As a Shunter at Pz, we dealt with every Class 50. These Locos regularly covered 1000 miles in 24 hrs. Penzance to Padd, Padd to Swansea, Swansea to Birmingham, then back to Padd, then the last train to Penzance, arriving around 23.30.
Hi there. I'm sorry for asking but is there a V16 engine. I've read somewhere that the 1800 class from Portugal that have withdrawn in 1999, had a v16 engine. Greetings from Portugal and I'm sorry but I don't speak English too good.
Great top see this classic EE design started up again but your vid is now almost 3 years old! How is the project coming on now? Thanks for sharing it btw! Ken
Nice Video! if you like class 50's you should take a look at British Railways - Class 50 on facebook where you can upload your own videos and share your own pictures.... in the future we can also look at providing upto date news on the last remain class members, lets build a class 50 community
Bloody good show! I love 50's, always have. I have some sketchy memories of seeing them on the lines, but they're not so vivid as I'm only 25. I do love that sound though and I'd love to see one in the flesh, as it were. Good work on this folks, keep 'er lit!
@PESTinUK totally agree there was nothing better looking and awsome sounding than the deltic i wish they were still growling up and down the mainline i saw 55022 on the 31st and it was a case of ye dont know what youve got untill its gone get all the diesels back espesiallythe DELTIC
Excellent video, shouldn't be worried about the quality as it's 480p which is basically 'High Quality'. If you want to worry about quality take a look at some of my first videos then compare them to this....... Great video, 5*....oh sorry RU-vid have changed to these silly Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down things so Thumbs Up from me.
(Responding to comments left at the Bottom) Thats why i no longer spot trains they all look the same in that dull EWS livery nothing really worth waiting for at the trackside now. Cant wait to have a closer look at a 50 they were all getting withdrawn when i was old enough to go riding around on the network.
On the upside, we have massive warehouses everywhere literally, and more supermarkets than you can shake a stick at in every town in the land...... England has now become one bloody big distribution & supermarket mecca. I echo your sentiments friend.
We conquered the world, we had an empire. Our engineering pioneered travel and the put " Great " into Britain - now all our industries have gone, we don't seem to make things anymore and we get crap from China and to add insult to injury, import class 66's and 67's and had a mass scrapping and ended up with not enough rolling stock - what an absolute shambles.
well done though chaps. first class restoration job. it is a shame more preserved locos are not able to receive this level of restoration, especially those in the national collection
All the plugs open for the first turnover to allow the fuel through into the cylinders.One plug was not in enough on B6 on the second start as you can hear on the video clip.
