British Rail 1986-Bescot Freight Action with classes 20, 31, 47, 58, 86 & 312

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3 жыл бұрын

We're back to September 1986 with this upload, a time when most traction was still in BR blue. We see mostly freight action at Bescot Yard where the station sits very conveniently in the middle of the hugh freight complex that used to be there. We see freight and light engine moves with loco's 20 (including one single headed), 31, 47, 58 & 86 along with a couple of 312's on the Birmingham New-Walsall service including 312 204 in it's yellow livery. The 58 along with a pair of class 20s are in the Railfreight Red Strip livery. All in all some great traction from the days Bescot was a busy place and always worth a visit. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!

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@markdunwell3288 Жыл бұрын

Lovely video Soi. Happy days, full of PROPER TRAINS 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟thank you Sir your a gent.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Жыл бұрын

My pleasure......

@megamanmuppet 3 жыл бұрын

Superb video Soi 86 was a great year.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, some great traction still at work.....

@roberthill6216 2 жыл бұрын

I was 4, it was the year my brother was born.

@EssexGayBoi 3 жыл бұрын

Cracking video as always Mr Buakhao, how ever this must be later than 1986, as the wagons hauled by the single 20 at around 4m 26s, are in Dutch livery and to my recollection, this livery wasn't introduced until 1988.. :)

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

No, this was definatly filmed in September 1986. I thought i may have mis-typed the date but my record book confims it as 10 September 1986. The next time i went out to film railways wasn't until April 1987.....When i transfered the film from VHS tape to DVD it was all copied over in order.....

@rocksreynolds3642 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful, cheers Soi! Bescot was always great to visit, great variety of haulage and freight wagons there.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

It was then, died off a bit in the 90s after Railfreight Distribution stopped the Speedlink service and is now pretty much dead there.....

@chris-io1ki 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic memories of Bescot. Great video mate. Those Sheerness steel wagons don't look like that now. Probably the only thing in this video still extant. Bonus 86249 County of Merseyside which ended its days on Anglia region. Ha that 31 came very close to those 20s and the 08 too!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

Looking at the place today it's hard to imagine how busy it was....86 249 wasn't an early allocation to Anglia but was drafted in later.....

@theimperialist2686 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent video as always mate.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, still got some more from this far back......

@martinnevey7258 3 жыл бұрын

Ahhh the distinctive chirping of the class 20s...

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, they whistled well but not as good as a 40!

@martinnevey7258 3 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I would hear the 20s late at night at my grans house..pulling coal from local pits....nostalgia on a stick

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

@@martinnevey7258 Yes, in the quieter night air a pair of 20s whistling and powering away must have sounded great!

@johnyoungieyoung123 3 жыл бұрын

Halcyon days mate!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Youngie......

@AndreiTupolev 3 жыл бұрын

Smelly diesels 🙂 A 20 running hood end first was a sight worth recording. That yellow/blue livery on the 312 looked very like Nederlandse Spoorwegen : the original 'Dutch' livery I suppose

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the 20 bonnet first was quite rare, they mostly worked in pairs in England although it was more common in Scotland. The 312 was the only one i saw in that colour scheme, probably an experiment to see how it looked?......

@roberthill6216 2 жыл бұрын

Or a sign of things to come.....

@olly5764 3 жыл бұрын

I think the 08 with the wrap around Yellow cab was one of the Waterproofed ones from Oxley

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that could well explain the interesting colour scheme. I imagine it had gone back to Bescot for an exam and was grabbed to work the yard?....

@olly5764 3 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus it's a possibility, its surprising how many 08s you used to see round that area, where as now it's almost zero

@West.Ham1964 4 ай бұрын

I'm guessing you wasn't expecting that rather loud horn on 7:21? lol

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Ай бұрын

Correct!.... lol

@annescholey6546 3 жыл бұрын

Variety went out the window years ago. Today's railway is a pitiful contrast with liner trains forced to muscle up against lorries. I see it every day at Masbrough South.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, there was a whole lot more variety all round. Stock was worked for around 30 to 40 years before replacement whereas today things can be withdrawn in a very short space of time, especially buses in London!

@roberthill6216 2 жыл бұрын

I miss the mail trains and overnight TPO's. An all nighter at Preston isn't the same these days.

@NedPooleD818 3 жыл бұрын

Great video- loved the nose first chopper powering through with the turbots- the collection of oil lamps on the solebar is a great touch! Shame you didn’t catch a couple of the last rats as they were still regulars in the area (just!) I remember cabbing 25035 in the sidings on the usual Saturday walk round....also have you any footage of the awesome WMPTE Fleetlines & early metros around at the time- they were superb! I’m now off for a walk round the Bull Ring/ Flea Market before listening to BRMB to see how the Blues did....then back to watch Gladiators on the telly!! Happy times indeed:-))

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, i'm pleased you like the vid. I never saw any 25s moving when i was there, just those stabled at the back of the yard, withdrawn perhaps?....Pretty much only did London buses in those days so no Birmingham buses sadly. Now, i wish i had filmed a whole lot more, but too late now......

@NedPooleD818 3 жыл бұрын

Soi Buakhao - thanks for the reply- you did really well to video so much during these times- I took thousands of photos but in hindsight wished I’d had a vid! Did you see the ex WMPTE Ailsas that operated for LT? They were real beasts!!!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

@@NedPooleD818 Thank you...I used to get shouted at by some haulage bashers at times years back....but i have a lrge stock of old films, so it was worth it! Although i now wish i had just filmed everything that i saw.....I did see a few Ailsa'a as a friend lived in Potters Bar which is the garage they worked out of.

@NedPooleD818 3 жыл бұрын

Soi Buakhao - Happy Times!! I used to think nothing about window hanging all from Padd- Plymouth behind a hoover or tractors from New St all the way to Holyhead- no wonder my hair has blown away...how about a noisy bashers compilation?? Also those JOVxxxP Alisas were amazing...after being thrashed at Potters Bar some had a further three owners before whistling their way to Wigleys... Keep posting- cheers you up on a wet weekend:-))

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

@@NedPooleD818 Thans for your comments....yes a thrash compilation sounds good, i will have to sort out what i have, something to keep me busy for a while!

@123NeilyB 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone know why the 312's (& 310's) had 3 light discs on one end, but only 2 on the other?!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

No, one of those quirks that only an ex fitter could tell us.....

@RichardW23613 3 жыл бұрын

Denoted which end was first class although some later had it decommissioned but retained the three dots.

@123NeilyB 3 жыл бұрын

4:45 - What happened there?! Bobby reset the route? Assuming that signal wasnt for the 20?

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

Do you know, i never noticed that before! The signal was for the 20 but i'm guessing the wiring was a bit dodgy and the train rolling into the Goods Road bounced a cabel under the track?.....

@Keithbarber 3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be surprised if these days its either ● housing estate ● tesco/sainsbury's/morrisons/Asda's or otherwise ● overgrown and rusty sidings

@megamanmuppet 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve always wondered how people coped without all these supermarkets? Did people shop locally? Are there more people now? Do people now eat more?

@MrGritterCritter 3 жыл бұрын

@@megamanmuppetYes, yes, yes.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 3 жыл бұрын

Overgrown rusty sidings! Network Rail wanted to build a sleeper making plant around here somewhere but the neighbour's complained and it was stopped. With the invasion that takes place daily i imagine blocks and blocks of flats will appear over time......and then complain they can hear trains passing and by and can you stop running them........

@replay68pete14 3 жыл бұрын

megamanmuppet weird innit,I went on a Saturday morning to the local high street supermarket with my mum,the old man would go to the pub,sometimes he’d turn up at 2.30 to give us a lift home with the shopping and sometimes we’d walk home with the shopping as he hadn’t turned up again...ahh the good old days..

@annescholey6546 3 жыл бұрын

With bone idle 66s loafing about in a sea of empty sidings