I once thought I'd never feel nostalgic for diesel locos, but given today's diet of Voyagers and Pendolinos, it would be great to see these in action again! The yard looks very well organised and efficient, and I think you were very lucky to be allowed to wander round and film as you did. I'm glad you did, and produce this excellent short film. Thanks for posting it.
I'm a closet train spotter and my interest in Operation Smash Hit led to me becoming aware of Vic Berry, which led me to your video. A great bit of nostalgia shared with us all. Thanks.
Hello, Thanks for viewing and comment. The yard has gone now but we do have an excellant collection of vintage locomotves on various sites around the country
Sure is great that we have preserved some diesels as well as steam. Each diesel has it's own distinctive sound and hopefully our youngsters will appreciate them when the get older. Thanks for comment
Thanks for posting this footage. Whilst it's not glamorous, it's still a very important part of our railway heritage. Interesting that they would only allow you to film during their lunch break. Much less to do with "health and safety".... much more to do with the fact they were tearing up old locos!
It was sad for me to see the Class 27s and one or two Class 26s there. I had left the railway service by 1987 and never knew what happened to them. In the 1970s I was a Goods Guard, first at Cadder Yard , and later at Sighthill in Glasgow. Some time around 1970 all the Sulzer 26s and 27s were transferred to Scottish Region. Apart from about a dozen push-pull fitted engines for working the Edinburgh-Glasgow expresses, which were based at Haymarket, all the Class 27s were allocated to Eastfield. As I worked overwhelmingly with Eastfield drivers, and mainly with Eastfield locomotives, I have probably worked with every one of those Class 27s in your video. Though I knew that most had now been scrapped, it was sort of sad to see their fate. I have many memories of those engines and the men who drove them. We occasionally got Class 25's but they were quite rare in comparison. At that time I was in the cab of at least one Class 27 almost every working day. I liked the Sulzers as we called them. They seemed nice modern locomotives with roomy cabs (at least compared to 24s and 25s). I especially remember the big black plastic-covered throttle handles. I felt sorry for the push-pull engines though. They were run into the ground trying to maintain a 43 minute timing on the Edinburgh-Glasgow trains (45 minutes with a stop at Falkirk High) all day every day. The Sulzers were never built to run at 90 m.p.h. all day every day, and it took it out of them. When you sat in the cab of one of those engines you knew it was a push pull engine because half the screws that held the instruments in place were missing. The constant vibration worked them loose! The Class 27s were eventually replaced on the push-pulls by Class 47s and Mk 3 coaches, using a driving trailer instead of an engine at each end. I suspect the push-pull Sulzers were among the first to be scrapped. The Sulzers did much better in ordinary mixed traffic service pulling "normal" passenger and freight trains. Another correspondent says that it isn't really sad because these trains were replaced by newer stock. That is largely true of the DMUs, but the 26s and 27s were never really replaced. To some extent they were replaced in passenger service by sprinters and Turbostars (though it is debateable whether a two- or three-coach multiple unit train with one or two toilets in the whole train, is really a replacement for a 6 or 7 coach loco-hauled train with two toilets in every coach). But the real reason why so many 25s and 27s were withdrawn at this time was that the railway completely pulled out of the wagon-load freight market, including the modern "Speedlink" air-braked service. By opting only to run full trainload block freight trains, the railway tied its freight fate firmly to Britain's declining heavy industry, leaving the high value high rate freight entirely to road hauliers. With the imminent demise of power station coal, the British freight train will soon almost be a thing of the past. That's what really makes the s sight of all these locomotives being scrapped so sad. And the fact that I spent a decade of my life trying to run a freight service that the senior management didn't think was worth keeping.
How interesting to read this. Magic memories eh. I can remember at age about 10 years the first 2 cdiesels..10.000 and 10.001 coming in to Luton where I lived in 1947. Thanks for your story. There is another video on my site. of Diesels waiting for scrap at March depot
L.M.S. 10000. Arguably the most significant British locomotive since Stephenson's Rocket. The one that really pointed the way that things were going to go. I never saw it, but then I'm a few years younger than you, and lived in solid ex-N.B. / ex-L.N.E.R. territory. I remember observing that most locomotives I saw had numbers beginning with 6. (It meant they were ex-L.N.E.R. engines.) My first sight of a diesel was in 1957 when we travelled in a then-new DMU from Edinburgh (Waverley) to Eskbank and back. The trains were probably running to and from Galashiels via Peebles, but I can't be sure -- I was only 5 or 6 at the time. I think I've still got the tickets. The failure to preserve L.M.S. 10000 is I think the biggest omission in British railway preservation, especially today, when so many representatives of comparatively insignificant classes, can be found on our preserved railways. I mean insignificant in terms of locomotive design, and its influence on the future. In British terms, L.M.S. 10000 was a ground-breaking design; in 1947 most people still thought the future lay with steam. 10000 was withdrawn and scrapped in the 1960s at a time when the fledgling enthusiast preservation movement was scrabbling around trying to save some of the thousands of modern steam locomotives that were being withdrawn at a prodigious rate, so I can't really blame them for not saving a diesel. L.M.S. 10000 should have been part of the national collection, but at the time British Rail was busy denying that it had any history at all. That something might be modern and historical at the same time was quite beyond them. It seems to have been thought that the prototype Deltic had been preserved, and one prototype diesel was enough. But 10000 was the first one, not Deltic. It's scrapping still leaves a glaring hole in our collection of historic locomotives. Well, they recently built a new A1(Tornado) the originals all having been broken up in that 1960s scrapping frenzy. I wonder if enough drawings and specifications exist to build a replica 10000. Diesel locomotives are far more complex than steam engines, so it wouldn't be easy. Maybe a project for the next millennium on the year 3000? I don't think we'll be around to see it. ;)
What brilliant outstanding footage ,,, a remarkable sight ,,,, very sad in many ways ,,, but wonderful you had the presence of mind to film them ,,,,, thank you ,,,,
I remember when Vic Berry had all the Peaks there before they had the huge fire. Leicester is my home town, and had many a good time on the line that runs over the Saffron lane when I was a young lad.
I have a soft spot for old locomotives. Vintage BR diesels just have some charm to them you can't find on any other road. I may be American, home of some of the most popularly modeled and discussed railroads, but some of my favorite trains belong to lines in places I may never visit in my lifetime.
This video takes me back,we used to take our railway lorries here for servicing,well just around the yard a bit.Such a shame to see these scenes again.Chris.
Reminds me of when I worked at The Carriage and Wagon works Derby. We would have two massive cranes loading a new coach going overseas for export onto a low loader with a team of six or more men, and a man on his own with Vic Berry's low loader loading a scrap coach onto it. Single handed no cranes just a winch cable and some times he would use the tractor unit with a tow line to pull the coach onto the low loader!
+SMILEVIDEOTRAINS health and safety has ruined a lot of thing's then you get people say the amount of lives all the knew rule's have saved is in thousands ?? I did like the 80s-,90s they do take the rules to far sometimes like police officers can't jump in to a river or canal to save anyone's life's mad aye ?? I read 18 police officers men and women where told by there boss who was with them too not go in water to look for young guy who sadly died ,it was all over paper's I couldn't believe not one broke the rules and just went in the water I just don't get what they must have been thinking about and there has been a lot more case's then you hear about police doing the right thing then losing there job's???? I don't get it ,sorry for going on lol
Thanks for that.Did some temporary work with the gas axe back in the day at Vics and down the road at Franks.I don't think there was one of us who didn't pretend to be a train driver at some time.Big boys toys.
Amazing video, my Primary School was right next to the West Coast mainline nr Wigan, and we all did some trainspotting as kids. I well remember a lot of these passing many times a day. 25ers, 31ers, 47ers, 37ers, 08 shunters on the slow lines, each with it's own distinctive sounds, Sulzer, Engish Electric etc Oil tankers, Coal wagons, Freightliners, Car transporters, Passenger coaches, all hauled by Diesel, and Electrics also. .Although it was sad to see them like this, it is a great video, thanks for uploading.
GBPaddling Thank you very much for your nice comment.. How you are reminiscing is the same as me when I was10 years and growing. We used to get the bus to Leighton Buzzard on the WCML and yell with delight when a steam Princess or Scot came through.. Lovely days they were. Thanks again
All those class 25's, what a shame. The Class 25 & Class 40 were my favourites growing up. I would love to see them on the main line again. The only way I see them running now is on my layout, which itself needs rebuilding after a house move back in 2020!!
fantastic film I was at school in Nuneaton at the time . everyday we would watch the trains go by our class room at etone perfect for spotting. then this happened our hobbie gone we would see lines and lines of 45's 25's pass the school and hometime's then the 26'27 came something we never had at Nuneaton at that time. the oddest we had where the 33's on the coalville openday specials:P. I seen these most Saturdays we would buy a rail rover ticket and head off to see them the stack was a sight to see and for a donation they let you in to wonder around and film um and if you found a nice staff member get inside them. thank you for shareing this memory of a film:P.
Very good indeed. Sad days they were.I went to the scrapyard twice. I gave Vic a copy of the video. Got three cabside numbers one of which is named. Thanks for dropping in.
That's not a bad idea is it, imagine the conversations, enquiries you'd have, rather than a she'd I suppose you could use the cab as a summer house, hook a compressor up to the horns and when the vino is low just honk for more.
Wow - what an astonishing sight - never seen a high-rise collection before. A few curtains up and the driving windows and they'd resemble a block of flats! Well done for getting onto the site to take this extraordinary footage! I've subscribed :)
Reminds me of the photos from the 1950s in Southern California when the Pacific Electric streetcars were piled up on Terminal Island (Los Angeles harbor area).
Great bit of railway history there captured for all time. I wonder what they went on to become. I know when I come back I want to become a lady's adult toy plaything. :)
WOW just think off all the kids that used to go train spotting and got them numbers ,also think of how many peeps they carried and how many miles they all coverd makes you think about things in a different way sad to see we get rid of stuff to replace it with junk .
A large pile of dead rats! Such a shame- there they sit like a neatly-stacked pile of Hornby shells. Thanks for sharing this little piece of modern railway history.
Saw this video years ago, didn't realise it was yours. Nice one. 25s were my favourite little workhorse locos. Seems strange they were withdrawn and scrapped en masse. Pretty sure they were all still serviceable. If you stop the video at 3.29, there's the remnants of what looks like a 37 cab !
Very sad to see the class 25 s at the start.I used to spot these in Manchester Victoria and Stockport and I loved the wonderful distinct sound of there engines.Happy memories.Sad to see but glad scenes like these have been recorded to show future generations.Thanks for sharing.Did an oil painting once of a class25 from my old photos at Stockport.Tried to do it justice as good as I could.Like the voice over the vid by the way.
Yes I agree with wot you say. Just had my 12 year old Mondeo Est; recycled due to rust.. Had done 140.000 miles and never had a new exhaust, battery , not even a lamp bulb.. Was really sad to see it go. Thank you for comment
As mentioned elswhere there are a number preserved. P'haps SHC could go to Carnforth and revamp one of the many loco's rotting away on WCR's site. Cheers
What a terrible waste, I have never, ever seen so many engines stacked up in that way before, such a shame, and so sad a sight to see. I know its only a small mercy, but least you captured it on film, otherwise people like myself would never have gotten to see such waste.
I remember this. I used to cycle from my home a few miles away along the Great Central Way to see all the locos and rolling destined for cutting. I also remember seeing the smoke from the fire which billowed out across a large part of Leicester. The next day the pictures in the local paper showed pictures of the fire damaged vehicles, many of which I believe contained asbestos. Now the site is a housing estate with virtually no indication that it ever existed.
Thats a very iconic sight Keith all those diesels stacked like that. But unlike the steamers at Barry none would have been saved. Good one. All the best.
01:38 I bet the Mark IV Ford Cortina, the Ford Escort and Rover SD1 are all long gone now as well... this was more than three decades ago! More than likely the replacements for most of the Class 25s/27s have been recycled by now too. The Class 101s (and similar DMUs) were likely replaced by Sprinter class units, many of which sadly still ply British railways...
I'm not particularly into trains but thought this was a really interesting short film. Great that some people take the time to create what are/will become important archives for the future.
Yes we do have a lot of old diesels and steam which are preserved. Some work on the natyional network, others on preserved railways. Thank you for viewing and comment
Not only railways, shipbuilding etc.. Like that song...I, I who have nothing by Shirley Bassey.. We have given everything away and now we are lost in the wilderness.. Just my opinion.
Remembering the good old slam door carriages. Them doors were solid with the slide down window.
Holy shit, class 25 genocide
I'm so pleased people like yourself took the time and effort to film the last days of these loco's, remember seeing these in the late 80's.
thank you
Your most welcome and thank you for comment
I once thought I'd never feel nostalgic for diesel locos, but given today's diet of Voyagers and Pendolinos, it would be great to see these in action again! The yard looks very well organised and efficient, and I think you were very lucky to be allowed to wander round and film as you did. I'm glad you did, and produce this excellent short film. Thanks for posting it.
SAD indeed. Here we are buying new loco's from overseas while many stand rusting away in our depot sidings. Thanks for viewing and comment
I'm a closet train spotter and my interest in Operation Smash Hit led to me becoming aware of Vic Berry, which led me to your video. A great bit of nostalgia shared with us all. Thanks.
Thank you
This is treasure. Absolute treasure. Thank you so much for uploading.
Thank you
Hello, Thanks for viewing and comment. The yard has gone now but we do have an excellant collection of vintage locomotves on various sites around the country
Sure is great that we have preserved some diesels as well as steam. Each diesel has it's own distinctive sound and hopefully our youngsters will appreciate them when the get older. Thanks for comment
Spot on. Sulzers totally different sound to English Electric, and Napiers Deltic in a class by itself.
This Isn't a scrap yard..... It's a slaughter yard!! Many thanks for sharing
Thanks for posting this footage. Whilst it's not glamorous, it's still a very important part of our railway heritage. Interesting that they would only allow you to film during their lunch break. Much less to do with "health and safety".... much more to do with the fact they were tearing up old locos!
It was sad for me to see the Class 27s and one or two Class 26s there. I had left the railway service by 1987 and never knew what happened to them. In the 1970s I was a Goods Guard, first at Cadder Yard , and later at Sighthill in Glasgow. Some time around 1970 all the Sulzer 26s and 27s were transferred to Scottish Region. Apart from about a dozen push-pull fitted engines for working the Edinburgh-Glasgow expresses, which were based at Haymarket, all the Class 27s were allocated to Eastfield. As I worked overwhelmingly with Eastfield drivers, and mainly with Eastfield locomotives, I have probably worked with every one of those Class 27s in your video. Though I knew that most had now been scrapped, it was sort of sad to see their fate. I have many memories of those engines and the men who drove them. We occasionally got Class 25's but they were quite rare in comparison. At that time I was in the cab of at least one Class 27 almost every working day. I liked the Sulzers as we called them. They seemed nice modern locomotives with roomy cabs (at least compared to 24s and 25s). I especially remember the big black plastic-covered throttle handles. I felt sorry for the push-pull engines though. They were run into the ground trying to maintain a 43 minute timing on the Edinburgh-Glasgow trains (45 minutes with a stop at Falkirk High) all day every day. The Sulzers were never built to run at 90 m.p.h. all day every day, and it took it out of them. When you sat in the cab of one of those engines you knew it was a push pull engine because half the screws that held the instruments in place were missing. The constant vibration worked them loose! The Class 27s were eventually replaced on the push-pulls by Class 47s and Mk 3 coaches, using a driving trailer instead of an engine at each end. I suspect the push-pull Sulzers were among the first to be scrapped. The Sulzers did much better in ordinary mixed traffic service pulling "normal" passenger and freight trains. Another correspondent says that it isn't really sad because these trains were replaced by newer stock. That is largely true of the DMUs, but the 26s and 27s were never really replaced. To some extent they were replaced in passenger service by sprinters and Turbostars (though it is debateable whether a two- or three-coach multiple unit train with one or two toilets in the whole train, is really a replacement for a 6 or 7 coach loco-hauled train with two toilets in every coach). But the real reason why so many 25s and 27s were withdrawn at this time was that the railway completely pulled out of the wagon-load freight market, including the modern "Speedlink" air-braked service. By opting only to run full trainload block freight trains, the railway tied its freight fate firmly to Britain's declining heavy industry, leaving the high value high rate freight entirely to road hauliers. With the imminent demise of power station coal, the British freight train will soon almost be a thing of the past. That's what really makes the s sight of all these locomotives being scrapped so sad. And the fact that I spent a decade of my life trying to run a freight service that the senior management didn't think was worth keeping.
How interesting to read this. Magic memories eh. I can remember at age about 10 years the first 2 cdiesels..10.000 and 10.001 coming in to Luton where I lived in 1947. Thanks for your story. There is another video on my site. of Diesels waiting for scrap at March depot
L.M.S. 10000. Arguably the most significant British locomotive since Stephenson's Rocket. The one that really pointed the way that things were going to go. I never saw it, but then I'm a few years younger than you, and lived in solid ex-N.B. / ex-L.N.E.R. territory. I remember observing that most locomotives I saw had numbers beginning with 6. (It meant they were ex-L.N.E.R. engines.) My first sight of a diesel was in 1957 when we travelled in a then-new DMU from Edinburgh (Waverley) to Eskbank and back. The trains were probably running to and from Galashiels via Peebles, but I can't be sure -- I was only 5 or 6 at the time. I think I've still got the tickets. The failure to preserve L.M.S. 10000 is I think the biggest omission in British railway preservation, especially today, when so many representatives of comparatively insignificant classes, can be found on our preserved railways. I mean insignificant in terms of locomotive design, and its influence on the future. In British terms, L.M.S. 10000 was a ground-breaking design; in 1947 most people still thought the future lay with steam. 10000 was withdrawn and scrapped in the 1960s at a time when the fledgling enthusiast preservation movement was scrabbling around trying to save some of the thousands of modern steam locomotives that were being withdrawn at a prodigious rate, so I can't really blame them for not saving a diesel. L.M.S. 10000 should have been part of the national collection, but at the time British Rail was busy denying that it had any history at all. That something might be modern and historical at the same time was quite beyond them. It seems to have been thought that the prototype Deltic had been preserved, and one prototype diesel was enough. But 10000 was the first one, not Deltic. It's scrapping still leaves a glaring hole in our collection of historic locomotives. Well, they recently built a new A1(Tornado) the originals all having been broken up in that 1960s scrapping frenzy. I wonder if enough drawings and specifications exist to build a replica 10000. Diesel locomotives are far more complex than steam engines, so it wouldn't be easy. Maybe a project for the next millennium on the year 3000? I don't think we'll be around to see it. ;)
Yes mate.. Your right.. Thanks for viewing and comment
Thank you for viewing and commenting
What brilliant outstanding footage ,,, a remarkable sight ,,,, very sad in many ways ,,, but wonderful you had the presence of mind to film them ,,,,, thank you ,,,,
***** Thank you very much
Just found this 1, looks like you started about the same time as I did. Keeps us going!
Probably melted the metal and made cars to clog up the roads. lol
Yup and scrap merchants take anything
I remember when Vic Berry had all the Peaks there before they had the huge fire.
Leicester is my home town, and had many a good time on the line that runs over the Saffron lane when I was a young lad.
john pepper Happy memories then.. Thanks for comment
A sad sight for sure, i remember watching them go by when i lived in barking essex, thanks for posting this.
Sad day for the class 25, great day for Vic Berry
+wertrocks123 Agree..Thanks
Thank you for viewing and comment. I guess everything goes for scrap in the end...including us........!!
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I love the class 25's
Why did they scrap nearly everything ??? I believe there is a 25 on NYMR and one on MNR.. Check out fleet lists.
I just want to take one for my self and preserve it!, but I think it's a bit late.
Dont think anyone's mentioned that. Very good point
Aww. Very good.. Like it
Very nice indeed.. My young days was a steamy affair, Thank you
What a sad sight.....Such fine looking shapes, I would have loved to get a cabin at least, sadly this is before my time.
+Ellie Flint Thanks.
I have a soft spot for old locomotives. Vintage BR diesels just have some charm to them you can't find on any other road. I may be American, home of some of the most popularly modeled and discussed railroads, but some of my favorite trains belong to lines in places I may never visit in my lifetime.
There is one on the North Norfolk Railway - 25057 (D5207)
That will be a great film to look back on. Good job!
This video takes me back,we used to take our railway lorries here for servicing,well just around the yard a bit.Such a shame to see these scenes again.Chris.
Reminds me of when I worked at The Carriage and Wagon works Derby. We would have two massive cranes loading a new coach going overseas for export onto a low loader with a team of six or more men, and a man on his own with Vic Berry's low loader loading a scrap coach onto it. Single handed no cranes just a winch cable and some times he would use the tractor unit with a tow line to pull the coach onto the low loader!
Very interesting. Never happen now with all our health n safety regulations
+SMILEVIDEOTRAINS health and safety has ruined a lot of thing's then you get people say the amount of lives all the knew rule's have saved is in thousands ?? I did like the 80s-,90s they do take the rules to far sometimes like police officers can't jump in to a river or canal to save anyone's life's mad aye ?? I read 18 police officers men and women where told by there boss who was with them too not go in water to look for young guy who sadly died ,it was all over paper's I couldn't believe not one broke the rules and just went in the water I just don't get what they must have been thinking about and there has been a lot more case's then you hear about police doing the right thing then losing there job's???? I don't get it ,sorry for going on lol
If they were still in use we would probably be saying"ITS ABOUT TIME THESE OLD THINGS WERE REPLACED"
HAHAHA..You're probably right.
SMILEVIDEOTRAINS Were there any steam engines?
juliet7p1 Steam loco's were withdrawn in the 60's but a lot were preserved and are still running today
SMILEVIDEOTRAINS Do you know if there are still any billington e2-class 0-6-0t still left in the world?
juliet7p1 Best thing is to type the name in your search engine and see what comes up.
I only said to June last night if we had not proceeded with manufacturing metal we'd still be going shopping in chariots. lol
Thanks for that.Did some temporary work with the gas axe back in the day at Vics and down the road at Franks.I don't think there was one of us who didn't pretend to be a train driver at some time.Big boys toys.
Awwww. Lovely. Cheers
Amazing video, my Primary School was right next to the West Coast mainline nr Wigan, and we all did some trainspotting as kids. I well remember a lot of these passing many times a day. 25ers, 31ers, 47ers, 37ers, 08 shunters on the slow lines, each with it's own distinctive sounds, Sulzer, Engish Electric etc Oil tankers, Coal wagons, Freightliners, Car transporters, Passenger coaches, all hauled by Diesel, and Electrics also. .Although it was sad to see them like this, it is a great video, thanks for uploading.
GBPaddling Thank you very much for your nice comment.. How you are reminiscing is the same as me when I was10 years and growing. We used to get the bus to Leighton Buzzard on the WCML and yell with delight when a steam Princess or Scot came through.. Lovely days they were. Thanks again
Those class 25's so much of them....
All those class 25's, what a shame. The Class 25 & Class 40 were my favourites growing up. I would love to see them on the main line again. The only way I see them running now is on my layout, which itself needs rebuilding after a house move back in 2020!!
Thank you
Très intéressant: Merci beaucoup!
+Tamycoladelyves Gonnet-Nguyen Thank you
fantastic film I was at school in Nuneaton at the time . everyday we would watch the trains go by our class room at etone perfect for spotting. then this happened our hobbie gone we would see lines and lines of 45's 25's pass the school and hometime's then the 26'27 came something we never had at Nuneaton at that time. the oddest we had where the 33's on the coalville openday specials:P. I seen these most Saturdays we would buy a rail rover ticket and head off to see them the stack was a sight to see and for a donation they let you in to wonder around and film um and if you found a nice staff member get inside them.
thank you for shareing this memory of a film:P.
Very good indeed. Sad days they were.I went to the scrapyard twice. I gave Vic a copy of the video. Got three cabside numbers one of which is named. Thanks for dropping in.
Would love one of those cabs as a feature in the garden :)
ELPaso1990TX Wot a brilliant idea.....
That's not a bad idea is it, imagine the conversations, enquiries you'd have, rather than a she'd I suppose you could use the cab as a summer house, hook a compressor up to the horns and when the vino is low just honk for more.
Dave Howe apologies as I've noticed that this silly HTC is auto correcting my text it was ment to say shed but the phone thinks she'd?
Agreed. Thank you
Very entertaining video. Always wanted to go there and have a look round. Thanks for posting
Nick Allen Thank you for viewing
Wow - what an astonishing sight - never seen a high-rise collection before. A few curtains up and the driving windows and they'd resemble a block of flats! Well done for getting onto the site to take this extraordinary footage! I've subscribed :)
+Brian Seaman Awww. Thank you very much.
Oh dear a train lover doesnt enjoy watching stuff like this
such a sad sight, thanks for posting this video and thanks for filming it to
+adam reeve Thank you,, So glad that we have preservation societies.
Reminds me of the photos from the 1950s in Southern California when the Pacific Electric streetcars were piled up on Terminal Island (Los Angeles harbor area).
Great bit of railway history there captured for all time. I wonder what they went on to become. I know when I come back I want to become a lady's adult toy plaything. :)
WOW just think off all the kids that used to go train spotting and got them numbers ,also think of how many peeps they carried and how many miles they all coverd makes you think about things in a different way sad to see we get rid of stuff to replace it with junk .
S Williams I'm with you all the way. Thanks
yes! Would rather it have been full with Pendolinos :-)
A large pile of dead rats!
Such a shame- there they sit like a neatly-stacked pile of Hornby shells. Thanks for sharing this little piece of modern railway history.
Congratulations on reaching 100,000+ dad, amazing! Thanks to all whom enjoy looking,
Thank you my big son
OOO' thats interesting. Thank you
Saw this video years ago, didn't realise it was yours. Nice one.
25s were my favourite little workhorse locos. Seems strange they were withdrawn and scrapped en masse. Pretty sure they were all still serviceable.
If you stop the video at 3.29, there's the remnants of what looks like a 37 cab !
Golly I was only 50 years then. THANK YOU
Yeah so would I. Thanks
I agree and it's happening all the time all over the world.. To everything, not just trains/.
5:59 I can see That Class 25 with black frame between the windows at front, I miss that Class 25095
nice you recognise. Avery sad day when I visited the scrap yard.
@@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS Why all these locomotives were stack what they going to do with it?
@@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS My Friend Visited there
This video takes then "smile" out of "smilevideotrains" 😂😂
Go along with that mate
Very sad to see the class 25 s at the start.I used to spot these in Manchester Victoria and Stockport and I loved the wonderful distinct sound of there engines.Happy memories.Sad to see but glad scenes like these have been recorded to show future generations.Thanks for sharing.Did an oil painting once of a class25 from my old photos at Stockport.Tried to do it justice as good as I could.Like the voice over the vid by the way.
Amazing..Dont think anyone else has noticed that..Thanks
No mate.. Caught fire some years ago.
@harryenfielduk1 I'm very pleased about that. Nice of you to comment. Thank you
Incredible that a coach supported a dozen or so more lain along all its roof.
I will be very gutted when we see all the HSTs all stacked up like this.
Hell, so will I. I just love the HST's.
Yes I agree with wot you say. Just had my 12 year old Mondeo Est; recycled due to rust.. Had done 140.000 miles and never had a new exhaust, battery , not even a lamp bulb.. Was really sad to see it go. Thank you for comment
As mentioned elswhere there are a number preserved. P'haps SHC could go to Carnforth and revamp one of the many loco's rotting away on WCR's site. Cheers
What a terrible waste, I have never, ever seen so many engines stacked up in that way before, such a shame, and so sad a sight to see.
I know its only a small mercy, but least you captured it on film, otherwise people like myself would never have gotten to see such waste.
Kind of ironic. A lorry sat waiting to take these old girls to their fate. :(
Was a day I'll never forget. Thank you
I remember playing in there as a kid!
Alan Roberts Then health and safety arrived. Nice memories for you
Remember visiting there many times, a real shame its gone.
Piltdownpaul Yup.. Gone for good but I will never forget my visit.
Thanks for comment.. I went 2 or 3 times and have 3 diesel cab side numbers.
Dont know
I remember this. I used to cycle from my home a few miles away along the Great Central Way to see all the locos and rolling destined for cutting. I also remember seeing the smoke from the fire which billowed out across a large part of Leicester. The next day the pictures in the local paper showed pictures of the fire damaged vehicles, many of which I believe contained asbestos. Now the site is a housing estate with virtually no indication that it ever existed.
Thats a very iconic sight Keith all those diesels stacked like that. But unlike the steamers at Barry none would have been saved. Good one. All the best.
Very many thanks Ben
01:38 I bet the Mark IV Ford Cortina, the Ford Escort and Rover SD1 are all long gone now as well... this was more than three decades ago! More than likely the replacements for most of the Class 25s/27s have been recycled by now too. The Class 101s (and similar DMUs) were likely replaced by Sprinter class units, many of which sadly still ply British railways...
Hi. Very impressive film.
Thanks for sharing, not all of them can be saved though, Atleast we can visit preserved lines and hear their engines working & see clag. ;-)
Many thanks for your kind comments. Pleased the video brought back some memories for you
With a crane I would think
I'm not particularly into trains but thought this was a really interesting short film. Great that some people take the time to create what are/will become important archives for the future.
Thank goodness that we still have some of these classes running
thankyou fo the info;
Thank you very much my friend. I visited the yard 3 times and have loco numbers which were cut off , They now are in my loft together with photo's.
Quite sad sight to see. Glad some have been saved for posterity. I suppose we can't save them all, can we?
An ever changing world I guess. Once it was chariots, wonder if they preserved a few of them lol
Yes we do have a lot of old diesels and steam which are preserved. Some work on the natyional network, others on preserved railways. Thank you for viewing and comment
Very complimentry..I thank you
super video my friend
Looks like an episode of the kids tv show 'Horrible History' Keith! Good video and documenting a sad part of railway history.
Great clip!
wow what a sight!
Indeed it is. Thanks for looking
Not only railways, shipbuilding etc.. Like that song...I, I who have nothing by Shirley Bassey.. We have given everything away and now we are lost in the wilderness.. Just my opinion.
You are welcome mate. Thanks for comment
Thanks for looking.
What a shame all those DMUs going for scrap loved the sound those trains made
Thank you for view and comment.
Glad you ''sort of'' enjoyed the sad sight. Thanks for viewing and comment
Excellent!!
I thank you
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There is a working class 25 at GCR Ruddington. D7629 and is privately owned. Thanks for view and comment