EMERGENCY STOP! for Taw Valley at Kidderminster Town | Severn Valley Railway inc. Diesel depot 

Never should happen if door checks are completed

And always have the whistle in yer gob or on a string around yer neck and not in your pocket !!!

As a former train dispatcher who was at East Croydon , the nightmare is something becoming caught in the sensitive edge of a pair of door on a modern train , the person being dragged only at the mercy of some soul who acts quickly and pulls the emergency cord inside the carriage. There was a very sad incident up north many years ago whereby a young lady who was very intoxicated was leaning against the train talking to her mates who were inside , the tip was given by the dispatcher, train was not checked before departure and as the train moved off it rolled her so she fell in between two carriages as the train pulled away and cut her nicely in two . The family tried to sue the railway for manslaughter and negligence, but I believe the railway were cleared on the grounds that the young girl had broken the bylaws and conditions of carriage in that she was too intoxicated to be on railway premises. The dispatcher was sacked rightly so .

@@Richardsrailway No it was the guard on self despatch and he got 5 years jail. He went in the back cab and looked out the window. Had he stayed at the door as per the rule book the drunk girl would have been no less dead but he'd never had been able to see and would have gotten off.

@@markitg1972 apologies. Cheers Ta .

I was quite disappointed that Flying Scotsman was painted in wartime black for only just a short while before it was allowed on the rails. Whilst the build of the locomotive may have not been correct during the time it would have been in that livery, it would still have been nice to have kept that livery for a while longer.

I personally think that the livery of a steam locomotive should be determined by a public poll

​@@bluespino2024locomotive owner or owning group should always make these decisions as they put the money into their engines. Trusting the general public with such decisions is courting disater. You only have to look at the intelligence of comments on you tube to find that out.

looks better than that god awful purple

@@oscarknight3588 to be fair the purple was done for the queens 70 th jubilee celebrations and the blacklivery is wartime livery and iuts better than harry potter red or that exp blue they simetimes use

@@garryvarley2800 Just because it was for the jubilee doesn't excuse how poor it looked- same as the harry potter red, what a cash grab. At least this was done as a what-if historical livery, rather than someone trying to make more profit off of their locomotive in disappointing ways.

@@oscarknight3588 Not everyone is looking for authenticity. I and lots of other people enjoy seeing the loco in different paint schemes as it gives you a unique feel each time. These locos have to make money to continue running and offering the same experience every time is a sure way to reduce income considering the majority of people that visit heritage railways are not hardcore rail enthusiasts, they're just families having a unique day out.

@@azzifyy5988 i never said authenticity was needed. I am all for an exciting livery- see bluebell on the Bluebell Railway, or the railway children pannier/green dragon/ any KWVR livery. Those all look exciting and interesting, while not being authentic in the slightest. It's the harry potter livery, and then this Jubilee one which upset me. If done properly a livery can look amazing, realistic or not, but these just didn't have the right execution.

Surely the Guard would need to remain vigilant upon the whole train? Redirecting their whole attention to one door puts the rest of the train at risk. In turn, this subsequently leads to the possibility of a further incident, with a much higher severity. The platform staff in question performed the Emergency Stop procedure as they are trained to, and realistically caused a small delay of two minutes maximum, which can be caught up using lag time at intermediate stations.

Country name??

And one is named after a lighthouse

The name comes from the river Taw in Devon. As a west country class loco you can guarantee the loco is named after a location in the west country.

@@azzifyy5988 Or cheese.

can only assume it was a door not shut properly on the stock, noticed during departure

@@Rail125 so the door was not shutting properly

@@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329 i am not 100% certain but that is what it looks like

@@Rail125 ah yeah I can see it now the door on one of the coaches wasn’t shut properly and I can see the guard on the platform putting both his hands up

🤣 was an impressive amount of steam when it came to a hault

I can’t left the guards van behind so that’s really important on SVR 💂🚐

The steam you see when the train first starts is VERY necessary! When the locomotive is stopped for a certain period of time, steam condenses in the cylinders. If allowed to build up this will cause a hydraulic lock which is very damaging to the locomotive components. To prevent this, drain cocks are opened and some steam pressure is used to clear the build up of water,

Apologies wasn’t looking for click bait. You just don’t often see an emergency stop. Especially with a Steam Loco, these day. Emergency stop is what happened and I just tried to give the video a relevant title.

Totally agree its a bit naughty that is

@@AdeTamiya289 apologies, I just tried to give the video a relevant title to the content provided.

@@Rail125 It was an emergency stop so nothing wrong with your title. A bit like a video showing something unusual happening I put on not long ago and people said the same about mine.

@@cedarcam appreciate it, as I say. I’ve not seen an emergency stop happen nor heard of many on a regular basis (thankfully). The title of an Emergency Stop in capitals, I thought explained what is in the content 🤷🏼‍♂️

I think it must have been a door on the catch, or something along those lines

Passenger door not properly secured. Heritage railways have to be scrupulously careful regarding such matters ... and rightly so.

The platform staff are not checking doors before giving the tip to the guard (again)

@@rarerufus8864 I mean shouldn't that be railways in general? With some trains on the main lines going up to 125mph?

@@nielsleenknegt5839basically impossible to do on the mainline. Especially with central locking the train wouldn’t be able to move until doors are locked

So what?! its not your loco. they can do what they like with them.

It looks a whole of a lot better than last year ... 🤮

It's due for overhaul at the end of this year, and it needed a repaint after last year's horrible experiment, so they decided on this as a shirt term measure rather than go to the expense of a full repaint in green

⁠@@SBRailways1992 : I agree completely Stuart, and the owners of Taw Valley could paint it sky blue pink if they so wished, but as the Seven Valley Railway is a living railway museum, all locomotive running there should be painted as near as possible to authentic liveries for historic accuracy.

Does it matter if its in original state or not its there engine so leave them to it

It's preservation and nothing matters tbh

OK, fair comment, it's subjective I know and it is their loco. I just thought that a heritage railway existed to portray and recreate scenes of the past rather than scenes that never were. Each to his own.

@@rarerufus8864 understandable. Cheers.

it's only a tempory guise as the loco's being pulled out of action towards the end of the year for an overhaul still better than the pin- i mean purple guise it wore last year