The first 90 seconds of your video with that old chair will make history ❤

sow glad we get to see thies places in acion by real driver love to see mabe one day cab a 56

Great video Brian. Thanks

I do love a grid - have heard that leaving Ferryhill on the ECML when I've been waiting a few miles up at Hett Mill 🙂

Congratulations to Freightliner for the new Contract with Malcolms

Class 70 reminds me of the the class 58 looks nice

Have Freightliner got a contract to haul Maersk containers as their intermodal trains that i see on KZread and in real life, often have a lot of Maersk container on the trains?

56094 was the first one we o/hauled at Washwood Heath for Colas.

Have you driven a 66/6? I know they are normally on heavy haul out of Derbyshire and Wiltshire quarries just wondered if any have done intermodal even though they are limited to 65mph.

Great to see Basford Hall busy, is there ever a time you'd double head 66s on a train Brian

How do you re-fuel all the Loco's and is it a big job and how often does it happen?. Sorry if it's a stupid question.

@Traindriverbrian1

10 ай бұрын

I’ll try and show you next time I’m on the shed but basically it takes around 15 minutes per loco and they are done on average daily

70s come down to southampton as well asa 66s

Great to hear 90050 has been saved .. is that a permanent arrangement as such do you know?

I think you should get a go pro so we can get a view from behind a window of you driving and talking then muting out the bits that are for you only i think if you then upload them you can get a lot of views from it.

Are there many class 56s left as many of them have been converted into class 69s do you still use the class 08 shunters as you don't see many about in freight depots

@ismzorro

10 ай бұрын

the 57s are converted 47s. 56s converted to 69, Looks like GBRf has bought up most of the remaining 56s to convert, otherwise colas is the biggest operator of pure 56s

@modelrailpaulcee

10 ай бұрын

There’s certainly a couple of Freightliner 08s at Ipswich.

@johnclarke2997

10 ай бұрын

@@modelrailpaulcee Freightliner have a 47.

Why Is there no FL trains into East Midlands gateway ? Used to be 4m86-

@Traindriverbrian1

10 ай бұрын

It wasn’t viable. Used to be a contract train for maersk until a couple of years back. GBRF took the contract and it meant the train didn’t make enough money to justify the length it had to sit at EM Gateway and the routing required in fuel and staffing costs

@markwebster7128

10 ай бұрын

@@Traindriverbrian1 it sat at EMG several hours before departing on 4L10 via half the country. I thought Lawley Street drivers worked 4m86 into emg

@johnson_street_IEMD

10 ай бұрын

70007 cute .. not the loco .. but that she is yours and the relationship you have with her.. my loco of choice is Malcolm 90024 .. not that I am ever likely to drive him but he was the loco I had to see and made me fall back in love with the hobby .. I am really disappointed that they're no longer in service with DB - I had adopted the Class with them - they all have names Malcolm, Donald, Bill, Jack, Christine and Co.. 😊 the 90s aren't going forward with DB but they are on my modelling project ..