Deltic Diesel Powered Train (1962) | British Pathé

Drove all the deltics asca second man at KX 1973 to 75
Loved them
Fantastic big beasts 😊

I think people might've liked diesels more if they kept making interesting designs like this or the 1930s diesels from the u. S

Magnificent diesel locomotive, it just exudes power.

Whenever railway enthusiasts wax lyrical about how amazing the deltic was, they should also doth their cap to the admiralty for investing in its original and continual development.

An elegant and timeless piece of design with a classy but understated livery. BR and EE definitely got this one RIGHT! The age of steam may have been drawing to a close but you can still sense there was some pride and glamour about the railways at this time - A far cry from the utterly soulless and utilitarian experience it has become since.

My grandfather hated the diesel locomotive he had been a steam locomotive driver for the best part of his working life 1930s until he retired in 1965

What scrap heap are they in now? The sound may have been O.K. but to my knowledge they were scrap iron jungles. Another bucket of bolts.

The fact TTTE never had a deltic is a shame

Other countries hve upped their game!

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

When GB was truly great.

Fascinating piece of history on many levels, especially since Pathe news has itself become history. I do wonder what was the process by which the music was originated? People say 'Oh, it's library music' but it would be interesting to know how it was composed, played and selected. Pathe films were always telling us that something was 'keeping Britain ahead in the .... race', or sometimes it was 'keeping Britain on top', or maybe 'keeping Britain ahead'.

Interesting to see that he's allowed to wear his Parachute Regiment beret badge at 41 seconds!

I'm in love❤

Everyone loves a Deltic!

Underrated

Anyone know what music is used in this?

fantastic video. I loved the smog and all the old architectural features of the railway as the train whizzed through. is there a longer version of this video?

what is the song?

Annoying music!

I must say this video is quite the piece of BR Propaganda! though the Deltics were quite good, they didn't last long, and they were just about the only good engine! the rest of the modernization fleet was an incredibly sad lot of failures which made the lives of BR's staff incredibly miserable, from simple frustration at constant breakdown to fear at engines that seemed to be trying to kill their crews with how flawed they were.

If only people got this excited about trains these days!

I love the commentary on these old clips. It may be a false memory, but the 60s seemed like such a time of optimism, where we were forging ahead into a future that was going to be better and brighter for everybody.

Ah the uk in permanent smog!

Were these diesel generated electric traction from the start or did the early ones rely on actual diesel driven traction?

I don't understand why they had to rundown steam and steam crews the script writer

This is great... All the semaphore signals and wood and aspestos coaches strapped to the back of this state of the art marvel. Lots of unfulfilled promise of modernisation the sheer scale of the task to sort out British railway system is never ending!

Interesting to know that the Deltic sounds like a James Bond soundtrack

Oddly, at least for me, the footage of the steam locos at the beginning is more interesting than the Deltics. But the electric hob and the washbasin and toilet behind the Deltic cab are very cool. The throbbing of the Napier engine close by would help to loosen the bowels.

a pity it wasn't longer film. Great old colour footage.

I love the way the fact a good old British cuppa could be made upon the footplate takes priority from speed, dynamics, etc, etc. The crew could make a brew! Fabulous news!

The announcer sounds like he was born in Boston, then moved to Britain, took lessons in RP speaking, but could never quite get all the Boston out.

High days of 2 stroke diesel engines. Why they were abandoned?

This train is kinda out of date compared to Japan train in 1960s

Good to see the Kings Cross tunnels inside that was only possible for passengers travelling in diesel multiple units.

Brew up first, then journey..... eagerness to serve public is well and truely noted. Oh well, I suppose times have changed! Lol.

The year when I stopped being a twinkle in my mom eyes and came into existence. What a huge amount of change, and why does everything looks cleaner then than it does know .

Plenty of teething troubles, cracks in the fabricated bogies, fractured cylinder liners, leaking liner seals and broken quill-shafts,
unusual design of mechanical drive from the engine to the various auxiliaries and when this broke, the shafts flailed around and broke hoses and instruments on the engine, causing serious engine damage. . Troubles with boilers installed to heat the carriages. Issues followed in trying to transfer to electric generator heaters. When E.E. handed over maintenance to British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) at Doncaster Works, they ran into difficulties. So much so that at one point, half the 22 strong fleet were 'grounded' . .Issues with cracks and rust in the bodywork, They emitted emit clouds of lubrication oil, resulting in protests from the public living nearby. And so it went on.

Being on the footplate from the early 60s for 30+ years would of been the pinnacle of a railway working life.

Diesel is an absolutely brilliant thing, Otto Diesel would be smiling at this

They say the deltics are the "most powerful locomotive in the world" and this film was made in 1962 when Union Pacific was still using big boy locomotives that have double the tractive effort of deltics.

For context, in two years, Japan would unveil the electric Shinkansen at 210-220km/h (137mph) (now 320) in 1964, while the UK was transitioning from steam to diesel

Why MILES IN ENGLAND ?

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All the small boys were sad, and all the big boys were sad, the end of steam left everyone sad. I like diesels but I like steam too

Brilliant film. Thanks for posting.