Class 20 No.D8020 experience

My first ever cab trip experience in a Type 1 Class 20 Bo Bo locomotive,
British Railways No.D8020 (20020) at the September 2007 Bo'ness Diesel Gala Locomotive driver Andrew Harper kindly invited me on board for the first service train of the day. Also at the end of this video the heritage Deltic diesel 55 022 Royal Scots Grey.55022.
Some history :-
Type 1 Class 20 BoBo locomotive,
British Railways No.D8020 (20020)
SRPS Core Collection, acquired 1992. Operational. BR green livery.
Built 1959, Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn Ltd., Darlington.
English Electric design. 1,000 BHP.
This locomotive represents the success of a Modernisation Plan pilot scheme design. Under that scheme three different Type 1 (up to 1000 BHP) designs were produced, by the private builders Clayton, North British Locomotive and English Electric. The latter were by far the most successful, and were a development from prototypes built in the 1930s by the London, Midland & Scottish Railway. Uniquely amongst British main-line diesels, they have a cab at only one end. Those in Scotland spent most of their time on freight working. Some remained in use until the early 1990s.
D8020 thus represents a class that did reliable work in Scotland over many years, although this particular locomotive spent most of its working life in England, with periods in Scotland including 6 months in 1967 when it was allocated to Polmadie in Glasgow, overlapping with the very end of steam on British Railways. In 2006, the locomotive visited Darlington Railway Museum in its home town.
Acquired with the support of the National Fund for Acquisitions.

[@rich392117]

So much for running the amps down before shutting the controller. A bit more respect required for the machinery IMHO.

[@grahambaker1122]

Yes,pretty shocking,to be honest!

[@ianjones4116]

​@@grahambaker1122 he did seem a bit heavy handed on the controls too. Never saw my dad slamming power handle , or brake handles back. 🤔👍

[@DarrensVlog]

How not to treat a loco, even worse during the run round.

[@vincitveritas3872]

How do you mean?

[@thetrainsrock]

@@vincitveritas3872 driver appears to be going from full to off. thats how you kill traction motors (flashover). youre supposed to go back to the on position (if you want to shut off), wait for the amps to die off, then shut off

[@Qwertypigeon853]

Incredible footage!

[@ecksfilesbonyuk8]

Luke thank you for your comment and for enjoying my video

[@tinizong4153]

Nice video, thanks for sharing. 😃👍

[@ecksfilesbonyuk8]

Thanks for watching

[@mikeatpudhamjunction2323]

Thanks for sharing. Stay safe.

[@ecksfilesbonyuk8]

Thank you for watching so take care

[@tombore9516]

that's not how you drive a loco that's how you break something! but it's what you get when people are pretending to be train drivers

[@grahambaker1122]

I fully agree!with Frank spencer driving as well!Shocking use of the power controller!

[@richardperry5538]

Having never driven a loco before so maybe I'm wrong in saying this but I have to say the last chap was abit full throttle whilst doing the run round, I guess being a mainline driver myself on class 800s and 150s and Turbos we're taught to be more careful.

[@richardperry5538]

I do yes, just saying on the Mainline we have rules which we have to stick by incase we get downloaded and dragged into the office.

[@johnblair8146]

You're getting this American railfan hooked on British trains!!!!

[@emt43043]

Locomotives you mean

[@ecksfilesbonyuk8]

Thank you so much John Blair for watching and welcome

[@johnblair8146]

@@emt43043 The entire consist from the loco to the brake van!

[@jooster0081]

Great clip👍🏻 Do you have any more from that event? Brings back nice memories being on the Saturday with my father👍🏻

[@ecksfilesbonyuk8]

Thank you for your comments glad it brings back some nice memories I have boxes of old video tapes that I filmed at Bo'ness years ago which I'm still trying to sort out so there might be something more about this event so take care.

[@malcolmlowe2323]

One thing that made me grimace was at the beginning, when you stood at the station, the train stood for several minutes with you standing in the cab or looking out of the window, and not at any time was either the train brake or direct / straight air brake applied. Not a professional approach, I am sorry to say.

[@jamiestrainhub]

Love how all the 1960s diesels have similar controls for example: Throttles on: 20s 31s 37s 40s 55s

[@grahamallen1970]

Driver was a bit slappy with controls.....trainee was all over the place ...defo how not to drive instructional vid...far to much show boating😊

[@andrzejszyszo4284]

The working position of the driver of this locomotive is terrible. The levers at knee height make it impossible to lean back, his arms hang down and he is expected to sit in this position for hours. Probably as a punishment.