It's great to see a piece of modern railway history brought back to life. Now I can't wait to see and hear it screaming down the mainlines, Bring back some childhood memories of screaming Valenta's flying by

I used to build the Valenta power units, so watching these clips brings back good memories. You can never forget the scream of the Napier turbocharger spinning at 26 000rpm!

We went on the prototype at ruddington few years ago before it was moved to Locomotion. Definitely felt nostalgic riding onboard with the legendary 41001. Stunning piece of engineering by no means.

I regularly used to get a Valenta 125 from Reading to paddington from '91 to '95 during my time at university. You could hear so many frequencies from that engine, predominantly the blade frequency of the turbos (the whistle) and the low-end exhaust throbbing of the V12.

Not only is the engine sound spot on, that has to be the most evil sounding horn I've ever heard... (augmented 4th interval ftw, most 2 tone horns are a minor 3rd)

@titmouse-distribution

4 жыл бұрын

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@arricat5e311

4 жыл бұрын

Not to mention the front window looks kinda spooky

@jvgreendarmok

3 жыл бұрын

​@@arricat5e311 The front window looks out of scale to me. It makes the whole thing look small, like a model.

@LawnMowersThingsThatMakeNoise

3 жыл бұрын

@@arricat5e311 Minion Looking

Our XPT's (Bascially the Aussie version of an HST) had Valentas in them when they were delivered, but now they got upgraded with VP185's - They're due to be replaced by newer rollingstock soon.

Great compilation Darren. So good to see and hear this loco running again. Great to have a Valenta clearing its lungs on the tracks again, hope to see it in action myself at some point.

I am so excited by this whole project. I remember seeing her at York and wondering to myself "I wonder if..." Now it's reality...how utterly wonderful :) My good lady and I are sooo going on a ride when we can. Fantastic!

@terrier_productions

6 жыл бұрын

Tim Sully you know (because she’s owned by the GCR Nottingham) that she’s only used twice a year!

@Jeagles

4 жыл бұрын

Shame now it will never be used again

@bjoe385

4 жыл бұрын

J eagles why?

Excellent video Darren. Good to see 41001 back where it belongs at the lead of a HST set :)

Awesome! I really loved that engine, glad to see it back with a prototype. Project Miller is one of my favourite projects.

Sounds beautiful. Good old clag display too! Love it.

Well Done Darren for capturing this bit of history. Mike

That is am awesome sounding Valenta! I remember the production HSTs as a boy racing through Peterborough station - impressive!!

Great Darren, glad they played to the crowd!!!! Sounded amazing,

Brilliant vid had the pleasure with working with 41001 in December 2018 when she pulled the Santa train at Mid Norfolk Railway in Norfolk. Believe she is staying here for another 2 weeks before returning to York

sure hope we can also see a HST 43 preserved soon in the near future when they get retired, but the 41001 is the best,

Enjoyed seeing the 41 it looks brilliant. its been a long time since a was there, so thank you

Great video Darren,really enjoyed watching it

Fantastic to see!! Lets hope its the first of many HST's that are preserved in operation for 'come the time' they no longer rule our rails! Dave

I used to drive the 43's out of Kings X up the ECML... With 4500 hp under the bonnet ( 2250 hp ) one up front and one up the botty there was plenty of power on tap... Pulling out of the station on notch five with the Paxman Valenta turbo's screaming their little heads off and clouds of exhaust smoke ( sorry Greta Thunberg ) was something to behold with more excitement to enjoy... 125 mph here we come although they would top 148 mph... Now there is food for thought but as I did not fancy tea and biscuits with the Boss well need I say more.. 1

I don’t remember this one. I only remember the early 125’s as having a longer front and in the BR yellow n dark blue livery from the ‘This is the age of the train’ adverts. In Oct 1982 I remember the tilting train, the APT. I was on holiday on the Grand Union Canal and in many places the rails crossed over the canals. I was so excited to see an APT but it was the only time I ever saw one.

Sounding fantastic! Brilliant video!

41001 sounds AMAZING!!!!!

I don't care what anyone says, its diesel engines for me! Valenta is at the top! Looked awesome coming out from the fog 👍

It's great to think that although im not local to this fantastic line, but my granddad is a volunteer, so I get to visit this line every time I see him. AND THAT CLAG

@MrDeltic15

8 жыл бұрын

+JWRailways This was my first visit to the line, but won't be my last! The clag was certainly something to see, and smell!

Can’t stop replaying!!!!

Nice to see the big boys coming out to play with the trains!

a superb video, really enjoyable, the best loco a Deltic fan has ever filmed lol

Fantastic to c it running again

Great stuff. :) At last, I know why there were several people with cameras at Rushcliffe Halt when I walked past on that foggy day. :)

I’d love it if they fitted a valenta back into a preserved class 43 power car.

@ajf3202

3 жыл бұрын

That's the plan!

Now that's what I call beautiful!

@MrDeltic15

7 жыл бұрын

It was a great sight and sound to be able to capture indeed.

@TransportCambs

7 жыл бұрын

I did not see it sadly

Absolutely Amazed when I saw this in Bo'ness ,Falkirk Back in June 22nd to the 24th 2016 at the Diesel Gala day .Great Machine.

@MrDeltic15

7 жыл бұрын

It's a great and historic piece of UK railway history - hope to seen it running on the mainline in the future!

First time i have ever heard the prototype PC start up. awesome.

when I worked Loughborough signal box [ I was a signalman for over 33 years ] One of the other signalmen could remember hearing and seeing the trains hammering over the great central bridge.It was the fastest line with signaling system far in advance of the midland line until the managers of the midland got hold of it and shut it

@risvegliato

5 жыл бұрын

yes. the great central was the last main line to be constructed around 1899 with bigger loading gauge and faster speeds with straighter lines, more like an american railway, Then they closed it and dismantled it 60 years later...

@markkneafsey-nl8tv

11 ай бұрын

​@@risvegliatoThe line should have been kept open with services all the way to Scotland

Stunning , sight & sounds !

Superb video ! 👍

Its the most weirdly beautiful train

as we all hate to goodbye to the hst i think its fitting to allow this to go mainline running

@declangaming24

Жыл бұрын

Imagine this prototype +the fastest Class 43 power car

My Granddad drove the prototype at the 150th anniversary cavalcade of the Stockton and Darlington railway in 1975. He didn't want to though he wanted a steam train.

Excellent video. Glad to see the smoke eventually cleared up - perhaps they put some upper cylinder lubricant in the heads for storage.

@achyzo

9 жыл бұрын

Hich

This is fascinating stuff. It’s a great sound. I went to Reading in 1979 to see all the HSTs and that sound was incredible. I read on Wiki that all of this is now over due to some falling out or something. Shame. I resume the run was only this single track and quite slow?

Great video!

Nice to see these old girls running beautifully

I thought the 2013 run was gonna be the only move of this beast!

I don’t recall this one (the first to start up) it looks like it should be a rear end and never a front engine. Very strange. I call in Oct 1982 on holiday on a narrowboat on the Grand Union canal. Many times the rail crossed over the water and I was so excited to see a very futuristic looking APT. Never saw one before or since but I never forgot it. I was almost 12 then, now I’m heading for 48

@blackbirdgaming8147

3 жыл бұрын

It was a prototype to prove the HST concept

miss hearing the howl of Valenta's that I loved when I was a kid. MTU's sound so bland and agricultural

@MrDeltic15

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, those screaming Valenta's were something. Luckily I can still enjoy the VP185's on my local MML for a few more years yet.

@stanmarsh14

6 жыл бұрын

At least EMT had the good grace to use VP185's unlike the other TOC's, whom opted for those nasty MTU's.

@HotForgeChaos

4 жыл бұрын

I disagree. We have the 20 cylinder version MTU in our DL class freight locomotives, and they get pretty rowdy. Very refined though compared to a General Electric 7FDL

@etsmp_gh

3 жыл бұрын

@@stanmarsh14 VPS ARE TO LOUD CANT GO TO SLEEP NASTY MACHINES 😡😡😡😡👎

@ajf3202

3 жыл бұрын

@@etsmp_gh christ mate I'd love to live where you live.

looking forward to the gala

Wow amazing sound

@MrDeltic15

8 жыл бұрын

+MrJoshiej It did sound very nice, and made a great sight too.

@class43matty

8 жыл бұрын

+MrJoshiej 5 Years On KZread I saw one of the videos of it and it does have Marston on it!

Steam man myself but this is very nice to see.

@ninjaz5736

6 жыл бұрын

Looks kinda like a steam engine when it throttles up!

Nice video!

now if only they could do that with the APT and get the two at a gala somewhere, that would be amazing

@MrDeltic15

8 жыл бұрын

+Midland1072 That would be sight indeed. I'm hoping that sometime in the not too distant future they can get 41001 running at speed on a mainline charter in this type of formation.

great sound and the clagg

@MrDeltic15

8 жыл бұрын

+Rammer Gramps It was indeed, great to be able to capture this historic working.

only this video shows us how similar sounding yet how different the vp185 and valenta really are.

@MrDeltic15

5 жыл бұрын

Definitely a contrast between the two, and then again even more if you compare with a MTU engine HST.

Would be good to see a set made up with this at one end and the class 89 at the other

I thought the GCRN was 'land locked' is it now connected to the main rail network?

It looks brand spanking new!

Superb piece of history Darren. You produce excellent videos but I'm afraid the loud clicking of your cam is very distracting, sorry to say mate. It's still a like from me tho! Thanks. Ken

@audigex

4 жыл бұрын

Ken Browne that’s not his camera, that’s other people around him taking photos

Did it ever make it on to the main line? I can't recall seeing it out and about....

Looked more like a steamer at times.. Nice rare video mate.

Great video. ☺️ I just subscribed to your KZread channel. ☺️

@MrDeltic15

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for subscribing too.

@joshuahalla.k.a.controlla6333

Жыл бұрын

@@MrDeltic15 Ur welcome 🙏🏾

Is that line connected to the mainline

And those who thought it was gone now preferred the sound of the VP185

magic

Very nice video, likes from me !!!

Be cool if the auxiliary cab at the rear end of the power car could be made operational even if the power controller at aux end only had 2 power notches

Very interesting.

0:30 Anyone else think that Armstrong Powerhouse used 41001 to gather sounds for the Valenta sound pack? The start-up sounds very similar to that of the pack, though slightly off... Am I the only one that believes this?

Sir Kenneth Grange's power car 253001 is the second best hst power car ever

@helenlunn3829

3 жыл бұрын

Why?

0:37 RIP the ozone layer

@tomtalk24

4 жыл бұрын

Its white, so is simply cold.

I'm so glad this power car has been preserved, I recall making a trip to see it at Old Oak Common back in the 1970's. What happened to '002?

@powagaming1014

7 жыл бұрын

41002 was scrapped in December 1990 at C F Booth of Rotherham I believe

What has happened to 41001 since 2014-16 ish time

@ajf3202

3 жыл бұрын

NRM wanted it back. So it's probably never gonna run again cus of the NRM being toxic.

Cool

Nice video

@MrDeltic15

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much.

@themadtrainspotter

7 жыл бұрын

I've subscribed plz can u sub back.

Good front comparison at 3.42

Oh, the clag!

Well done Project Miller, GCRN and EMT for their help and support. Great footage of the landmark event mate, looks like we were on the same bridge! Check out my vid for full footage ;-)

a cyclops on rails

👏👏👏👏👏

Bloke waving his arm didn’t add much. Why the constant waving?

Sounds like Class 43 Valenta

In romania we have locomotive from 60s

I think the prototype looks more modern than the final product...

@WK-zb3ly

7 жыл бұрын

...

@MrDeltic15

7 жыл бұрын

It looked very futuristic at the time, but I think the production design is certainly the more iconic.

10:54 the horn

Is this the prototype of the intercity 125?

@MrDeltic15

7 жыл бұрын

The leading power car is indeed one of the two from the prototype Intercity 125.

@terrier_productions

6 жыл бұрын

Yep

It is a shame that BR scrapped the second power car...

@theextremeanimator4721

5 жыл бұрын

But at least money can replicate it

@declangaming24

Жыл бұрын

They can always make another one take a class 43 change the windows, buffers, cab layout and valenta engine done

A directional microphone would come in handy

does it have a marston?

@MrDeltic15

8 жыл бұрын

+Adam Bell Honest answer is I don't know, but if you visit Projectmiller.org.uk there's loads of info on there.

@class43matty

8 жыл бұрын

Indeed it does!

I was on that first class

@MrDeltic15

4 жыл бұрын

Lucky you, that's pretty special.

I doubt whether we will see this on main line working such is the pollution factors.

@jt42cwr

9 жыл бұрын

Why not, they let Class 55's run, even on freight and they're equally bad. Class 56's aren't clean either.

@MANOFKENT149

9 жыл бұрын

jt42cwr You're way behind the times, I was talking about the present.

@jt42cwr

9 жыл бұрын

Roger Cripps Rubbish. There is no legislation in place to stop anyone using any pre-existing locomotive on the mainline due to "pollution".

@wharris302

8 жыл бұрын

+Roger Cripps they let a deltic do it in 2011/12 They let fucking steam trains do it why not this

A lovely piece of workmanship but can that engine not be tuned to stop polluting the atmosphere

I always thought HST means High Speed Train. This looks like a VSST to me....

@MrDeltic15

7 жыл бұрын

This was it's first proper run with a rake of Mk3 stock and production power car, so the driver was taking it a bit easy to start(and waiting to open up for the gallery on the bridge), plus the maximum speed on heritage railway lines is 25mph.

The horn just doesn't sound right for a HST

it was a great pity 41002 was scrapped

Love the sound but damn the prototype is ugly. Much prefer the sleeker front of the production HST's. Still an amazing set though.

@MrDeltic15

7 жыл бұрын

Luckily Kenneth Grange(now Sir)got on board and redesigned the nose from the prototype version - although now over 40 years later I quite like the old style as a piece of history.

@lukestrainsandengines4014

6 жыл бұрын

MrDeltic15 I can see what he means the window design is a bit um weird

@francisboyle1739

6 жыл бұрын

I like them both. The prototype is very 70s but back then it looked ultra futuristic. You half expected Nick Tate to be in the driving seat. (If you were a kin in the 70s you'll likely know what I mean. Ah nostalgia!)

@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329

6 жыл бұрын

that will be next diesel visitor for next year on the seven valley railway Darren because I haven't seen that prototype hst yet I hope to see it one day

@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329

6 жыл бұрын

I like the prototype because its the first high speed train of 1976 before the class 43 hst took over and remain for next 40 years until the class 800 the new electric train of the future mate

That engine has some SERIOUS wear in the cylinders! Far too much blue smoke!

@jetstream454

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that, or just a hell load of oil buildup in turbo etc

They should rebuild the rear 41002 and paint the coaches

You can hear the clicking of the cameras and the coughing of old BR workers - Oh yes - Valenta & Emphysema

Shame now it will never be used again

That horn sounds like the driver stamped on a frog.