Train squeezes through narrow Barmouth streets on a lorry following fire on Barmouth Beach 

Probably the only Arriva service that arrived to its destination on time!

1:54 "Oh look Margaret there's a man walking his train"

Well I've heard of Road Trains but that is just ridicoulous!

That’s the most excitement Barmouth has seen years.

well done the first driver going around the corner with out touching the curb 👍

1:30 _Mind The Gap_

I like the tail lights on the first vehicle. A missed opportunity to display the destination!

We were actually there one day when this happened,fascinating how they managed to get through.

The event of the year by the looks of it in this small town ,they trailer's are brilliant love watching they heavy lifts or tight move's

Wow! Now that's what I called driving skills👍

If you read the information above you will see that the train had got stuck on the wrong side of a bridge after the bridge caught fire. The bridge I think was an ancient landmark and it needed renovating for more than a week before trains were allowed to cross. So I guess this train set was needed on some local line on the other side of the bridge and had no railway line available for it to get there. The area is just beside the sea, there is water cutting off the area from part of the mainland, there are mountains... not easy to lay railway lines here.

Good team work ! Keep em rolling guys.

Touched the curb bro I have to fail your exam.

Based on the Slough between Redditch and Studley see these guys all the time amazing skill

That was really awesome to watch. Really enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing. Big thumbs up from me and I've subscribed to you.

In Soviet Britain, train rides lorry.

What a gorgeous church on the left!

Looks like the driver's had a good time driving trains around.

How the hell did they get out of Barmouth ? Some tight narrowish bends on the way out. Good driving skills and thanks for sharing the video 👍

I'd like to have seen these negotiating the A496 towards Dolgellau. Or maybe not, I've been stuck behind too many vehicles struggling along that route.

Beautiful town

Well that's my manshed being delivered 😆

Was at NorthWeald station on the EOR when a guy delivered a big Diesel , was Alleys , had a long chat with the driver , top bloke

see these trucks alot on m25 m6 m1 great catch to see the skill

First driver kept unit off kerbs....well done.

Hats off to the truck drivers! Great job!

The locals whining that they won't be going anywhere today are probably the same locals who complained about tracks being blocked!

Thanks for explanation, I wondered why train not stay on the the rail tracks as it is much more easy to travel through the city it is in.

Typical alleys. Professional till the end. Nice job on showing how it's really done

Wow it's hard even to fit a car through never mind a lorry and a train on the back. Them diver is skillful. And I love going to Barmouth every year☺

First train through Dolgellau in many Decades!

There are some amazing drivers around.

It's a good thing the UK uses small trains. I couldn't imagine them trying to move a large American rail car through there. XD First the trucks would need more axles to hold the weight of them. Second the trailers would be longer still. Then the rail cars would also be taller when on the trailer. Aka...American trains haul trains. Not by trucks. And if it has to be by truck, you're usually getting the electric company involved, to move power lines and stoplights out of the way, police cars to close roads, and major rigging company's involved. It's often a massive undertaking since the truck and rail car could be pushing 300,000+ lbs. And you wouldn't get them through a small town like this.

Little known fact: In the UK, residents often go hunting. When a suitable animal is not found, the residents will go for more difficult targets, like this one. What this video really shows is the townspeople parading their kill around the streets. Not shown is the ceremonial cooking and eating of the prey.

Beautiful~

Great ! Like the good old days !

Years ago the guy steering the back wheels would have been standing on the back of the trailer operating a manual steering wheel directly connected to the wheels. It would have been a tough job. Nowadays it's all electronics and advanced hydraulic systems. Easy peasy.

These streets are a piece of cake for this driver.... you orta see him drive down the allelys 😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 plus he gets the train there quicker than if it was on rails

Were the passengers on a bus behind this?

I don't know, you wait for ages and then two of the buggers turn up!

I have seen a steam engine on a flatbed trailer being shipped by train from Massachusetts to New York.

Nice bit of navigating Allelys

This probably was the easy part,further out off Barmouth would also be a nightmare Well done Love Barmouth

Funny how the classification lights were on, on the trains

that is cool as hell. 👏

Yeah barmouth is very tight i managed to deliver a lot of windbreakers in an 18 tonner only beacause we off loaded them at 7pm when it was quiet

THE BEST DRIVER IN THIS PLANET THANK YOU

they have done it with the 801

Iwona would be proud of them.🇬🇧

Why were the train's lights on?

One mistake and you are screwed, it would have been so difficult to reverse one of these low loaders.

Very driver

Surely there's another route, with wider roads

There wasn't a fire on Barmouth Bridge at all. The carriages had to be moved via road from Barmouth due to rolling stock shortage following serious trackbed ballast wash out further along the coast at Towyn after a storm in early January 2014.

....................and it arrived on time !

New meaning to rail replacement service

Best thing about Barmouth is the road out of it 👍👍

Top tip for those people who spent more time writing "why take them by road???!!" than reading the sub-100 word explanation about why they were taken by road; try reading the explanation about why they were taken by road.

LOL THE CITY PLANNERS OF THAT TOWN IN THE 1500s AND 1600s DIDNT DO CITY STREET PLANNING TO ACOMMODATE SUCH TRAFFIC AS THIS!! LOL 😂

Correct title to video. 'diesel railcar set' on lorries negotiates Barmouth streets.

would of liked to see the whole trip out to main road

This is what they call a roadtrain

I've walked down there

The train better not be scratched!!!

I wonder how much that operation cost. It wouldn't have been cheap. Probably many thousands of pounds. Might have been more cost-effective to just leave it stranded until the bridge got fixed.

Did it arriva on time!!!!! '

What a lorry like train.

That truck driver is prob on half the salary of a train driver.

Amazing

Would been nice to have had a start to finish, of the entire journey.

Crazy skills..

What was it doing on the beach in the first place?

Where was this 158 heading to

I don't think there are many of these Perkins 158s left now, Northern have lost theirs and EMT don't have many left.

I think they're trained on the road...

Looks like Mid- Summer there!!!!

2 different lines first one was best

Is that the replacement trains for the bus service

suprising how long these 158 units are on the road...dont look so long on tracks. like how the first one has red lights on lol

It wasn't towed because of a fire. It was towed due to flooding I think.

Bus Replacement >_>

That street is quite wide even by many colonial area streets in USA such as Boston central or other European countries. many are more like alley's.

Well trained drivers

So much for getting to work on time

Why would people dislike this video?

Did that bridge burn down across the estuary ?

A train! HOLY SHIT its a train guys!

the powers that be should have cleared those streets

Love the burger and chips beer swilling rear steerer. Almost stereotypical and possessing the right prerequisites for his job.

Can't trains arrive by rail. Or did you miss your stop or something.

why would such a tractor unit require more amber lights than an emergency vehicle has blue emergency lights?

well You can tell did not get the drivers incense in usa....lol...great jobs guys

I think that, that’s taking the idea of a replacement bus service just a little too far!

wow

Reinforced paving slabs, interesting. I think other councils should find where they are made because there's loads around that get broken by cars mounting the pavements all over the place.

ah that's one way to replace a rail service...

some driving there! !!

Any wonder the trains are always late if they're getting a piggy back on a truck ?

The second truck had a better approach to the first corner. What do they do with those carriages?

Is it worth the stress?