Diesels : Class 20 

I actually slept in a class 20 one night in a coal depot in 1982😅was broken down and I'd nowhere to sleep 🥱 that night 😴 long story.😉😂yet another great video.🎥

Well presented .. informative and too the point with no excessive waffle ….. really enjoyed it 👍

Concise, informative and with fine camerawork. Really enjoyed this and I lend my voice to the calls that you make a series concerning our great diesel heritage. Class 20s are my favourite... But can I request class 58s, next? Thanks again.

Many thanks. The wonderful Class 20, my favourite of all.

I really enjoyed this -thank you for posting it. I count myself as very fortunate to have been living in Huyton, near Liverpool, in the mid 1950s. My primary school teacher was 'in the know' about railway matters and would tell us about interesting things at the local station. So I saw Deltic on trial, on a run from Vulcan foundry to Liverpool, and a bit later, I think, D8002 doing the same. I immediately loved the sleek and shiny green machine, with its tiny white numbers and racy font. So good to know they're almost as old as I am and still going strong.

Excellent presentation! Professional and really informative.

Nice video. I think it would be worth mentioning that paired Class 20s hauled the Kosovo Train for Life from London to Kosovo, maybe their greatest moment.

As a child growing up in the 1980's I do remember the class 20's working the morning freight to Drffield & Bridlington that I'd see on my way to school.

Fantastic video of the class 20's I remember seeing the DRS class 20s at Carlisle station during the early 00,s having not been to Carlisle in many a year it's a good sign that the English Electric type 1 was so successful to the fact they are still running on the mainline even in 2022

What a great video . Love the class 20 .watching this made my day thanks.

My abiding memory of the Class 20s is from Hull in the mid-70s, working freights coupled nose-to-nose

Great video, i remember these on MGR trains around South Derbyshire growing up in the 70's & 80's you could hear them a mile off on when i walked home from school, we always used to sit by the Leicester to Burton line, without the fear of the H&S nurds giving it large 🙂Then mixed freight workings up to Stoke from Toton, days gone by hey!

Excellent presentation. Concise and very well delivered. Bravo!

Honestly do love the Class 20s, awesome video and love the footage passing Hessle Station at the start.

Used to live next to ECML in 80s and seeing them thundering by at night with a 2ft sheet of flame coming from the exhust!!! You dont see that anymore!

Fantastic video of a loco I saw daily where I lived in the 70s and 80s. What is now the Churnet Valley Railway was the BR line to the British Industrial Sand quarries at Oakamoor and I used to wait a Cheddleton station to see the trains. They had to stop for the manual level-crossing which the drivers and the guardsvan man trusted me to close. Quite often I had a cab-ride to Oakamoor and back, and once I drove a class 47 all the way! I love the whistling sound of the class 20s and you have captured it here. 🙂

Great documentary, thanks loved it. Love the class 20s

Brilliant, really good do like the choppers wonderful sound either moving or standing still ...looking forward to the 37 video - another diesel class that is a firm favourite!

Class 20....my favourite loco. Excellent presentation.

Excellent video. I really enjoyed the content and the presentation.

Excellent video, nicely shot. Well done also to Kate. Appreciatively, from Phil in Germany

Diverse traction types were undoubtedly the result of backhanders and keeping friends happy. That's how things ran back then, and generally still do. In the 50s and 60s it was heavy engineering, now it's pharmaceuticals and media production.

That was actually an impressive video. The last shot coupled with the music was really good.

Great vid mate,really enjoyed that 👌

Another great video. One for the established train enthusiast. I know what classes 14, 15, 16, 17 and 28 are but a newcomer maybe not.

Big fan of this series, would be good to see it continued. 37s might be a good option next.

Brilliant short film!!!!!! My favourite class, my first train spotted was 20177. On a merry-go- round at Basford Crossings in the mid 1980,s. Very interesting and informative. 10/10.

Fantastic little documentary thanks

Wonderful, mate!

Love these short history videos 👌

A superb video! I’m really enjoying the Diesels series. Also, Higgins Brown has created a fantastic theme tune! It really is a decent piece of music.

Fantastic video. Very informative. Thank you for posting it.

Once a common site in Hull, I do miss them. chop chop chop!

I love that noise!!

Loved seeing the class 20 up at the North Norfolk Railway ,sitting on top of the hill at Sheringham you could here them for miles . Is that a Chinook i can hear ....no its a class 20...A brilliant video

I've never seen the RHT train use Class 20's, always 37's when I see them. Very interesting, thank you for another great video. (I'm watching them out of order, plus, we've only just come across you).

Really good. Thanks!

They exported quite of few of this type with modifications of course there a a few in Western Australia which look very similar.

Thanks for the super vid😃

What a lovely looking pair.

Quality, hope you do one on the 37's and 58's

Maybe one of the few sucess stoires in BRs disasterous modernisation programme.

One day I hope to see a class 20 nerz to nerz with another of the same class.

Immingham men (my dad being one of them) generally preferred to Marshall pairs of 20s cab to cab as the heavy bonnet ironed out any uneven track, giving a smoother ride.

Fab video, especially love the music it’s like Depeche Mode meets Tangerine Dream.

I love the class 20

Great video. I'm just up the road in North Cave so managed to see the 20s on a regular basis at Broomfleet, Gilberdyke and Eastrington. I've subscribed.

3:55 Some things never change... Someone sets some sort of random target, giving no thought to what it actually implies, and someone else ruins everything by actually trying to achieve it rather than telling them to take a hike. Just you wait as this exact same story will repeat over the next 10-15 years, with the government insisting on making all vehicles electric and then having problems with the power grid because no one bothered checking if the network can actually support so many EVs.

great video. i love the class20s,sometimes i think they look more attractive than my wife. and they dont argue

Best “vintage” diesel noise? Deltics accelerating away from station stops. But Class 20s have that certain something; loads of them in the day through Loughborough (Midland).

That crazy procurement idea has worrying similarities to our current government's methods!

Informative as ever 👌. Shame they are not on the track cleaners this year.

Brilliant video.Any chance doing a video on the class 86/87

This is a brilliantly crafted presentation, but I need to nerd on a bit about a technical error regarding locos working in tandem. If working in tandem, it means that a driver is required on each loco as there is no equipment available to connect them for multiple working (MW) - it's a skilled task requiring concentration and cooperation. Locos connected with compatible MW gear only require one driver. These EE Type 1s (20s) have the most common BR type of MW gear denoted by a small blue star on the ends of the loco above buffer beams. It's a bit more complex than that, because some types had differently coded MW gear, (eg; orange square, red circle etc,) and I suggest following this link for deeper explanation. Keep up the excellent work! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_working

It is apocryphal that Class 15's suffered from poor visibility and is always cited as one of the reasons for their downfall [along with a problematic Paxman engine. No BTC or BRB reports mention visibility from the cab as being an issue Unlike the engine, no attempt was made to alter the design to alleviate any perceived problem. A fix was readily to hand inasmuch as cutting down the height of the "short" bonnet. This had been done by several US Railroad companies to their "switcher" type locos and the practice became so common that new-build locos were built in that style, giving the look common to US locos today. Think about it, most US locos are "switchers" albeit the short bonnet has mostly become full width instead of full height, and they do just fine.

They sound like Baldwin diesels.

I don’t know why but I don’t really like the choppers, don’t know why just don’t hit well with me. More surprising, I am more of the fan of the class 15 and 17, even the 17 too. Still not bad loco and try survivor like the class 37s and 31s diesels.

Hey, great vid. is the track that you used at the end of the vid available anywhere? (pun very much intended ;) )

Drove loads of them 1974 as a fireman at eastfield traction depot Glasgow all the old steam men sayed the were just like driving a steam locomotive just a lot easier all the drivers drove them in reverse I can honestly say the were horrible the heaters never worked on them the doors would not stay closed the fireman’s seat must have been designed by a madman in the middle of winter the only heating was the small electric ring for the drivers tea can but still a great job plus my uncle was one of my drivers

Hello There Again it is Mr Cannadine T. Boxill-Harris, I have another interesting idea for most of you Class 313, Class 314 and that also is including those interesting Class 315 Fans out there, rather than scrapping most of those Class 313's Class 314's including the Class 315's maybe you guys can convert them and including the refurbishment into those Leyland 680 Engine, Volvo B10M Engine, Cummins M11 Engine, Gardner 6LXC Engine, Gardner 6LXB, Engine, Gardner 8LXB Engine, Class 313's, Class 314's and the Class 315's and convert all of them into a 2 Carriages and Three Carriages of the Class 313's, Class 314's and that is including those Class 315's for most of us Class 314's and the Class 315's Diesel Train Fans out there Please Are you still going to do this interesting type of Project for all of us out there Pretty Please?

Ah, happy memories of seeing them in pairs going round the curve by the Anlaby Road flyover on summer Saturday trains to Scarborough in the 1970s.

That outro music had a Clockwork Orange vibe.

Any chance for more ?

What seems to be the replacement locomotives for the 20's? After all they are old and must be expensive to maintain, have old engines which are no longer environmentally sustainable?

You forgot the later development of the class 20... The CP class 1400

Good stuff. 'But what are 'lur-kurs'? ;-)

Found it ,👍👍

Pause at exactly 0:10

they class 37 and the class 20 were pulling the same load correct??

What causes the chirppy whistling sound?

What about class (24,25,26,27,33)

I thought class 20s were type 2 not type 1

Hello, is that English Electric? Yes, who is speaking? Er, it's British Rail. ...go on. Well, er...do you remember the prototype you built for us the other year? Do you mean the prototype that despite being meeting the spec in every conceivable way, you snubbed in favour of unproven design from an inexperienced manufacturer thereby risking a huge amount of public money? Is that the prototype to which you refer? ...yes Well what about it? Can we have 100 of them please? What on earth for? Why don't you by another 100 Class 17s? Because they're not very good. Pardon? They're not very good. Sorry, I didn't quite catch that. They're not very what? I said they're not very good....Jesus, you're loving this, aren't you? I'm sure I don't know what you mean. Well? Well what? Well can we have 100 of your locos? Say please. ......please. No, we're closed. Good day to you. That's what I'd have done.

Dam its ugly

I like your gangsta coat, but your accent pissed me off !!