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James Underwood
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Somerset Yard Bash 5 - 7th October 2018
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Somerset Yard Bash 5 - 7th October 2018
Plane Spotting Berlin Tegel Airport Friday 7th September 2018
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A video from the observation deck at Tegel Airport on the 7th September 2018. I know I spelled 'Tegel' wrong in the intro clip! On screen text describes operator, aircraft type, serial and flight number with destinations where it came from or is going to (except for the German Air Force 319 and 340, as I didn't know where they came from or went to, possibly Cologne?) I hope you enjoy the video!
Plaxton Panorama Elite II Bedford VAL RPR 738K
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Plaxton Panorama Elite II Bedford VAL RPR 738K
Gaydon Buses Festival 2018
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Some of the vehicles running on the free rides at the Gaydon Buses Festival 2018. I couldn't film everything as the camcorder was very low on battery.
Somerset Yard Bash 4
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A video of the Somerset Yard Bash 4 organised by myself on the 2nd of June 2018. 22 people attended the yard bash, and we visited First Bath, Arleen Coach Hire, Stanton Wick site (home of Citistar, Glenvic, Travel Filers and Somerbus), First Hengrove, First Lawrence Hill and Abus. 4 different vehicles were used, Arleen's Plaxton Paramount Dennis Javelin XIB 8381, Somerbus Scania Omnidekka 704 B...
37069+37259 The Retro Bath Centurion - 26/05/2018
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37069 37259 is seen hammering up the incline through Dilton Marsh (with 68025 on the rear) working the 1Z53 06.05 Huddersfield - Salisbury. Then the 37's are seen passing near Yarnbrook (Trowbridge) on the return 1Z54 16.01 Salisbury - Huddersfield
Buses in Weston-super-Mare 21/04/2018
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Filmed on the last day of Crosville Motor Services operations in Weston-super-Mare, this video features both the normal First Bus operations and the also the Crosville operations, featuring the Bristol VR and Bristol FLF that were put on the route 100 to Sand Bay along with the ALX400, and also their steam bus and their Dennis Dart on the route 106. First Bus operations feature the Dennis Darts...
Buses and coaches in London - 16/04/2018
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This is a short video, as I have not filmed buses before so if this becomes something of interest to people, I shall certainly do more of these. Here we see buses (including open tops and Routemasters) and various coaches at Parliament Square and Wellington Arch, with a couple of shots from Marble Arch and Haymarket (Trafalgar Square)
Wright Eclipse Volvo B7 sound - onboard 66884
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On board First's Bath based Wright Eclipse Volvo B7RLE 66884 (MX55 HHO) on the route 5 from the Bus Station to Twerton
Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Hows my driving?
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My first video of ETS2, and one of my first few drives in ETS2 since about a year ago. Now I've passed my car test, I've been trying to get used to the Logitech G25 wheel again! This is a couple of short filmed sections taking a yacht from Amsterdam to Luxembourg. But the big question is, hows my driving??
Salzburg Trolley Bus Diesel Mode
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On Board a Salzburg Trolley Bus, but unfortunately I cannot remember what type of vehicle it was. The bus is going on a diversion off the wires through the tunnel on the Innbrucker Bundesstraße road, as the trolley bus route through the tunnel was closed due to road works. This was taken on the 11th October 2015
TS2017: 5J81 09+15 London Bridge - Selhurst Depot timelapse
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A timelapse video from my 2005 South London to Brighton Rush Hour pack. This is scenario #10, the 5J81 0915 from London Bridge - Selhurst T&R.S.M.D via Tulse Hill with a pair of Class 423 'VEP' units as booked.
Faresaver ALX400 LJ54 BFM
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An onboard video on Faresaver's very loud ALX400 LJ54 BFM on the X34 route. The first part is on the main road between Semington and Trowbridge, then the rest of the video is selected part's on it's run from Frome to Chippenham. Recorded on the 29th December 2016.
Me driving FIVE locos, Class 20, 26, 35, 37 and 45
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A great day on the Driver for a Fiver runs, decided to just do some driving on loco's I hadn't done before, almost cleared the home fleet for driving now! The video is organised in numerical order, rather than the order I drove them in. The locos are: 20137 - had two goes as no-one was waiting for it at all, brilliant drive though. 26043 - Again, not bad but couldn't quite grasp the power handl...
A Hymek drive for me one day hopefully.
Sounds great. The pump timing sounds absolutely spot on. 👌👌 slightly advanced by the sounds of the bark. Exactly what you need for the non turbo
Slow down
Spaceship.
Fancy driving that to Edinburgh ? Though I’m sure a lot of drivers did very successfully.
That old Bedford sounds sweet as a nut, takes me back to my school days.
It's running great 👍
Great to drive,this one will have a 466 cu in engine but later ones had 500 cu in to get them uphill you had to change down early and keep the revs up. They went round corners like a train on a track
These were our 70's/80's school buses, three-to-a-seat so 75 kids, & if occasionally a few extras, two kids sat on the carpeted engine cover there next to the driver....! When the other sister skool bus broke down on the way back to our village, the driver filled up the centre aisle with kids off that bus also, there must have been 100+ moaning & grumbling kids on the bus that day....! Only Radio 1 & Steve Wright In The Afternoon & Mr Angry from Purley lifted our spirits..!
(Opens the throttle on the 37) Oh my, are we supposed to rocket off from the station?
5 speed Turner gearbox?
Geared like a road bus
I recall as a child in 1971 my ears being hammered by one of these sitting near the front with my dad on a sightseeing trip around snowdonia out of Llandudno, as well as the noise climbing the hills I recall the sunroof leaking in the obligatory rain. I was fascinated by it being twin steer.
I wonder why Bedford didn’t use larger units like leyland did, and taller gearing ?
I don’t think he likes his mirrors very much
I just love the bit where he signals to the lorry driver his intentions proper driving proper gent love a plaxton🤠
what a fantastic sound
Great to see 42471 there, should be back out this year!
That distinctive icky smell as you boarded one of these old girls...reminds me of the Wednesday night after school detention bus what used to be laid on for us naughty kids back in the day 😂
I remember this as a kid, was that big block next to the gear stick the engine? I always wondered what that was
It is the engine
@@stevelester9015 the engine is inside the cabin?
@@seeyouintheeighties it is right next to the driver
The only loco I have driven was a V63 / 630 / Gigant, a 12,000 hp Co-Co electric loco in Hungary at 100 kmh / 62 mph !
This vehicle fiitted with Leyland 401?
Bedford 466
I want to have a go on that one
Takes me back to early 1970's when as kids we were taken to the swimming lessons at Lancaster Baths and school tours in a Duple Viceroy run by Baterrsy silver grey coach company from Heysham. I can remember how we all roared " Hurray" as the coach moved off on our trips. This video is timewharp and beautiful. That guy really knows how to drive thus lovely old coach. Pity about the toerag in the red car overtaking at an insane speed. Yess a turbo would be welcome but that's how these old creatures were full of character.
It’s nice to see that you just have to drive all the time James Underwood
4:36 - What a cacophony. I love it!
"this is the self preservation society"
I love that engine sound!
Fantastic
noisy!
These things were woefully underpowered
They were of their time.
Reminds me of primary school journeys in late 80s on 45 seater coach plated SOR944G.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who weirdly remembered my school bus / coach number plate mine was rrt100w 😂
Speed pick up on the 37 pretty good for a 60yo lady...
How much power does this thing have? I was quite surprised to see the driver have to rev match it into first going up that hill at around the 5:00 mark. Sound reminds me of American 2 stroke diesels.
Not much, maybe 140 bhp.
It was down to second gear up the hill, they weren't best known for hill climbing 🙂
Nice sounding, but quite underpowered compared to say a Leyland Leopard, which had a much larger engine
It’s cool to hear the old engine sounds ! These things were desperate for a turbo
didnt like hills very much did it?.....
That driver never used his N/S mirror once, it’s a good job nobody was up his near side,does make me wonder how many times he’s clipped something and not known about it,I’m glad he not driving an artic with a 40 foot trailer behind him.
Actually I did use the mirrors, I always know where my coach is and no curbs were clipped, and for your information I also own and drive 40ft artics 😅😅
@@stevelester9015 I think you should look at the video before making any comments,it didn’t show you in a good light and had you been taking your test with the examiner sat behind you you would have failed and as far as I could see you neither checked your near side mirror or looked over your right shoulder to check there was a cyclists along side you in your blind spot, I have a class one HGV license as well as a full PSV license for double decker’s and have had them for over 50years. I have driven all the early Duple and Plaxton coaches by Ford Bedford AEC and Leyland mostly 52 seaters but now only drive Scania artics.
Well done you I'm so pleased for you 😂😂😂
ua-cam.com/video/Uuk6l3WwBG0/v-deo.html I found a video for you David. Hope you don't feel left out anymore 😂😘
What the hell are you talking about? The driving was progressive and smooth. Wipe your chin, you seem to be dribbling excrement.
Takes me back to when I was a nipper in the late 1970s. We used to get taken to the local swimming baths in St Helens in one very similar to this. Can still hear that engine and smell the upholstery. Happy days.
Yes - I know just how this would smell!
Love to do something like this ❤️Classic locos and Classic Clag ❤️
The Hymek would be my No1
Hi from Sydney , Australia. I grew up in Mosman , Sydney & the local bus owner/operator was my grandad's mate they had both studied engineering together. When Bill bought his first 4 VAL's I was still a kid at school & one of my favourite toys was Dinky Toys Bedford VAL Vega Major , I had all 4 versions , the 2 British versions with & without flashing indicators & the 2 Swisse mail versions with & without flashing indicators. As an aside, I had to go all the way to a Swiss post shop in the 1960's to get my M-961 blinking light version , & saw one at a toy auction 3 years back sell for just below $3500 US dollars !! for a TOY . However in reality in the end , Bill bought all 16 Bedford VAL chassis that came to Australia, including one that was damaged in an accident & subsequent small fire , to remedy this he bought a "display" body off GM-Vauxhall in the UK which had been on show at their facility when he had earlier visited the UK to place orders & look at the new VAL, he enquired if they still owned it and would it be available for sale, it had a chassis , no engine , no interior , so once purchased & shipped here 12,000miles away , the fitted the engine & drive line from the damaged on , commissioned a new fresh interior , had it passed for New South Wales registration & it was then in service. When I was going to UNI' in my last year I helped Bill out on several charters when he was a driver short on trips from Sydney to Canberra all up about 400 mile run and back then then driving around the spacious and in 70's near empty grand wide boulevards & freeways in Canberra taking groups to the Nation's premiere museums, art Gallery , National Art gallery etc over a long weekend, also back in the early 70's we did not have the Sydney to Canberra motorway so there were windy hilly sections of the old Hume Highway , then off that & onto the Federal highway just out of Goulburn , finally the really windy hilly & steep section just before NSW becomes the ACT, these VAL's were a joy to drive , & they were all I'd hoped that they would be all the years later when I was finally old enough to be legally allowed to drive one with a full compliment of passengers. AS they still to this day look amazing with their twin steer wheels & beautiful ahead of their time panoramic window & body designs. Re the unique gear shift pattern , compared to some of the older specialist vehicles that my own Grandad owned in his fleet of vehicles , the Bedford VAL's was easy .
What an idiot taking it down that lane
Its kept in a barn on the lane and has done ever since I've owned it
I know people don't like noise but that's brilliant
That sounds bloody great I loved the sound of trucks and buses when I was a kid this sounds awesome I used to love the sound of the bedford army trucks great stuff glad people like these vehicles keep em going 👍
Lucky boy!
Came across this video, used to part own & drive a plaxton panorama elite with a Ford straight 6, chinese gearbox & Eaton 2 speed backaxle. No power steering & air over hydraulics brakes, gearbox was badly worn synchro so double declutching was a must, you wouldn't get thro the box if you couldn't do that.
These old Bedford coaches have a sound of their own. Music to my ears! I hope this one has lots of miles to travel yet. She runs as sweet as a nut.If the Bedford Val in the Italian Job had been driven as well as this, the guys would have got the gold bars to their intended destination!
Ok these sounds like some of the F70s/ F77s so is this bus used for it or Wright Solar, i dont just know!!? (Milton Keynes - Luton Station Interchange, Via Bletchley, Leighton Buzzard & Dunstable)
Would love a shot of that!
That sound takes me back 30 years and going on the coach with all the family and extended family to Blackpool for the lights such happy times sadly so far away least can see these old girls saved now