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When we were kids, there was and still is a railway line at the top of my Mothers garden near Cannock in Staffs. My friend was a spotter and while I never went that far, I enjoy watching trains myself. He lived further from the line and to claim a loco as seen he had to race upstairs and look out of his bathroom window to see the roof of the loco passing behind the houses over yonder. If I got the number I’d pass it to him. This was every school lunchtime. On one occasion I was cutting a sandwich and a loco came past light engine running down Wyrley Bank. It was basically just rolling down the bank making little noise as it approached. It was early spring and I easily got the number through the bare branches of the Hawthorn bushes at the top of the garden. Even so it caught me by surprise. 37 003. Odd. Not seen one of those before along this line. So anyway, I headed back to school and linked up with my mate on the way. “Did you see the loco that passed?” “I didn’t hear one.” “It was an odd shape I’ve not seen before on this line. 37 003.” He went BONKERS!!” “Naaah. You don’t get those along here.” I described the shape of the loco which fitted the number but even so he was well annoyed and for years afterwards he still accused me of making it up. Still makes me chuckle. So I’m quite pleased the loco still exists and is being looked after.

ITS ALIVE !!!!!!! What an awesome looking train

Too Bad Diesel Engine

I like when these Deltics blow smoke rings at startup.

When you do winter prep work set it up to some huge back 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 fires and balls of flames 💥💥💥💥💥💥

környezet barát mozdony ennél még a gőzős is jobb volt

Yeah, the big cam loper

Are they going round three times?

Weardale - where old tractors go to keep old men happy on winter nights.

Sounds like an old Massy Hit n Miss...

Did they start up like that from new?

Nice easy start, timing seems spot on. No,vast clouds of unburnt diesel either. She's in top nick!!!

Looks like Draxindustries' car failed its diesel emissions! So on a "crusade!" That will clear, typical EE cold start.

Stone cold. Giver her half an hour. Nice easy start, all 12 fire up fairly quickly so the timing is good. Once the oil warms up, the governor will be able to function correctly, the engine will stop hunting and be able to tick over smoothly. Effectively the oil is so thick that the governor detects what it thinks is a massive overspeed, cuts the fuel then detects an under speed so dumps a load of fuel in, hence the revving,

WATERSLIDE!!!

I have tv linked to my HI FI i turned it up full wack with subwoofer on, when the beast started up, one of my picture's fall of the wall lol. I think the neighbours are at the door.

Made for 1 thing... Tis' a thing of beauty.

I love that horn. Do all British locomotives use this horn?

@YORKIE230557 get the block warm by heating up the oil, that will slowly warm the block up, she'll then start quite happily

When trains were trains, used to scare me the sound of these beasts

Very nice classic railway video!!!

@bladesman123 yes Tinsley names her Tiger moth

@kawa7900 yup 1st time, warm day though :)

@bronzeonion its part of a 141

@joha77johaa It is called "hunting" The governor is not reacting quickly enough when cold to keep the speed steady so revs go up and down . It is not load-idle, just the no-load speed not constant.

how much torque these things put out?

That's quite a hydraulic...wouldn't want to get caught in there.

on and emd u can change the power packs (piston,liner, head) with engine in situ, u dont even have to remove overhead cam as its to one side of the cylinder, just open inspection door in crank, undo big end, open top, remove head and few other things and lift the lot out so Im guessing they get changed more, also 2 strokes always sound more crisp.

Yes, but Smiffy answered my question. I'm wondering why EMD's fire so clean while these engines don't. I'm curious to know the difference. Sounds like mostly just older technology.

the main generator is used as a starter. U know about diesel electrics right? diesel turns generator, electric trickery turns motors on the axles.

In one word, COLD!! A diesel engine requires 2 things to fire properly, Compression, and heat. This is what pre-heaters or glow plugs do, they warm the air in the cylinder before it's compressed and fuel added. Normally the heat comes from the act of compressing the air in the cylinder, but on a cold engine as here, the white smoke is mostly steam, and the black smoke is unburned fuel. Have a look at the same locomotive, starting on a warm day, and you will see the difference.

What causes them to create such smoke starting up? Are the cylinders caked with something from an earlier run?

no, it has a pretty massive electric starter.

Do they air start? I'm just curious how they work.

Just let them warm up for 20mins, and they run very sweetly indeed! Remember, no pre-heaters on these, Very old school engineering from the 1950's....

that thing smokes like a kettle

just as im having a can of coke :)

Why do these engines start like this? What is it doing when its shooting tons of smoke out like that? EMD engines don't do this, so it makes me wonder how these start.

Theres something about the sound of those old English Electrics.

Euro 0

1,750hp @ 800rpm

By cleaning it off.

My mrs' Citroen Xsara starts like that.

How do they get all that oily muck off the rolling stock?

2000 i guess, im not so shure (i am portuguese) =)

how much hp are they

Go green, go train! I love it :)

37414, its tin cans and razor blades now :(

so THATS how they make clouds?!