Peterborough to Toton Via Syston North Curve and Toton High Level.

[@ProfessorPesca]

Thank you for posting, probably the only video on KZbin of the lovely Syston-Peterborough line.

[@RailMart]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@exileinderby51]

Great video, thanks for sharing yet another new route,(well part of it) that I haven't seen.

[@RailMart]

Thanks for watching

[@johndean4998]

1:00:07 - the Mountsorrel Quarry is significant for the railways of England & Wales because I believe it is where the granite chippings for track ballast are produced.

[@davidsummerfield2594]

The Midland lower quadrant signal seen west of Ketton SB surely cannot still be use, I have used this line since the 1960:s and I can remember this signal being situated on the opposite side of the line in what looked like small quarry protecting its siding, I believe sometime in the 1970:s the siding was lifted and the signal moved to its present site?

[@barbaralcharles]

What a beautiful ride. All that green country.

[@RailMart]

It really is!

[@AshBehindtheCamera]

Amazing video I really enjoyed it

[@RailMart]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Rahul1Chennai]

Channel subscribed 👍👌💐

[@RailMart]

Thanks and welcome

[@davidpanton3192]

18:43 Makes you wonder what century we're living in (charmingly).

[@malcolmelliott1876]

very nice crisp pictures - must have been a very photogenic charter judging from the number of clickers at EMP... which is normally nearly empty on those platforms. Seems to have been taken before the new bridge built at Loughboro. was watching till the end to see if all the old class 60s are still rotting away in Total East sidings. Is there a maximum load length at Syston curve?.. it seems very tight for a long rake to manage.

[@2H80vids]

The sheer size of these cooling towers makes for an interesting, unusual optical illusion. As we approach them, they don't seem to be getting any closer - very odd.👍👌😁

[@RailMart]

Interesting!

[@martinsands7987]

great videos,but spoilt by not having any sound.

[@seamusmcevoy2011]

@56:48 Love the bug!!!!!

[@geoffbarry9540]

With regard to the nuclear flask test, is my recollection right that iy was a bit of a fraud? I have a memory of reading a critical article which said that the weight of the 46 had been reduced by the removal of non-essential equipment, and that the engine mounting bolts had been weakened or cur through so that it would shear away on impact, thus reducing the energy to be dissipated by the collision. Wish I could find my reference, but it was so long ago...

[@malcolmelliott1876]

I was one of the cameramen filming that and I don't think they bothered to do any mods to the poor 46 except take out as much reusable stuff as possible for the few remaining 46s to reuse. There will always be people with rumours to boost their viewpoint, but weakening the engine mounting bolts then running it full throttle is hardly likely otherwise it would never have got to Old Dalby. Sad day for the loco, and rather too much fuel still in the tank. Yes it was a long time ago.. when the cameras were not the size or resolution of the gopro used for this.

[@Mortimer50145]

@@malcolmelliott1876 How was the film (and maybe camera) ejected from the loco? I'd forgotten how close to the flask the loco had got before the film ended. I presume the camera had to be mounted in a ruggedised shell so it coudl withstand the forces of the explosive charge (?) that ejected it. Nowadays they'd use a miniature GoPro camera which would be sacrificed, and have it transmitting to a base station. I've looked at the side-on view at the moment of impact and I can't see anything that looks like the camera being ejected, though there is so much debris flying around and smoke that the camera ejection could be masked by that. I'm surprised that many of the news reports didn't include the on-train footage, because it's very dramatic.

[@malcolmelliott1876]

@@Mortimer50145 in those days we used small very tough turret cams.. Ex RAF... that were used to film whenever the machine gun fired. They were designed to survive an aircraft crash. They would hold a 50ft mag of 16mm film and switched on remotely. Those cameras got thrown down cliffs and survived car crashes. As tough as the flasks!!. Because the film took a day to process, but all our news cameras were electronic, the POV camera footage was only available after a few days.

[@robertcoleman4861]

Another great day out.

[@RailMart]

Thanks 👍

[@Ed_Gilbert]

What was the locomotive?

[@RailMart]

a class 66

[@Ed_Gilbert]

@@RailMart Thanks!

[@malcolmelliott1876]

@@RailMart must have has some very pretty stock behind you.. don't normally get that many clickers at EMP for a class 66, however well driven.