I find it amazing that the Crewe to Wembley 0A06 ran with similar loco's over 20 years ago, wouldn't be uncommon today to find a 90 hauling a 92 or two on that run, 21 years later!
Fantastic video. This was most likely the last era of proper loco hauled trains and British rail engineered locomotives and trains. Instead all we have now is just modern trams on railways and Canadian or American diesel locos for freight.
Were the rails just knackered back then or was suspension not as sophisticated because there seems to be a fair bit of jumping around on some of these clips!
The asset was well and truly knackered! BR had sweated the asset before privatisation due to a lack of investment, not helped by several WCML upgrade scheme proposals being rejected, then early Railtrack years (and maintenance contractors) sweated the asset even more as every time they had to cancel trains to ‘buy’ a possession to carry out works, they had to pay! Hence West Coast Route Modernisation project (1999 to 2008) had a huge task to repair, upgrade and enhance the WCML condition, speed and capacity.
@@ModelRailway Which the WCML Modernisation didn't go fully as planned (didn't reach 140mph capability due to the requirement for all trains to have in cab signalling) and even then the benefits didn't last long before capacity was eaten up. Now we have to build a dedicated line for intercity express trains to free up the line for slower passenger and freight traffic, in the form of HS2!
@@MannyAntipov Agree … some parts of WCRM certainly didn’t go as planned/originally contracted, such as the in-cab signalling! However, back to the opening post, even 20yrs after WCRM, you don’t see many ‘wet-spots’ along the WCML since WCRM and even today, or see many trains jumping around on very poor areas of track geometry quality. So many aspects of WCRM and asset management since did do a good job. 👍
An earlier version of DB red. One of the three European liveries applied to class 90s to celebrate the beginning of inter-continental freight services through the channel tunnel. Both classes 90 and 92 have since come to wear DB liveries legitimately.
The chap responsible for sticking the music on there would agree with you. I'm actually surprised they weren't his own compositions, so he could at least justify it that way
Interesting formation in that HST at 2:40. The TGS is located at the first class end.
Excellent. The music is straight from a corporate health and safety video :D
Loool so true haha
Mid 90’s WCML was a great line then. Spent many weekends running up and down the steps at Tamworth…..
I find it amazing that the Crewe to Wembley 0A06 ran with similar loco's over 20 years ago, wouldn't be uncommon today to find a 90 hauling a 92 or two on that run, 21 years later!
Thanks for the upload 👍 I find watching train videos therapeutic
Fantastic video. This was most likely the last era of proper loco hauled trains and British rail engineered locomotives and trains. Instead all we have now is just modern trams on railways and Canadian or American diesel locos for freight.
I’m glad I’m just about old enough to have seen these types of operations in action
Excellent. The music is good and i love the variety of trains.
TRAIN CRAZY! Remember those video’s that were pretty much all the range in the 1990s
I was 6 years old when this was filmed i feel old wathing it in 2019
6:25 why is there a 309 on the WCML
Considering it was coming from Ilford, it might've had some routine maintenance.
Used to have this on video back in the day.
Same here! Was an excellent day when I found it uploaded on YT
24:42 to 33:40 is the best bit
Were the rails just knackered back then or was suspension not as sophisticated because there seems to be a fair bit of jumping around on some of these clips!
The asset was well and truly knackered! BR had sweated the asset before privatisation due to a lack of investment, not helped by several WCML upgrade scheme proposals being rejected, then early Railtrack years (and maintenance contractors) sweated the asset even more as every time they had to cancel trains to ‘buy’ a possession to carry out works, they had to pay! Hence West Coast Route Modernisation project (1999 to 2008) had a huge task to repair, upgrade and enhance the WCML condition, speed and capacity.
@@ModelRailway Which the WCML Modernisation didn't go fully as planned (didn't reach 140mph capability due to the requirement for all trains to have in cab signalling) and even then the benefits didn't last long before capacity was eaten up. Now we have to build a dedicated line for intercity express trains to free up the line for slower passenger and freight traffic, in the form of HS2!
@@MannyAntipov Agree … some parts of WCRM certainly didn’t go as planned/originally contracted, such as the in-cab signalling! However, back to the opening post, even 20yrs after WCRM, you don’t see many ‘wet-spots’ along the WCML since WCRM and even today, or see many trains jumping around on very poor areas of track geometry quality. So many aspects of WCRM and asset management since did do a good job. 👍
4:21 What is the livery on 90129?
red
An earlier version of DB red. One of the three European liveries applied to class 90s to celebrate the beginning of inter-continental freight services through the channel tunnel. Both classes 90 and 92 have since come to wear DB liveries legitimately.
Late on the reply sorry lol. The Belgian livery is on a still shot at 1:27:20. There was an SNCF one also (not shown).
Was this called 'Train Crazy' or something similar? I'm sure I had it on VHS too!
soooooooooooooo great video!!!!!! Im japanese but I love WCML so much!!
Buy train simulator so you can experience it
great video, reminds me of the good old days of rail travel
: is it just me or does the 1'st song sound better sped up 1.25
if you can put up with the music, it's a good watch!
The chap responsible for sticking the music on there would agree with you. I'm actually surprised they weren't his own compositions, so he could at least justify it that way
Pure classical 90s cheesy tunes haha. Takes me back to the videos you'd watch in school
That music from 28:00 is great though! Not a fan of the other music though
No tilt 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Good times before the railways were taken over by those happy clappy kids and turned into "trainbow"
I miss the WCML as it was in the 1990's
If you think that’s the main problem, oh you have so much to learn..