The golden age of trainspotting for diesel and electric enthusiasts. Wish I’d been around to experience it but I was born a fair few years too late! Great video

Oh Lord.... Thank you so so much for posting this video.... Absolutely brilliant, brings back so many happy memories of the days trainspotting at Crewe, as well as other stations and depots up and down the lengths and breadths of the UK.... Perhaps I'm a bit of an old fogey but I think that the rolling stock and locomotives were far more interesting back then...... Oh happy memories....... Now where did I leave my notepad, pen and binoculars???....

Wonderfully eclectic range of locos and liveries, as befitting the period. Crewe was a hive of activity back then. You never had to wait long to see something interesting. Passenger, freight, parcels, diesels, electrics, units, locos.... you had it all! Sadly the same can't be said today.

A real gem of a film, every scene has interest in it, great to see the early electrics plus 37430 the first loco I rode on mainline, two years after this was filmed.

Great to see those 81s and 85s in this video. I always thought they looked odd with their slanted faces; it made them look more interesting than the 86s. Thank you.

I remember these days, there was never a dull moment and always the enjoyment of the day.

il wish had a time machine lovely days watching locos always different trains coming up the line and down very freindly times

Those signallers couldn't have had too much rest. An insane number of station workings.

Great video of the variety we used to have back then. You only miss them when they are gone . Thanks for sharing Soi.👍😎

Miss the roarers the class 81s they sound good at speed I used to buzz off them flying through levenshulme near stockport in the mid 1980s happy days of propper traction locomotives!!!😎

Unusual to see loco changes from electric to diesel on southbound trains. Nice to see a proper 37-hauled set of Mk 2 stock on a Cardiff working before it went over to the ghastly 155s. Nice white Capri with rubber-bumper side trim on the diesel depot! I like the two experts with their heads under the bonnet of the red Mini too.

Great footage. Got to love the class 127 parcel units. Crewe used to be brilliant overnight with many parcels trains. Some would have 26s on them too!

Thats some hardcore spottin in the rain there chief, nice one! Loads of intersting stuff in '88 there. For modellers of the era, there's 31178 which was given DCE cabside strips and red BS shed stickers within 2 months of this vid, being around this time that DCE strips were being applied to loco's. She also had white body-side no's replacing black cabside no's, and an extra OLE warning sign above the boiler gauge on the other side for some reason. Possibly from weed-killing duties perhaps. . Also of note is how fast weathering appears on loco's. 47615 was painted into her Rf plain triple grey 3-4 weeks before this vid (photed her in the rain outside paint shop at SF DRS 23.7.88 after overhaul) and is already looking rather filthy by now! And a rather unique livery too with red buffer-beams and cowlings, and SF didn't move the nameplates so was never given sub-sector logo's. Her black marker light panels didnt last too long either, going yellow in 1989. Also, one of a handful of Rf 47's given a lower than standard body-side break-line, therefore thicker black window surrounds, another SF thing! . . Lasting in this livery until repainted into Res 2.92, was then next overhauled at Donny and renumbered 47747 in 5.94. And prior to this vid, she was always a fave being part of the GWR 150 celebrations, given a fresh standard blue paint-job with red buffer-beams 4.85. And previously being overhauled/repainted at Crewe in June 1984.

Fantastic. Not an orange vest in sight ✊

Yet another truly amazing video soi keep'em coming it's good to watch the good old day's of train's 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

omg a class 81 in action

Great video - a real shot of Nostalgia as I’m originally from Crewe. It was an absolute hive of activity back then locomotive wise. So sad to see what’s become of the diesel depot and railway works now.

Great vid, always enjoyed Crewe back in the 80's. Love the class 81 pass through light at the beginning.

Wow. What a great video. Thank you very much for the great footage of locos we used to take for granted.

Great video, takes me back to the many times I spent on the platforms at Crewe in the early 80's when it was loco's and not the endless stream of multiple units it is now.

Brings back WONDERFUL memories. ♥️♥️♥️😊😊😊 when BRITISH RAIL WAS GOD'S WONDERFUL RAILWAY.

Used to love going to Crewe in late 80's & early 90's. Took my 6 yo Gt Nephew there a few ago, it's like a ghost town now!!!

Good video of various classes of work horses on freight duties in the 1980s I wish I could go back to them days as things wasn't as boring as they are now especially the railways!!!

Hi Soi, another great film selection Ed🤓

Great video of Crewe 👍🏻 love the DMU parcel units lol 😆 Maybe Amazon could convert some second generation DMUs into fast parcel trains 🤔 Great for inner city delivery with electric vans 👍🏻😆

Parcels DMU 5:11 were a conversion of the St Pancras class 127, these had the bigger 238hp engines and torque converter transmission.

My Trainspotting days. I miss them.

Nice one Soi and no Buddleia in sight!

Great to see the original AC electrics still going. I wouldn't have expected 81s though. I remember 85s on freights such as chemicals and vans

that class 47 that went past at 1:38 is still going - sort of. it's a Class 57 - 57,603 'Tintagel Castle' hauling sleeper trains.

Wonderful footage especially all those roarers! Many thanks for uploading these 👍

Great footage, pitty Crewe is so dead now. Lots of ghosts at the North End platform by 5A.

A cunning Network Rail and TOC plan to eradicate train enthusiasm from the system; worked for me!

I was there briefly in 1989

Back in the days when we had trains and loco's !

Love the AL1 ...

Sounds like it was pissing down!

I miss those days.

EPIC, & a Scottish 303 to boot..👍🏻👍🏻

I left the UK for the second time in 1990. I enjoyed the railways from 1978 to 1990, when I came back to the UK it has all but vanished. Everything was plastic and lacked any character. Is this really progress? The railway scene really is rubbish now. Would love to go back and have a day at Crewe, or even at Derby my home town. Great videos mate! I remember doing a bog unit quite often (Platform 5 bay platform) from Derby to Crewe and there was always plenty to see, on the way including Cockshute stabling point at Stoke. I bunked most depots but I got thrown out of CD.

Nice to see the AL Electrics. They had style although damned uncomfortable to drive.

Good days

I was trainspotting back then , make me laugh if I seen myself on one of these videos

3:52 what was Bodie doing in the rail yard?

I would love to hear a class 81/82/83/84/85//86/87 roaring its arse off on a railtour as it's about time they were all made to earn there keep and it would attract a big crowd I bet as we never get many ac/ railtours and if we do it's always class 86/87 hauled sad to say!!!😎

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I wonder how the railways would have turned out had it not been privatised and had received the investment (particularly electrification of certain lines) it desperately needed?

I wonder why a first aid man was required at the ticket barrier.

A lot of Capri cars

Another, dirty admittedly, world innit. . . . . - I was 8 when this was filmed.

Shame on the politicians who in the 1950s and 60s got us into this neverending diesel nightmare! 😠

British rail at its best 1990 to 1994. Then j major broke the railway and I asked him why face to face. No reply coward