:00:14. > :00:16.Welcome back to Trainspotting Live, our final sure, we're once again
:00:17. > :00:18.celebrating everything to do with the rail network from tunnels to
:00:19. > :00:22.bridges, stations and trains. Train spotters are not stuck in the past
:00:23. > :00:26.but like the rest of us millions of railway enthusiasts they are excited
:00:27. > :00:33.about the dawn of not just a new golden age but a titanium plated
:00:34. > :00:37.carbon fire hydrogen powered era. Tonight we will be looking into the
:00:38. > :00:41.future of Trainspotting with the newest and fastest and most exciting
:00:42. > :00:45.trains on the network including some which are not even officially on the
:00:46. > :00:46.tracks yet. You've already been helping us, we have three to show
:00:47. > :01:07.you. I class 37, it's not the prettiest I
:01:08. > :01:20.have to say. We also have video of a Class 66 hauling a new batch of
:01:21. > :01:27.700's. Tonight our very own Dick Strawbridge has moved to the nation
:01:28. > :01:30.'s capital. I am at Clapham Junction, the biggest interchange in
:01:31. > :01:35.the country. Over the course of the next hour more than 160 trains will
:01:36. > :01:41.go through their station. I have my notebook and will bag as many as
:01:42. > :01:44.possible. We will also be showing new Tim Dunn at possibly his most
:01:45. > :01:51.excited ever as he got to ride on the train of the future. This is
:01:52. > :01:58.magnificent! Look at this, and magnificent machine! Isambard
:01:59. > :02:02.Kingdom Brunel. I am a mathematician so I will continue to crunch the
:02:03. > :02:08.numbers and explore how we fit more trains onto this crowded network. A
:02:09. > :02:11.commuter 's nightmare or a train spotters dream? And we have spotters
:02:12. > :02:15.up and down the country and we want you at home to get out once again to
:02:16. > :02:21.join this surge of national sporting. Your challenge tonight is
:02:22. > :02:27.the EMU. I am talking about electrical trains, electrical
:02:28. > :02:29.multiple units. There will be a new holy Grail to find as well. Welcome
:02:30. > :02:42.to Trainspotting Live. We have been delighted that the
:02:43. > :02:47.programme has caught the public 's imagination, and been able to spread
:02:48. > :02:57.our love of Trainspotting country wide. We made front-page news today,
:02:58. > :03:01.during the first programme on Monday I mistakenly said that some
:03:02. > :03:05.wonderful footage of a Class 66 train was just in when in fact it
:03:06. > :03:13.was a beautiful spot which was shot earlier in the year. Sorry for that.
:03:14. > :03:18.Let's get straight to some spots of the InterCity 125 which come in
:03:19. > :03:19.overnight. Bob from the National rail museum is here, let's look at
:03:20. > :03:39.these. Classic location for a photograph.
:03:40. > :03:46.Lovely shot. Beautiful. We have another one here spotted in Perth.
:03:47. > :03:53.We'll have just come over the Highland line and involved
:03:54. > :03:59.magnificent views. The holy grail was the elusive mail train, did we
:04:00. > :04:09.get it? Of course we did. Here it is at Peterborough. All our post. Well
:04:10. > :04:13.done for tracking down the holy Grail. We were so inspired we
:04:14. > :04:19.decided to send our own Tim Dunn with the challenge of finding one
:04:20. > :04:25.live tonight. Or from him later. Tonight we are coming up today and
:04:26. > :04:33.try to spot a series of EMUs. What do they have to do with the railway?
:04:34. > :04:39.They are the way that most people get to work, electrical multiple
:04:40. > :04:45.units, lots of people on them going in and out all over the country. If
:04:46. > :04:49.you want to join the army of life spotters up and down the country and
:04:50. > :04:50.spots EMUs this is what you need look for.
:04:51. > :04:53.The number of an electrical multiple unit - or EMU - can be found
:04:54. > :04:56.either at the front or back end of the unit
:04:57. > :04:59.The number has six digits, the first three denote its class.
:05:00. > :05:15.Classes from 300-399 run off an AC current.
:05:16. > :05:16.While 400-499 signify EMUs of the
:05:17. > :05:18.southern region that need a DC current.
:05:19. > :05:21.500 and above are for EMU classes which run outside of the
:05:22. > :05:25.It is crucial to note the time and place of any spot.
:05:26. > :05:27.Pen, notepad and camera are traditional spotters tools although
:05:28. > :05:31.Only spot from public land, no trespassing,
:05:32. > :05:35.never go on the tracks and no flash photography.
:05:36. > :05:37.Stations are privately owned so if you spot
:05:38. > :05:40.from one let the staff know you are there.
:05:41. > :05:43.Finally an anorak is not obligatory but make sure you dress
:05:44. > :06:00.You know the drill by now, every night we fill up the map with your
:06:01. > :06:04.spots to get a picture of trains around the country, this was Monday,
:06:05. > :06:17.all the Class 66s all over the country. Here we had the first holy
:06:18. > :06:25.Grail, the flying banana. Then on the second day we had the map of
:06:26. > :06:38.125's which go along the line we are on. Not so many appear -- up here.
:06:39. > :06:44.And the mail train roaring up here to Scotland here and so on. Very
:06:45. > :06:50.exciting. Onto today, where are we, we have the EMUs we are spotting,
:06:51. > :07:00.not many coming in, this is Dick Strawbridge in Clapham and Tim Dunn
:07:01. > :07:05.in Stafford. The line is not electrified jet and it will be in a
:07:06. > :07:09.year or so, what we have got is the network down in the south and then
:07:10. > :07:13.around Liverpool, Manchester, then Glasgow and Edinburgh. One or two
:07:14. > :07:22.units are running around Newcastle and so on. It will fill up slowly.
:07:23. > :07:30.Let's have a few EMUs. They are very good. Let's go to Martin in
:07:31. > :07:41.Peterborough. Here is one. That's coming straight through. Rather nice
:07:42. > :07:43.colour scheme. I think we might have another one here, here she is.
:07:44. > :07:57.Pender we have a photograph from someone as
:07:58. > :08:05.well. From Glasgow Central. It's got the saltire literary, could be going
:08:06. > :08:10.to Edinburgh -- livery. Electrical multiple unit, it has the power on
:08:11. > :08:16.the train, it is derived from electricity and it's either derived
:08:17. > :08:23.from the third rail or the overhead. Each carriage is driven along by it,
:08:24. > :08:26.there are only a few trailer cars. That's the state right now we will
:08:27. > :08:32.talk about next year in a moment. Let's go to Martin in Peterborough,
:08:33. > :08:37.are you Trainspotting? Yes, we are in Peterborough and it's been
:08:38. > :08:43.brilliant this afternoon. Very busy indeed. What are you looking for? We
:08:44. > :08:49.are looking at allsorts, in the last hour we have had ten Class 66 diesel
:08:50. > :08:54.engines running on a variety of freight. But the highlight for me
:08:55. > :08:58.this evening, a train I haven't seen for a long time was the Scotsman.
:08:59. > :09:06.Right now we have a high-speed train coming in behind us. The Scotsman
:09:07. > :09:13.train only runs mainly in Scotland, it's the luxury train, you pay
:09:14. > :09:20.?10,000 to be on it for seven days. Behind you was on the east Coast
:09:21. > :09:25.mainline presumably? Yes, that is coming down from the north in
:09:26. > :09:32.towards King's Cross. What have you seen earlier today? Earlier today we
:09:33. > :09:41.saw a class 91 amongst many other. Right back here it is! Class 9110
:09:42. > :09:47.yes? Yes, it commemorates the pollen from the First World War. It was
:09:48. > :09:50.rebranded and it works up and down the east Coast Main line every
:09:51. > :10:01.single day -- the fallen from the First World War. Tonights holy
:10:02. > :10:10.Grail, we want you to spot this, the magnificent 91 110. The battle of
:10:11. > :10:16.Memorial flight, why is it called that? This is amassed piece, it's a
:10:17. > :10:22.locomotive that is the fastest Briton has ever had, 161 miles an
:10:23. > :10:31.hour. Thank you for sending us that picture Philip. Send us your
:10:32. > :10:40.pictures, any updates on social media or e-mail.
:10:41. > :10:46.It's all very well for us to bang on about trains and the railways but
:10:47. > :10:52.this new age needs new fresh blood. We sent our very own veteran extra
:10:53. > :10:57.bridge too severed valley to search out the next generation of
:10:58. > :11:04.enthusiasts. -- our very own veteran, Dick Strawbridge. Too
:11:05. > :11:13.there is a lot to love in a beautifully restored old engine. She
:11:14. > :11:17.was built in 1938 and in their day engines like this were the cutting
:11:18. > :11:27.edge of design and technology. They take specialist skill and knowledge
:11:28. > :11:31.to keep old engines like this live. The Heritage skills training Academy
:11:32. > :11:42.works to pass on that expertise to a new generation. The workers! Max and
:11:43. > :11:47.Christopher R apprentice engineers. Apprentices how long have you been
:11:48. > :11:55.working here? Two and a half years for me. Almost three years. How long
:11:56. > :12:02.is the apprenticeship? Four years in total. How did you choose to work on
:12:03. > :12:06.the trains, is it a passion? It is, I blame Thomas the Tank Engine for
:12:07. > :12:14.starting it. I can relate to the Fat controller! Are you train spotters?
:12:15. > :12:18.It's just enjoyment really. It's more a fascination, sort of a
:12:19. > :12:22.fascination, I wouldn't want to go too far but we find them pleasing to
:12:23. > :12:27.watch and look at. Do you get the Mickey taken out of you? There is
:12:28. > :12:31.some stigma but once you start showing your mates and taking them
:12:32. > :12:36.to actually see an engine then they start to understand. Seeing what you
:12:37. > :12:43.do they step back and think that's quite something to be involved with.
:12:44. > :12:48.Do you have a favourite train? I would say whatever is easiest to
:12:49. > :12:58.look after! The first thing you work on tends to be the one that sticks
:12:59. > :13:05.in your mind. Other people will have something else. You do realise... I
:13:06. > :13:10.just said the numbers and everything. You have just become a
:13:11. > :13:15.spotter. And you did it so naturally. It's not the be all and
:13:16. > :13:22.end all of our railway heritage of course. How are we doing? At one of
:13:23. > :13:29.the newest shades of its kind retired diesel engines are also
:13:30. > :13:36.preserved and these also attract young enthusiasts. We are draining
:13:37. > :13:40.out the coolant. You are volunteers? And you can come and train the
:13:41. > :13:46.coolant? They trust you with that already? I have been doing it for
:13:47. > :13:53.years. What do you enjoy? I just like getting out of the house. What
:13:54. > :14:03.is your favourite? This one, it is my baby. Class 37's, they can go any
:14:04. > :14:08.where in the country. Are these kids really motivated by a love of their
:14:09. > :14:14.heritage they are preserving? At the end of the day it's best to preserve
:14:15. > :14:18.everything because its history. What do you think the future is of the
:14:19. > :14:23.trains out on our mainline is now, will you be working on those in
:14:24. > :14:27.future? It's a possibility but it also comes down to what Network Rail
:14:28. > :14:31.want in the future as well. But I think with the way British people
:14:32. > :14:35.are I think they will want to keep it because it's one of those things
:14:36. > :14:37.where we are a bit nuts for trains and the idea of keeping things great
:14:38. > :14:53.and being patriotically. Keep your tweets coming in and your
:14:54. > :14:58.video, all these spots - marvellous. We had a tweet from Reading station.
:14:59. > :15:09.He spotted a class 458523. I think it's a class 43 EMU, at 3 minutes
:15:10. > :15:19.past 8. Steven Hughes spotted a rare class 6 EMU on to East Anglia East
:15:20. > :15:28.Anglia Sudbury line. We were going to go live to Dick in Clapham but
:15:29. > :15:31.we've lost him. This is what he sent a few moments ago. 377s the trains
:15:32. > :15:37.are everywhere. This is a really busy station and I've got maim
:15:38. > :15:41.problems trying to keep up. This platform alone there's 15 trains an
:15:42. > :15:46.hour. That's nearly maximum capacity. We've got 17 platforms
:15:47. > :15:51.here. Clapham Junction, we are talking about the best part of 2,000
:15:52. > :15:58.trains per day. That's not that surprising, because at the station
:15:59. > :16:04.24 million passengers a year. That's just absolutely phenomenal. I've got
:16:05. > :16:10.no idea how I'm supposed to collect them all. Thank you Dick. We have
:16:11. > :16:16.200 years of rail heritage in this country, but the latest design is
:16:17. > :16:22.getting the pulse of every enthusiast racing. The newest
:16:23. > :16:27.high-speed train in the UK launches commercially next year. Tim Dunn was
:16:28. > :16:33.among the first to clap eyes on it. It's remarkable, a train like this
:16:34. > :16:40.in 2016 can still pull the cameras in. She's coming in now, Britain's
:16:41. > :16:43.newest high-speed train. For someone like myself who finds railways
:16:44. > :16:49.fascinating and believes railways are the future of transport in this
:16:50. > :16:58.country, this is quite remarkable. This has drawn a crowd of people.
:16:59. > :17:03.This is magnificent! Look at this, a truly magnificent machine. Isambard
:17:04. > :17:14.Kingdom Brunel. Absolutely stunning. Here we go. We're on!
:17:15. > :17:20.We'll find out later just how excited Tim got about riding on that
:17:21. > :17:24.new train, on the cutting edge of design. Throughout our rail history
:17:25. > :17:31.designers and engineers have had to innovate and break new ground
:17:32. > :17:36.constantly. Perhaps the greatest designer of all kind was Isambard
:17:37. > :17:41.Kingdom Brunel. 175 years ago he designed and built the Great Western
:17:42. > :17:46.Railway to link the port of Bristol to London. It's one of the most
:17:47. > :17:54.iconic railway lines in the country. At Didcot this centre is dedicated
:17:55. > :17:58.to Great Western Railway, so who else to talk to than the curator.
:17:59. > :18:02.Roger, what did Brunel represent? He was well ahead of his time, in that
:18:03. > :18:08.he tried to design a high-speed railway line from London to Bristol
:18:09. > :18:11.with the onset of using his steamships to carry people onwards
:18:12. > :18:13.to the US of A. It was really the first true passenger high speed
:18:14. > :18:19.railway in the country. What was important about the geography of it?
:18:20. > :18:22.He managed to devise the line so it went from London to Bristol.
:18:23. > :18:29.Virtually as flat as possible, and with minimal curves. He couldn't go
:18:30. > :18:33.straight? Why not? He could, but there were various hills. But he
:18:34. > :18:39.managed to get round them in the best way they could, which allowed
:18:40. > :18:51.to locomotives at that time to go as fast as they could. An amazing an
:18:52. > :18:56.amazing chap, and he built tunnels and bridges. As Jeremy Clarkson
:18:57. > :19:01.said, one of the greatest Britons of all time. Brunel was obsessed with
:19:02. > :19:09.getting everything right, particularly a smooth and fast
:19:10. > :19:13.service. To test how good his and everyone's route was, people drew
:19:14. > :19:19.circles. The better the circle, the smoother the line. Just look at
:19:20. > :19:23.these. You can see the circles he was drawing on his broad gauge
:19:24. > :19:30.railways. He wrote, the time is not far off when we should be able to
:19:31. > :19:35.take your coffee and write while going noiselessly and smoothly at 45
:19:36. > :19:39.miles an hour. All of those engineering innovations over a cup
:19:40. > :19:46.of coffee. Good for Brunel. Hannah is just down there to talk us
:19:47. > :19:51.through another idea. I'm standing on it, Peter. This is a closed
:19:52. > :19:56.museum and not an open track. This is what you will see up and down the
:19:57. > :20:01.country. This track is what's called a standard gauge. Rails that are 4
:20:02. > :20:10.foot 8-and-a-half inches apart. But this here is what Brunel wanted us
:20:11. > :20:13.to have, a 7 foot and a quarter inch gauge. Don't forget the quarter
:20:14. > :20:18.inch. Brunel, who was a brilliant engineer, a logic behind this. One
:20:19. > :20:23.of the reasons was you can have a more favourable centre of mass with
:20:24. > :20:26.a broader gauge. This loco for example, imagine that this is a
:20:27. > :20:32.standard modern width, and the centre of mass on this is right
:20:33. > :20:38.here. That's average position of the mass in the logo. It is where the
:20:39. > :20:43.gravity acts from. The force of gravity is going to act downwards.
:20:44. > :20:48.But if there's a big gust of wind. If this vertical line falls outside
:20:49. > :20:52.of this base, the loco is going to topple over. This will be fine
:20:53. > :20:58.there. But as soon as it goes past that point, it will fall over. But
:20:59. > :21:03.compare that to the broad gauge. Because it's much wider you can have
:21:04. > :21:10.a boiler that sits a lot lower, but it is also going to have a lot lower
:21:11. > :21:14.centre of mass. Understand makes, that means rather that it takes an
:21:15. > :21:19.awful lot more for this line to go outside of the base of the train. At
:21:20. > :21:23.small angles this loco is a lot more stable. Brunel was right about this.
:21:24. > :21:30.Broader bases and lower centres of gravity are a lot more stable. If
:21:31. > :21:34.you think what a rugby player does when they are tackled, spread their
:21:35. > :21:37.legs wide to lower their centre of gravity, this was a great idea, but
:21:38. > :21:41.unfortunately Brunel was too late with it. There was too much momentum
:21:42. > :21:44.behind the standard gauge, and economics got in the way. Eventually
:21:45. > :21:49.the stability that Brunel was after came about in some other ways. What
:21:50. > :21:55.about that cup of coughee on a modern train that brine was up of
:21:56. > :22:02.coughee on a modern train that brine was after you've dump -- what about
:22:03. > :22:06.that cup of coffee on a modern train that Brunel was after about. The
:22:07. > :22:16.secret is that trains can tilt into a curve. So here is a train that is
:22:17. > :22:28.bolt up right and it is going around the curve in this direction. You
:22:29. > :22:33.have gravity pulling it downwards, and you also have a centre of force
:22:34. > :22:39.pushing it out. That's why when you are in a car you slide outwards. The
:22:40. > :22:47.net effect of these two forces is one that acts. What a tilting train
:22:48. > :22:51.does is align that carriage to the direction of that net force. That
:22:52. > :22:53.means that it feels like that force is pushing you and your coffee into
:22:54. > :22:57.the floor. This is an example of what's
:22:58. > :23:03.happening in a tilting carriage. You've got your gravity, your force,
:23:04. > :23:06.your diagonal net force. But this time is carriage is aligned with
:23:07. > :23:10.that force. That's a slightly extreme example. We don't really get
:23:11. > :23:13.carriages that tilt that much. Weirdly, if you get this perfectly
:23:14. > :23:17.right and utility that carriage in that direction like they did in the
:23:18. > :23:23.original tilting trains, the APTs the, it makes people feel a bit
:23:24. > :23:29.sick. You see yourself going around the corner, you expect to be pushed
:23:30. > :23:43.to the side. And when you are not, your body ends up freaking out. So
:23:44. > :23:46.the new tilting trains, the Pendolinos don't.
:23:47. > :23:54.One of the awkward parts about the brine were the two different gauges.
:23:55. > :23:59.At certain point in the country you have to transfer goods from a
:24:00. > :24:05.standard gauge freight train into a broad gauge freight train or vice
:24:06. > :24:08.versa. They built transfer sheds to show that process.
:24:09. > :24:12.So here is a standard gauge train waiting to receive goods or
:24:13. > :24:16.passengers and here is the broad gauge. What happens? There would be
:24:17. > :24:21.lots of people here, certainly when dealing with goods or freight
:24:22. > :24:27.trains. Lots of people carrying the parcels from one train to the other.
:24:28. > :24:34.The time it took became unbearable really. Extraordinary. Is it sad we
:24:35. > :24:40.lost the broad gauge? It was inevitable. Inevitably it couldn't
:24:41. > :24:45.last because of that break of gauge, which meant that you had to move
:24:46. > :24:52.goods from one place to another. But if he had survived the broad gauge
:24:53. > :25:02.beyond 1890, would we be happier and more comfortable and calm in broad
:25:03. > :25:06.gauge trains? We believe so. Looking forward, our trains would have been
:25:07. > :25:10.going a lot feast, possibly without the need for brand-new railway
:25:11. > :25:17.lines. Brunel was talking about going at 45 miles an hour. Bob,
:25:18. > :25:23.looking at what Brunel would make of today's railways, what do you think
:25:24. > :25:27.would have said, and what about the future? He would have been for High
:25:28. > :25:33.Speed 2 and Maglev. Knowing brunette he would have some odd side views as
:25:34. > :25:38.well to throw into the mix. They that a lot with his career. An
:25:39. > :25:43.extraordinary man Brunel. You owe everything to him here. Without him
:25:44. > :25:47.we wouldn't be here. Brunel was part of a revolution commune cation.
:25:48. > :25:52.Across the country railways were letting us to send letters and
:25:53. > :25:58.parcels faster than before, with the original mail train running in 1830
:25:59. > :26:02.on the Liverpool and Manchester railway. Yesterday we sent you task
:26:03. > :26:09.of tracking down its modern ancestors and you did. Today it's
:26:10. > :26:12.Tim's turn. How are you doing? I'm here in not so sunny Stafford
:26:13. > :26:20.tonight on the platforms. I was here to see one of the unusual trains on
:26:21. > :26:29.the British network, the class 325 EMU, the mail train. That hasn't
:26:30. > :26:33.come through but we've seen two classes. Built at Crewe a few years
:26:34. > :26:44.ago, and two came chuntering through earlier today. While waiting for it.
:26:45. > :26:48.However, we have also had just earlier than that, the mail train. A
:26:49. > :26:58.little bit earlier than expected, as all the best things do. That came on
:26:59. > :27:05.board and came whizzing past about 10 minutes ago, ahead of schedule.
:27:06. > :27:07.Straight past us and the people on the platform tonight.
:27:08. > :27:12.This this station was rebuilt. This is a modern station under the wires.
:27:13. > :27:21.The entire route was rebuilt as part of the BR modernisation plan of the
:27:22. > :27:25.1950s. In 1962 this re-opened in a modernist, brutalist style. We spent
:27:26. > :27:28.some time at the station looking at the details. It is built of
:27:29. > :27:34.concrete. Not necessarily what everyone enjoys, but I rather
:27:35. > :27:42.enjoyed it. A lot of famous trains on this route. We've had the Royal
:27:43. > :27:53.Scot and the Coronation Scot, and the tilting APT. The in 1936 this
:27:54. > :27:58.route was made famous by WH Auden's poem about the night mail. At that
:27:59. > :28:01.time it was a different place to it is now. That mail train tonight was
:28:02. > :28:04.different to the original night mail, in 1936. Back then the railway
:28:05. > :28:08.was something of a social network, perhaps the first, connecting people
:28:09. > :28:13.and places and families with mail and messages. This mail train has
:28:14. > :28:19.gone through. Through. In all its red and yellow glory. That's full of
:28:20. > :28:24.second class rail from Scotland to London. If you also see any more
:28:25. > :28:32.trains tonight, whether you see that mail train go past, maybe 15 minutes
:28:33. > :28:36.early, e-mail us or go to the website or Twitter on the last night
:28:37. > :28:46.of Trainspotting Live. We've got three tweets here. Alex Lewis, 8.19,
:28:47. > :28:53.he has seen a 465180 at Kidbrooke. That'sen EMU. X Lewis, 8.19, he has
:28:54. > :29:01.seen a 465180 at Kidbrooke. That'sen EMU. -- that's an EMU. Dan C on
:29:02. > :29:06.Twitter at 8.20 as a class 350 at western Milton and a class 390 EMU
:29:07. > :29:11.seen by Oliver Griggs at Birmingham New Street. That was at a quarter
:29:12. > :29:17.past 8. It is not just the railways themselves affected by technological
:29:18. > :29:24.advances, new technology is helping the world of the enthusiast. And
:29:25. > :29:30.that's the Oxford line spinning past, probably giving us a hoot as
:29:31. > :29:41.he knows we are live in the transfer shed! We'll look now at a model
:29:42. > :29:49.maker. All aboard! My name is Will Jarman and I'm a railway modeller
:29:50. > :29:54.and artist and designer too, so I'm a bit of a create Ivan rack I
:29:55. > :29:59.suppose. What you see, it is a model of Victoria bridge, which was once
:30:00. > :30:01.the biggest single-span bridge in the world. Back in the Victorian
:30:02. > :30:27.era. About 200 yards It's a bit like how a builder would
:30:28. > :30:36.make the foundations of a house. Piece by piece it prints a cake the
:30:37. > :30:45.cake shop. I have measured out the floor plan, I haven't measured the
:30:46. > :30:49.roof. You can guess by counting bricks and measuring the proportions
:30:50. > :30:53.of the windows. It works out about right. It's a bit like standing on a
:30:54. > :30:56.platform taking down numbers but I have gone and taken down the
:30:57. > :31:01.measurements of a building instead. It's like being a sculptor without
:31:02. > :31:05.any rock and you're on a computer screen. It probably took about two
:31:06. > :31:12.hours to get that made and then straight into the machine. Every
:31:13. > :31:17.good models should include a model of the person that made it so I am
:31:18. > :31:21.present in the scene. If you look amongst the trees you can see a man
:31:22. > :31:27.with an odd looking jacket and a camera and that's me. People respond
:31:28. > :31:32.to it as much as a painting. Which in a slightly pretentious way is
:31:33. > :31:45.quite pleasing. Wonderful to see someone like that. Well done. Some
:31:46. > :31:55.tweets coming in. Clapham Junction at 11 minutes past eight. Another
:31:56. > :32:03.scene for four for passing through. Another sending us a class 319 in
:32:04. > :32:07.Salford heading towards Manchester. And now I think we are going to see
:32:08. > :32:15.some pictures we have been sent, a class three to two at Leeds. Thanks
:32:16. > :32:24.for that. Give as a quick description. 322, I think it's very
:32:25. > :32:31.appropriate it at Leeds as it was built there. That kind of train
:32:32. > :32:41.might be going down the air Valley, might be going across to Oakley.
:32:42. > :32:47.Wesley Centre is one as well from entry -- Wesley sent us one. -- from
:32:48. > :33:05.Aintree. What a great site. We are holding
:33:06. > :33:12.up, your spots coming in, a lot on the Brighton line which is vital.
:33:13. > :33:18.And one going down to Kent. And here they are going up the east coast.
:33:19. > :33:27.Quite a lot from the North as well. Yes but this is not a lecture five,
:33:28. > :33:34.Manchester, Leeds. -- this is not electrified, Manchester, Leeds. We
:33:35. > :33:44.are going to Edinburgh to see what's happening. How are you doing? What
:33:45. > :33:48.is happening? We saw quite a few trains arrive, and 91 from King's
:33:49. > :33:52.Cross, the service from Penzance, probably one of the longest journeys
:33:53. > :33:59.on the network today from Penzance to Glasgow Central in just under 12
:34:00. > :34:04.hours. That's terrific. In Scotland you have EMUs all over the place.
:34:05. > :34:13.Yes, they are starting to come out now. This was one earlier today.
:34:14. > :34:30.That is Scott Riddell? Yeah. One has to say, the steam trains
:34:31. > :34:38.were more beautiful than all this stuff? Yes, in years gone by you
:34:39. > :34:42.would have the coronation arriving, then in the 1950s there was a decent
:34:43. > :34:47.service which you can find on YouTube, very interesting to take
:34:48. > :34:54.you back to the day and lets you see Edinburgh Waverley as it was years
:34:55. > :34:58.ago. Thank you. Trainspotting is a quintessentially British passion, or
:34:59. > :35:06.is it? Are American cousins seem to take it to the next level? This
:35:07. > :35:11.infamous clip that you will see when fired all, it's a long way removed
:35:12. > :35:17.from our more dignified enthusiasm on these shores. Take a look at
:35:18. > :35:35.that! All my guard! Listen to that horn! All my
:35:36. > :35:50.oh my guard! LAUGHTER Incredible. Dick, you are an
:35:51. > :35:58.enthusiastic man, what did you think of that? I love it. I appreciate it
:35:59. > :36:03.when we see something new. Slight technical problems here at Clapham
:36:04. > :36:06.but we are having a ball. Trainspotting is quite difficult
:36:07. > :36:15.here but I'm getting the hang of it. Earlier on today I got some really
:36:16. > :36:25.good guidance. 87 for. That is a 455. What excites you about the
:36:26. > :36:30.EMUs? I like the different colours of the different operators, we have
:36:31. > :36:33.all these different colours. I get a bit confused and that will be a
:36:34. > :36:42.theme going through today, that was a big one, two together. Yeah, two
:36:43. > :36:47.in multiple. How do you collect the numbers? You just have to be careful
:36:48. > :36:56.as they come through. Get the front and the tail. I don't see a
:36:57. > :37:01.notebook? I have got our camera, I can slow it down, see it frame by
:37:02. > :37:07.frame to get the tiny numbers. I will keep my eyes open, this place
:37:08. > :37:20.is manic. That's a 450 going towards London Waterloo. 020.
:37:21. > :37:32.I've missed one. Another 455. What do you do with the numbers as you
:37:33. > :37:43.collect them? It seems like it's cheating to do that? I film them. I
:37:44. > :37:47.missed another one! I film them and edit the videos, take the numbers
:37:48. > :37:51.and I have a website where I keep a log of everyone I have seen and went
:37:52. > :37:55.to the video I have made. Does it count as me seeing it if I watch
:37:56. > :38:01.your video? That depends what rules you are playing by? You have seen it
:38:02. > :38:07.just not in the flesh. I just think I have two practice more. Practice
:38:08. > :38:15.makes perfect. I have this very proud spot, Mark, what is the newest
:38:16. > :38:22.thing you have seen? The class 700, brand-new train. When you get to be
:38:23. > :38:27.my age what are you going to remember as being the most important
:38:28. > :38:30.train of your youth? Probably something like the 700, it's one of
:38:31. > :38:38.the most advanced trains they have ever had. It's something to see how
:38:39. > :38:42.the technology changes. When it comes to capturing the trains what
:38:43. > :38:48.about the old trains, are you interested in them as much? I like
:38:49. > :38:53.the new ones because they are sleek and modern and comfortable, the best
:38:54. > :38:57.we have had. It's nice to to see whether future is to be. I am
:38:58. > :39:06.feeling the pressure a little bit here because... I don't have any
:39:07. > :39:12.700's in my book! LAUGHTER For heavens sake, enough of this
:39:13. > :39:15.modern stuff. Some people want a look back, some people continue to
:39:16. > :39:20.look back and preserve the past including my next guest. You have
:39:21. > :39:27.been collecting lots of tickets, how many do you have? I don't know, it
:39:28. > :39:34.must be about 3500 so. Show us your favourite. This one from south
:39:35. > :39:45.Wales, it closed in 1964. On the right is the Great Western Railway,
:39:46. > :39:54.very much in enlarged form. This ticket was issued at few weeks
:39:55. > :40:02.before the line was closed. This is 000, the first of the series and
:40:03. > :40:07.probably the only one in existence. This one was issued in 1869 Ron
:40:08. > :40:15.Crouch end on the Northern Heights line which closed in 1954. It was
:40:16. > :40:22.issued for a parliamentary journey at the minimum fare of one old penny
:40:23. > :40:30.per mile. That was stipulated by the railway regulation act. Why are they
:40:31. > :40:35.all pretty colours? Every tickets, Edwards as though it has its place
:40:36. > :40:42.of origin and then the destination on the ticket. The coloured
:40:43. > :40:49.generally indicated the class, first, second and third. And there
:40:50. > :40:53.are various prints to indicate validity for children, returns, all
:40:54. > :40:59.sorts of things like that. Over here we have an example of a much later
:41:00. > :41:06.ticket, one of series printed in 1970 for train spotters. Very much
:41:07. > :41:11.an enlarged version, this is the original. A series of seven of these
:41:12. > :41:16.produced, each displaying a class of locomotive that you could see at
:41:17. > :41:21.Reading station. On the back of the ticket, technical details about the
:41:22. > :41:29.locomotive concerned. Have you had to pay for each one you took a
:41:30. > :41:34.ticket from? You paid to get on the platform. It was a bit more than the
:41:35. > :41:42.regular rate for a platform ticket. How long will you keep doing this?
:41:43. > :41:49.Till you are 70, 80, 90? I am already passed 70! Until I can do it
:41:50. > :41:55.any longer. Are the valuable? Some of them have value. I would not part
:41:56. > :41:58.with the first one I should you. An exclusive ticket that any rail
:41:59. > :42:03.enthusiast would get their hands on is the one which allowed Tim Dunn to
:42:04. > :42:06.write the super express train. We rejoin him as he tries to contain
:42:07. > :42:14.himself for the short journey between Reading and London. Three
:42:15. > :42:20.rows in on the left-hand side. Thank you very much. Free
:42:21. > :42:34.lets look in the goody bag. A colouring book, that's what irony
:42:35. > :42:44.want. Fabulous. -- that's what I really want. What else have we got?
:42:45. > :42:54.Top Trumps. Lovely. This is the kind of blockbuster I want to come to.
:42:55. > :42:58.Completely smoothly, without sound. Completely silent. Almost completely
:42:59. > :43:12.silent. We are celebrating and that's the
:43:13. > :43:18.rail benefit. The speed at which it accelerates. It gets to 105 mph a
:43:19. > :43:21.whole minute faster than 125 ever could and that is fantastic because
:43:22. > :43:27.it means journey times are cut and you can fit more trains onto the
:43:28. > :43:33.same piece of line. The class 800 is made in Japan but will be assembled
:43:34. > :43:40.in County Durham, Britain's first rail manufacturing facility for 150
:43:41. > :43:48.years. 59 train sets will travel the great Western and virgin east Coast
:43:49. > :43:54.mainline. We are now approaching London Paddington. The first time
:43:55. > :44:01.this train has been into the station. I hope you are enjoying
:44:02. > :44:05.this first-ever trip. We have just arrived at London Paddington on
:44:06. > :44:09.Britain's newest express train. London Paddington where I first came
:44:10. > :44:14.to look at trains with my dad, to come and look at 125's. And here we
:44:15. > :44:23.are arriving on its replacement. William. -- brilliant. And the day
:44:24. > :44:31.just gets better, they even let me into the cab. This is truly
:44:32. > :44:39.computerised, so far beyond anything I have seen in a locomotive. How
:44:40. > :44:42.complex is it to drive? Not at all, once you are used to the system and
:44:43. > :44:47.you have two interact with the screen on the right-hand side, the
:44:48. > :44:51.TMS, that the driver machine interface. Login to that before you
:44:52. > :44:55.drive it and that monitors everything on the train that is
:44:56. > :44:57.going on. If you get a fault it tells you and how to rectify it.
:44:58. > :45:10.That was magnificent wasn't it? Our Holy Grail challenge to you
:45:11. > :45:19.tonight is red hot. 15 minutes to go and nobody yet has told us they've
:45:20. > :45:23.seen the 91110 speeding up the East Coast mainline. That's the challenge
:45:24. > :45:27.for you. Tim, today you bagged that rare beast the mail train. Surely
:45:28. > :45:35.there is nothing left for you to spot is there? I think I have
:45:36. > :45:39.probably reached the peak. This afternoon we managed to see
:45:40. > :45:46.something that summed up the past two evenings here on train train.
:45:47. > :45:50.46115 Scots Guardsman, a steam locomotive, being hauled down south
:45:51. > :45:56.from carn forth so Southall. Two things in the past two nights, a
:45:57. > :46:00.steam locomotive and a class 36 together. By pure coincidence coming
:46:01. > :46:06.down this evening. Some of the enthusiasm that we've been able to
:46:07. > :46:13.show and the people we've been able to depict over the past two
:46:14. > :46:18.evenings, and show people are WHO are not enthusiasts, it is a tryly
:46:19. > :46:23.lovely hobby with lovely people and we've had an awful lot of fun. Thank
:46:24. > :46:29.you Tim. Tim. Your joy and enthusiasm has been a delight to
:46:30. > :46:34.behold. Organising the train time tablings so the trains we enjoy runs
:46:35. > :46:38.on time is something I can't begin to get my head around, so I asked
:46:39. > :46:44.Hannah to do it instead. There are some crucial questions that need
:46:45. > :46:48.answering to keep all of these high speed hi-tech trains running on
:46:49. > :46:52.time. The calculations are incredibly complicated. To
:46:53. > :46:57.understand it you need to get to grips with the principles of railway
:46:58. > :47:01.signalling. That's why I'm here with some traditional-style signals at
:47:02. > :47:07.Didcot Park way. You can see in the background the red is in your
:47:08. > :47:11.direction. The black ones are for trains in the other direction. When
:47:12. > :47:16.they are hang, it is safe to go. When they are horizontal, it means
:47:17. > :47:18.don't go. And you have the points on the track to make sure you don't
:47:19. > :47:24.have two trains merging on the same track. This is controlled from the
:47:25. > :47:28.signal box up here. And today our signaller is Andrew. He's going to
:47:29. > :47:33.explain to me how this works. Hello Andrew. Thank you very much for
:47:34. > :47:39.having us. Tell me, what do the different coloured levers do? The
:47:40. > :47:44.red ones control signals, the black control points and the blue lock
:47:45. > :47:49.things in place, like the points. How do you change the signalling,
:47:50. > :47:56.just pull a lever? Yes, this one, push it towards. Gosh! That's
:47:57. > :48:00.heavier than I was expecting. Yes. You would get some good guns doing,
:48:01. > :48:05.that that's for sure. And changing the points, how do you do that? You
:48:06. > :48:12.have to unlock them first. You have to push the lock back. It is quite
:48:13. > :48:20.stiff. And how do you know when to change what? If you didn't have
:48:21. > :48:27.radio or phone? The signalman would follow the timetable he is given.
:48:28. > :48:31.OK. And I guess this is doable on a timetable if there are only a few
:48:32. > :48:35.trains running a day. But London Bridge at 9 o'clock in the
:48:36. > :48:40.morning... Quite a stressful task. As our railways become Mo crowd,
:48:41. > :48:44.signalling and timetables become more complicated. I went up to
:48:45. > :48:51.Manchester to find out more about it. Network Rail is constantly
:48:52. > :48:54.trying to squeeze out every last bit of capacity in the network.
:48:55. > :49:00.Understand involves scrutinising everything from how quickly
:49:01. > :49:04.passengers get on and off the trains to what the minimum distance can be
:49:05. > :49:08.between the trains on the network. The end result is called the working
:49:09. > :49:15.timetable, which outlines the positions of every train on the
:49:16. > :49:24.track. With around 22,500 train journeys every day, Network Rail
:49:25. > :49:30.employs and Army of the 00 of 300 people to manage this timetable. If
:49:31. > :49:34.you put the timetable it is a heft book and lots of numbers. We use the
:49:35. > :49:41.graphs to represent what we are looking at. Complex graphs like this
:49:42. > :49:44.one covering train movements around Huddersfield are based on time and
:49:45. > :49:48.distance. If you wanted to have a particular train and plot it on this
:49:49. > :49:53.graph, it starts off at a particular station at a certain distance and
:49:54. > :49:58.time, and travels through your network, with let's say at a
:49:59. > :50:03.constant speed. In an ideal world they hatch this pattern, travelling
:50:04. > :50:08.nice and fast, four minutes apart. That's a timetabler's dream. All the
:50:09. > :50:12.trains the same. The problem is you also want slower local trains. On
:50:13. > :50:15.this graph that means a shallower line which crosses those of the
:50:16. > :50:21.faster trains. What that effectively means is you've got two trains at
:50:22. > :50:25.exactly the same point on the rill network at exactly the same time.
:50:26. > :50:30.You really want to avoid that. When you look at them at first think look
:50:31. > :50:34.like aat. When you look at them at first think look like a massive mess
:50:35. > :50:36.- no offence. Yes, they do. Where the lines cross you are talking
:50:37. > :50:44.about two trains being in the same place at the same time? We plan
:50:45. > :50:47.around this to make sure that didn't happen. So you've got a short bit of
:50:48. > :50:54.track where you can fit two trains? Yes. What about this one? That's in
:50:55. > :50:59.the opposite direction. Oh yes. Just checking that you've done your maths
:51:00. > :51:04.correctly. So if you wanted to fit another train in here somewhere, how
:51:05. > :51:10.do you do it? With great difficulty. There's a little bit of space there
:51:11. > :51:14.maybe. Put it through there? You could, have that as a gap. However,
:51:15. > :51:18.you've got a slower train there anyway, so do you want two doing the
:51:19. > :51:22.same thing a couple of minutes apart? Not really. So with these,
:51:23. > :51:27.could you make that a bit faster? You could, but it's still got to
:51:28. > :51:32.pass him somehow, in this stretch here, so unless that one speeds up,
:51:33. > :51:38.as wells that once you are not going to get past. How far in advance are
:51:39. > :51:43.you working with these usual time tails? Dvance are you working with
:51:44. > :51:52.these usual time tails? -- timetables. We do go 30 years in
:51:53. > :51:59.advance to plan capacity no. So 2040? Yes, we are looking at 2043
:52:00. > :52:05.now. You can't fix down what the railway will look like in 2043 at
:52:06. > :52:09.this point? No, we take current knowledge, work out the growth and
:52:10. > :52:14.try and plan the best. It is phenomenally complicated. It can be.
:52:15. > :52:19.Very impressive. Thank you. Smashing glimpse of the future. And with
:52:20. > :52:25.trains like Tim's superexpress coming on the network, with the
:52:26. > :52:31.existing stock, it is only going to get even more complicated. Good luck
:52:32. > :52:37.Network Rail. Let's see if anyone has spotted the 9110, the Battle of
:52:38. > :52:41.Britain Memorial Flight. It should but here somewhere. One thing that
:52:42. > :52:44.worries me is the speed of these things. We talk about the new
:52:45. > :52:52.express train, all the excitement, but if they are not going to go any
:52:53. > :52:56.faster than 150s. They cannot. Until we build a new line or deal with our
:52:57. > :53:00.signalling system that will enable more trains on the network. How do
:53:01. > :53:07.you deal with the signalling system? You can go away from having
:53:08. > :53:11.geographically placed mechanical signals and put them in the cab, so
:53:12. > :53:17.the train is controlled from inside the cab. Hannah has some tweets. I
:53:18. > :53:24.have unconfirmed reports that 9110 has just got Peterborough. But it is
:53:25. > :53:29.unconfirmed, no photo. We've got Twitter, Jack Bruce spotted a class
:53:30. > :53:34.320 from Glasgow. That tweet was sent at 2032. We also have Jack
:53:35. > :53:42.Andrews class 390 at Wick. That tweet was sent at 2033. And a class
:53:43. > :53:47.333 spotted at Leeds by Phil Jackson at 2030. A great start. It is time
:53:48. > :53:52.to wrap up our final spot. All choose a favourite spot from the
:53:53. > :53:56.past three shows. Bob, what's yours? The little Network Rail measuring
:53:57. > :54:02.train, the baby brother of the Flying Banana we talked about a lot.
:54:03. > :54:06.There it is close to where I live, in theirs borough. It is just doing
:54:07. > :54:13.its job making sure the line was safe. Hanna? I really like the King
:54:14. > :54:19.Edward on Monday. But I also, my favourite spot is this from Twitter,
:54:20. > :54:26.which is of the Flying Banana peeking around the corner. Lovely.
:54:27. > :54:31.Mine is simple. It is steam for me and it is the Black Five loco in
:54:32. > :54:37.Fort William. Listen to this wonderful locomotive approaching us.
:54:38. > :54:42.Listen to that. And look at the power of the wheels and the
:54:43. > :54:47.connecting rods, the firstons inside. Inside. And the pistons
:54:48. > :54:54.inside. It is fantastic. Dick, we've all done our favourite spots. What
:54:55. > :54:57.about you, what is your favourite spot? We are still trainspotting and
:54:58. > :55:02.Nick is joined me from Doncaster. Nick, we've had a ball. We've been
:55:03. > :55:11.to Doncaster, Swindon, Clapham Junction. We've seen lots of 66s,
:55:12. > :55:20.lots of 91s. Never mind lots of 66s. What was the main one? 66719,
:55:21. > :55:27.Evening Star. It was great. I think that of all the 66s, I've seen them
:55:28. > :55:32.in Swindon and here, that was one of the things, I think I like freight.
:55:33. > :55:37.I don't know if it is noble. What about the Darth Vaders? I think they
:55:38. > :55:41.are a bit scary. We saw a few of these, the 180s at Doncaster. And
:55:42. > :55:49.you saw the 125s that you thought were Darth saiders as well. I got
:55:50. > :55:54.those mixed up. At Swindon the sheer quantity of 43s, but the potential
:55:55. > :56:00.43 was Sir Kenneth Grange. Have you seen it? Not with that name I
:56:01. > :56:06.haven't, but I have seen them all. You've seen them all? Yes. In that
:56:07. > :56:12.livery? No, but I saw them all by 1980. I must have something in my
:56:13. > :56:18.book you haven't seen. What about the new Gatwick ones? I've only seen
:56:19. > :56:24.three. I have seen things he hasn't seen and my book is getting fatter.
:56:25. > :56:28.Thank you to the station staff and to the people looking after that,
:56:29. > :56:33.and most of all the Army of spotters, Nick as well. Well, I do
:56:34. > :56:37.hope you've enjoyed the programme as much as we have. We tried to bring a
:56:38. > :56:42.line through the great sweep of when Britain invented the locomotive to
:56:43. > :56:45.two centuries of change to what the railways are like today. And we've
:56:46. > :56:52.taken a glimpse into the challenges of the future. And we've celebrated
:56:53. > :57:00.the uniquely British and eccentric passion of our train enthusiasts
:57:01. > :57:05.across the country, as well as seeing the best locos. We have time
:57:06. > :57:08.to thank everyone here at Didcot railway station. Thank you to Bob
:57:09. > :57:15.and the National Railway Museum in York and all those people who helped
:57:16. > :57:21.us out with our filming. And we thank the rail enthusiasts, and the
:57:22. > :57:25.keen old trainspotter who called us, sent their photos and footage and
:57:26. > :57:33.have been out there spotting with us. And thank you for joining us and
:57:34. > :57:37.making us nation of supports. Let's have an Army of enthusiasts. We are
:57:38. > :57:42.going to leave you with some to which best footage you've sent us
:57:43. > :57:44.over the last few weeks and the last few epic days. Handbrake is off.
:57:45. > :59:03.Goodbye! I love it to bits. Well spotted,
:59:04. > :59:05.Dick! I can see steam and smoke on the horizon. A truly magnificent
:59:06. > :59:17.sight. SONG: Night and Day by Ella
:59:18. > :59:34.Fitzgerald. Have you recorded anything? Yes. All
:59:35. > :59:48.the Class 66s. You've spent us all of these. Brilliant! There is
:59:49. > :59:51.something nice about that. Oh yes. And divided by 33,000, because
:59:52. > :59:55.imperial units are weird.