Absolutely fabulous. Growing up in the 70’s the only one downside to watching this is it reminds me of times when this country seemed much better ( which I’m sure some will disagree with )

I think what I need to say has already been said by the majority of individuals who have witnessed this fantastic footage of 1970s railway history..... Bloody fantastic!!! This was my era for loco spotting, from the early 70s til the early 80s.... I live near Bristol, so Deltics were an absolute rarity and had to travel to King's Cross to see them..... I remember Colossus the class 47. And got the entire set of Westerns, also the entire set of Class 47s, the last one being at Haymarket, near Edinburgh..... Happy childhood days.... Thank you so much for posting this historic video of railway footage....

Mind blowing Roy! What a totally different world that was, and my god the sounds were stunning. Thank you so much for uploading this Roy, I feel very lucky to have seen it - Brilliant! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thank you for this window into the past, I was born in the late 80's so I never got to see anything as interesting and as varied as what's in this footage.

Great sequence I grew up on the ECML in the late sixties and seventies so these locos were very familiar to me. We also spent three holidays not far from the Woodhead line in the mid seventies and I would usually spend a couple of days spotting (when the weather was nice) whilst the family went off to visit a stately home. I realise the railway had to modernise but it had so much more variety and character back then despite the rundown appearance of many of the stations and infrastructure. Thanks for taking the time to post.

Cracking video Roy! Brings back a lot of fond memories! Wish we could go back...

Fantastic film and takes me back. I remember when I first saw the intercity 125s and thought I was seeing the future. In fact I was, the fact GWR and Scotrail have refurbished and are using them extensively shows how much of the future they were. 45 years and they still look modern and are still doing a great job. The old BR often got a bad name but those trains were inspired. A testament to British design and engineering.

Thanks for posting, Roy. Brought back lots of happy memories of my spotting days.

Love this video it brings back some memories from the late 1970a as a kid!!!😎

Absolutely wonderful. The sound was amazing for the age of the film stock. Thanks' for posting.

Roy many thanks you have done it a again a fantastic blast from the past, just the audio alone is brilliant brings back so happy memory's from the good old days, remember the Deltics going hell for leather though Grantham and Doncaster non stop and watched may a time them pull away on one engine and bringing the other engine in when on the move and wonderful Woodhead video as well one of my favourite lines

Fantastic, an amazing collection there. Loved the Deltics of course(especially my pet 55015), but also great to see the Woodhead line and 76s. Some great memories there from my childhood when my love of railways was still in its early years.

All been said already Roy.... what an outstanding piece of footage, 15 minutes of pure gold.... just when I became interested in railways, simply great days with so much variety and interest. Awesome footage.... I will watch this again and again, many thanks for posting 👍👍👍

That was absolutely brilliant. Thank you so much for posting. 🍻

So nice to see and hear Deltic's rumbling through spalding and in one clip a class 33 on a passenger working certainly wasn't expecting to see that! fantastic video thank you sharing.

Great video. Thanks for posting this. It’s brought a few childhood memorises back.

That was great! Thanks for taking the time to upload.

You've done a great job. The video is fantastic, the sound is particularly good. The footage is priceless. Many thanks.

Absolutely outstanding footage

Memories come flooding back to my train spotting days from the 70s … Brilliant

Cracking. Thx for taking the time to put it together.

Halcyon days....some magical footage there Roy, Many thenks!

Wow! My two favourite locomotives in one place! Great stuff thankyou

I was hoping you had something like this in your collection. Many thanks.

U really have some classic quality vids, thanks for sharing

Cracking video, amazing atmosphere, loved it.

Thank you Roy for transferring these old films to digital to get them on to KZfaq, I know that was a lot of work doing that. Two of my favourite spotting places as well. Essendine in steam days, we used to spend many a Sunday afternoon picnicing on that manicured flat embankment, now it is just a mess like many other places. Woodcroft was a nice place in the 70/80s but the footbridge is no more. Then all those Deltics through Spalding, shear bliss with that throbbing noise.👍👍👍👍👍

Big thanks for sharing great to see Deltic,s at Spalding and the 33.

The sound of those Deltic's : ) once heard never forgotten. Great to have a blast back to the past, thank you for sharing...DA.

Couldn't agree more with the comments,, so much memories flooding back,,, I never wanted to go home on my days outs transporting days,, sadly today i fear its not the same, I get fed up after 10 mins, I`ll be watching this video time and time again

Thanks for sharing Roy. Nice peice of history recorded there. Unfoutounatly the Deltics were withdrawn and the Woodhead route had closed once I had started taking and interest and travelling around the network. One of my regrets was that I hardly took any photos of my travels back then! Happy new year to you and all the best for 2021. Stay safe. Regards, John

Wow! Best video yet! Thankyou for sharing

Great vintage shots with the superb sound of the Deltic.

Very nice. Would love to have seen Spalding in it’s heyday when it was very busy!

Thanks, Roy. A real treat.

Amazing! Actual real live Deltics, brand new HSTs; the scene of the HST and Class 40 crossing is priceless. And 55007 passing 47508.

FANTASTIC. Cannot say more.

A fabulous archive, scenes we'll never see again.

Don't pay any attention to the naysayers - this is marvellous!! Many thanks for the memories!

Great footage I’ve got loads of photos of Guide Bride from the late 70s early 80s and this took me back to the good old days 👍

Great memories. Deltics and Peaks were my favourites. You could tell what was coming from the engine noise before you saw them.

Well done on capturing stereo sound !

Great video with delltics and 40s and Woodhead route. Thanks

The class 76s I just about remember them on the Manchester to sheffield run!.they used to always be a few stabled at guidebridge yard I used to look at them when I was about 7 in 1979-80 happy days!!!

Roy this is fantastic! The Deltics, a 33 and a 'Western' 47 at Spalding - all with glorious sound. The hidden gem is the Woodhead footage, possibly the first time I've heard what a 76 actually sounded like since the 70s. I didn't want the footage to stop.... Have you got any more? Thanks goodness you had the foresight to record what has become historical and amazing

Really enjoyed this thank you Roy👌

Great stuff, many thanks !!

One of those films that makes u cry and wonder where it all went wrong 🙄😂

Some gems there Roy. I loved the Deltics.

I’m not a rail enthusiast by any means, But enjoy the nostalgia and appreciate great engineering. Those Deltics were quite magnificent. Thanks for sharing.

Great video, and sound too, great stuff.

It was good that you captured the "Traveller's Fare" special passing through Peterborough, Roy. That must be incredibly rare footage.

My two favourite class’s , 55 Deltic and the class 76 electrics , had a fantastic view of the wath branch of the woodhead route from my bedroom window and went to Doncaster to see the Deltics, both withdrawn at the same time 1981, went to reddish and guide bridge to say my farewell to the 76’s and to Doncaster works to say farewell to the Deltics , it was sad seeing both classes in long scrap lines awaiting they’re fate , thankfully six Deltics one EM1 76 were preserved along with two EM2 77 ex woodhead coco’s after their service in Holland, strange that the EM2’s sold as surplus in the late sixties out lasted the class 76’s, the Dutch got a bargain.

Amazing, and with sound, it given me,...Needles and Pinza 🎵🎶🎵🎶

Great film Happy memories thanks for upload

Well done Roy- solid gold and easily the best thing on telly this Christmas (although the Repair Shop was good too!) I only saw the 76s when they were in bits at Reddish- numbers scored in the Combined Volume at the time but not as good as seeing them moving:-( Best wishes for 2021 and keep up the great work:-))

What a video brilliant Roy.

Outstanding video if only we could have locomotives running like this now

great stuff much enjoyed

Great new video update . like it very much.

Loved this. Loved the deltics and the 76s

Ah Pinza 💙 The first Deltic I saw & the first I got pulled by. You never forget your first smelly delly.

Fantastic. Sound too!

My first ever memory of trains was going to London in 1969 on a train pulled by one of these on the ECML. I am going to annoy a lot of people though by saying I'm glad I just missed out on dirty inefficient steam and grew up in the proper good old days of the diesels!

Amazing that film from that decade is still around!

wow this is a treasure trove

Pure nostalgia. Hard to believe how many people actually miss these days. Rotten sandwiches, dilapidated locos, terrible carriages love it. The sound of the Deltics was awesome. I remember well the echo as they entered Waverley through the tunnel from the south.

Wow! what a treasure is this. We had the EM2's in the Netherlands, I had several trips behind them. But I always considered them as odd looking machines between the French and Baldwin electrics we had which of course were wider and taller than the EM2's, I didn't know they were bought second hand from the UK as a youngster in the 1970's.

Very good, must of taken you many hours, smashing sound!!

Great footage

Great video & those were the days old trains which were pulled by real tractor engines!🇬🇧👏👍

Simply wonderful stuff. I think mid 70s to early 80s was the best era on BR, especially for diesels. That said, the 76s are particular favourites and I made several journeys over the Woodhead route and through the tunnel. Seeing double-headed 76s on coal including mgr is ingrained in my brain.

This was in my spotting era, 1975 to early 80's. Loved it! I used to spot on the WCML at Leyland where I lived, electrics galore, plus plenty of DMU's. Not many diesel loco's though. Used to go to places like York for a complete contrast (no wires back then) and many other places around the country on "trips". I've still got my Ian Allen books and even some of the hand written records of my trip days out. Love watching footage like this, it really takes me back to my "misspent youth". Thanks Roy!

Brilliant!

Wow 33044 on for'n metals, that must have been a sight for spotters indeed for one so far out of the SR...

Marvellous footage from the old electrics to Inter City 125s.

The good old days ❤Everything is here the sound of the Napier and Paxman Valenta to the Brush and EE Sulzer Type Locomotion,Sadly nowadays this is not the case ,Iconic footage ❤️Want a time machine to go back to when Blue ruled the Rails before Privatisation.The sight of Class 76s is just wow ,Amazing 😍

The Deltic was an awesome train - remember them thundering through Grantham station on a Saturday afternoon as mum and dad left me to go shopping - the sound and wind rush from them was amazing Happy days

Happy New Year Roy . Not much rail action but did get to the Kwai b4 the virus struck love to all Bob

When HST's had the old paxman engine and unmistakable whistling sound.

now this is a diesel gala and the picture quality adds to the charm

Those HST's must have been new; and good to see those class 76's - a rare sight on KZfaq :)

Good to see 08 133 again. Used to look out for it going down to Geests and the Beet Factory to collect BR covered wagons and Interfrigo wagons.

wonderful video. love seeing film in the br blue era. I assume the celtics and hst's in Spalding were on divert.

Listening to a Deltic is like a Spitfire on rails

Thanks for all your trouble. The quality gives a real feel for the history.

Memories indeed.

U are a legend

The Crompton was a surprise; how did that get there?

That brought back a lot of memories! How did you manage to keep the camera so steady when stood on the platform next to Pinza?! What I remember was the Deltics made the whole ground shudder. Nice to see the old DC engines - I spent quite a few hours on Penistone station as a young teenager waiting for them to pass through.

Deltics were regulars on the London Cleethorpes turn out and back.

Fantastic footage , thank you for uploading it , woodhead with original sound ( most dub with AC sound not the same at all ) do you mind if I put a link to this video on the Barnsley and district railways site on Facebook?

How good did those inter-City 125s look lol

Never mind the quality is not that good the content more than makes up for it Excellent The 33 a rare visitor and the sound of the Deltic leaving Peterborough on full power wonderful. I travelled through Woodhead a few times on Sunday diversions but never saw the 76's working on freights there. Saw most of them around Guide Bridge Happy memories Thanks to taking the time and effort to edit this

Diversions off the ECML between Doncaster and Peterborough via GN & GE joint between Doncaster and Spaulding the GN to Peterborough. Do they still divert that way or is it all replacement bus services these days? Lived at Woodhouse just East of Rotherwood and Gran lived at Darnall so remember the Woodhead Electrics.

Wonderful footage! I'm curious as to why they're all coming through Spalding. Next major junction is Sleaford where they can go onto Lincoln or head to Grantham.

Ngl the Deltics sound cool

Absolutely superb Roy! Thanks for sharing. Did you ever go and film down the joint line at places like French Drove?

Great vid Roy, I'm a southeast section lad being born in North Kent and the class 33 on a passenger train that far north. Was that an unusual motive power?. Thanks again for the memories. - buddy-

The legendary class 76s