The Valenta HST Scream - HSTs at Swindon

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Scenes from 11th July 1994 before the new platform 4 was built at Swindon. Down HST's had a rather torturous arrival and departure from platform 3 but plenty of clag was often to be seen as they finally rejoin the down fast.
We see;
20:15 Paddington to Weston super Mare, departing Swindon at 21:19.
20:00 Paddington to Swansea service departing at 2059
Technical Details
Filmed on a Sony EVW 300P Hi 8 Camera
De interlaced in Staxrip
Edited & Graded in Davinci Resolve.

Пікірлер: 39

@mutantthegreat7963 4 ай бұрын

I could grab a Maxpax coffee and watch these videos all day

@OlafProt 3 ай бұрын

Don't forget your travellers fare cheese "sandwich" 😉

@sdg1970 2 ай бұрын

The kudos and swagger of that Guard smoking a gasper on duty. Happy, free, much better times!

@pauljones401 2 ай бұрын

The guard lighting up in the cab! Brilliant! 1:31

@philsam1232 7 күн бұрын

Great video this almost looks like TV broadcast quality thanks for uploading this gem of a video.

@thehogfat 6 күн бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, it was a semi pro camera at the time but a lot of tinkering in modern up scaling software

@ianwalters11 4 ай бұрын

Best trains in the world. Fastest most capable the Class 43 HST. Sounds best with a Valenta that Napier turbo screaming. Awesome machines. I didn’t like the MTU’s at launch but they grew on me, brilliant German engineering.

@FlightProgramAborted Ай бұрын

The state of some of those rails is apauling

@terrymoore9388 7 ай бұрын

Nice video and proper swallow livery

@Phil6219 7 ай бұрын

Beltin! There's quite a lot of rocking and rolling there as they make their way in and out and of course, there's always some wazzock who gets in the way ;)

@markcf83 4 ай бұрын

Nowadays westbound services at Swindon go straight off the new Platform 1.

@RichardBCumbrianModelRailways 2 ай бұрын

Editing on this is fantastic

@ianluce9297 27 күн бұрын

Must have been very hot as there's some serious track warpage going on

@malcolmelliott1876 7 ай бұрын

It's a wonder they stayed on the tracker...seen smoother rails in a quarry!

@limeyfox 16 күн бұрын

Always surprised how slow the crossover layout was at Swindon, considering the vast majority of trains called and the clear desire of BR for competitive journey times along the M4 corridor. I bet those 20/25mph limits weren’t often strictly observed though, probably why the track alignment is in such poor condition 😂 And of course the infamous hump over the station subway (which only recently still meant freight was limited to 40mph to avoid causing structural damage.)

@thehogfat 15 күн бұрын

Never noticed that hump before

@nickrockall2845 7 ай бұрын

A few class 37 stabled

@seankirby2580 2 ай бұрын

First class

@dickieblench5001 Ай бұрын

That ain't no diesel

@whitekasimir3752 3 ай бұрын

I wonder how those trains are dancing over the tracks. British Rail didn´t give much money to work at it, right?

@thehogfat 3 ай бұрын

The rest of the line is really smooth Just that bit that’s rubbish 😂

@physiocrat7143 2 ай бұрын

The GWML is really rough over long stretches now, and the gallows and goalposts are a blight on the landscape.

@MidlandMainlineMadnessandmore 2 ай бұрын

Hey there you mind if I use some of this footage for a video I'm working on

@thehogfat 2 ай бұрын

@@MidlandMainlineMadnessandmore what’s the video , is it for resale etc or just KZbin etc?

@brianeynon5406 7 ай бұрын

Ĥorrible tracķ here for western region ,

@JS-fk9oj 7 ай бұрын

Get rid of the stupid like, subscribe and notify button, which ruins this video within the first 20 seconds.

@paulknightley 5 ай бұрын

Nice…I always found that from somewhat larger stations like Reading, or Swindon, the departures were often a bit more polite…but once you got away to smaller stations, e.g. Pewsey, Totnes, to name just a couple of random ones, often they’d get thrashed: