The history of Unique Holyhead Breakwater Railway Class 01’s of British Railways | Anglesey | Wales
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I can't believe that I am the first to comment upon this fascinating and informative video. Thank you for uploading! It's great that this little piece of railway history has been recognised and put here for everyone's enjoyment and education. Well done!
I was in Holyhead last bank holiday and walked the breakwater which I was unfamiliar with until then. I saw remnants of a line around the breakwater but had no idea at all this was the history behind it. Brilliant and fascinating video 😊
This is an AI voiceover and it spoils an otherwise informative video.
How can they be renumbered in 1948 if they were built in 1956?
Your numbering of the first two sounds like bender (futurama) reciting one of his binary strings😊
The voiceover sounds remarkably like the read-back voice supplied as part of Microsoft Word…..🤔
The voice, such a shame. Volume off best, It’s like listening to the bloody BBC BS dept. Hey Ho people will never learn.
Interesting video, i just wish you'd get a human to do the narration. I know we all hate the sound of our own voice but I'd much rather hear whoever wrote this instead 🙂
The robotic voice did not appeal , nice informative video though , would give it Zero Eight out of Ten !
😂 thanks for watching
So what was the breakwater railway used for? This is just engine numbers.
"The locos were based at Stratford for work in Stratford Docks' There aren't any docks at Stratford (east London) and never have been .
According to the book 'Allocation History of BR Diesel Shunters' (by Heritage Shunters Trust), the two class 01s were on loan from British Rail to William Wild & Sons Ltd when they were based at Holyhead
By coincidence, I was watching a YouTube video this morning of somebody walking the full length of the Holyhead Breakwater in its current form when I came across this video (all evidence that the railway ever existed seems to have disappeared)
During my RAF AATC training at RAF Shawbury in December 1979 I had a day out to Holyhead to see the locos. When I got to the shed there was another bloke there and we managed to open the door far enough to see in and cop them both. I'm still chuffed that I managed that. I enjoyed the video very much, thanks. 😀👍
Holyhead Breakwater has never at any point been seven miles long ! ! 😊 . . . ( Great interesting video. . . . . Thanks for this. )
My head hurts after being bombarded with all the number info. Too much already!
If you ever edit the voiceover again, and for the benefit of people who dislike zero one zero zero one and zero one zero zero two….. I’ve always said these numbers as “oh one double oh one” and “oh one double oh two”.
I know 0 is not spelt “oh” but used oh to make the point in this instance (I actually think 0 (zero) is spelt O (as in the letter)).
Hope that clears that one up. Or should I say zero one! 😂