Scintillating! Shivers down the spine with that haunting turbo whistle. A fantastic environment to be in. Congratulations for preserving these magnificent machines, such a shame the production run was not as vast as the 47s.
Good to see the Class 50s back on their original territory. I still remember them from Glasgow Central in the days when they worked the non-electrified section of the WCML between Glasgow and Crewe.
Mr B. I want to make a time machine so I can go back to the 1960s, join the English Electric engineering design department and install electric wipers.
I was just looking at an old issue of Railway Magazine where O.S. Nock reported a run with a pair of 50s up Shap with about 13 on, where from 100 at Grayrigg the speed at the summit was 68. So this compares well witht he best when they were new.
Always said that I wish I'd started earlier (not that you'd have got in then), at Salisbury when they had the locos. Not so sure now - that noise would drive me mad.
Wow, awesome video. The power, the noise, just brilliant. Today’s pathetic specimens that people have the audacity to call trains [DMU’s (Vomiters) / EMU’s (Pendilinos)] don’t come anywhere close to this. Well done for this video, thanks for sharing on you tube.
The return of the crazy wiper... jk nice vid, love the sound of the Class 50. The cab in a way reminds me of that oldschool MSTS model of the locomotive.
Cracking vid'. The Hoovers were a credit to the team, looked and sounded fantastic on the long drag up to Shap. I was one of the two people on ladders of whom a fleeting glimpse can be seen on the bridge at Greenholme.
65 at the summit then. Wiper working away valiantly there. Turbos are quite prominent in the cab aren't they. Sounds rather like its Class 40 ancestors.
thanks for sharing! you can see why they paired them up on The Royal Scot and other 10+ diagrams. bet you they did more like 80 -90 mph over the top on a dry day back in the 70s :-)
These ladies are in their late 50’s (no pun intended) are meant to be gracious and elegant!!! No ravenous beasts hammering down the mainline!!! Also loving the “lean” fortage
Quite a drop in speed from 90 to 65 ish at the summit end. The noise would be hard on the body/ears over a shift. I bet the cab of a pendolino is whisper quiet in comparison and not as tiring to drive.......still prefer an 87 up Shap.
Sean o'brien A class 390 goes up at line speed (105) and has to brake for the 80 at the summit. This is the first class of train over the route to do this.
get them all warmed up they run like a champ it's funny watching those things start dead cold after sitting in the winter for 3 days with nothing on their own. talk about waking up a stubborn beast
Most odd, doesn't sound like the cab of a Class 50 at all. In my day you could distinctly here and feel the throbbing of the engine behind you. There were NO whistling noises. This locomotive is definately not in the condition they were in when I was an Exeter Driver !
At least now I know why drivers make everyone’s life a misery by blowing their horn...the damn thing is right there in front of them just asking to be used and what else is there to do on a long uneventful journey?
