British Rail Variety-Kensington Olympia March 1996 classes 47, 56, 59, 60, 92, 373 & HST
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2019
- A BR upload now with a nice variety of traction, Kensington Olympia. We see Inter-City, Freight, Parcels and Eurostar services plus a Network SouthEast route learning EMU (ex EPB unit). Eurostar services were still at Waterloo at this time and we see an ECS working to North Pole Depot. Also two HSTs are seen, both are in effect 'North of London' Eurostar connections. They were only for passengers that had onward tickets for Eurostar servives, as you can see they ran empty or nearly empty. The staff always outnumbered the passengers and they didn't last for very long! Loco classes seen are 47, 56, 59, 60, 92, HST & 373 on Inter-City, Eurostar, parcels, freight & light engine moves. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!
Great video!! I was searching for this. I used to live round the station and always took the District line that terminates at Olympia. And vaguely remember seeing the Eurostar a couple of times passing thru at high speed, cool footage!! :D
I'm pleased you enjoyed it..... Until the late 1970s the only passenger service here were a few peak hour trains to Clapham Junction. The place is jumping now....
That “kettle boiling whistle” the class 43 makes when it’s slowly accelerating is just wonderful to hear.
Yes, HSTs sound so much better with Valanta's......
Great video which brought back happy memories of my trainspotting days at Kensington Olympia back in the mid-1990s.
I'm pleased you enjoyed it.....
What a very interesting station a lot of light loco moves & what a mixed bag.
Kenny O was always a good spot to see freight and all sorts of unusual workings as it was a main link from the Southern to the rest of the network.
Loving these videos
There's a lot up for you to peruse, plus plenty more still to come!
Ah the days of the Dover Western Docks Manchester service, great video once again Soi.
Kenny O was a good spot for all sorts of traffic, now there's a lot of units and a bit of freight.
I spy London United's former showbus RML 880 passing over the bridge on route 9 to Hammersmith! :-)))
Yes, it's amazing what can crop up in the background to my vids!
Great selection of clips there. Especially the 373s. I grew up with Eurostar using third rail so I always love seeing old footage of it. Plus all the other stock too
I have other shots of Eurostars on the 3rd rail juice. I will upload over time.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus awesome :)
Back in the day Kensington was a Mecca. Just about everything past through that station.
Yes, i've had some good filming days here in the past.....
excellent video! esp. liked 47519 in br green livery.
Yes, it used to be in Large Logo livery, not sure why it was painted green but it did look good!
Excellent footage
Thank you. Always used to be a good spot did Kenny O.....
Superb video
Thank you, i have plenty more to come.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus yay! Cant wait!!!
47306, now at the Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, and looking a bit smarter than it did there. Eurostar passing HST was a nice bit of timing!
Yes, i though 306 had survived. It was in the EWS heritage fleet for a bit. The Eurostar and HST 'Eurostar' passings was a pure fluke-but good!
07:38 that train has train has seen better days. and i always thought it was abit weird when a carriage is the last coach. Excellent footage 👌🏾
The guards on the Underground always worked from the last car. If the train ever un-coupled in service, a member of staff was always on one part of the train.
The rear power car does seem to have lost the fairing over the headlight, but as for seeing better days they were in service for over another 20 years, and some still are!
Loving the ARC liveried Class 59!
Yes, ARC and Yeoman had their own liveries at one time. I thought the Yeoman one was better, being brighter!
I'm looking forward to the 00 gauge dapol models of the 59. I fancy a yeoman and a national power liveried one.
Fantastic green class 47 on parcel post train 😄 What would it look like if Amazon sent there parcels by rail instead of thousands of lorries and white van man 🤔 One of my favourite train spotting stations back in the early 80s 😄 Overnight for Man Picc then tripping round London all day fantastic lol 😆 Great video cheers for sharing Stevie 😎
Always a good spot for a good variety of traction. There are people looking at using old EMU or DMU stock for small parcel deliveries but i imagine the bureaucracy is immense!
I never knew they painted 47519 in green, not a bad job they made of it
@@AndreiTupolev Used to be Large Logo livery which i also have on vid here & there. It will crop up in an upload at some point. Quite a good loco from what i remember from driving it on the Western at some point.
Did the Inter-City’s stop at Olympia? I am sure I recall that some did.
Cross Country loco hauled did indeed stop at Kenny O. The HSTs seen in this vid were not InterCity workings but services ran for or by Eurostar. You could only ride on them if you had a connecting ticket to or from a Eurostar service. And so they ran empty from p-laces like Manchester to Waterloo and as the vid shows there were no or few passengers! These were going to be replaced by North of London 373s (the 33xx shorter sets which were used by GNER on the East Coast for a few years) but the lack of passengers due to the growth of budget airlines stopped this happening. Some of the NoL 373s never carried passengers, a total waste of money, and of a good train!
Lovely old footage so much variety in those days, didn’t realise the Eurostar could run power on third rail.. thought it was overhead only ?
Not then, they ran on 3rd rail to Dover from Waterloo. It changed when they moved to St Pancras
Yes the 373s were fitted with third rail DC equipment from new so they could run on the southern region. The pick up shoes were removed when they switched to HS1.
Christ, the train at 6:00 was haulin'
That was an empty train, it would have left Acton Yard in the middle of the night loaded, weighing in at around 2000 tons for unloading somewhere on the Southern. Funny thing is, that was only half the train. It would have arrived at Acton from the quarry weighing in at around 4800 ton with the train split to serve different terminals!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus It was quite good when the class 66 shape (i know it's 59) was an occasional feature and not almost every freight loco as is the case now.
Presume the EMU at around 5mins was an EPB converted for Sandite?
I think it was a de-icing unit rather than sandite plus as a route learning unit as well
what's a 373 doing at Olympia? and can someone link me the history of this station? was the district's addition recent
Eurostar used to run from Waterloo and the depot was at North Pole, accessed from this line. The District has served Olympia for over 100 years, back since when it was called Addison Road. Wikipedia is a god source for checking histories.
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Actually, the District Line didn't go to Olympia until 1946. Underground maps from before then did show the District Branch to Addison Road, but this was simply how they chose to represent the "Middle Circle" and "Outer Circle" services, which were operated by the Great Western Railway and North London Railway respectively.
Good old diesel days 😍😍 and sadly so many went for scrap 😭😭😭 for a cleaner greener environment
EWS certainly helped send them on their way when the 66s arrived.....
Sadly the end of an erA, but thanks to these videos, their not forgotten
Just like the end of steam. Replaced with something cleaner.
A hst at Kensington, must be ecs.
No, it was a passenger working.....although it's hard to tell as there were more staff on board than passengers! Once Eurostar services were running, BR ran special feeder services to Waterloo from Manchester (and possible other places) and only Eurostar ticket holders could travel on these services, which is why they pretty much ran empty! And not for very long either.....
Ads in vid, oh no! Great upto then mate lol.
Yes, that's the last time i have help from a friends daughter! I will stick to doing things my own way, cack-handed that they may be.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Hehehe