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reminds me of the time haymarket depot ,edinburgh had a bunch attached. i was allowed in to the depot one saturday afternoon when i was a kid and on wandering the roads on the depot taking numbers i saw a driver climb into then HA based 40 123.....my dad shouted up to him,`can you take him with you` and to my astonishment,he said `im going millerhill yard,can take you waverley station or over to millerhill` i feverishly climbed up and said waverley would do great,i really should have said millerhill !!! to this day i cannot fathom out how he knew he could drop me at one of the through platforms but indeed he did after heading out of the depot,thru haymarket station full of people on the platforms and going through the waverley tunnels !!! thru the waverley tunnels light engine was incredible,the sound and the air whistling past as i had the window down at my seat,the driver knees up on the footplate having a laugh at my joy was something il never forget nearly `forty` years on....long live the class40
This Reminds me of when I was nine (I'm 17 now) and I went to the east Lancashire railway on the diner for my birthday, the driver saw me stood on the platform at Heywood whilst he was running the engine round and saw my birthday badge, he ran over and asked if I wanted to look in the cab with my mum, naturally I said yes and we went up, he said I could stay in the cab whilst the engine ran around but I mustn't tell anyone, I'll never forget that ever, I think the engine was a standard class 4mt number 80007
Great video. Those wipers remind me of the vacuum powered wipers fitted to Ford Prefect / Anglia in the late 50s. With large throttle openings going up a hill in top gear they would go very slow and conversely very fast with the throttle closed on the over run.
I really miss the 40's around Rochdale. We used to spend hours and hours at the weekends and school holiday at Clegg Hall and Smithy Bridge. If only I could go back to the late 70's and early 80's...and take my 20Mega Pixel camera with me !!!
What a gem of a film,reminds me of the time i would share a ride with my father in the cab of a 108 at about this time between birmingham and stratford on avon.
Having worked on the railway for just under 40 years in the driving grade I can tell you it's extremely different from today. In those days you were respected as a driver, you had to handle a train taking into account power, weight, speed and rail head condition. Class 40's were prone to overload if opened up too quickly, once they had found their feet (roughly 15mph) you could give them the lot. Most EE loco's needed to be treated this way and I've driven them all. It was indeed a paid hobby for me yet today my only pleasure is now a HST, a more or less loco hauled train that has air brakes and you have to handle it properly. I found it so funny that a lot of the newer driver don't want to drive them as they are frightened 😂😂😂😂
Yes indeed! This was filmed just a month before I left school, on the on the one hand it feels like forever ago and yet it remains so near in the memory. A strange feeling.
The wiper drives are air operated, the reason it speeds up is increase lubrication from the rain, simple as that, Always liked the Class 40, Nice comfortable ride due to the additional floating axle and not to noisy in the cab,
Excellent - The home board for Rochdale on the Down has been removed (30th August 2011) and Rochdale box has been removed too (same date) as all signalling in that area is controlled via Rochdale West with signal plate prefixes of TH3xxx - Castleton East will be removed in December as will Vitrial Works too - Such a shame! Also a shame that the Oldham Loop has closed, I used to work it as a guard before I went driving - It was the "bread and buter" work of Man Vic and Wigan depots.
I got a cabride from Emeril Junction to Esker in the cab of a F40. Although Schefferville goes down to -63, I did it in July. Regards from London England.
I never knew Mills Hill once had a bridge and barely any trees! It would have been great if a class 40 had run me to leeds every time I went, it would have been much better than the usual Northern DMU. Great vid though mate thanks!
I managed to persuade an Edinburgh driver for just this in 101326 from Newton-Haymarket west junction in or around 1985. I don't think they were as lenient around here. Hence why I had to wait until outside Glasgow. He'd have got his jotters or a final warning if someone had clyped on him. 1st generation DMUs were damn slow on the 'Caley (steep grades) & few of the drivers shed a tear when they were scrapped
Early version of colour lights. Usually found in areas of dense semaphore signals owing to the distance from the signal box. It would be too far and or complicated to use a standard semaphore signal, so a colour light signal is used. As such they don't use the same system as the usual "automatic" colour light signals. This type are set by the signaller following a route setting. Some were operated by lever in the same way, but you could also find ones set by a switch on a small panel.
Someone asked how did you get a cab ride. It really was easy then. I even drove 40106 from Bangor to Rhyl on more than one occasion in 1982. These really can do 90mph with ease with ten on. Their 2000hp thermal rating seems to have no bearing on their performance at all!! I was told once by a fitter at Chester a lot of these locos were set to produce up to 2500hp for short periods. 2000hp was its continuous rating. How true that is I don't know, but they do shift and perform as well as a peak.
jason long Sequence is loco brake off with left hand then quick blast of the horn (under drivers desk) with right hand then direction handle into forward then power handle to apply power
Could never do it again as that line is now run by Metrolink and is trams only now it got taken over about 2015 I think the trams started running back In oldham area.
The braking left much to be desired... a hard stop at station 1, almost a SPAD at station 2 and station 3 was heading for another hard stop as well before the film cut out. Still it is nice to see the driver helping the passengers get up out of their seats! Hehehe
GaryNumeroUno Nature of the old type brakes/shoes for Station 1; No such thing as defensive driving back then for Station 2, and the signal was off at the end (his braking was well under control before the peg cleared, too). Just saying.
@@smiffy1071 lol m8 i didnt have a clue until sunday a fella doing maintenance on a class 44 at midlands railway centre told me and he also told me the reasons for big nose end was to break the aspect of track over long distance plus as a walk through for shift change drivers
Jesus when you listen back now imagine being a driver for 8 9 10 or 12 hrs a day with that piercing racket. Must affect your hearing in later life........
Noise on 40 s was pretty low. Try class 86 at 100mph. Awfull. 47.s made much more noise in the cab too. On a 40 the only annoying noise was the exhausters when on vacuum.
