British Rail West Country-Exeter St Davids with Network SouthEast & InterCity October 1990
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- Back to October 1990 and some Network SouthEast, Inter-City & parcels workings at Exeter St Davids. Plenty of loco action with classes 08, 47, 50, Inter-City 125 HST and a Met Cam class 101 DMU seen. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!
Lovely Soi. The days when travelling by train was civilised.
And when Exeter was a busy place with always something of interest happening......
God I miss the 90s
3:15 Literally Superb.....also love the way the Stabling Point looks like one of a thousand OO model railway layouts!
Great memories as usual:-)
My weren't the Hoovers looking knackered.
@@annescholey6546 The NSE fifties were in the best condition- you should have seen the blue smoke from the departmental DCWA pool of hoovers around at the time- especially St Vincent, Courageous, Valiant and of course Ajax- RIP:-((
My pleasure.....
I have some of them on film at this time, and yes they looked rough! Occassionally they would get borrowed for a run to Waterloo, although technically 60mph departmental locos at this point, it wasn't a physical restriction and they could still storm along!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 50004 was my fave- I remember seeing St Vincent power through the centre road at Temple Meads on a train of knackered Dogfish wagons and two hours later the blue smoke was still inside the canopy!!!
Please upload any videos you have of the DCWA pool as they were the ultimate beasts!!!
Oh the Valenta, what a start! Thanks for posting.
My pleasure....that was a good storming run out of the platform, that's for sure!
Great video!
Thank you.......
That was quite a busy little evening. 47833 of course, later repainted in not terribly convincing two-tone green and named Captain Peter Manisty R.N. 50002 looking rather oil stained, lasted another year before it was withdrawn.
Back then Exeter was a good spot for train action. In the late evening you also the Edinburgh/Glasgow Sleepers that ran from Plymouth as well as later on the Padd Sleeper....
It's never a Classic clip without a Class 08 in it. One wonders how long lasting ubiquitous all-rounders like them seem to bring a certain characteristic charm with them.
Yes, i always liked to get a Gronk or two in action where i could, a lot of the work they did has steadily been lost to the railway since their construction!
Another Cracking video sir, thank you kindly for sharing . As Jonahs mentioned, the Valenta at the start!! Ooooft!!
I think the driver may well have thrashed up well for the camera....top man!
This is great. I live near Exeter and it brings back the sights and sounds of getting the train as a kid. Nice one
Thank you......
The sound of an HST blasting off takes me back.
That's how i remember HST's.....storming out of a station, Valenta's on full bore!.....
The HST sounds awesome on my sound system!
A Valanta on full bore always sounds good!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus You're not wrong there, could listen to those all day everyday..
Pure hell fire!
Exeter was always good for action back in these days......
Excellent railway video as always Soi Buakhao.
Thank you.....
Some classic mainline traction here & plus even a Gronk! Thks for sharing.
My pleasure......i always like to film a bit of Gronk action wherever i could.....
Another loco on my layout appears on a video. 47474. Great video from Exeter once again!
Yes I had the Lima model of 47474 in this livery from Christmas 1990 until I left home in 2017.
@@danielsellers8707 mine is the Bachmann version
Thank you......
My phone's speakers don't do the Paxman Valenta 12RP200L any justice! I miss the pure attack on the senses, those engines gave you at full load !😊
Yes, the driver on that HST really gave it some welly as he left.....The new engines just don't do it.......
Some more interesting Gen that I've researched First Gen DMU's were withdrawn from here on 21st May 1993 being replaced by sprinter DMU's.
The loco hauled sets on the Waterloo-Exeter were replaced by Class 159's which first entered service on 10th June 1993 and the last loco hauled train ran on that line exactly 1 month later if somebody could clarify this .
I thought the 159s came in earlier than that, although it was 1993 when they arrived? It was just odd workings that they took over, sometimes in 9 car formations.
Oh for a Delorean to change history and prevent Virgins crummy non trains from spoiling the fun😃
Exeter is in the southwest