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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4P_tXOCKFM
makes this 125 look like a Pious....
I'm not a train anorak but i love these trains (locos). They are just the way it should be, powerful locos and carriages behind, nice and quiet i find, compared to having the engines under the floors of the carriages.
Also love these trains because of the noise...mahusive V12 diesals..magic, somehow cutting on one of these makes the journey an event, or maybe im just sad.
Also some trivia....several of these 125s were recommissioned and replaced some hopeless "modern" machinery which just wasn't up to the job! (bearing in mind that these bad boys were built in the 70s!)
makes this 125 look like a Pious....
I'm not a train anorak but i love these trains (locos). They are just the way it should be, powerful locos and carriages behind, nice and quiet i find, compared to having the engines under the floors of the carriages.
Also love these trains because of the noise...mahusive V12 diesals..magic, somehow cutting on one of these makes the journey an event, or maybe im just sad.
Also some trivia....several of these 125s were recommissioned and replaced some hopeless "modern" machinery which just wasn't up to the job! (bearing in mind that these bad boys were built in the 70s!)
theironduke said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4P_tXOCKFM
makes this 125 look like a Pious....
I'm not a train anorak but i love these trains (locos). They are just the way it should be, powerful locos and carriages behind, nice and quiet i find, compared to having the engines under the floors of the carriages.
Also love these trains because of the noise...mahusive V12 diesals..magic, somehow cutting on one of these makes the journey an event, or maybe im just sad.
Also some trivia....several of these 125s were recommissioned and replaced some hopeless "modern" machinery which just wasn't up to the job! (bearing in mind that these bad boys were built in the 70s!)
Pretty much all of the 125s (all of FGWs ones anyway) have been re-engined with MTU power units, which IMHO don't sound as nice as the old Paxman Valenta's. Most noticable when they pull out of a station and you listen the "pushing" powercar. The MTU's tend to have a muted growl, whereas the old Valentas used to have a very loud supercharger whine makes this 125 look like a Pious....
I'm not a train anorak but i love these trains (locos). They are just the way it should be, powerful locos and carriages behind, nice and quiet i find, compared to having the engines under the floors of the carriages.
Also love these trains because of the noise...mahusive V12 diesals..magic, somehow cutting on one of these makes the journey an event, or maybe im just sad.
Also some trivia....several of these 125s were recommissioned and replaced some hopeless "modern" machinery which just wasn't up to the job! (bearing in mind that these bad boys were built in the 70s!)
Smokey Valenta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9OmyRtXFeQ&fea...
Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 5th November 22:53
t out of me at Cardiff central about 18 years ago.Simpo Two said:
But look at all the greenery, the trees love it. Simpo Two said:
According to an advert on TV here, the CVX trains take a ton of goods 400 miles o 5 gallons of fuel... Not bad at all.Not a train spotter myself, but I can see the attraction in a machine of this magnitude:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpdI8mAOryE&fea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpdI8mAOryE&fea...
Well I admit I do quite like a diesel loco.......driven a couple. Here is the best of British diesle clag........
These engines aare hunting due to being cold and the oil being thick (due to teh cold) which runs the fuel governor........you cannot beat a cold English Electric!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv_cGG56QA4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG91fYHcm-k
These engines aare hunting due to being cold and the oil being thick (due to teh cold) which runs the fuel governor........you cannot beat a cold English Electric!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv_cGG56QA4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG91fYHcm-k
Simpo Two said:
I decided to take the train to Moscow a few weeks ago when one of these Russian freight trains went through the station (four feet away from me on the platform) and I don't think I've ever seen anything so long, it just coming. At the halfway point there were a couple of extra loco's to help with the pulling and pushing.Makes our trains look a little 'wimpy' to be honest.
When I was based at Manchester Victoria one particular job we had as drivers at the time was with a class56 
this shot was taken just before leaving for Ellesmere Port these locos seemed to have an exhuast pitched just right for setting off car alarms in the carpark behind the loco(once was Manchester Excange station longest platform in europe)
this shot was taken just before leaving for Ellesmere Port these locos seemed to have an exhuast pitched just right for setting off car alarms in the carpark behind the loco(once was Manchester Excange station longest platform in europe)theironduke said:
Also some trivia....several of these 125s were recommissioned and replaced some hopeless "modern" machinery which just wasn't up to the job! (bearing in mind that these bad boys were built in the 70s!)
Ah, the Adelante. It still makes my blood boil when I think about the waste of effort and money involved in laucnhing this.I remember when they were being touted as the hi tech replacement for the old HST 125, and I could just not see how a shorter train with less seats would work as a replacement. The official answer was that they would run more frequently. And how would this happen in an already congested timetable?! And then came the reliability issues.....
Grrrr, I'm getting all cross again.
At least the old trains have been sold off and are getting some use elswhere.
W124Bob said:
When I was based at Manchester Victoria one particular job we had as drivers at the time was with a class56 this shot was taken just before leaving for Ellesmere Port these locos seemed to have an exhuast pitched just right for setting off car alarms in the carpark behind the loco(once was Manchester Excange station longest platform in europe)
You lucky man having driven one of those beasts! I am trying to get behind the power handle of one on a preserved line having driven a 37, 47 and cabbed a 20!this shot was taken just before leaving for Ellesmere Port these locos seemed to have an exhuast pitched just right for setting off car alarms in the carpark behind the loco(once was Manchester Excange station longest platform in europe)Edited by Bish on Friday 6th November 15:37
theironduke said:
Its been a while since i've used a train let alone been in a station when a 125 has pulled away but i do remember the sound being IMMENSE, probably 18 months or so ago was the last time i heard one. Not sure if this would have been a Valenta or later one.
The valenta engined HST was like a screaming banshee - fanatstic, especially in IC swallow livery...those were the days...Bish said:
W124Bob said:
When I was based at Manchester Victoria one particular job we had as drivers at the time was with a class56 this shot was taken just before leaving for Ellesmere Port these locos seemed to have an exhuast pitched just right for setting off car alarms in the carpark behind the loco(once was Manchester Excange station longest platform in europe)
You lucky man having driven one of those beasts! I am trying to get behind the power handle of one on a preserved line having driven a 37, 47 and cabbed a 20!this shot was taken just before leaving for Ellesmere Port these locos seemed to have an exhuast pitched just right for setting off car alarms in the carpark behind the loco(once was Manchester Excange station longest platform in europe)Edited by Bish on Friday 6th November 15:37
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