Back in the day this pair would have filled Stratford station with smoke. look how clean they are with modern fuels. We need big locomotives in our lives 😃
Rubbish, just cold engines on cold days or sat around for hours on idle clogging up the injectors, EE engines were known to smoke a little on those occasions. I travelled around on Hoovers since 1984 apart from real cold days on cold starts the blue haze is gone in 20 minutes. Never any smoke in the summer months, just clean thrash. They are much better serviced today though I agree.
It's a generator car to supply 'hotel services' like HVAC, lighting, kitchen power, 240v mains supply, even 415v in some cases to run the train when the locos are uncoupled from it. (It's horrible sitting in dark, unheated stock waiting for a loco to hook on) Often also holds stores of various consumables.
@@Keithbarber 50034 Furious was scrapped, that's 50007 Hercules with one side having 34 & Furious's name on that side only for a paid price to the Fifty Fund.
Pure Hoover power ❤️
It was a bonus seeing them that day as I had covered a deltic railtour as well
MEGA video
Glad you enjoyed watching it
I was thankful i was able to see the same train again the following day heading in the other direction
Back in the day this pair would have filled Stratford station with smoke. look how clean they are with modern fuels. We need big locomotives in our lives 😃
They still sounded as good as ever
And on-schedule oil changes.
Rubbish, just cold engines on cold days or sat around for hours on idle clogging up the injectors, EE engines were known to smoke a little on those occasions. I travelled around on Hoovers since 1984 apart from real cold days on cold starts the blue haze is gone in 20 minutes. Never any smoke in the summer months, just clean thrash. They are much better serviced today though I agree.
Lovely. What's better than a 50. Two 50s. What's the coach at the back, some sort of generator ?
I think it may be a a staff vehicle
It's a generator car to supply 'hotel services' like HVAC, lighting, kitchen power, 240v mains supply, even 415v in some cases to run the train when the locos are uncoupled from it. (It's horrible sitting in dark, unheated stock waiting for a loco to hook on) Often also holds stores of various consumables.
I thought 50034 was scrapped
Well she wasn't and sounded in fine fettle
@@Keithbarber 50034 Furious was scrapped, that's 50007 Hercules with one side having 34 & Furious's name on that side only for a paid price to the Fifty Fund.
@@Thunderer0872 thanks for the details