Worked at Shirebrook as a guard in the 70s good times, Even in the slurry and rain in Clipstone loaded sidings!

Brilliant! Memories of working with MGR’s at Fiddlers & Silverdale. BR thrashed those ”Choppers”, still going though, just a few, testament to that great British company English Electric, sadly no more.

This is a great reference for freight and mgr modellers. Thanks for posting. Oh what if they had camera capabilities and clarity of today!

Oh what a great memory jerker this was. Thanks for sharing and i have subscribed 👍

That was excellent, some great memories.

Great stuff and memories, thanks. I remember going all the way from Sevenoaks, Kent to spend the day spottin MGR traffic at Retford, only for there to of been a 4.5 hour power failure at Worksop, by which time it was getting dark by the time the back-logged onslaught started lol! I wasn't too happy eh hehe. . . At least i can look back and say, having had the honour of a loco-driver for a girlfriend briefly, many years later, made up for that! And all the other bad days out in 25 years of spottin! :D

Some great footage. I used to maintain the signalling on this area. Up to 100 coal trains I’d see in a single shift. Nothing now.

Superb set of video's.

the 2 class 20s ar 2 mins 30 looked like they was struggling with this coal train up that hill but they wasn't! never underestimate what these little EE loco's are capable of!!! Good old-school video also nice to see some class 58 loco plus some grid action 🥰😍🤩

Excellent footage 👍

Memories!

This is X-rated stuff! More please!

We’ve all grown use to the sight of 20s on our railways, still, but when you think about it they are a bit like birds being the descendants of dinosaurs! All the other similarly designed pilot scheme locos had gone by the 70s, often only having a life span in the tens of months. They were unlike any other loco on the network with their archaic body design (single cab), low power, etc., but their usefulness was unparalleled, especially in pairs.

Great film I enjoyed it

Excellent

loved these little whistling beast loco's I miss the Tinsley Tmd days in the mid 1980s as there was always 6 or more choppers chirping away to each other at the depot!!! I will never forget them days as a kid i was about 12 best days ever!!! 🥰😍🤩

well done as im building this in my back garden in O gauge. retford dive under . manton colliery to west burton.

Where is the deep cutting and the hills?

Think it’s around Shirebrook mate…..

Look, no Graffitti, when Britain was still mostly British and still civilised