43002 Startup at Paddington
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That's remarkably clean one!
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electric trains suck
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You can ride in a white goods washing machine train if you want, We'll stick with diesel thanks!
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Seen the news lately. Somehow it is happening, although it will probably be quietly shelved. Like it has been in the past.
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well electric trains ARNT clean.. think about how the electricity is made to power them.. the pollution from a power station is somewhat worse than a fleet of HSTs and 37s :P
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i thought the driver was pulling the throttle back and forward a few times. shame i missed the farewell
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love it i can just smell the hst fumes great stuff half on the fgw line still have paxman engines and the other half mtu engines which dont sound the same when they start but speeding they sound like a paxman
tonyphillips1984 2 years ago
What are you on about? The entire FGW HST fleet is MTU-powered, and has been now for some time. The only Paxman Valentas left on the network are in Grand Central's 6 powercars, 43014 and 43062 on the New Measurement Train, and 43089 on East Midlands. The rest of the East Midlands fleet is powered by another Paxman product: the VP185.
mostlyrailways 2 years ago
It's time to get clean ELECTRIC train.
shinmiura0227 2 years ago
Yeah ok, let's pull that lovely clean electricity out of thin air...and convince the anti-railway government to spend £hundredsofmillions to electrify the Great Western mainlines, and that money will need to pay for an entire fleet of new trains, masts, wires, substations, signalling, and of course rebuilding every single overbridge and tunnel along the route. In the middle of a recession. I can't see that happening somehow!
mostlyrailways 2 years ago
Very nice i will never get fed up with the start up of a valenta but i noticed that this engine was revving up a few times have the governers got problems
cornishadz 3 years ago
No, someone was just playing with the ETS switch. ;)
mostlyrailways 3 years ago