Lovely shot, you know the problem with MTU. There's no panache about em, clean quiet do the job, with a minmum of fuss. In a word BORING. Give me a whizzo, deltic, 37, valenta 47 or 56 anyday.
Nothing wrong with MTU's - Valenta were nice and will be missed but at least the MTU's re keeping the HST's on - after all - what would you rather have, nice deep sounding MTU HST or class 180 or 220 ??
Oh how lovely to have heard the pair working as they were intended to again...What a marvellous day that was, never again afterwards would we have the delights of doing it like that.
HSTs were originally classed as Multiple Units. Therefore a Western Region HST unit (253XXX) would cover the cars and the coaches. And IIRC 253001 was indeed 43002 and 43003.
Lovely shot, you know the problem with MTU. There's no panache about em, clean quiet do the job, with a minmum of fuss. In a word BORING. Give me a whizzo, deltic, 37, valenta 47 or 56 anyday.
vorlonb3 2 years ago
and those MTU's really do sound different - all of them so there sounding nice, if not nicer than some of the valentas
justplainrichard 3 years ago
Nothing wrong with MTU's - Valenta were nice and will be missed but at least the MTU's re keeping the HST's on - after all - what would you rather have, nice deep sounding MTU HST or class 180 or 220 ??
justplainrichard 3 years ago
nice vid m8,,thanks for putting this no here!!5
bathspacentral 3 years ago 2
wow the two OLDEST power cars and they kicked out way less crap than the others did. what a way to go out, i bet the driver was chuffed!
Sephy69 3 years ago
Oh how lovely to have heard the pair working as they were intended to again...What a marvellous day that was, never again afterwards would we have the delights of doing it like that.
Good video, glad I watched it!
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Yurules 3 years ago 2
the sound of beauty.lets hope the hst's xc will get this year will be valenta powered! top vid pal!
Sephy69 4 years ago
Gutted I wentto Warley that day instead!!
jiffyman 4 years ago
the both cant be 253001 lol pure beastage
HSTHoward 4 years ago
Umm, yes they can.
HSTs were originally classed as Multiple Units. Therefore a Western Region HST unit (253XXX) would cover the cars and the coaches. And IIRC 253001 was indeed 43002 and 43003.
cjmillsnun 4 years ago 4
Brute force, and guts!!!
unlike any MTU garbage.
PBR14akaAdam 4 years ago