Really interesting and sad at the same time. Living in Rugby, there was always people who you knew who had a relative who worked on the railway in some capacity or another, during the 1970's and 80's. I wish Rugby celebrated its railway heritage a lot more than it does.
Glad you lads had the foresight to film these scenes, I imagine some people thought you were mad or sad but you've captured a part of recent history that most of us would never have seen otherwise. Well done!
Glad you recorded this.Those look like class 27 cabs at 1.13.Takes me back to my spotting days in the eighties.It is sad to see but glad scenes like this have been recorded for others to see and share.I would like to do a tribute painting to places like these some day.Thanks for sharing.Enjoyed watching..
I used to walk past there in the 80's what a bloody mess, only a stones throw from Leicester City centre. Now it's housing I think. Look out for webbed feet and hairs on the palms of your hands.
Its sad to say but a large number of diesels needed to be scrapped because there aren't enough preserved railways to accommodate all of them and the costs of maintenance would be even higher and also the scrapped locos enable others to receive spare parts. I like all locomotives whether steam or diesel or electric and fortunate plenty of older locomotives are preserved
@MICKTHEMERC You're very welcome, it was a sad to see all the locomotives being cut and we had some fond memories too, we worked on most of these locomotives
Well at least some bits were saved, I managed to purchase from Viv two flame cut number panels 45064 and 45123. Thanks for sharing the memories, and as someone lese has put I guess there will soon be a place cutting up the 43s etc.
@CycolacFan Many thanks for the comments, surprisingly nobody made any comments at all, we travelled a few time to Vic Berrys and were made very welcome, it was only in the later days, when the idiots decided that they thought it was a play group, we included was stopped from going in, which is fair enough ! The video is only a clip from a 15 minute video I have. Also I have some other footage.
@MK55A well i know that steam was around befor the 1920's of course and when i say br blue era i mean the deisels of the time such as the deltic and im saying that these diesels carrers were very short compared to steam such as the 7f built in 1916 (i think) and used til 1960
@36blackout - having you been smoking a funny ! lol, steam was around well before 1920 and 'blue era diesels were painted blue in the 1960's ( can't remember any in the 1950's) anyway can't understand whats that to do with Vic Berry Scrapyard
36 years later and scenes like this still sicken me.
Really interesting and sad at the same time. Living in Rugby, there was always people who you knew who had a relative who worked on the railway in some capacity or another, during the 1970's and 80's. I wish Rugby celebrated its railway heritage a lot more than it does.
Many thanks for posting this, i have many stills but this captures the atmosphere so well, so sad, great piece of film, Mick.
Glad you lads had the foresight to film these scenes, I imagine some people thought you were mad or sad but you've captured a part of recent history that most of us would never have seen otherwise. Well done!
Glad you recorded this.Those look like class 27 cabs at 1.13.Takes me back to my spotting days in the eighties.It is sad to see but glad scenes like this have been recorded for others to see and share.I would like to do a tribute painting to places like these some day.Thanks for sharing.Enjoyed watching..
Many thanks for the comments and i'm glad you have enjoyed the footage - brings back a lot of memories to me also.
I used to walk past there in the 80's what a bloody mess, only a stones throw from Leicester City centre. Now it's housing I think. Look out for webbed feet and hairs on the palms of your hands.
Very interesting but very sad. Thanks for sharing
Its sad to say but a large number of diesels needed to be scrapped because there aren't enough preserved railways to accommodate all of them and the costs of maintenance would be even higher and also the scrapped locos enable others to receive spare parts. I like all locomotives whether steam or diesel or electric and fortunate plenty of older locomotives are preserved
@MICKTHEMERC
You're very welcome, it was a sad to see all the locomotives being cut and we had some fond memories too, we worked on most of these locomotives
Excellent vid mate..cheers Steve..
stestepney i have got ts 2015 you can get that loco on train simulator 2015
Well at least some bits were saved, I managed to purchase from Viv two flame cut number panels 45064 and 45123. Thanks for sharing the memories, and as someone lese has put I guess there will soon be a place cutting up the 43s etc.
@MK55A ...what did you do with the trains?? Did you break them up and sell the parts on? Interesting video!!
@CycolacFan Many thanks for the comments, surprisingly nobody made any comments at all, we travelled a few time to Vic Berrys and were made very welcome, it was only in the later days, when the idiots decided that they thought it was a play group, we included was stopped from going in, which is fair enough ! The video is only a clip from a 15 minute video I have. Also I have some other footage.
its sad to think that one day not to far in the future there will be a place like this full of class 43's :(
@Manofkent77 It is one of the IOW stock trains, I have a longer version on this footage and also photographs.
at 1m 58, is that one of the IOW stock Tube trains?
@MK55A well i know that steam was around befor the 1920's of course and when i say br blue era i mean the deisels of the time such as the deltic and im saying that these diesels carrers were very short compared to steam such as the 7f built in 1916 (i think) and used til 1960
Too many to keep in service, the expense
@36blackout - having you been smoking a funny ! lol, steam was around well before 1920 and 'blue era diesels were painted blue in the 1960's ( can't remember any in the 1950's) anyway can't understand whats that to do with Vic Berry Scrapyard
No these are English Electric Type 4 2,000hp Class 40's, The Deltics were Type 5 Class 55 at 3,500hp
@SONBoomer ?
Did he get put in prison.
@36blackout - OK
steam lasted around 1920-1960's Blue era deisels lasted 1950-1980's you do the counting
@coltsuperocean10
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, they will be cans and car bits now !
the is really sad no money to run :(
+the electronic man I'd have liked to go in the cabs and smash all the controls and break all the windows. I live scrapping things, I do !!
+heelfan1234 fucking pratt
Burley Ian
What is wrong with busting old crap up?
i hate diesel trains meeting how the steam trains end by scraping