Locomotive Class 31 cold start at Meldon Quarry Dartmoor

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  • @andrewlawson5779
    @andrewlawson5779 3 роки тому +60

    20 Benson & Hedges, 2 cups of tea and this loco's ready for the day😁

    • @nigeljames6017
      @nigeljames6017 2 роки тому +9

      It is the British way !

    • @adammoss5284
      @adammoss5284 Рік тому +2

      Trying to work out which spluttered more...? Lol

    • @andrewlawson5779
      @andrewlawson5779 Рік тому +4

      @adammoss5284 The way I am first thing in the morning the locomotive will be moving well before I do

    • @fredtedstedman
      @fredtedstedman 6 місяців тому +1

      6 cans of easy-start..........

    • @viviangrabowski6506
      @viviangrabowski6506 Місяць тому

      You do smoke more than the locomotive 😂Vivian Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 me too😅

  • @chriswilson2431
    @chriswilson2431 3 роки тому +40

    Wonderful to see another old loco spluttering into life again. Long live heritage traction!

  • @SpoonyMcSpoonface
    @SpoonyMcSpoonface 2 роки тому +29

    Some excellent noises. They really ought to be sampled for a drum track 🎼🥁

    • @giork2828
      @giork2828 2 роки тому

      Hot For Teacher, by Van Halen (and covered by @Chiara Cotugno, of course) ua-cam.com/video/nZe8worlDCM/v-deo.html

  • @treborsrednuas
    @treborsrednuas 2 роки тому +11

    Wow! Thats special, thanks for sharing this. I used to cycle the granite way upnto Meldon often and get a mars bar at the buffet car (now gone sadly) when I was growing up in Okey 20 years ago. The sidings were lined with those diesles and carriages just melting away like a sad rusty scrap yard. So lovely to see this video though when it was all alive.

  • @Mechknight73
    @Mechknight73 2 роки тому +21

    I always did find it entertaining how these engines seem to "start" with about two cylinders, then the rest join in once the first pair are firing. Although some people would love to sample the tune it's playing for a drum solo

  • @Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge
    @Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge 3 роки тому +10

    Built in the late 1950s, what a goer!

  • @eddherring4972
    @eddherring4972 Рік тому +16

    I’d love to see this towed into London ULEZ today (September 2023) and then started.

    • @394pjo
      @394pjo Рік тому +5

      Agreed. Cranked up on a bitterly cold day opposite Khan's office.

    • @stephensaines7100
      @stephensaines7100 7 місяців тому

      And I'd love to see you breathing it.

  • @BegudMaximan-zp2tc
    @BegudMaximan-zp2tc Рік тому +5

    That was a bit of a struggle, but aging locos get like that way, at least it runs once it warms up!

    • @arthurmchugh5184
      @arthurmchugh5184 14 днів тому

      I knew a woman like that!!!!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @73Datsun180B
    @73Datsun180B Рік тому +8

    I didn't realize class 31 had several hit n miss engines as a power-plant lol🤣

  • @raygale4198
    @raygale4198 2 роки тому +6

    I'd say that was a win, started fairly evenly for a cold engine. Not sure the engineer poking individual pumps into full fuel helped but probably helped identify the slow to light off cylinders.

  • @captainbimble
    @captainbimble 4 місяці тому +6

    Greta would be so happy!😂

    • @trs4u
      @trs4u 3 місяці тому

      It doesn't make any difference to her nor to JSO what people do with fossil-origin commodities. Once they're out of their geological deposits, the harm is fully realised. A lot of people fail to understand this. Nobody (even London ULEZ who have heritage exceptions) cares if heritage engines burn non-fossil diesel, or even non-fossil coal. All that's needed for synthetic direct replacements that keep everyone happy is colossal amounts of Renewable Energy, which UK has in offshore wind potential. Problem is people go straight to Millwall-Chelsea quarrelling and we can't have nice things.

    • @GEODUCK9
      @GEODUCK9 Місяць тому

      Gretas unsoaped lady parts are more polluting than this.

  • @livestocknetwork320
    @livestocknetwork320 Рік тому +5

    We demand the link between Plymouth to Exeter Central be restored!...

    • @OldeJanner
      @OldeJanner 25 днів тому +1

      So much traffic could come off Devon lanes if Beeching was controlled by a sensible government!
      Most of ours in the South Hams are full of Londoners 🤨🤐

    • @livestocknetwork320
      @livestocknetwork320 25 днів тому

      @OldeJanner Cost cutting Tories, true. But did Wilson reverse them? No...

  • @Grid56
    @Grid56 Рік тому +4

    Ah another standard EE startup!

  • @_RabbitLeader
    @_RabbitLeader 6 місяців тому +4

    It looks exposed to the risk of vandalism being stored overnight in such a location. Surprised to say the least!

  • @ColonelStraker
    @ColonelStraker Рік тому +4

    Quite honestly, it sounds like my ten-year-old lawnmower, when I start it up 😂

  • @nigelterry9299
    @nigelterry9299 2 роки тому +3

    A grumpy startup!!!

  • @twinturbo199
    @twinturbo199 4 місяці тому

    Absolutely love the BR class 31

  • @ALCO-C855-fan
    @ALCO-C855-fan 5 місяців тому +2

    Looks like the Leader, all in smoke...

  • @smallrails6831
    @smallrails6831 Рік тому +1

    Love the video and loco sounds

  • @danielcapo1991
    @danielcapo1991 2 роки тому +3

    nice start 👍

  • @soldier-Dave
    @soldier-Dave 2 роки тому +2

    What we used to call a “brush” loco in my seventies days

  • @gambeersagar6838
    @gambeersagar6838 Рік тому +2

    Wonderful

  • @JamesTrigg
    @JamesTrigg Місяць тому

    needs a couple of cans of "Start Ya Bastard!" to get her going (Ether)

  • @angusabbott5615
    @angusabbott5615 4 місяці тому +2

    Amazing

  • @Ontheballpaul72
    @Ontheballpaul72 5 місяців тому +2

    Sounds like it needs new spark plugs or maybe the distributor cap needs turning a few degrees to get the timing right

  • @Jimmer93
    @Jimmer93 3 роки тому +2

    Sad to see so much of the old Heritage stock leaving Dartmoor :/

  • @steffanharaldjanzen6600
    @steffanharaldjanzen6600 2 роки тому

    Bloody hell Dave Law aka Skinny has been on board

  • @cpeast
    @cpeast 2 роки тому +4

    Firing up the old tractor 🚜 🔥

  • @cannadineboxill-harris2983
    @cannadineboxill-harris2983 Рік тому +1

    I needed to know why they don’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for the main line Train so that they can extend the unused abandoned underground train stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock that includes the class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign them an overhead line and also make them into Five cars per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on those Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 8-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into an 11 car per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers. A Stock Trains and also having 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it larger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Railway tunnel into a High-Speed Railway lines? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Railway line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. Then put the modernised 11 car per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 cars per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 47 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project if that will be OK for London Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from the Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden more Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly Line and also build brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street can they also make another brand new underground train station in Chingford and could they extend the Piccadilly Line and the DLR right up to Chingford? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Scania N112, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and can they order Every 77 Octagon and Every 47 Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13, unique small no.11 and unique small no.10 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 147MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 147MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units, can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!!!!!, oh can you make all of those Coal Boxes’s 18 Tonnes for all of those 147MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!! so please make sure that the Builders can do as they are told!!!!! And Please do something about these very very important Professional ideas Please? Prime Minister of England, Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Germany, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.

  • @curtchase3730
    @curtchase3730 3 роки тому +4

    At what point did the engineer let up on the starter?

    • @chief9938
      @chief9938 Рік тому +1

      He didn’t.

    • @CreRay
      @CreRay Рік тому

      Somewhere around 1:00

  • @madanto2394
    @madanto2394 Рік тому +1

    Congestion charge probably £1.200,000-

  • @garymay8905
    @garymay8905 Рік тому +1

    Look at that lovely muck

  • @briansmith-l1q
    @briansmith-l1q Місяць тому

    have to feed it more fuel after you start it?

  • @kopasz9140
    @kopasz9140 2 роки тому +2

    That guy with his TDI at 6 a.m.

  • @robertfeeley9738
    @robertfeeley9738 2 роки тому

    Why get a new one when the old one is top noch

  • @andrashennel3765
    @andrashennel3765 Рік тому

    It really makes me think. Why the BR diesel locos sounds so different. All other diesel loco sounds simmilar-ish but you know Just from the sound, that it is a BR loco.

  • @cpeast
    @cpeast 2 роки тому +3

    Be sure to keep the choke on and let it warm.

    • @cidertom5140
      @cidertom5140 2 роки тому

      Diesels don’t have chokes

    • @cpeast
      @cpeast 2 роки тому

      @@cidertom5140 of course not i was just kidding 😅

    • @cpeast
      @cpeast 2 роки тому

      Of course diesels don't have sparkplugs either! I will tell my kids that.

  • @KennethMyers-h6h
    @KennethMyers-h6h 2 місяці тому

    I hope there isn’t anyone living near that who are just pinning the washing out.😊

  • @Bodgemiester
    @Bodgemiester 2 роки тому +2

    All this could be saved by an engine pre heater left on a couple of hours before starting

  • @mikebryan7060
    @mikebryan7060 2 роки тому +1

    My word. What year would that engine have dated from? Mid 80s.,?

    • @milepost197
      @milepost197  2 роки тому +2

      Class 31 locomotives were introduced in 1957

    • @mikebryan7060
      @mikebryan7060 2 роки тому +3

      @@milepost197 oh thank you. I am no train enthusiast but love these videos of filthy diesel engines blowing out smoke, soot and flames and they splutter into life. It reminds me of my student days travelling on endless BR trains.

  • @ONEFATE9
    @ONEFATE9 14 днів тому

    Ya gotta ji-ji- jiggle it a bit!!!!

  • @ClipzNY
    @ClipzNY 2 роки тому +8

    Where are all the tree hugger posts about global warming etc? 😂😂😂

  • @norburycrossing3426
    @norburycrossing3426 Рік тому

    Peds!!!! ❤🔥

  • @ziggengineering7861
    @ziggengineering7861 6 місяців тому

    Here we have each cylinder taking its turn to have a go on the piston ring they borrowed from a Austin Allegro ! 😄
    📣Get some brake & clutch cleaner down the bloody inlet boyos!” 🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @ByteCounter
    @ByteCounter 3 дні тому

    You really must buy yourself a tripod.

  • @meleuz1111
    @meleuz1111 Місяць тому

    Посмотрите на крыши российских тепловозов, даже новых и на крышу этого тепловоза и найдите различие.

  • @crazyfroggie6546
    @crazyfroggie6546 Рік тому

    Sounds like a steam engine getting going,

  • @BobSmith-ui4qu
    @BobSmith-ui4qu 2 роки тому

    It is not a no co2 engine.

  • @TheNorthDevonOrganist
    @TheNorthDevonOrganist Рік тому +2

    some new piston rings would help.

  • @bryankincaid6064
    @bryankincaid6064 2 роки тому +3

    greta is going to love you lot ....blah blah blah

  • @viviangrabowski6506
    @viviangrabowski6506 Місяць тому

    Put this sound in my bedroom - its like music ❤Vivian Hyde 🏳️‍🌈 😊

  • @Sergey322
    @Sergey322 9 місяців тому

    What’s up Mile197. Сan I add your video to my channel?

  • @animaltvi
    @animaltvi Рік тому

    Nearly as much smoke as my old ford cargo. .

  • @stevenkerry3101
    @stevenkerry3101 2 роки тому +1

    Deltics don't they just sound amazing .

  • @roberthaydon7973
    @roberthaydon7973 Рік тому

    Another D5600.

  • @KeithDeley
    @KeithDeley 5 місяців тому

    And they said steamers were bad for the environment 😢

  • @nomon95
    @nomon95 2 роки тому +5

    Starts only in orne cylinder,later two,later three.....at the end more cylinders working.
    This issue Is because compression pressure Is a bit low.
    The ideal ignition fuel temperature Is 500.....550 celcious.
    In the cold start in old machines,this happen frequently.
    The flames are consequence for the clag (fuel sprayed as steam)in all exhaust system.A single spark make the clag to ignition AND,of course,flames are present.
    When the engine Is hot and all the cylinders working,the clag Is no present AND the engine run normal.

  • @davidfalconer8913
    @davidfalconer8913 Рік тому

    Imagine if your car did this ( before going to work ) ... ( ? ) ....... DAVE™ 🛑

  • @DaleRunningbear
    @DaleRunningbear Рік тому

    😂needs tune up

  • @PaulKnapper-cn5io
    @PaulKnapper-cn5io Місяць тому

    Ho the pollution, I think we can live with it 🤣

  • @macmckenzie1242
    @macmckenzie1242 2 роки тому +3

    Refugee from scrap heap.

  • @robertfeeley9738
    @robertfeeley9738 2 роки тому +1

    Need a fuel preheated and the show is over

  • @johnbrown9092
    @johnbrown9092 6 місяців тому

    Eat your heart out Greta!!!😂

  • @iansomers376
    @iansomers376 2 роки тому +2

    British Railways wanted to get rid of steam locos because they were ‘ inefficient and dirty ‘!

  • @gooldii1
    @gooldii1 10 місяців тому

    A Symbol for all Cars with Ice Motor.
    All disgusting Chesters!

  • @cannadineboxill-harris2983
    @cannadineboxill-harris2983 Місяць тому +1

    Hi there my real Name is Mr Cannadine T. Boxill-Harris, I have another interesting idea for most of us Class 507, Class 508, Class 313, and Class 314 and that also includes those interesting Class 315 Very Very Loud 7 Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Transmission Train fans out there, rather than scrapping most of those Class 507, Class 508, Class 313's Class 314 including the Class 315's maybe you guys can convert them. Including rebuilding most of the brand new refurbishment into the Volvo TD102KF Engine, Gardner 6LXCT Engine, Leyland TL11 Engine, Volvo B10M Engine, Leyland 510 Engine, Gardner 6LXB Engine, Gardner LG1200 Engine, Gardner 8LXB Engine, Class 507’s Class 313's, Class 314's and the Class 315's with a Very Very Loud 7 Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearboxes and converting and that will also be including building most of them into a Two Carriages and Three Carriages per units of the Class 507’s Class 313’s, Class 508’s Class 314's and that is including those Class 315 Very Very Loud 7 Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Transmission for all of us Class 314 and Class 315 Diesel Train fans out there PLEASE. Are you still going to do this interesting type of Project? Class 507, Class 313, and Class 314 will be rebuilding the brand new Class 315 Diesel Train fans out there Pretty Please?

  • @stephencampbell9384
    @stephencampbell9384 Рік тому

    Don't shoot that barrel ;)

  • @1947acw
    @1947acw Рік тому

    Get a tripod. ?????????????????????????/

  • @robertmarsh3588
    @robertmarsh3588 2 роки тому +1

    Very entertaining, but surely worse than a steam loco for the environment?
    I love the class 31 btw..

  • @ИванДонченко-х4ш
    @ИванДонченко-х4ш 2 роки тому

    Ну хватит небо каптить и без того дышать нечем !

  • @fredtedstedman
    @fredtedstedman 6 місяців тому

    she looks derelict , shame ! ( and I'm supposed to worry about how much pollution my 1300 car produces !!)

  • @beautifulcatastrophe
    @beautifulcatastrophe 2 роки тому +1

    Look at the air pollution

  • @brianblessing8369
    @brianblessing8369 3 роки тому +2

    must been using crappy/shitty diesel fuel with all the popping and banging goin on

    • @combatrailfanfilms848
      @combatrailfanfilms848 2 роки тому

      No. Deltic Prime mover. Normal ops.

    • @SpoonyMcSpoonface
      @SpoonyMcSpoonface 2 роки тому +8

      @@combatrailfanfilms848 it’s an English Electric engine not a Napier Deltic.

    • @nikkihicks5693
      @nikkihicks5693 2 роки тому

      Fuel has nothing to do with it...

    • @cidertom5140
      @cidertom5140 2 роки тому

      @@nikkihicks5693 yes it does it’s exploding like a petrol does in the exhausts at times hence the backfiring and sometimes flames.

    • @CreRay
      @CreRay Рік тому

      @@cidertom5140 No, that's external combustion. It happens when combustion is so late and incomplete that it can continue in the exhaust.Backfire does not occur on diesel engines.

  • @BegudMaximan-zp2tc
    @BegudMaximan-zp2tc Рік тому +1

    That was a bit of a struggle, but aging locos get like that way, at least it runs once it warms up!

    • @moelSiabod14334
      @moelSiabod14334 Рік тому +1

      Just the odd stuck valve, let it warm up for 10 mins and then they will all join the quire to sing a fine old tune.