West Coast Loco Convoy BLOCKS WCML with Locked-on Brakes! 

Who doesn’t love a good trier.. That duff sounded good! 👍

Yep what were the chances of that! 👍😎

Was always a bit of unit that one

Thanks Angela… 😃

Thanks Phil - One of those lucky right place, right time moments you get every once in a while.. 🙏👌

@@trainsplanes Yes! I've had a few, completely unplanned... the best.

Very true, and that would have caused a few red faces! 😄☺️

Agreed - They’ll probably be seeing a bill for this unfortunately.

Pete Waterman is out to ruin rail as much as he ruined the music industry.... 🤣

The current fine if my memory serves me right is £250 a minute

Bearing in mind that I’ve spent time on these locos - this very video is showing a Class 37 breakdown…

This is why west coast railway have them 37s all the way

@@brentleajunction They’re a pain to work on though lol

@@bfapple am sure they are but they sound excellent when working though cheers Paul

Indeed it was just a few days ago that 37401 rescued a failed class 66 with an intermodal at Nuneaton

Cheers Kev.. Good choice of location for them if it was going to happen 👍

It shouldn’t take power if there’s low air pressure. Probably not releasing fully. Doesn’t take much pressure for them to stick on surprisingly.

@@iainfI can tell you exactly what the issue was there! Someone didn’t check the parking brakes you can run for miles on old traction without knowing until it catches fire like 47500 of there’s did at ordsall lane! It’s the classic 5 P’s Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance! Only the weight of the trailing load made it stop or it could’ve got miles! I know this because I’m a old hand driver myself and still am

Tell that to david smith

Yes I think they should paint their locos in classic heritage liveries like GB Railfreight... West Coast Railways is the real life equivalent of the Reverend Awdry's North Western Railway...

It was somewhere between 20-30 mins..

@@trainsplanes that'll be a fair few quid then!

Sorry to say but the West Coast Railway livery does not suit these 37’s

Wheels would of been a bit flat been dragged from Carlisle !

Why would they need to?

@@davidbarrett1006 because they could supply extra pressure to help release the brakes, Unless they do it or did it in a different way.

These engines are over 50 years old now, the fact they are still working on the mainline daily is testament to the original design and continued maintenance.

Yep - It’s in the description.. Looks like you might of missed that. Carnforth is your answer. 👍

Yeah because paint makes this work - dribble more

Got to love a arm chair driver!

Mate, honestly shut up. if you was in that situation you'd go through a whole list of possibilities on what could of coursed the problem. At first you'd think is there something wrong with the engine, then you will work through that list, so shut up you don't know what you are talking about. I think West Coast reacted rather swiftly with that problem.

@@freightspotter3123 well said don't want to be third Sam!.....RU-vid it!... will make all none railway staff better armchair critiques

@@grahamallen1970 exactly they think they know best

Relying only the straight air brake to hold it's own weight plus that of another 3 loco's while you leave the cab on a mainline....... That's how you turn a timing fine into a collision.

Nope - David Smith.

@@bfapple - Did Pete previously own it..?? I'm sure I've heard Pete Waterman in connection with West Coast Trains... I could be wrong though... 🤣

@@BassandoForte No, his business was LNWR (now Arriva TrainCare).

@@BassandoForte no you are wrong

@@darrenwilliams118 - Rare ,but it can happen... 🤣🤣

Why refer to them as bags of rubbish, when steam locomotives can and do suffer plenty of failures too.

@@AB-eh9uh these locos are so unreliable that the whole fleet with other operators was scrapped long ago and this old fleet demonstrates they was right and should have been cut up a long time ago

@@damiendye6623 Do modern locomotives ever break down? Of course they do. 37's are around 60 years old so they give occasional trouble. They are used to clear blocked lines because they are rugged and reliable and are used for snowploughs. They are used on the rear of steam hauled trains to help with shunting.

When the WCML is closed and traffic diverted on S&C, these are the very locos called upon to drag the trains over the diversion. Guess what? One of those unreliable locos is more than likely to be used to clear the lines at Euston too. No wire, no electric trains, simples!

Most other operators got rid in order to standardise spares by having one fleet of locos made by the same company; their withdrawal wasn’t really to do with reliability or age, though they were factored in (not that either was particularly poor to be fair). Complete brake-lock incidents like this are very rare, even on 50-60 year old locos like those here, and the timing was particularly unfortunate in this instance given it only had 100 yards further to go. Generally these locos are very reliable when well-maintained, which these ones are. Even modern trains can and sometimes do suffer technical issues from frost, snow or ice. These things happen.

As it says in the introduction, the convoy had come from Carlisle.

I assume the 37s have been out on patrol duty.