Amazing! Beatiuful video, greetings 🚂👍👋

@donnypete

6 күн бұрын

Thanks Mate appreciate your comment 👍

Well summarised Pete, you know how I feel about the coal industry. A shout out to GBRF thoiugh for the naming official or otherwise a great gesture. Coal will always be king in this old man's mind.

@donnypete

5 күн бұрын

Thanks, Roy. I totally agree with you on your thoughts about the coal industry . It will and truly will always be King

Great video, well done on that . They have not done just yet, they will find a way to shut Drax, Coal is king , keep up the good work 😁

@donnypete

Күн бұрын

@@Johnny16781 thanks Johnny 😊

Great sentiment Pete let's see if Drax can keep the lights on this winter !

@donnypete

6 күн бұрын

Thanks Mate. Glad you enjoyed it.

A great video Pete with a fitting tribute regarding the demise of coal fired power stations. I feel so angry at the climate activists and their stupid antics in this country. The UK has done more than anyone to get to net zero and yet they are still not satisfied untill the lights have gone out and we are all sitting around a candle to keep warm. Oh no ! i forgot candle wax is oil based doh !. Any way thanks for sharing some great footage as always Pete, cheers, Colin.

@donnypete

3 күн бұрын

@colingarwood9971 cheers Colin, and as always, I appreciate your comment. My views are the same, mate. It pains me that for the whole of my life I've been surrounded by coal and coal trains. And to watch them disappear to nothing but a disgrace. Good job China are opening another 100 coal powered power stations fffs

You seem to have captured me north end of platform 1 at Chesterfield as 66623 passes ( with my town top on ). I did try to get out your way as the coal train left. great record of history passing .

@donnypete

3 күн бұрын

@drewliszka4186 thanks mate, 😊 Glad you enjoyed it 👍 no issues with you been there when it left buddy. Where all here for the same thing

When that series of power stations were built, they had a design (service) life of 25 years..... Practically doubled that!

@donnypete

6 күн бұрын

Haven't they just Ralph. And they would keep going for another 25 years too

Super video as always. Sad that it's the last coal train, David Attenborough & greta thunberg have a lot to answer for. The earth is evolving nothing to do with coal. Thanks Pete.😢😢

@tomward3656

7 күн бұрын

I've subscribed to josh 's channel.

@RichardMitchell-ut1uc

6 күн бұрын

I've haven't taken Greta Thunberg seriously since I found out her middle name was Tintin

@donnypete

6 күн бұрын

Thanks, Tom. I'm really glad you enjoyed it 👍 😊

The last Government ruined everything with privatization , so no new Nuclear power stations .... it would be a very good idea , given the unstable state of the world and also that no wind power is generated on still days, to Keep our two remaining Coal Fired Power Stations in excellent order and on standby to burn British sourced coal from British mines when needed . Re opening Kellingley would be sensible, plus the new one in Cumbria would be useful . Sorry, thanks for a good video Donny.☺☺☺☺

Dry your eyes Pete, never mind mate, life goes on. Thanks a lot For the Video, and remember if it comes out of the Ground, there’s only one King, and that’s Diamonds 💎 😊

@donnypete

5 күн бұрын

Cheers John, glad you enjoyed it fella.

Great video Pete loved the chat and yes your right 30th September last day of R P S dont know what happens then i can see those cooling towers from my garden and at moment it suplies just over 2 million homes and looking around i can't see anything big enough to replace it power wise a few turbines aint going to doo that job . just ordered some more candles from Amazon so see how we go 🤣 awesome vid matey loved it take care a t b Syd👍🦮

@donnypete

Күн бұрын

@sydwoods.woodsendjunction9492 Many thanks, Syd. Sorry for the late reply, mate. I'm going to try and get down at some point to take some photos of it before Amazon moves on it, lol .At least your candles won't have far to come, lol. My Dad's still got boxes of them from the 70's when the power strikes were on 😆 oh happy days. The days of no warnings you're in a black out, and of to shop to by candles in candle light lol 😆

Environmental cobblers, that's what. 👍

Pete...... Sad sad day mate, can see you have coal in yer veins and it must be sickening to witness the End Of An Era, whatever next????? I dread to think...Emotive vid pal thank you Cheers for now Ian........PS Dont Forget to hit the like button everyone.

@donnypete

Күн бұрын

@ianclarkson2251 Many thanks, Ian. I'm glad you enjoyed it 👍. It was a sad day, mate. There's no common sense left in the world. It's a joke.

Thanks for your usual high standard vids and also for the info on the last coal train I live at the side of ROS power station it’s shameful - now we shall see where energy prices get to.❤

@donnypete

5 күн бұрын

Thanks Robert 👍 I'm glad you enjoyed it mate. I bet living as close to it will be a hard picture to grasp with what's going off.

@roberthoward3723

5 күн бұрын

@@donnypete I’ve got a bit of history with Ratcliffe my uncle was president of the tribunal for the then ministry of power which decided whether to go to Holme Pierrepont where the water sports centre is now or Ratcliffe on Soar, Ratcliffe won - it’s not that old commissioned in 1968

@donnypete

5 күн бұрын

@@roberthoward3723 thanks Robert for that 👍

The Class 66 is a great example of an efficient freight locomotive!! We have an EWS Class 66 at Broxbourne Yard.

@donnypete

6 күн бұрын

Totally agree with that. And it's the best livery

Great video m8.

@donnypete

5 күн бұрын

Cheers Steve

Shame it is the last coal train,at least you got good footage. Grimethorpe was using coal and making good in roads to cleaner energy with the new style power station, but I believe a lack of funding made it close down. A shame as it would have made our electricity cheaper and less dependent on foreign power. So Coal is still King in my shoes,or miners clogs. LOL. I have also subscribed to Josh's channel.

@donnypete

Күн бұрын

@ernestbailey9194 Thanks, Ernest 😊 it's a one foot in the grave scenario this. Drax won't cope in providing the whole country 😒 COAL IS KING

Your local passenger train liveries are better than those down south!!

And still the lights are working! 😉

@donnypete

6 күн бұрын

For now lol

interesting that the original comment I posted seems to have disappeared?????? Anyway never mind, but as the net zero madness progresses a lot of freight traffic will disappear from my local area, also is all freight going to end up pulled by 66s?

@donnypete

Күн бұрын

@debroahtaylor6398 A lot of freight traffic (well, what's left) will still be hauled by the class 66 for now, until the class 99 takes over. And I agree with the net zero madness as that's all it is. A money-making racket . I'm unsure how your original post has gone?? As I haven't deleted it.

What's the thing in the background at 2:06 that looks like a giant birdbath?

@donnypete

6 күн бұрын

Hi Richard, it is a water tower....

@RichardMitchell-ut1uc

6 күн бұрын

​@@donnypete thanks 👍

I wonder if Ratcliffe will be demolished & a mega incinerator built similar to Ferry bridge!!

@donnypete

6 күн бұрын

Hopefully, they will see the error of their ways and keep it going, but they will probably build houses on it

Does anyone know if Ratcliffe can carry on by using biomass like Drax.

@donnypete

7 күн бұрын

Yes it can. But not until it had a conversion like Drax