Very interesting Roy. Just shows all the infrastructure we have lost since then, and it was already a shadow of former days.

I think I was on that train with 5 little kids all headed for Skeggy. It broke down halfway and we were marooned for about 6 hours. We arrived in Skeg as the un set so had to cross to the other platform and go straight back home. No apologies no compensation and yet it has actually got worse since privatisation. Last twice I travelled by train I had the same experience - marooned for hours by both signals breakdowns and engine breakdowns. The heating in our carriage was stuck full on - in summer - and people were passing out from heatstroke.

Great vid, so many happy memories of travelling to Skegness on the train in the fifties, when miners and their families descended on Skegness in their thousands, from Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. We were amongst them.

Great stuff. Thanks for adding this video, twenty minutes of my life very well spent watching.

Fantastic, thanks for sharing 🙂 what I’d give to see these sights again

I just love how quick the gates open. Faster than those bloody barriers!

Great to see this old footage from when i was a young lad, at that time i lived in NSE territory in West Sussex, coming up here was a bit of a shock at the time to see how run down the railways were. I had this quiet hope that the idiots in government didn't shut down what little was left. The railway in Lincolnshire has a much brighter future now, we just need to rid the county of car centric local government officials so we can reopen a few important lines that were taken away from us. Lincolnshire will not prosper without them.

Thank you Roy that was fantastic

Happy days. I think around that time I spent a few holidays in Caister on sea, although didnt go by train I know the roads well down there, always had a fascination with trains though. Thanks for upload

Excellent. Thanks very much - and appropriately there was at least one 114 amongst all the 108s and other units.

Thanks for the memories. My son was on the re-created class 20 trip on Mon 27 May 19 from Derby to Skegness.

I was 4 when this video was made!

Thank you very much for these most interesting videos, Roy Harrison. I liked, particularly, the steam train on Skegness video. The modern trains travel at speed, but the steam train can too!

Looks like that were a Emergency brake application on the double headed 31s just before firsby curve

Another great vid, cheers

nine cars of Tyseley DMU (most with WMPTE logos), including a pleasantly rare 118. :) can you remember where it was going?

Nice to see a class 101 metro train deep in yellow belly land

Fantastic!!! @ 18:20 strange number position of the Brush Type 2 👍

Love that 9 car DMU!

I love the variety. 20s on passenger trains! Like their Poruguese counterpart: The Classe 1400s I was getting used to at this time in Espinho on the Linha do Norte and elsewhere on CP's Network !

great stuff

God I feel so nostalgic abourt Fart Carts: Almost like the Tank Engines they displaced!!

i took that dmu to skeggie in 1970, i reckon it was the same bag of rubbish.Still though it was better then those metro camels

Class 116 DMUs never had toilets, so I’m guessing the trailers seen here are from Class 127 “Bedpan” units.

Very nice video. First thing that catches me was some notices on the wall of the Heckington signal box. One sign "no exit", the sign below it "Way Out", so is it an exit or not???? The 9 car DMU was quite impressive, I thought they were all 116 or 117 DMU's, but in the comments I see some other options, I'm not so good in distinguishing all these BR built classes. And some brisk braking from those 31's, were they approaching the curve too fast?

14,05 was it emergency stop?

Ah, the good old Class 20s and Class 101s. So much better than the single carriage jokes that travel the line now.

Very good.