GWR HST Passing Slough 125 Mph (High Speed)

GWR HST Class 43 passing Slough at around 125 Mph.
Filmed in 1080p @ 50fps.

[@jools2323]

125Mph. The best speed to see Slough.

[@youtubeviewer7030]

Ady P if the XPT can go that fast

[@markcf83]

I would agree. And I speak as someone who lived in the town for 17 years.

[@arthurpewtey]

@@markcf83 Indeed. I used to live nearby, and would do everything I could to get past (or, worse, through) Slough at that kind of speed if, for whatever reason, I happened to find myself anywhere near the place.

[@acidsunrise]

I was just about to add the same comment.

[@sidney001]

Preferably with the curtains drawn

[@stephentaylor8843]

The best way to get through slough as fast as possible

[@georgedowns4034]

Nah Slough is a good place

[@thefirstsurvivor7240]

@@georgedowns4034 it's a shithole

[@manda322]

You're not wrong

[@drtiger1834]

Thought the same thing 😂

[@nadeemafzal8984]

🤣

[@mrlardster]

Ever wondered why planes turn so sharply after taking off from Heathrow? It's so they don't subject the passengers to the horror of seeing Slough from above!

[@solidsnake4595]

lol yeah the countries biggest landfill site!!!!! lol and i live only ten miles from that shite hole!

[@georgedowns4034]

Slough is actually a good place ...

[@georgedowns4034]

@@solidsnake4595 lol u clearly know NOTHING about the place

[@survival7478]

I mean the stations nice, but not much else lol

[@Rowan66109]

@@georgedowns4034 you serious 😂

[@Zephaniah3verse17]

Love it! "The train approaching Platform 2 does not stop here. Stand back from the [garbled]" ROAR!!!!! By far my best memory of Slough.

[@no-damn-alias]

I'd pass Slough even faster

[@volcana1029]

xD

[@underground1019]

Lol

[@metalmicky]

It’s where God would stick the tube in if He was giving the world an enema .

[@I_am_NEVER_wrong]

Sorry but that was NOT traveling at 125mph, simple matter of timing tells anyone that. But I do agree 125mph is the optimal speed to get out of Slough.

[@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne]

I agree. It did not look to me to be doing 125...

[@ace-paidinfull5240]

Nah it defo wasn’t, ive been there when theyve come through, same with the 800s

[@caseyjones4849]

Zammy ‘BusDriver’ Martínez same

[@paulkennedy8701]

I thought it looked much slower. But then I did a quick calculation. The back of the train passes any of the station canopy supports 4 seconds after the front. The train has 8 23-metre carriages plus 2 18-metre power cars. Total length 220 m. That makes 198 km/h. So 125 mph is quite likely.

[@peterclark5107]

@@paulkennedy8701 Hmm, nice work. So it maybe the effect of a wide angle lens that makes it appear slower ( there was a large feeling of under that speed)

[@ace-paidinfull5240]

When not stopping at slough they absolutely rocket

[@acidsunrise]

Cant blame them

[@solidsnake4595]

even HST's know what kind of crap slough is and refuse to stop so the gun through it hoping no one will notice lol

[@None-zc5vg]

A bottle of Whiskey is the quickest way out of Slough.

[@johnwalkley6746]

Wrong. Going to the buffet and asking for a pork sandwich will be faster

[@peterclark8248]

Knew someone who said they lived in North Windsor. Found out they lived in Slough.

[@1258-Eckhart]

I knew someone at uni who said they went to Slough Grammar. But they meant Eton College.

[@codervince7843]

the Slough of Despair

[@natesmainlinevids]

With the last bit of the announcement at the start of this video, that train you filmed explained it all. Good video!

[@alanmusicman3385]

Love that GWR livery - the new company colours are nothing like as great.

[@ahoyittttt7802]

They seem very deppressing compared to the blue and pink

[@n1thmusic229]

Yeah off course it would pass so fast at Slough, If I was in a pacer, I'd pass at 125

[@Abandoned23345]

The pacer would not withstand this speed 💀

[@darylkemp1257]

Max you'd get out of a pacer was 75 and this wasnt comfortable at all back in my childhood we used to get the newcastle to saltburn early morning direct service which 9 times out of 10 was a pacer lol and out on the east coast mainline between newcastle and darlington with continuous welded smooth track they still managed to jump all over the place lol

[@saintnick7]

I was on that very spot as a lad, a hst flew through at a similar speed but the valenta scream was something else, what a day that was

[@antman09ful1]

Such great days, wish we still had them.

[@Spaceßlox]

I love how most of the comments are about slough being a dirty place people don't want to be in

[@Abandoned23345]

The annoying teacher: Guys, I am very afraid of trains! Half the school under her windows at 3 AM:

[@blaaazer441]

This comment section is great. I never even heard of slough

[@cryptofierce7431]

Absolute dump - can’t blame the train for going fast

[@paulanderson79]

Slough was my local spotting haunt in the 1980's.

[@brodyplaysthebaritone]

"Stand back from the yellow- SHRUHSHRUHSHRUHSHRUHSHRUHSHRUH"

[@chompette_]

I got 109mph from counting the frames and using 2x power cars and 8 mk3s as 219.6m long

[@TheFreshSpam]

I got 111mph if you count that the codec used from this video is 24.1 fps as a .mov on prores 4444, while the camera probably has 30 fps sensor. Using Ildeichs model you can calculate around 111.8mph start from the back end post of the station to the front

[@XaviMacBash]

@Prince Otter2 i find it pretty interesting and the only pathetic person here is the one who looks like hes lost his original yt account and was forced to slap a 2 on

[@siriosstar4789]

@Prince Otter2 STFU

[@davidrobins1021]

@Prince Otter2 And you've shown yourself up as the type of person you are.

[@wharris302]

@Prince Otter2 the most pathetic psrson would be the person who goes out of his way to attack someone for doing a 2 minute equation

[@timosha21]

Choo choo, Im a train and I approve this video!!!

[@ed9709]

Wow I would have loved to be standing on that platform when it passed.

[@robertsmith9076]

Be careful ed stand well back as a high speed train could suck you off . Yeah i know .

[@pingu255]

lol why would you want to be standing in slough

[@solidsnake4595]

@@pingu255 i guess some people are into self torture lol

[@joestrainworldvideos3977]

Wow. Super fast and great train video. Joe

[@jaredmorgan6209]

I was just driving this fast and wanted to see what I looked like lol... apparently an approaching ride at Disneyland

[@mrmemory3.14]

The bridge in the distance looks like the one in Leighton Buzzard

[@michaelturner4457]

The only thing I know about Slough, they make Mars Bars there.

[@richardwestwell4902]

and Horlcks (or they used to)

[@Midge-xn9tp]

It’s a shithole, that’s all you need to know

[@connorhanneken3244]

Lol I think the Office UK is set there.

[@malcolmabram2957]

Thank you. I used to think they were made on Mars. Now I know differently.

[@Keithbarber]

@@Midge-xn9tp there are worse places than slough I don't live there, but it has had the privilege of a visit from me

[@lloyd9710]

Best part of slough the exit

[@lenmarfox2947]

Announcer: The train now approaching platform 2 is not stopping here. Me: See this train coming at 125mph?....I'm not getting on it.

[@dominichartley5537]

Love it 😍

[@TheosTrainsWalesOfficial]

I hope you stayed well back!

[@gbtrainspotting2084]

Nice catch

[@uksteam]

Glad you liked it

[@gbtrainspotting2084]

@@uksteam Off course 😊

[@averagewhitemale.]

So thats the speeed what mallard wouldve done coming down stoke bank

[@darylkemp1257]

Mallard touched 126 mph briefly hst herself has reached 162 mph in speed test run while class 91 225 has reached 168mph on a test run

[@Ian-xq4rt]

Daryl Kemp Mallard, fastest steam train in the world; 125, fastest diesel train in the world, where did we go wrong, we have no electric trains!!

[@TheDankEngineer]

@@Ian-xq4rt mallard got to 125 briefly on a downhill grade. The HST can maintain speeds well over 125, even in uphill grades.

[@n1thmusic229]

@@darylkemp1257 your facts are a little off the fastest a hst had ever gone was 148 and the fastest any fully British train had gone was the 395 going 157

[@PenzancePete]

@@darylkemp1257 No HST ever travelled at 162 mph. The fastest one ever did (a short formation five coach set) was 143 mph which still stands as a world record for diesel traction.

[@solidsnake4595]

that moment when you know you hit a bad area of england because the stank of the town preceeds the unholy sight that is the biggest landfill site in england............. SLOUGH!

[@georgej5258]

Nice video and that hat was going at some speed

[@shedontanks]

Just imagine the noise when the HST had their Valenta engines

[@medwaymodelrailway7129]

Like the video very much.Take care.

[@uksteam]

Thanks 👍

[@saadqureshi7993]

It's crazy how diesels can go this fast

[@scopex2749]

Those were the days - screaming Valentas at dawn....

[@alfiehnotts]

If you are passing slough, 125 MPH is the minimum speed allowed

[@solidsnake4595]

and 1.6 billion miles a second is the minimum required (the speed of light)

[@MiniforceRailfan]

You also Filmed Class 43 HST Great Western Railway’s Step Nephew: Class 165 Turbo Great Western Railway (Step Nephew since She’ll have a Sister: Class 800 IET Great Western Railway as the Great Western Railway DMU Siblings’ Step Mother in the next Years from the Time of the Video that You Published)

[@channelnotinuse4078]

Cool

[@swrtrainspotter]

Great video

[@uksteam]

Thanks! I'v Sub back.

[@DarkDisc1]

That's me on Train Sim world 2020

[@derisleybrittain]

Excellent ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@mrorangeaventra4683]

Class 43: I'M LATE **speeds through the station at 126mph

[@eliottjeary1492]

that train looked like it had 4 1st class coaches

[@uksteam]

Yeah it does, good spot.

[@albievowles6417]

The order was 1st class then 2 buffets then another 1st class

[@ЦветозарЦветков-е5о]

@@albievowles6417 wow proper poshboy train. wheres normal people meant to sit on the roof?

[@Trainman10715]

@@ЦветозарЦветков-е5о a non standard HST formation that was. since 2015 the normal GWR HST formation was 1 first, 1 first buffet, the rest standard

[@Amtrakfan2115]

That is fast as the Amtrak Northeast Regional.

[@cyberleaderandy1]

Not even time to get an announcement out before it was gone.

[@andrewdarley8988]

Don't be fooled. By 2000 the 125 bit was obsolete.During the 80s and 90s journey times between Paddington and Swindon were progressively eased out by 6 to 8 minutes providing a schedule that could easily be met without exceeding 100 mph - saving fuel and maintenance costs. With this slack in the schedule a train that was six minutes late at Swindon should have been able to make up time but they never did and were always just as late at Paddington. Even in their heyday I doubt if they ever went through Slough at 125.

[@ЦветозарЦветков-е5о]

theyre ruining everything now with this environment bullshit.

[@pingu255]

surely you'd be going faster to get out of slough. couldn't ever go fast enough to get through slough quick enough

[@markcf83]

They padded the timetable especially between London and Swindon because the Reading commuters were using them in preference to the other services.

[@PenzancePete]

OK, a reply from one who was there. In 1977 - the year after the HSTs were introduced on the Paddington to Swansea/Bristol TM routes - I was a Conductor Guard at Paddington. The scheduled time from Paddington to Reading was twenty two minutes as against a loco hauled timing of 28 minutes. Remember this was when there were seven intermediate coaches but Westbourne Park station with it's curves was still in place as well as the original Old Ok Common based 1960s signalling speeds of 130 mph were common through Sonning on the down. Slough was most certainly passed at 125 mph, with a clear road the train would be doing 95 through Ealing Broadway. The management was aware of this but the drivers in those days were time-served men and could be trusted to use their judgement unlike the boil-in-the-bag boy wonder management led drivers of to-day who have the drivers braking at the first sight of a double yellow. This is why the timetable is so padded. Paddington to Reading just pre-electric wonder trains was timed at 25 minutes for an HST. The fastest journey by electric wonder train is now 23 minutes. The line has been straightened at the London end, re-signalled and electrified yet it's still slower than it was over forty years ago. Bristol T.M. is no quicker either. a 1977 non-stop HST would do Paddington to Swindon in 48 minutes. A one stop wonder train takes 51 minutes. So no real gain there. There has been no real progress. The HSTs were demonstratably faster, certainly more comfortable and had far better refreshment facilities.

[@paulkennedy8701]

@@ЦветозарЦветков-е5о What "environment bullshit" are you talking about? Andrew was talking about saving fuel and maintenance costs. Your whinge has nothing to do with it.

[@spencerlewis7591]

You can't blame the train doing that speed

[@solidsnake4595]

NOPE!

[@volcana1029]

Nice, didn't look like 125mph though, but still, nice spot! :D

[@paulkennedy8701]

No, it didn't. But I counted how long it took to pass (4 seconds) and worked out the length of the train (220 m). That gives a speed of 198 km/h.

[@stearmaster6.756]

@@paulkennedy8701 mph?

[@jakeytrainspotting1241]

@@stearmaster6.756 123 mph

[@mjanavel]

The train now approaching Track 2 ... WHIZZZZZZZZZ ... Please stand back

[@nathanw9770]

I love how basically every comment is just: Get out of Slough as fast as possible. Lmao

[@ghosthorse77]

Very unlikly that the train was doing 125mph. Not very often that they would charge through a staion at that speed. The line speed for the main is 125mph and 75mph for the releif. But the wind pressure would be great and though they tell you to stand well back behind the yellow line they cannot be sure so drivers use caution when going through stations.

[@Rowan66109]

it looked like 125mph to me

[@Trainman10715]

they regularly did 125 through platforms

[@glennleech5421]

the announcement said platform 2 but they were on platform 1, dozy cow lol, loved that speed although still miss the scream of the valenta engines :-(

[@JamesPetts]

Actually, no, this is platform 2. Platform 1 is the Windsor platform just off screen to the right.

[@davidchild8761]

Is this the train for Bristol, Swansea, Plymouth or Penzance?

[@uksteam]

Hi, it was. Now they use Class 800/802 IET.

[@Minumm]

Why are people hating on slough i am not british and confused

[@stephentaylor8843]

It's the biggest dump or kakhole in the country

[@Spudchucker92]

Has a reputation for having a high Muslim population. Apparently quite a hostile place to live if you’re not Asian and/or Muslim.

[@Ash-928]

Never been to Slough, why is there hate for the place?

[@FarmYardGaming]

I think a big reason everyone jokes about it is because it's so boring. I've read someone say they even yawned at the name.

[@oddities-whatnot]

Thats outrageous in a built up area :D

[@ЦветозарЦветков-е5о]

yeah he should get his license took off 😂

[@Keithbarber]

@@ЦветозарЦветков-е5о and get done for drug driving, he is on speed

[@schmoosmith]

No speed is fast enough to get through Slough.

[@stevehendon4076]

Any chance of a Mars Bar

[@41novar]

The phraseology in the UK is amazing. In the United States They wouldn’t say anything. You would just see heaven LOL

[@aberfordwest4003]

The labour driver getting through Tory constituencies as quickly as possible be like Edit- spelling

[@MannyAntipov]

These days most stations along London-Reading line have the fast lines gated off sadly...

[@ARofficial1]

Anyone else notice that odd 1st class setup ?

[@Danse_Macabre_125]

1st + buffet + buffet + 1st. Normally it's buffet + first + first (powercar after the second 1st class coach)

[@Sheffield5047]

What’s so bad about slough?

[@hissingsid3907]

To be honest, I'd prefer to pass Slough on Concorde

[@solidsnake4595]

well id only go back to slough if im piloting a B1 Spirit Strategic bomber and was allowed to drop a carpet bombing run on the place!

[@PK345Transport]

😲

[@animaltvi9515]

Why is there always the it wasn't 125mph speed blah blah blah no it probably wasn't. But who cares it was a nice video and as they are saying the best way to see Slough if you have to see it at all.

[@noelio67]

'This train doesn't stop here' ....... Well......no shit Sherlock

[@solidsnake4595]

nothing wants to stop in that landfill lol

[@400bhp2]

0:20 Oh fucking hell I wanted 2 get on that. Now ill av 2 wait arf a fucking hr 4 the next fucking train 🤣😂

[@shiman1979]

I miss those HST’s the iETS are kinda crap I’m sorry IET fans

[@TEBEnthusiast]

Your not the only one

[@dessmith1387]

Also known as ghouls

[@marcclassic]

When you think of manufacture of Citroëns in Slough, England and France reunited for the best future www.citroenet.org.uk/foreign/slough/traction/traction-01.html

[@BenjaminPalmer-yu3ul]

Platform 2 ey

[@GloriousChickenYT]

Man people here really don't like slough LOL can someone tell whats up to an outsider?

[@antman5474]

I've been there loads of times but have no memory of it. That's it really.

[@atomsmash100]

LOL, everyone has such strong negative opinions about Slough 😂

[@ЛесШишкин-ю2ц]

Я русский я не понимаю почему вы столько говарите о Slough .

[@yaochenhe517]

If take a turn Derail

[@KobiHameed]

nerd3 be like

[@のどあめ-w4m]

ディーゼルなのに速すぎだろ

[@jamesmorrison7465]

Hi first

[@jamiew1664]

That cant be slough, i saw a white person!

[@DarthCoco]

Cool