More Memories of Trains on BR in the 1980's
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2021
- It has taken me quite some time to find this collection of clips which were hidden away in many old video tapes. It shows a good variety of Traction in eight different locations taken in the 1980's. I hope that you will find something of interest.
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Excellent video. No tedious introduction, no nasty music, no pausing the film to tell the viewer what they're about to see, just interesting footage. Nice one.
Wow, thanks! Glad you liked it.
It's probably been said a million times before but my god how I used to take all that for granted.
Me too. And how we miss it.
Agreed. What was the train at 17:30 all first class hauled by the 86? Also the next train made up of Mk1 Mk2a Mk2e and Mk3 lol
Even the rakes of carriages were interesting back then mk1s mk2s mk3s. Sometimes all in the same train. I love the peak in its unfinished paint work.
Brings back many happy memories when trains actually had comfortable seats and people weren’t obsessed with having on board Wi-Fi.
only need the wifi to text my girlfriend mate.
When trains didn’t have heating, or too much, when they were dirty as sin, when a sandwich was soggy and thin, when smoke filled the air and the staff didn’t care:)
@@billpugh58 When the trains were always late, and people full of hate.
Good times
Thanks for sharing your videos. Sadly I denied myself this hobby when younger due to peer pressure from a slightly macho sporting environment I found myself in. Wish I’d been more true to myself back then! Slightly sad I missed so much. Fantastic stuff.
Unfortunate
@@tranccefiend or self inflicted stupidity! Haha.
The next best thing to a time machine
Loved it
Thanks Rob
45107 at 20 minutes is Possibly the 3rd April 1986 Roy,i got a Photo of 45107 that day In Primer Condition and 37142 soon after,great video.
When I was growing up in the 70's I was train mad, there was, and still is a footbridge over the railway at Sworders field, Bishop's Stortford. My parents would struggle to get me away from it every time we went shopping. The thing is, I was never to confident with stairs when I was in single figures but I was obsessed with the footbridge. In the early days class 37's would come along and the bridge would vibrate to the beat of that deep throaty engine. I loved it, whilst being scared at the same time. Class 47's started to take over and the fear subsided, they were more gentle and the bridge didn't seem to shake as much.
I live about 1/2 hour away from Bishop's Stortford now and even though I'm getting close to 50 those memories are clear as yesterday. Now if I stood on that bridge the hum of the wires would be louder than the train
Sounds like an Ideal location for spotting edd, Glad the Video revived those memories.
Britain in the 70s. Lots to be proud of
Wonderful memories, thanks for sharing.
The message is if the town is boring get down to the nearest railway line
@3:12 nice to see the fly-ash service - so rarely witnessed... and how fondly I remember the 25/3s stabled in Euston, left idling for hours. Soon as you came down ramp you could hear that distinctive Sulzer "clonk, clonk, clonk" great days sorely missed
People say tha diesels don't have character but I love the different sounds the locos used to make
Is the uncredited location at 6:26 Great Chesterford ? Lovely video. Happy memories of Class 45s on the Midland Mainline, Class 151 on the usual Derby - Matlock, the occasional Class 81 / 85 on a WCML passenger, Class 47s on the Liverpool Street to Cambridge and Kings Lynn services (much missed !). Even the Class 305 would be nice today ! Sadly all taken for granted back then. Thanks for capturing these scenes for my generation to remember and for future generations to mourn the passing of a proper railway - loco hauled passenger and even some semaphore signals !
Fabulous footage !
Takes me right back to my spotting days in Atherstone and Nuneaton. To see those locations from my youth, it's unbelievable how everywhere has changed so much without realising. Another thing I notice when watching these archive films is the amazing lack of ballast around places like main line stations, never mind yards. The amount of remaining infrastructure from steam days also amazes, things we took entirely for granted in our youth.
Keep them coming, they are fantastic films and so appreciated. 👍
What a wonderful archive. 😊
Did any of us stop and realise how special that time was?
Well we maybe had a hidden inner feeling like that (it lasted until Thatcher,the riots,the war and the miners) OMG
@@tranccefiend I was a kid in the 80s. I never really understood why the words poll tax made so many people so angry.
There's not too much more in life than seeing a brush 4 approach you with lights on.Thanks for uploading rock on!😊
Excellent footage mate. More please.
There is not much more left now David, but I keep searching my Archive.
Superb Roy 😁👍
Thanks Andy
Immaculate permanent way. Nowadays the rail network is an overgrown garden.
It certainly is.
That was really lovely. Thanks for sharing :-)
Glad you enjoyed it Gary.
Nice footage. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you too
wonderful to see some old trains!
That takes me right back!
My train spotting days with my late father , I miss them days so much.
Glad it steered some Memories
Brilliant as always Roy! Your footage is a treasure trove into the past and provides much inspiration as I build my Dean Park layout. Cheers. Dave
Thank you so much, its good to know that they help with your Model railway.
Thank you so much Roy for sharing your many nostalgic videos! Brings back many happy memories of my childhood, watching these amazing locomotives thrash and clag along the western region mainline. The modern day Japanese locomotives lack the sound, look and character of these past beauties 😢
Glad you like them! Sheldon
I love these videos, I was leaving school and just getting interested in the railways then. Love to see the "then and now" videos...
Glad you like them!
I still think of this as yesterday , all these new liveries instead of BR blue . It was 35 years ago eeeek ! Wow what happened to that 45 at Derby !
Many thanks for taking the time and effort to post this. I particularly found the sight of the old tracks at Market Harborough to be very thought provoking....a real 'lost opportunity' in my humble opinion...
Another great 1980s film with lots of interest. Thanks for uploading.
My pleasure!
The good old days when there was something interesting to see, so dull by comparison nowadays.
Yes gone are the days when you went to the line side and wondered "What will I See today"!
First time I've ever seen or heard of the prototype class 151s. Video footage of 151001must be worth gold...
I've not seen any either Geoff.
Blimey! Reminds me of my almost weekly trips down to London and then onto Kent at that time!
This is absolutely amazing Roy. Great footage on what the railways used to be like :-)
Many thanks!
This is absolutely amazing Roy. Great coverage of British Railway in the 1980s. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for sharing you precious collection, it will help me no end with research for the building of my 1980's model railway. Some great footage from a bygone era. Cheers Graham👍
Glad to help Graham.
A flat crossing there in the very beginning. Only 1 of them left now on the entire network !
Back then we craved for the bygone age of pre Beeching cuts and thought the railways weren't the same. What we'd give now to go back to the 70s and 80s, mixed freight trains instead of the block formations of today of primarily containers or aggregates. The variety of locomotives on goods and passenger trains, multiple units being for local, rural or suburban services. Stations still had pilot locomotives and loco stabling points. And, best of all, the trains had windows you could open for fresh air, comfy seating that lined up with the windows, and on inter-city trains, a proper buffet.
Yes, those were the days Neil, if only we could open a window when we get on a train now.
Enjoying this😊
Once again, brilliant; many thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
This brings back happy memories. Days spent train spotting at New Street, Toton, Bescot, Saltley to name just a few
Glad it revived old memories Nick.
Superb video ,the Derby and Toton ones reminds ne of happy days at Leicester with the "cage brigade" and the Leicester Railway wagon society gand ,fond memories indeed
Brilliant footage, and of my birth town Bishops Stortford. Reminds me of yesterday and recognised it straight away. Also reminds me of the massive decline and lack of investment in the railways back then. The Car journey was mode of choice for the general public but the 125 turned it around... well, apart from Jimmy Savile doing the adverts.
Superb footage again! Many thanks for sharing .... and I love the livery of 45107 at Derby! Would make an interesting modelling weathering project! 👍
That would be cool!
Thanks Roy.
Glad you enjoyed it Graham
Thanks for sharing.
Great stuff, certainly stirs the memories. Thanks Roy.
Thank You Bryan,
Amazing footage, thanks for sharing Roy
Glad you enjoyed it Ben
Thank you for posting, brings back so many memories of spotting with my late father.
Glad to hear that
Great video. Happy memories. I'm definitely going to do a model of 45107!
Great video of classic locomotives.
Brilliant content and great photography, Roy. Thank you for posting. I liked your mix of stills shots, invaluble detail now given the passage of time...
Glad you enjoyed it
Fantastic compilation Roy,wonderful memories of how it used to be
Thank You Richard.
Another gem of a video Roy.
I don't think we realised at the time how run down the railway was compared to now. Those HST's were a bit of a life saver for the railway to build upon.
Yes, things were very run down at that time.
@@royharrison4122And yet had an irreplaceable charm and character.
Thanks Roy, very impressed to see Nuneaton getting in there. Asda had been built on the up yard site, but the down yard is still there in your footage.
Glad you enjoyed it, Iv'e not been to Nuneaton for a long time.
This is a great video 📹👏. Good to see a variety of trains, I model 1978 to 85 and although it's a little past that time it's still a valuable resource. Enjoyed it 👍😊
Thank you very much!
I only wished I was born earlier so I could of seen the good old days
Ahhh.....the days of BR blue, MGR's, jointed track and window stickers on doors so you could easily pinch them.
Fantastic.
12:45 Never seen an HST formation with Guard SO coaches at either end! Stock move????
Fantastic! Woukd be great if these films could be restored like they are doing with victorian stuff lately.
Excellent footage 👍
Many thanks!
excellent footage!
Thanks Tim.
Brilliant video. I'd love to know what the 25 is doing on that rake of Inter City coaches though.
Some of those consists on the WCML. BR unwittingly gave their passengers a big choice of accommodation. You could literally walk from an early MK2 corridor to a MK3 saloon and then to a later MK2 saloon.
Thanks for showing the full train as they go past. (loco & all the coaches). The formations are useful to know for modelling purposes. I hate it when the video moves onto something else after two or three coaches.
What might have seemed a bog-standard rake of WCML MK2s is now useful material for modelling the formations. Videoing all the rakes is useful for those non-standard rakes, like the one in the video with 47522.
I guess that was the European?
Great footage, brings back memories. Lovely livery on 45107 lol
Glad you enjoyed it
HST 125s on claterty-clack, clackerty-clack track lol. What a juxtaposition!
Nice video 👍👍😀. I've subscribed to your CZcams channel 😎👍
Another great selection from the BR days, thanks so much Roy.
The footage of the Class 151 must be pretty rare. That was an experimental train I believe. Wonder why they chose Pacers over that one which had proper bogies? Cost I suppose.
I really loved the sights and sounds of the electrics racing through Nuneaton in the rain. Also the sight and sounds of the old DMU's, particularly the Class 105 at Bishops Stortford.
You captured it all so well Roy - and thank you for posting your videos for us all to enjoy and re-live all the fond memories of British Rail.
All the best. Vivian.
Thank you Vivian, Glad you enjoy watching them,
It wasn't a case of pacers or 151s. The 151s were an alternate to the 150 sprinters but none standard spec and various issues meant they remained unique.
I like some of the old trains that were made up of a rag-tag collection of coaches. Great video 👍
Thank you very much!
Excellent video which brought back great memories. What would the 25 on MK2 air cons at Derby have been working. Surely not an MML train? Loved the original livery of HST power cars. Thanks for sharing this.
Not sure Alan, may have been just a stock movement.
I was so train mad I decided to leave school and do a apprenticeship with London Underground and became a driver , the fascination with trains be it electric steam diesel , the love affair goes on , went Canada aswel checked out the trains there , what a experience !
I always wanted to visit Canada but never have and its too late for me know.
@@royharrison4122 it’s never too late that’s what I thought but once your there trust me it’s worth every penny if you know where to go be it Alberta Toronto or British Columbia stunning views stunning trains
I used to go to school on the dmu out of bishops stortford
Terrific!
Thanks John.
Miss the sight sound and smell of the 304's up and down the Styal line between Manchester and Crewe.
So much reclaimed for development....our shrinking railway?
That guy hanging off the 08 footplate and then jumping off at 1'58" - 'elf 'n safety would have a dicky fit nowadays!
The Railway would have ground to a stop if they had H&S then Glen.
Amazing! 😍👌
Thank you! Cheers!
11:03 Remains of Northampton - Market Harborough
Yes, I remember visiting other parts of the Northampton Line about the same time, but have mislaid the Photos/video.
Rats / Choppers + Peaks.....its a massive thumbs up from me Roy :) I wonder if 45107 was saying farewell & going to Toton? :(
Thanks Kevin.
Right at the beginning Roy, is that a Swindon unit I can see in the Nene carriage sidings?
The British Rail Freight ××× ××××××× ××××××× Office at Corby seemed to have seen happier days
Yes that's a rare shot Andrei
I was a shunter. At.old. oak common. At.this. time.moved to Southall. West.London. freight shunting. Remember. These. Tlmes.well
when trains had character..................happy days for sure
I agree with that.
17:26 British Rail catering for the masses with an all FO train, or maybe a Nightrider or and ECS working??
I was once lucky enough to travel on one of these as a Monday morning relief train from Manchester It was all first class (declassified) and was pretty empty as well. Had our own Mk2 first class compartment. Must have been around 1989
Fantastic video of now long gone parts of British railway history! :D
I was just wondering, would it be possible for me to use this footage as part of an upcoming documentary I'm creating about the history of the Class 151 prototype?
Peterborough only a shadow of its former self, so much going on there back then.
We didn't realize how good it was at the time Benjamin.
Thumbs up.
Thanks Martin.
HST still in the early ECML formation with two catering cars…
And coupled next to each other which I had not seen before, always tended to be midship standard class carriages and the splitting standard and first
Also at around 13:14 hst with TGS front and rear?
@@Anyone_Noone_Someone possibly a vehicle transfer between depots?
Yes, you could be right.
what happened to that class 45?!? 21:13
13:11 weirdest HST 125 consist ever. ... A 2nd / Standard class class coach after the 1st class coach!
A TGS, and possibly the same set directly afterwards in the follow on xlip
Must have been a spare TGS being moved back to depot, as the regular one was at the other end as usual
2:34 I bet the First Class passengers really appreciated the buffet car being placed in between the two First Class coaches! Imagine that, you pay a King's Ransom for 1st Class and spend the entire journey with Standard Class people walking past you to and from the buffet LOL. NOT!
I would think that often happened in those days.
When trains were trains, not like today’s boring looking things