Flamin' 'GLORIOUS' 50033 cold start with flames | 28/12/2020

[@TachyonDriver]

Similar to an old aircraft radial engine: The individual cylinders all have a committee meeting to decide if they want to actually get up and do something. If this first stage is agreed then they have another meeting to decide who should be the first to fire, and a further meeting to decide in what order the other cylinders will join in! :P

[@Titan604]

I love it! Perfect description of how EE engines start!

[@mattierenton701]

beautifully poetic for this sleepy fire breathing dragon

[@TachyonDriver]

@@mattierenton701 Of course! :D

[@shockingguy]

Hah Hahahahahahaha

[@1066graham]

should have the letters at front EUEE

[@kickassneilum]

That starter motor deserves a raise

[@bigduphusaj162]

Ikr I was like "I need that for my rotary car"

[@marcperrett662]

air starter .those engines are huge

[@pootispiker2866]

@@marcperrett662 on a classs 55? I'd be genuinely shocked if it didn't use a start winding in the traction generator

[@pootispiker2866]

@@RedTideRTS No they don't

[@RedTideRTS]

@@pootispiker2866 ok. The large diesels I’ve read about has used it, so it made sense to think that’s how it is.

[@normannippy8471]

Reminds me of my neighbours old Vauxhall Viva on cold mornings back in the early 70's, the only difference being the loco eventually started!

[@tomrogers9467]

Nothing Britain ever built ran in the cold. Or the rain. Or the fog. Or hot days. They even sold Jaguar to Tata motors, of all companies!

[@michelmajor5251]

Or an Evoy Epic. Crappiest car I’ve owned. Blew up on me on highway in Montreal.

[@markIburgess]

About the same time we had a black cab driver who lived down the road and his cab looked just like that on cold winter mornings. Swear he used a tin of Easy Start to get it going every day.

[@gordoncollett8421]

I had a Marina years ago that sounded the same the only way I could start the engine was by removing the spark plugs heat them up under the grill.

[@kellypaws]

Ah, the Viva. The only car you could ‘break’ into with a spoon handle.

[@col.nathanr.jessup5700]

Rudolf Diesel is my favorite composer.

[@mickd6942]

Mine too I have seen all his paintings

[@MitchellConner-xb6jx]

Perfectly said 👍

[@MitchellConner-xb6jx]

​@@mickd6942lmao ,,,,cheers

[@deanblenkinship1614]

👌👌👌

[@Rasscasse]

Ha ha. I like it 🙂

[@paulsimpson6899]

By the time this 50 got started, winter was almost over.

[@Bmg009]

The passengers are like never mind.

[@ShindigTrader47Sundeck]

Classic line 😄

[@oleksiibelinskyi1910]

😂

[@joeaaronsen]

I had a Mercedes 300D with 400k+ miles on it, this is basically what winter mornings sounded like.

[@S500-]

I bet your 300D will start much early

[@joeaaronsen]

@@KieranMckean I tried to replace the glow plugs but rounded the little allen bolts on the intake manifold. I put it back together and scrapped it when winter came. If it had normal hex bolts it probably would have stuck around a year or two longer.

[@bobbysenterprises3220]

My 79 300cd was like this before I upgraded from the new style glow plugs. All I could think about when I heard this. I remember the manual actually said to engage the starter motor until engine runs smoothly before going to the run position. As if it was a pony motor.

[@smittiefish]

Same here! Albeit with shorter starter run times.

[@iammadeofsound]

Haha! Many moons ago I had one too. And in -25c my four speed w123 300D was one of the very few on the street that would start in those very cold mornings. Dearly miss it… now drive w212 350 in memory of her great grandma.

[@mickd6942]

No no she’s good honest governor certified for emissions by Volkswagen and everything

[@johnmoore9862]

👍😂😂😂😂😂.

[@ConfusedOxygen]

This made my day dude lmaoooooo

[@jimbobjimbob8275]

Now I know clean air zone charges for cars are BS

[@thescotsman48]

Nur russische Dieselloks qualmen noch mehr.

[@scotty197878]

What a stupid uneducated comment.

[@pauloconnor2980]

God I love that. British engineering coming to life!!!!!

[@LeifES]

I imagine the exhaust smell is magnificent!

[@TauCu]

Mmmm carcinogens.

[@miked4027]

Greta Thunberg, she'll love this! lol

[@JackRussel-e7q]

I love the smell of diesel in the morning

[@100SteveB]

Lovely! Reminds me of a ship I used to work on - very much the same performance with a cold start. Several times we had people call the fire brigade thinking there was a fire.

[@generalragequit3818]

It's 3 am and I am watching a locomotive starting

[@oldfatbastad6053]

better than watching porn and a lot less damaging if the wife catches ya 🤣

[@jj-hf8jy]

@@oldfatbastad6053 porn is propably easier to explain

[@walterwallace1328]

​@@oldfatbastad6053porn's easier to explain.

[@BadHorsie1]

😂

[@rajeeb3500]

I've started watching at 10.30 , I think it'll be 3am when it finally starts. The tension!

[@arjunjayaprakash2670]

Very few people will appreciate the beauty of something like this.

[@Pete-ou4cq]

I do.

[@huckinfarley]

You're not wrong there. 12 mins of my life waiting for something to happen

[@bthaxthaxton4821]

Needs to be scrapped! waste of time!

[@Katsterr]

​@@bthaxthaxton4821 I really hope you're being sarcastic

[@adammoss5284]

@@Pete-ou4cq diesel poetry, pure and simple.

[@taketimeout2share]

I always loved the choice of bright colours on these trains. So Seventies that no one notices how striking it looks ! Nearly as good as the Gulf colours in Le Mans racing team. But these can blow big smoke rings so are cooler. Awesome.

[@andrewwilliamson7885]

The fronts are painted yellow so you can see them in the distance

[@AlbertoClaro-f8p]

Por que la máquina de tren 5O O33, tardó tanto tiempo en tomar una marcha normal como para trabajar a régimen normal ??? Gracias...

[@RODALCO2007]

That 50033 has some awesome starting batteries.

[@carlhancox9699]

They got a generator inside

[@arthurhardy]

What I would like to see in these video's is when the starter is shut off.

[@carlhancox9699]

@@arthurhardy yeah and I can't even ask that question now my grandad drove trains like these but not around no more

[@bills6093]

​@@arthurhardy Maybe a pony motor or an air starter. Often the generator is also the starter.

[@roymcgavigan5018]

And starter motor!

[@RiverRat904]

I hope our marriage is as strong as that starter is....

[@leonjones7120]

My dad if he was alive would have liked this video. He was based in a Wigan locomotive shed Springs Branch. And during his career, he trained to drive 28 differing types of locomotives. This over a 44-year career training from basics to coast-to-coast advanced locomotives.

[@PrivateWalker]

Coast to coast?

[@kjb8321]

Is that the one at Springview?

[@flyguy5941]

I don’t know why but this is music to my ears.

[@Pilot88052]

You'd like to hear a wonderful deep bass sound of Soviet and Russian 2ТЭ10 series loco with 2-stroke 10Д100 engine. Also they're often show the fantastic exhaust smoke. They are Greta's strongest nightmare!😁

[@cletusspuckler2243]

Diesel Band techno music ! 😂

[@raytalbot5890]

1 of the best Cold starts of all time 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍

[@987jasy]

always nice to hear a diesel clearing it's throat before singing

[@TJBRoadRailRacing]

Definitely. Nice to get the passes as well.

[@davelowets]

Sounds like that one has C.O.P.D.

[@artistphilb]

This is the cool thing about KZbin, had never considered that watching a train cold start might be interesting, dedicated camera work

[@MsSteelphoenix]

I used to drive historic engines at a museum, and this was a really nice memory. Also weirdly calming? I think it's the rhythm. Thank you.

[@leokimvideo]

Started on World Environment Day

[@Kit_Bear]

This should be done every year but bring out all the old steam engines and deltics. blow them out for a few hours just to piss off the Lefties.

[@AnonyMous-gt8vq]

I bet Greta was watching, secretly enjoying it.

[@RegulareoldNorseBoy]

@@AnonyMous-gt8vq I bet Greta doesn't have any opinions of her own, and just does what her psycho parents tells her :-P

[@AnonyMous-gt8vq]

@@RegulareoldNorseBoy Yep 😁

[@annettejung1208]

@@RegulareoldNorseBoy True😁...

[@mtlassen1992]

I worked at a small sawmill in N. California. The snow would pile up, and the only thing we had was a very old road grader that took 3 dedicated people to get it started. One pulling it with a large forklift inside a large shed, one in the drivers seat, and one hanging on for dear life spraying two full cans of ether into the intake. This was after two of us crawled under it with torches to thaw out the differentials and brake drums for a half hour. Once it was running good, it was left running the entire day.

[@cletusspuckler2243]

Ether starting kills an engine, it's like drug, more you use more the engine wants, it becomes addict, till it definitively don't wants to start (rinced cylinders and dead piston rings, total loss of compression, without compression a diesel engine don't start.!

[@mtlassen1992]

@@cletusspuckler2243 yep, it cleans cylinders clean of oil. It had been done this way since the 60's, and unless someone pulled the engine apart, its still being done this way.

[@Gkitchens1]

@@cletusspuckler2243 yep. Either good for 3 things. Quickly hearing if an engine has ignition, last resort, battery-is-dead-this-is-the-last-spin-of-the-starter-it's-gotta-start situations, and killing cylinders.

[@briancarton1804]

@@cletusspuckler2243 Ether can be used for bringing a dead engine to life. When it gets to the stage where ether is needed , it's not killing the engine its getting it going when nothing else will. I had an old BMC diesel in a boat that ran for years using a shot of ether to get it going. The engine was what most people would call dead anyway but I kept it going for years with a little ether. It would run fine all day once started and you could pull in at a dock, turn it off and start it easily an hour later once it was warm. Ether was one of my best friends.

[@colinmiles1052]

Almost as long as it takes to get me going! Great stuff!

[@graveebailey2]

Yep she rallies twice a year and then gotta start it by hand.

[@martj1313]

You can leave school and start a career starting this and retire when it fires up.

[@stuartrussell8529]

Haha, best comment ever!

[@JoeJoe-wp1vv]

So why'd you drop out of school billy? I wanted to be a train starter.

[@PaulLea]

lol.....I took your advice & did what you said...& it's true ! . hehe

[@martj1313]

@@PaulLea And you can take another 40 years boring your grandchildren with the story about it.

[@PaulLea]

@@martj1313 I'll spare them that agony, now I'll go & watch the grass grow now, that could be more interesting. Just kidding... I don't mind train clips but would have only used 2 mins of this footage, that's enough lol.

[@ralphyrocket5770]

Never would I imagine that watching a train start would have me PINNED TO THE SCREEN! Them batteries!

[@digitalradiohacker]

Lead acid POWER. Non of that lithium rubbish.

[@IstasPumaNevada]

@@digitalradiohacker Your comment betrays your ignorance; lithium ion batteries can have a power density five times as high as lead acid. Different batteries just have different preferred applications based on their strengths and weaknesses.

[@geoffers158]

Isn't it started via a generator not batteries.

[@digitalradiohacker]

@@IstasPumaNevada Idiot. Lithium can't be charged at or below 0c. Next time you attempt to school an electronics engineer on electronics, make sure you've actually BEEN to school.

[@digitalradiohacker]

@@geoffers158 With preserved gear it probably usually is. The engine won't be started as often as would be ideal, and as a result, a battery bank would quickly age with this kind of use. It makes far more sense to bring an engine online with a generator instead.

[@cmheadbanger]

This 50 should be called "Stoner" than "Glorious" Smoke, Sound and Flames are dope!

[@theflyingsteamerstoke8534]

The old cliched sayings were... "modern diesel's are boring... you just switch them on and off they go... not like the romance and drama of a steam loco...." etc etc..... Meanwhile 50033 simply says "hold my beer..."

[@joebond5012]

Your hold my beer comment made me laugh

[@ZetanCrisp]

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[@HPDrifter2]

Actually, on a good Sub-Zero day, modern Diesels have their own version of the same thing - just doesn't take near as long...40,000 psi fuel atomizes really well and heats the cylinder much more quickly.

[@ramblingrob4693]

@@joebond5012 and me

[@michaelanderson7715]

diesels, not diesel's

[@stephenhoward6829]

Cold start indeed! Somewhere there's a switch for a set of block-heaters and glow-plugs that never gets switched on.

[@cletusspuckler2243]

Users must reed the locomotive owner's manual 😂

[@richardgraham1167]

Global warmer, right there! Exhaust cleaned up well, once the engine had reached operating temperature.

[@jamesmorgan7629]

Net zero😂

[@qcode-2208]

You're all conned by the term global warming. The world is actually getting colder. Do some research.

[@datadal]

I'm glad we have a different understanding of a "cold" startup here in Scandinavia...

[@leewilliams9904]

Oh what a randy scandy

[@returnofthegmac9203]

Oh nice one. One of these mighty engines led our train from Paddington London to Plymouth Devon back in 1980. 5 yrs later it was the Intercity 125 engin. Thank you for sharing you have brought back some good memories. My dad just loved all of this. P.S have you ever witnessed one of these fireing up in a station like Paddington Absolutely 💯Amazing it was

[@hamishkay3010]

I love the sound of diesel engines starting up and running at full speed ❤❤❤❤❤

[@caroleligat5565]

I’m watching this and reminiscing about my commute from Didcot to Paddington, late 1970/1990s. The transition to HST 125 era. Wow! I never thought about how difficult it could be to start diesel locomotives. I’ve also seen a King, 6024?, whose tender was so full that if another lump of coal was put on, the lot would have gone. It was going to Bristol as a stand in for another steam locomotive that had failed. Happy days.

[@truckertj2109]

I know of a story which happend in (West) Germany. They ran extra Express trains from (iirc) the Ruhr erea to the coast in the holiday / vacation season. They ran 2 full sets (with added help) to the coast and one double length (now empty) back. But on one trip, the second engine broke, but they still had to run the train. So a single 01 class had to do the job (on a very thight schedule, even under normal sircumstances). They had boards which increased the coal capacity. Only adding one in height was allowed, they used two and still put a hump on it. They actually had to leave a notch in the coal to clear the overhead wires. (It was the transition era from coal to diesel/electric power)

[@cda32]

They still run em on the cross country line from oxford to coventry.

[@Froobyone]

I'm fairly certain that if HMS Glorious had 50033 Glorious starting up on her deck then Scharnhorst an Gneisenau would never have seen her. :P Absolutely mesmerizing watching her start up and a 50 in large logo, there are few things more beautiful. Thanks for the capture and upload.

[@ShockwaveTheLogical]

Best smokescreen generator in the RN

[@mauricehopper7802]

Looks like a mini environmental disaster to me. Isn’t about time we left these things behind.

[@stevee8698]

I have been lucky enough to have seen one of these train engines being installed in the train chassis. My father worked with British Rail. The engine is like 6 engines in one. Lots of exhausts. Amazing. You need to remember that these machines pull many wagons. Long lines of freight. They need to be heavy and powerful.

[@TJBRoadRailRacing]

Thanks for sharing

[@andypreston1524]

Who else can just smell that heavy damp smoke right now eh......???? How gorgeous..... 👍👍👍👍

[@Cactuspowerhousey]

I can!!!

[@gmanchurch]

I just love the smell of diesel smoke on a cold morning!

[@forcebot4343]

I love when the smoke creates like smoke circles

[@olliebrown89]

One of the best models I've ever seen

[@Rasscasse]

Meanwhile at Schiphol Airport Amsterdam, extremely low visibility is announced. 🤣

[@V4zz33]

Funny to read this in Rotterdam, about an engine start in the Midlands after I've lived in Bristol, and actually had delayed flights due to fog.;))

[@paavobergmann4920]

Weather forecast: greasy, with thick diesel cover. High chance of lubrication. expect extremely low visibility, fuel base is at 2 feet.

[@nxghtmare83]

@@paavobergmann4920 🤣

[@arthurmatthews9321]

The EE 16 cylinder makes a unique sound .it’s a different sound to v12s in the 37s. Love the turbo whistle as well.

[@bandit911]

This is the comment I was looking for, trying to find out what monster it's was, 16 cylinder wow thankyou 👍🏼

[@haberjennings475]

Come back to this One of my favourite KZbin clips❤

[@whitemoor66]

Love watching English Electric cold starts. Never gets old!

[@coltonthiesfeld2320]

That engine is making some good smoke rings that’s cool.

[@williamshaw5975]

once it finally fired up these old diesel locos sound awesome the old girl could still do a days heavy graft up and down the country and no break a sweat it nice to see these still here

[@adamc1272]

Glorious by name...glorious by nature. Pops more smoke rings than Gandalf.

[@GhostOfDamned]

Literally

[@SomeTechGuy666]

Block heaters are a wonderful thing. A few KW of block heaters would save a lot on battery, starter and engine wear. All that unburnt fuel is washing down the cylinder walls and diluting the engine oil until the engine runs cleanly.

[@patrickhosking613]

I was thinking,a can or two of easy start might have been a help.

[@ryanwatterson4038]

No power supply on site for it ofc

[@adammoss5284]

She is absolutely lovely. You can see your face in that paint job. A thing of great beauty and pride.

[@smurfboyps4163]

Don’t know why, but what an awesome sound that is. One would stop and sit idle outside my flat. That sound puts me to sleep. Nice video 👍

[@chrissyhenderson2427]

Great video, thanks to the guys/girls around the country who maintain our heritage locos, I would love to be there. When I was 16 I was offered an apprenticeship at Gateshead TMD but I turned the job down for something else, which I regret, with rose tinted spectacles on of course!!

[@Entropy512]

Looking at how difficult it was to cold-start this thing - I'm surprised they didn't have an auxiliary hydronic block heater similar to how some work trucks/vans have an auxiliary diesel heater that's designed solely to heat up the block and coolant/heater core loops. (Something like an Eberspacher D12 or a bigger brother of that)

[@ghollidge]

That is a sensible idea which us British never accept

[@semenivanoff8615]

It is not that cold to have such hard start. Must be some problems with fuel or pumps or all together.

[@martinsims1273]

The Germans have had electric heaters in the cylinder blocks, to warm the cooling water jackets (and so the engines) before any attempt to start up in cold weather.

[@martinsims1273]

@@semenivanoff8615 if you look at the thing when it's "warmed up" and running, it's still blowing out to much pollution when the throttle is opened. I think they need to reset the injectors, they're running too rich.

[@jeffyoungautoelectric]

Now, what fun would that be lol

[@simoncatt95]

Takes me back to 1975 and the Hastings DEMU's erupting out of the Bopeep tunnel into St. Leonard's Warrior Square station.

[@antonydicesare4632]

Those turbo's whistling, better than any band alive

[@michaelanderson7715]

turbos, not turbo's

[@sixthsenseamelia4695]

@@michaelanderson7715 Ok Dad 🤣

[@bigduphusaj162]

@@michaelanderson7715 tell keyboads that mate my phones back on putting ' everywhere even with correction off its doing it now. Cannot believe you pulled someone up for that, you're a sad human make zero mistake about it if you're pulling someone up for that. What a pellet of a boy

[@mikehunte2087]

They are superchargers whistling

[@garypeatling7927]

Superchargers that's problem cant get engine going fast enough for superchargers to push air in, these two stroke deisel cannot suck enough air in on own to push exhaust gasses out quick enough

[@michaelarmstrong2797]

That is a soundtrack I will never get bored of hearing! I do love the sound of the deltics, raw power with a turbo whistle, perfect!

[@rogerturner5504]

Great sound Michael but not a Deltic.

[@basiltaylor8910]

@@rogerturner5504 No it is a Hoover a very angry Hoover.

[@robtyman4281]

I'd say this was a Diesel loco doing an impression of a steam engine!!!

[@elonmust7470]

It's an LGBTQRST locomotive ROFL

[@tomgauntlestrange]

nope thats just its cloaking device hiding it from view

[@hesgotamotor8288]

It smoked out the whole country

[@bubblezovlove7213]

Yeah I thought that....

[@Davruad]

She is a regular smoker.

[@portobellotent]

My Atkinson with 220 Cummings in the '70s winter used to fill Deptford Wharf with white smoke smoke! I still got the diesel smell with me

[@bluestream50]

Reminds me of my dads old guy big J starting up in the winter.

[@arnoldcaines9012]

Reminds me of when I worked at a bus yard; we came in early the first day after Christmas break and started every bus in the fleet. Generated about that much smoke.

[@FishplateFilms]

About my tenth time watching........ just fantastic sight and sounds! A very "gentle" start too , the guys waited a while before giving it some rack...nice job. Gregg :-)

[@TJBRoadRailRacing]

I’m glad you like and enjoy it enough to watch it that many times. Much appreciated. Hopefully we will see it out in action a bit more throughout the year.

[@florida995]

I’m not a die hard environmentalist but this looks like a crazy good ad for electric trains.

[@TJBRoadRailRacing]

I’m sure you can guess I’m not too. The best part of the electric train is that the power station looks like this instead.

[@western-oud1898]

No way look at how pristine that 50 class is..it's indeed GLORIOUS...

[@returnofthegmac9203]

I know at first I thought this was a video from the 80s

[@thedepot7416]

Got to be the best cold start ever, the sound is awesome

[@FART-REPELLENT]

Farts sound infinitely better than diesel locomotives

[@davelowets]

@@FART-REPELLENT Smells about the same too

[@oliverr.6295]

Woah, this is a beauty. The best cold start vid on the whole of the internet.. and I've watched few!!

[@boomerhgt]

Brings back memory's starting class 37 locos during my freight driving days .

[@JonDingle]

One word to describe this, magnificent!

[@Tattmemore]

Sweeeeeeeeet! I tried to recreate this on my OO layout…but all that happened is the smoke alarms went off, the spare room looked like stars in there eyes and the wife didn’t speak to me for a week!

[@goranschmidt3543]

Bad wife 😆😇

[@TheAllEngineering]

@@goranschmidt3543 Lol, you had a week of peace then!!!

[@daviddelaet8116]

😆

[@carnivorousvegan69]

Worth it 100%

[@MalcolmCrabbe]

1:08 - Who ever said a Diesel couldn't look and sound like a steam engine...... :) - Excellent video, and one of the best cold start vids on YT !

[@TJBRoadRailRacing]

Ha. Best of both worlds. Thank you.

[@mattlander9119]

Sounds like a loco from the RHDR

[@wellingtonnorthjunction3911]

# that is gust British engines

[@drakeroten8928]

*sees a 13 minute cold start video* “what in the hell is even that?”

[@ronnronn55]

The smoke rings were cute!

[@philwignall6714]

What a glorious video, thanks for uploading 👏🏻

[@scopex2749]

The wise said 'cold start diesels sre the way forward'! However to old class 52 Westerns had a preheater boiler to heat the fuel and then away they go, trouble is you have to run the preheater for a quite a while. The good old Hoovers never disappoint!! I bet those battery leads were GLOWING....

[@onetransmission7871]

The only way to start any cold diesel is very simple. You need lots of heat in the combustion chamber. We remove the lid on the airbox and stick an acetylene torch down inside it. Wait 15 to 20 seconds then bump or tap the starter and it will run instantly. Keep heating for a minute or two till the engine warms up. Can't get any easier. Block heaters help but you need heat in the cylinders.

[@TwoDUMTrainSpottas]

4:46 look at that flame!

[@MUSICLOVER72]

Beautiful. Who doesn't love a good 50 Hoover 👍

[@wookster67]

Spent my youth on Plymouth Railway Station the sound of the Hoover is ingrained into my mind lovely.

[@baracc10]

For those of you who have said that there’s no flames, go to 4:49 of the video

[@socopoc]

Something satisfying about watching this beast start up.

[@deltapro-5537]

It sure is ha....when I seen your user name I new it was thai for dirty haha

[@socopoc]

@@deltapro-5537 😂 your the first person to notice. My family are Thai 👍

[@deltapro-5537]

@@socopoc yea me too, I live up in Nakhon Phanom province.... It's a nice day today 😀

[@socopoc]

@@deltapro-5537 my house is in Phon Phisai if you know it, kind of in between you and Nong Khai. Stuck in the UK atm hoping to be going soon though 👍

[@deltapro-5537]

@@socopoc yea it's about 90 mins drive from me. Yea its looking good for October...the ting tong government announced today anyone can come to Thailand.. I was stuck out for 7 months...had to go through the ASQ and headache of getting COE etc.. Well good luck and hope you can return soon and hassle free..

[@KeithMills-q2t]

Perhaps not the most energy efficient vehicle ever!

[@CarlosMartinez-ry7sg]

Me gusta la fuerza y el sonido de los motores de esta maquina. 🇨🇱

[@chrismc1977]

Amazing. I always remember spotting Swiftsure with my late father as a lad. The sound is so reminiscent

[@unclemikeb]

AWESOME! I love trains. Had several model trains as a kid. Rode a few in my life. Once rode from Chicago all the way to Texas. I even rode a steam engine a couple times. I was searching for diesel and accidentally found this. A few days ago I learned the block heater on my Jeep with diesel engine had given up the ghost. It was -10 that day and I needed to run some errands. Yikes, when she started it sounded like a metal coffee can with a bunch of ball bearings getting shook up. Made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I was about to shut it off when it quieted and revved up a bit. My dad drove delivery truck for a company back in the late 40's. It had a diesel engine. They had a small auxiliary tank with half diesel, half gasoline. They had a valve to switch to the small tank if it didn't want to start up. A guy would have his hand on the valve and switch to main tank as soon as she lit up. Not sure how that affected its longevity but it might be easier on the engine than ether.

[@floodedcar123]

Nice sounding diesel. Love to hear the turbo whine up.

[@samstainer6322]

Any wonder why during BR days we left them running all night in the winter on frost precautions.

[@bobrussell3602]

sam stainer Well, I must admit I've always thought diesels were boring compared to steam trains, but good grief (!) this wasn't boring ! I think from now on, I'm going to have to pay them more respect.

[@fillipo1972]

I recall that happening way past the BR era

[@jetstream454]

They didn't glaze cylinder walls that way?

[@fillipo1972]

@@jetstream454 good point, I have only heard of that phenomenon but not witnessed it. The resultant lack of compression and efficiency would have lead to even greater difficulty cold starting.

[@fillipo1972]

@James Smith I spent a while at marsh junction around 2000. I remember arriving to find the area was full of diesel smog because the hst been running all night.

[@pauloconnor2980]

I have vivid memories of the 'Hoovers' tearing through Surbiton at 80mph and accelerating up the grade towards New Malden!!!!!

[@acrodrigues1]

That's a loyal starter!

[@ferrotranspor7714]

How good do the class engines sound ... heavenly music to my ears🎵🎶🎵🎶👂🏽👂🏽💕💕👌

[@blameusa7082]

That 50 is a work of art. 50007 "Hercules", 50031 "Hood", 50033 "Glorious", 50035 "Ark Royal", and 50044 "Exeter". The locomotives are based in Kidderminster, except for 50007, which is based at Washwood Heath.

[@SuperCholdi]

I like all those jellyfish, escaping from the exhaust.

[@gdj6298]

6:22 .........."Bugger it, I'll walk....."

[@davehodges3588]

Great to see such a Outstanding class 50 collection at the svr, These powerful engines just can't reach max power for long on there restricted speed line and just 16mls, I guess they are lucky that they can access the main line at times for a open throttle, keep up the good work guys,.

[@TJBRoadRailRacing]

Indeed. 50007 & 50049 were out on the mainline just last week. For the class 50s at 50 in 2018, there were 10 members of the class together which is also on my channel if you’re interested.

[@Tom-Lahaye]

EE cold starts are entertaining still after seeing them almost from the start of YT.

[@oldfatbastad6053]

aye laddie.

[@paulhaynes8045]

Wonderful! Sounded just like a steam engine at times. I'm starting to see what the diesel enthusiasts see in these dirty, noisy things!

[@TUCKANDROLLE]

Starting to see ? It's awesome

[@Fchops11]

The train that passed at the end goes up to blackdown where I live

[@TheHighborn]

Transportation. They see transportation. Not worse than electric trains..m powered by coal generators

[@dickieblench5001]

Gas turbine engine

[@evilnigga68]

@@dickieblench5001 yapologist

[@andysedgley]

Some beautiful smoke rings at 3:23! Incidentally, how big are the starter batteries on one of these? A million amp hours?

[@AthanImmortal]

I was interested in this too, so went and looked some of it up. These engines are so big they usually have a separate generator using fuel to run the starter. It can either be an electric generator providing power to run an electric starter motor, or it might be powering an air compressor to force air through the pistons and start it pneumatically, so in theory they could run a starter for hours I guess. Clever solution :)

[@-nuexx1]

@@AthanImmortalno other starter-motor ! there are only 1 or 2 cyl. running, the rest is lazy - wake up later !

[@nomon95]

this happens because the compression pressure of the cylinders is a bit low, and.of course, Compression pressure may be different in the cylinders the fuel need to burn at least 550 degree celsious. the air go to the cylinders very cold and at the PMS didnt go to the 550 degree. The starter need running a lot of time to reach this temperature and begin to run. the main engine have different compression pressure in his cylinders.The clag is fuel vaporizates as spray, very flammable. this generates the flames seen in the video. a little spark may ingnite the clag. with modern engines this is minimum. If this loco may have a preheater the start would be easy. the first minutes not all the cylinders run,start only with one, later with two and more cylinders work minutes later..

[@cletusspuckler2243]

Compression is the "blood" of a diesel engine.!!

[@ianrutherford878]

It isn't the ratio.That is the calculated ratio between the volumes of air at bottom dead centre and top dead centre including the combustion chamber volume in the head and piston crown. What this engine has is lowered actual compression due to worn piston rings. pistons and cylinder walls.It was common in Britain to see these things in use, warmed up, making LOTS of blue smoke from lube oli being burned due to such wear.

[@MeBallerman]

@@ianrutherford878 Funny, the first things I thought were: Low compression due to piston ring wear, or very rough tolerences. Then I thought a pre-heater wlould be good for the crap. Or keeping them inside the depot on winter nights. What we saw here was incompetance and disrespect for the environment in general, and for the local people's health in particular. Unfathomable why some educated leader doesn't come along, saying "Guys, guys guys, just stop right now, we can't have this. This machine needs maintenance, it's not allowed to drive". -

[@EE16SVT]

@@MeBallermanstupid comment :-/

[@MeBallerman]

@@EE16SVT No, it's a mature comment from someone with clearsight.

[@ThomasDoubting5]

This reminds me of my ex waking up in the morning, eventually started late afternoon.

[@bwilliamson3887]

Are you sure your not over him?

[@timgriggs8592]

Reminds me of being at Kings Cross when a Deltic started an express into the tunnel - I could never believe how inefficient those big diesels were allowed to be.

[@Mcsterl]

Fantastic shine on the paintwork too, '33 looks immaculate compared to the last time I saw it in the flesh. Great video.

[@joy_division_ovengloves]

Brilliant just to see the old girl running again

[@yetidynamics]

not "started" but rather "awakened"

[@johnpoolton59]

Love these old trains they had so much Heart ❤

[@TG_Trains]

What a sight to behold that is! Very exciting stuff, defiantly need to make a trip to Kidderminster one day.