Classic British Rail - Crewe - 20th & 22nd of October 1990
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- Filmed over a couple of days at Crewe on the 20th and 22nd of October 1990 where we see a good variety of trains with Class 08 , 20 , 31 , 37 , 47 , 58 , 86 , 87 , 90 and HST's being seen.
Proper locos all of them and original engined HSTs with their distinct sound when powering away. These were the good days, I remember spending a day there back when class 33s used to work in on the Cardiff services , I had recorded over 300 locos in a day !
I love the history of crewe! Its Great to see the trains that were running before I was born!
Yes it was always a great place to watch trains with plenty of interest and variety. Not like that these days!
I was brouggt up in the 1980s in Glasgow and used to love watching the trains from my landing window,
@@jamesmackay4778 awesome! That’s so cool!
@@Class43Harrison can even remember the old MK1 buffet cars on the long distance trains and the old MK1 sealink coaches that done the London Euston - Glasgow Central - Stranraer Harbour
@@jamesmackay4778 woah!!!!!! That’s amazing! Brilliant!!!!!
What a place to 'Spot' back in the day
Yes it was, always plenty going on even with most of the freights using the freight line bypassing the station!
DOUBLE HEADED CHOPPERS NICE!!!! Lovely video!! I love those drivers who spot someone filming and give it the thrash!!! I dont like electric but do miss the days of the 86,s and the lightning fast 87,s!!!
Thank You and I hope you have seen some of my other stuff.
I didn't get much stuff of the 20's during that period unfortunately.
Great video- to think we used to get this level of entertainment for free everyday! We used to ignore the choppers, 31s and electrics and only photograph 37s, 45s and 56s - unbelievable!
Just needed a close up of that huge bag of chips from the great chippy 5 mins from the Station- with the slurry of mushy peas poured right over the top and a dusting of salt like snow!!!
Yes can't beat those days and always plenty to see at Crewe was just a pity they have the freight lines that bypass the station otherwise it would really would be a busy place!
Amazing how much variety of locks there was in the nineties
Great video, amazing to see the various types of locomotive and the amount of people watching back then
Thank you and I hope you have checked out my other videos!
Nice to see so many fathers bringing up their children in the paths of righteousness.
Such eclectic times, full of colour and variety, and some truly fascinating movements. Crewe was buzzing back then.
In October 1990 the final class 90 of the build had just entered service so 90049 would have been just weeks old in this clip, and only yards away from where she was built too! Even in the 1990s the UK still has some manufacturing and engineering kudos. Not so much anymore sadly.
Was always a great place to be in those days and I spent many hours on the platforms there!
Certainly not like that these days that's for sure!
Amazing footage of those great days which are very sorely missed. It's also food for thought that the steam locomotive has outlived the diesel (47615) which dragged it into the station (scrapped 2013).
Yeap they were certainly great days and not the same now! I hope you have enjoyed some of my other stuff!
The south end of Crewe station was such an exciting location back then.
Yes it was and always plenty to see there all the time!
Makes me sad to realise how interesting the British Railways were in the 20th century before I was born. I wish I could have been alive 20 years earlier to see all this great traction. Great to see some old footage! :)
Glad you enjoyed , and yes it was much more interesting back then. And likewise I wish I was a bit older and got to enjoy the early 80's as well!
Thanks and glad you enjoyed. Likewise for me if I had been older could have got the mid 80's which was different again!
3.25 the class 58! Love them!
Happy Days. I had been on the Railway Seven Months,seems like seventy years ago.
Glad you enjoyed and yes those were the last great days on the railways!
Today it's mostly all gone. The old stuff that is but still busy in a new era.
There may well be plenty of freight but no where the variety there once was!
Superb. I went to Crewe D.E.D to do my training putting class 20s in multi. Seems like another world now.
It certainly was and Crewe was always a popular place!
Great stuff, lots of variety in this one.
Yeap certainly not like that these days. I hope you have checked out my other stuff!
...cool video...ahh, its such a shame we dont see 31 's anymore...they were always a favorite... :(
Thanks Steve , my favorite I think had to be the 37's and certainly miss those days!
Superb video.
Absolutely brilliant still wish instead of all the foreign stuff..
Certainly not the same now and not even 5 years after this was filmed!
And I took all that for granted
Who was to know how quickly that the 66's would replace everything else!
@@paekokstationmaster5032 I should have clicked when the class 59s came over lol
@@rickybrett6846 Well when you had new loco's with maybe 95%+ availability against maybe 60%+ on a good day with most of the existing loco's it wasn't going to take long for the others to notice!
@@paekokstationmaster5032 can't argue with that!
The Coaches and engines are so grimy! Proper work horses!
No excess money to clean them in BR days.
Wow, check out all those spotters. I visited Crewe a couple of weeks back. Depots long gone and only a handful of spotters on the station.
Seem to remember always lots of spotters at Crewe and Wandsworth Road was another place was always plenty.
Crewe certainly won't be the same now although you can say that about the whole of the UK now!
Great Video, thanks for posting.
Lovely vid
Thanks James and I hope you are enjoying some of my other stuff as well!
Glory days....
Poor old scrap 08's and 47's look very sad ... poor old University of Nottingham, I knew it well ... :-(
Were starting to scrap a lot of those locos by that stage!
Is it me or are the middle sets of wheels missing from the 08s being shunter next to the class 31 shunt loco?
Yes you are correct.The first 08 is missing it's rods and the other 2 there middle wheels. I would say looking at them that all those locos were withdrawn from Service and just being shunted around.
Good video. Train enthusiasts with cameras and not a mobile phone in sight
Thank you Brian and I hope you have enjoyed some of my other stuff!
I still use cameras now as overall better quality and easier to use than your phone!
@@paekokstationmaster5032 many thanks
That IC service with the mail vans on....has to be The Clansman?
At the 4.34? Motorail vans on the front. Don't remember if the Clansman took motorail or used a MK3 buffet for that matter but could well have been!
@@paekokstationmaster5032The Clansman was rarely a uniform formation from what I can remember. Always seem to remember it being a mix of MK2 stock and mail even up to the late 80s. Think in the last year of operation it went over to about a load 10-11 rake of MK3 stock?
I know progression is required, but damn it, why did we leave these Loco years!!!
Unfortunately that's how it goes , and when you have an availability level of less than 60% with some of those loco's compared to 98% when the Yank stuff arrived you can see why!
Booo! :-)
You can almost taste the leaded petrol in the air good times lol
Yes you could and certainly not the same these days!
@@paekokstationmaster5032 you rarely see any locomotives hauling trains the 31s are gone alot of 37 the 33s i was lucky enough when I was a lad to be hauled from chester to crewe by one of the last 40s when it was going through modernisation according to my brother I only have a very vague memory of it but saw all the survivors at the east lancs on their 60th anniversary took my son for his birthday it was kind of magical got to see 135 at chester in 2018 so not a total loss
@@steventhornton4716 Yes certainly not the same. Would have loved to see the 40's and Deltics particularly but unfortunately were long gone by then
British rail! And don't forget their cheese sandwiches!
And not one foreign built locomotive in sight!
Nope there wasn't but they weren't far way in coming although the 59s were here by then!
2:40 sounds like that 37 was equiped with a Deltic engine. 😄
Oh yeah I see what you mean, but I suspect there was something else behind me as well
where the hell did it all go
That's the price of progress!
One word: privatisation.
Here's a timeline on Alternate History Forums in which BR was never privatised (well, the freight operations get privatised in 2004, but passenger operations remain nationalised), starting with the Thatcher government choosing not to fund electrification of the ECML, and Britain's railway is better for it: www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/tl-the-double-headed-arrow-uk-trains.384467/
i miss these days the variety each class had its own personality was a fun day out back then nowadays i must say i get bored of the same predictable stuff bring back B.R
That's the price of progress I guess and yeap certainly not the same now!
Nice not to see all those voyagers