what a treat! Thanks for posting

the photograher on the end of platform at circa 9mins and 5 seconds is me at 23 years old - this was taken on thursday 7th May 1987 i was on day 1 of 3 day anglia rover coveing last few days of diesel haulage on norwich - london services

Ahhh my local station, sadly I am too young to have any experience of these old trains, i've rarely catch trains from here, and 90% of the time it's a Class 90 train. Still, nothing beats the lovely Norfolk breeze.

I moved to Norwich in December 1986. It's great to be reminded of how it was back then. Thank you Soi Buakhao for sharing your great collection of videos for the rest of us to see.

This was a smart time to get some footage at Norwich because it would have been a different scene just weeks later. I know all the wires are in place but this was in fact the final moments of pre-electric era traction at Norwich which makes it very historic now. I lived very local to here from '92 to 09 and it was all 86s in intercity (by that time with DBSOs on the back) and mostly Sprinters on the local lines, with still the occasional 47 on specials to Gt Yaremouth etc. and the occasional visiting 3xx emu from further south. Colourful times on reflection. Never to be repeated.

Wolverhampton parcels 31 x 9 at 18.30. Brummie at 18.40 31 x 4 or 5.;19.30 highlight freight 31 or 37 (rare) and up to 60up Heather bank.

Great video of a proper railway. All you need is semaphore signals and no overhead wires. LOL! Try Great Yarmouth ! I loved 47s. By the time this video was taken, you would have had a loco change at Ipswich as the 47s no longer worked through to Liverpool Street. For 4 consecutive years, I travelled to Great Yarmouth 18 out of 20 summer Saturdays chasing 47/0s and 47/3s - that is 72 Saturdays. Scored 08s, 31s, 37s, two 37/7s, 47/4s too. On the GEML, I cabrode 21 x 86s and 21 x 90s, plus 47s to Yarmouth and from Cambridge, and 67 020 to Lowestoft ! I also ride a 66 from North Walsham to Parkeston. First job offer on the railway was Booking Office Clerk at Manor Park, but accepted CO2 Accident Officer at East Side Offices Kings Cross instead. No shift work, weekends or bank holidays worked.

The 31 hauled train at the beginning was from Birmingham I reckon ! The Pilot came onto it to haul the coaches back so it could run around !

What a great video, I spent a lot of my time in Norwich over the years, brought back some great memories. And even now they still only use a two car DMU for Yarmouth, gets a bit crowded on matchdays.

Class 31’s , good reliable work horses, unfortunately most times tatty , filthy and unloved . Living in Chelmsford at the time of this video I well remember the immaculate Stratford 47’s with white roofs . Great memories , thank you Soi .

Another great video, thank you.

I bought a car magazine from the WH Smiths at Norwich station May '87. It cost £4 even then [which was a massive amount as most car mags were around £1.60] I still have it ! [ Top Wheels ]

They delay an arrival from London form a pilot and an LE class 47 ! WTF ! It always seem to be the around this time you were delayed outside Norwich station awaiting a platform !

I wish these days were still with us. Sigh

1976. 8 x Class 25. 2 x Class 40 and 5 x Class 37. Copped all in one day. I cheated I worked in Norwich parcels...

Cool video mate

Nice one, brings back many memories. Thank you,

Lovely stuff, though a lot of character was lost when the track was remodelled. Good to see plenty of first class accommodation on the London trains, as well as the excellent restaurant - it was a great loss to lose that. And very soon we'll lose the ability to stick a head out of the window.

Great Stuff.

Good old stuff.

Amazing how much shunting had to be done back then! When did the dbso carriages come into use? Must have made life a lot easier when they did come

The Stratford boys liked to keep their locos clean.

my three grand fathers were drivers on the railway at Norwich. Only one of them was alive and working at this time.

Stratford class 47's always looked a bit special though didn't they, rare as hens teeth anywhere away from region, one time I was at Newport when 577 was on a pompey and I saw it coming out of the tunnel,didn't know what it was but it was definitely not a canton loco so I ran from plat3 to the ticket office bought a rtn to Bristol then ran back across to catch it, bloody know I couldn't do that now lol

Second Gen DMU's didn't take over the local services here until as recently as 1993.

Surprised that it wasn't 1 47 brings in the inbound train in, and a second rolls in to bring it back out, and so forth, as was seen in other termini stations during loco hauled days.

Very tidy rakes of rolling stock on the London trains, although Inter-City livery always looked rather dull on Mk 2's to me. Blue & grey was far superior. The 47s all looked very well cared for, good to see that Stratford's standards didn't slip after they no longer worked into London regularly.

Some of those mark 3 coaches are still in service. Remarkable value I guess considering a lot of them built in the 70s but bloomin' awful as a disabled passenger. I don't think Greater Anglia operate them anymore.

It's a real shame to see all this variety has diapered these days it's just 755s and 745s

Now look at the shite we have got at Norwich today!!...

Was that the London train

When Britain actually HAD a railway system...

The good old days. BR electrified Norwich and the ECML with the minimal fuss. I would not trust Network Rail to hang a washing line let alone electrify a line. The seem to be very good at growing Buddleia though.

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