Smash Hit

[Superabound2]

holy crap the music at the beginning of this video is awesome

[1RadicalOne]

What is sad is that the anti-nuke idiots will still claim that a crash of a train or other vehicle carrying nuclear materials will be a disaster larger in scale than a meteorite impact...

[technoandrew]

6:18 That must have been a terrifying moment, opening the throttle of the train with no driver in it, knowing it had 8 miles of clear track to run before a sudden stop..

[woot2111]

Ah, so THAT'S what almost all of Nintendo's systems are made out of. That explains why they're virtually impossible to destroy...

[gguilford72]

"The flasks are very robust"

Brits truly are the masters of understatement.

[theothertrainee]

They used to show this video at the Dungeness Power Station visitor centre.

[theothertrainee]

My dad worked for the CEGB at the time and was invited to the train crash event, however he stupidly declined because he was on holiday! :P

[2AgentSmith2]

#LOL at the man at 2:29 he looks like andy pipkin from little britain

[2AgentSmith2]

#LOL the man at 2:29 looks like andy pipkin from little britain

[thengel24235]

Good old British engineering.

[naxps]

Forgive me for being a noob here but, why do the rods stay all warm and toasty for such lengths of time?

[desposyy]

the heat is generated by the fact that the molecules that make up the rods are litteraly falling apart at the very baic levels, and this degrading pocess generates one hell of allot of heat becuse of how strong the forces tying to prevent it are

[Pwndlolhaxbbq]

500,000 was a lot then!

[bronzeonion]

wow u can drive the train from the outside! cool poor peak though

[55022RSG]

peaks were really unreliable thats why they used one ;-)

[MahLazer9000]

I wonder what type of seals they used, they could use gas filled seals, then if water pressure increased the seals would expand not allowing water to escape. I think the ultimate test would be to see if it would survive the atomic bomb but I guess it doesn't need to be that strong.

[donimic13]

ya because then there would be radiation everywhere anyways

[nuckchorrris]

everything british is great,i cant stand america.

[kanjocky]

that would be usefull like if there was a meteor they would made the inside of the box really safe with cusshions and seat so that u can hold onto and have a cushion pillow for like the head,

[briant2828]

thats one strong ass box

[madplanefan]

What a perfectly good scrapping of a Peak!

[421mog]

Check out Little Britain's Andy @ 2.28.

'Andy - you're alarm's going off!'

'Yeah - I know.'

No coincidence he's now in a wheelchair...

[bronzeonion]

lmao

[cutterschoicenotmine]

amazing video, thanks for the upload!!

[ACranesvideos]

Where did you get this video from? Its very interesting!!

[hijack72]

I work for Magnox...hence the video...

[Owentheguitarist666]

poor train lol

[ralph5407]

Probably to technical for you is it.

[ZTIJNERJOHANSON]

fucking boring

i hate it

[hijack72]

So why did you watch it.lmao

[ACranesvideos]

What do u mean why did you watch it??Imao!

[hijack72]

Sorry mate... Not a reply for you.... Meant to be for ZTIJNERJOHANSON.......lol

[ACranesvideos]

No worries mate!

[HentisD6569]

if you goto my website hentis-rail . co . uk you will find a link for operation smashit, go take a look at some official and not so official photographs that were taken.

[Yvo25]

Does anyone know the name of the song, in the begin?

[pompeyboycat]

i have this film, who is narrating it?? i cant for the life of me remember his name, great vid tho

[novauk]

I think it's Paul Vaughan. He does a lot of Horizon and science programmes.

[Richardpd16378]

This took place not far from where my Gran & Aunts live.

The buffers are on display in York, along with a looped video of this.

[elganthomas]

Saw this many times in the Trawsfynydd Station visitor Centre!

[Evilbones666]

Whoooooo Hoooooooo i would love to have been there

[mydogsears]

ha ha ha ha .