Fantastic entertaining reminder of just what we are missing these days....

Some great shots there! And exactly at the right period too. Many thanks.

What an amazing location! Agree with Nick, what a space there! Great period footage too. Lovely!

Great video. The class 37 on the Ripple Lane tanks worked by Ripple Lane men. How when passing I used to look out for this working when passing by.

excellent video... some great class 33 footage!

I love Micheldever Station - it's our closest and my Grandson loves going to watch the trains there... such a shame the station building couldn't be converted into a cafe or something.

Greetings from a 70s Essex trainspotter who now lives in Australia. Thanks for the video 👍. How amazing it was to have a publicly owned national railway service, even if it was crumbling in places.

Excellent video mark brilliant memories mate 👍🏻

Micheldever was a strategic oil terminal built during WW2 and had large underground tanks.

That was a good Crompton thrash with the cement tanks. That was a pretty substantial load

Absolutely fantastic footage 👍🏻 That 33 had a good load on its back 😄 I was a BR blue train spotter in the 70s and when they stated repainting & re-numbering locomotives I fell out of love with train spotting but I still watch trains and of course your fantastic videos that give me happy memories of how it was 👍🏻 Great location to buddy 😊

A station that always fascinated me - forever associated with 4VEP for some reason. at 1:10 all that empty space was that once sidings? 2:50 is quite wonderful - 33's were always my favourite as a kid on the 70s and early 80s and seeing this one powering past is a treat! 5:05 & in particular 12:40 a treat too, Thumpers at full pelt! Love seeing the 73s on 2rd Rail power. Brilliant video thanks for uploading! 10:05 hilarious - surely that carriage livery mix (1-then-1-then-1 - only not quite at the end) was on purpose! Bored marshalling yard workers lol

2:40 Crompton slogging hard on the tankers! 🚂👍

heeey bro. ahhhh wicked…another..and what i love about this location…it’s really inquire, as the stain is kind of in the middle or nowhere and you have a tunnel at one end and then a goods yard with cars and vans and then just trees and cuttings and an expanse of empty land…is that one of the popham tunnels? i never signed this route past basing. ahhh mate so sad to see the TC stock without its old mate, the REP unit, and coupled up to an ED (i remember these days so well) when the REPs were being slowly withdrawn. seeing this transition after their glory days..so sad and of course all for the new 442s. it funny as the TC and the REPs in their last years always looked to mucky on the cab fronts and were the only slam door stock that seemed to look this way. it made them quite distinctive i guess and it was all part of those beautiful days. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

What a fascinating location, I have never seen on film or in photographs, thank you Mark. I would love to learn more about the workings, such as where the 73 hauled trains were from and to. Classic SR !

Its really nice to see footage of 73's it seems to me there a forgotten Loco, theres very little on here [KZfaq]. I saw 73971 @ Aberdeen October 2021

Hi Mark again my Dad came today he was very impressed and kept saying "this guy here's good" with your filming and that was 24hrs before I was born if your interested that would have been a Wednesday because I was born on a Thursday. I've re uploaded his China trip and about to upload Chester and Mollington street Birkenhead summer 1984 I think. Did you film any Trains abroad like my Dad and his late mate did? Sadly for myself personally my sort of trains go up on a converyer chain and drop do loops etc rollercoasters but I do enjoy the old footage.

Can’t believe that 37 has to pull forward and wait across the main line then reverse! Surely they could have had a spur just after the tunnel to allow them off the main line quickly - I guess it wasn’t that regular a train?

Excellent video, Thanks. Lots of ED's about. Was this when the REP's were withdrawn to supply components for the new Plastic Pigs?

I don't know if it's still there but it was up until about 4 years ago there was an old Rail Freight Distribution sign at the north end of the sidings at Michaeldever Station with the Oils Sub Sector box.

Dumb question but why are some of the multiple units hauled by locomotives?