British Rail Class 156

[@markieboy1983]

I recently travelled on one from Fort William to Glasgow. Noisy and dated, yes, but to me it added to the charm. Combined with the incredible scenery of the West Highland Line, it felt like a real classic railway journey.

[@vincitveritas3872]

I like 151. Looks great wish they had made them in numbers

[@danielsellers8707]

I remember riding them on the Matlock line.

[@danielsellers8707]

@Eskel the Trainspotter & Roblox Yes they were but I can't remember what they were like inside apart from the seat moquette was something like the Pacers and contemporary road coaches (the striped design that was commonplace in the 1980s). I always thought the 151s looked American in appearance and they had a very American spec as well with Cummins engines and a Twin Disc transmission that proved unreliable in the UK stop-start conditions... The Cummins is an American engine built for long distance interstate trucking; UK buses and lorries (and the Pacers) with the Cummins engines were prone to breaking down... I remember riding 150001 on the Matlock line and feel it should join the National Railway Museum collection alongside 142001 and 313001. I also remember the Class 154 (Class 150 based testbed for the 158s) before it was converted back to a standard Class 150. I think Northern should have retrofitted air conditioning in the 150 / 156s and 319/769s when they refurbished them...

[@alloria]

Awesome video. These are the trains that go past my parents place at Livingston South, and I used to take them into Edinburgh all the time.

[@taylordunasophia4957]

In Japan, the Japan Rail(JR) E130 series diesel railcar, which is similar to the British Rail Class 156, is in operation on the Japan Rail(JR) Suigun Line and Kururi Line.

[@terrywilkins6770]

I’m currently working on these in Wolverton works.

[@gftyhify]

I used these a lot between 1999-2002 when I lived in Dunlop

[@FuliCuddlesFangirl]

3:59 speaking of class 158 Why isnt there a video of one?

[@TheSamGrahamShow]

SC Eclipse RSMRP Yeah!

[@timclarke6087]

I use them on the Norwich to Great Yarmouth/Lowestoft and Sheringham services, they do occasionally work the Cambridge services when the usual 170's are elsewhere

[@ThomasWhiteford]

Good Informative Video of the Class 156 Dmu but at 02:23 you have it in Reverse lol as the Giveaway is the 334 Arriving in the Background with Forward Lights and the Signal Changes

[@DieselDudeRailway]

Excellent video.

[@Neffers_UK]

Still ride on these to this day. Sheffield - Leeds / York line, northern rail. They are sometimes used for the Sheffield to York journey run 2x per day, in the morning only. Usually it's a single 142 / Pacer. I jump on at an un-manned station, where the line switches from the Leeds line to the York line. You have to change route when returning as York station staff get confused by the tickets. I use this route to go to the NRM when I can. I like DMU's but they are getting really tired now, bless em.

[@Nina-bh5jj]

So interesting to read this comment! Nowadays there are zero 156s at York and Teesside is absolutely full of them. Occasionally 158s run around Teesside but it’s the odd 150, all of the 155s and a few 158s in York. The York-Leeds services are 195 Civitys. I wish there were still some pacers about, such a fascinating class.

[@claireferguson3578]

Class 156s are my favrot loco

[@kabelodpilota8558]

0:29 speaking of a class 151 why isnt there of one?

[@JoeyLovesTrains]

1:05 it’s directly driven my the Diesel engine? Not electric traction motors?

[@Pmjs]

I worked 101s and 156s from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Central via Shotts.

[@danielsellers8707]

Both made in the same factory in Birmingham 30 years apart...

[@Viper-CT]

Why you reverse the feed to the video? That looks wrong you could've just done it normally no? 2:22 And you missed out Greater Anglia, as living in the East Anglia area I'm offended that you haven't included Greater Anglia in this video, i do not see one red and white train!

[@michaeljordan481]

My dad work's on the dumfries branch to Glasgow.

[@njhtrains]

OH! i didn't know that Michael Jordan

[@kabelodpilota8558]

2:23 what the red lights thats the back of the train

[@andrew64315]

the clip is reversed

[@GHOSTGURUVJ0]

FOR SOUTHBOUNDS OF TRAIN.

[@DJNatebate]

this is the train I get to school everyday good to know how it works and it's history

[@Andrewjg_89]

Will these remain with ScotRail or will it be cascaded to Northern or East Midlands Railway.

[@unkown8390]

EssexLad 8919 a couple have went to emr but. They are staying with ScotRail if am right

[@danielsellers8707]

I think the EMR ones will all be replaced by the 170s; the 156s would suit Northern to increase capacity and upgrade some trains (that suffer from overcrowding) from 2 to 4 cars...

[@K-o-R]

2:26 Something's not right here...

[@cameronmurphy8825]

The playback of the video used in the video is reversed possibly because of copyright

[@bokchoymaster6986]

Yeah tail lights at the front.

[@XaviMacBash]

yeah think it was reversed cause there is no driver

[@Adam-jf6gs]

21 October 1993. I just turned 3 that day.. 🙂

[@FuliCuddlesFangirl]

Adam 21 welcome to old life

[@K-o-R]

It helps to have the microphone in the same room.

[@declanelrick6381]

how come some are in fsr and some are in absr livery

[@Tomo1658]

Can you do the 158

[@lewishaughey7835]

Is it David mitchel talking

[@yoville73]

My Most Frequent Passenger Train Passing Through My Town Of Sanquhar In fact it’s my ONLY Passenger Train I Ever Get

[@MisterTnT2]

which Train in the backround in this at 4:24

[@SiVlog1989]

MisterTnT2 that is a class 334 EMU

[@pxsrrail2558]

Class 334

[@domestosbleach6905]

MisterTnT2 334

[@MS46532]

334

[@catermelon7132]

MisterTnT2 334 OK?

[@scottishtransportvideos264]

Can you please do one on the class 158 (one of my favorite trains)

[@chocobloco214]

These are still common sight in Wales

[@misterced4629]

3:03 BRUH IT IS GOING TO CRASH INTO ANOTHER TRAIN

[@andrew64315]

its not it will stop short of it. they do it all the time.

[@GHOSTGURUVJ0]

HM???

[@dvidclapperton]

The only thing wrong with them is capacity, if only the one 156 is used at peak time hours. But they are better ride quality than the old mark 1 class 101 slam door trains on suburban services they replaced.

[@MrAlastairwylie]

I didn't know the narrator was Nigel thirnberry well that's SMASHING

[@TomskiZima]

Please do a 158 video. Scottail were using them a fair bit till the 170s came. I used to use them on the inverness-aberdeen line as lived in elgin

[@TrainsTrainsTrains]

Hi thanks for your comment, I have just started doing the Class 158 video and will have it out very shortly.

[@Jack-qh5ih]

Not all of them are in saltire livery

[@MrSam4850]

I never knew Julian Clary was into trains...

[@gordonprentice7090]

Class 170's are going to Nothern Rail

[@domestosbleach6905]

Gordon Prentice really

[@EnchantGaming2003]

@@domestosbleach6905 Yes. 170 453-478 are now with Northern as of 25/02/2019 Note: 470 and 471 are still with ScotRail.

[@InfernoTuna]

It is ridiculous how you can ride on one of these from Nottingham to Liverpool for 3hrs and pay over £50.

[@danielsellers8707]

They worked Norwich - Liverpool trains when new in the 1980s.

[@billybellend1155]

Zippy from rainbow?

[@FuliCuddlesFangirl]

Seymour Beaver what?

[@gerogyzurkov2259]

Liked the likes looked like hard working design. Simliar to a tube train only in rectangular shape

[@danielsellers8707]

Well most tube trains in the 1970s-80s were made by Metro-Cammell. I think the 1972-73 tube stock would have suited the Isle of Wight if it wasn't for the modifications to allow the D78 stock...

[@TheBrickGuy7939]

Are Britain even building any trains of their own design anymore?

[@FuliCuddlesFangirl]

TheBrickGuy7939 idk 🙃 I just hope my sprinters stay with me 😄

[@FuliCuddlesFangirl]

Green Pudding My favorite is the class 175

[@FuliCuddlesFangirl]

Green Pudding Same

[@danielsellers8707]

Yes the Bombardier Aventras are built in Derby.

[@NothingHereButMe]

You should do some Irish/Northern Irish railways stuff

[@steveytravels7914]

Work horses

[@riverhuntingdon6659]

Probably as well the odd - looking Met-Camm 151 wasn't adopted. The running gear looks like the original design put under LT's "D78" Surface Stock. All the running gear was changed on those, as it had cracking frame problems. One of the old guards I worked with spent a lot of time on the Derby/Matlock line where they were tested.

[@danielsellers8707]

I remember riding the 151s on the Derby - Matlock line; looking back I feel they were very American looking...

[@catermelon7132]

Mheee 380

[@tomaslidicky47]

It looks like 158

[@yoville73]

The 158’s also have different front ends compared to the 156’s

[@andrew64315]

the class 156 go by my house on the kilmarnock to troon line but they are to be replaced by the class 158 and 170 i love the class 156

[@FuliCuddlesFangirl]

CLASS156433 why do the class 156 love working in multiples of 3? Whats wrong with class 150 or 153

[@andrew64315]

@@FuliCuddlesFangirl idk the 1s what go by my house are 2 cars

[@FuliCuddlesFangirl]

CLASS156433 arriva trains wales?

[@andrew64315]

@@FuliCuddlesFangirl nope scortrail

[@FuliCuddlesFangirl]

CLASS156433 that was an opportunity for the class 175

[@InfernoTuna]

They are freezing

[@ranolphwhitehead1052]

156s are better than 385s

[@LadOfTheNight]

Did not deserve to be on the ugly list!

[@domestosbleach6905]

LadOfTheNight Exactly!

[@jamesrindley6215]

These trains were the poxiest crappy trains ever to run on British Rail lines. Stinky toilets, manky carpets, no ventilation, noisy engines, crowded seats and too-short trains run on most lines leading to hellish overcrowding. Hell on rails.

[@sprinter156]

The Merseyrail Class 142?

[@jamesrindley6215]

The Portsmouth to Cardiff train in the 90s took some beating for sheer misery of overcrowding, but perhaps there were worse ones. I love travelling by train normally but all things have their limits.

[@ihaveliterallynoname]

YoshLee i think he is on about the 156

[@sprinter156]

I know but the description matches the 142 not the 156 XD 156's are really good.

[@yoville73]

156’s Are Fantastic Because Of The Refurbishment.

[@josephredford3880]

Horrible, noisy ugly trains, the sooner they're scrapped and replaced the better

[@yoville73]

Sounds a bit harsh… yeah, it’s looks are unattractive and it’s high time new rolling stock came and replaced them… but they still get the job done. After all my local line, the Glasgow and South Western line isn’t yet electrified, so these will maybe stick around for a bit longer on my local line or maybe be replaced by the Turbostars

[@danielsellers8707]

Better than the Pacers they replaced at Nothern!