Railwatch Part-1 of 3 HST cab ride plus Donny PSB

HST cab ride from Stoke tunnel to Doncaster overlooked by Donny Power Signal Box. Normal operation explained over the ECML showing how driving and Signals work. Febuary 1989 as part Railwatch week. This practice of signalling is the same today but is now along side TPWS, which today monitors train speeds and enforces it if opproaching red signals to fast.

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[back2frinky]

Is it not scary to drive a train at 125mph in darkness?  Surely any obstruction on the track would be virtually invisible?

[logbasher]

@back2frinky No different from day time either any obstruction is just as difficult to avoid as stopping takes nearly a mile at line speed!

[bwhugul]

At 2:32 onwards it is significant to me, because the Liverpool-Norwich train on here is 8 carriages long, yet nowadays it is only 2-carriage Class 158s!

Even if the locomotive hauled trains in the 1980s ran at half the frequency of today, today's service is a massive and unacceptable downgrading, especially considering how overcrowded that service is now.

[logbasher]

Same anywhere when Reggie rail went over to sprinters, The Portsmouth Cardiff used to be a 33 and 5 mark 1's most trains you could get a seat. FGW have finally started using 3 car 158's in the past couple of years, but it's still not enough in the peak hours and worse on Fridays!

[CheekyBandit]

IIRC in1989 such a service would have been normally been a 2-carriage Class 156.

[logbasher]

@CheekyBandit What the 47 and coaches? maybe not some workings were still loco hauled until 1990/91 on transpennine that could have been a Liverpool - Norwich normally 31's but it could be an additional?

[salfordbabe]

the good old days

[olympian2174]

this is why I became a train driver!! I was glued to this when I about 7yrs old

[neil9327]

6:22 conversation about order of signal changes.

Presenter: "So you don't have red - amber - green then, you have red"

Signalman: "two yellows .. one yellow .. and er er then the red."

..signalman got the order wrong, and tried to dig his way out of it lol

[ELPaso1990TX]

Could not imagine a tv show like this nowadays thanks to the chaos of privatising BR. Plus we had decent trains then like the HST rather that the voyager rubbish that dosnt even tilt despite the cramped carriages. Bring back British Rail !

[joelang6126]

@RianTrace84 I read that too. How did they manage to sync the power notches between a electric and diesel loco?

[Tudwud]

Sounds like my old oppo John Harradine doing the Inspector's job. If it is, then, all I will say to him is "In One" - he'll understand!!!

[smiffy1071]

nice to hear the valenta screaming away in the background...

[scouselfcmjp]

"WE ARE NOW WINDING HER UP" ,nice line at 5:21.