Cwmbargoed:66171 on 6C83 uses maximum effort to depart Colliery/protesters present 06/07/2023

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The Fake Wasp

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@dh9033 8 ай бұрын

Nicely filmed and edited. Thanks for sharing 😊

@thefakewasp503 8 ай бұрын

Thank you very much and I am pleased that you enjoyed watching it.

@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge 11 ай бұрын

Let’s just keep importing it, government policy say’s coal mining is not green Totally hypocritical, it’s more trees we need to clean the air Don’t see a drop in plane journeys Great video 👍

@thefakewasp503 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Bleak. I could not agree with you more, especially as the steelworks is in relatively close proximity (although now it is closing due to economic issues). We do need more trees but there is very little mention of exponential population growth. The source of the problem is the sheer number of humans not coal, aviation fuel or oil etc. Each human born contributes more CO2 (although it is not much of a greenhouse gas compared with methane) by simply breathing before they engage in any other activities. Anyway, I was only there to see the coal train before the mine closed.

@adamreynolds2372 10 ай бұрын

@@thefakewasp503 They're playing right into the hands of the politicians. They want cheaper coal and steel from abroad, which they can spin to look like a green decision. These muppets will never see that by moving it abroad, it's actually worse in every way for the planet and the country.

@nounoufriend1442 10 ай бұрын

Lorry's and cars are bigger polluter yet government policy's are pushing more on road transport , just take the cancelling of HS2 to Manchester

@oddities-whatnot 11 ай бұрын

I wonder if any of those protesters has a job.

@thefakewasp503 11 ай бұрын

Maybe some of them are retired but possibly the younger ones have no job as it was a weekday? I was just surprised to see them up there.

@andrewchaston503 11 ай бұрын

Nope all living on Universal credit at my expense. Great

@andrewlawson5779 11 ай бұрын

I doubt it

@oddities-whatnot 10 ай бұрын

@@thefakewasp503 thank you for the reply 👍

@oddities-whatnot 10 ай бұрын

@@andrewchaston503 cheers, i appreciate the reply. Ive bin down the pub all day, I dont work but im not on benefits.

@PeterJ-de4wk 10 ай бұрын

I bet none of the protesters know that coal will be shipped in from Kazakhstan instead as the blast furnaces this pit supplied needs coal period. Really really green that.

@thefakewasp503 10 ай бұрын

You are so right Pete, it does seem ridiculous as the blast furnaces are not many miles away further down the line. The Tata blast furnaces are now to be decommissioned in favour of electric arc furnaces in a few years time but I imagine they will need to import coal from some far off regions in the meantime.

@stephendavies6949 11 ай бұрын

How about a triple header class 37s to haul the last-ever coal train?

@thefakewasp503 11 ай бұрын

That is a great idea Stephen and it would be a great sight and sound. I also thought a steam loco would be appropriate as Ffos y Fran has been the main source of quality steam coal supply for the heritage sector.

@stephendavies6949 11 ай бұрын

@@thefakewasp503 3 37s one end & double headed steam traction the other?

@thefakewasp503 11 ай бұрын

@@stephendavies6949 Now that sounds even better!

@Dunstire 10 ай бұрын

The power of those things is insane and it still baffles me how they get traction,i know there's lots of physics and science behind it and don't don't want to be lectured by some anorak,it just amazes me

@nounoufriend1442 10 ай бұрын

I find it amazing they can haul train up incline yet the loco brakes alone cannot hold train , yet I work on the bloody things

@thefakewasp503 10 ай бұрын

It's something to do with the co-efficient of static and dynamic friction but as I learnt that kind of thing so long ago I can't remember any of the physics now!

@JonBowe 10 ай бұрын

sand helps from the loco hoppers. Automatic after a certain speed. Cl 60s are more efficient at this, that is why they can move heavier haulage.

@boblovell5789 10 ай бұрын

If we get a national emergency, these green warriors should realise that importants could well stop. How would that be for industry? No doubt extraction would reopen in a flash.

@thefakewasp503 10 ай бұрын

You are quite right, you can't just stop something such as coal or oil because you believe it is causing harm. Well the coal production in the UK will cease but many other countries will carry on producing it and we will then need to import it at more expense to the environment and pocket. Maybe the emphasis should be on the source of the problem i.e. humans with exponential population growth.

@markappleby3282 10 ай бұрын

How ironic at the end. A coal train passing a solar farm. The clean and polluter side by side. Great video

@thefakewasp503 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Mark. Yes it is a paradox but it helped power the equipment at the colliery (maybe to reduce cost?). Anyway the mine has now closed and the whole area is supposed to be restored to a natural environment.

@andrewlawson5779 11 ай бұрын

If they don't have a life they have to complain about something, my complaint is he only had one locomotive to haul that train.

@thefakewasp503 10 ай бұрын

Well you are right an additional locomotive would have made an enormous difference. I have seen single 66s struggling whilst getting a fully loaded coal train on the move up there before but have never witnessed any protesters present before.

@tachyojeff 9 ай бұрын

somebody should have told them its not the train drivers and yard staff trading fosil fuels they work for a company that does .

@thefakewasp503 9 ай бұрын

You are right. The railway transported the coal to the Port Talbot steelworks and also a cement works at Hope in the Midlands. The railway system at Cwmbargoed I believe is private and owned by the mining company Merthyr (South Wales) but the rail drivers and yard staff drive trains belonging to the freight companies and not the colliery. .

@tachyojeff 9 ай бұрын

@@thefakewasp503 would have used maybe 10 times more fossil fuels to get that imported for the stealworks from abroad .in fact it would be not be viable to run the mill . so the economy will struggle everybody misserable and now we are getting all our steal imported if closing founry .more missery for everybody and fossil fuels would be 10 times more . i could go on but it makes me sad wasting so much time thinking about such ill thought out and misplaced protests. makes protesters look stupid has a whole . i bet they think the earth is flat to

@cosmiccolonel 11 ай бұрын

EMD if I’m not mistaken…….

@thefakewasp503 11 ай бұрын

I might be a bit thick here, but what does EMD stand for?

@cosmiccolonel 11 ай бұрын

@@thefakewasp503 electro motive diesel…. Majority of US use EMDs as the power plant

@thefakewasp503 11 ай бұрын

@@cosmiccolonel Thanks for that. It seemed a familiar abbreviation and of course I now remember it when the Class 59s were a brand new idea for the UK. .

@cosmiccolonel 11 ай бұрын

@@thefakewasp503 no worries mate…. I left the uk in 2006 and never heard any these but I lived next to the east coast mainline so probably they weren’t on that route

@thefakewasp503 11 ай бұрын

@@cosmiccolonel The early Class 59/0s (arrived in 1986) and the 59/1s did not stray too far mainly on the route from Westbury to London. I did see a 59/2 being named at the National Railway Museum York in "National Power" livery so it did make it to the ECML at some point! I have got a slide show and video (from cine film) on KZbin of the original ones en route to Merehead Quarry from Southampton Docks and the naming ceremonies at Merehead Quarry.. Anyway thanks for jogging my memory.