Your dad had the best job in the world, always wanted to be a train driver as a kid & especially to drive the HST, so sad to think they are now a thing of the past & that valenta sound y is just so awesome! Closest I ever get to driving a hst is on a train simulator on my pc.

@robertmorley9748

Жыл бұрын

He did indeed :) - if you like the Valenta sound, look for the other video I took on the same trip in the Engine room !

Listen to that beautiful Valenta engine, great video, thanks for sharing.

@robertmorley9748

19 күн бұрын

Kevin, look for the other video where i go in the engine room :)

@robertmorley9748

19 күн бұрын

This is it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/paWOrbV-eNiaY7w.htmlsi=kU6LUrwXVCd0FHwu

Great Video, thank you for sharing.

Absolutely brilliant 👍

Great sound

Great video Rob. Thanks for sharing, takes me back to the good old days

Under BR, driving trains was as good as it got, not just HST’s. Under PR, have to admit, it was a totally different ball game, and not something I miss. Never knowingly met Bob, but he sounds like a ‘typical driver’ of his era…

Legend.

Great video.

@robertmorley9748

Жыл бұрын

Cheers, There's another video I took in the engine room too somewhere on my channnel :)

Aah, the days when you could put them in notch five before the rear power car had cleared the platform! 😂

@derektaylor2941

2 ай бұрын

You wouldn't want to do that out of Kings Cross- unless you wanted most of the wheels in the dirt.

@ChangesOneTim

2 ай бұрын

​​​@@derektaylor2941 Obvs it all depended on where you were. KX station in those days was 15 max all lines and certain other stations have/had 15/20/25/30 pointwork. But starting away from the rest of them (as shown at 05:30)...drivers could pile it all on if they needed to make up a bit of time😊

@derektaylor2941

2 ай бұрын

@@ChangesOneTim are you a HST driver? I'm not and I admit it. But I did work at KX assisting the area Traction Inspectors with admin work and I distinctly remember one case of a driver disciplinary for using excess power even though the speed wasn't exceeded. As I understand it there was a risk with a HST set that if it went over slow speed P&C under high power that it could push it off the rails. But what do they know- they were only Traction Inspectors working under the operating instructions of Derby.

@ChangesOneTim

2 ай бұрын

@@derektaylor2941 Me neither. Never heard that one before; it's not as though the track geometry was so tight as to cause buffer-locking as HSTs don't have them.

@derektaylor2941

2 ай бұрын

​@@ChangesOneTim I am not an engineer but as I understand it: For any curve there will be a safe speed and a speed at which derailment is possible/ likely. The reason for this is well understood- the train has inertia and inertia means it wants to go in a straight line; the track guides it around a curve and the force is called centripetal (that's the force of the wheels resisting the rails). Too much energy (speed) and over it goes. The same principle applies on points and crossings- remember that KX (until recently) had a 15MPH limit, so that's fairly tight trackwork* again the same principle if there's too much energy present (in this case drawbar HP rather than speed) and the rails cannot counter it with centripetal force then over it's going to go. * In fairness, not all roads out of KX were so restricted. I think platform 6 or 5 COULD- though not allowed- provide the sort of departure you're thinking of. HTH

His last ever drive probably just wanted to drive it on his own tbh.

Where's The Emirates? :) Thanks for the video, proper blokes driving proper trains.

@robertmorley9748

3 ай бұрын

I feel I should know the relevance of the ‘Emirates’ comment … but can’t think 🙂

@robertmorley9748

3 ай бұрын

... the Football ground !! - Im not as sharp as i used to be 😆

@SuperSuperAllons93

Ай бұрын

The Emirates wasn't built until about 9 years later.

what is the high pitch scream noise heard near the end?

@thetrainsrock

2 жыл бұрын

Brakes coming on. Sounds like they had the door open to the engine room, cause you wouldn't hear that with it closed as normal

@robertmorley9748

2 жыл бұрын

British Kid is correct , specifically its a Westinghouse DW2 control unit that uses 3 wires (from the brake controller) to vary the pressure in the auto air brake pipe that subsequently applies or releases the brake cylinders on all the vehicles in the set. 👍🏻

@213twinkle8

22 күн бұрын

The Davis and Metcalf E20 PBL was the quiet one. Discharged the brake at both ends for a rapid, uniform brake application, but recharged the brake only from the front E20. Also if memory serves, by placing the brake control past step three, or the rivet on the indicator, would cause the brake cylinder pressure to be above 2.1 bar and close the AC intakes, which stopped the pad smell from entering the passenger Coaches.... at 127 she normally automatically cut power, and on some power cars, I believe the first batch, the red wheel slip light illuminated. Just loved the Paxman Vallenta as well. What a piece of kit.

@robertmorley9748

19 күн бұрын

@@213twinkle8 it was the drop in brake pipe pressure that operated the FAD (Fresh Air Damper) on the Air Cons. This remained closed for 120 seconds after brakes were released. They stuck open a lot ... :) (ps it was E70 for the control unit :) )

How many years service i wonder? Must be really sad to end a career on the foot plate?

@robertmorley9748

11 ай бұрын

He had 50 yrs service in to the day . He was happy to finish as working conditions had changed a lot over his career. 🙂

@Mike-kc8rl

11 ай бұрын

Good to know thanks .

@derektaylor2941

2 ай бұрын

@@robertmorley9748 my Dad was a KX based Traction Inspector and he knew your Dad; he had a very high regard for him. Like him he had a long career on BR, actually starting work for the original LNER not long before Nationalisation. He said the same thing- working conditions were changing and that is why I didn't follow him onto BR. But it brings back memories of time in the back of the cab leaving Kings Cross- even years later there was something special about the start of that particular journey that no other journey- be it UK or the Orient Express or any of the long distance Amtraks- nothing can beat a HST out of KX. Thank you for sharing the video.

@davee4508

23 күн бұрын

​@derektaylor2941 I am a Driver on XC at Cambridge. I knew a few KX Drivers in the early 90s when I was a Trainman D on the RES cl47s. I was into Aviation back then and ask your Dad if he remembers D Neville, M Humberstone and L Chung? D Neville long retired but I believe the other two are still Drivers? Cheers

@robertmorley9748

19 күн бұрын

@@davee4508 Sadly my Dad passed away in 2000 at the age of only 70 . A life well lived though ... :)

130 lush!

@andrewbrown6786

21 күн бұрын

But was it? Speedo’s were not guaranteed as spot on - wonder what the back end speedo was showing? EMU’s can often be found with speedo’s showing different figures at each end - only about 5mph, but between back and front could amount to a 10mph difference 😮

@TrenyCwm

20 күн бұрын

@@andrewbrown6786 So it could even be 140.

@andrewbrown6786

20 күн бұрын

@@TrenyCwm yes - that is also true…

how old were you at the time

@robertmorley9748

3 ай бұрын

I’d guess @30 ish