Sad to see.Have great memories of these at Stockport.Used to see many of these lined up at Longsight depot from the train to Manchester Piccadilly on my train spotting jaunts. Glad to have seen these wonderful locomotives in action.Pleased that these images have been preserved.Job well done! Enjoyed watching although sad to see.Thanks for sharing.

It's sad to see these engines like this. I had most of these over Shap many times.August Bank holidays were a good bet for roarers on additional trains. Nothing like a class 81 on a rake of mk 1s. Gone but not forgotten!

Very Sad, but fantastic footage. Seen every loco featured in much happier times. Mainly at Euston.

Rock on Tommies! The 81-85's were also excellent: they produced such a loud "hum" when idling that if you had one sat at Longsight waiting to come off shed you could here the hum, like a distant electric razor, all the way to Newton Heath!

class 84 and 85... both of them "roared" at pull away...... ahhh the old days

@thehoff1982 One of each of class 81 - 85 have been preserved, Two of which we see here, the two Intercity liveried locos 82008 and 83015 are still alive but not currently in running order. Several 86s have been preserved as have a couple of 87s and the 89 which you mentioned, which is currently being restored and may run again, as may 85101! The roarers aren't entirely dead just yet! :-)

I did see a Class 86 in NSE colours at Crewe last week. I wonder how long it's been standing there as NSE was finished in 1996.

Farewell old electric railways, We hope plans in the future which is take place to build-up for Classic British Railway History of Museum.

the ac electric group have preserved a few electrics and their is an 87 in the NRM.

yes a couple of them looked as they had been on fire

Very sad to see these once proud loco's reduced to rusty silent ghost's, very sad indeed!! Would I be correct in thinking that the partly sheeted over locos are ''accident victims''?? Great filming by the way.

How many electrics have been saved? I know the class 89 is ok but what about class 82's or the later (and probably the most successful) class 87's?

Crewe. We all knew what that meant.

82008 at the start is preserved

Oh god!... Pretty sad isn't!... Should arrange plans of the nation building for railway museum all over the country anway. Oh dear loss of withdrawn by electric railway best isn't...

that's why the privatised TOCs paint up their fleets in garish yuppie-colours: the Pendelinos and DMs's that replaced these beasts do not deserve the honour of wearing the blue livery!

Bloody premature. These great locos had years ahead of them. The catenary ought to have been more extensive. Looks like we'll have to wire the lot at the last minute.

It's such a dull colour I think I'd rather have the sectorisation paint job thanks.

Didn't you jump up and have a sit in one of them i would of ((-: