ahhh the intercity train i still see them pull up at my local stevenage station. i remember them so well when i was small speeding past and hearing the raw of that engine bellowing away.
@trainmaster5000 maggie thatcher allowed the sale of british assets. britian hardly owns anything now. i.e the oil , the energy, the gas are all owned by various foreign companies that can hold this country to ransom quickly. like centrica, and a while ago the russians with the gas.........
So it wasn't electric, but diesel? I suppose that would be better than a coal-furance electric plant supplying the electricity as long as it kept many citizens from using their own fuel burning cars. Interesting..
Thanks. I actually found the track on Youtube and then decided to do this video. :P
These power cars are diesel with an electric transmission, like many diesel locomotives.
The only electric locomotives I can think of that were coal fired were the French Heilmann Locomotives of the 1890s that got their electricity from on board steam generators.
Oh, you mean they used coal to generate electricity onboard the train? I was just thinking of the general idea of a typical powerplant supplying the electricity for trains to run on, but that's an interesting idea..
ahhh the intercity train i still see them pull up at my local stevenage station. i remember them so well when i was small speeding past and hearing the raw of that engine bellowing away.
brother776 9 months ago
whatever happened to solid British Engineering like this?
trainmaster5000 1 year ago
@trainmaster5000 maggie thatcher allowed the sale of british assets. britian hardly owns anything now. i.e the oil , the energy, the gas are all owned by various foreign companies that can hold this country to ransom quickly. like centrica, and a while ago the russians with the gas.........
brother776 9 months ago
Good little set of classic clips there matey!! Well done.
pauleyd80 2 years ago
Ooh, nice 0079 music, works well with the video.
So it wasn't electric, but diesel? I suppose that would be better than a coal-furance electric plant supplying the electricity as long as it kept many citizens from using their own fuel burning cars. Interesting..
MGNSMG 2 years ago 2
Thanks. I actually found the track on Youtube and then decided to do this video. :P
These power cars are diesel with an electric transmission, like many diesel locomotives.
The only electric locomotives I can think of that were coal fired were the French Heilmann Locomotives of the 1890s that got their electricity from on board steam generators.
gguru1 2 years ago
Oh, you mean they used coal to generate electricity onboard the train? I was just thinking of the general idea of a typical powerplant supplying the electricity for trains to run on, but that's an interesting idea..
MGNSMG 2 years ago
The Heilman steam-electric locomotives were kind of a dead end actually. Just to clarify, the trains in this video are diesel electric.
gguru1 2 years ago