The Last 1938 Tube Trains on the Isle of Wight 

Too early for predictions but who knows, maybe even beyond that point.

The recycled D78s will still be running 😂😁

No chance the tax cattle will be culled long before

3021: the last train running on the isle of wight

It would be nice if IoW got 67 stock it’s sad they haven’t

thanks Steve! gosh it took a lot of effort in AfterEffect to get the drone shots just right as well .. my animator did a good job though, phew!

The Isle of Wight doesn't exist. It's a conspiracy theory, nothing more.

Plot twist: He is actually been there.

@@conveyor2 The Isle of Wight is our version of Bielefeld

@@geofftech2 They deserve a raise, as they really seem to know their craft. :D

Oh hey I’m Slovak too

I'm totally not a train person, but when I visited the island these were fantastic. They were so charming with the very comfy seats, woodwork, single glass windows, ... Everybody who got on those trains started to smile and left with a smile. Sad to see them go!

Im slovak too and i relate to ur message.

Mathieu McGuire ...I remember going there late 1950s with my Parents on holiday and travelling on a steam train from Ryde

I noticed that when I saw the builders plate on one of the Ivatt. I don’t know how I hadn’t realised it earlier, I guess that was just what made it click.

I doubt very much that the traction current at the Shanklin end of the line was supplied at anything like the nominal 630 Volts used on the London Underground. A long-serving Southern Region railwayman told me that, before the electrical supply at Gatwick Airport was improved, the line voltage there would drop from 750 Volts to around 500 Volts at busy times.

i remember steam

😂

I'm going there next Friday.

old train island

The southernmost end of the Island Line closed itself, in a sense. Every year in the early 1960's 2.5 million people used the train service between Ryde and Shanklin but only 500,000 stayed on for the ride through the mile-long tunnel under St. Boniface Down to Ventnor. British Rail's original plan was to pull out of the Isle of Wight completely, but the parlous state of Ryde Pier (the oldest, and still the longest, in the UK) which couldn't take the weight of a double-decker ;bus, meant that the line between the Pier Head and St. John's Road had to stay open. Meaning, in turn, that there was little point in closing the Ryde to Shanklin section as this was the bit which the holidaymakers mainly used.

If Ventnor was to get it's railway back, there is another, far more complicated and expensive and more prone to delays and far less useful alternative, which is to extend the Isle of Wight Steam Railway to Newport, then re-open the line from Cowes to Ventnor, which if memory serves did not have any obstacles such as a mile long tunnel.

@@mastertrams Ventnor Town/Ventnor West closed in 1952, so there'd be a lot more involved in reclaiming land and relaying track, but yes ... at least there would be no tunnel to deal, as with the old Ventnor site (now a small industrial estate).

It was a lovely shot, I noticed that, too! The wonders of digital.

I had the pleasure a couple of times in the summer, they will be missed. I truely fell in love with the island and am seriously looking into moving there next year. Commuting on the D stock sounds like a bonus.

Same here I remember in the summer coming off the hover craft and crossing the footbridge with my nan and grandad and taking the train through the tunnel and getting off at sand down

Yes they will be missed

Some of those were left in when the end compartment was opened up for passengers.

Beeching wasn't actually the person who decided to shut down the railways. He got asked to make a report by the government. And then they let him take the blame for their decision. Episode 12 of #RailNatter, with Gareth Dennis and Dr David Turner goes into detail about the decline of the railways: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E1RpP5mny00.html TLDR summary is that it was a mistake to shut down some of those lines...but it was not a mistake to shut down others. "Reversing Beeching" is not necessarily the best thing to do, as early railway lines were sometimes put in to transport goods (instead of service passengers) so we might be better off with railways in different places, if we want to modernise our railway network. What will be interesting, if people focus on reopening the railways that were judged to be uneconomical, is that the most popular closed railways got converted into heritage lines. Would people be happy to give up the Isle of Wight Steam Railway, to get an east to west railway across the Isle of Wight?

He did what he was asked to do, then received payment until his death for taking the crap, in his own words was happy with what he received.

@@leafbone1 Yep. It was the Government which cut the railways and blamed Beeching for making the cuts. Many cuts had already started long before Beeching made his report, a report whose outcome was already known before it was written.

@@johnclarke2997 Old Doc Beech got paid a lot of money to have his head above the parapet and take the crap. He mentioned it a few times in interview late in life.

@@DavidShepheard yes passing the buck culture

Geoff needs to pin this!

Good job they aren't all my scraped at least.

I would like to see people do everything they can to get there. Bet most routes are cut off now.

@@meh276 I wasn't intending on encouraging it. But it would make it an interesting TV show. How to get there when all routes are cut off?

@@jongmassey Better one Geoff than the four thousand odd people who have watched this video so far.

I visited in 2014 and you could still buy tickets that went to London

apparently epping / ongar are getting one and converting to battery power... for use

Hi Jaw Tooth. Somewhat surprised.

I feel you..

Hello

Going to miss this train next Yr when we nob over for a weekend

Really wish I experienced standard stock.

@@-Joethefish- You might get a chance if they finish restoring the one at Acton.

Yeah, I'm keeping a close eye on that and the Q38 projects.

Ikr

Yea

I can't get my head around the fact it predates WW2!

I just LOVE how travelling at 40mph on them on certain parts of this line feels like they're doing about 100mph !!! Gonna miss these old trains..... I hope a set ends up at Havenstreet, even if it ends up being dragged between Wootton and Smallbrook !!!!

@@andypreston1524 I think the plan is to send one to Havenstreet, but as a static exhibit.

If you ask me,trains in Singapore,where I live,the first few train models from Japan are slated for decomissioning by 2025,after only 26 years in service.

The only reason why they carried on is because, it's a line of only a few miles.

Or they are just trying not to be ejected from their seat.

007 is currently out of traffic, having failed since its overhaul, 006 is currently providing the service alone.

Nice 👌

Not really a train person myself, I just enjoy this channel... is there anything else passenger train related in a first world country that was used THAT long?

@@James_489 Sorry?

1938 to 2021!