"Circle and Hammersmith" Driver's Eye View

Would the use of an S stock in filming still have required the usual extra lamps that they have in the cab? I'd imagine they would, but perhaps to a lesser extent. Looking forward to it, although its a shame that there probably won't be any forum regulars in the cab driving!

The DVD and Blu-Ray are both now able to pre-order from here; there is also a preview clip available on the same page...rack up the quality to 1080p, sit back, and enjoy..!



The blurb suggests 'subtle additional lighting' was used - even so, the tunnel sections seen in the preview do appear quite natural in how they're lit - you wouldn't think that any additional lights were installed. Without naming anyone specificially, is the driver seen in the clip a member on here?



Probably literally, for anyone standing on the platform at the time! Nowt wrong with the odd fumigation - I bet there weren't many spiders lingering in the platform canopies!

I thought that the fault was oil-related - in the dim and distant days of when I attended secondary school, one of the coaches that was regularly employed as the school bus serving the area where I live similarly thought that it was in an eighties' music video (or a Papal 'yes' vote!), and belched out a great deal of white smoke at every press of the accelerator - that similarly had a rather oily smell about it.

(As I know that you're into your buses, David, it was one owned by Stevenson's of Uttoxeter at the time when they were becoming Arriva North Midlands. I'll never forget the look of disgust on the face of a chap driving a then-new Trent Excel in the opposite direction...either because of the localised pollution that our ancient bus was creating, or because he was driving an Excel..!)

I think its something to do with oil collecting in the drum


I know there was a standing order for Class 55 "Deltics" in BR days to only apply half power once clear of Dringhouses at York because a full power application resulted in the oil blasting out the exhaust and spoiling the washing!

But the Deltics had a completely different engine, a two-stroke, so they needed an oil collector drum. DMUs just had a normal exhaust system with a silencer, no collector drum. I could hear the Deltics getting into their stride as they left York for Darlington from my bedroom.

Wrong coloured smoke to be oil. White smoke is usually caused by water, either condensation in a cold engine or a faulty head gasket. Its probably condensation as a diesel engine will lose a lot of power if a head gasket fails. Lubricating oil getting into the cylinders of a diesel engine is bad news as the engine will burn that as fuel and be almost impossible to stop and in the worst circumstances will over speed until it wrecks itself.

A quick google has suggested that when lubrication oils are burnt in a diesel engine, they tend to give a blue smoke. White smoke is because of unburnt fuel getting through into the exhaust, which as suggested earlier, is likely because of injectors not working, incorrect timing, or bad cylinder compression, the latter of which could be because of leaking or broken valves, cylinder wear, or some other possible factor. Whether or not the smoke is white or blue is a different matter. To my eye, there does seem to be a slight blue hue to it.

Or passing BL at King's Cross.

When I went to Nottingham from St Pan recently I learned from a EMT staff member that one time a HST started and the clag from the rear power car caused the fire alarms to go off causing an evacuation and the EMT staff did not leave the station because they knew it was a HST.