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Same thing when buying ceramics or glass, but don't use a hammer. Ping it with your finger, if it rings it's OK, if it clicks, it's cracked.

Wagon technicians do exactly the same thing during a brake test. The sound of the wheel differs whether the brakes are engaged or not.

That’s what they mean when they say it’s “sound”. You can hear it. A clay flower pot rings until it’s cracked.

… and playing in the background, 🎶"Ooh Doctor Beeching!"🎵 😌

Used a similar method when replacing industrial grinding wheels. Before mounting, the new wheel was gently tapped with a hammer handle. If it rang, OK. If it gave a flat tapping sound it was cracked and therefore dangerous.

I was on a train coming back from Penzance. It must’ve been at a station in Devon of which I cannot remember exactly looking out of the window at night time and hearing the wheel tapper going along the train opposite that was at the station. It was sometime in the 70s a memory that’s being kept with me for 50 years never forgotten

A friend of mine was mentioning this to his grandson at the Glasgow transport museum. A member of staff heard him & came across, handed him a tapping hammer & asked if he wanted to see if he could hear the bad wheel on the exhibit.

just remember... the pompous twits are the "leaders" that get the big dollars to do nothing but give speeches, whilst the greasy guy with the hammer gets abused to ensure the wheels stay on... nothing has changed...

actually, I think it's for the sound, if the wheel has a creak or something's wrong with it, it makes a different sound

At least they looked like trains, I liked the..’InterCity’…brand, the MkIi non air conditioned stock etc, you wouldn’t look at this today in 2024 and say it was old fashioned, to me it is a modern railway

Strange, I wondered the same last night when seeing it done in Anna Karenina.

This idea eventually evolved into ultrasonic testing of metal. If it doesn't sound right, there is a fissure in the piece.

Jeeeezzzzz the “music” gave me earache. 😖 Were they just rehearsing or deliberately playing discordantly ?

Ah the days when they allowed people to board trains more than 90 seconds before departure.

Remember very similar trains operating on that line in the late eighties.

I remember the class 50s hauling the Glasgow train on their maiden runs.

Pain Train Again. Nothing new to see here. "West coast main line rail trip 1969": A misnomer of the plagiarist kind.

I heard of a Wheeltapper had in a single week condemned every wheel tested, then realised his hammer had a crack in it.

Ahh, the obligatory annoying jazz...

Video ruined by lousy and intrusive background tripe

Im a canuck GP and every time i see this its exactly like a day at work, except minutes not seconds. Every day. For 25 years. I feel bad for the last patient always.

This is a really interesting film, of course the basic message is the need to be organised and focused at all times, and that has not changed. But the real magic of this is the imagery of the context and styles of the times, evoking memories of when I was an adolescent. The old Mark I coaches were always comfortable to ride in, more so than modern seats. I loved that ladies all dressed up smartly in those days, none of the horrible tracky bottoms, trainers and hoodies everyone seems to wear today. When I was growing up in the 60's it was always impressed on me that when I go out in public I represent my family and what I look like tells a story about my values, so I should always be "properly turned out". How times have changed! I really had to smile with empathy at the passengers caught out with the last minute platform change, especially the lady in the skirt suit and high heels with a child in tow, who was struggling to get up and down the stairs to the new platform in time. That has happened to me so many times! I'm usually dressed for business when I'm going on the train, so I'm normally in high heeled stiletto shoes just like her. They add sophistication to a smart outfit. But in my high heels, running on stairs is not an option! Especially as I usually have a wheelie case as well. So a last minute platform change is a real curse, and it still occurs all too frequently, causing me to miss trains. Thanks so much for posting. Marion

So now you know why wheeltappers tapped wheels! Tapping wheels is a skill learnt by wheeltappers over time. When the wheel is tapped, the wheeltapper listens for a change of note...as the wheeltapper taps, a sudden dip in tone tells the wheeltapper, ( who has just tapped the wheel), that there is a possible crack in the tapped wheel...in which case the affected, tapped wheel which the wheeltapper has just tapped, has to be changed...after it too has been tapped of course!

Stop order at carnforth.

I like how the video opens with a list of adjectives that definitely do not apply to Euston

Thank you for this wonderful upload of days gone by.

..." over the points, over the points, over the points...the 6.5 Special steamin' down the line....."

7.38 'The 0955 from Euston to the North'. This announcement at an intermediate station is funny and would be meaningless. They surely would have announced the departure time of the train from that station and where it was actually going.

Oh …. Come on dear..

Back then, airports like Heathrow were like this and over many decades up to the present day, the U.K. railways worsened while the Japanese railways massively improved to how they are now

Where was the station with the Platform 8

Aka The Pain Train. Been on here for several years.

That thing is duuuuuuurty!!!

Travelled behind one of those to and from Manchester Piccadilly in 1968. Sheila Hancock bought me a drink as a Sixth Former on the return journey following a visit to the Bank of England. Bill Grundy then arrived and pulled her away to the Restaurant Car. 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Nice wee cigarette 😂

125mph would have been as impossible back then, now it feels slow.

Modern train operators would be delighted to have trains only 18 and a half minutes late…

The good old days

Wasn't this originally called the "Pain Train". Maybe it was an internal educational film?

Shame about the jazz muzak soundtrack obscuring the unrefurbished Class 50 thrash!!

Little did we know that this is what they have modelled our present day trains on.

Will Hay was an inimitable talent

Travelling by train in Britain is now an ordeal not a pleasure.

Why have you ripped this video off from another owner ?? Its called the Pain Train and belongs to Bennet Brook Railway. Get your own content. 😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Ahh the pain train

Absolutely fantastic !!

Thought by 1969 they'd have the new Mark 2 coaches with air conditioning. The wood panelling inside seemed strange in carriages which looked so sleek on the outside.

D415 is currently numbered as 50015 and is still around today in preservation. E3155 was renumbered 86234 and was exported to Bulgaria where it is still in daily usage.

The RHTT wagons are maintained at Holbeck, York.

Euston. Spacious.... 🤨