Fascinating footage, EPBs at Holborn Viaduct closed 1990. The old Blackfriars station, 319 stock brought in for the Thameslink service, linking Bedford and Brighton opening 1988. The only rear-engined Routemaster built 1966, competing with Atlanteans and Daimler Fleetlines. Kings Cross Thameslink station closed in 2007, a lot of history asociated with it and making way for a new larger station just a little further up - St. Pancras International. Thanks for sharing.

Funny to think this was just 30 years ago yet so much has changed in this time.

Wow area surroundings totally different today.

Love the RT buses! I sometimes think people get confused between RTs and routemasters.

1990 time for the guru, guru josh

Awesome Video I Love the Routemaster Bus .

Funny to see class 317s in BR blue-grey livery, several years into the Network South-East era. I lived in Croydon at that time and I think all the trains in our area had been repainted by then, but a lot of trains on the Kent routes were still blue-grey with a small NSE logo below the door and the area logo (Kent Link) on a patch. I remember when NSE was first introduced, there was a promotion called Network Day and they had a book with some kids' activities and one of them was spotting a train in NSE colours. By 1990 it was rare to see them in the old colours in many places. Also, weird that a hybrid train would have its diesel engine running when going through north London. It would have been going somewhere like Hull and the diesel engine would only have not have been needed for hundreds of miles before it turned on to non-electrified track. What a waste of fuel!

Interior shots of FRM1, Class 91 powered HSTs / 125s haven't seen videos of these two subjects before.

Simultaneous electric and diesel-electric traction on a train had never ever crossed my mind.

Remember these slam door trains well as a kid.

Very excellent, I was at the event at Covent Garden , went on to drive FRM 1 a lost after 1990

Looks like they were testing the 225 on the front and had an old hst on the rear of the first intercity train, and the second one was reversed with the 225 on the back

this was a great line into the city if you lived in Kent or Dover . It was super fast

King's Cross Thameslink closed I think 2007. I went to Brighton from this station in 1999.

Which has now been replaced by City Thameslink station. Could of done one of Broad Street which was right next door to Liverpool Street station and close to Moorgate station.

I remember that sad looking building at Cannon Street very well, in my time in London, seen it rebuilt a few times, hopefully for the better in 2020, and although we now have St. Pancras International, closing King’s Cross Thameslink was a mistake, as a very handy connection without the need to walk such a vast distance to the station, should reopen it.

@0:28, I used to work in that grey building on the left, but my trains terminated at Cannon Street.

Was Holborn Viaduct at ground level or raised up, as I was never there, and can't find a picture can someone please help.

have you got anything either passing through or stopping at Snow Hill / Holburn Viaduct Lower?

I used to enjoy the section between Blakfriars and Holborn, travelling over Ludgate Circus with a fine view of St. Paul's. I was working in London when they closed Holborn station and replaced it with the soulless City Thameslink station.

have you got anything on broad street in the last days when they used 313s and 2epbs

Unfortunately I have nothing. I assume you refer to the old line, which I think closed a long time before this video was taken. Of course we can now see trains going through City Thameslink instead.

@class37100 No sorry, except I have an old audio cassette recording of a 2epb in the 80's (and many other classes too) but there's no picture, just sound.

who was the name of the person doing the voice for the calling of stations i know the man who did charing X some platforms at london bge and victoria was john elgar but who was female who did em at london bge and here

1:33 how did those departure boards change, and which stations had these?

I didn't know it existed 💀

Thameslink seating is too low like the kids. Needs replace and upgraded for new seating upper better than low. Is feeling uncomfortable low seat is on Thameslink trans!

Used it evey day when I lived in Blackheath, sadly missed, that route not pos now as most of thameslink are entirely for the Brighton ponce route

wow at ali pali a class 91 and 125 powercar at back where is the class 91 dvt ?

Hi, When I lived in London (70's), Hol' Viaduct was a terminus station, for trains coming over the river from the south. Is the stn now gone entirely? Apparently City Thameslink station now serves the same area, but has trains going north and south? And, in case you know, at the foot of Fleet Str, Ludgate Circus, there was a train bridge over the street. Is that still in use for any service? All the years I lived London, I don't think I ever saw a train roll over that bridge? Thanks

The film of the platforms, track and trains at the now-vanished Holborn Viaduct really starts at 2:20 and ends at 5:06 . The rest is other locations. From 2:30 one can see the Thameslink trains passing the throat of Holborn Viaduct and dropping down into the then new St Paul's Thameslink (now City Thameslink). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Thameslink_railway_station This shows that Network SouthEast delivered the original Thameslink service very quickly (between 1986 and 1990). Thameslink and the remaining service to Holborn Viaduct ran in parallel for only a few months before the terminus station was closed - and the site redeveloped. The name 'City Thamesliink' is meaningless and unattractive. The original name 'St Paul's Thameslink' should not have been discarded.

Trains Station 🚉

31 years ago London has changed so dramatically it's so unrecognisable and demographics have changed and the people too.

Alexandra palace in the good old days Still as busy but not the variety

I miss the London of the 1980's and very early 1990's. It was instantly recognisable. Now it's just another generic city. Places and people have changed beyond all recognition and not for the better.

they should of never closed it now some stupid yuppie block is there