So many memories for me in just one journey. You even had my former bedroom in your thumbnail. The first orange brick building to the left of Blackpool Sth platform. The devs have left the outline of my attic bedroom window in the roof, but didn't add it. Between 1983 and 1985, I was still at junior school. I didn't need an alarm clock for mornings though. The first DMU of the day would screech metal against metal as it came to a stop at the platform, and that would wake me. What stopped me falling back to sleep, was the idle chug of the diesel engine, which resonated enough to vibrate the entire building, and me in the bed. I was literally vibrated awake every morning. Then in 2017, I worked on the Blackpool Nth to Preston electrification, and witnessed the saddest end to two landmarks. The signal box demolition at Carleton Crossing (Poulton-Le-Fylde), and the other was just as you come on to the main line during this video. The large signal box on the short run into Kirkham and Wesham station was savaged with wrecking buckets, and unceremoniously smashed to bits. They were only just taking the second rail away around the time featured in the video, hence the piles of sleepers near the Pleasure Beach. The grey bridge near the rollercoaster is where the Pleasure Beach station sits today, with a bigger, stronger red bridge instead. Pontins to the right of Squires Gate station is long gone, and is all housing. They were talking at one point in running trams off and on at Squires Gate to use the rest of this line to circle back round the long gone Fleetwood line, to loop the entirety of the Blackpool Tramway. Were you talking about Witch Wood Lytham? I used to walk the dog there too. If you search the channel ADVENTURE ME, he has the entire history of Blackpool's stations in 3 videos. The most fascinating 'lost' station was the one that actually sat at the end of Blackpool Sth's platform once. On the bend at the first bridge (Station Rd) They didn't demolish this station as you would imagine though. Instead, some loon bought it, and moved it brick by brick, and plank by plank to Rough Heys Lane, where it still stands as 14/16 Rough Heys Lane today. That channel's video has some amazing old footage of Blackpool in greater times. Thanks for the trip Joe 😁

I'm from Widnes/Hough Green, I used to love the 142 pacer as a kid.

There is only one platform in use at St Anne's. The other one isn't very noticeable and hasn't got any buildings and a shelter anymore.

Great video, love this new addon!

Pleasure beach station I believe is a mastery achievement

watched your video and bought it cant wait to for it to download going to play it in vr using praydogs vr mod have you tried it i use a quest 3 and its so real to life being in the cab in vr you really should try it you will never go back to flat screen

Moss side sounds like Mossad

Put the bounce factor to 200 and you really see some bounce.

A thing that I find quite cool is that on different sections s of track depending on wether it is continuously jointed or not impacts how much it bounces

Tbh DTG could make a timetable for 1986/1987 , just the 40s and 45s are gone with 47s and 37s together with 20s 31s and the 101s mostly pacers and shortened

18:42 don't think they do anymore, think they used to until few years ago

Love the class 142 miss them 😢

i never really seen any trains that went between Blackpool South and Ormskirk

What's up the line next to Poulton

Where’s the pleasure beach station?

Hi

is it me or does Simrail look better

Railbuses & Pacers are the worst