Ah the memories come flooding back! Spent many an hour on the end of New Streets platforms. Man for a time machine!!

Great video.Remember seeing the class 50s coming out of the darkness. So many spotters watching the different classes of locos.a great place in the 80s.

Great memories of New Street in the 80s mate What a place it was .... The sheer amount of enthusiasts too ....fantastic ...keep them coming ...

B R in the 80's bittersweet memories, I drove pretty much every class in this video with the exception of the 317. Lovely to see 87022, one of my personal favourites...superb engine.

A throw back to my childhood. Great days. Thanks 👍

This was basically every Saturday of my life for four happy years….but don’t forget the ride in a whining WMPTE Fleetline on the way home….then listening to find out how the Blues, Villa and Baggies have done on the hilarious BRMB phone in with Phil Holden & Les Ross….eating Findus Crispy Pancakes whilst watching Lightning on the Gladiators….marking in the days cops whilst playing PWEI on full on the cassette player…. Finally to bed and then back to BNS early on Sunday for the Nuneaton drags, which were like a free diesel gala every week…. ….to think my teenage Son has wasted his youth playing ‘Call of Duty’….. Thanks for postin’…..bostin!

Great footage with a ridiculous variety of trains going through there must of been one of the best places for spotters once a time certainly a far cry from what we’ve have today.

The signallers at Proof House were very busy them days. Certainly brings back memories for me.

That takes me back a bit, brake vans fitted with sidelamps 👍

Ahhh those were the days of a 2p platform ticket....got me to places such as York station, the furthest travelled on a platform ticket...always timed right hopping off the train as an inspector hopped on 🤣🤣

No matter what the livery they were in the 47s ,37s and even 31s looked and sounded brilliant, where as todays 66s all look the bloody same.

NICE as it was with great sounds

WOW Love this.....brings back great memorys of BNS

Great videos Roy they bring back so many memories of my teenage days bashing around Birmingham & the midlands I took a special interest in the scene where 31405 + 31283 were departing because I reckon I was on that train looking back in my old scratch books it was Saturday 21/05/1988 the first weekend of the summer timetable and the service was the 10.10 Manchester Piccadilly to Paignton departing the wrong end of new street because it went via camp hill to rejoin its normal route towards the lickey incline

Great footage. Before my time but love the almost dystopian look of the brutal looking old locos and the diabolical concrete monstrosity that was the old Birmingham New Street.

Brilliant mate, best footage i have seen from New street. Used to spedn so many saturdays there , south end of 8 on a brute . loved it

That Class 58 at 34:04 was amazing. Didn’t realise they worked passenger trains back then!

Fantastic footage, mate. It really takes me back. New Street was always a magical place for a Southern lad like me. Very much looking forward to seeing more of the collection. Many thanks.

Superb in the days of one fully functional railway.

Amazingly good quality video for 1988, must have been a very high end camera. Well done for retaining the original 4:3 aspect ratio as well. I see so many early videos filmed in 4:3 stretched out or blown up to 16:9 which completely ruins the video quality. Surprised to see Network SouthEast Class 317s at New Street, no idea they had escaped the Greater Anglia region.

Working at New Street on summer Saturdays in 88 was one of the highlights of my life, you just didn't know what was going to emerge from the hazy tunnels next, nice to catch the odd glimpse of ones younger self in a couple couple of vids from this series

I just want to jump into the film and go back in time. The sights, the smells, the people, the announcements. No mobile phones.

Brilliant memories 👍

This is a truly amazing collection! Thank you so much for sharing. So many memories of the sights and sounds from BR days, end of the blue & grey era. I was a regular commuter up/down the WCML and these remind me of many happy days on the cushions and on the platforms!

Excellent takes me back, when the time comes that's where I'm off to 🙂

Those two 31s at 23.40 bring back memories. I grow up about 5 miles away from thornaby TMD . Those 31s were thornaby based locomotives. I recognised the thornaby kingfisher emblem.

That class 151 was a rare catch . Well done on that sir. Love the clag from the 58 aswell

Awesome

Hi Roy, these are an absolute gem, many thanks for subscribing my friend really takes me back to the day, much happier times in many respects! All the best, have subscribed to your channel and look forward to catching up on many more. Thanks for sharing, all the best, Paul

Was thinking about these films this week after hearing about the passing of Jed , the ever present New Street basher. I dont see him on any of the films but will keep looking

This is amazing footage spent many summer Saturdays at BNS Great days

The most depressing thing about this footage is that even the most vanilla stuff at New St, the 47/4s and the 86s are way more interesting than than anything you see there these days. On by the way 45110 was off to Buxton and Blackpool tour came from Swindon

Love new street

SO many spotters!!! 9:05 ...is it like that now? Things change, life moves on and it's unstoppable but, it WAS so much more varied and interesting then!! Wasn't it?

In corridor coaches they were so comfortable

More hellfire stuff...keep them coming!

Wen used to go to Paignton Wen come in on electric from Liverpool lime street and back out with a deisls all the way to kingswheier wat a trip and a long day

Just as filthy as I remember it, including the choking blue smog! 😄 No bloody mobile phone zombies either!

Awsome😊

That must be the railtour to Glasgow via Manchester Vic with the 50s. I did it from Manchester.

More spotters than passengers, great days!!!!!

Great stuff but just look at all the spotters on New Street,don’t think I ever saw that many on BNS plus look at the NB working you recorded,shows how hand having Bescot & Saltley on the doorstep really was.

Took it all for granted 😏 happy days though 👍

Those railway employees crossing the track behind the engineering train at Bescot at 45:05 seemed rather casual; only one wearing a hi viz, and a very perfunctory glance up the line where they didn't seem to notice the Class 20s approaching. That's almost one for a "how not to do it" training video

Look at all those lovely diesel fumes! Impressive noisy departure by 45110

3:24 Sneak Peak! 🚂👍

According to Wiki, Medusa was withdrawn on 27 July 1988...days/months after this vid? This could be the last known footage of that loco

So many train spotters

5⭐video 👍😀😎.I've subscribers to your KZfaq channel 😀

Any idea what the 58 was doing on a passenger turn? , I'm guessing it was a special.

They can scoff all they like but this was much more fun than tictoc!

Outrageously good footage again, what was that 58026 on? Was it going down the bank?

Mr Betts taking a for of 45110 My Lords

Just as I suspected. British Rail was run for the sole purpose of train spotters! I was one!

B'ham NEDStreet fantastic 😂👍

Hi Roy loving your videos , just a shot in the blue, Bescot Yard had two Class 58 one parked behind a class 86. The one I would like to ask the number of is in Rail Freight Coal. Would you have a record of it just modelling my railway for this time. I was in the Navy at the time in the Gulf my cousin who was a Br Engineer has told me 58043 was in this livery on the open day at Bescot 1988. Is this the same beast .

So many bashers hanging out the windows, good times...highly likely I was there too lol

Amusing to look back and see how little heed was paid to the 10mph limit back then. You probably wouldnt have got everything through the station in 24 hours if everything ran at the limit, given the volume of shunt moves and additionals.

A Peak on Network Southeast stock. Never heard of such a thing. Was that a service train or a special?

What's that at 25:46? Never seen that class or livery before.

This wasn't your normal weekend at new street. I'm guessing at least one unusual booking was due to run through the station that day Roy?

And 31405 & 31283 on a WCML Euston set?! 🙈

Weird seeing a class 58 on passenger duty, normally they were pulling coal wagons.

110 the absolute hossing monster that it was, nice to see the fan's been switched in... 🙋‍♂️ 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧

4 car 304 at 46.23

Absolute filth 😁

Great video . But what a horrible station Birmingham New St is