I know what the classic Latin meaning of decimate is, the modern idiom is used in this video under artistic license . ANY COMMENTS ABOUT IT WILL BE REMOVED
The sound of the Deltic in full song takes me back to being 6 years old stood at my parents bedroom window waiting in anticipation of the Deltic pulling out of the station, could hear it three miles away. Loved watching and listening to them thundering past at 100mph. Modern trains are sterile now, all sound the same with no individuality.
All my life I,ve loved my German Trains from kid on,but I have to say this British brute looks awesome however little I know about English Trains Wow awesome color scheme too Don’t worry Ladies and gents this German loves your cars older that is,love you Brits as well
check it out at 93 mph ua-cam.com/video/uDm8oG1yB4Y/v-deo.html and 100mph at night ua-cam.com/video/1scc2h5PflU/v-deo.html, - nothing quite makes a noise like a deltic with its engine gunned,.
The Deltic sounded mean just idling but on full chat..... wow! I used to lie awake in bed every week night for the express service from Doncaster to Hull to pass just after 10pm pulled by a Deltic. That sound just carried on the night air like no other.
Haha same in Swindon used to hear a Class 50 late night early morning parcels probably chugging through the countryside The sound of the clag through the air was something to behold
These DELTICS are great sounding machines. And I'm that the 33captain Bill was there too. Seen it a few times and I miss the 33 sounds in Portsmouth greatly. Nice little engines. Great video
I wasn't old enough to appreciate "Steam" I grew up with these Dirty Rotten smelly Oil Burners and I loved them, I enjoyed reading Andy Houghtons anecdote takes a man blessed with a curtain amount of knowledge, to rescue the situation with out to much fuss, you can tell a man from Wigan, But! you can't tell him much…
I used to dash across the Mytery (the Wavertree playing fields ) in Liverpool to the embankment to see the blue Deltic with a yellow arrow sweep by towards Lime Street Station. must have neeb about 1957 or 58.
I'm in my late seventies now, but can remember when I first saw a Deltic, I was probably about 13/14 years old, I was with a few mates at Northwick Park (before the hospital was built) in Kenton, Middlesex -( but now north London) which is on the west coast main line from Euston. The line has a steady incline up from London. The usual express trains were headed by Coronations, Royal Scots or Princess class steam locos, often double headed by a black five, and usually passed us at approximately 40-50mph, working hard, belching clouds of smoke. But on one particular day, no smoke but a heavy throb of a large diesel engine from a light blue Deltic with 12 coaches at a speed we all estimated at approx. 65-70 mph. I then thought "this is going to be the end of steam" This sight made quite an impression on me, and to this day when I see a Deltic (especially in blue) on UA-cam or in railway films/ Museums, my mind goes back to that sight I had nearly 60 plus years ago.
A Deltic on test at Vulcan foundry had the same governor/limiters fitted at both ends, not normal practice but they wanted to test her on the dynomometer...to cut a long story short all the engineers ran when they failed and she showed 3000rpm and over 7000hp causing smoke to rise from the windings.....it took one of the old hands who had taken a part time job of an evening cleaning the shop floor to take his broom to the fuel cut off valve to avert disaster. One Engineer in his haste ran through the personnel door in the hanger doors into what he thought was the night sky. It turned out the hanger door was half open and it was a black painted wall! He recovered a few months later after a long stay in Billinge Infirmary. 2-stroke diesels, perfect balance, shame the fuel consumption was so bad!
@Matthew Lund That's the trouble, these days, they got rid of the old-timers who knew what they were doing and took on a load of management trainees and oiks off the street who are not railwaymen, all in the name of privatisation. Glad I retired on redundancy in 1993.
Actually warming up again, and where I am in western Canada (British Columbia), it never really got the Polar Vortex thing. I was in the UK for three weeks in 2011 and travelled everywhere by train, and loved it. Can't get your scenery and railway network out of my head!
There is just no other look or sound, iconic locos, I've watched this before, Great video. would there be a chance of using some of the audio to go with a model rail video I am planning please?
Looking at the front coming at me I realized it looks a bit like a caterpillar, or the larval stage of Mothra... anyway, I love the Deltics... genius engine.
Deltic was the most powerful diesel locomotive in the world, apparently. Yet BR built only 37 examples. Did BR not see a possible market for such a product in overseas territories? Or was it too blinkered by nationalisation, to think of exporting a fine product? Even allowing it to be built under licence would have made sense.
It wasn't BR. English Electric (the manufacturer) even put an American style headlight on DP1, the prototype, but people just didn't care, other than BR who didn't have anything suitable to replace the A4's on the ECML, so they ordered 37 of them
@@StaxRail I still think someone missed a splendid opportunity to win export sales. I doubt the thing even amortized its own development costs. And in the 1950s, Britain was desperate to earn foreign currency. My guess is that Britain was just not commercially savvy in these times.
@@StaxRail But one of the problems with early diesels, was that they were not as powerful as the steam locomotives, which they were intended to replace. The Deltic was the first which was MORE powerful. English Electric must have been a fantastic company. It also built the Lightening fighter aeroplane, refrigerators and even bus bodies. Where did it all go wrong?
@@thrunsguinneabottle3066 it wasn't EE's fault. The export market, eg America, had already been using diesel for a decade and had managed to develop their engines, such as the F7, so that they were powerful enough. Because we didn't start to modernise until 1955, we were left in the dust
The number at the front is the "head code", an old system that showed the type of service it was, and the route it was taking. OZ = Light engine to Motive Power Depot or not to work a train. The number on the side is the class of loco and the build serial number.
grazie di cuore per questo bellissimo video con un gruppo di stupendi locomotori ELETTRO DIESEL grazie veramente per bel lavoro un caro saluto giudeppe
Did nobody spot that all the non-Deltics were being pulled backwards by the Deltic?? Must have been picking up supplementary power from the third rail to pull off that stunt.
My God! You lucky Bugger!?!?! X'( Just one thing though, your description...it's a BR Class 55* 'Deltic'...not a '57' because they Revamped Class 47's...which a 47 is the middle loco in Two-Tone Green livery in this video ;) Hope that helps, but great catch! Like, Sub..and obvious comment ;)
We used to see this Deltic regularly at our depot in Wimbledon having her wheels turned, we had one of the few wheel lathes that can do it when the wheels are STILL on the loco! My old dad probably did the wiring on her along with the others! Nice catch!👍🏻
I know what the classic Latin meaning of decimate is, the modern idiom is used in this video under artistic license . ANY COMMENTS ABOUT IT WILL BE REMOVED
Touchy!
DOYLE
"Modern idiom"? What "modern idiom"? There is one definition and one only.
I would just stick to plain English to avoid confusion.
Great, censor comments you don't like, very democratic.
The sound of the Deltic in full song takes me back to being 6 years old stood at my parents bedroom window waiting in anticipation of the Deltic pulling out of the station, could hear it three miles away. Loved watching and listening to them thundering past at 100mph. Modern trains are sterile now, all sound the same with no individuality.
@shaun truman. These days you're better off staying at home and listen to your vacuum cleaner. Same sound as all the plastic trains today.
All my life I,ve loved my German Trains from kid on,but I have to say this British brute looks awesome however little I know about English Trains
Wow awesome color scheme too
Don’t worry Ladies and gents this German loves your cars older that is,love you Brits as well
check it out at 93 mph ua-cam.com/video/uDm8oG1yB4Y/v-deo.html and 100mph at night ua-cam.com/video/1scc2h5PflU/v-deo.html, - nothing quite makes a noise like a deltic with its engine gunned,.
Mike Roberts ua-cam.com/video/2BFoiCHuAxc/v-deo.html
Love you too Man!
I think Deltics (along with Vulcan bombers and Lightning fighters) do look brutal and sinister but beautiful because of it!
@Mike Roberts.....and this Brit loves your Autobahns which are a pleasure to drive by comparison to our motorways!!
The Deltic sounded mean just idling but on full chat..... wow! I used to lie awake in bed every week night for the express service from Doncaster to Hull to pass just after 10pm pulled by a Deltic. That sound just carried on the night air like no other.
Haha same in Swindon used to hear a Class 50 late night early morning parcels probably chugging through the countryside
The sound of the clag through the air was something to behold
Yep same here. Was like a rugby team of Brian Blessed’s slowly bumbling along past 1-2 miles away
awesome. pieces of our railway heritage and history thank you for sharing.
Chunky beauty of unstoppable, uncompromising power, absolutely gorgeous. We won't see her like again 😣😢
I lived just behind bentley station and loved watching the diesels, how i miss it!!
😂 These old iron horses seem to last forever. Indestructable!
Great rail therapy....I like IT!!!!....ALL THE BEST from ROMANIA!!!!
Your country built the first 30 of our class 56 locomotives in the 1970s. Greetings from England.
Wow... !!! My best friend, It's always great. Your video is excellent quality. We liked and enjoyed to the end. Thanks
I love all the birds singing and twittering to one another, so peaceful and idilic
Started my working life at English Electric Vulcan Foundry, Newton-le-Willows, 1964 Technician Apprentice.
Rows of Deltics and one GT 3, now all gone.
typical.. you wait ages for a train then 5 turn up at once
and there's no seats available
I only counted two.
(Sarcasm) doesn’t come across when typed.
He’s referring to each of the locomotives in the convoy as one train. 5 locos in convoy, 5 trains at once.
ahaha, sadly there was zero trains, just locomotives
@@neildeakin4454 well there was one train and 5 locomotives
These DELTICS are great sounding machines. And I'm that the 33captain Bill was there too. Seen it a few times and I miss the 33 sounds in Portsmouth greatly. Nice little engines. Great video
Nice to hear some of coming back In service to help out.
I wasn't old enough to appreciate "Steam" I grew up with these Dirty Rotten smelly Oil Burners and I loved them, I enjoyed reading Andy Houghtons anecdote takes a man blessed with a curtain amount of knowledge, to rescue the situation with out to much fuss, you can tell a man from Wigan, But! you can't tell him much…
One of these nights
What a treat to see this procession.! Thanks for posting.
I used to dash across the Mytery (the Wavertree playing fields ) in Liverpool to the embankment to see the blue Deltic with a yellow arrow sweep by towards Lime Street Station. must have neeb about 1957 or 58.
Love these engines brilliant video you have done .
first part started to drift off sound was so peacfull 😂😂 then the on coming storm great video
'Alycidon' . Always gives me shivers. Respect.
Deltic 9000s are my favorite locomotives. I'm holding an Identical model of D9002 in my hand even as I type.
I'm in my late seventies now, but can remember when I first saw a Deltic, I was probably about 13/14 years old, I was with a few mates at Northwick Park (before the hospital was built) in Kenton, Middlesex -( but now north London) which is on the west coast main line from Euston. The line has a steady incline up from London. The usual express trains were headed by Coronations, Royal Scots or Princess class steam locos, often double headed by a black five, and usually passed us at approximately 40-50mph, working hard, belching clouds of smoke. But on one particular day, no smoke but a heavy throb of a large diesel engine from a light blue Deltic with 12 coaches at a speed we all estimated at approx. 65-70 mph. I then thought "this is going to be the end of steam" This sight made quite an impression on me, and to this day when I see a Deltic (especially in blue) on UA-cam or in railway films/ Museums, my mind goes back to that sight I had nearly 60 plus years ago.
The light blue Deltic was the first prototype. It is now in the National Railway Museum.
Lovely. I saw this cavalcade pass Woking, but alas was at work so only glimpsed it out of a window.
the Deltic has always been my favorite train, nice video
Love it!! There is no replacement for displacement!!
Great video. You was lucky to get them to stop there! Some lovely thash coming from Alycidon. I'd love to see that beast on the mainline. Tom.
The birds are chirping so peacefully and then! The ole chugger pull's up 😂🐦🕊️🐝🚂💨
Nice!!! If only it was like this today. Still, these will be the good old days one day!
Brilliant footage. Diesel overload for any Diesel fan. Good work. Thanks for posting ;-)
rentaghost1975 ua-cam.com/video/2BFoiCHuAxc/v-deo.html
More power, Love the BR 5 in this from the Class 55, 33, 47, 20 and the 37 💞 Great Vid
Used to watch Deltics running full tilt along the straight past Abbots Ripton. Great sight, fantastic sound!!
That's a lot of lovely hardware, right there.
A Deltic on test at Vulcan foundry had the same governor/limiters fitted at both ends, not normal practice but they wanted to test her on the dynomometer...to cut a long story short all the engineers ran when they failed and she showed 3000rpm and over 7000hp causing smoke to rise from the windings.....it took one of the old hands who had taken a part time job of an evening cleaning the shop floor to take his broom to the fuel cut off valve to avert disaster. One Engineer in his haste ran through the personnel door in the hanger doors into what he thought was the night sky. It turned out the hanger door was half open and it was a black painted wall! He recovered a few months later after a long stay in Billinge Infirmary. 2-stroke diesels, perfect balance, shame the fuel consumption was so bad!
What was the fuel consumption?
They were no more fuel guzzlers than the American EMD locomotives.
Amazing story. My first two kids were born at Billinge.
Andrew Houghton ua-cam.com/video/2BFoiCHuAxc/v-deo.html
@Matthew Lund That's the trouble, these days, they got rid of the old-timers who knew what they were doing and took on a load of management trainees and oiks off the street who are not railwaymen, all in the name of privatisation. Glad I retired on redundancy in 1993.
Amazing video, beautiful british machinery
This thing was a lot louder on the platform at Medstead & Four Marks... but the 37 was getting all the attention
Why couldn’t I have been born 70 years earlier so I could drive these things.
One of the most recent times anyone bothered to put the TOPS number on a train.
I absolutely love it :) such beautiful machines, though it has to be said that little songbird sings way louder ;)
Awesome!!! Love that sound...Greetings from Canada!
Thanks and greetings to you too. Hows that cold weather of yours?
Actually warming up again, and where I am in western Canada (British Columbia), it never really got the Polar Vortex thing.
I was in the UK for three weeks in 2011 and travelled everywhere by train, and loved it. Can't get your scenery and railway network out of my head!
Superb 👍🏻
Fabulous to see those beasts together.
Nice sounds from the Deltic and good shot
Taken for granted as a kid, most lamented the loss of steam , me it still puts the hairs up on the back of my neck 🤪
Heavy metal thunder-it's music to my ears. Great British engineering at it's best!
Judas Priest in locomotive form, yeahhh love it!
There is just no other look or sound, iconic locos, I've watched this before, Great video. would there be a chance of using some of the audio to go with a model rail video I am planning please?
yeah sure, copy what you want.
@@MrKnowwun Many thanks, moist kind :)
Such a distinctive exhaust note
A rare sight indeed ! Thumbs up
Looking at the front coming at me I realized it looks a bit like a caterpillar, or the larval stage of Mothra... anyway, I love the Deltics... genius engine.
🎶There's a little hotel
called the Shady rest,
At the Junction. 😉
Lucky getting that lot all at once ! great footage !
Nice, no noisy clanging signals in the background too!
What a brilliant runner!!
And the liveries
55: Br green
33: Br blue
47: Br green(2 tone)
20: Br blue
37: Br large logo(grey and yellow for cabs and cab sides)
great catch that is for sure loves the sounds
Iconic footage of Class 55 deltic Locomotion ❤️❤️❤️
Nice vid. I filmed her last July on her first run up the ECML after returning to the mainline again, and she sounded awesome then too.
I imagine Mirrlees Pioneer would be one of the first to have a Mirrlees Blackstone engine, made in Stamford
That's the most measly horn I've ever heard.
True but their might be horn restrictions in place.
Michelle D. Deltics just have squeaky little horns.
What is that weird "spaceship" noise when the other train passes by at 4:07?
Its a space ship, landed right behind me. Or the regenerative electric braking of the EMU
More than likely some foreign crap
That is the far superior EMU.
Fantastic theres some proper pulling machinery there long live the deltics beats the crap they use these days !tug of war a deltic vs modern day
Lovely video I need to see D9009
Deltic was the most powerful diesel locomotive in the world, apparently. Yet BR built only 37 examples. Did BR not see a possible market for such a product in overseas territories? Or was it too blinkered by nationalisation, to think of exporting a fine product? Even allowing it to be built under licence would have made sense.
It wasn't BR. English Electric (the manufacturer) even put an American style headlight on DP1, the prototype, but people just didn't care, other than BR who didn't have anything suitable to replace the A4's on the ECML, so they ordered 37 of them
@@StaxRail I still think someone missed a splendid opportunity to win export sales. I doubt the thing even amortized its own development costs.
And in the 1950s, Britain was desperate to earn foreign currency.
My guess is that Britain was just not commercially savvy in these times.
@@thrunsguinneabottle3066 nah, more that the intended export markets had already got their diesels, eg the ALCo F7
@@StaxRail But one of the problems with early diesels, was that they were not as powerful as the steam locomotives, which they were intended to replace. The Deltic was the first which was MORE powerful.
English Electric must have been a fantastic company.
It also built the Lightening fighter aeroplane, refrigerators and even bus bodies. Where did it all go wrong?
@@thrunsguinneabottle3066 it wasn't EE's fault. The export market, eg America, had already been using diesel for a decade and had managed to develop their engines, such as the F7, so that they were powerful enough. Because we didn't start to modernise until 1955, we were left in the dust
1 word : Prfect
thank u sharing that gem
British design and built brilliant locomotives with style not like the locomotives we have now got now
Is it me or does the Class 37 look depressed at being at the rear?
Still my favourite along with the class 40
Nice one Jeff. Is that the South Western Alton Line? Barry
I think these locomotives were Dr Who's arch enemy.
why do 4 people dislike this vid, its bloody awesome.....power!
Needs a tripod for the camera. Too Jerky.
Far too much extreme zoom causing motion sickness, perhaps?
1:52 lmao it has a face like it had to leave all of it's loved ones behind forever=D
It did!
Can someone please tell me the difference between the number shown on the front and the side?
The number at the front is the "head code", an old system that showed the type of service it was, and the route it was taking. OZ = Light engine to Motive Power Depot or not to work a train. The number on the side is the class of loco and the build serial number.
@@MrKnowwun Thanks very much for replying 👍
6yrs on -- excellent. How did you get it to stop? Tied a kitten to the track?
VAL VLOG no it’s Single track after there so it had to wait for the other train to pass
Must be difficult to see where you're going , what is in the "Bonnet" area ?
So is it 'towing' five dead engines or push/pull 4?
I'm not from the UK. What is the purpose of the SPAD! signal? I know what a SPAD is, but why the signal? Thank you.
Its basically a hi-vis repeater, this will explain www.railsigns.uk/sect8page2/sect8page2.html
@@MrKnowwun Thank you. I've checked out the link.
grazie di cuore per questo bellissimo video con un gruppo di stupendi locomotori ELETTRO DIESEL grazie veramente per bel lavoro un caro saluto giudeppe
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Did nobody spot that all the non-Deltics were being pulled backwards by the Deltic?? Must have been picking up supplementary power from the third rail to pull off that stunt.
Love 55s, one of my favourite locomotives, the 37 isn't bad either,shame it wasn't runnning. The other two don't interest me that much however.
I'm a tram 🚋 and I approve this video! Ding ding!
Excellent videos
My God! You lucky Bugger!?!?! X'(
Just one thing though, your description...it's a BR Class 55* 'Deltic'...not a '57' because they Revamped Class 47's...which a 47 is the middle loco in Two-Tone Green livery in this video ;)
Hope that helps, but great catch! Like, Sub..and obvious comment ;)
- what are you mumbling about??
pure joy THANKS....
Where were all these beasts heading for?
the East Lancs Railway
It's a good looking filthy great brute, isn't it? They used to look as much like airplanes as trains.
It's a shame there wasn't any close up high revving!
Doodles of the Deltics by some poor youngster would often be mistaken for those of a motor-car, given the notched ends of the locos.
Yup, the very same, one stop up from Alton.
How did you get on the rails
I'm not on the rails
I mean next to
@@masonsmainlineroblox A foot crossing,
Oh ok
My favourite train is ... flyingscotsman
I like the almost silent horn @ 4:46 LOL !
We used to see this Deltic regularly at our depot in Wimbledon having her wheels turned, we had one of the few wheel lathes that can do it when the wheels are STILL on the loco! My old dad probably did the wiring on her along with the others! Nice catch!👍🏻
This sighting is the equivalent to a jackpot!
My favourite diesel loco
Majesty Might and power. They thrill me like athousand benedicites and tedeums never can do.
Great video 😊
That "OZ20" series has a very long wheel base.
Articulated too.
That's the later May bank holiday - not this weekend.
How dare you-you stole my future..
At least the first engine is in tune with the colours of nature...
What a catch. Well done.
Was this one running on both engines or just one?
one, small load.