3. Traincare '90 (Part 1)
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- Traincare '90 is a wonderful insight into the mundane world of train cleaning. This video emanates from the Thames and Chiltern division of Network South East, and starts with the proud boast that they are the 'last remaining all diesel commuter service in London', with some accompanying footage of revised NSE liveried class 47s and 50s, along with a Chiltern line 115 DMU.
We then move on to Old Oak carriage sheds, via a very decrepit looking Marylebone depot. The budget for the video has been blown on 1970s TV favourite Robin Askwith, who plays the part of cleaning stores supervisor. Robin then introduces us to a number of dubious cleaning products
- Grimeshifter, an unspecified liquid in a hand labelled bottle
- Lancare cream cleanse
- Speed-clean and Speed-Polish
- Dacralyte (gloves and goggles required)
- Gwish (gloves required but goggles 'not necessary')
A lady in a probably-not-uniform-issue velour tracksuit then sets about the interior of a Networker Express Mk 1, paying special attention to graffiti and 'indelible residue', whatever that may be.
Next a man with a portable vacuum cleaner strapped to his back, wanders around like a parish players production of Ghostbusters.
Robin Askwith is then joined by a very apprehensive looking gentleman, and we soon find out why as the large yellow tub sitting in front of him is no other than 'Wonder Gunge'. Preservation of the depot concrete floor is the priority as bicarbonate of soda is applied to the floor, in order to neutralise acids; an afterthought for the cleaner is the issue of goggles, gloves wellies and a rubber apron, giving them the look of someone attending a fetish party who only got round to buying their outfit at an Esso garage on the way there.
The final cleaning product is the mysterious 'X-mover', which seems to irritate the narrator into having to mention 'so-called' COSHH notices. He seems to regain his smugness as a resplendent 47 on Mk 1s trundles onto the reception roads at OC.
The unsung heroes of our transport system - the endlessly hardworking men and women who clear up after our mess.
indeed, these men and woman deserve a mentioning.
This is fantastic! I love how the narration gives a good indication of how proud Thames & Chiltern were that their trains were among the oldest on the network.
4:15 a BR branded suite of cleaning fluids. What I'd do for a set of those...
I really like the tone and seriousness of these BR narrations paying attention to all the important details. ^-^
Only sad thing is the thought that the facilities featured have now all but gone nowadays
It's amazing to see how much better outdated rolling stock can look once they have been given a deep clean!
You know, I spent a lot of time on Network Southeast trains, none of them looked like they had been cleaned in my bloody lifetime, I don't believe for a nanosecond that the vast majority of this stuff had ever been done!
The Merseyrail class 507 & 508 units are nearly 40 years old! The livery they have been given 6 years ago is already starting to fade and look worn out! Despite being replaced by the new Stadler class 777s, Merseyrail and Stadler should make sure that the current fleet still look presentable to passengers whilst they still have time left!
It’s amazing what they were able to do with the little money they had at the time as this was one year before they started privatization
I'm impressed by how BR were keen to keep trains on the brink of being replaced well maintained. A far cry from the way LUL are leaving their A60 stock to rot until they are withdrawn.
I'm not sure that is really fair on LUL. They have always been very hot on graffiti removal, and do what they can about cleaning generally. They have a pattern of services (heavy running most of the day, and a metro service from very early to very late) which makes that harder than a commuter service which might be put to bed or tail off to a trickle of trains much earlier, and slackens much more off peak. That's not to say commuter rail efforts in this regard aren't admirable, or that keeping them looking nice is easy, it isn't, and was harder then than now with not only diesel trains but diesel road vehicles which probably miss current particulates standards by a factor of ten or a hundred, but there are factors which explain many of the cases where LUL falls below the standards they set themselves.
i did not know that backpack vacuum cleaners where around in the 1990s, they look quite bulky and heavy.
i thought they would use other vacuum cleaners such as Henry.
It's "Exmover", and yes, strong stuff for removing cast iron brake dust!
I love how even the cleaning products have a Nation Rail symbol on them - just to remind us all that they are for train-use only
with all protective equipment provided, that's why you should always look at the depots COSHH board before handling the cleaning products.
when cleaning the seats with the wet vacuum, i though they would use for example, a Numatic George.
Hey Greater Anglia...any chance you could learn a bit from this? I mean it's not as if us plebs in East Anglia really deserve sanitary trains, but...
ahh, so that's why Transport for Wales Rail Services will be refurbishing the refurbished 170/2s before putting them into service in late 2019...?
Oh god Connex! Now theres a name to strike fear into any railwayman or passenger. Words cannot quite comprehend how much of a joke they were, I presume it must have been a culture shock comming from BR to working on that disgrace of a franchise!
No matter how much effort one puts in - a Mk 1 coach can NEVER truly be clean...
Ha 😃
Did they really get the brightwork polish out???? Looks good for a promo video but im not sure if it was rigorously implemented in practice.....
fatwalletboy2 not in a million years I reckon!
Is it really Robin Askwith?
Does anybody know the song at the start of the video please? 🙂
Cool.
Just use Mr Muscle.
whats 80s pop star billy ocean doing in the video
@Daniel Eyre haha i see what you did there...
Who ya gonna call? NSE😃
They're too lazy to do that in Sydney, Australia. Our lovely V Set trains which were built in the 1970s, are still in service. They are workhorses and are fine, but they were meant to be retired by 2015. This got moved back to 2020. They clearly can't afford to clean them that well because like everything in New South Wales. There is no money to replace parts with. So what does CityRail do? They just paint over it! For example in the V Sets, they used to have wooden panelling, now...drab paint.