ONE Unit Leaves - MANY More to GO..! Rolling Stock at LONG MARSTON..! 

Strange how these new units get stored but the good old class 37 still keeps going. They must 60 years old now.

They are all in storage because the lease companies that claim to own them never paid a penny for them. The taxpayer did! Don’t forget the Angel trains etc never ever bought anything as they were formed by ex BR senior managers and got all their stock given to them in the first place. Good old Tory we privatised the railway, nope, they gave it all away for free then allowed these companies then charge the operators a lease fee for trains that were already bought and paid for out of the public purse! Even the brand new stock that is “bought to lease out” is paid for by the tax payer. Hence you get Spanish built stock that Trans Pennine used build in Spain and had major metal fatigue and cracking frames so dangerous they had to be taken out of service. The leasing companies aren’t out of pocket as they never bought them in the first place. Must be good to have mates in government that gift you hundreds of items of rolling stock then let you charge a fortune to other companies to lease it off you. And people wonder why the railways are a total mess!

Like the HST/91 Sets Royal Mail could have bought some of them 397's along with a few 68's took the seats out and replaced the old and worn out 325's and getting more RM Lorries of the roads but they would rather let all these good working units go to waste such a wasted opportunity 🙄🙄 sorry for the rant there 😆

Financial smoke and mirror's. Leasing companies seem to be able to make money with this modus operedi.

I really enjoyed this informative footage. Grateful to you for posting it! The cost of storing all those 701's must be astronomical! I should think that by now, our learned friends are laughing all the way to the bank. Ineptitude really doesn't cover it does it. Some of them are approaching 5 years old and have barely ever turned a wheel. If you want to quantify the failure of the private railway, there it is, sitting uselessly in sidings at Long Marston.

The south west units are slowly entering service i thought. Im surprised that chiltern haven't had the mark 5 sets by now. I can see the 350s migrating to long marston once the long distance 730s enter service.

Interesting sights. If that Class 769 is 769008 (ex-319008), I hope that one gets donated to preservation or becomes a member of the LSL fleet as it was one of the two Class 319's that went through the Channel Tunnel and 319008 was named as "Cheriton" as well. As for the Mk5's. Could they be exported aboard with some Class 60's modified for passenger work? Somewhere like Mexico or Uruguay? Converting a Class 60 to passenger work cannot be anymore absurd than Metra converting the EMD SD70MAC's to SD70MACH's for use on passenger trains in West Chicago. Look up the SD70MACH and see what I mean!

looking at this where are the class 68s gone then

How long until the Mark 5s go for scrap . Waste of money for TPE and didn't even last that long in service. Shoddy design I guess.

would not be suprised if they start filling Donnington again with units as we are down to about 3 x 197s there now

I live near Portobello Jct (West Mids) and constantly see brand new units being dragged to Oxley depot then 3-4 hours later being dragged to storage, surely if you have entered into an agreement for new stock the idea is to get it into service asap or am I missing a trick here?

Where's the best view point for Long Marston?

Beatiuful video ,greetings from Asturias and good health

Excellent video as always 👍

I hope that 730/2 leaving is a sign that introduction is imminent

It's understandable that 2nd gen D&EMUs are stored, but those SWR units are more or less brand new, for example.

Cheers for the vid, is that the class 68’s sitting behind the class 701

Can someone educate me? How come we have units on the rail network doing stirling work at 30+ years old and we have units stored with ages ranging 'fresh out of nappies' and 10 years old? I don't get it. Sincerely though, I DO hope that all these units stored here are returned to traffic.

What a waste of money, all sat there doing nothing.

Let's hope some of them are still useful.

Lovely shots and just wondering do u know when u start getting paid on yt

Are those unbranded 397s? What is happening to them

Why isn't this rolling stock being used??

all these train operators taking all the million pound rolling stock for granted is just so bad

Why is Class 458534 in storage?