UK: Steam heating at the Great Central Railway during a Class 35 Hymek running day

Описание: UK: A selection of clips showing train steam heating at the Great Central Railway during a running day with preserved Class 35 diesel loco no. D7018. The clips were recorded at Loughborough Central and Leicester North stations and on board the train.
All clips recorded 22nd November 2025.
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Steam heating on UK trains was provided by steam from the locomotive's boiler, sent through pipes to carriages to warm them, a system used from the mid-19th century until the end of the steam era. Diesel locomotives were later fitted with steam heat boilers to work with steam-heated carriages. Today, while the national network uses electric heating (ETH), steam heating is maintained on preserved railways, which often refit their locomotives with steam heat boilers for winter use.
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The British Rail Class 35 is a class of mixed-traffic B-B diesel locomotive with hydraulic transmission. Because of their Mekydro-design hydraulic transmission units, the locomotives became known as the Hymeks. They were numbered D7000-D7100.

The class was developed for the Western Region of British Railways, which had opted for lightweight locomotives with hydraulic transmission, when allocated funds under the British Railways Modernisation Plan of 1955. 101 of the class were built between 1961 and 1964, when it became apparent that there was a requirement for a medium-power diesel-hydraulic design for both secondary passenger work and freight duties.

They were allocated to Bristol Bath Road, Cardiff Canton, and Old Oak Common. None of the class was named. Withdrawal from service began in 1971, and was completed by 1975. Their early withdrawal was caused primarily by BR classifying the hydraulic transmission as non-standard. Four locomotives have been preserved.
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The Great Central Railway (GCR) is a heritage railway in Leicestershire, England, named after the company that originally built this stretch of railway. It runs for 8 miles (13 km) between the town of Loughborough and a new terminus in the north of Leicester. It has period signalling, locomotives and rolling stock.

Four stations are in operation, each restored to a period in the railway's commercial history: Loughborough Central (the 1950s); Quorn & Woodhouse (Second World War and the remainder of the 1940s); Rothley (Edwardian Era); Leicester North (the 1960s).

The railway is currently involved in a major project to rebuild the missing line, known as the Loughborough Gap, between Loughborough and the Great Central Railway (Nottingham).
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