Hi my name is Phil Holt.I started on the footplate at edgeley shed on the 4th of April 1961 as a fireman.when my shed closed in1968 I moved to guide bridge and worked at reddish shed.In 1975 moved to longsight were I finished my time.I did 50yrs on the footplate.Regards.Phil.
@EM-yk1dw
3 ай бұрын
Excellent Phil did you sign Woodhead?
@v2factoryman
10 жыл бұрын
I absolutely loved this! My grandfather, Ronnie Burns, was, I believe, an instructor on these electrics in the early sixties. We lived in Reddish and although he died when I was only four or five I became an avid trainspotter and often visited the shed on a Sunday. These photos really capture the sad decline of these fine locos and a shameful waste of investment destroying such a modern depot. Thank you for taking the trouble to compile and upload all this, it must have been a labour of love. Grateful thanks for posting.
@Isochest
2 жыл бұрын
It was a reckless waste closing the direct route between Manchester and Sheffield. Hope Valley is already congested and NR are having to electrify the Huddersfield line by stealth to replace what was lost
@boyfromblackstuff7859
2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for posting this.Drove up to Reddish from the South Midlands in the early 80's ,at that time all track was intact and signals all working.Think we parked in a short terrace st called Campbell terrace and next to that was the railway bridge where we took our photographs from.Also visited Woodhead a few times again all intact and signals working,surreal knowing trains would no longer traverse it!All very sad but as some of us know our country has been deliberately de industrialized!
@G0IMB
7 жыл бұрын
I loved visiting Reddish in the 1970s as a youngster. The drivers and maintenance staff were always helpful and showed children around their depot. They were justly proud of the infrastructure our criminal politicians were not interested in
@epj900
6 жыл бұрын
I don't know why I watch these really, it's so sad and depressing
@bvaces71
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the memories. We new it as the Reddish Bo-Bo Shed and often rode my bike there from Heaton Norris Junction where I lived in the 1960's.
@bertcert991
Жыл бұрын
RIP Ernie Naylor NUR rep and fond of the lotion a top man and based at Reddish depot about 1978
@66CLASS
9 жыл бұрын
you cant beat the good old trains thanks for puting this on youtube great video
@NikEastwood161
6 жыл бұрын
My uncle worked there 70s 80s. He took me a couple of times but I was young and the trains scared me a bit.
@stephenpowell5912
Жыл бұрын
Sad to see what became of the Class 76s ,These were back in the day , Classic Electric Locomotion,R I P 🙏
@mercuryrob1
11 жыл бұрын
Happy memories from the early to late 70's spent here. Rob
@leenettywilson528
2 жыл бұрын
Wow this video brings back loads of memories me and my mates messed about in the depot wen they pulled most of the lines up and there were no trains the depot was a mess full of glass everywhere my mate slipped and had shorts on I have never seen a open wound like that before about 14 inches long and 4 or 5 wide after I seen that I honestly couldn't go back into the depot but before hand some good times around reddish Gorton levenshulm lads would come from all over and we would all just act like kids do 1990 around that time I think it was , does anyone know why it all got pulled up should see it now flats houses and that long footpath also that bridge that goes over Hyde road even that's been took away not to long ago a lot of kids of today carnt tell a lot of these story's from back in the day, anyway to everyone who use to go there the ones who are no longer with us some of my mates and ur friends rest in peace , to the guys who are still around godbless you keep safe,
@andyrigby5010
2 жыл бұрын
Used to go round the depot regularly, me and my mate would do Longsight first, then walk up Kirkmanshulme lane to the top where Belle Vue zoo used to be and catch a 203 bus to Reddish, it dropped us right outside the depot, from RS we would go on to Guide Bridge stabling point. We would cop over 100 on a good day :)
@robtyman4281
4 жыл бұрын
Reckon if this line was still running today, it would be a very popular and busy line. They'd probably use the class 88 electric locos for the faster services.
@neiloflongbeck5705
2 жыл бұрын
The recession of the early 1980s killed off this line. BR had excess capacity and the non-standard nature of the line counted against this line.
@stestepney
5 жыл бұрын
Nice one mate i remember seeing the Blue Pullman there they used to service it there cheers Steve ..
@JodieAndOlivia
7 жыл бұрын
I remember this place as a working depot so vividly as a child in the late 70's, my mother took us past it on many occasion going shopping onto Gorton market, I also remember playing on this site with my mates and I had my first pair of skinny jeans of what have come back into fashion, I think we called them 'drain pipes' back then? We fucked about on the depot and the staff were cool about it even though we were only 10 or 12 yrs old, health and safety obviously none existent in the 1970's ha. One of the shed doors was new compared to the other shed doors so I ask a depot worker why this was, he told me a unmanned engine had rolled out of the shed smashing the doors open, so they got replace. I think I read somewhere many years back some of the class 76 electric engines got recycled back into service and operated in northern Europe, Sweden, Netherlands, I;m not 100% sure? I still go past here many times, though not on the dirt footpath to the west of the depot, of what I think is now none existent, but on the old railway line on the east side to the depot of what now is part of the Sustrans cycle route and its been tarmac over making the Fallowfiejld Loop, Where the engine shed once stood is now a housing estate, this was completed around 2011 I think?
@mirvids5036
7 жыл бұрын
I suppose its all built on now. Very sad sight indeed. All that line and Woodhead, Sheffied Victoria etc. all a great waste of what would now be a very busy line.
@Muttlydog45
5 жыл бұрын
What a complete and utter waste, it puts a lump in ya throat an a tear in ya eye to see these fantastic machines cold dead and rotting away, the person or persons who sanctioned this cold blooded murder of these and many other awesome feats of British engineering around the country, Should be so ashamed of themselves all in the name of saving a few quid on the balance sheet. The daft thing about all this destruction that took place nationwide, in the end it didn't actually save any money at all, in fact it cost a whole lot more....
@DeltaJazzUK
5 жыл бұрын
Thatcher in the 80s, destroyed British Industry
@nojhampton
2 жыл бұрын
@@DeltaJazzUK I think that you will find that British workers have to take some of the blame for designing and making poor quality products that were inferior to good from other countries. For example if our car makers spent more time in work than on strike maybe we wouldn't mostly be driving round in German and Japanese cars today.
@philipholt9112
5 жыл бұрын
Hi..me again in 1962 till 1964 I was at Trafford Park shed and fired trains over that branch line from Manchester Central to guide bridge.Again Regards.Phil.
@Bucina62
3 ай бұрын
My Dad worked at Reddish in the late 60's/early 70's
@baconsandwich2007
10 жыл бұрын
What a waste of a perfectly good railway! RIP RS!
@TheEnglishTrainSpotter2021
4 жыл бұрын
Mike Paull no they run down too much
@neiloflongbeck5705
2 жыл бұрын
BR couldn't afford to retain this with falling traffic levels across the entire network. The non-standard nature of the line and the life-expired nature of the equipment and locomotives didn't help. Nor did its method of operation of its primary freight traffic of coal from Yorkshire to Fiddler's Ferry power station. These trains needed 3 locomotives where only 1 would be needed on other routes.
@johngresty5063
6 жыл бұрын
And thus ended the reign of Sir Nigel Gresley.
@johngresty7220
3 жыл бұрын
@@stevelomas4119 They were a Gresley design, the last of his loco's in revenue earning service.
@DavidJackson-yx4te
Жыл бұрын
Great memories when i was chasing the 76’s before they were all cut. Remember going to Reddish on several occasions. Is the old Reddish TMD site still bare or has it all been built on now?
@smudge0161
Жыл бұрын
They built a gym on the site.
@Shadow78UK
7 жыл бұрын
Been trying to work out exactly where it was located, what if anything is built on this area now so I can get an idea where to look.
@jasinere35
7 жыл бұрын
at a guess its built over
@v2factoryman
6 жыл бұрын
It was located alongside the old Fallowfield Loop line at the end of Sandfold Lane in Reddish, on the border with Gorton. Purpose built in the early 50s to service the Woodhead 1500v DC traction, it also serviced a lot of diesels and rolling stock which came for attention on the wheel lathe.
@MikeyManchester
3 жыл бұрын
All infilled now most built on from Fallowfield loop, Abbey Hey, Gorton, Reddish Bridge, Reddish
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