What the hell is it?!

[WSnook37025]

it a Rail Grinder, DR 79221 - DR 79226, based at Eastleigh. it grinds the top of the rails for better traction

[irelandbloke]

KILL IT !!

[Coley976]

Ahhhhhh retard its A TRAIN?????!!!!!!! Dddaaaaaahhhhhhaaaaaaaa!!!

[conwaytwitty33]

I once had a flat that backed right onto the East Coast Main Line, that bloody Rail Grinder train was out there for half the night making a god awful racket! The sparks and stuff were well cool though.

[darragho39reilly]

Could be the Nuclear Train

[EWS60008]

That's Darth Vader's Limo! Looks like Tony Blair on a good day! :P.

[Cyberwwwizard]

Eastleigh railway station ESL

[daleksvscybermen]

This is why you shouldn't crossbreed trains.

[kratos32godofwar1]

fucksakes u muppets its an engineering train ...doh!!!!..LOL

[TheShadeWalker]

"Welcome. Welcome to City 17. You have chosen or been chosen to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers"

[tobythesuperfasttram]

track layer maybe?

[17587419]

@JBofBrisbane

I knew it was on the maintenance side of things. Trouble is they have so many that all look alike it's kinda hard to interpret which train does what lol.

[17587419]

It's a maintenance train. It maintains the structure of the lines and power cables overhead. I've seen these around quite a few times. I believe they work for Network rail. I may be wrong, but I do know they are for maintenance.

[mistofoles]

@17587419 Exactly, it's not for conveying passengers.

[JBofBrisbane]

@17587419 - No, it grinds the rails to a better profile. A track recording car is something else entirely.

[davidsingle500]

i think belongs to network rail

[TEMPLE7D]

This must be what in the U.S we call a LORAM Rail Grinder

[DIRT3GYMKHANA1]

i not really into trains but wtf is that piece of shit.. ?!!

[papero40]

i think am going to have night mares

[simpletimes222]

Bloody heck that's ugly!

[dangleberrie]

Its Optimus Primes' new guise...

[evgeniy02141982]

its a muhphukkin pussy-getter! this is what is it!LMFAO

[Clubpenguinrocks4455]

awesome!

[whorayful]

Much more impressive when they are working, with sparks showering off the rail head. In Australia they couple in a water tanker in the middle so the operators can do their own fire fighting as well!! I think we have mostly Plasser und Thuerer machines in Australia BTW.

[ROYALstraightFLUSH22]

i believe its called a  train

lol

[MrKezzabean]

am i the only person who likes service trains.

[lee2217]

might sound like a silly question but what does this train do?

[Peterminator15]

@lee2217 the train effectively grinds the top of the rails off to improve the profile of the track to allow for better track and more effective running. over time the rails become flatter wit the height in effect moving to the sides as it is onstantly ran over by trains and to stop this problem they use grinders such as the one in the clip to sort it out. hope this answers your question

[lee2217]

@Peterminator15

thanks for the info

[scratchedguitar]

Not uncommon to see these parked up at Stafford

[ThePrestonChannel]

Thats a Grinder I work on thoses

[MrZkr123]

its gotta be an MOW train

[Owen4004]

its known as a train

[TheSpoofs4u]

sexy mail train

[camothegr8]

where did u see that :)

[Natbilltv]

coool

[simierski]

Had no idea this train existed - bit of a night owl I take it? Great vid, thanks for sharing it with us! :)

[brushtraction]

looks like a f**ked up intercity 125

[irishmanufan]

looks as ugly as a class 70 !

[alexamltd]

YUCK!!!!

[Trainsim010]

woooooooooooooooow, i really like the sound of it. Does it use both electric and desil engines???

The sound just sounds so.....nice and relaxing. xD

[kevleisa]

it looks like a yellow thingy to me ! or it might be something else very nice though hope this helps !!

[MrAnimationluvr]

It looks like a Vilkswagen, Bus retarded train thing

[TheIntercityhst]

@MrAnimationluvr that would be a class 142 pacer

[MrAemandy]

Judging by the looks, Ray Charles has moved on from Music!

[bloodred32567]

It's a Train

[MrJezza31]

total bolloks thats the answer why couldnt it have been an 86 or 87

[trainlover658]

are we still in the UK? o.o

[stamperization]

It's quite a beast isn't it? It turned up a few years ago when I was filming at Beck Foot near Shap, and I didn't know what the hell it was. I thought I was seeing things!

[TheXtremeEnthusiast]

Awesome

[bordercollies10]

Nice video, I actually heard one of these grinders were at Falkland Yard!

[skungheeney]

Because of the weights and pressures on the track the railhead distorts, this machine re-grinds the railhead profile.

[matanuialive2010]

i used to live next to a railway and sometimes when I couldn't sleep I would wait for this weird train that made a loud hissing sound as it went past ,I think it was used to "defrost" the track because it only apeard during winter

[zippyskidmarks]

yep rail grinder think they are mostley opp by italians,,

[EGPONL]

i wonder what it is

[Trainbuff2008]

101 times worse than a 442, such a shame the track don't buckle under hot weather anymore then that would stop these sods welding all the track up, this is why you no longer get the fab clicketyclack sound of any train.

[TheMrBlinx]

@Trainbuff2008 Sadly, that clickity-clack is the sound of wear, tear and damage, too. That quiet whir you now hear is the sound of progress and refinement. You don't hear near as many "flat" wheels any more, either.

[Trainbuff2008]

@TheMrBlinx wheel flats are caused by brakes jamming on or driver breaking too hard not the gaps in the sections of rail that there used to be. you can bearly hear a train comming down the track now i used to live near sectioned track and used to love the sound the trains that past my house and you used to know which way they were going as the southbound direction was continueous rail.

[TheMrBlinx]

@Trainbuff2008 Me too. I lived just feet away from a major railroad, and I heard it every night, but it is because of wear and tear on both wheels and rails that caused 1/4 mile lengths of welded rail th be installed. The more shock and vibrations there is, the worse the wear. Go out and look at sectional rail lengths, just where the joints are, and you will SEE WHY they decided to change things.

[A0990Productions]

I thinks tahts the prototype hst!

[TheSteamdriver]

what does a rail grinding train do

[55022RSG]

what it does is, when they have been welding the track, it buffs it out

[TheSteamdriver]

Thank you

[rachaelmatt]

eer thats 1 ugly train, its werse than a 442

[SWT442]

Blasphemy!

[trescothick23]

@SWT442 Yeah, nothings worse than a 442.

[GeneralQurumov]

@rachaelmatt

There is nothing wrong with the 442 it is a good train

[Femmenition]

It's a UTO. Unidentified Train Object.

[jackharry11]

its a network railgrinder train

[TheBrett56]

what is clag??? plz respond

[MrMedderzEa]

@TheBrett56  clag is the smoke you see coming out of the exhaust

[iib8903]

smoke coming out of trains, usually clapped out useless ones that should be sent for scrap, aka valenta engines, 20s, 37s, 56s etc

[DOCTORDROTT]

Its a railgrinding train,best viewed at night for its effect.

[Doomsday2060]

looks sort of australian

[porter6669196327]

What the fuck does that look like.

[BrambleH]

this was parked up in bristol temple meads yesterday

[AvonRailFan]

great mate 5stars and fav

[TheXtremeEnthusiast]

Hellfire beast!

[nighigaownz]

my mom seen one today in the morning she said it look like it was on fire...

[SNAKEMAN742]

i think its a tester train a one that test the track to see if they are safe

[WrongRoadRailways]

front looks like the prototype HST...

[bordercollies10]

I like that rail grinder! Not often you see them around! I wonder what British Rail Class number it is but hoppers, wagons, tankers and Network Rail MPVs don't have a class number either... It'd be good if you could find out when and where grinders are on duty! :) Thanks for uploading this!

[xjabi]

is it a bird? is it a plane?

[The92002]

That is one hideous looking diesel... scary even!

[justandy333]

lol, thats a proper example of function over form. God its a hideous looking train.

[adamtorbayexpress]

UGLY OR WHAT?

[imautuber444]

Rail grinders are best see at work during the night, sparks fly man!

[2005gillinghamd]

its a rail grinder

[michael6410]

I've seen this loco an the ECML in 2007 when they were reparing the lines near the selby junction I don't know what it's called but I think it has the same job as the old Network Rail HST and the class 31 which is to test the track for faults.

[Pat4wba]

Rail Grinder

[gguru1]

I hereby dub it, class XX

[UKTrainMan]

Errrm...help I'm scared! That 'thing' would actually freak me out if I saw it for real. Then again, I may have seen one in the sidings outside York on the way to Northallerton...definitely think it was the same 'thing'. Seems like Network Fail / Notwork Fail doing what they do worst to me... great video 5*s

[cazowazo]

i see that all the time it stays in the yard a lot

[supremedalek24]

did any one borrow it from mersyrail??????

[2008horwooda]

lol

[kutafon4]

It's a rail Grinder???

[marshalnd]

umm....what seems to be the problem?

[taffboyslim]

I've just seen this thing (or something very similar to it) in action whilst I was walking the dog. 7pm-ish, between Chesterfield & Sheffield, going North.

[mecrazy5]

its cool but looks wierd

[getofmaballs]

...?!

[FulhamBrianMcBride8]

i saw that at eastliegh

[Williscoaches]

i re shapes the rail head

[railhopper4]

speno is for dermois...

[shaunliverpool1892]

yes its the speno

as the rail profile wears causing wheels to hunt [side to side movement]

or where theres been wheelslip causing serations /rough track

the speno travels at night on closed tracks 20 or so computer controled grind wheels contact the track and traveling around walking speed it reprofiles the rails to as new shape

[Mordiiax]

I have worked on a couple of those :) Pretty lazy ;)

[AndreiTupolev]

Sounds quite impressive for a piece of PW kit. What engine does it have?

[SWT442]

I'm afraid i don't know. Sorry.

[Skoda130]

It sounds very much like our dutch 6400-series of locomotives.. I wouldn't be surprised if the propulsion mechanics are built by MaK in Germany.

[yoanngeneve]

@AndreiTupolev it 's a CAT 3512

[yoanngeneve]

@AndreiTupolev  cat 3512

[brushtraction]

@AndreiTupolev an aiging paxman valentina

[dantaniel]

YELLOW TRAIN, genius.

What do I win? Nyuck, nyuck!

[Woolybak8]

I saw this train in a siding, well I think its this, when I visited my uncle who lives in Tonbridge. He lives on a road right next to the line, just down the road from the station. It was either in August 2004 or August 2006, i'm not sure..

[KINGANDCASTLE]

Q What the hell is it?! A The Royal Train after Mohammed Al Fayed has become PM.

[1sushi1]

you can see that in three bridges(crawley) or in tonbridge, it park there during the day. i know that 'cause i worked there :)

[dccodring21]

There seems to be one parked up quite often in Three Bridges yard, infact it might even be the same one.

[oscarbooo]

Yeah I have seen it there a couple of times before on my way up to London! I also tend to see quite a few EWS engineers trains and MPV's as well.

[oscarbooo]

It's a Speno RPS 32-2 Rail Grinder. You very rarely see these things during the day but tend to see these things late at night so this is a rarity. 5* and one for the favs. Thanks for posting!

[SWT442]

Thanks for that. Now i know what it is!

[infernodood3]

@oscarbooo what does it do?

[davethecomidian]

a realy mucked up service train lol

[HSTHoward]

weird