Enjoyed this video very much. Interesting to see the quantity of diesel power running under the wires in the late 80s. So muxh has changed in 35 years (35 years! Was 1989 THAT long ago??)
I'm guessing this was early load testing. With no remote cab on a DVT at the south end the loco has to run around in order to drag the rake from the front. The 91 was designed to run from either end, the only difference being that the blunt end is limited to 110mph. As the Mk1 coaches in that rake were limited to 100mph anyway, it didn't matter which end was leading on the 91.
Good catches with the 91s, especially the test train, with the two 91s in push mode! The HST, with the 91 hauling blunt end first, may have simply been a TDM failure, preventing the 91 pushing the train. In an edition of Motive Power Monthly, I think August 1989, it shows one such operation, at Doncaster, on a Friday, so this could well be the same train as in the photo!
Ah, whistling HST's and BR blue loco's and coaches. Great times, really great times, happy to have the memories of such interesting times. Thanks for recording them, when I couldn't.
Interesting footage. 1989 seems like yesterday but so much has changed since then. I had no idea 91s were working MK1 sets then. Any idea what those workings were and why ageing MK1s were used as opposed to aircon MK2/3s?
The MK1s were from the Intercity Special Trains division and were on Kings Cross to Carlisle day trips via the Settle line.The 91s worked the trains to and from Leeds with a class 47 doing the Carlisle leg.These coaches were fitted out to a very high standard and were very pleasant to travel on.When a 91 wasn't available for these workings 89001 was used or sometimes a 47 throughout.
Yes,the 91s were used with HST sets in passenger service from May 1989 through to the summer of 1990.The TGS coaches on these sets were fitted with buffers at the guard's end and the power car used was one of the buffer fitted DVT modification ones.
@@avocet1989They shifted too, as the power car had to run too…originally, I think they were just going to idle to power the MK3s but they built up oil in the silencers so they ran them on power too….around 8000hp on the train! I remember riding one and it pulled away quickly!
Me and some school mates camped for a week at the north end at High Dyke, mostly steam in the summer of '63, but the Deltics had taken over from the A4's, happy memories revived, thanks for that.
Cracking video as always..6S96 Parkeston to Mossend, 1A37 Leeds Parcels depot to KX, 6E16 Duxford to Tees Yard and 6S93 Wisbech to Deanside…. Crazy how I can still remember them all these years later..misspent youth!
@@CS-vr7uo Yes ,the foot crossing is still there,it's a bridleway and footpath .New gates and fence but still with just 'stop look listen 'signs,no red/green warning lights.
