Does anyone else think its sick that they have both cabs from the same loco next to each other? It's like your head being burried next to your arse when you die. 45 128's main generator failed, that's why she was withdrawn, the rest of her was fine - what an epic waste! R.I.P old friends.
I've asked this so many times - wouldn't a scrap merchant make more money selling a complete loco to a group of enthusiasts than spending weeks cutting them up for dead weight metal value?
@hornbytrainsets yeah, enthusiast would, and have done that. all the scrap man has to do is store them as they are and sell them to the highest bidder - not destroy them! it's so sad!
No idea how i ended up here but it is a shame having to scrap these engines especially when the scrap merchants are the only one`s who make anything from this and its not like they do anything for the industry except line there own gypsy pockets
would had been nice if they would had let theses locos go for few more years tell they got scrapped sad they went already but i know things don't say forever but if they did keep some alive for child hood memories i know if they kept some around we could had shown are kids them but oh well
waistfull, why scrap trains because they are old, when they still do the job better than any modern loco, how many times have we called back 20s, 31s, 47s, 37s, to do the job the new crap locos such as a 66 cant do, if its true that they need new trains then build new ones of the type thats proven, truth is its fiscal back handers and favours from rich shareholders. what a waste, thats my child hood and my fathers child hood cut up, then when a certain person killed the mines, it killed industry
i stopped train spotting when i got my last 47.having seen every class available from the 70's to the late 90's. it breaks my heart to see these awesome loco's turned into skeleton's a far cry from the image's in my head from seeing them working day to day. progress is a bitch. why there isn't a static museum to hold these beast's i do not no, they did at york for steam!!!! once gone and forgot when they played a important role in modern railway history.
It's thousands times less impactant to the environment to mine new ores, extract more petroil and release into the environment tons of toxic chemicals than just retrofitting an "old" locomotive.
im eightteen i live near the ews yard in houboury west yorkshire and ther is at least ten class 52s and about fifteen of this class (im not into trains but have a interst) sat rotting its sad to see specly whn northan rail still have unfit fore perpouse pacers running built in the eighties these should be king of the lines ,, sorry fore the poor spelling
@class37trash dont get me wrong i loved the good old days 37 47 31 20 08 the good old days now its the same old shit a shed 66 there is no soul left in our railway now
Reality check guys !! You cant save all of them. Where would they be kept and who would provide the enormous amount of money needed. There are examples of almost every diesel loco on preserved lines around the country.What I dont like with the preserved ones is that all look like they are straight out of the box. I would like to see them as I remember them....with the hard-worked and weathered look.
what annoys me as much as the waste of these giants, is the waste of talent in this country, some of the finest engineering talent, driving cabs and working in call centres....crazy times....
It is totally whacko to see 55022 working freight trains (a job it was never designed for) when loco's specifically designed for freight are being scrapped.
I hate to old loco's scrapped, but nothing lasts forever, even me or you and if u run a business then u replace old stock with supposedly more reliable stuff, whether or not this will play out as they intended what with modern electronics in locomotives etc is another matter.
Remanufacturing and re-powering with EMD engines would be cheaper.
Too right this is a crime against diesel locomotices wats the idea of build ing new locos when the ol gals have provided years of loyal service to therailway network
@steamfandan old engines wear out! and eventually there comes a time when it's cheaper to get a new one than to fix it over and over again which would be expensive in the long run. plus efficiency, safety, weight, speed, power output; the list is endless.
@hornbytrainsets I would agree, except 55022 was built in 1960 and had to be hired by gbrf to haul freight because they needed a loco which was powerful and reliable enough to handle it - i agree its like getting an f1 car to do a milk round but age means nothing to a well maintained machine. my 1995 firebird still destroys most modern sports cars because i look after her. too many of these incredible machines went to their deaths too early, some with very minor problems.
@thehoff1982 Pontiac Firebird? didnt know they sold those in the uk. and yeah i know that they scrapped some steam engines after 5 years of service. Im glad 225s and 125s are still around
@hornbytrainsets they didn't, some guy imported mine around 2000, i bought her in 2007, sometimes the old dog can teach the puppies new tricks, ha ha ha!
@thehoff1982 well said, and the title says it well, we scrap good stuff that could have been updated to see this lot like that is a disgrace, example RSG updated ( admititly preserved ) but see where im commin from, and on the 4th dec 2010 RSG done a railtour from kk to i think dundee when half the countrys newer foreign built rubbish were cancelled, and 22 is 50 years young, so yes true old stuff can be well looked after updated and kept running, 55s were scrapped 20 years to early
great video & sound track of a very sad scene .. that if witnessed first hand stays with you as I recall my memories of Booths,Vic berrys back in the days..!
Even though I never saw some of the classes featured, It still saddens me to think that years of hard work that went in the designing, building and testing are destroyed in the swing of a crusher. Proper Loco's in here! Thank god for the preservation movement eh? Brilliant footage matey, thanks for sharing.
@tuptontrainspotter Your observations are spot on buddy, a very short sighted decision to destroy so many locos that still had plenty of life left in them.
We live in a throw away society, what can you say? Also isn't it the same with everything that gets 'old', little respect and cast to one side. Criminal is the least you can say really. Well covered though :) - Keith
Bereft of live, languishing as scrap metal after being the unsung work horses of British Railways for so many years....a sad sight...but superbly captured...Thanks....Bob
to think of all the crap we have working the network now like flaming 350s and 380s. and to think all the enthusiasts that would of preserved these. and to think this was only half the locos here! what about all the sidings in 98 full of dmu's emu's? and to think the times these have seen service, only to be shredded to pieces.......................
To think, one time ago they would have rolled out the factory to smiling faces, blood sweat and tears would have gone into making just one of these. And they end up here rusting away crushed dismateled.
@08crouchr - That is what makes preservation so important today & the pure hard work & love goes into looking after & restoring what is now left . Sadly the glory days of British engineering is gone but it still lives on with some of the skills & knowledge being utilised today up & down the country on preserved railways...
lets buy locos from abroad that have no soul to them.... rip the br blues
lonelywolf1966 6 days ago
They get scrapped because they are outdated, old and unefficient. However their construction plans are stored somewhere.
IMP003 1 week ago
:(
trainsandfigers 1 week ago
If anyone's interested, the song is 9 crimes by damien rice.
thehoff1982 1 week ago
great choice of song by the way - usually hate music on videos but this really adds to the sombre mood.
thehoff1982 1 week ago
Does anyone else think its sick that they have both cabs from the same loco next to each other? It's like your head being burried next to your arse when you die. 45 128's main generator failed, that's why she was withdrawn, the rest of her was fine - what an epic waste! R.I.P old friends.
thehoff1982 1 week ago
I've asked this so many times - wouldn't a scrap merchant make more money selling a complete loco to a group of enthusiasts than spending weeks cutting them up for dead weight metal value?
thehoff1982 1 week ago
@thehoff1982 no cause they'd have to do it up first. (unless you mean the enthusiasts would do that?)
hornbytrainsets 1 week ago
@hornbytrainsets yeah, enthusiast would, and have done that. all the scrap man has to do is store them as they are and sell them to the highest bidder - not destroy them! it's so sad!
thehoff1982 1 week ago
@thehoff1982 i suppose. but still im sure enthusiasts regularly visit scrapyards in search of locomotives.
hornbytrainsets 1 week ago
O_O
secondlifeundergroun 1 week ago
For the fainted hearted! >:O
spongebobpaul 1 week ago
To think they replaced some of these locos with Pacers.
TheCatapultTV 1 week ago
No idea how i ended up here but it is a shame having to scrap these engines especially when the scrap merchants are the only one`s who make anything from this and its not like they do anything for the industry except line there own gypsy pockets
ukgardener1 1 week ago
por que que naoderretem isso nas metalurgicas cara???? ta parecendo brasil???
34122fernando 2 weeks ago
Those number plates at 3:24 are like tombstones, each one celebrates the life and death of an engine.
ASS3464 2 weeks ago
2 dislikes? madness! Nice video but sad to see such waste!
markisaleedsfan 2 weeks ago
privatization was necessary, but this wasn't
TheCommissarPete 2 weeks ago
great video but really sad it cuts deep to see these great machines in this way... i hope locos go to heaven
picardsphoenix 2 weeks ago
What the fuck you guys cant be real this must be a joke?
squiggly101 3 weeks ago
crying shame - watched these leviathons when i was a boy and marvelled at their grace and power they dont deserve this
pvccat1 3 weeks ago
45115 'Apollo', met you briefly at Leeds R.I.P.
NJPurling 3 weeks ago
R.I.P CLASS 31,50,2O.....ALL OFF THEM! :(
superpoodle2 3 weeks ago
would had been nice if they would had let theses locos go for few more years tell they got scrapped sad they went already but i know things don't say forever but if they did keep some alive for child hood memories i know if they kept some around we could had shown are kids them but oh well
onebadbirdy 3 weeks ago
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi. as it was, it ever shall be..........
tridentmusic 4 weeks ago
its too cry
pindalover 4 weeks ago
waistfull, why scrap trains because they are old, when they still do the job better than any modern loco, how many times have we called back 20s, 31s, 47s, 37s, to do the job the new crap locos such as a 66 cant do, if its true that they need new trains then build new ones of the type thats proven, truth is its fiscal back handers and favours from rich shareholders. what a waste, thats my child hood and my fathers child hood cut up, then when a certain person killed the mines, it killed industry
robpeter1 1 month ago
Communism Kills
EVILisEVILdoes 1 month ago
i stopped train spotting when i got my last 47.having seen every class available from the 70's to the late 90's. it breaks my heart to see these awesome loco's turned into skeleton's a far cry from the image's in my head from seeing them working day to day. progress is a bitch. why there isn't a static museum to hold these beast's i do not no, they did at york for steam!!!! once gone and forgot when they played a important role in modern railway history.
ringolovemachine1 1 month ago
what did they ever do to us
TheKMCW 1 month ago
you made me cry! (=,(
username5515 1 month ago
some one shoud tyr to restor them and give them a home
8880Dingo 1 month ago
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It's thousands times less impactant to the environment to mine new ores, extract more petroil and release into the environment tons of toxic chemicals than just retrofitting an "old" locomotive.
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EMDSD40LocoDash2 1 month ago
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EMDSD40LocoDash2 1 month ago
im eightteen i live near the ews yard in houboury west yorkshire and ther is at least ten class 52s and about fifteen of this class (im not into trains but have a interst) sat rotting its sad to see specly whn northan rail still have unfit fore perpouse pacers running built in the eighties these should be king of the lines ,, sorry fore the poor spelling
liamofthornhill 1 month ago
At least in UK still have many preserved units. In my country all passengers trains are scrapped! This is what a real crime!
BRCrail 1 month ago
its a train get a life
battletruck100 2 months ago
@battletruck100 You obviously dont understand how much these mean to these people.
class37trash 1 month ago
@class37trash dont get me wrong i loved the good old days 37 47 31 20 08 the good old days now its the same old shit a shed 66 there is no soul left in our railway now
battletruck100 1 month ago
is it a train scrap yard
hornbyaaron 2 months ago
Reality check guys !! You cant save all of them. Where would they be kept and who would provide the enormous amount of money needed. There are examples of almost every diesel loco on preserved lines around the country.What I dont like with the preserved ones is that all look like they are straight out of the box. I would like to see them as I remember them....with the hard-worked and weathered look.
Filmitis 2 months ago
what annoys me as much as the waste of these giants, is the waste of talent in this country, some of the finest engineering talent, driving cabs and working in call centres....crazy times....
MrRickenbastard 2 months ago
It is totally whacko to see 55022 working freight trains (a job it was never designed for) when loco's specifically designed for freight are being scrapped.
lewisner 3 months ago 3
@lewisner Good point well presented
MrStapletonRoad 3 months ago
@MrStapletonRoad
I hate to old loco's scrapped, but nothing lasts forever, even me or you and if u run a business then u replace old stock with supposedly more reliable stuff, whether or not this will play out as they intended what with modern electronics in locomotives etc is another matter.
Remanufacturing and re-powering with EMD engines would be cheaper.
tpvalley 1 month ago
Classic British Beasts, not like the heartless lumps they build now. Wish i could go back 30 years
woodlandsteve 4 months ago
Too right this is a crime against diesel locomotices wats the idea of build ing new locos when the ol gals have provided years of loyal service to therailway network
steamfandan 4 months ago 3
@steamfandan Well said Dan, I am with you all the way.
MrStapletonRoad 4 months ago 2
@MrStapletonRoad if i could of i would of brought em all
steamfandan 4 months ago
@steamfandan old engines wear out! and eventually there comes a time when it's cheaper to get a new one than to fix it over and over again which would be expensive in the long run. plus efficiency, safety, weight, speed, power output; the list is endless.
hornbytrainsets 1 week ago
@hornbytrainsets I would agree, except 55022 was built in 1960 and had to be hired by gbrf to haul freight because they needed a loco which was powerful and reliable enough to handle it - i agree its like getting an f1 car to do a milk round but age means nothing to a well maintained machine. my 1995 firebird still destroys most modern sports cars because i look after her. too many of these incredible machines went to their deaths too early, some with very minor problems.
thehoff1982 1 week ago
@thehoff1982 Pontiac Firebird? didnt know they sold those in the uk. and yeah i know that they scrapped some steam engines after 5 years of service. Im glad 225s and 125s are still around
hornbytrainsets 1 week ago
@hornbytrainsets they didn't, some guy imported mine around 2000, i bought her in 2007, sometimes the old dog can teach the puppies new tricks, ha ha ha!
thehoff1982 1 week ago
@thehoff1982 well said, and the title says it well, we scrap good stuff that could have been updated to see this lot like that is a disgrace, example RSG updated ( admititly preserved ) but see where im commin from, and on the 4th dec 2010 RSG done a railtour from kk to i think dundee when half the countrys newer foreign built rubbish were cancelled, and 22 is 50 years young, so yes true old stuff can be well looked after updated and kept running, 55s were scrapped 20 years to early
wattass7 6 days ago
those trains had so much more character then the crap on the railways nowadays that have to stop cause of a stray leaf on the line!!!!
IAN72C 4 months ago
great video & sound track of a very sad scene .. that if witnessed first hand stays with you as I recall my memories of Booths,Vic berrys back in the days..!
traintelevision 6 months ago
:,-( Rest in Peace
D402DDS 7 months ago
Only No.1 End cab of 50 046 featured.... No.2 End left 3 days earlier on 07/8/92
pikeysrtwatz 7 months ago
R I P alot of happy memorys with almost all of those locos
MrJezza31 8 months ago
@kamz556 "Dont leave me out with the waste, this is not what I do".
MrStapletonRoad 8 months ago
:( 50046 Ajax
Hate seeing these classic engines going from powerful horn blowing SOB's to Scrap Metal :(
dugdug03 8 months ago
@dugdug03 Me 2
MrStapletonRoad 8 months ago
@dugdug03 same left to rust
NSE466 2 weeks ago
Even though I never saw some of the classes featured, It still saddens me to think that years of hard work that went in the designing, building and testing are destroyed in the swing of a crusher. Proper Loco's in here! Thank god for the preservation movement eh? Brilliant footage matey, thanks for sharing.
Cheers.
tuptontrainspotter 9 months ago
@tuptontrainspotter Your observations are spot on buddy, a very short sighted decision to destroy so many locos that still had plenty of life left in them.
Thanks for checking the clip out.
Eddie
MrStapletonRoad 9 months ago
We live in a throw away society, what can you say? Also isn't it the same with everything that gets 'old', little respect and cast to one side. Criminal is the least you can say really. Well covered though :) - Keith
MonochromeLoco 10 months ago
@MonochromeLoco Thanks Keith, I agree with all you say. Eddie
MrStapletonRoad 10 months ago
Bereft of live, languishing as scrap metal after being the unsung work horses of British Railways for so many years....a sad sight...but superbly captured...Thanks....Bob
robmasterman 10 months ago
@robmasterman Cheers Bob
MrStapletonRoad 10 months ago
to think of all the crap we have working the network now like flaming 350s and 380s. and to think all the enthusiasts that would of preserved these. and to think this was only half the locos here! what about all the sidings in 98 full of dmu's emu's? and to think the times these have seen service, only to be shredded to pieces.......................
TheIntercityhst 10 months ago
it's not a very happy sight to see.
ipodwindow 10 months ago
@ipodwindow I agree
MrStapletonRoad 10 months ago
its a shame people dont restore them
gtacrusher123 10 months ago
@gtacrusher123 Certainly a missed oppertunity
MrStapletonRoad 10 months ago
@MrStapletonRoad would have been great seing them running not rotting becides aparently trains are getting better i dissagree
gtacrusher123 10 months ago
To think, one time ago they would have rolled out the factory to smiling faces, blood sweat and tears would have gone into making just one of these. And they end up here rusting away crushed dismateled.
08crouchr 10 months ago
@08crouchr From a time when people were proud of there work
MrStapletonRoad 10 months ago
@08crouchr - That is what makes preservation so important today & the pure hard work & love goes into looking after & restoring what is now left . Sadly the glory days of British engineering is gone but it still lives on with some of the skills & knowledge being utilised today up & down the country on preserved railways...
traintelevision 6 months ago
@traintelevision And those great people who fight for these trains!
08crouchr 6 months ago
rust in peace
mongoosekid14 10 months ago
very sad indeed :-(
foxcell 10 months ago
A very sad and scandalous waste of good locomotives. Surely some of those magificent machines must have had a few more years of life in them...
Cheers for sharing!
theamateurbasher 10 months ago
@theamateurbasher You are very welcome.
MrStapletonRoad 10 months ago