Vintage railway film - The diesel train driver, part 3 - Dealing with faults - 1959 

Wow, Walter looks the love of his life cleared out his bank account and ran off with his best mate

I'm amazed that even back in the 1950's the unions would have agreed to such work being done other than by engineering staff. Great to see a glimpse of the era of my happy childhood days.

If only everything in life wasn’t as unreliable as a DMS/DMBS 😁 I assume that this BTF didn’t make general release, otherwise many more branches would have been “reshaped” due to decreased ridership 🙂 I’ve only witnessed one DMU failure firsthand; I was on a 116 ex-BNS, sitting on the foremost saloon seat and enjoying the view forward when it spluttered, coughed, shut-down and refused to restart at Five Ways despite several attempts. Failure was declared and we waited, witnessing up trains including a WR HST and a Peak-hauled cross-country. Our saviour arrived in the form of a Saltley 47 sent wrong-line (remember when crossovers on main lines were a thing?). I watched the loco back on and couple-up (vac line and screw coupling only, as per video… no MW on a 47 anyway!). Then, after a long pause, the most thrilling trip to Longbridge in the history of mankind. Horses were not spared. Clag drifted and 12LDA music was plentiful. Teen enthusiast delighted. Normals not so much; there was Grumbling and Criticism 🙂

Can’t believe they would build a train where they expected the driver to fix AND climb round outside and under to reset things. Pretty bad design.

Doesn't mention the fact that when bleeding air out of the injector pump there is a high risk of getting sprayed with diesel..

No Hi-Viz vest or adjacent line closure before walking along the track.

Signaller must be thinking "fuck is going on down there" Would never go under the train in the platform nowadays. Neither would you just isolate random stuff lol

The engineers don't wave from the trains anymore; not like they did back in 1954!

Given the catalogue of failures befalling these DMUs it might not have been the daftest idea for BREL to have completely overhauled the depot maintenance schedules :)

что не говори а было интересно в позновании всего

Walters wishing he could get back to his steam train 😀

In the United States, diesel locomotives have been diesel electric, using electrical current, first DC,then later AC, to power the driving motors,also known as traction motors, in either propulsion mode or dynamic braking mode. As the United States has steeper mountain ranges, and longer distances,diesel electric railroad locomotives were found to be more pract,and efficient.

My thought is...why no gloves? Still interesting!

Absolutely fascinating!

Elastic geography! He's at Wells, then Wymondham Junction!

Diesel electric solves all these direct gearbox complexities and problems.

Nowadays, all out, buses in a few hours if you’re lucky.

Bothers me that a driver has to crawl UNDER a train to make temporary repairs…

amazing who are the silent chaps who made all these things

Great I Loved videos Outstanding they were the days please show again

i loved this video i ve allways wanted to be a train driver 😀

Would not want to be doing this in a rain storm or a blizzard!

Occupational health and what now?

must go have saved bye

Thank you

It could happen to me!

Scary!

0:27 who?

I see , tthe train can march without the second engine great pehaps more slowly but It can be arraive at the next Train station ,,,great

It was a lot of work hard and it had to be really excactly

The Steam machine saved the diesel train