Wow!! Great video. Brings back so many memories. I used to live in Southport in the mid 90s so Wigan and Warrington were our local mainline spots. I have a feeling my dad has a video on here from around a similar era.......maybe a tad earlier as there are 20s on Bickershaw coal
Real good video.Natural in terms of camera work and in particular the sound. Lots of current stuff has overdone close ups but worse of all unrealistic sound with the 'aid' of all the mikes , with lots of exagerrated bass or occassionally treble,coming and going. This seems real, not museum-like.
great video i remember those mk2 coaches on liverpool lime street to preston, and mk1 coaches has well to southport and man vic. THOSE TERRIBLE PACERS WHAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH THE LEYLAND RAIL BUSES ARE, same old crap going backwards and forwards for years and years, and the public stand for it, todays trains for todays people. i rest my case...
Ah right, I know what the InterCity Motorail coaches are, they are used to carry cars inside the bodyshell pretty cool for its time, It quite funny how they can't couple the Motorail coaches in the one set, is it to make it easy to unload the cars at the platform?
The motorail coaches don't have TDM jumper cables so need to go on the rear, if they were between the loco and DVT then the train wouldn't be able to be driven from the DVT at the front :)
The DVT sets were used as fixed formations, even if the motorail vans had TDM jumpers it would have involved a huge amount of shunting at both ends of the journey to get them 'inside' the train formation. I guess the previous inbound working of this set was signalled into the motorail platform onto the vans already positioned there, at the destination the station shunt engine would hook the vans off and shunt them to the motorail platform.
In some ways they look like a 47 brought forward in to time. The 47 has a classic look with it's rounded edges. The 60 looks better than the corrugated iron sheds on the network these days.
the 47 knew what was to come to loco's at Wigan. it tried valiantly to escape
When our railways had so much going on and full of excitement.
Lovely footage, thanks for sharing. Brings back many memories.
4:51 for the runaway 47!
11:23 for the end of the video...it's all worth watching....
The green piggyback wagons at 5:45 used to run to us at Cricklewood, the train finished late summer 92.
4:51 they se me rollin, they hating.
In the days when we still just had a railway
Nice to see how it use to be. Spent many an hour on that very spot. Still only live two minutes away from there, but it's changed so much.
Wow!! Great video. Brings back so many memories. I used to live in Southport in the mid 90s so Wigan and Warrington were our local mainline spots. I have a feeling my dad has a video on here from around a similar era.......maybe a tad earlier as there are 20s on Bickershaw coal
Now I know how orange overalls become brown!
Great video....more drama than Coronation St lol
Enjoy the video . Thank you.
Real good video.Natural in terms of camera work and in particular the sound. Lots of current stuff has overdone close ups but worse of all unrealistic sound with the 'aid' of all the mikes , with lots of exagerrated bass or occassionally treble,coming and going.
This seems real, not museum-like.
4:46 Yikes, 112 tons of loco going AWOL! 🚂👍
God, that was close or the fire brigade would have had to call for assistance
great video i remember those mk2 coaches on liverpool lime street to preston, and mk1 coaches has well to southport and man vic. THOSE TERRIBLE PACERS WHAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH THE LEYLAND RAIL BUSES ARE, same old crap going backwards and forwards for years and years, and the public stand for it, todays trains for todays people. i rest my case...
Good man … these days a risk assessment would have had to be completed before jumping into the cab lol
Why do I hear a faint chord in this video?
I thought you meant runaway as in the oil seals failed and it was revving uncontrollably.
That's what i was waiting on, guess i should have read the description
that would have been fucking amazing
Great old footage here
The last throes of a dying British Rail with everything being set up for privatisation.
Give that man a George Cross!!
At 6:47 that Class 86/87 is sandwiched in between MK2 and MK3 coaches, you know the reason for this?
Motorail coaches on the rear of the 87.
Ah right, I know what the InterCity Motorail coaches are, they are used to carry cars inside the bodyshell pretty cool for its time, It quite funny how they can't couple the Motorail coaches in the one set, is it to make it easy to unload the cars at the platform?
The motorail coaches don't have TDM jumper cables so need to go on the rear, if they were between the loco and DVT then the train wouldn't be able to be driven from the DVT at the front :)
Cheers man.
The DVT sets were used as fixed formations, even if the motorail vans had TDM jumpers it would have involved a huge amount of shunting at both ends of the journey to get them 'inside' the train formation.
I guess the previous inbound working of this set was signalled into the motorail platform onto the vans already positioned there, at the destination the station shunt engine would hook the vans off and shunt them to the motorail platform.
What where those two at 1.17 about ? , Hmmmmmmmmm
Great video. I live not too far away and have often thought of going there. How did you get so close to the action?
Busy that day.. lol
We did not see the crash ):
Staltwitch junction it's near 5:00 - 5:18
I do so loath Class 60's.
In some ways they look like a 47 brought forward in to time. The 47 has a classic look with it's rounded edges. The 60 looks better than the corrugated iron sheds on the network these days.
having driven them, they were fantastic