My grandad is driving a class 31 at 5 minutes and 6 seconds

You Tube is the nearest thing we have to a time machine. That was ace!

I spent so long at exactly that position in 1981 - 1984 - very happy hours (when I wasn't getting mugged!). We have lost so much. Thanks once again for a brilliant chronicle of a past which perhaps wasn't that bad...

Wow! That's where I spend every Friday night of my childhood, stood on the wall of Gateshead sheds watching the endless procession of locos. Thanks so much for the memories!

Loving this video! My dad used to take me to Gateshead sheds when I was a lot younger in the late 80's, we'd wander in amongst all the engines with no one bothering us, mainly 37's and 47's then with the old 08 shunter doing it's thing. Happy memories and happy days!

More Great British Rail with Proper train footage long before Privatisation took over in the Early 1990s to Network Rail ,this was the 1980s growing up ,Love to have had a timemachine to go back to these times,Feel nostalgic watching these icons of BR and the Sounds they made when departing or arriving ❤️❤️❤️When Blue Ruled the rails ❤️❤️❤️

Amazing! Ive been looking for film like this for ages. really takes me back to the good old diesel days.

This is one of the best blue-era videos that I have seen in years, and living in S Wales at the time all the loco numbers seen here were mega-kops.

Top stuff there Mr A. Stood there many a time in my time up in Newcastle in the early 1980s

Still a cracking video mate , I keep coming back to view it .

Totaly Monsterous! Wish I was there, very useful footage as it confirmed some details that will be good on the layout 25 years ago, thats scary! Lets have some more like thiS soon!

bring back memoirs for me i used to train spot there and watch the trains in the depot

beautiful place to train record that would be good in the era of steam Greetings from Argentina gustavo

BR Grime Blue Heaven, love the clip thanks for uploading!

I was a regular at this site from 1971 to 1975 spending most of the day at Newcastle Central and getting the DMU over to Gateshead for the shed. Took the 37s and Deltics for granted. Whilst many recollect the days of steam, the diesel hauled trains of the 70s and 80s were pritty special to. I recently spoke to a train spotter at York and he was genuinely happy if he saw 5 loco hauled trains in an afternoon.

i do love these old videos from the 80s its nice to see the old engines witch are no longer with us .nice video 5/5

Great memories we used to go here in the late 70s and early 80s you could get along the Tyne side along the fence line also.

I can remember the days when a Peak was nearly always hauling the Liverpool train from Newcastle. So many times it seemed to be The Leicester And Derbyshire Yeomanry

What a magical look back at our BR Blue era! At 06:51 was the soundtrack of my Grandfathers back garden!! We lived on the Kings Cross line between New Southgate & Oakleigh Park in north London. Many thanks for sharing.

Often went up to Gateshead depot 80/81 and walk t9 the office to check what locos were in there. Spent man a weekend at Newcastle station. Good old days

I once saw the Flying Scotsman in this yard. I think it was around 1974. I took some photos but never got the film developed...damn! I also saw the Sir Nigel Gresley around the same time. There was something going on in the North East at the time regarding trains but I can't remember.

Wish i was around when this place was open, heaven! Proper trains! So much character! Never knew gateshead had a depot, shame its flats. Also least u can see where the sidings were on forth banks still. I love old trains, im a van driver and always around town in awe of some. Mainly freight trains

this is all new flats and houses now, great to watch, i played on this site when i was young!!

In fact I am 100% sure it is him , I noticed this video about 3 month ago and could not beleive it when I saw it , he finished his career driving HST 125 's ,the electrics were running but he did not get to drive them , so that will give you an idea when he finished, he is dead now and has been for about 10 years. He took me to York in the cab of a 47 and also up to Edinburgh in a HST , days I will never forget. Thanks for the video

Good grief, some excellent footage there. Twenty five years ago, seems like only yesterday. GD RIP.

I really like this video, it's a good job you were there to capture these old girls working, my fave era too - BR Blue!

White roofed vans full of chocolate from Rowntrees at York, as well as al the other memories. Never stood here, but I remember these days well on Teesside.

Hi , that was my Granda at 5 minutes and 6 seconds with the door open .He did 46 years on the footplate.

I am 90% sure that my granda was driving that 31 at 5minutes and 6 seconds , he worked on the footplate for 46 years . RIP

This is one of the best railway videos I've seen. I've worked at this location in the last few weeks and the railway has been really thinned out. It just shows the ammount of rail traffic that has been lost to the roads. This and the fact that coal power stations and coke works are few and far between. I'm now looking for more of the same. Someone out there must have miles of film that is begging to be transfered to computer and shown to a bigger audience. I used to have long hair and........

AH 37 003, remember seeing it at Stratford back in the 80s. Terrific Vid well done for sharing

great video i spent many hours there in the 80s to. Usually a quick trip on the metro as an central station interlude. I remember being refused entry to the shed one one occasion by an aslef picket line!! like a 14 year old could break a strike...............not everything about the old days was good!

Finest nostalgia vid on youtube. Wasn't the world a better place before the HSE. "It's a bit warm in the cab today, I know, I'll just leave the door open" Bliss. Greatness will never again befall us, because someone in a hi-viz vest will tell us it's too dangerous.

Sorry, I pressed the wrong key. Just to finish my comment below: We were spoilt back in those days as most trains were loco hauled and there was still plenty goods traffic. Great film and well done for having the forsite to make such a film, well done. Yes taking expensive camera equipment into the subway used to access the shed from the east end would have been a bit risky.

Great vids Jake, brings back great memories for me from 79-82. Travelled far n wide as a 14/15 year old. Doubt you’d allow your kids these days tbh

Excellent! I like the absence of high-vis vests..white shirts (sadly open-necked) seemed de rigeur then.

You'd see a single track running in the foreground where there were once four and a load of flatpack apartments built on the site of the depot. There's absolutely nothing left there of interest.

I used to watch the trains at the Gateshead TMD as a child. I don't think there are any trains left there nowadays!

This is really excellent stuff Mr A. - you obviously had top-of the range equipment at the time - ever thought of producing them commercially on dvd?? Was nice to see 37s before they were altered so much with all the modifications and new numbers. The weathering on the 56 isa treat to look at. I look forward to watching your other material on here. Well done! PS Some Claytons would have been nice - lol!

You can even see the old Redheugh Bridge in the background, now long since demolished.

I *think* I visited this spot on an all line rover back in june 1980, I was only 13! So long ago I gota job to remember. It all seemed so hum-drum back then, I didn't really take a lot of notice! The highlite at that time was some Deltic and class 40 haulage on the ECML. Everything was filthy BR blue and pretty much shagged right out! How times have changed and what I wouldn't give to go back there again today! Dam, I wish I'd made more of an effort to record back then.

Nice vid, brings it all back. Cheers. 5*

"Somewhere on the coast" is Dawdon (Seaham)

superb quality as usual

The guy at the very start looks like Kevin Hudspith, one of the founders of NELPG.

Nice to see the variety... You get an idea of how big a peak is too, not the smallest loco. They didnt have long to go at this point either

lewisner has it, Dawdon crossing on the coast.

now i haven't seen a brake van for a long while!

Vacuum braked freights and not a 66 in sight! Fuckin brilliant!!!!!!

wow 2 frieghts passing each other,those WERE the days!

Ahhh the good old days.

mad to think that in 1983 these locos were 25 years old or less; some class 66 must be nearly 20 years old now? still being a driver and getting such variation must have been good.

@37201xoim You know, when I think about it I am amazed that we were never mugged for what was £1,500 worth of video equipment considering some of the dodgy places trains took us!

Excellent

the gatshead yard site all the buildings have all gone know and and all the trains wagons have been scraped on the site know there are flats on the site so much has changed now

1:45 .................. that's some serious load for one class 37 to pull.

hey! It was trendy, just look at this vid, no need for apartments here.. Newcastle was the place i saw my first class 56,seems like another life time now!! Is there as much frieght passing by these days?

Heaven.

JAKE THE VIDEO WOULD BE EXCELLENT IF YOU DIDT HAVE WIND BLOWING IN THE MICROPHONE HAVE YOUE VEVR THOUGHT OF BUYING A MIC MUFFLE TO BLOCK OUT BACKGROUND NOISE LIKE WIND

mad thing is; when u shot this video, the locos were around 20 years old and looked old, video shot nearly 30 years ago! Feel old? lol.

ye know you look at times like these and and wonder what a right state todays railway is in without these places i miss the deltics anyone know the names of the deltics stationed here

That was an interesting working behind 47416 at 7:55. TPOs and poassenger Mk1 stock! Was this normal?

i want a time machine :-D

@aureol40012 It was seldom more than £1 in my case, on the basis that that was the content of my pockets at the time.......To be fair you could go anywhere in Tyne & Wear 20 times for that princely sum at the time, due to the socialistic folly of integrated and subsidised public transport - now we are much wiser of course...

Jesus. Don't know what to say, other than if it was him then respect to the man.

These days you'd probably have the local scallies throwing petrol bombs through the open door :(

top vid! makes the railways look boring now,bring back rail blue and the variety what was on offer. how come gateshead allocation was always scruffy?

good old days they were,1983 i might have been there that day? i see in google earth its all gone :-( what are they building there,don't tell me a shopping fucking centre??

Trendy apartments..........

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