Brilliant video. I remember the REP-TC formations going through Surbiton at speed, but I never ventured to Bournemouth or Weymouth until the 442s were in service. Pennies were tight as an apprentice. So wish I had. The 33s were an amazing locomotive, they punched well above their weight and horse power on the Weymouth and Salisbury-Exeter routes hauling 8 coach trains. Especially when you consider a TPE class 185 has 750hp per vehicle, yet a class 33 was a humble 1,550hp.
In the good days, the railway was run as a service not a business. BR kept a tight rein on the purse strings but still managed to maintain the line side.
We used to wait for the tcs to power past Churchill Way with a grotty crompton shoving from behind. Fun days on that concrete footbridge facing Salisbury West Yard.
Thank you for uploading this video, such great footage. Loved the start with 47620 leaving with MK1's and the 73 overtaking the railtour.
Brilliant video.
I remember the REP-TC formations going through Surbiton at speed, but I never ventured to Bournemouth or Weymouth until the 442s were in service. Pennies were tight as an apprentice. So wish I had.
The 33s were an amazing locomotive, they punched well above their weight and horse power on the Weymouth and Salisbury-Exeter routes hauling 8 coach trains. Especially when you consider a TPE class 185 has 750hp per vehicle, yet a class 33 was a humble 1,550hp.
In the good days, the railway was run as a service not a business. BR kept a tight rein on the purse strings but still managed to maintain the line side.
I was on this tour and scratched in a selection of new track with a crompton. Happy memories...
I love the sound of the class 33 engine, at idle it sounds like it's just going to stop and the governor kicks it back to life again.
We used to wait for the tcs to power past Churchill Way with a grotty crompton shoving from behind. Fun days on that concrete footbridge facing Salisbury West Yard.
Malcolm Ellis @18:18 with the flat cap and orange safety vest on .
Guard looks familiar @18:43 ! Was it Terry Mills ?
Fabulous
Awsome😊😊
Brilliant vid
Thanks!
On it! Brockenhurst to Dorchester West.
I hate been born in 1993 missed everything that was decent about the railway
Yeah, know what you mean. I just missed steam!
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