Pathe News and the wonderful new Diesels

[Bullfield WEst]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZf9uSaXwQc
Check out the wonderful new types of diesel at 1min 55 secs:

I'll bet I'm not the first to have noticed.

 

[3141]

So people can stop worrying about the continued use of diesels on the lines that won't now be electrified!!!

 

[jopsuk]

oops! Would have been good had BR gone more heavily on "diesels" like that!

 

[randyrippley]

There's another error later on. Can anyone identify the locomotives in the assembly shed at Vulcan Works at 4'03"? Said to be BR diesels but clearly not
The nearest look like flat fronted electric locomotives, with a single roof level headlight, the furthest look like a precursor to a class 20, possibly with a centre cab

 

[SamYeager]

Interesting to note they were centralising signalling operation even back then to save money.

 

[gazthomas]

Good to see there were continuity errors back then - EM1's aka class 76 shown as diesels!

 

[Peter Mugridge]

There's another error later on. Can anyone identify the locomotives in the assembly shed at Vulcan Works at 4'03"? Said to be BR diesels but clearly not

I think they might be these?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_EW_class_locomotive

The EW class were first ordered by New Zealand Railways from English Electric through their New Zealand agents Cory-Wright & Salmon in 1951 as a replacement for the earlier ED class electric locomotives on passenger duties. It was felt that the ED class was not suitable for this, and so English Electric was commissioned to build a twin-section articulated electric locomotive for use on the Wellington 1.5kV DC electrified system.

 

[Polarbear]

Anyone like to send the link to that video to Chris Grayling?

 

[ac6000cw]

Interesting to note they were centralising signalling operation even back then to save money.

It started much earlier than that - first power lever frames in the UK were introduced in 1899. The first large scale automatic block signalling was introduced in 1904 between Woking and Basingstoke, using power operated semaphore signals. Though nearly all power boxes installed up to the late 1930s (based on miniature lever frames) controlled relatively small geographical areas e.g. a major station.

The real conceptual leap forward took place in the 1930s on the LNER, where they started to experiment with 'route setting' panels controlling a relay interlocking. This swept away the limitations of miniature lever frames and allowed relatively small control and indication panels to control large areas. Today's ROCs are in essence just a much bigger version of the same idea - the underlying technology (and the user interface) has changed but the basic concept is the same. Even the ROC concept of controlling remote interlockings via telecommunications links was developed in the USA in 1927 as 'Centralized Traffic Control' (CTC).

 

[randyrippley]

I think they might be these?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_EW_class_locomotive

That looks a good bet

 

[billh]

Good to see there were continuity errors back then - EM1's aka class 76 shown as diesels!

Being pedantic now, the film shows EM2 number 27000 later named "Electra" and became class77 before sale to Dutch railways. Now back in Uk at Midland Railway Centre. I cabbed this loco at Manchester London Road about 60 years ago. That clip of film was from 1954 with the first electric passenger service over Woodhead. the EM2s were more powerful than EM1.but definitely not diesels!
Bill

 

[36270k]

There's another error later on. Can anyone identify the locomotives in the assembly shed at Vulcan Works at 4'03"? Said to be BR diesels but clearly not
The nearest look like flat fronted electric locomotives, with a single roof level headlight, the furthest look like a precursor to a class 20, possibly with a centre cab

The locos with the single roof headlight were 3000v DC electric locos for South Africa.