I just love the sound of them when they're idling standing still. I used to just stand right by them back in the days when Bescot used to be chock a block all in the sidings between the platform and the M6 and let it all just waft over me. Glorious sound, metronomic rhythm.
You can still hear the mighty 12LDA Sulzer singing the song of it's people, on the railroads of Romania. They still use some of the old locos for freight and passenger trains.
Fantastic set. Im old renough to remember everyday steam, and worked on BR in diesel days. Helped cutover to TOPS. Never imagined myself to be as nostalgic for diesels as steam, but here I am, lol 🤣 👍👍👍👍👍
I lived in Oban in the mid 1970s and I can still hear the Class 26s slogging up Glencruitten Bank. By that time they were getting past it and failures were common. On one memorable occasion a train arrived in Oban nearly four hours late with three Class 26s on it only one of which was working. It's good to hear the Sulzer sound again but I wasn't sorry when the Class 37s appeared on the West Highland line.
@@slittyguy809 There was 20 Met-Vic co bo's I worked at Derby loco' works and saw 'em all, The Crossley engines could be troublesome so they mostly worked in tandem betweem St. Pancras and Manchester Central. The one you mentioned D 5705 I have logged as pulling me on a stopping train from Derby to Manchester. Unfortunately I havn't logged the date but it would have been in the Summer of 1961. I believe one survives but I do not know where it is, or which one.
A total Sulzer fest! Thank you so much for producing and sharing this film. Brings back happy memories of the Class 26/27 passing by above our house on Loch Long on the West Highland line.
Great shot of the pieces of burning carbon being blown out of the exhaust under the bridge at 7min in. Great sound! You can’t beat that sulzer soundtrack.
01:43 - Isn't it lovely to see the local mental-health charities have organised a day out on the train for their patients, such great weather too! When they come back, they can climb aboard the Variety Sunshine Bus to go back to the home for tea and cakes. Later they will be asked to make crayon drawings of their excursion on old wallpaper .
@@davidjones3758 Oh stop crying lol, ordinary veg like you just make bashing look bad when their enjoying the thrash, can we not enjoy anything for god sake? We just love locos thrashing, whats wrong with that?
What better way to increase the volume by being right underneath a bridge next to the diesel when it takes off! Thank you for the video and taking us down memory lane on the West Highland line mail train to Fort William & Mallaig. I had joined the Fort William portion at York, that had originated from Kings Cross. If I recall correctly it was 2 to 3 hours parked up in a platform at Edinburgh Waverly before moving onto Glasgow Queen Street. Now that is a great idea for a rail tour today King Cross, and York to Fort William via Edinburgh Waverly and Glasgow Queen street behind a pair of Class 26s c/w a rake of BR MKI BSKs.
Oh yeah! Love that sound! Here at Czech we have locomotives with simillar sound number 749/751. Our best locomotives ❤. I wish i can travel at some day to UK and see these loudly machines! 😊
The horn is unique and interesting and sounds of sulzer diesel locomotive very intress . I leave the ads up. The saying in our country "Who planted him reaped". Greeting from Indonesia
What awesome sound those engines made,it allways makes me wish I was just old enough in the 70s and 80s to have actually seen them all around the country.I still saw them as a young lad but even by then most were being withdrawn from service 😢👎
When I was a kid trainspotter living on the Cardiff - Crewe line, the heirarchy was something like DMU < Class 25 < Class 47 < Class 37 < Class 86 only when you went to an open day at Crewe. I hated the sound of the 25 at that time, as it was as common as dog pooh back then, it was the sound of disappointment!
Love to go back in time to Nottingham Mid where we boarded a London train (via Melton) when I was 7. We had a green Peak, so it must have been quite new. My relatives lived in Draycott and when we stayed over in the hols I spent hours at the (closed) station watching The expresses to and from St Pancras dashing through on jointed track...Bliss!...all headed by my favourites...PEAKS!!
Love the sulzer honestly sounds awesome I got great central where the first andsecond videos were located and they have class 37s 4ul7s 50s 45s 44s 33s 30s 20s so many sulzer engines there and honestly class 50s 47s and 45s are my favourite but my favourite train without a sulzer is the deltic
Where are the exhaust ports located and how much horsepower do these put out? Are they anything like the ones that were tested in America in the early 80s? Union Pacific's 60-65.
I enjoy your videos here in the USA. I have a couple of questions if I may. Why does your diesel horns have 2 or three tones? Do they have a button to press to make up these tones? Also with a yellow signal, what is the meaning of the 5 lights that are lit when the signal is yellow?The lights are skyward leaning left. Thank you for any anwers.
If you mean a bank of white lights, they are found at points and serve as confirmation that they are set to that direction. For instance if the train will be going straight on at that point the white lights will be off; if the train is taking the left hand line the white lights will indicate that - similarly to the right of course. The two-tone horn is only two-tone and used to be at least controlled by a small lever. Pushing it forward/pulling it back would produce one of the two notes. What can sound like three or more notes is merely the crew operating the lever in quick succession.
The camera was on offer in John Lewis and I have read the reviews on it which were mainly positive. I enjoy using the Sony FDR AX53, it really is a great camcorder!
Hello everybody, Actually my association repair a 12LDA28 , do you know where in UK we can find parts for this engine. Thanks you for your help. Bruno.
@DumfriesRailFan ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IUZRiXXHWf8.html It is the historic locomotive with engine K6S310DR from ČKD Praha. I like DMU Class 158 in UK.
nope not heresy at all, but I'll see you and raise you the paxman valenta from the original HST! I absolutely loved it when they went screaming through the station full pelt but they were absolutely deafening and used to terrify a lot of kids. Even the ones who weren't terrified stuck their fingers in their ears as they let rip😀
I appologize for the potentially stupid question (from the continent): Why do British locos have that funny yellow front? Some of their designs are pretty cool, for example the Deltics look really menacing.... except for that Pikachu nose....
@themightyzanoss8409 Actually, always been a Brush as that is the electrics, the engine was an unreliable Mirlees which was replaced by the EE lump to change locos from class 30 to 31.
yea lads , we are goin to put a slow running boat engine into a train chassis and make it the worlds most underpowerd pulling unit ever , i guess you would have done better staying with the napier deltic
Are you mad? The deltics max continuous hp (it could make more but only for a very short time) was 1875. The horsepower of some other locos in this video. Class 33-1550hp Class 47-2580 after being derated Need I go on?
