Great 😊

Lovely video. I spent many hours at Willesden back in the early 70's. For a change would go onto Broad Street and just a short walk to Liverpool Street . Thanks for posting. Those were hsppy days!

Wonderful video, great to catch two 69s at March. Thanks for sharing, Colin.

Ahhh, toffee apples , was it just the 31/0s that had the power handle that the driver had to take with him when he changed ends .I was told that the power handle looked like a toffee apple so thats how they got their nickname , i was never sure that someone was pulling my leg or not. Does anyone know the truth and real fact on that . Thank you all .

I have had no interest in trains in all my years but I love these 37s videos…nothing dodgy, nasty or dubious. Thank you.

Love the video mate, especially the clip of me 50 031 'Hood'!

Westerfeild Railway pub ( other side of crossing ) good food,beer would bed and breakfast ideal 👍

Up in the northeast the main traffic for the 56s was MGR trains. In the 80s there were still plenty of collieries open in the north of England. I remember seeing them screaming through Stockton station heading south with a full load for ferry bridge power station .Sadly all the mines are now gone. And so are most of the power stations. Victims of the governments obsession with net zero.

The sound is rubbish. 😓

Great compilation of Class 73s from back in the day!!.,but what was the 73 @6.18 doing with 3 Gat Ex coaches and an EPB Unit.??..A curious move that..Thanks.

Like it 👍

What a nice locomotive

brilliant

39:48 my 16th birthday!! What station/halt is 3:46? Is that Wandsworth Rd too? Look like a Chatham EMU appearing on the right. So much rather sad looking rolling stock being dragged through here excuse My ignorance but is there a yard nearby it's all going to? 5:54 such a familiar sight! Used to see seacow workings exactly like this thundering through Dorking Deepdene in 70s and 80s 9:50 that's just fabulous!!! Just about to start my GCSEs around thay day. Then a summer of gigs and fun in London!! 12:49 oh man that's the best yet. Full pelt

As a child, I used to leave my bedroom window open at night to hear these being hammered through Warrington. Sad to think that their birthplace - Vulcan Works - is now an anonymous housing estate.

33115 unusual visitor to Donny ,

awsome times ... they should bring that back ... some how

Do you know what the 31 was working ? Picture on Flickr for same date shows it at Liverpool I presume about to work a Manchester Vic or Blackpool service!

They had a very distingtive rattley sound as did the class 33s good old engines good old days .

Mk 2 coaching stock was pretty robust.

Happy memories of these engines thundering through Melton Mowbray at 9pm every evening with the mail train back in the 70s

Dave from brum out the window behind 7 leaving Basingstoke.

Pure fucking magic

awsome !!! i went to bat and ball on that day ...via kings lynn etc there was a group of us .. started at 5.20 home at 0.50 !!

Hi there, I hope you're well! I'm an archive producer working on a documentary about the miners strikes of 1984, airing on Sky. The director has come across this video of yours. I was wondering if it'd be possible to get your permission to use a few seconds of your clip in our project? Many thanks and I look forward to hearing from you, Caitlin Connelly

Hi there, I hope you're well! I'm an archive producer working on a documentary about the miners strikes of 1984, airing on Sky. The director has come across this video of yours. I was wondering if it'd be possible to get your permission to use a few seconds of your clip in our project? Many thanks and I look forward to hearing from you, Caitlin Connelly

What a fantastic Video!! All those Vacs!! My all time favourite Diesel Locomotive. Thank you

Was certainly a great place for freight back then but like most places, no doubt this only gets a handful of freight today.

Goodness, I'd forgotten about this crash. It came so soon after the terrible one at Clapham Junction. Moving 12ft of rail is no small feat. The rail would weigh around 460 lb. Must have been a big gang of burly vandals.

47280 is that leading LPG tank venting? and was that safe?

As the video starts, we see the blue 143 that comes across. Do we know when those lines were lifted at all??

Salisbury always an interesting visit .

Thanks for posting this. Happy memories of that thudding class 50 beat! I used to hear that from my childhood home 1km away as they opened up heading out through Wimbledon. Although my trainspotting memories are from slightly earlier in the 1980s when they were going through the class refurb and generally (in my memory anyway) were in a lot better condition externally. With a quarter pound paper bag of jelly beans I was happy as Larry on Elm Grove Bridge c1981. 🙂🗒✏

My dad commuted from Dorking to Vauxhall throughout the 70s and 80s. That's his office (GLC, Thatcher put paid to that steady job) in the background with the sort of brown below the windows at 7:20. I always used to look out for him When I was heading up to town for gigs and latterly work etc ❤

Great video of these classic locomotives 😊

1st 🥇 to see! Great video as always 😃

Choppers shunting. Pure gold 🪙 driver on the light move just let straight air kff and opened the handle full out 👍

Legendary Hoover power ,Miss these days .

Wonderful. Thanks. Years ago I would stand Under that bridge trying to stay dry. I was watching Westerns and Warships and Hymeks. Pannier tanks were station pilots. Paddington has such an atmosphere no matter what era. Thanks again. Howard.

DVTs arrived shortly after and that was it for my interest in the WCML....... Is it just me or was 26010 and 26040 omni-present at Carlisle?

Hey. Can I please some of your footage in my films? I will credit you for it.

I never knew there was an NSE liveried 86

Miss those times in 1988❤Great iconic footage from bygone days 💕💞❤️

I couldn’t believe a Class 08 could pull 36 coal hoppers! And then the class 56 appeared at the other end. Amazing footage - thanks for sharing 😊

86401 a long way from Northampton again! 😂 Carlisle Citadel looks a bit cleaner now, though there's a noticeable lack of vegetation growing on the tracks. 31 with three coaches, would that have been a train from Leeds?

Remember Penrith well, the up platform has a bit of a climb to board the train due to the superelevation of the track 🤣

Wonderful! Spent most of my youth spotting at central in the 80s. Thanks for uploading this!

Halcyon days

Rugby then was much more atmospheric than the current sterile station.

Help? I'm very intrigued to know what the slow services (both stopping and through) are north-bound with the very short trains ie 6 coaches, are? I would have to presume they are local services, perhaps BNS-Crewe? I don't know. But somebody here might know.