replace it with overhead lines.

[@MusicWave-00]

I just noticed but the British Rail Class 85 looks a little like Indian Railways WAP-5.

[@EM-yk1dw]

Excellent film, sadly travel is not as comfortable as it was then.

[@TV-jz8vu]

I actually really like this haha

[@fatwalletboy2]

Brilliant. Old footage but better music too.

[@joshbarkerfilms]

This is so good, literally run my Class 91 and Mk3 stock to this music, such a vibe running model trains. Any chance we could colab? I’d love to film my model trains to this music, its very inspiring!

[@PeteS_1994]

5:33. I am guessing those pipes that are in the front of different British rail old trains are for coupling???

[@Reaper1770]

Those are for im guessing brake pipe and vaccum hoses and cablea to do MU

[@elizabetharas5748]

They're mostly for linking up each wagon for the vaccum braking system. That's why in the steam era there were such things as "Fitted" wagons (wagons fitted with vaccum brakes and vaccum brake piping) and "Unfitted" wagons, wagons which did not have vaccum braking. You can tell the difference between them due to the lack of vaccum braking hoses. British Rail mostly used the screwlink coupler system for their couplings.

[@kieranstravels]

AC electrics my beloved

[@BritishTrainspotting]

fyi its modernisation not modernization, alot of spell checkers, such as the one built into Windows and Google's browser, default to american English, rather than real English.

[@shaunhenry1614]

What’s the name of the music?

[@ambiguoustv2287]

What ab a GEML railwave edit?

[@MiguelSadar-o4b]

Gregg Spring

[@HarteChristopher]

551 Khalid Pike

[@RealMagmaDash]

do one about the 455 plss

[@bussesandtrains1218]

Just the 455s? Yeah, no Southern electrics though... That could work

[@bussesandtrains1218]

Just the 455s? Yeah, no Southern electrics though... That could work

[@bussesandtrains1218]

Just the 455s? Yeah, no Southern electrics though... That could work

[@bussesandtrains1218]

Just the 455s? Yeah, no Southern electrics though... That could work

[@bussesandtrains1218]

Just the 455s? Yeah, no Southern electrics though... That could work

[@soundseeker63]

Good old BTC footage, but the music is intrusive and not fitting with the era of the footage.

[@slimyfetus6969]

Im looking for an original version without the kitchy music.

[@andrewoverton5170]

Can't watch this for the ridiculously loud and distracting music dubbed over the original commentary. Why?

[@Ferreira0504]

This original documentaries are in the description.

[@re57k]

This video's purpose is NOT for the documentaries. Rather it's for aesthetic purposes. It's the whole schtick of this channel in case you haven't figured it out yet.

[@TheDocster5]

Overhead wires are really ugly. I love trains, but just outside Paisley Gilmour Street towards Glasgow, they've put new Overhead gantries and it's far too much, almost American. 😢 it really spoils the look of the railway.

[@johnkelly1083]

I've always thought that the new gantries look over-engineered particularly in the Reading area. The lattice masts that they have in Germany look far more elegant.

[@rmHawk765]

​@@johnkelly1083 The OHLE on the GWML was deliberately over-engineered after what was learnt from the under-engineering on the WCML OHLE. It is built to Swiss standards iirc.

[@fathernick9910]

Railwaves? More Chinglish

[@versedbridge4007]

That makes no sense.