Tunstead to Peterborough 66615

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@bcoldgoalie 5 ай бұрын

Well done on raising so much money for charity! 👏 I've been subscribed for many years and enjoy your channel immensely. Cheers from British Columbia!😊

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

Without the support of people like you, we wouldn’t have done so well. Thank you.

@jackking5567 5 ай бұрын

That was awesome. Thank you so much for posting this content. Getting to see such footage and yet still raise money for a good cause can't be a bad thing.

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@robertjohnmottershead1165 4 ай бұрын

Thank you Don for another superb video really brilliant

@doncoffey5820 4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Robert and it’s always good to hear from you 👍

@timallen_uk 5 ай бұрын

Great video Don. It always amazes me how fast these freight train go these days. I remember as a kid they used to crawl slowly making a squealing noise as they went.

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

Yes, they crawled around at one time. The squealing noises still happen when the flanges contact the rails.

@altern8tive 5 ай бұрын

A welcome surprise for a Sunday evening. Thanks :)

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

Enjoy!

@Belmont1154 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the slow-mo through my hometown of Stamford 😃 Thanks to you all for a great vid.

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@Benguitar1991 4 ай бұрын

I was on duty at Uffington SB when this was filmed- I remember thinking 6Z12 was an unusual headcode for a quiet Sunday shift; great to see the line from a first person perspective for once :)

@doncoffey5820 4 ай бұрын

Oh excellent. You’ll maybe know our regular member Tim who signs several boxes including Oakham. He’s been on one of my Class 185 simulator days for signallers at Ardwick. Contact me via messenger if you’d like to attend.

@geertmarien9076 4 ай бұрын

Excellent all around!

@johnwhitfield4361 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for that. I now better understand the impact of the changes on our local line. As ever, Don, excellent video and captions. Thank you to Vinny, the driver.

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

Much appreciated John 👍

@ChappersTravels 5 ай бұрын

Yesss another video to enjoy this evening! however im not sure if its just me but the max quality i'm getting is 360p

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

They occasionally stream better on the second day after buffering (no pun intended).

@karloschaos 4 ай бұрын

The sound in the tunnel at about 30 minutes sounds like the sort of mad non-musical stuff I used to create & save as a memory patch on an old synth I used to have.

@doncoffey5820 4 ай бұрын

The tunnels generate some curious noises.

@Scots_Diesel 5 ай бұрын

Hopefully we'll have a premier in the middle of an England game?

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

It might be a good idea 😉

@basingstoke63 5 ай бұрын

We often see trains like this arriving in the sidings at Woking .

@paulchapman1175 5 ай бұрын

to don coffey I enjoyed the video of drivers eye view from paul chapman at London uk 🇬🇧

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Paul, much appreciated buddy.

@andrewholloway231 5 ай бұрын

Dr Beeching was bought in by the government of the time to make the railways more profitable. Yes... BR at that time closed a lot of lines. However, the 2nd part of his report bought in InterCity travel and containerised freight trains.... the precursor to Freightliner. Unfortunately, there was a lack of foresight from BR when the lines were closed and sold off...

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

It had its pros and cons but I think they sold off the land too quick before measuring the impact.

@AngloYorkshire 5 ай бұрын

Thanks Don. I hear the USA / Canadian engines can be smelly as they have toilets in them

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

Maybe so. They travel much greater distances and for many hours so probably a necessity.

@AJBa83 5 ай бұрын

It still seems weird to me that when my parents were teenagers living in the Greater Manchester area the first miles here were still part of a main line headed to what I always knew as the GMex centre rather than Manchester Central. I suppose we usually think of progress moving forward with time, but not always.

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

The Hope Valley Line was effectively the line that ran into Manchester Central. The nearest you can get now is the Metrolink Line into Deansgate Castlefield. See the East Didsbury to Rochdale video.

@rogerdorrington 2 ай бұрын

Beeching may have saved the railways as they could not keep losing so much money. Possibly the biggest and most short sighted mistake was not mothballing just the trackbeds for reinstatement in future years.

@doncoffey5820 2 ай бұрын

Exactly my point of view Roger.

@spud3607 5 ай бұрын

Are these the two stone viaducts in the intro clip to "BBC North West"? (at 19.00 approx. here)

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

That’s the ones Spud, impressive aren’t they.

@normanbridge8924 5 ай бұрын

right a red signal did he dissappear into some bushes lol

@ChuckKirchner-se6ib 5 ай бұрын

Hello, Don. You asked, so damn the torpedoes, here goes. First, as an American, my opinion of "The Beeching Issue" is worthless, and it's none of my business. I acknowledge this. As a lover of British Railways of ALL kinds, I will say that I HAVE an opinion, regardless of its worth. Dr. Beeching was hired to generate a list of all the stations and railway lines that were either not generating or losing revenue, and recommend their closure. Did he generate hatred, YES. Did he put people out of work, YES. Did he do the job he was hired to do? YES. I think the closures were already in progress, and he just accelerated the procedure. That being said, I hate him for the loss of the Somerset and Dorset. This opinion is a result of the data I have been presented with, and is subject to change, provided you have sufficient evidence. I welcome any rebuttals, provided they are unemotional and civil. Oh--Norman's Bank is named for a person called Norman, who owned a financial institution 😁🧐. Prove me wrong. Cheers, Don

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

Good to see you Chuck. I think it’s safe to say that the root cause of the Beeching Report was the car. The public were losing interest in the railway and we were entering an era of personal transport being a status symbol. The vultures were waiting and the road lobby moved in. It’s a shame so many rural lines were lost - my local branch to Hayfield went with them but they were haemorrhaging money at an alarming rate. I think British Railways Property Board went crazy selling land that would make reopening a route virtually impossible. It’s a shame but it’s progress I suppose.

@mikeymike3634 5 ай бұрын

Great Video as always Mr Coffey, but i have a question. With two thirty seven's working together you have roughly the same power available as a single sixty six. With the two thirty seven's working together that power is transferred to the track via twelve axles while the sixty six is transferring the power by only six axles. isn't "wheelslip" a problem with such a heavy load especially on a wet track?

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

Apparently, if you put two 37s in multiple, they don’t add up as you’d expect and there are losses. The only time you see two 66s double headed are on the occasional Jumbo which is 4000 tonnes.

@basingstoke63 5 ай бұрын

Congratulations on that fantastic donation ,Don . A question if I may ? The track side signs that look like a national speed limit sign on a road , seem to have many aspects . Are they based on semaphore signals ?

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

I can’t think which you mean. There are small signs with a diagonal line which are temporary or emergency speed limits that were terminated earlier than published. I hope that’s what you meant.

@alancharles1681 5 ай бұрын

Don, thanks a lot for this video. I enjoyed it a lot as I do all your videos! But hopefully you will know this:- I noticed that the signal with position 1 route indicator into the loop at Bamford has been plated DE. Do you happen to know what DE stands for? Thanks a lot, Alan.

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

Yes Alan, it stands for Dore to Earles. Glad you enjoyed it 👍

@splidge2000 4 ай бұрын

Hi. Thanks very much for another great video. Just one question - regarding the temporary(?) speed restriction just south of Loughborough Station, I didn't see any speed-limit signs or hear an AWS warning. Does this rely on the driver's route knowledge?

@doncoffey5820 4 ай бұрын

Yes, correct. Network Rail issue a set of fixed instructions via a document called a NR3973 which are a list of speed restrictions that apply to heavy freight trains. They are not signposted so drivers need to refer to the list when driving a route. The last one we came across was on Harringworth Viaduct in the Tunstead to Bedford via Corby video.

@michaeljohndennis2231 3 ай бұрын

Aside from excessive speed above 60 mph causing potential derailment, how does the driver get warnings about the carriages detaching while the train is moving? It’s always a big worry when I’m a passenger on a train that the carriage I’m in will detach without warning from the rest of the train and we will get stranded in the middle of nowhere where following trains could crash into us

@doncoffey5820 3 ай бұрын

Don’t worry Michael. They have fail safe brakes that automatically apply if any vehicles detach 👍

@melissasmith5109 5 ай бұрын

Heavy haul division of freightliner shut down?

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

Not that I’m aware. That train in the video is Heavy Haul.

@RichardFelstead1949 5 ай бұрын

G'Day Don from Australia. As always, a great video. Being 3 and a half hours running time, how long does it take to upload to You Tube?

@doncoffey5820 5 ай бұрын

Good to see you Richard. I think it took about three hours to upload then another hour or so to finish processing and checking. There’s no rushing these long videos.