Class 37 Driver's Eye Night View: Crewe to Wolverhampton 

What a great story 👍

More like a wet botty burp than a whistle !

Then throw in some zero visibility fog....just for good measure....

I once had a young cocky TE open the cab door & walk into the front cab of a 334, whilst I was doing about 80 going through a thick fog bank at night on the wcml, he wasn't so cocky afterwards.

British railways locos for ya. Really reliable vehicles from what I have heard

And good that you locked the exposure so it doesn't vary every time the camera sees bright lights. Auto-everything has its place, but you need to be able to override it if the exposure would keep changing, or if the camera tried to focus on raindrops on the window. And the image is certainly steady - good image-stablisation and no obvious judder. It's a very disorientating feeling only to be able to see a 50 metres or so ahead, and only to be able to see your own track - no long-distance views of upcoming curves and bridges, so no obvious clues that I can follow on the map. I take my hat off to train drivers who know exactly where they are and can remember all the hazards and waypoints that are coming up *in the correct sequence and spacing*. Even for a route that I drive frequently in a car, I doubt whether I have a tenth of that level of that "where am I now" knowledge.

Thank you! I currently sign 37, DBSO, Class 43 and Class 66

That's the horn 🤣

A big part of that is caused by the windscreen being dirty. But unfortunately it's almost impossible to clean it because of where it is and under overhead wires it's completely and absolutely not allowed (and dangerous)

About midnight

I thought it sounded like a first attempt to warm up at band practice. New mouthpiece needed, or split lips are a problem!

It's certainly got a lively turbo... I've done the 3Q which goes from Glasgow to Carlisle. It's certainly a bit of a drag 😅

The electronics can only cope with 30 mph max when recording / exray of the rail. A good friend and colleague of mine is an ultrasonic team leader with NR, he has to go out and verify every defect this train finds, drives him insane as it finds a few false positives! Just goes to show, its rare for technology to completely oust a human being on the ground!!

4. I think it does say in the video.

@@beneliastrains yea it did, shows how much attention I pay

75mph maximum speed of train, running 10mph below because of isolated brakes on the UTU coach

@beneliastrains that would make sense. I honestly thought when you mentioned 60mph we were planning it at the wrong speed throughout

They're actually very bright these ones!

Looks bright enough to me. Are you from the US?

@@johnbell3621 No the UK, they just look dim. I mean obvisouly brighter lights throw out a better beam and driivng at night is better with brighter lights.

​@@user-mb4ip4fe4zmost UK trains have worse headlights than seen here. I drive 720s and you can't see anything in front of you

@@DaveTheTrain that sounds about right, everything in the UK, doesn’t work unless there’s huge profits to be made.