Everything about this video is amazing. The music, traffic cone head, the bloke with headphones doing a really half-arsed job of sweeping the floor, and the loco itself.

@geo2472

2 жыл бұрын

That’s not sweeping the floor, it’s an old school way of ‘keeping busy’

@CruisePlanee

2 жыл бұрын

yea that cone head was funny lol

@Pluggit1953

Жыл бұрын

The “headphones” are ear protectors.

@Crocs4cats

Жыл бұрын

@@geo2472 Best tip I learned when working for some aholes, looking after their horses! If you’re lucky you can sit and make sweeping noises whilst chatting just out of sight😅

@joempoem478

9 ай бұрын

Let's not forget the tastefull music.

I just imagine the engineer in the cab shouting “start ya bastard!”

@oliransome173

Жыл бұрын

Laugh out loud

37685 is alive at last. Well done to the WCR diesel crew! Look forward to seeing her thrashing on the loaded test run. James Blunt certainly likes her!

I could watch and listen to 37s all day long you here them b4 you see them well done west coast railway guys

Between the James Blunt in the background ,the man with what appears to be a traffic cone on his head, firing her up inside,and just the shear noise,i fucking love this video!

@graememorris7820

5 жыл бұрын

OneOfAKind1888 Traffic cone ; he was the wizard brought in to bless it to start.

@kimrunic5874

5 жыл бұрын

Yeh nearly fell off my chair when that guy emerged with the dunce cap on his head

@tommytippee5900

5 жыл бұрын

OneOfAKind1888 I totally agree

@solangoose8372

5 жыл бұрын

James Blunt ruined it for me. Night Owl by Gerry Rafferty before was a real song.

@ScrotusXL

5 жыл бұрын

OneOfAKind1888 it’s exactly the same reason I’ve watched this video too many times! Weird. Traffic cone headgear dude plus James Blunt and clag level 1000 is just the best combination...why????

That idle though! I'm in love.😊

The are clearly proper British engineers who drink tea stronger than creosote. Of course they would do this indoors. Anything else is sheer folly!

@tripwire3992

5 жыл бұрын

@Andy Peek we all drive mini's

@TirthBArya

5 жыл бұрын

I'm drinking tea right now.

@charlie8970

4 жыл бұрын

Yes good show old boy they all went to the hospital for a lung x-ray after this

@utharkruna1116

3 жыл бұрын

They actually just like diesel fumes.

@F1DTOX

3 жыл бұрын

@Andy Peek I say old man, jolly good idea, eh what. ;p

0:32, only when you are dedicated and accomplished in the craft do you get the cone shaped hat.

@gabrielvieira6529

5 жыл бұрын

LOOL

well at least it drowned out most of James Blunt

@briangiller5253

5 жыл бұрын

Probably didn't puff out as much smoke as him though....

@fatlad5090

5 жыл бұрын

Ha totally agree

@ronaldbellfield8414

4 жыл бұрын

spot on

@michaelstoneman5668

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@halfscalemustang

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

It makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck when this 37 eventually fires up. All trains should sound like this, it should be the law. :-)

@tomgauntlestrange

3 жыл бұрын

37s sound the best especially when their being difficult to start and protesting

Traffic cone and blunt aside, I also love the pointless floor sweeping at around 2.10

@davelowe1977

5 жыл бұрын

It's far more important to appear busy than to be busy.

@brianchesser576

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@kofola9145

5 жыл бұрын

Sweeping is never pointless!

@gravelydon7072

5 жыл бұрын

And what looked like a set of Droopy ears.

@Mhel2023

5 жыл бұрын

...lol and just that one little area was swept...😂

some people like listening to rain storms, others to birds singing.. I love hearing locomotive diesels chugging and starting.

@DirtIndustry

4 жыл бұрын

I like big engines and I cannot lie

@Fcutdlady

4 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@naren5554

3 жыл бұрын

✌️♥️♥️♥️

Immense, a truly great start up vid, great fire up with subsequent amsuing misfires on both banks, ace, very clean exhuast all things considered ! I've been in there and it's cramped !

Used to see these in Ardrossan as a kid in the 1980's taking coal fron Hunterston Pier to Ravenscraig. Hugely impressive to a 7 year old.

MARK!!! *cough* MARK!!! *cough* OPEN THE *cough* WINDOW!!! *cough cough*

@stevenmarcinkowski8577

5 жыл бұрын

GreatWestern 43125 my eyes are burning

Fantastic !. I wish I could smell the video lol:)

@didzee002

4 жыл бұрын

You can ..just scratch bottom left of your screen and sniff..

@xxxggthyf

3 жыл бұрын

If you've ever worked with diesel engines your brain should be filling in the gaps for you. I can smell it and I've not been near so much as a pint of diesel oil in a decade. I drove trucks for 20 years and to be honest I never got accustomed to the stinking bloody stuff. But diesel choo-choos are great and steam is poo. :-D

What an absolute beast!!!! Love them!

@oliransome173

Жыл бұрын

Me too

Amazing just like a dragon or some mythical beast waking up!

I could listen to the engines of these beautiful machines all day long! 👌

@TYRExFRYER1985

2 жыл бұрын

so could i i could sit in one all day for no reason at all

@TYRExFRYER1985

2 жыл бұрын

just to hear it roar

2 of these went through Lincoln town centre the other day me and my dad looked at each other like bloody hell as it went over the crossing the rumble was brilliant

two problems. starting it indoors and starting it to James Blunt. Amateurs 😅

I think that some air testing in the shed would be a good idea.....or getting an extraction system ! great video !

Just LOVE that turbo whine on this class.

When I was a wee boy of six my family regularly rode on the night train sleeper Arbroath to Euston in the 60's I loved the whistling noise of these beautiful Locomotives! When I get my retirement money next year I promise I will sponsor one to restore it !

@rainbowrailroadcrossing7798

6 жыл бұрын

I hope the restoration goes well

@mcmcolm

5 жыл бұрын

2 years later, how did that go?

The guy with the cone on his head is "Captain Safety".

@RoadCone411

4 жыл бұрын

Tim Green British chapter of the KKK

Best video I’ve seen in ages. Looks a fun place to work

The old Great Britain that.

If James Blunt was on the radio I'd wear ear protection as well.

"Pfft, adequate ventilation. It's _cough_ health and _cough_ safety gone _cough_ mad *thud*"

@philnewstead5388

3 жыл бұрын

anononomous When I was at technical college back in the seventies we had a lecturer that if we filled the workshop up with smoke or fumes like that would say "Breath it in lads we've gotta get rid of it somehow"

Love the sound the atmosphere and knowing the guys in the vid do this in there spare time.. All around the country at these private railways just to keep the locos and the history of are railways going 👍

@beeble2003

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, these are employees of the West Coast Railway Company, a for-profit railway operator.

@roberthill6216

2 жыл бұрын

The shed is next to the West Coast Mainline at Carnforth.

Love this. Love the cone head!

Its the firing order running down the crank that makes that lovely sound.Two pots firing at the same time hence to "hunting" after all have fired down the crank.Gives huge torque to the gen sets.

A solid 4 minutes of someone with finger numbing action on the starter button and muttering 'start, ya bastard!' under their breath.

Omg yes another 37 back on the mainline. Love the sound of the loco

What a lovely machine, I remember it passing light through Gwersyllt whilst we were tarmac laying... the creases from the roller are still there !

Greatest diesel start up vid ever!!! Awsome!!!

this is a win win job, no need to buy cigarettes anymore, they are sponsored by your company, deep inhale, good shit.

Brilliant, just an amazing sound, such power!!

I've always liked the noise the 37 makes, I was woken up by one idling when I lived in Falkirk, not particularly near the railway. I was puzzled, but later found out it was waiting to pick up an empty timber wagon from the local timber mechant, I didn't know there was a line there. And I worked for BR at the time.

A well deserved 5 stars - you can't beat a Tractor for clag !

What a beautiful locomotive!!

loved the guy blessing it to start x)

Great to see the start up after a long time in store

So if your engine won't start when Gerry Rafferty is playing, just re-tune to James Blunt and the cylinders will kick in one by one. And expect smoke (from the starter motor too).

@eddherring4972

4 жыл бұрын

The 37 heard the music and desperately tried to leave the area

Favourite class in my favourite livery. Love it!

Love the mechanic waving his arm trying to help it roll over

Not one no smoking sticker anywhere! 😎

Fantastic sound! Love it! ... The diesel that is!

Its the chap that gives it a 'yaaaaaaaaayyy!' at 4:07 that does it for me! Classic response in engineering. Love it.

Oh that is a beast & the roar is course! Thanks

Diesel power baby, ohhhhhh just listen to that beautiful turbo.

To miss qoute Sir Billy Connolly never trust a man who, when left alone with a traffic cone, doesn't put it on his head. Wish we could have a locomotive like the class 37 here in ireland. 🚂

in the words of Dr. Frankenstein "ITS ALIVE ITS ALIIIVE"

Well Done..a fine sight & sound

She's back

Very impressive sound😊

Excellent! and with music! love it!

excellent video with a excellent loco in a excellent livery

Great bit of Gerry Rafferty there !!

@strongbowism

5 жыл бұрын

Night Owl... Superb...

This is the type of engineering that I would want to do looks really interesting 🙂

Beautiful video

It's like a train version of 'Flight of the Phoenix', luv it!

Theres no better sound in the world than the sound of a class 37

This is Pure testosterone bro 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Very nice mate cheers Steve ..

Excellent clag, especially in such a confined space. Just watching it is making me cough, even more than a packet of Capstan Full Strength.

Talking about the little train that could...bc this one did! Love it.

it wants to live....... that's old tech for you tough as old boots, 50+ years and she in still teaching the youngsters lessons in being bad arse.

Should have put some Hawkwind on, then she would have fired up immediately. Love the 37's, big monster.. 👍

What a beautiful engine! It's too bad we don't get to see these things in America!

Aaaaaa that class 37 saved my poor ears from that squeak James blunt 😄😄😄😄😄 o and I like the traffic cone safety hat a must when working with locomotives

the sweet sound of the turbo spooling...aaaaahhh

You could really use some ventilation in there

@nomon95

6 жыл бұрын

Air extractors at high speed,the clag is flammable and poiseness.

@scopex2749

6 жыл бұрын

sidrialgr nah thats one of the fitters having a crafty tab!

@pxsrrail2558

5 жыл бұрын

Ye

@samuelfellows6923

5 жыл бұрын

🙄? An industrial extractor fan in a funnel - in roof above exhaust pipes. ill equipped work/loco shed = 😷 💭

@gary96397

5 жыл бұрын

Why???

Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty! Class. Class 37. Class!

Our tea in UK so strong our trains run on it

Beast! Nice one!

This looks like Carnforth, if so, god i love you guys !

Blunters playing off this beauty is perfect

Not gonna lie, this made me smile.

Never tought james blunt would be such a nice add to a train startup.

Marvelous stuff these locomotives. I do wonder why the workshop's fire suppression systems didn't kick in.

@RangieNZ

4 жыл бұрын

They are normally heat activated - often a small glass pellet that if it gets too hot shatters, releasing the water.

@philipkudrna5643

Жыл бұрын

I wonder why a workshop for repairing such locomotives that require such a messy startup doesn‘t have a proper ventilation installed!

@hitop2365

Жыл бұрын

Surely it should have been shunted outside? Love how they seem to run on one cylinder then two, etc., a bit of heat at the intake manifold might help too.

02:04 f*** it, I'll look busy and grab a brush!

For some reason, watching these old girls being fired up after being in storage for a while reminds me of the family dog and how they're pissy after you've been on vacation for a few days. They're happy to see you, but they're going to make you wait before they come to see you.

Ear defenders on! To drown out James blunt for a start 😀

Very funny man in the vidoe but very good vidoe I love it very good train for starting after being sitting for so long very good vidoe loved it

Looks like a fun place can man lol

Ahhhhhhhh! I love the smell of (raw) diesel in the morning

It sounds really cool

The purr of the engine drows out the awful background music 👍

is the music to calm the 37 down ;-) I love these video's :-)

Can't beat the sound of a throaty diesel engine. Can feel the ground vibrating through the screen lol

About 10 years worth of a city's accumulated diesel particulates put in the atmosphere right there in that start up lol.

Great to have a joker in the pack,!!

Had a 78 Nova that started bout the same and smoked like that too.

Lovely stuff.

Haha that engineer with the ear muffs wreckons he's some sort of composer 😂

Man, one of the reasons why I stopped working in these types of shops-- as I used to not mind the smell of diesel exhaust. Now, I can't stand to be 500 miles from the stuff....

It's like that engine start sequence in the original "Flight of the Phoenix"!

@strongbowism

5 жыл бұрын

Good shout lol... James Stewart...

@gravelydon7072

5 жыл бұрын

Clear. Clear! That's # One! Two! 3! 4! Clean out the cylinder. 5 Run. I have to ask, why when they were cranking the engine over didn't they have half of the cylinder test ports open to make it easier to get cranked?

@beaterbikechannel2538

4 жыл бұрын

Whenever I do a loud fart in public I say "clear the cylinders"

In 1963 DR WHO caught the 8.35 AM Deltec into London to Commence the war games. It was black and white TV and the Engine looked exactly like this one.

That smoke in there doesn't worry them engerniers there hardcore they are use to it 😎