Vintage railway film - The diesel train driver, part 3 - Dealing with faults - 1959

This vintage railway film, part three in a four part series produced by British Transport Films in 1959, was made to teach train drivers about the then new diesel multiple unit railcar trains being introduced to replace steam trains. This third film deals with fault finding and rectification.

[@kenstevens5065]

I'm amazed that even back in the 1950's the unions would have agreed to such work being done other than by engineering staff. Great to see a glimpse of the era of my happy childhood days.

[@eddherring4972]

Wow, Walter looks the love of his life cleared out his bank account and ran off with his best mate

[@Bigbigpoopi]

I'd be miserable withat crap instead of a GWR 5700

[@CIARUNSITE]

Having to act in dumb training videos would make me unhappy too.

[@MM0IMC]

Absolutely fascinating!

[@jimdieseldawg3435]

If only everything in life wasn’t as unreliable as a DMS/DMBS 😁 I assume that this BTF didn’t make general release, otherwise many more branches would have been “reshaped” due to decreased ridership 🙂 I’ve only witnessed one DMU failure firsthand; I was on a 116 ex-BNS, sitting on the foremost saloon seat and enjoying the view forward when it spluttered, coughed, shut-down and refused to restart at Five Ways despite several attempts. Failure was declared and we waited, witnessing up trains including a WR HST and a Peak-hauled cross-country. Our saviour arrived in the form of a Saltley 47 sent wrong-line (remember when crossovers on main lines were a thing?). I watched the loco back on and couple-up (vac line and screw coupling only, as per video… no MW on a 47 anyway!). Then, after a long pause, the most thrilling trip to Longbridge in the history of mankind. Horses were not spared. Clag drifted and 12LDA music was plentiful. Teen enthusiast delighted. Normals not so much; there was Grumbling and Criticism 🙂

[@hiworldstephensonultranate290]

Great I Loved videos Outstanding they were the days please show again

[@BigCheese85]

Signaller must be thinking "fuck is going on down there" Would never go under the train in the platform nowadays. Neither would you just isolate random stuff lol

[@tazman8697]

Doesn't mention the fact that when bleeding air out of the injector pump there is a high risk of getting sprayed with diesel..

[@staffordshiredashcamvideos889]

No Hi-Viz vest or adjacent line closure before walking along the track.

[@jacobchacko9751]

Thank you

[@bouffant-girl]

In the United States, diesel locomotives have been diesel electric, using electrical current, first DC,then later AC, to power the driving motors,also known as traction motors, in either propulsion mode or dynamic braking mode. As the United States has steeper mountain ranges, and longer distances,diesel electric railroad locomotives were found to be more pract,and efficient.

[@sadams12345678]

The UK has had Diesel-Electric locomotives since at least the mid to late 1950's. Also what's shown in this video is a Diesel multiple unit(DMU) not a locomotive.

[@paulanderson7796]

Given the catalogue of failures befalling these DMUs it might not have been the daftest idea for BREL to have completely overhauled the depot maintenance schedules :)

[@michaeljones3512]

i loved this video i ve allways wanted to be a train driver 😀

[@tamar5261]

Walters wishing he could get back to his steam train 😀

[@christopherdibble5872]

The engineers don't wave from the trains anymore; not like they did back in 1954!

[@xr6lad]

Can’t believe they would build a train where they expected the driver to fix AND climb round outside and under to reset things. Pretty bad design.

[@pauljohnson4590]

Elastic geography! He's at Wells, then Wymondham Junction!

[@user-vp6fg9ti1l]

что не говори а было интересно в позновании всего

[@michaelbruchas6663]

Would not want to be doing this in a rain storm or a blizzard!

[@addictedwife8317]

Diesel electric solves all these direct gearbox complexities and problems.

[@paulanderson7796]

Quite a few DMUs use diesel hydraulic transmissions. These brake band gearboxes are completely deprecated now. Consigned to history.

[@Trainman10715]

and generators back then were not small enough to fit under a DMU, so diesel mechanical it was, not that they proved to be any less reliable than diesel electric, the last of these mechanical units were withdrawn in 2017

[@Paulie52UK]

Scary!

[@randomtux1234]

amazing who are the silent chaps who made all these things

[@petercollingwood4108]

Nowadays, all out, buses in a few hours if you’re lucky.

[@JDsHouseofHobbies]

My thought is...why no gloves? Still interesting!

[@beardyface8492]

Because this was before every sort of grime gave you skin cancer from a single short exposure (hint it still doesn't). People who worked for a living expected to get their hands dirty from time to time. There'd be soap & water at the next station.

[@elboobio5920]

@@beardyface8492 I'm not sure we wear gloves now because we're worried about skin cancer from brake dust or engine grease 😂 I would imagine gloves weren't common place and not provided by British railways, they're only worn now to stop you getting the controls dirty and for a bit of grip when it's wet

[@beardyface8492]

@@elboobio5920 It's certainly the excuse why they insist for garage mechanics, & they insist, even if you're allergic to latex.

[@ianmedium]

@@beardyface8492 absolutely. I spent years working on engines, no one had gloves, just used swarfega at the end of the day and a nail brush, never had any problems even fifty years later. God know what they would they say now if they saw me as a teenager working my summer holidays for my brother laying glass fibre repairing boat hulls and dunking our hands in acetone at the end of the day to dissolve any fibres under the skin, again, no health issues all these years later. But then again, England has gone from a manufacturing nation to a burger flipping nation!

[@bouffant-girl]

This was pre osha/niosh! This was also before contact dermatitis!

[@PointyTailofSatan]

It could happen to me!

[@jimsvideos7201]

Occupational health and what now?

[@michaelbruchas6663]

Bothers me that a driver has to crawl UNDER a train to make temporary repairs…

[@hiworldstephensonultranate290]

must go have saved bye

[@kenshin891]

0:27 who?

[@docdaneeka3424]

Driver MIKE JONES

[@eliodavidoliva4042]

It was a lot of work hard and it had to be really excactly

[@eliodavidoliva4042]

I see , tthe train can march without the second engine great pehaps more slowly but It can be arraive at the next Train station ,,,great

[@eliodavidoliva4042]

The Steam machine saved the diesel train