Class 47 dragging failed HST into Reading...quite a common sight on some 1980s hot summer days before BR managed to sort out their cooling systems. Shunters and traincrews soon got used to deploying the short-bar emergency couplers!
Plenty of 1980s footage here - large logo livery, depotsymbols and headlamps are the big give away. Also the Class 59 and InterCity executive and RailFreight grey.
I enjoyed the footage, especially the 31/47 double header at Peterborough (I thought the 47 was dead in train, but then I saw the exhaust plume). I wonder where it was heading? My only criticism is with the projector noise, it gets a bit tedious after a while. I undstand that there was no sound on the footage! But it's a pity you didn't put any captions in or commentry to lets us known where the footage was shot or any other information you still have on the footage.
Oh yes. I think the Bracknell-Willis high speed pan, was given to the 87s when their maximum permitted speed was raised from 100mph to 110mph. The three Class 86/1s also had Bracknell-Willis pans as they too, were passed for 110mph. Classes 81 - 87 were originally fitted with cross arm pans. I can certainly remember loads had them in the 1980s, before the single arm Stone Favierley pans became the norm.
It was my era. Still see lots of BR Blue on locos. So many different locos back then. It's a bit boring now by comparison, although still a few Class 37 Tractors spurting out black smoke for some freight operators.
..Great vid'...many nice old classics there...shame you cannot read yhe numbers on many of them due to ancient type film....31's @ Paddy..got to be rare...!!!.
@@johnmills48 surely not the Class 59, the 47 with the Scotty Dog and the 56 in RailFrejght grey, large logo blue liveried Class 47 and locomotives with sealed beam headlights? All are definitely 1980s.
Headcodes were used until 1976, lots of these trains are filmed from the 1970s, which is what it says in the title. The 'Peak' at 14:46 is number 142, which is pre-TOPS numbering before 1974 onwards!!!!
Some bits pre-date the mid 1980s. Class 52 Westerns ended their mainline career (except for charters, after the Preserved Diesel Ban was lifted) in 1977.
Good choice. I was brought up on Class 47s, even having a few for cabride. But for accelerating, nothing beats a Class 45 with their five field diverts, allowing them to notch up quicker. I have also got 115mph out of a Class 45 on a few occasions.
Class 47 dragging failed HST into Reading...quite a common sight on some 1980s hot summer days before BR managed to sort out their cooling systems. Shunters and traincrews soon got used to deploying the short-bar emergency couplers!
important historical record
Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
Plenty of 1980s footage here - large logo livery, depotsymbols and headlamps are the big give away. Also the Class 59 and InterCity executive and RailFreight grey.
Well yeah he did say that this was filmed in the 70s and 80s
Excellent History/Nostalgia, them wert' days !
33 years of non-citizenship due to innocent journey.
Good old days....Great footage, thankyou for sharing.
Love these old locomotives
I enjoyed the footage, especially the 31/47 double header at Peterborough (I thought the 47 was dead in train, but then I saw the exhaust plume). I wonder where it was heading? My only criticism is with the projector noise, it gets a bit tedious after a while. I undstand that there was no sound on the footage! But it's a pity you didn't put any captions in or commentry to lets us known where the footage was shot or any other information you still have on the footage.
Just turn the sound down.
Wow, many thanks for sharing.
4:47 and I learned something about class 87 pantographs, I never knew they had this cross type, I only ever knew them to have the high speed type.
Oh yes. I think the Bracknell-Willis high speed pan, was given to the 87s when their maximum permitted speed was raised from 100mph to 110mph. The three Class 86/1s also had Bracknell-Willis pans as they too, were passed for 110mph. Classes 81 - 87 were originally fitted with cross arm pans. I can certainly remember loads had them in the 1980s, before the single arm Stone Favierley pans became the norm.
Awesome footage, many thanks!
nice video, the projector noise is like you are standing close to an idling class 25 jaja
Those were the days indeed!
It was my era. Still see lots of BR Blue on locos. So many different locos back then. It's a bit boring now by comparison, although still a few Class 37 Tractors spurting out black smoke for some freight operators.
I agree that the modern scene is quite boring - in and around London, it's nearly class 66 all the way with a few 90s handling the electric haulage
Bristol Bath Road brings back so many memories.......
1M34 leaving Glasgow Central for London Euston via Trent Vally lines.
nice view of the swindon works
Awesome footage from a cine! Enjoyed.
Does look it it was pre video. My dad had a cine camera and playing it back on the projector would have sounded like this !
Fantastic. Brought back some happy memories.
..Great vid'...many nice old classics there...shame you cannot read yhe numbers on many of them due to ancient type film....31's @ Paddy..got to be rare...!!!.
412 414 used to live at ooc and padd ecs between the two. Always there at ooc when ever we went
Lovely to see :) What are the blue wagons behind the locos on some of the passenger trains used for ?
Daytona parcels, unless brand MotoRail, then they carry cars (the owners would be on the train).
Not silent is it?
Love it
47494 still in green !!!
Was this actually shot on film or have you put a filter on it? If it's video, please upload an original version.
It literally says in the description that it is shot on Super 8 fine film.
Not a voyager in sight! 😏
Mid Eighties surely
Bristol area at the beginning is definitely mid 80's, but the rest is 70's. Fantastic stuff, brought back a few memories.
@@johnmills48 surely not the Class 59, the 47 with the Scotty Dog and the 56 in RailFrejght grey, large logo blue liveried Class 47 and locomotives with sealed beam headlights? All are definitely 1980s.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 Agreed all those are 1980's, but the footage of the Western at Paddington around 5 minutes in is deffo 1970's.
Headcodes were used until 1976, lots of these trains are filmed from the 1970s, which is what it says in the title. The 'Peak' at 14:46 is number 142, which is pre-TOPS numbering before 1974 onwards!!!!
Some bits pre-date the mid 1980s. Class 52 Westerns ended their mainline career (except for charters, after the Preserved Diesel Ban was lifted) in 1977.
I'd forgotten just how dirty and grimey British Rail was back in the 1970s, all part of it's character I suppose.
It's not the 1970s though
00:25 Lawrence Hill?? Looks familiar......
47 Class best in Diesel
Good choice. I was brought up on Class 47s, even having a few for cabride. But for accelerating, nothing beats a Class 45 with their five field diverts, allowing them to notch up quicker. I have also got 115mph out of a Class 45 on a few occasions.
brings a lump to ya throat!
Agree