She's chucking out more fuel than she's burning! Ah, the charm of a 50!!! I love 'em!!!!

@ghostontheline

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Nigel, thanks for watching. I travelled from Basingstoke to London Waterloo for a good number of years, I always tried to catch the Exeter service just to ride behind a 33, 50 and finely 47's before the class 159 emu's took over. They were all great diesels but the Hoovers were best apart from when the odd one would blow up!! Cheers Pete

@jetstream454

3 жыл бұрын

All oil 🤣

Wow, brilliant capture mate, wish I’d been there to see it for real! thanks for sharing and all the best, hopefully we’ll be able to get back to some of these brilliant heritage lines in the non to distant future. Have been watching a few of my east lancs railway videos to reminisce over some similar diesel footage! Thanks mate, Paul

@ghostontheline

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, I remember that day well, the driver put on a good display. Yes it’s good to be able to fall back on old videos, in my case 2009. Cheers Pete

Classic 1970s Clag there in the 21st Century 💕

@ghostontheline

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Stephen, thanks for watching the video, it's still great to see them running over fifty years on.Pete

Beautiful:). They know how to put on a show those things :)..... Great Video at SVR

So much better with headlight removed. Now they need to restore the air intake fans to get the hoover sound back.

@ghostontheline

3 жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for watching, I remember that day well, what an exhibition........Regards Pete

Anyone commenting about the ammount of clag even on a warm engine that poor thing has a 14 mile run on the SVR where it only needs to idle to generate the volts needed.The engine must be sooted up to buggar.They need opening up and loaded up at speed which obviously they cant do on that line.

@ghostontheline

Жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for watching and for commenting. Points taken and they are very expensive to repair. Best Regards Pete

Great video.

@ghostontheline

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, i used to travel form Basingstoke to Waterloo back in the day, always tried to catch a Hoover on the Exeter service. Cheers Pete

In NSW (Australia) that used to be known as the "haze of efficiency" by some! NSW railways had several hundred of locally built ALCos, which were pretty smoky

@ghostontheline

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Gray, thanks for watching and your comments. Most of the diesels are from the 50's so over fifty years old. Although not very friendly to the environment it is great to see a diesel being given a bit of welly...Cheers Peter H

@tomlowe8563

6 жыл бұрын

Alcos are renowned for it

@benconway9010

5 жыл бұрын

And ur point being?

Wow not purple but BLUE haze!

@ghostontheline

Жыл бұрын

Hi Robert, I am sure Jimi H would have approved. I wonder if he was a class 50 basher apart from being a wizard on the electric guitar? Cheers Pete

Fantastic video may i ask wot camera you used

@ghostontheline

3 жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for watching and commenting. If I remember rightly it was a Sony RX10 Mk4 bridge camera. Cheers Pete

@ste3627

3 жыл бұрын

@@ghostontheline thanks very much

Hope that one day the SVR will go on further possibly to Ironbridge power station,??

This train has hilarious face.

Nice video

@ghostontheline

7 жыл бұрын

Cheers Mark, have subbed your channel. Pete

@MarkAHHDvideostreaming

7 жыл бұрын

theghostontheline Thank you, I'm already subbed to your channel

Cough! ! The clag o god the clag

@ghostontheline

5 жыл бұрын

Nothing like it, the driver put on a good show......Cheers Pete

Terrific takeoff!

@ghostontheline

7 жыл бұрын

Not Half!!

Well really it shouldn't be claggy if its been running for quite a while it should of burnt all that unburnt oil something wrong with the engine

@ghostontheline

5 жыл бұрын

That’s what a Class 50 does they first entered service in 1967 long before pollution was the big issue. Thanks for watching and commenting. Cheers Pete

@benconway9010

4 жыл бұрын

@@speedbirdconcordeBOAB no they shouldn't be I guess that's why GBRF have taken them on and put back on the mainline

Was expecting more noise

@ghostontheline

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Michael, sorry you were disappointed with the Class 50 sound but thanks for watching. Cheers Pete

@mjradar

5 жыл бұрын

@@ghostontheline great video did enjoy watching 50 looks good

@ghostontheline

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks.......Pete

Enough to give an enviromentalist asma lol

@jaggass

5 жыл бұрын

Every greenpeace activist wants gassing out by one of these.

@ghostontheline

4 жыл бұрын

Thumbs Up

Unreliable, stinky, smokey piece if crap. They always were and they always will be! Why restore such a bad advert for preserved traction?

@ghostontheline

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Steve, I guess that maybe you didn't enjoy the video. I travelled up to London Waterloo from Basingstoke throughout the Class 50 period and to be honest I was never let down by one. I would always where possible travel on a Waterloo to Exeter service and this included 33's and 47's both suffering from failures. Anyway thanks for watching and commenting. Cheers Pete

@steveluckhurst2350

2 жыл бұрын

@@ghostontheline hi Pete. Thanks for putting yourself in the firing line as it were. Enjoyed the video, my comments were aimed at the 50 itself. I stand by my comments, as will anyone who doesn't have rose tinted specs!

@steveluckhurst2350

2 жыл бұрын

@@ghostontheline "clag monster" is not a good description for a preserved, well maintained loco. They used to fill Glasgow and Paddington stations with smoke!

@ghostontheline

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Steve, yes I do know what you mean , anyway I now live in Templecombe and have got very fond of the Class 159's. What I don't like is SWR, please come back SWT. Cheers :Pete