Trains of Tomorrow: Comfort, Speed, & Innovation | British Pathé 

It certainly does! It also highlights how drab our modern design aesthetic is. Those bright, cheerful passenger interiors looked like such cosy places to be, compared with the rather dour rainbow of plain whites, cold blues and dull greys we modern passengers have to endure!

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Ikr, i loved their vid on the montreal metro. Showing the Mr-63s on their first of what would be 52 nearly years of proud and extremely reliable service to the city i call home.

40s and before that too

Interesting

reminds me of Ren & Stimpy episode where they moved whole chimney to a single brick to complete the chimney

Shame it never happened

it still looks

With the driving cabs shaped and streamlined like that of an aircraft for efficient airflow!

Lol

It does go to siberia if you have no papers.

Or perhaps an athletic woman in a hoop skirt carrying several hat boxes.

We have them today its called Maglev

***** aren't you the guy from the North Korea conversations? What is a Maglev?

Same principle, using some nice magnetism physics the train can ``float`` in this rail and travel at extreme speeds. So crazy to see such an old prototype and now we have working maglevs traveling at 600km/h

+Rainer Hofstedt Which North Korean conversations?? I cannot remember all 6733 of them. Like João said, its the same principle using magnets to levitate over the rails and the magnets get electrically charged to move the train forward at insane speeds, its basically flying. Maglev prototypes can reach speeds up to a thousand kph but because of such massive wind resistance maglevs would work even BETTER in vacuum tunnels achieving speeds greater than 10k kph of course you wont have the distance anywhere on earth to accelerate to such a speed and then deaccelerate.

And still only ONE short líne losing money... the maglev and others are not superior to a conventional railway.

They really jinxed it.

Or the maglev that we all use in parts of Asia. 500 kph and driverless, yes.

@@ixlnxs not 100 percent sure but i think its the exact same idea just at a very very early stage in development.

Or a monorail

Do you still have your suitcases?

Headlights weren’t used on British rolling stock back then; marker lights or illuminated headcodes were deemed sufficient. The bracket shown is for mounting a tail light. The first production Deltic was briefly fitted with a flashing xenon headlight, which was no doubt extremely annoying to the driver.

British Mark one’s lasted in service until the 2000’s. High speed on a CIÉ/IÉ HB 8100 class between Shankill and Bray is downright bordering on terrifying

gakaface - Er, not really. It connects Shanghai airport to the city.

Well, it worked but it frightened the cows in the field next to the line so I suppose it was too noisy to be a practical proposition.

@@peterfreeman6677 but very useful for secretly testing the new engine and propeller configuration for the Luftwaffe......

​@peterfreeman6677 The problem wasn't just that it frightened the cows. It was also safety concerns about the propeller (even though it was turned off while entering and leaving a station), and the inability to pull any extra carriages or wagons

Why have one difficult to maintain engine when you can have two!

George G the zepplin train was from the 30s, the deltic was the 50s

Obnoxious Otter yes, but the zeppelin train was terrible in the 30s (massive spinning propellor+passengers standing on platform=bloody hell), whilst the deltic was great for the 50s.

Don't forget the Deltic opposed piston design was nicked by Napier from Junkers!

M.O.A.B. the self build motorhome. Don't forget that the Stephenson link motion was British, rendering the pluraity of locomotives pre 1930 British and discounting the progress of any other nation.

i'd remind you of 1976 if you were there.

I was there, a great summer and a union strike every other week, but I still think selling off the railways was a bad job.

John Smith and the country needing to be bailed out by the IMF, much like Greece is right now, economic ruin in layman's terms.

Not nearly as expensive as bailing out the Banksters, or how much it is going to cost fixing the country after austerity.

Nope, privatization to German Companies

Yes, a young M. Thatcher with gloves.

In the same way that when you jump, the ground comes back up to meet you. It's physics but not as we know it.

Hunter D Sure! If you like a five head! That’s one more than a forehead...

I don't see why HS2 is needed on capacity grounds while relatively short (tilting) trains are used for the London - Glasgow run. Why not increase the train length to that of the Eurostar with e.g. 2 - 3 travellators on the platform, if required, to get you to your part of the train? Much cheaper than the £ Billions needed for HS2. If HS2 must go ahead there would have to be a hefty green tax put on internal aircraft journeys to level up fares between Rail & Air for HS2 not to become a costly white elephant in my view. I understand that HS1 has not been as successful as originally predicted.

I worked for Connex and the South Eastern between 2001 and 2007 and I can tell you that for a short while the Gov took back control of the franchise, what they didn't tell people was that the service ran better, customer satisfaction rose and the workers were happier too, the Tories didn't care and sold the franchise on ideological grounds so as not to lose face.

I too was there, and yes, it was better for the short time Richard Fearn ( I think ) had it back from Gonnex as we called it ! One of our local "managers" went out to Boston, USA, no doubt she ruined morale etc there too. I'm glad I'm out of it. Ended up going under ill-health. All the problems Southern has now seem to be mostly caused by the ex - Gonnex idiots who took refuge on what was Gonnex SouthCentral back then. Still miss the growl of the old CEPs and the like when taking power. Today's kit has no character.

John Major, Elf'n'safety nazis, and privateering pirates like Connex. Don't be fooled. I see many names I recognise from those vile days. When they lost the South Eastern Division, they all sought refuge on Connex South Central as it then was. Many are still there contaminating the system. How anyone can say that the 375s with their Tesco Value Ironing Board seats are better than a MK1 EMU is beyond me. All Southern has to do is to just carry on as they did before, with the guard on the train. No biggie is it. But no, they want to re-invent the wheel again. I worked over the Central in BR days and it saddens this retired motorman greatly to see all this. In my day, I ran a PUBLIC SERVICE. Safety was NUMBER ONE. I know BR/NSE wasn't perfect. But it was surely better than the present dog's breakfast.

River Huntingdon Last time the Rail ran a profit was under BR, it's been loss making ever since the Gov sold it off and guess where all that money to prop up the franchises is coming from!!

Andrew Wenzel privatisation

Yes: ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Hugo You are welcome! 😊

Joe Chamberlain : All part of the plan to get us on the roads and burn their oil.

@@Uftonwood2 So that they, and the US, didn't screw-over Iran for nothing.

Laughs in japan

Beeching was merely the paid-employee scapecoat. The 'name on the door', which people remember; the 'file name': to this day, the stategy works: it was the Department of Transport, whose name still successfully remains blameless to this day who instigated the review. Anyway, if all of those now-romanticly thought of stations were to return, the loss of natural habitat, peace, and pleasant walks should be very great. No great movenent of protest of people refusing to drive their cars has yet arisen among the locals near the closed stations. In fact, when they were open, most locals didn't use them; that was the greatest justification for their closure. Many signees' names on petitions of protest are gathered from those who may not use the services when they're there, but become outraged defenders of their survival when they hear of their imminent closure : but at others' cost. There are plans though to reopen some of the stations. But there never was before the car any transport system which enabled the user to travel privately; in the temperature he wished; listening or not to the music they wanted; leaving exactly when they chose; waiting outside or near to their very doorstep; connecting to all roads in the country, and abroad, day and night. Add to these that now you cannot be guaranteed a journey without listening to another's thoughtless mobile phone gabbing; rowdy behaviour; and sometimes violence and sexual assault, if you look at the figures, and you soon realise that hardly anyone travelled inside a British Pathé news film even then; they were just, mostly, reluctantly going to work, and then, for the quite fortunate, to a coastal resort for two weeks in the year. Many shouldn't have chosen to do so should they have owned a car; exactly what they started to do when it became affordable.

Guilherme Silva FINALLY!! SOMEONE WHO KNOWS ABOUT TBBT!!

WD Harris - ‘Paris in the morning’

No its not

spottydog4477 - It’s the area at the end of each coach/car where you get on and off.

Plus it is from the Weimar Republic

Railroad,Preserver,2000 yes but it doesn’t run. There is at least one production Deltic which is allowed to run.

Hovertrain is moved by air and maglev is moved by magnet

APT.

What's the alarm for?

@Indian Fascist Pull on that it applies the breaks on the train, today improper use £1,000 fine.

Keep in mind inflation, and the average wage then was £7. Not because they were poor, but because of - well - market inflation. So that fine would be worth nearly half your monthly work pay.

Chris Johns they gotta tame those chaffing feminazi armpits SOMEWHERE...lol

Yes

Apart from the Class 47 and the tilting train model, nothing featured here is anything like what we have today.

Back in 78 we even made MK2 - based electrics for Taiwan. Look up EMU 100 and you'll see. They were built at York Works and the Taiwan Railways have preserved two sets in running order. Thanks to Elf'n'safety nazis you'll NEVER see a preserved EMU hit the mainline in the UK.

River Huntingdon but the Brighton Belle is set to run test trials by the end of 2017 between London, Croydon and Brighton? that's possibly one of the oldest feasibly running EMUs in Britain today...

That Brighton Belle will be a strange beast, the traction equipment was recovered from two 1963 - type units, and a lot of modifications were needed to the cars' semi-integral frames to make the B6 Motor Trucks fit ! The cabs will look rather like a later '63, would've been nice if they could've used the earlier English Electric controller with their bakelite spinning deadman. Strangely, a chap involved with it said that there's enough of the original traction gear left here and there to have done it "as it was". But no doubt the superb ride quality of the newer B5 trailer and B6 motor trucks'll be welcomed, the Belle could be pretty alarming if she picked up her skirts and really ran !

Casual racism at its finest

I ate some white bread today am I racist .

Agreed. Or more trains.

Awesome Gaming what is this month?

MCW Metrobus in "TimeSaver" livery, now that's a bus!

Because they've made trains almost vibration and noise free already so there's not much value in increasing the amount they do? Is it even true that they're not increasing how many railways are testing for passenger comfort? Also, maybe *all* the railways are testing for passenger comfort so it's not possible for more railways to do it?

Roland Lawrence they were only painted marron, they were made of steel.

@Martin signaling someone is one thing. But beckoning with a finger is rude. At least in India it is considered rude.

Sumedh Habbu So don’t do it in India.

@@samiam619 oh amazing piece of advise Wise One! I had never thought of that!

Yes

Ho... Hi Ho It's It's off to work we go !