Railway Scenes at Poole in the 1980's
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- čas přidán 13. 03. 2019
- West to East across the Borough of Poole. Scenes :- (1) Hamworthy, New Quay, A "Truckline" Ferry arrives into Poole, (2) 09015 shunts wagons toward New Quay, (3) Hamworthy Goods Branch, old Poole station as 33052 "Ashford" departs with steel coil, (3) Hamworthy Junction, 47080 "Titan" comes up the goods branch as 2x4TC's propelled by a 33/1 arrive and depart, (4) Sterte, several views ... 47252 passes with empty oil tanks for Furzebrook, 33111 with "Channel Island Boat train", 33/1's 33109+33117 depart at to Weymouth, 73140 shunts "Presflo" cement wagons in Poole Yard. (4) High Street Level Crossing, 47444 departs with Inter-regional, (5) Baiter/Poole Park, several views .. 73103 passes light, 47286 with oil tanks from Furzebrook, 33011 with Presflo's for Westbury, u.i.d. 47 with Inter-regional service in 1977, 33+TC in 1977, fleeting glimpse of a 73 with Winfrith Nuclear Waste flask, 33009+33208 with oil tanks ex Furzebrook. (6) Parkstone Station, 33032 with TC's up working, 33006 with empty newspaper train, 47056 oil tanks ex Furzebrook going up as 33102 arrives with a down train, 33032 now with steel billets. (7) Branksome Station 2x4TC's +33/1 arrive up, 2xTC's propelled by 4Rep arrive down. Final scene, Class 33/1 passes with empties wagons from Hamworthy Goods.
Great bit of filming - great memories for me. I live in Derbyshire but my aunt lived at Parkstone. The times I've spent on Parkstone Station , at Poole Park, Poole Station and LCs in the 70s and 80s . Many happy family holidays which were spent between 'holiday' things and watching the 33's, 73's and 47's and the Channel Islands Boat Train going up the bank at 07.50 every morning! Wish I could bring it all back, mum, dad, aunts and uncles all now gone as well.....Thanks for memories of happy times!
Thank you for your kind comment. If the film does nothing else but provoke personal memories then it was worth putting it up on CZcams, glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
Poole power stations chimneys dominating the skyline
Lovely bit of film thanks for the memories
Great video, many thanks!
Great video. Used to work for Brittany Ferries. Great to see the old Truckline Coutances ferry at the beginning. Remember the freight trains coming in. Good old days.
Oh wow. Brought back some fond memories. Everything I know and love. Used to sit in my aunties back garden on Stert road and watch them shunt the yard. Thank you Colin. From Colin of Parkstone Goods fame.
Blimey that brings back memories, thanks Colin
all my memories in that film didnt want it to end thanks for sharing.
Yah, bring a couple of slam doors in.
@@alexjewell2351gawd what
@@f280ocr Yeah into a few loco's myself
Glad that you enjoyed watching the film, at the timing I was filming it all I never dreamt it would be seen by so many, the internet was way in the future ! Cheers
Great video.
OMG preslows ,thanks for posting
Excellent!!!!
If only I had a time machine to go back to these glorious times with all the Freight trains and slam door REPS and 4TCs and no Cross Country Voyagers.
Last time I caught a loco hauled train from Poole was September 1997 the Sunday Princess Diana was killed. I was on the Sunday morning Poole to Glasgow Central.
Brilliant footage crompton heaven 👍👍
Fantastic. To think also, just 20 years previous the S&D trains used to pound along here. The sight & sound of a 7f 280 with 10mk1s was incredible. As is every shot on this video. 👌🏼
Thank you for you kind comments, back in steam days I went to school by the railway line visible in the background at 6.30. All the 7F's plus multiple other goodies passed by, "we" thought it would never end ! Cheers.
Fantastic memories 😀 Did plenty of Man Picc/Poole cross country back in the 80s 😂 Push pull 33s heaven 👍🏻
To think I could have been down the road from Hamworthy in the base there around this time, its weird as a few short years earlier I used to talk with the Bournemouth train crews when I was lampsman up at Waterloo and now I live in Gillingham which back then the ESD trains were my duty to maintain and replenish lamps and stores and the 4SUB's still running in off the suburban lines had to have lamps as well. I thought I would live and die in my native south London and then I went to Hamworthy, then back to London and then in 92 moved back down to Bournemouth and pretty much been a Dorset chap ever since. My dad retired from BR and spent his last years as a signaller for Swanage Rly.
Colin you might like to know the branch has been tidied up, and although the port end is still cut off from the far end, theres been a Westbury Tarmac train in Realtime trains for 4montha now-many of us waiting to see when they start back down here
Hi Jason. Thank you for that, however I wouldn't hold your breath for anything heading down the Hamworthy branch any time soon ! But that said, I hope I'm wrong. Cheers
Great memories Colin- it was always exciting to see a named 47 on the inter- regional- do you remember which one is seen departing Poole over the level crossing?
Do you also remember seeing (if you were really lucky) a 74 struggling on diesel up Parkstone bank on the ‘02’ parcels- happy times in deed!
47444, that is
AndreiTupolev - Thanks I remember her well! 57310 came thru Poole yesterday- not quite the classic sound but still good to see:-)
Hampton Court MRS are building a model of Hamworthy (Jct) - albeit a little bit later than this film, if anyone has any photos that show the area around the station, particularly the cement terminal just around the corner down the branch, I'd love to see them. The location may be familiar to preservationists as there was a re-repatriated WD 8F (ex Turkish railways IIRC) briefly stored at the cement terminal for stripping and shot blasting.
33/0 hauling TCs? Very, very rare.
Not back it wasn't. Would love to see it again now.
it happened every day from Bournemouth to weymouth. Every service was practically like that . That must have stopped in the late 80s but it certainly was not rare
@@nickedwards2904 a non push-pull 33/0 certainly was
In my Navy diving days had 37/4 50 and 33/0 on 4TC that was 1984
Great old footage. Like how the crossing keeper only opened half the gates.
Thank you for the kind comments on the footage, that gate at Ashmore Avenue you refer to was awkward to open, it had got damaged in a gale some years earlier when it got blown back into a train. Cheers
Great video, Colin. Have you got any more footage?
Hi Aidan. A reply better late than never ! Sadly I've only a few more bits and pieces taken in Poole, probably not worth showing ? Once the Covid pandemic is sorted out I'll see if my mate who does the "technical stuff" i.e. editing and uploading can sort it out and add it in with a bit of nationwide archive cine film. Cheers
15:45 That was a slog! Those tankers were over 100 tons each fully laden weren't they.
nice video - did you shoot this on super 8 film?
Hi. Yes it was all shot on Super 8 film with a sound stripe, so the sounds are authentic, not dubbed. The oldest piece of film is at 13.08 of the 33 propelling a 4TC set away from Poole across Baiter, it was the first time I ever filmed and was a "practice" shoot prior to my third 1977 visit to South Africa. I later decided to film as much of the railway in Poole as I could, going right across the Borough from Hamworthy Goods to the then County Boundary at Branksome Woods. Just the less boring bits of film are spliced into this film, although some might suggest it is all boring! . I hope that answers your question. Cheers
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Very poignant watching the freight train go past Hamworthy Middle School around the 2 45 mark - I might even have been absent-mindedly staring out of my classroom window at it at that very moment!
Wonder what was in the "shocbarfits" near the beginning of the clip?
Coiled Sheet steel for a car factory near Swindon
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