Class 47 dragging failed HST into Reading...quite a common sight on some 1980s hot summer days before BR managed to sort out their cooling systems. Shunters and traincrews soon got used to deploying the short-bar emergency couplers!
@rickmeyrick4357
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent History/Nostalgia, them wert' days !
@gareththomas6714
3 жыл бұрын
important historical record
@tomdg13
Жыл бұрын
Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
@minsterley2002
7 жыл бұрын
Good old days....Great footage, thankyou for sharing.
@neiloflongbeck5705
3 жыл бұрын
Plenty of 1980s footage here - large logo livery, depotsymbols and headlamps are the big give away. Also the Class 59 and InterCity executive and RailFreight grey.
@Scottish_Transport_Explorer
2 жыл бұрын
Well yeah he did say that this was filmed in the 70s and 80s
@rayaspo4893
2 жыл бұрын
Love these old locomotives
@eddherring4972
2 жыл бұрын
4:47 and I learned something about class 87 pantographs, I never knew they had this cross type, I only ever knew them to have the high speed type.
@vicsams4431
Жыл бұрын
Oh yes. I think the Bracknell-Willis high speed pan, was given to the 87s when their maximum permitted speed was raised from 100mph to 110mph. The three Class 86/1s also had Bracknell-Willis pans as they too, were passed for 110mph. Classes 81 - 87 were originally fitted with cross arm pans. I can certainly remember loads had them in the 1980s, before the single arm Stone Favierley pans became the norm.
@markedgar6437
6 жыл бұрын
Wow, many thanks for sharing.
@MrNg50
6 жыл бұрын
Fantastic. Brought back some happy memories.
@e575fho
7 жыл бұрын
Bristol Bath Road brings back so many memories.......
@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp
2 жыл бұрын
Those were the days indeed!
@RazSux
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome footage, many thanks!
@marcelomenendez1971
2 жыл бұрын
nice video, the projector noise is like you are standing close to an idling class 25 jaja
@chetan1410
Жыл бұрын
33 years of non-citizenship due to innocent journey.
@k333vrr4
7 жыл бұрын
Awesome footage from a cine! Enjoyed.
@andrewlong6438
2 жыл бұрын
Does look it it was pre video. My dad had a cine camera and playing it back on the projector would have sounded like this !
@longbar2344
2 жыл бұрын
nice view of the swindon works
@donk2268
2 жыл бұрын
1M34 leaving Glasgow Central for London Euston via Trent Vally lines.
@jasonfernee2401
2 жыл бұрын
It was my era. Still see lots of BR Blue on locos. So many different locos back then. It's a bit boring now by comparison, although still a few Class 37 Tractors spurting out black smoke for some freight operators.
@Keithbarber
2 жыл бұрын
I agree that the modern scene is quite boring - in and around London, it's nearly class 66 all the way with a few 90s handling the electric haulage
@stevewyman2822
5 жыл бұрын
..Great vid'...many nice old classics there...shame you cannot read yhe numbers on many of them due to ancient type film....31's @ Paddy..got to be rare...!!!.
@highdownmartin
3 жыл бұрын
412 414 used to live at ooc and padd ecs between the two. Always there at ooc when ever we went
@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819
5 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed the footage, especially the 31/47 double header at Peterborough (I thought the 47 was dead in train, but then I saw the exhaust plume). I wonder where it was heading? My only criticism is with the projector noise, it gets a bit tedious after a while. I undstand that there was no sound on the footage! But it's a pity you didn't put any captions in or commentry to lets us known where the footage was shot or any other information you still have on the footage.
@davesaunders3334
2 жыл бұрын
Just turn the sound down.
@highdownmartin
3 жыл бұрын
Love it
@rickybrett6846
4 жыл бұрын
47494 still in green !!!
@richardgregory8964
4 жыл бұрын
Not a voyager in sight! 😏
@nickgaskell6743
6 жыл бұрын
Mid Eighties surely
@johnmills48
6 жыл бұрын
Bristol area at the beginning is definitely mid 80's, but the rest is 70's. Fantastic stuff, brought back a few memories.
@neiloflongbeck5705
3 жыл бұрын
@@johnmills48 surely not the Class 59, the 47 with the Scotty Dog and the 56 in RailFrejght grey, large logo blue liveried Class 47 and locomotives with sealed beam headlights? All are definitely 1980s.
@johnmills48
3 жыл бұрын
@@neiloflongbeck5705 Agreed all those are 1980's, but the footage of the Western at Paddington around 5 minutes in is deffo 1970's.
@joespud3727
2 жыл бұрын
Headcodes were used until 1976, lots of these trains are filmed from the 1970s, which is what it says in the title. The 'Peak' at 14:46 is number 142, which is pre-TOPS numbering before 1974 onwards!!!!
@vicsams4431
Жыл бұрын
Some bits pre-date the mid 1980s. Class 52 Westerns ended their mainline career (except for charters, after the Preserved Diesel Ban was lifted) in 1977.
@Daytona2
5 жыл бұрын
Lovely to see :) What are the blue wagons behind the locos on some of the passenger trains used for ?
@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819
5 жыл бұрын
Daytona parcels, unless brand MotoRail, then they carry cars (the owners would be on the train).
@Laticity
2 жыл бұрын
Not silent is it?
@xlaptopx
2 жыл бұрын
I'd forgotten just how dirty and grimey British Rail was back in the 1970s, all part of it's character I suppose.
@andrewoverton5170
2 жыл бұрын
It's not the 1970s though
@johnnyhotbox636
6 жыл бұрын
47 Class best in Diesel
@vicsams4431
Жыл бұрын
Good choice. I was brought up on Class 47s, even having a few for cabride. But for accelerating, nothing beats a Class 45 with their five field diverts, allowing them to notch up quicker. I have also got 115mph out of a Class 45 on a few occasions.
@e575fho
3 жыл бұрын
00:25 Lawrence Hill?? Looks familiar......
@pook2830
3 жыл бұрын
Was this actually shot on film or have you put a filter on it? If it's video, please upload an original version.
@davesaunders3334
2 жыл бұрын
It literally says in the description that it is shot on Super 8 fine film.
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