British Rail Network SouthEast DMU/DEMU Variety 1 

Thank you....i still have a whole lot more historic ones to upload........

I used to watch Class 118 DMUs on the Western Region at Slough and Langley during the 1980's. They also were unofficially named 'bog units' on account of the pneumatic noises they made during gear changes.

I've always had a soft spot for the BR first generation DMU's, and filmed them wherever i saw them......

My pleasure.... Have you seen my Bedford upload from 1991? See it here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nAdtafBjw5w.html

Yes, i recall that unit was pretty solid in the Salisbury area....I'm partial to a curry....at Purfleet the old ststion buffet became a take-away curry house......very handy when on the Purfleet Yoeman discharge job......many a foil dish piled up by the shunt signal on the goods line there.......lol

I seem to recall the Marylebone sets quite mixed up all time when i was out filming. I always had a soft spot for real DMUs & DEMUs....a decent ride rather than the horrible seats on today's new stock....

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Can't argue with that mate.

My pleasure.....

It is crazy today....even different sub classes of the same train cannot couple together because of the build spec being different from the requirements of different TOCs....It took BR years to replace all the pre nationalisation stock with a standard country wide norm....only to have it smashed to pieces again.......The first gen DMUs did have different sub classes (like the Bedpan 127s that were fully auto & could only couple within class) but a lot were Blue Square and could be couple up to 12 carriages with up to six powered out of the 12. I always liked the forst gen units and filmed them where-ever i could....lots more still to upload.

The thing at 8 mins is a right mix up

Yes, old style DMUs were great fun to ride on, normally always a good view out the front (or back!).....

My pleasure......

My pleasure....lots more to come.....

This was at the end of DMU operations and Marylebone shoved whatever moved in any order, prided there was a cab at each end!

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus May I enquire upon a spelling error? prided? - did you forget about the letters ov to spell the word provided?

Better than cancelling the train due to lack of rolling stock

@@Keithbarber Yes, my keyboard is getting old and if i hit the keys too quick they don't always make contact!

They were fun to ride in...they used to roll a fair bit as i recall....I dove a Sandite one to Leicester once on a route learning trip, fantastic trip, we flew along the MML......

Yes, it was all filmed before then. I haven't seen Acton for quite a while but i bet it's not as clear to film trains now.....

Soi Buakhao no it’s not there’s a new bridge spanning across over all 4 main lines for the new station building

But both built in the same era...... And both were steam replacement stock as well....

Yes, i remember doing an NSE Rover in May 92 to chase the last of the loco hauled workings out of Paddington as the Turbo's were due. The Chiltern ones arrived in mid 91 although were only on test, i have one on film at West Ruislip but it wasn't in service, the first gen DMU's still ruled.....

Yes, looks that way. Lots of revving to build it up again......lol

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus had it happen to me on a 108 with the back end stuck out of the depot siding at Bewdley

@@olly5764 Never good when a train sits down....my class 60 sprung an air leak on the air dryer.....and sat down at Willesden High Level! So near to getting the train back but not quite....an engine was sent out before i sorted it but we got the train back without too much delay.....

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus well, at least we were empty stock and the last thing out in the evening when it happened to me, blew my chances of a pint on the way home out of the water though!

Yes, that's fine, with a link to my channel please.......