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Great vid mate! The problem causing the smoke is: A brake that is stuck. The Brakedisc overheats and starts smoking like this.

AllianceB95 3 weeks ago

awwwwhhhs poor darlin hst :(

woo6849 1 month ago

I thought MTU's were not supposed to clag. Yes its a joke for those with no sense of humour as the smoke is due to a failed traction motor (not to mention that the smell makes your eyes water). The motor on my Dapol Class 153 model had a fault and burnt out due to rotor lock which smouldered the bodyshell where the motor was mounted. Anyways nothing bad happened apart from a few peeved off passengers running late and everyone got off the train safely :).

EWS60008 1 month ago

Traction Motor's commutator flashes across to earth basicly, normaly caused by dirt and carbon brush dust inside the motor. The commutator being made of copper basicly melts / burns when it happens and everything basicly desinigrates into a big mess!

formidable38 4 months ago

I HAVE HEARD OF CLAG BUT THIS IS SILLY LOL

class37100 4 months ago

@hstscotsman Nothing to do with a hot box. If it was, it would have to be removed from the train on a wheel skate at 5mph. Thats a typical TM flashover. You can hear it popping and banging as it went past.

formidable38 4 months ago

@formidable38 what's a TM flashover?

zaccee1996 4 months ago

Excellent footage, looks like distributor on the power car was stuck, thus causing the brakes to rub, isolate distributor on that bogie make sure the brake blocks aren't rubbing, do a brake test and away you go.

MK55A 4 months ago

Interesting that from about 1:22s it sounds like an "all electric", anyone explain that?

goodchappy 4 months ago

@goodchappy Traction motors whining !

MK55A 4 months ago

@MK55A Don't normally hear that because of the engine noise. They sound like EE507s

goodchappy 4 months ago

Couldn't have happened to a nicer MTU.

mcgherkinstudios 6 months ago

The fire on the back power car served the MTU right for replacing the british vals we used to have!

BR75069 7 months ago

Was it caused by the brakes sticking and a huge build up of friction? Thats a common cause of a train to catch fire. "Hot axle box" more commonly known as...

rachaelmatt 7 months ago

looked like a traction motor on fire or something there, lol

EWS60500 7 months ago

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1Standart 8 months ago

I seem to remember that it was 3 phase cables burnt out, 1 had sustained a trauma and shorted across to the other 2, nothing too serious,

Mr50fan 10 months ago

I'm assuming this was running on an MTU lump?

spark001uk 1 year ago

Interesting stuff. Was it delaid much. was at Didcot last week. Thanks

SMILEVIDEOTRAINS 1 year ago

Great vid! Was she continuing the service or heading for liara depot?

HSTcallum 1 year ago

@HSTcallum not a clue. seeing as passengers were detrained and it were ecs in the end under 1 powercar i guess they were off to a depot of some sort! thanks.

zaccee1996 1 year ago

@HSTcallum its in didcot.......why would it pass bristol st phillips marsh to get to laira

mrgrahamhearn 6 months ago

@HSTcallum I would have thought it would goto the nearest maintenanance depot, which from Didcot, would be Old Oak Common???

smiffy1071 6 months ago

ouch poor FGW HST :)

trainsArejustGreat 1 year ago

@trainsArejustGreat lol

zaccee1996 1 year ago

Great catch do you know what was the cause of the fire?

justinfoulger 1 year ago

@justinfoulger nope

zaccee1996 1 year ago

@zaccee1996 judging i work with locos on the ELR it looks like the traction motors have caught fire, either from overload from the driver thrashing it too much :)

55022RSG 1 year ago