Valenta!

That was the problem with Virgin Cross-Country, their puncutallity was never any good. I would always find them arriving up to an hour late, once it was Six hours late!! But they were good in other ways, their livery was pretty snazzy and suited the HST's and AC electrics well. Great vid, priceless! =-D

excellent videos! i used to see these at Llandudno Jnc. a lot! 5*+favourite

Fantastic video, hard to believe it was about 8 years ago now! Thanks for uploading! :D

@chrishepburn5251

3 жыл бұрын

Now it's almost 20 years ago!

@randomclass4653

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrishepburn5251 and it's now REALLY Soon gonna be!

Beautiful.

Hiya would it be ok if we could use some clips from this vidieo? For a HST documentary in commemoration of the HST You will be credited in full :)

Good old HST's and Virgin's red black & whit color set fare well Virgin it's been a good 22 years

@gibb1991 That was partially the case in the early 90's. British Rail's freight company Railfreight was split up into 4 Private Sub-franchises (Loadhaul, Transrail, Mainline and Freightliner) and there was the nationalised frieght company Railfreight Distribution. But they all got taken over by EWS in 1997. Freight is more or less private in the UK, but that too is a silly Idea because the main competition for our freight is road transport, there isnt enough room on our railway system for rivals

@gibb1991 Yeah, Privatisation isnt all what its cracked up to be, especially the way we did it. I dont know if you know this, but we split up our railway into several different franchises with set operational times depending on whether the company could pay for it. The problem with this is that rail companies have to do things as cheap as possible, resulting in a pretty bad quality of service. But some rail operators did better than others.

@rorymacve I wish our trains would be only an hour late on average. We had a train this past winter show up nearly a day late! Our government passenger railway is a total mess. I wish we would do what Britain did and dissolve our government-owned system and open the floodgates for private operators. Cheers from the USA.

You put on the Video few times that they are Cross Country 125 High Speed Trains, but all these 125 High Speed Trains you see in this Video are Virgin Trains 125 High Speed Trains. Anyway, great Video.

@fgwHST43009

7 жыл бұрын

Jacob Wilson at the time Virgin had both the Intercity West Coast and CrossCountry franchises.

How would you know it's cross country? It looks the same

Classic Virgin !

Wot do u mean about Blackpool getting its intercity back plz answer

@nobby3265

7 жыл бұрын

***** Please speak some sense and learn how to construct your sentence properly as I have no clue what you're trying to say.

@nobby3265

7 жыл бұрын

And why reply to an old comment?

Ref.State railways v private rail companies.Years ago before "privatisation" I could book a ticket to Munich from Victoria Stn in London GB,pay at the ticket office and that was it.Now I have to book London-Bruessel,Bruessel-Koeln,Koeln-Munich with three different companies and change trains thrice!"This is called "efficiency"!I see no reason why the railways should not be in the hands of the state.They are an essential part of the infrastructure.

@rorymacve Almost all of are railways are private. It's really just Amtrak and city trainsit services that are owned by any form of government.

Why did some HST have 8 carriages and some only had 6 or 7?

@fgwHST43009

7 жыл бұрын

thomsonfly645k XC are 7 coaches. East Coast has 9. Grand Central has 5/6. Everything else has 8.

@greendayforever2k9

7 жыл бұрын

Apart from Grand Central which have 5 coaches.

@fgwHST43009

7 жыл бұрын

greendayforever2k9 some GC have 6

@darkcenturion5735

5 жыл бұрын

they don't all 5 or rather, didn't

@rorymacve Wow, that really sucks. That almost defeats the entire purpose of establishing franchises.

@gibb1991 Yeah, but in the states you dont have to live with that! If America was gonna privatise its railways, there are many alternatives you can take which we should have but didnt!

110mph?

@swagmaster4209

5 жыл бұрын

110mph but the line limit is 125