No longer bright and shiny a Class 50 ekes out its last few days in service, a bit like the very run down condition of the final Routemaster buses running in London in 2004/5. There are some interesting comments, particularly the last few arguing over potential speed of the class.
A master & slave hump1ng at Sheffield 
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Class 13’s (2 class 08’s coupled minus 1 cab) only 3 rigs made and operated at Tinsley yard which was slap bang next to the M1 northbound.
Whistlers or Choppers
More BR Type 3/ Class 37 noise
I always knew them as whistlers lol
You’re quite right, whistlers - “choppers” were class 20s.
If you thought Gardner engines were smokey on start-up…
[To be fair, the re-worked 12CVST had just been fitted]
Did anyone else notice the highly appropriate THANK YOU and Poppy livery on LNER Azuma 800111 which has been at Huntingdon Station the last few days?
Hopefully at some future time we shall see a locomotive renamed Samir Zitouni GC.
What is it like being a train driver?
Are the class 37s the only type still inoperation with English Electric power?
The Tube was a Channel 4 or 5 programme if I recall correctly.
Quite possibly. Maybe some Class 20s on shunts?
Is this for real?.
AFAIK Class 20s are still in use, as are 37s:
37403 cold start:
Sorry to take this off thread but talking about cold starts this always had the hair on my arms standing up!
As a teenager on exercise somewhere in West Germany dug into a trench and hearing these behemoths at 2am in the morning moving around and knowing that they couldn’t see you to avoid you was the biggest adrenaline fix in the world!
You’ll enjoy Mr Hewes Youtube channel then. Whether it makes you wince though is a different matter.
