This is how I remember Carstairs in the Late 70's & 80's loads of Class 47's hauling MK2 Carriages to and from Edinburgh & always some decent Scotish Class 47 in the sidings, the place was a hive of activity, I now pass there quite often heading South by Avanti Pendolino & there is no longer nothing to be seen there at the station, oh they were the days, Love the class 85 heading through with a freight North in the video, Brings back many memories, well done.

Excellent video and better days. How shite it all is now 👍😔

Started my railway career here nearly 38 years ago as a porter then a shunter .Now signal trains through here from the WSSC . All getting ripped up and remodelled next March . 39 mins Jim Lothian the wheel tapper and Derick Collins (RIP) shunter , I would have split the train probably as that was my shift 😊

Cracking vid, so much going on. The lean as they come off the Waverley line, bet that spilt a cups of tea in the cab . Crew leaping off moving loco's, obviously to go make another brew. The 37 propelling for miles,, heads out of all windows, straining to see past the ballast cleaner. The 86 with a Black headcode box. Varying arrays of jumpers on the front of the 86s. 85s on freight, claggy 37 on tanks.loads of Shunting. Glad you showed the shunter hooking on. Dirty bloody job. Excellent video. Thanks for posting. Ian ex BR,, son of a 44yr Driver. 😀👍

Brilliant video. Wish i was up Scotland up in those days bashing loco hauleds

Wonderful video and takes me right back to my childhood. I was 8 when this was filmed and I remember trains splitting/joining at Carstairs.

Talk about lean on the bends lol

Alway liked the INTERCITY livery with the full yellow ends.

Classic Vid , Absolutely amazing Locomotives before Privatisation ❤️Proper Trains also ❤️

Those were the days!! Oh, to be able to turn back the clock. Great to see 87009 too

never mind leaning loco's or health and safety, what about the statuary white socks worn by all the drivers and second men at that time!, great video, many thanks.

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT 😀. Thanks again for uploading this treasure trove of nostalgia. Main highlight for me was at 11m 36s. You've only gone and filmed the "Speedlink-Structure Flex" trial BAA steel wagon 900160 in a northbound consist. Got photos of this but never seen it on film 👍👍👍. Absolute Gold.

Fantastic video!! Thanks for posting this. My Dad used to work at the depot at Carstairs. Brings back a few memories. Real shame that the old station building has gone. Great to see the old BR rolling stock.

9:20 Driver's tea spills over the cab! 🚂👍

Cracking video. Miss those days when you could go out for the day and see 40 plus locos. These days you go out for just one or two things at best. Subscribed

Thoroughly enjoyed the video! Unfortunately I’m not old enough to remember these days at Carstairs so this footage is a real insight into the railway hub Carstairs once was.

Jeez, all that superelevation is giving me vertigo 😆 Excellent video. Didn’t think that I’d ever miss Classes 85/86/87 but here I am, getting nostalgic for the roar. Thank you so much for sharing 🙂

I really enjoyed that

Having been born there just across from the station ( from a railway family ), now many moons ago, its great to see the old station as it was not as it is today a box on the platform...I remember also the whole junction was covered by 5 signal boxes....many day was sat on the platform on summer holidays...

HSE would have nightmares watching this lol. How I remember the railway. British railways at it's best. 👍😎

We did 47006 all day on Carstairs runs, lost date but between 30th June and 20th July

Great to watch, thanks a lot.

Superb video

Some fantastic footage. Thks for sharing, I have just subbed.

Fantastic thrash

..... the amount of times I travelled through there to and from home and my posting north of Aberdeen in the 1980s..... many many many times.

Excellent

Got any more of these gems hidden away? Great memories

Action.

Nice action, the counter inclination coming from Edinburgh though, supposedly this was done to get the right inclination in the curve of the mainline.

This is peak Carstairs.......today its totally changed with little of interest. Any footage of the splitting and joining operations??? I can only find one clip of the final Caledonian sleeper joining up in the pitch dark......

This is excellent. Any more from the 1980s?

I don't think any London trains stop at Carstairs Junction anymore except for the overnight sleeping train from Edinburgh/Glasgow?I've been off there from the sleeper and walk to Carstairs to get a bus to Lanark pretty forlorn place as I recall.It's just called Carstairs now although Carstairs Junction and village are separate places.

Wednesday 26th July 1989 was a rail strike, so almost certainly 25th

Why are they leaning so much ? Im not a rail expert, just curious if anyone knows why the lines on those bends are seemingly not level. Thanks.

Any ideas what days in July 89' this was? You got the 12.47 to Plymouth twice! I may have seen in Bristol! Thanks

Another great video. The normal sequence for south bound portion trains (one portion from Edinburgh Waverley and the other from Glasgow.Central) was for the Waverley portion to arrive first into Plt 2. It ran through and sat in a siding just North of the station. The Glasgow portion would then arrive into Plt 2 and the Waverley portion would shunt back into it. Presumably the reason the Waverley portion at 1:40 used Plt 1 was that arrived late and the Glasgow portion was already occupying Plt 2. The more typical sequence is seen later. The 37 with the PWay thing. I saw it shunt then presumably use the triangle to turn, I then expected it to depart South with the 37 leading, but the last we saw was it heading North with the 37 on the rear. Couple of interesting things flying past, a DVT the "wrong" way round at the rear of a South bound express and a full brake NSE livery coach at the front of another South bound express.

Absolutely dreadful ‘Rambo’ on film, if you know, you know!