Collecting the Milk Part 2 Exeter St Davids

Milk from Hemyock has arrived in Exeter, where it is joined by trains from other locations before being shunted by NB Type 2 (Class 22) diesels, as other diesel hydraulics pass by.

[@ianjones4116]

Wow !!! Simply brilliant. So many locos in a short clip. What a collection too, Gronk, Rat , Warship, Whizzo, and the North British that I cant remember the class 😂😂.. Loved the Shunting. 👍👍😎

[@NicholasHolmes-bf5gi]

The milk tanks would come up to Acton Yard. Then some would go to a dairy at Ilford. The train was worked by Stratford men. Some would be taken across to the Southern by Waterloo men . These tanks would either go Morden or Vauxhall ,or both again the trains worked by Waterloo men. There may well have been other destinations in the London area, but I don't know where they were.....

[@barryroberts2196]

Oh happy days 😁😁

[@JohnSmith-sl1my]

Good ENGLAND 👍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@michaelsandford1015]

It's a pity that no locomotives of that class were preserved

[@wilhelmtauber836]

yes, the milk tankers were gathered from the various Devon dairies/creameries and taken to Exeter St David's , then marshalled into longer trains (often 10 to 20 tanks) and then hauled by a larger loco to the West London bottling plant at Olympia (usually two milk trains a day to London, but all this finished about 1978 when replaced by road lorry milk tankers when BR lost this franchise).

[@SargentRail]

Thanks so much! I’ve been trying for ages to research the dairy operations and this helped ten ton! Again, thanks!

[@godfreyday6673]

A Warship would come into Totnes every evening at 6.15pm. About 5 tanks would be taken and replaced at Unigate Dairies Totnes

[@bikechainmic]

Such a shame a D63xx wasnt preserved ( I know they tried but it was cut at Swindon "by accident")
Lovelly vid, thank you

[@fredphipps9452]

Totally agree

[@robwooding5046]

hi enjoyed both parts ,nice to see filming of the class 22 and branch line working the music is down to taste didn`t bother me with the absence of real sound which would be like trying to find hen`s teeth was in keeping with the film, thanks for sharing.

[@colfuller3625]

Brilliant film

[@adammoss5284]

Love the music too 👍🏻

[@andrewoverton5170]

Enjoyed the footage, the music less so. If it's silent let it be golden.

[@BobBishopDiagonal]

The answer lies in your suggestion on Part1
ua-cam.com/video/bG2eQeBawPg/v-deo.html
unless, that is, you have some genuine Class 22 sound you would like to share

[@rivet4431]

Where was the dairy that the milk went to ?

[@BobBishopDiagonal]

Probably London

[@oldgoat5589]

Kensington, Olympia.