Mainly Diesel

Found this morning, apologies if you've already seen it.

Part 2 includes some footage of a Beyer-Garrett of East African Railways and Deltic DP1.

(It's Crown copyright, but over 50 years old so the copyright has expired, hence it's on Youtube)




Ed

Lovely stuff Ed.  It's worth taking a hard look at the stock to get hints at weathering.  Notice the wheel colour. and filthy underframes on the DMUs.  Coach bodies were washed frequently.

John

Good stuff there.

I noted at 7:38 in part 1 the D600 Warship leaving Paddington and some LT CO/CP stock in the background as being of particular interest to me.

Don't know how you remember all the abbreviations Jeff.

CO/CP stock quest:


Ed

Converted O and P stock, also sometimes referred to as COP stock. Originally built from 1938 onwards with Metadyne electrical equipment, they were converted to more normal PCM control equipment in the 1950s and early 1960s. They were used in mixed formations but there were some subtle differences between the two types, most notably the position of the guard's door controls (P stock in the driving cabs, O stock in the passenger saloons behind the cabs).

Thanks Jeff.

Found a reference and it explains the unmanned door controls I sometimes used to see when travelling on the District Line in the mid 60s.

Learn all sorts on here.


Ed

I really like the shots of the Class 40 at the beginning.

Bob

Great shots of various diesels.  I had to laugh when the commentator said that the U.K. still continues to export locomotives all over the world.  In the fifty years since the film was made, we have managed to destroy all of our heavy engineering.  Now we only export 'Jihadis' and import foreign criminals. I also liked the bit about 'the power will be taken from the National Grid and passed to the locomotives through an overhead wire.'  Well, it would if a certain part of our 'community' didn't keep stealing the 'overhead wire!'

Terry

It was already on YMRC in the Video Archive.

Go to:

 http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_forum.php?id=500

Wait a few moments for the images to appear and then scroll down (on the inner panel) to 23rd January 2012.

there are several other videos there worth watching.

It must be good then Martin:)

By the way, why does your id appear as underscores quest:


Ed

[user=1338]Ed[/user] wrote:

By the way, why does your id appear as underscores quest:

I'm lost for words. :)