The East Coast Main Line in the 1970s - part two

Continuing our journey north from Peterborough to Newcastle upon Tyne in the days when the Deltics still ruled the roost.

[@sidslick1]

Great video.

[@MrDeltic15]

A great look back that at an era when i was just getting into railways as a kid. My Dad would take me to Peterborough in the late 1970s and we'd photograph(and ride)the last remaining Deltics. Skip forward to the mid 1980s and I was videoing at Peterborough, and I've pretty much never stopped with my regular ECML visits since then! Thanks for sharing.

[@BoogiesTrains]

I watch your videos and enjoy them very much.

[@AndreiTupolev]

That's a very rare Hillman Imp light commercial you caught there at 12:00.

[@captainboing]

@13:17 There has always been a lot of confusion over the terms "Match truck", "Barrier wagon" and "Reach wagon" and I never really understood why; A Reach wagon is intended to lengthen the reach or wheel-base of a locomotive without adding (much) weight... in the case of the class 03 because they were too short to activate some track circuits on their own, in the case of the 33s taking wagons off the train ferries at Dover Western dock to keep the locomotive off the bridge between the dock sill and the ferry deck. As shown above, the 03 is semi-permanently coupled with a Reach wagon. A match truck (or translator) was fitted with different couplings at each end and used to loco-haul stock lacking a standard hook/link style coupling - multiple units and the like even tube stock. Although coaching stock often had buckeye couplings they were only used between the coaches - the buckeye being dropped to expose the hook on the outer ends of the rake - no matching required. A barrier wagon was a van filled with concrete and coupled between the locomotive and volatile freight load - mainly explosives, to give some shelter to the crew in the even of an explosion. Most commonly seen and stored at MOD depots. I am swimming against the tide but I have said my piece ;o)

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

Doncaster is still famous where steam and deltics were built here years ago except tornado who was built in Newcastle and the only engine to be built in the 21st century and not built in doncaster

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

that must have taken in the 70s after Peterborough had the change of track layout since the days of steam also retford had the flat crossing removed and replaced by the points for the local trains to call at retford

[@BoogiesTrains]

I can't remember the year but I remember it as an Easter weekend. I went specifically to see the new layout that allowed through trains to pass at speed.

[@martinmargerrison2300]

PS 1G94 was probably an Eastern region special (as opposed to an interregional one). The 40's (brilliant locomotives btw) were seeing their days out in style. Keep on rockin'

[@BoogiesTrains]

I wondered if it was a footex.

[@martinmargerrison2300]

@@BoogiesTrains It's possible. Out at Finsbury Park for the Arse at Highbury. Although most of the train windows appear to be intact

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

there's only one sole surviving prototype hst power car still here as of today

[@bfapple]

Scott Joseph Whiley I mean it’s a 50% survival rate, considering two were built.

[@EM-yk1dw]

The permanent way was a lot tidier then, now it’s fallen into looking like an overgrown garden thanks to Network Rail’s campaign of neglect.

[@mikeschillinger4427]

More like the abandonment of effective weedkillers.

[@EM-yk1dw]

@@mikeschillinger4427 It doesnt seem a problem in the Republic of Ireland, the infrastructure is kept tidy there and they are part of Europe too. Seems to be more like penny pinching than anything else.

[@mikeschillinger4427]

@@EM-yk1dw Probably, however environmental standards have changed over the years, as a gardener I've found the effectiveness of weed killers over the years has diminished.