Although this is a good video, some NARRATION, or story telling, would be FANTASTIC.!😁!. MAYBE, Someone could use the footage they've collected over the years, and go one by one, through all the different classes of locomotive, telling us where they spent their lives and what they got up to. I know that I'D BE DELIGHTED to watch a video on each class. There's LOADS of videos done by the Americans on THEIR locos through the years, and, LOADS of videos done on the locos that were special in one way or another (big boys, and gas turbine locos). They are PROUD of their rail history, and rightly so. Surely someone has the footage and knows the history of OUR stock.!🤔!. Fingers crossed eh.! LOVE THE VIDEOS🥰. KEEP 'em COMING🥰🥰. RICH 🥰🥰🥰.
why where they scrapped for units that do the same job ???? it seems like b r or whatever seem to like replacing perfectly good locos for imports that do the same job , 47, could go on for ever sorry for the rant , loved your vid , take care !!!!!!!!!
From Wikipedia: "EWS inherited a fleet of 1,600 mainly diesel locomotives, with an average age of over 30 years; 300 had been cannibalised for spares. Typical of the fleet, the 2580 hp Class 47s needed a major overhaul every seven years, costing £400,000; yet had an average daily availability of less than 65% with only 16 days between major failures. To enable it to offer its stated lower pricing to customers, EWS needed to reduce operating costs and raise availability." And thus the class 66s were ordered.
