I liked locos best but also chased the old DMUs & EMUs who's days were numbered. In fact i filmed just about anything that happened to be around as video tape was so cheap compared to cine film, that's how i've got new Sprinters on film, 155 for instance before they were split into 153s.

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus That's why I enjoy your output. Incidentally, how many videos do you think you can make, with the footage you have left? One of the problems I see with people who make videos like yours, is that they focus on the locos, but not what was being hauled... and I wonder how many edit out the rest of a rake of coaches or wagons (as opposed to stopped recording when the footage was filmed) because they didn't find that interesting, they assume no-one else will too. For example, the foggy Oxford video you did recently shows the coach formations of loco-hauled. As a railway modeller that intends to replicate the line out of Paddington, footage like that is invaluable because it allows me to create prototypical formations, unlike a photo where the loco is the primary focus, and the depth of field means that the types of coaches (TSO/BFK/FK/CK) can be difficult to establish because of the background blur. The same would apply for a speedlink train, where there's a variety of types of wagon in the formation, or a parcels train with different coach types.

Loads! I had 56 VHS tapes of approx 3 hours each, and that's just BR vids. Then there's Underground, and Routemasters, and London Buses in general. Then some provincial buses, some DLR, some Heritage lines and now i'm into aviation. Plus i still video, so there's a fair bit still to get up! I won't run out anytime soon! Enjoy! ps-and there are some quirky places where i chased units in the main, any loco activity was a bonus (like an 08 trundling through Brundell when i was doing Anglia DMUs).

That's how it was with slam door stock. You never stood too near the edge of the platform unless you wanted a trip to hospital......

A family friend was a crank signalman on the LTS and worked mainly on the Tilbury loop so being at Laindon was a bonus for me one fine summer evening.

I'm pleased to see you working your way through my uploads. The Hertford East one with the 306 probably has you in it somewhere lurking in the back cab! A mate of my father was a Bobby along the LTS (and RVP member) and even though the station closed the box was still there as it controlled the main line, and did so until Upminster IECC took control. When you looked at the size of the place you could only imagine how busy it must have been to warrant such facilities in a way out place like Tilbury! I take you have now retired from the Car Sheds?.....

Thanks Soi. Tilbury was one of those places that dropped off the map, and became a weed strewn backwater. My father and the rest of his family were Tilbury residents in the late 20s and Dad could recall delivering newspapers to the newspaper stall on the concourse and had to supply the ships. One of the P&O ships he delivered to set sail with him on board having missed the call for all shore staff to disembark. He then found himself having to leave the ship via the Pilot cutter somewhere off Gravesend and had a long journey back. Yes, Ilford and the Car Sheds have been a distant memory for 8 years now, although there is still contact with a few - but the reminiscing continues with your excellent videos👍

the LTS iis my old stomping ground and warts n all i love the 302s 😃

I have film of that, i'll have to make it a future upload!

I'm pleased you like it. I have more film from the LTS line which i will upload over time.

I used to stand on the District Line platforms between Barking and Upminster and you could hear the buzzing quite loudly on a wet day!

I remember M&B, a huge great place. You could see where it had a rail connection in the past, the District Line cabel runs go up & over at one point near the end of the wall that parallel's the eastbound District where the siding was. Now a housing estate i presume?....

they got a bloody hotel now at the old M+B maingate as Dag East 😞

It's how life was back then, and your rarely saw anyone too close to the platform edge for that very reason!

Tilbury is a ghost town now with regards to shipping.....although the whole of the Tilbury loop line is one big building site, there are lots of new homes being built along the route.

I used to driver buses in Laindon, the red London ones that worked the evening service on the 8B & 8C but that was around 2006/07 time. It seemed a nice place, i never had any trouble there unlike on some of my London routes......

The West Coast line doesn't go to Derby ..... Plus there are no wires there! Perhaps you mean Rugby?.....

In those days people just got off and if there was no one else behind them the Guard &/or platform staff or maybe the Driver would do it. As the train was a terminator the train crew would shut doors as they walked along the train. Travelling then was different as most BR stock was slam door.

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Ah, didn't realise the train was terminating, that makes it less outrageous!

Thank you.

Thanks for your memories... I lived in East Ham and apssed the Depot many times on the District Line......

​​@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I lived in Little Ilford, it was a 5 minute walk to East Ham depot. I have recently found one of the old 302s, well, only the driver trailer coach 302 201 at a railway museum. Its called "Mangapps railway and museum" in Burnham-on-crouch. I will be on my way there this year, with photos of her when she was a 4 car unit. I can't wait to get back in the cab.

@@cornwallkev201 I've been to Mangapps, i have a mate who lives in Southminster. I also lived around 10 mins walk from East Ham Car Sheds until the mid 90s, lots of freight trains ran at the bottom of my garden, along with RT buses on route 147.....

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus oh I know where you were. You had the old barking to gospel oak line behind you. Ah, yes, the old misery route. The 147. Church Road, Browning Road, Ilford to Canning Town. I think, years ago, the 147 did go as far as Romford in the evening time, or was that the 86 or 25?

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus did you find Mangapps interesting?

That's just how it was in slam door days, you never stood too near the edge of the platform unless you wanted to find out where the nearest A&E was!

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I think in those days it was still called "Casualty" ! Great post, great memories - can almost smell the brake dust, thanks.

It's what we did back in the days of slam door trains, great fun!

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@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus The slammers were the best !

@@doveronefoxtrot4417 I have more from this line, and all before the 310s arrived! I will get up over time.....

Thanks for the update, i never realised it had changed so much although i did know the signal box had gone.

@@kirkwitney2919 my Dad's mate was the signalman, Loren Field..... In the 90s, when I was on the footplate he signalled my freight trains a few times!

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Loren was a Tilbury GP relief, I was Barking GP Relief but worked most of the boxes. I used to love it when the frieght liners used to come to riverside to turn lol

I do have film from Hertfordshire. DMUs on the St Albans Abbey line, DMUs + loco hauled on the Bedford-Bletchley line, the class 306 unit on the Hertford East line along with other units at Broxbourne spring to mind. I'll see what i can get up.

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Really hoping to hear St. Margarets and Ware crossings in the 1990s. They had louder klaxon alarms that I never got to record

310 & 312s could work together (but top speed had to be the lower 75mph of the 310 rather than the 90 of the 312) as could 302/5/8. But each group couldn't couple work together due to different elictrics. They could however be coupled to gether for ECS moves and to push a failed train out of the way.

The ferry still runs but the Tilbury Riverside station closed in 1992.

Yes, BR had wanted to close it for years. The reason for its existance had long since passed, the only regular sea traffic was the Gravesend Ferry that at one time belonged to the railway (indeed the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, and later the LMS, had a booking office in Gravesend where you could book through to London Fenchurch Street via the ferry). The train crew depot had closed in the 1980s and the Tilbury loop services were sent via the avoiding line (except 2 morn & evening peak workings) so that the service was provided by a shuttle from Upminster, which is how the service ended in 1992.

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus at least the main station building survives in an alternative use to the railway

They could have done so much more with Tilbury Riverside. They could have lalved the platform numbers and made really big car parks then done a non stop service to Fenchurch Street. I commuted from 1988 and this was a very popular idea along with others.

Ah! That explains why it wasn't done then, can't have good ideas followed up on the railway can we.......?

Before they were refurbished the original bogies on the 302s were Gresley bogies and you got a supurb ride! Used to go to Chalkwell & Southend on these as a child, before Basildon Station had been built!

I agree I hate the 357s

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I remember reading somewhere, many years ago, that when Basildon station was built, the platforms were made too high and so the carriage doors couldn't be opened. Not sure how they rectified that.

@@jerribee1 I don't recall that at all....the slam door train doors were quite high up from the platforms in those days, so it would have had to been extremely high platform which i'm sure would have been noticed, the trains were still running through when they were building the place!

Tilbury Riverside was on a little branch line with a London side branch going to Fenchurch and the lines you mention going away to Pitsea. At one time all Tilbury loop trains went into Tilbury Riverside and reversed and carried on either Up or Down. In the peak only a couple of trains went direct (todays route) by-passing TR all together. At one time there was a Train Crew Depot there until they routed the trains away when it shut with crews going to Shoeburyness and East Ham. After the station shut in 1992 the signal box stayed open until the route was re-signalled.

they might well have tried, but it must have come to nothing the thing was that there was nothing wrong with those slam doors as long as you knew how to deal with them proper in a way it was a bit like RT or routemaster buses - if you want to risk alighting while the old hows-your-father is still in motion then its down to you

Strictly speaking it was against the Bye-laws to open the doors on a moving train but it was never enforced.

Ah I see , was this the case until 2005 when the last slammers went ?

I believe it's still the case, no doors to be opened until the train stops moving. Charter Mk1 stock only has bolts on the doors so you could open a day on the move!

A mate of mine got nabbed at BNS and was taken to court. I think he got a £25 fine.

It's how life was back then, you didn't stand too close to the edge of the platform for that very reason!

I wondered why the the yellow line was so far from the edge, could be because of the slam doors?

@@dominicfindlay Some signs warned of passing trains causing turbulence The yellow line was there for you to know how far back to stand without the risk of getting caught by the turbulence, not just passengers opening doors early, don't forget this line had a lot of freight via the tilbury branch that could thunder through fast as well - hence why the lines are still in situ As for the passengers opening doors early, and jumping off the train first, they would jump off the train rush up the stairs, only for the passengers getting off the train last to catch them up and beat them through the ticket barrier (and earn filthy stares), as they rushed to go nowhere

That's how things were back then, you never stood near the platform edge when a train was arriving less you'd have a free trip to hospital!

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I beg your pardon?!

@@robeycleaverland2155 On slam door trains people opened doors when the train was arriving at a station, sometimes long before it stopped. Communter trains especially,the passengers were off and running before the train had stopped! So you never stood near the edge of a platform less you get hit by an open door......

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It was an art. Like how passengers would hop and off the Routemasters.

Yes, it had an accident and had a driving coach replaced by an Man-Bury one as they had spares from that line after service cuts.

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus we always looked out for it at either Upminster or at Barking sheds.

Always have to be a bit carefull of filming people direct, but yes now, it would have been nice to hear off the clunks.....

I was there that day although didn't stay till late. Have you seen my last day upload here? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iZ-XjZOEuripfmg.html

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Thanks for that, some memories there. Bootsy Rawlson was my guard. I think it was the 2212, he was a spotter and changed shift to get on it, He also bought two tickets from the machine on the main concourse. There were no passengers so a bit sad really. Thanks for all your work. I can remember feeling it a bit intrusive at the time but you manged to record some of the last of the slam door electrics.

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I think what you have recorded was a specials day. The one bootsy and I did was the last day of the summer timetable. The last scheduled train. great though.

@@andrewfrancis3591 I don't think so. My Tilbury Riverside vid was filmed on Saturday 28.11.92 and the last day of normal service. The next day, a Sunday, i was back again as a EMU special tour visited for one last time. I had to walk from Tilbury Town on that day. The special had 312 788 as traction, which was one of the 2 trains in use the previous day (312 787 being the other)......

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus That must have been the day then. Cant remember what units we were on. Certainly remember my guard and the supervisor talking about it. To put it in context the sort of thing that would concern me would be picking up youths on the final run at greys going to Stamford Le Hope. If I remember right we did the 2212 up from Tilbury to Upminster. Then all stations Shoebury via the loop.