Britains Heaviest Freight Trains - Tribute to Class 59 & 66
Since the arrival of four General Motors Class 59s at Foster Yeoman in 1986 and the subsequent order of a further four by ARC, the stone trains from the two medip quarries, Merehead & Whatley, have produced some of the heaviest trains on Britains rail network.
On 26 May 1991 class member 59 005 set the European haulage record for a single locomotive, with a stone train weighing 11,982 tonnes on a stretch of closed line.
The current operator, Freightliner, successfully hauled a train weighing 4,624 tonnes in the early hours of 17th July 2019, making it the heaviest "jumbo" train to run on the national network.
This video features the many workings from Marehead & Whatley Quarries between 2017 and 2021, filmed at Berkley (outskirts of Frome), Masters Crossing, Fairwood Junction, Westbury Station, Hungerford Common and diversions at Shrivenham.
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Since the 59's have came out they have prooved themselfs outstanding pieces of engineering and in my opinion the best locos ever buillt
A tremendous treat to experience these great trains from a bygone era and filmed with such skill, but I am anxiously looking forward to more contemporary footage captured with your Canon xf605. Cheers.
Very nice Video! My Favorit loco ist the Class 59/66/77 ❤
Great video mate,loved every minute of it.Love the Shrivenham shots through the catentery posts,pure class😎😎👍
@thehogfat
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, when i went there was a rickety wire fence still, last video i saw had the ubiquitous green bar fence, so thnk that shot has been lost now.
@thehogfat
2 жыл бұрын
The full Vid that day is here, kzread.info/dash/bejne/gqie0ayahrbPqco.html Berks and hants was shut, so many diversions.
@berksandhantsfreight
2 жыл бұрын
@@thehogfat Great video, shame the green fence is there now, will check it out tho’👍
Always love catching the freight on the avoider when it's going at speed. Also something of note, the first scenes at Westbury were before the platform extension and before the signaling equipment got a refresh.
Really enjoyed that, superb camera work. Love the early 90s stuff you shot too, some of the best quality footage from that era I've ever seen. I wonder, (with your permission of course) if I might be able to use a couple of clips from this particular video. I'm working on a video about a model of the class 59. Some footage of the real thing would really help set the scene for dialogue portions of the video. I will of course provide you with appropriate on screen credit and provide a link to your channel. Thanks for your time. Cheers, Richard
@thehogfat
Жыл бұрын
Yes that’s fine Richard Martin
@EverardJunction
Жыл бұрын
@@thehogfat Thanks Martin, appreciate the quick response.
The 59 is the UK's SD40-2
@themanformerlyknownascomme777
Ай бұрын
literally!
remember the 59/2 being new to ferrybridge.