What critics don't understand is that many enthusiast's have commented on here because they hold, as I do, many memories as children of days spent outside in what seemed like endless summers and indeed snowy winters enjoying an innocent hobby with friends before entering the rat race. It wasn't just about collecting numbers. No it was the thrill of the chase, the saving of dinner and pocket money and buying a ticket to far off stations and depots and not telling our parents. By the age of 15 in 1982 I had visited dozens of places from Edinburgh to Bristol, London to Newcastle and most places in between. At that age and in that era I felt I had seen the world! When I see a Deltic it takes me back to a cold winter morning just south of Preston circa 1981 when 55 022 Royal Scots Grey thundered past under Skew Bridge, a rare sight round these parts of this mystical Class! Its not just about lumps of metal, its a link to our childhood and the short sighted cynics cant take that away.

I would PAY to get one of those cabs!!!!

People seem to be forgetting that, at the end of the day, these are just machines that have served the purpose they were built for, and after their usefulness, their material worth was more than any preservation attempt was able to fund. I mean come on, it's a shame that a 22 or a baby deltic wasn't preserved, but it isn't exactly a shame that all 228 near identical choppers weren't preserved

Seeing this was pretty sad, but at least these locos all had a good life. Some of their brethren live on in preservation, and that's important too. So while it's sad seeing several generations of locomotives cut up, it is an unfortunate side effect of progress, in politics, finance, and technology.

Seems a real shame to see these classic British locomotives cut up into scrap. It also seems a shame britain is incapable of even producing its own railway stock and having to import all this euro crap we have now. Shame it couldn't have been a similar story to the 47s, where a selected few were reengined, improved and reclassified as 57s. Also I know this is a bit off topic but, the new HS2 rail link, a project we have no money to produce, is absolute rubbish, and only cuts about 10 minutes off the original journey time. The people in charge of Britain's railway need to get their act together.

Bereft of live, languishing as scrap metal after being the unsung work horses of British Railways for so many years....a sad sight...but superbly captured...Thanks....Bob

The 45s were my dad's favourite class

"Are you picking up any communications?" "Too many to decipher... I can hear thousands of trains, all calling out to each other.... this is where all trains go to die..."

Touching...Poignant...Sad. The sense of loss is presented in such a way that even those (like me) who know almost nothing about steamtrains will shed a tear. Perfect song, as well. It seems like they are only empty shells of great locomotives, and at the end, the way the numbers were leaning against the wall, seemed like tombstones, the death markers of the steamtrain era.

best youtube advert ever.

If anyone's interested, the song is 9 crimes by damien rice.

this is one of the best videos on youtube .yes it is a crime all these engines kept the uk on the go with freight passengers going to work mail . paper trains a lot of people dont no this thank you for sharing this video 5/5

made me shed a tear

Even though I never saw some of the classes featured, It still saddens me to think that years of hard work that went in the designing, building and testing are destroyed in the swing of a crusher. Proper Loco's in here! Thank god for the preservation movement eh? Brilliant footage matey, thanks for sharing. Cheers.

Very sad to see the waste of good metal. I'm from that era and I can't replace those memories with pictures...ever. I should have known it would sadden me to see the neglect. Thank you for memory lane.

At least in UK still have many preserved units. In my country all passengers trains are scrapped! This is what a real crime!

2:24 R.I.P. D199 lies here

Instead of getting depressed over locomotives lost, I would rather celebrate the ones we still have.

@08crouchr - That is what makes preservation so important today & the pure hard work & love goes into looking after & restoring what is now left . Sadly the glory days of British engineering is gone but it still lives on with some of the skills & knowledge being utilised today up & down the country on preserved railways...

Great vid, thanks for uploading. Quite sad to watch, especially the last shot of the cabside numbers, almost like gravestones to a reminder of a once great industrial past.

Great memories of my trainspotting days.

great choice of song by the way - usually hate music on videos but this really adds to the sombre mood.

Poor old class 45s. Ah well, at least they did save a couple, because I secretly want one...

I will burst into tears when the HST's and the 225s are stacked up ready to be scrapped ;-;

I haven't been born in the greatest era of steam but I give my respect because they helped us push through hard times to were we are now, I am looking forward to the day when I'll be able to purchase one of these behemoths and restore for revenue freight.

I'm not that big a fan of trains and by no means a spotter, but I can see/feel the sadness in this. Even just the old blue and yellow livery is sad to see, now that it's gone. For me, this is like seeing a graveyard full of crashed Cessnas :-(

great video & sound track of a very sad scene .. that if witnessed first hand stays with you as I recall my memories of Booths,Vic berrys back in the days..!

I CAN SYMPATHISE WITH YOU,I WAS A FRIEGHT TRAIN GUARD IN THE 70s AND REGULARLY WORKED TRAINS IN AND OUT OF COHENS YARD AND ALSO DOWN TO TYWELL TO BRING OUT THE GRIT,SADLY NOW ALL OF THESE SIDINGS HAVE GONE.

Those number plates at 3:24 are like tombstones, each one celebrates the life and death of an engine.

this gets me every time! this montage is absolute genius. the song is perfect (nine crimes, damien rice). is it possible that you could redo it with better quality audio as it does tend to crackle and break slightly near the end?

I worked at Metro cammell in the 90's at the time they were building the night sleeper (white elephant) stock, sat all over the country for years looking for an owner, some of the finest carriages ever built rotting, the laminates were peeling off and 1000's of mattresses got chucked, the rats had been at them. One Guy did camper conversion with some of the parts from the skip.... and there were many many stair cases and halls carpets in the £75/SQ/MTR carpet that was used on the trains...

crying shame - watched these leviathons when i was a boy and marvelled at their grace and power they dont deserve this

yes, it was sad to see those old engines, but they had there day,and will always be remembered,,

neptune, 45 028, ajax - gets me every time!

It's a shame but also we in Britain, lost too many classes and now only 3 of the 6 A4's left will steam.

R I P alot of happy memorys with almost all of those locos

when my dad was younger he used to play in scrap yards one day he came across an class 31 front end at the far back of the scrap he said it was an shame to lose sutch an powerfull locomotive! :(

oh my god! it looks like Islamic State invaded Sodor

It is sad to see so many going down like that. It's like the SRN4 hovercrafts: soon there will only be 1 or 2 left as the others will all get scrapped, as the SRN4s did.

It's a Crime...

I find it funny when people ask to bring back Steam, you can see mainline steam almost every weekend at most major stations, if you know your timings. A lot of steam locomotives are also oil fired rather than coal. Also, consider the fact that the last train built in the UK was steam, only a few years ago, steam is alive and well.

Awe look at their wee faces, I can hear them say please help me :-( I know I've been watching to any kids movies where a trashed and scrapped robot is saved just as it is about to drop in to the crusher!!

Nice vid mate.have liked and subscribed :)

I'm going to be crying when the networkers will be stacked up ready to be scrapped. ;(

sorry for my lack of knowledge (still learning) are these class 50's?

But in year 2040 we'll probably see class 70's in there to

Anybody for a restoration project?

RIP you will always be remembered

Electrification (particularly overhead electrification) requires considerable maintenance, so is not a one-off payment.

Hi, The yard was in Glasgow next to St Rollocks. Its All gone now though.

when I was a kid in the late 60's and up to the 80's there was a scrapyard in Kettering, Northants called Cohens that had old steamtrains and underground trains. It had its own railwaytrack leading to it. It was a great place to play but rather sad. I used to live next to a signal box too. We had a railway line at the bottom of our garden. I really miss the old carriages with the compartments. Great pics but sad

R-I-P, Sorry to hear the loss

@steamfandan It would have been cheaper to "modernise" the older locos than building new ones anyway. Retrofit them with Euro V compatible engines, higher output generators and new drive motors, while retaining their classic lines outside. Even the Dash 9, the worlds most powerful diesel locomotive only gives an "afterthought" reference to aerodynamics

Wasn't aware any of the Big Boys were still serviceable - I thought 5 still existed but none could be steamed.

Leave me out with the waste This is not what I do It's the wrong kind of place To be thinking of you It's the wrong time For somebody new It's a small crime And I've got no excuse Is that alright? Give my gun away when it's loaded Is that alright? If you don't shoot it how am I supposed to hold it Is that alright? Give my gun away when it's loaded Is that alright Is that alright with you? sorry i just miss the old version of this video

And to think that recycled metal probably went into something completely unnecessary, like somebody's bloody Ipad. These engines served their time to the very end, and were met with a harsh fate.

this looks like the north british locomotive works in springburn glasgow

What class of locos replaced them lot probably 60's 66's and 67's

Agree 100%. I had hoped Blair in his 2nd term would have renationalised coal, the railways, water, electricity gas etc. but no. SNCF do it, so can BR !

Progress my arse. Sorry to sound like Jim Royal. Thankyou MrStapletonRoad for posting and recording this for posterty.

@tuptontrainspotter Your observations are spot on buddy, a very short sighted decision to destroy so many locos that still had plenty of life left in them. Thanks for checking the clip out. Eddie

45115 'Apollo', met you briefly at Leeds R.I.P.

I'm not a big train fan but I am nostalgic about them. I'm old enough to remember the old carriages with compartments and I travel on the train daily now and they don't have any character. Those stupid electric doors between carriages are annoying. It depends if you are old enough to remember them. There was a time when the whole country was criss crossed by traintracks but now they are all gone. I think thats a crime.

so many 20s and peaks

August '92, I was a year old...

well spotted..I served my time at the 'Caley" 76- '83.......(aka St Rollox - the birthplace of locomotive manufacturing over a hundred years ago) I went to Australia - never came back

@kamz556 "Dont leave me out with the waste, this is not what I do".

a part of our british history

Does anyone else think its sick that they have both cabs from the same loco next to each other? It's like your head being burried next to your arse when you die. 45 128's main generator failed, that's why she was withdrawn, the rest of her was fine - what an epic waste! R.I.P old friends.

R.I.P CLASS 31,50,2O.....ALL OFF THEM! :(

ive driven most of these at some time..............and also dragged them to scrap yards in the 80,s

@thehoff1982 Which would make them two storeys tall. Dash 9s work some of the longest iron ore trains in the world in Western Australia, sometimes with up to 9 locomotives spread throughout the train

rest in place my favorites traiins :(

Electric locomotives per mile are considerably cheaper than diesel, but the cost of the infrastructure required (overhead electrification) is far higher.

The Class 142s are still going strong, drat. They were UK made

Least some got saved.What about D5905,the only Class 23 of ten,kept at the RTC? The Baby Deltic Society are having to build a replica from a Class 37,as a "cut & shut" & it'll never get mainline clearance.If someone had saved the shell,the engine from 37372 could've been used. The biggest shame was the loss of HS1 Kestrel to the Soviet Union.The prototype ended up used,then dumped.DP1 "Deltic" was only rescued cos it was stored in the Science Museum.

C:F booths are going to be the end of me

20 years on.....has this all gone now?

Can they recyle them and make good use of them ?

they had so many stories to tell :'(

Gawd remember going behind 45141 from Rotherham masb to Leeds back in the day shame to see her like this. Think i'll just remember her thrashing away in the summer sun....

Such a shame. I feel extra bad about this because i was born in 1992. It's simply no way to treat a machine that loyally slaves for us during service, only to be thanked by the crusher.

those trains had so much more character then the crap on the railways nowadays that have to stop cause of a stray leaf on the line!!!!

the first 30 class 56 locos were . the rest were built by BREL in doncaster and crew .

so sad to see the old gals in that state bring them back to life to work again

Hopefully 37372 will one day emerge as D5910.

well these antiques are gone now nobody cares that they served a big part in every day life thank you for sharing this im subscribing

Only No.1 End cab of 50 046 featured.... No.2 End left 3 days earlier on 07/8/92

and part of transport history

It's a shame to see them go, but not every old train can be kept.

Time goes on the same things were said when the steam engines were scrapped and will no doubt be said when todays engines go.

All British built, all gone, now we have no facilities to build our own, we now have to rely on foreigners to build loco's for us, when at one time we were world leaders, sad sad sad, R.I.P Thanks for sharing, cheers...Bill

The large number of UK locomotives were converted to oil-firing after World War II. A fair number of UK locos are still oil fired, or have the option to be coal or oil fired. Either way the number of UK locomotives that are oil fired on the main line (or otherwise) today is irrelevant, the point being made was "We can't have steam because coal pollutes the air too much" - which isn't true, as we DO have steam, and we DO have alternatives to coal.

So many years of glory to end like junk in the yard...Very sad

People could live in those!

Would like one of those cabs for the garden dont think my mum would let me 🤔😂

HOW DARE THEY RIP UP THEM BEAUTIFUL TRAINS IT IS FREAKING CRIME 😡😡😡😡😤😤😤

Didn't know that, least that is something. I went to Doncaster works when the had huge great steam hammer there, fair shook the ground.

sadly you cant save them all

well steam isnt poluting but oil is BRING ME A GOD DAMN STEAM TRAIN AMERICA I NEED TO RIDE JUST ONE