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That is what it is like on the footplate, plus camera stabilization wasn't really good back in 2009.

The engine is a B.U.T. AEC 220AJ 150 h.p. six-cylinder horizontal diesel engine. It sits within the chassis frame, the exhaust I believe is vented underneath as well, there are some pictures and description on the web doing a search on AC Railbus

@@johndann3981 Ah, ok. For a moment I thought it may have been air powered. There are still a few in industry and museums- but they are exceedingly rare.

Image stabiliser was on and didn't do what it's meant to. Driver asked to be kept out of the video, so no sound

I honestly cannot remember or even if I was ever told

Looks like Ray Churchill.

Ray Churchill

The camera was perfectly steady for the whole journey, the image stabiliser within it is trying to centre the tracks from start to finish

You have to blame the community who live by the railway, who dumped the rubbish in the first place. People have no respect for where they live today. It's always somebody else's fault and somebody else's job to clean the mess.

You are right, Maggie thatcher the everything snatcher always hated the railways 🛤 full stop ✋️ 🫸 🫷 🙄 😑

Beyond Severn Beach would be impossible as trackbed is built on. Henbury Loop however.. we live in hope.

Because the sound is turned off

Bristol Temple Meads Lawrence Hill Montpelier Redland Clifton Down Sea Mills Shirehampton Portway Park & Ride Avonmouth St Andrews Road Severn Beach

@@ianmcclavin You have omitted Stapleton Road on the mainline, situated between Lawrence Hill and Montpelier.

@@paulengers4100Having this list is pretty uselss ... the names should be on the film at the actual ststions!

don't think it was ever double tracked from St Andrews Road to Severn Beach. They could easily double track all way to Avonmouth and that would be more than enough to increase capacity to 15-20 min services. Would need some money thrown at it - bridge at Sea Mills for example would need lot of work.

​@@tomarse99looking at the bridges on the line beyond Avonmouth, I agree it was never double track.

Or elsewhere .

@@arch9enius it was singled in 1970 but as the bridge widths show it was double track up until Avonmouth. The remaining single line sections have been realigned in places, probably in conjunction with the signal upgrades from semaphore to electronic.

@@vincentharriman3283 Yeah, I don't think this line would benefit from doubling with current trafic, as long as everybody keeps time. Unless someone puts a road / rail freight interchange at the end, the spare track could be used for more loops on the SW main line to Exeter for example.

The wobble is due most likely to the state of the railway

@@vincentharriman3283 Looked like engine vibration fkummoxing the image stabilisation at the end.

Have got a rail atlas from 1992. It's amazing the amount of sidings that existed even then .

The portbury line is barely ever used for Frieght. One train a week max at present. Once the coal trains stopped that was it.

I beg to differ. Avonmouth is still quite busy. Its just all done in Bennett sidings. Portbury hasn't had a train for months. Apart from network rail hst

It was part of the now redundant coal silo. You can see the remains of the conveyor on the right.

Yet another generation of wasted infrastructure.

In the late 80's early 90's a tunnel/conveyor system was installed under the river Avon to link Portbury docks to the rail sidings in Avonmouth which allowed the importation of coal by bulk carrier and then carried by rail to Didcot power station. The railway line from Avonmouth to Filton Triangle was doubled necessitating an additional bridge across the M5 being installed. this is the foundation for the current Metro West plans. The Portbury branch was reopened in the mid 90's giving direct rail access to Royal Portbury Docks.

They were for the lighting over the sidings that's all,smallest had 4,largest 16.

@@ianplowman2808 it was a bit later on the railway line - 2002 when it reopened. They have now removed the rails completely from the coal depot at RPD. The other spur goes down to the car transporter loading bay but that's not been used for cars in years and years. Funny how they said it would take 40k lorries off the road each year.. it was only ever about the coal!