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Spa Valley Railway 25th Anniversary Gala Parade, 28/08/22.
The Spa Valley Railway's 25th Anniversary Gala Parade heading through High Rocks en route to Eridge from Tunbridge Wells West, 28/08/22. In the formation was Standard 4MT no.75069 (visiting from the Severn Valley Railway), West Country Light Pacific no.34092 and class 24 no.D5054 (both visiting from the East Lancashire Railway), class 25 no.D7612 (visiting from the South Devon Railway), 33 063, 31 430, 73 140, 73 141 (guest loco from GB Railfreight) and class 207 'Thumper' no.1317.
Congratulations must go to the bride and groom who must have been a bit shocked at the noisy backdrop to their photos on the platform!
If this video looks familiar, it's probably because it appeared in the Spa Va...
Congratulations must go to the bride and groom who must have been a bit shocked at the noisy backdrop to their photos on the platform!
If this video looks familiar, it's probably because it appeared in the Spa Va...
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Class 483s on the Isle of Wight and the 'Pompey Vectis Explorer' special, 12/04/08.
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Another standard definition video from the archives. This time a trip to the Isle of Wight to see the 1938 Tube stock, also known as the class 483s. On the way to Portsmouth & Southsea to board the Hovercraft over to Ryde, the opportunity was taken to see 47 773 passing Fratton with Vintage Trains' 1Z57 Birmingham Moor Street to Portsmouth Harbour 'Pompey Vectis Explorer' tour. Over on the Isle...
Hull Trains Class 86 and Grand Central HST, 16/02/08.
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We start at London Kings Cross with the AC Loco Group's 86 101 which was on hire to Hull Trains during repairs to one their damaged DEMUs. The 86 worked the 1H03 09:34 from Kings Cross which terminated at Doncaster. A short lived working, but one which proved popular with enthusiasts. At Doncaster we start the Valenta-powered action with a ride on a National Express East Coast HST to York. The ...
First class 442 arrives at Lovers Walk, 15/11/07.
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A trip down memory lane to see the first class 442 Electric Multiple Unit arriving at Lovers Walk T&R.S.M.D on 15th November 2007; the first to appear since the Network SouthEast era in the 90s. South West Trains started withdrawing the 'Wessex Electrics' in late 2006 and, by Spring 2007, it was just test trips from warm storage at Eastleigh Works keeping them busy on the South West Main Line. ...
Class 37 thrash on the 'Buffer Puffer 6.1' rail tour, 08/03/08.
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Standard Def footage of Pathfinder Tours' 'Buffer Puffer 6.1' which started at London Cannon Street and finished at London Kings Cross some fifteen hours later. The locomotives for this trip were 37 401 and 37 405 which were top and tailing six mk1 carriages. I have listed some of the stations we passed through below, some of which were quite unusual locations for the class 37s, or any loco-hau...
Class 37 thrash on gradients, 2007.
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Some SD footage from 2007 featuring my two favourite Class 37-hauled trips. The first features 37 248 lifting ten coaches and 34067 'Tangmere' up the 1:60 gradient from Hastings to Ore Tunnel on the 2nd September. This was the 1Z92 09:00 Brighton to Faversham leg of Shepherd Neame's 'The Spitfire' tour which the 37 worked from Eastbourne to Ashford International. The second features 37 601 gett...
70013 'Oliver Cromwell' hauling 'The Cathedrals Express' up the Cliftonville Spur, 30/07/09.
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70013 'Oliver Cromwell' exits Cliftonville Tunnel between Hove and Preston Park while working Steam Dreams' 1Z83 17:58 Portsmouth Harbour to London Victoria.
Class 73-hauled charter at Brighton, 25/07/09.
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Some old SD footage of Flamboyant Trains' 'Brighton Rocks with AC:DC' charter which was a return trip from Doncaster to Brighton and featured haulage behind 87 002, 47 786, 73 205 and 73 209. We first see the 1Z86 06:03 Doncaster to Brighton arriving behind 73 209 73 205 then 47 786 departs with the empties to the old reception sidings or "Brighton Top Yard" as it was known locally. Today these...
Seaford to Brighton Railway 150 Years Celebration Special Steam Train, 07/06/14.
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Footage of The Railway Touring Company's 'Seaford to Brighton 150' which ran down the Brighton Main Line to Keymer Junction and then on to Seaford via Plumpton. 33 207 is seen arriving into Brighton with the 1Z46 London Victoria to Eastbourne special which the 33 had worked from Newhaven Marine. Britannia 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' then continues the journey to Eastbourne and sounds that amazing c...
Preston Park Pullman Works, a few years before demolition.
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The former Preston Park Pullman Works which were built in 1898 and located near Brighton. Carriages were built/maintained here until the works closed in 1963. There were plans for a museum but the site was difficult to access and the building was eventually abandoned until demolition in late 2008. In this video we see the works from the 'Carriage Road' between Preston Park and Brighton stations...
Class 47-hauled Grand Central shuttles, June 2008.
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*SD footage uploaded again to remove black bars either side of the screen* During a short spell of unreliability with their HSTs, Grand Central hired in Riviera class 47s to work Sunderland to York shuttles. These connected with their one serviceable 125 at York ready for the run to London Kings Cross. On the 13th June, we see 47 839 arriving at York with the 12:30 service from Sunderland. We t...
'Tankfest' & 'Tiger Day 12' at Bovington, 2019.
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Phone video highlights from the Tankfest 'preview day' on 28th June and the second Tiger Day of the year on 14th September. Tanks include: Warrior, Valentine DD, M4A1, Firefly, Swiss G13 Hetzer, Centurion, Leopard, Cheetah, Pz61, T72, M103, M60 Patton, Chieftain, Challenger 1, Panther, T34/85, M4A2, Panzer III, StuG III, Jagdpanther, Matilda II, Churchill III, Tiger 1, M3A1, Ha-Go, Comet etc.
'A Network Under Scrutiny' - 1991.
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An episode of 'First Sight' which was shown in 1991.
'The End of the Line' - 1991.
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Network SouthEast is featured in this episode of 'Facing South' which was shown in 1991.
'Night Mail 2' Documentary - 1986.
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'Night Mail 2' - A documentary about Royal Mail operations including the Travelling Post Office. It was shown immediately after the famous 1936 original during the 'Going Loco' season on Channel 4 in the early 1990s.
Heritage locomotives in the Brighton area, March to December 2008.
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Heritage locomotives in the Brighton area, March to December 2008.
Driving a Class 73 up Danemoor Bank, 20/08/12.
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Driving a Class 73 up Danemoor Bank, 20/08/12.
Preston Park Pullman Works stock extraction, 07/09/08.
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Preston Park Pullman Works stock extraction, 07/09/08.
Swanage Railway Diesel Galas, 2008 to 2011.
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Swanage Railway Diesel Galas, 2008 to 2011.
Valenta-powered HST compilation, 2008 to 2010 SD footage.
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Valenta-powered HST compilation, 2008 to 2010 SD footage.
Class 50 & Class 37 Driver Experiences, 21/09/18.
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Class 50 & Class 37 Driver Experiences, 21/09/18.
Class 37s on the Norfolk Short Hauled Set, 21/08/15.
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Class 37s on the Norfolk Short Hauled Set, 21/08/15.
Class 20s visit Brighton, 17/12/14.
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Class 20s visit Brighton, 17/12/14.
Class 47s on the Norfolk Short Hauled Set, 08/07/14.
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Class 47s on the Norfolk Short Hauled Set, 08/07/14.
Seaford to Brighton Railway 150 Years Celebration Special Steam Train, 08/06/14.
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Seaford to Brighton Railway 150 Years Celebration Special Steam Train, 08/06/14.
Class 101/108 DMMU at the Bluebell Railway, 18/01/14.
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Class 101/108 DMMU at the Bluebell Railway, 18/01/14.
Colas Class 47 at Brighton, 09/01/14.
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Colas Class 47 at Brighton, 09/01/14.
The Festive Festival Express, 30/11/13.
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The Festive Festival Express, 30/11/13.
They have treated all the major industries since old bag thatcher was prime minister and she called for privatisation of the railways etc
This was from 1989.
Considering the government was actively defunding BR to force privatisation, they actually did very well with no money. Hilarious how here they call BR funding a “subsidy”. It was public infrastructure and a state-owned company. Definition of subsidy: “a sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive”. BR was neither. Surprised they survived another 4 years after the tories completely defunded them in 1993. Time to get it back under public control. Take the cost of tickets these days: if you take that money and reinvest it back into the system and not into the pockets of shareholders, you’ll have happier staff, and a better, more efficient system.
One of the guards looks very slovenly - tie and collar undone; sleeves rolled up....!
“Two jags” Prescott there who was all talk in opposition but did bugger all when in government.
The great privatisation experiment hasn't worked.
2:01 and that’s where I’ve been going to recently and that’s Coventry
But not nearly as unsafe as the 747, right?
Such a joke to see Norman Baker sitting in second class. Not his normal habitat I can assure you! I remember even once made the guard unlock the first class compartment down to Seaford😂
Now this is what railtours are made for!
"Still running trains that are more than 30 years old" Wait, this ISN'T about Amtrak?
I remember the good days , 2 deliveries per day , first class if posted before mid-day arrived the following morning , second took up to three days . Then , along with everything else , the country got sold to Europe , and it hasn't worked properly since
Enjoyable though I much prefer the rhythm of the 1936 version. Who knew WH Auden was the founder of rap 😉
The best train......IN THE WORLD.
I’m only a few minutes in and I really hate Bob Reid
Can you imagine the stench of those seats as they remove them from the plane. All those arses farting 💨 and sweating into the material all day. I’ll bet those seats are nasty. 🤢
In the decades since this film was first made, the U.K. railways have got worse not better, even since the failure of HS2 - at this point, the ONLY solution is to invite in an external body from the CCP, Japan or Taiwan and to change the law to legally give them complete and direct control of the U.K. railways, with no interference of any kind whatsoever being permitted and to totally ban all trade union membership, making all strikes and industrial actions illegal, as we simply have got to change the whole culture that has held the U.K. railways back for decades, through a series of tough and draconian laws focused on improving the railways and ending privatisation, which simply does not work, aside from some (very rare) exceptions - in the last 30 years alone, we have seen fares go up, with standard of service go down, with constant disruptions and industrial actions and it is frankly unacceptable - deliberate mismanagement and wastage has caused the failure of HS2 and many other U.K. rail improvement projects to a stage where very drastic action is now required to get the U.K. railways up to acceptable international standards as the current status of the U.K. railways is abysmal and has no room for improvement - a case in point, aside from HS2 is the high speed rail tunnel under the Irish Sea from Holyhead to Dublin, but because of deliberate mismanagement and wastage it has been constantly suspended and put on hold due to lack of funding
Surely the volume of mail is not that great in today’s standards? I would say 50% less than what it was here ?
13:24 Mike Yarwood
How wrong they were
Clean men, shirt and tie, happy in their work, uniformed, smiles, no litter, nobody staring at a mobile phone, and absolutely NO GRAFFITI. Is it REALLY better today? What have we become?
There was loads of graffiti in the 1980s and the railway stations were absolutely drowning in litter...BR removed most of the litter bins at main stations due to the IRA bomb threat...still the case today but there are a lot more cleaners picking it up.
They are VERY noisy engines, i know because I used to ride on one, many times. If you stand next to that then it might hurt your ears. I like the engineering involved, but I don't like the amount of noise it makes. I prefer it's younger brother, the intercity 225.
Seriously? They unbolted the seats of the plane and removed them? I love this doco and it's easy to think things were better then, but that appears hopelessly inefficient
Chris Green was something of a legend.
400 a week seems not a lot, especially if it's return? I thought it was 7 tph (3 tph Avanti, 2 tph LNWR, 2 tph Chiltern) now, so about 1600 across the week in both directions (approximate calculation)?
Super aufnamen
why are the crossings not open when you get there?
Driver Experience courses like this run on days when the line is closed to the public, so minimal staffing is required. The guard on the train was opening manual crossing gates when we got to them. As for the gates on approach to Dereham, they operate automatically off the track circuit or via a treadle. I forget which.
3:44 that is hilarious! Since they were privatised the subsidies have gone up and up taking more and more money out of the tax payers pockets. Tories will do everything they can to make themselves some cash, just look at what they’re doing to the NHS 😂
I'd argue that's because of fragmentation as a result of the current set up of the railways. Instead of BR controlling every aspect, there are hundreds of companies within three levels of railway organisation (infrastructure, operators, train manufacturers), resulting in multiple transactions inflating the costs of a single product/service. Even the idea of BR being privatised as a whole made more sense than what we've got...
Increased costs, more infrastructure investment, double the passengers, longer trains, many more services…..all this costs money. You can’t just compare today to then and think the subsidy would be the same 🙄
No tax payer funded land or asset should be sold without a referendum. The government has sold off billions of pounds of UK assets, often for a pittance, this was never government property, it was the tax payers, the government was simply its custodian. The centralised Westminster model of government is not fit for purpose in the modern world.
If the government had to give out a referendum for everything it does, in the words of Paul Tyreman, “you’ll be going nowhere.”
These long distance commuters are generally very well off - why should the taxpayer subsidise their fares?
A lot of motorists are also generally very well off (or so I’m told) - why should taxpayers subsidise their road maintenance in lieu of toll roads?
@@onlinefriend3889 they don’t - tax revenue from motorists (fuel duty, Road/vehicle tax, VAT on fuel, car sales and repairs) is far higher than the road building and maintenance budgets.
As the train arrives at Euston the guard making the announcement is Trevor Naughton i remember him from my days at Bescot and I am sure that he came to work at Bescot in a supervisor role. I recognized the other guard on the train clipping the tickets was a Wolverhampton man but can't remember his name, happy days 19 past the hour from Wolverhampton and 29 past the hour from Sandwell & Dudley and onto New Street.😊
This is how Brummies intended to invade the world! But Mz Fatcha said "We'll be 'aving none of vat", and promptly taxed anyfing dat moved. Boris the bellend, when not partying, found the time to tax everything else. So, 3 cheers for secession,,,ooops, brexit!
Absolutely fantastic.. I always love to hear, see and feel those Valentas in York station, great footage and thank you. Never ever forgotten.
Can someone explain why throttle is constantly variable? Why not a steady, even application?
When the engine revs, suddenly stops and then goes to max revs again? That'll be the 37 slipping on low adhesion sections of track.
Man, in the US I’d pay for this
Return to London please....... TUUUUNES AH.......😂😂😂
8:44 *[LEYLAND]* Also, a bit heartbreaking that railmail as per parcels is going to deminish further, but tbh in delivery parcels it might be on the rise , maybe we'll get 325/2s with their 319 cab and regular traction gears for more redstar better than before , one can dream....
Great rail documentary with aviation at the beginning!!! 😁 ✈️ 🚆
Sure they were dirty and unreliable especially in later years…but I’d give good money to see and hear the classic Valenta HST’s back on the railways. They sounded amazing, especially on a calm and cold day or night, with the right wind direction and stillness. You could hear that Valenta and Marston coolers howling away for miles. Could even be spooky on a dark and foggy night. I miss these trains so much. The loss of the HST and now the Intercity 225 slowly disappearing has killed any passion I had for trainspotting. All I have are fond memories of childhood, standing on a footbridge with my Mum, eating biscuits and watching the trains go by. A simpler time.
Did the Transport 2000 guy mention global warming! Propaganda started early.
Oh dear, someone is scientifically illiterate.
Rebranded to ‘climate change’ as if the climate hasn’t always changed 🤣
To be honest, the state that NSE and BR as a whole was in would be to be a person, roughed up on [Mexican sugar] , cold , paranoid , with only scraps eaten for the last 20 days, pushing a giant cube up a rough and difficult hill
1:14 this is where I’ve been going to all my life which is Birmingham international
An amazing trip down memory lane. Thanks for posting
Ive just watched this film for the first time in August 2023 and im sad how things havent changed much and dare i say it gone backwards . We invented the railways now being used all round the world and once the envy of the world , now the service in this country is poor. Im not a commuter nor do i use the rail network often but i feel very sorry for people who do commute regularly. People have to use the trains to go to work to earn money to live . The ticket prices go up each year and the service gets worse year on year . All you people who commute or use the rail network regularly you have my sympathys. Im an old rail enthusiast myself and as a kid during the 80s used to travel all over the rail network getting my numbers im sad to see the network in such a state . One thing that hasnt changed is the blah blah that politicians splaff about railways and whose fault it is that its in such a diabolical state. Since privatisation all the rail companys just pass the buck .British Railways wasnt great but at least it was answerable to the Government and to BR management . My rants over now, but i hope to see an improvement in my lifetime but times running out, im 54 .
Night Mail 2: Diesel Electric Boogaloo. Thanks for sharing this video.
This is wonderful I love it. Just going on about the peace and tranquility of the Scottish Isles and Postie bombs round the corner in a Sherpa that’s screaming. I wish they still made telly like this 😅
Letters on doormats at 7am? You have got to be kidding!. In Hampshire you are lucky to get mail by 2pm, except Saturdays when they are trying to knock-off work early, of course. Royal Mail today in 2023 is a joke (and I don't blame my local postman).
I don’t know who the narrator at 2:47 is but I remember his poetic style from when I was a kid in the 80s/90s and found his voice/style extremely calming
Incredible really! Has email eased this off in the last 20 years? Does it still happen today or has it advanced?
Like postage wise ? For letters I’d imagine less but parcels probably equal or more
With ebay and the like of online shopping, excluding Private couriers, Royal Mail Parcels will have gone up in terms of volume, but is definitely less in terms of processing and transportation qualities
Did they take the seats out every time ? I thought BCal had dedicated mail planes. If they did, v the seats can't have been very securely anchored.