I was hoping to see the pick up shoe gear in detail as these emus were unique in the UK, and its difficult to make out how the third rail and pick ups met up, all I know is that they were not top contact like the rest of the UK third rail system

Nothing looks as forlorn as the scrapyard locomotive And the rest is silence

Great Footage from the Good Years!😃.

Saw my last Class 47 here back in 2004, 47550.

Were the Class 47s running a regular service to/from Lime St?. The reason I ask is that I have some home video taken on the 15th Sept 1990 where we were travelling from Wigan to Lime St to go to a model railway exhibition at Liverpool Cathedral. On the train heading back was a Class 47 diesel named Blackbuck, it was on the back of the engine pulling, though I don't know what class engine was at the front. The carriages weren't the regular DMU type with electric doors but the old fashioned type that could be opened manually by passengers, and the seats were the type you would expect nowadays on an excursion special. Anyone know if this was a special they were running that day?.

My granddad was a engine driver out of Shirebrook west - 60’s 70’s 80’s -1993 / Bernard Betts

my dad worked there at the drs. 😢 39 years

Very nostalgic

As a Trainspoter in the 70s in Cornwall aged 15 I loved every exciting moment.. I'M NOW 61 and I feel so sad for the spotters of today.. HAVING said that I still have a soft spot for the odd locos seen passing by here were I now live in SOUTH WALES. Those brief yet odd moments transport me back 50yrs. So sad that today's railways are predictable and boring. TRAINSPOTTING will never die.. But my era did.

THAT WAS VERY INTRESTING PLEANTY OF CLASS 47,S AND B.R BLUE WHITE DMU,S

Brighton Trains Station 🚉

Trains Station 🚉

Back in the 70s of that Train video for this

Great old Train videos for this

It's been awhile for this video of the Trains

That must've been filmed a few months before I moved there in the summer of 04.

the life and soul left springburn when the calley went, my whole family worked there at one time or another,a great uncle lost his life when he was caught between two buffers,my memory of it is at home time when the narrow pavements were filled with workers walking home and some wifeys waiting to get the paypacket before the pub got it ,hard times but real

Superb

top stuff

Pair of 47s must of been rare

I'm now going to sit in the corner and cry 😢

Memories of travelling on that line that goes over it getting 33s and 73s

So much going on!

Proper railway compared to the absoloute toss we have now

Sad all those jobs lost,I worked at the side of this yard J C BENNETTS COACHBUILDERS ON PETERSHILL ROAD.

Used to bunk the shed on a monthly basis in the 1970,s. You never had any problems getting to the entrance of the shed, but regularly got kicked out once you walked around inside the shed. Great days.

Good times!

Wrecks were usually left on a scrap scrapline outside the works which had direct access into MCs yard next door, enabling easy disposal of many locos over the years.

Great video ,, back in the good old days 👍

It's ironic that we see 47475, in trans pennine livery, in this video, as she was a parcels sector machine at the time of this video. Moreso, she wasn't even working the Trans Pennine that day! And yes, 47475 is on my layout, and working trans pennine!

Good historical capture.Class 465s now incumbent.Class 415s EPBs long gone but very poor videoing/editing spoils it as a whole sorry to say.😢

Shame you didn't get any footage of the tube station. I am deeply curious as to what it look before and during JLE construction

Priceless 👍

I have lots of old footage of Springs Branch taken during the early-late 90s, and some footage of passing trains heading out of Wigan from Haydock Junction and also at Winwick Junction which we used to go to to watch the trains and take the dogs for a run on the nearby field, something you probably can't do now. We used to walk along the disused line at Golborne that you could get onto from near to the chippy where you walk up the embankment to the line, over the years they fenced it off half way and since then the spare land has been built on with yet more houses and likely to be fenced off to stop anyone getting onto the line. Used to spend hours there in the summer as kids.

My dad worked in the springburn railway till he was made redundant, he was a rigger and was also a health and safety man..

The transport in Glasgow from then and now is night and day, almost loved the rugged aesthetic of Glasgow then too.

No way the observation coach was in there

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This should have been an epic capture but ruined by poor editing or not full filming of any given unit or locomotive.

Nechells In The Background

was this called eastfield

I wonder where the 56 was going at the end?

Great footage and memories. I visited these works round about the same time. Sad to think most things here have disappeared. Even the works closed in 2019. The last I heard the deal for the railway preservationists fell through and some multi millionaire wants to buy it to house his car collection.

amazing footage never to be repeated

That was a time when the ICRs were just brand new and when most trains in Ireland were loco hauled

What a stunning video it’s cracking to see what it looked like then especially as a modern spotter based at Glasgow central

Sorry Train

I was on that rain aswell, won competition on BBC North West Today

Oh wow, I was around 7 at that time, my dad used to take me and my cousijs walking along the line, the sheds are as I remember them, 30 years ago now, seems like yesterday, we used to live in the maisonettes on Captains green, a great fun place to grow up.i can still remember the smell of the creosote on the sleepers, thanks for posting, any more footage, would love to see the signal box, I was too young to get into it, but my cousin used to climb into it and mess with the levers.

Great video. Done back in the days when common sense was allowed. Although nowadays the insurance companies would have a ducks fit if that happened now. Although common sense is permitted in other countries and you can walk around their train yards to take train photos as long as you let them know. Would be nice if the UK allowed its people to use their brains and common sense but being able to visit a train depot nowadays is nigh on impossible. Perhaps there should be a policy where if a person visits a train depot to photograph trains at the location then maybe companies should make them sign a form that they go around the train yard at their own risk and the company is NOT liable if the visitor injures themselves on site. I have common sense so I would be happy to sign the form if I was to visit a train depot today. Hopefully common sense will come back. Keep up the great videos mate.