Can’t wait for Amtrak to have ideas
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head
#mexico
#hst
#highspeed
#highspeedtrain
#class43
#mk3
#mk3coach
#train
#railway
#mexicanrailroads
#northamerica
#passengertrain
British stock working for commercial purposes in mexico? Now that's something you don't see every day!
Yes 🙂
In early August 2023, three power cars and 11 Mark 3 coaches were exported to Mexico for use on the Tren Interoceánico. They arrived in early September 2023.
Well we can't save them all but at least we have some preserved and doing rail tours.
Yh
I’m British and this hurts me. They just looked so at home In the British fountrysude
it looks better in mexico
Poor widdle diddums
Very fast train sets, extremely comfortable seats, quieter inside the carriages than most of the new trains, refurbished…i think Mexicans got themselves a bargain.
Yep. Can’t beat British engineering. So glad that these heritage sets have been given a future
Typical of British mentality give the best trains away !
@@pipandkitty2004 At the same time, these HSTs probably would have gone to scrap now if they hadn’t been exported to Mexico, Nigeria etc.
And as a bonus: Can run on bad tracks without breaking.
Train sets? It’s a train. A train set is a kid’s toy.
Take good care of the HSTs. They’re a symbol of British Revival and Endurance.
True
VIA Canada got your tunnel renacence cars
If only. We don't build our own trains anymore and instead rely on imports. The Pendolino is awful compared to these old beauties.
@@RikAindow Via rail also has a lot of the old Bud cars in their fleet they are from the 40,s and 50,s and quite old but you know what there well looked after and after taken a 4 day journey from Toronto to Vancouver they are very comfortable
I can already hear the slam doors at Penn Station
50 years old and still going strong
Well, expected life span of diesel locomotives are up to 70 years. unlike steam locos for like 40 years.
My favourite Mexican train
british rolling stock but in mexico
Those locos are British Rail Class 43s, they used to operate near where I live, but now run on non-passenger services more commonly where I live in the East Midlands of England.
Isn't there a word for non-passenger services?
@@MartintheTinman Well, there's freight, but it's not necessarily freight, and more so 'Measurement Trains' that the repurposed HSTs (High Speed Trains)/BR Class 43s are used for.
As the depot is in Derby, only two cities away, but yet really close, it is on the same road, the A52 from my settlement and so we get a few around the Midlands, and not on passenger services, like there are operating with Great Western Railway (GWR) and up north with ScotRail in Scotland.
@@TrainspottingTrio gee, you've obviously cracked the formula for KZhead success. I've only cracked the formula for haters and illiterates
@@MartintheTinman Don't be so sure, I get the odd British scumbag in the comments more often than wanted.
I hope mexic better look after our class 43 hst
They better bloody well do.
@@Yorkshire_trainspotter yeah because I know we miss seeing the MK3 coaches
Not yours anymore
@@MartintheTinman I know
I hope they look after them.
What are you going to do if they don't?
For a moment I thought someone had been clever in Train Simulator 2024.
Same
I remember, i have played in railworks train sim and i make then British train was run in US routes).
I want us to have more emt hst cars (because of the og seats)
Damn you lot are lucky😥, I dreamt my country would buy these on the second-hand market but instead we went to those rip-off merchants in China for our fleet😠.
I wish there were so many more railroad companies that did passenger service.
HST?
They've now got better trains than us!
0:36 that’s the hst from the uk coming to try the USA rails
No it’s actually the Mexican rails
I donypt tgink they relise tgat those trains are 46 yrs old
Hope Amtrak takes well care of these artifacts
Not sure they can as these UK exported sets operate in Mexico.
Not Amtrak who owns them
The interoceanic railway owns them not amtrak
London old train
how does no one realise that the engine is just a re-painted British Rail class Intercity 125? aka the fastest diesel train in the world
But they do…
Noit sure this is Amtrack. Its Mexico.
So track gauge is same atleast br mk3 and class 43 has a future
I'm not crazy is that an inner city 125
It sure is! Australia also have a similar loco called the XPT which is of a similar age to these.
So why was the clip nothing to do with the thumbnail?
The thumbnail communicates what's wrong with this scene more directly: HSTs were designed to be run on lines where freight rail was built to a much smaller size, and 125s were kept effectively in their own areas so interacting with freight wasn't an issue for the little fiberglass-shelled trains. One misplaced North American hopper car and these museum pieces will act like a ramp, deleting the driver and likely a lot of passengers in the process. Using HSTs on the same trackage is a recipe for disaster. Amtrak BARELY kept them in one piece getting them through the U.S. to Mexico and they BARELY had the 125 used for ceremonially opening the line ready in time so it didn't kill the president of Mexico. I recommend the episode of Well There's Your Problem about this specific railroad and why it's an impending disaster.
@@GavinGWhiz Man you really have an issue with this don't you? Sad thing is your basic premise is cow manure. 1. They are not " little fiberglass-shelled trains". They have an excellent crash protection record in events NONE of which were caused by these trains 2. Regardless of size when two trains collide its a very bad day., As we see almost weekly in the USA. 3. Can you disclose your engineering qualifications that suggest you know how these trains would deform? No of course you can't. 4. HSTs have been used for over 40 years perfectly safely on the most intensively used and possibly the fastest (average speed) railway in Europe. Which also happens to be the 2nd safest in the world. 5. Amtrak had nothing to do with these train sets. They were landed from the UK in Coatzacoalcos in Mexico. 6. Why peddle that lie about ''so it didn't kill the president of Mexico'? Outrageous fabrication. You need to give your head a wobble fellah ... 😂😂
@@1chish Literally everything you take issue with is addressed in the episode of Well There's Your Problem I'm talking about, in which they interviewed someone who actively worked on the HST delivery. Also, you're ignoring the fact that I said HSTs would not fare well AGAINST GIANT US ROLLING STOCK. Its crash safety ratings mean jack shit when those safety statistics were formed with it running entirely in places it was built to run. Chill.
@@GavinGWhiz You seem unable to control your need to embellish your so called facts with outright lies as I showed. maybe if you kept to a sensible discussion we would all benefit. And I am as chilled out as I always am dude. You think words on a PC screen in any way anger me? 🤣😂
@@GavinGWhizthe size and construction of the trains is the least of the concerns of this line. After watching the wtyp podcast it's clear that the track infrastructure is not fit for passenger rail of any standard, neither is the knowledge of the staff. I suspect signalling is also not adequate. These trains were fine in daily use not that long ago, yes they are old and don't meet modern crash standards but that's fine if the rest of the railway is up to scratch, railways should be designed and operated to not have accidents in the first instance. The problem with this railway is not the trains it's that the people running it (apparently the mexican navy if the podcast is to be believed) don't have the first clue about how to build maintain and operate a passenger railway.
I dread to think what will happen if these are involved in a crash with the North American rolling stock they use on these rails.
I say this to everyone You can’t kill some engines
For tren tren interoceanico
0-0 Br in the content of America wow
How long will they last
I’m not sure
@@thestolenmhrproperty2102okay thanks
Remember trains are not cars, the amfleet from Amtrak has over 40 years and they are still in service in the easter corridor.
Hopefully a long time, in mexico at least.
That train has to be nearly 30 year old if not older already they have had new engine and other upgrades before been sold but they have served England very well
Is that a HST set?
Yes. I wish I knew exactly which TOCs the power cars and coaches came from
@@ChilternTransportProductions The 3 exported power cars are 43022, 43158 & 43070, All ex-GWR power cars. The 11 mk3s exported are all ex-LNER. Not sure on the ones sent to Nigeria.
@@BrokenIET Thanks. Nigeria ones I believe are ex Crosscountry Doesn’t Mexico have more than one set? Or will it get more soon? It seems odd having just one spare power car
@@ChilternTransportProductions Not sure. Last I checked it was just the 3 but they may well have got more.
Lol HST amtrak
Not Amtrak
I don like it because they were British class 43s
Click bait!!!!
What a waste
How is it a waste? They were saved from the scrap pile.
If they have taken the trouble to buy and ship all that way.. am pretty sure they will maintain them.
It's certainly a shame that we've lost them from our Cross Country services.
This is quite unusual. 🫶