Carnforth Steamtown Aerial Flyover in 4K 

An open day would be great, but I get the feeling they're against anyone being on their site these days. Thanks for watching 👀

Sounds like a great day out. You're lucky that your wife likes trains! 👍. Thanks for watching 👀

Was a nice depot back then in the 70s, 80s

Definetly . The whole place looks in a sorry state. Health and safety closed it down to the public due to a death I believe

Most of those locos will likely end up being spares to keep others going. Cannibalism at it's finest. Do love the way they've got what looks like two ends of Mk1 coaches and chopped them up to make sheds to store barrels of stuff under. Good bit od recycling that.

@@miniature-airlines no the reason it got closed was because WCR bought out the majority of the shareholders and decided to focus more on mainline work rather than having the site open as a museum.

Thank you, and many thanks for watching 👀

wcr have recently bought some from nemesis rail

@@owenslanejunction7544 Riviera Trains stock has also been aquired by WCR too. I think instead of buying bloody coaches they need to focus on fitting them with CDL's and scrapping the spares donor locos.

By that you mean 47's right?

@@class50thrasher nope, if you see in the video there is a drs class 33

@@jamiestrainhub Any particular timestamp?

Yes, there's one parked up, but I don't think it's going anywhere soon! Thanks for watching 😀

@@class50thrasher on the 2nd row at around 0:25 - DRS class 33

I'm not sure if it's still in operation

​@@miniature-airlines it doesn't stopped working years ago

Yes. It looks like they've built a newish shed at the front, but the old shed roof is falling in, so not much coveted room at all

@@miniature-airlines problem with Carnforth shed is the building is grade 2 listed so to refurbish or replace the roof they'd need to get permission to undertake the work. I doubt they will sort it unless it reaches the point where it's completely unsafe.

Do they actually sell pigeon s**t at the garden centre? 😂😂

@@miniature-airlines Chicken S**t pellets, who would know the difference, a fortune waiting!

No, I think it must have been inside. Thanks for watching

West Coast Railways are a special charter train operator on the main line. Thanks for watching

Carnforth Motive Power Depot is for a former steam locomotive shed which closed in 1968 at the end of steam. For a while it was open as a museum to the public but closed a number of years ago & is now the base of West Coast Railways. However WCR don't allow the public to access the site unless it's through a private tour & with those while you can film video footage and take photographs, WCR say that this content must NOT be published over social media or on the internet at all. It's for private social use only, I would like to visit Carnforth shed one day but it's just a job of finding a tour that's being planned which can be tricky OR unless you know someone in the company who'd be willing to let you have a private visit.

Agree. The parts will run out eventually unless they can start fabricating them

Perhaps they’ll eventually need to purchase redundant class 66’s from DBS/FL/GBRf if these operators go down the hybrid route, for eg the upcoming 99’s??!!

I'm not sure what it was, sorry.

​@@miniature-airlinesI think it's an ex cross rail shunter

Very. I don't think the drab livery of West Coast does it any favours tho

WCR don't have any use for the TPO's as they aren't used for passenger trains and unless they're sold to a heritage railway they will most likely end up getting scrapped.

I thought that too. Guessing all the important stuff is kept inside the shed

Problem is with how much space the coaches take up alongside the scrap stock, what they really should do is expand the site and have a purpose built carriage shed constructed to store the coaches alongside another shed building for the diesels. The steam shed itself needs a massive makeover including replacement of the roof but it's a grade 2 listed building which is an issue because of what needs to be done just to get permission to work on it.

I've worked at far worse looking places than this and most BR depots looked like this back in the day! on the ground it would look totally different. Any idea what number the Advenza freight 47 is at 3:30?

57005 I think is the advenza

Drab livery of West Coast doesn't help. looks a bit depressing these days

wcr have now scrapped all their spares locomotives and spares carriages to make space for the stock coming from nemesis rail

@@owenslanejunction7544 Riviera Trains stock has also been aquired by WCR. Rather than buying more coaches which in their present state wont be allowed on the mainline due to lack of CDL's as bolts on the doors soon wont be legal, they need to sort out fitting them with CDL's (LSL have them fitted to their stock so the design for them does exist and can be used by WCR for their coaches).