“Ok lads don’t forget, they are here with the cameras today so hats on please.”….. collective sigh “oh come on it’s only today while the camera crew is here”
The class 313s are still running on Southern, along the Coast way route thru chichester. But the same company 'GTR' has watered down the Gatwick Express to being just a more expensive 'normal' train.
Ahhhh, Network SouthEast: back in the days when the Railway was all about providing a public service, not about generating huge profits for faceless, souless shareholders.
I know this is an old comment, but NSE, and sectorisation more generally, was really the start of the creeping corporatisation and eventual privatisation of BR. It was NSE who started the trend of calling passengers customers, for example.
NSE wasn't about providing a public service it was about the Thatcherite/ Reganite dogma of privatisation.passengers become customers,wallets not people!
I have a 1930s Southern Railway Sectional Appendix, and on the very first page it says : "OUR PASSENGERS ARE OUR CUSTOMERS You must think of, and refer to, our passengers as customers... (&c)"
It would be a miracle if Network Southeast were still running things would go out fine, Now, we have Govia, Southern, Southeastern and Thameslink, Southeastern is alright, Southern is full of Delays, and Thameslink, not sure
Love watching them come off the ferries 2:20 Ahhhh the English. Lets just give Scotland one company 3:10 never mind how huge the land mass is lol you'd think that Glasgow and Edinburgh could've had its own bit. But nah. That line out to Margate was horrendously underfunded. I remember a girl I worked with around the time of this video that came in from Chatham and she was always late because of trains I'm amazed they've highlighted the 'modern' 11:00 parcel car for the Gatwick Express, thats a 1950s built carriage.
Am I the only one who finds it odd that not only did NSE have a South West route that went all the way to Exeter and Weymouth, but that their South West route was their LARGEST operating area?
the last train on that route was in 1997 as part of the LILO tour (Last in Last Out) with a class 423 vep unit. Search on yt as there is a video of it.
4:54 Does anyone know in which year the direct services from Brixton to elephant and Castle were stopped? Did they used to call at Loughborough Junction?
What the heck were BR up to in those days? So concerned about silly branding and very little investment in staff and rolling stock. A very poor attempt to attract private investors.
+Brandon Morley Yes there was an Anglia Region. It was split off from the Eastern Region in the 1980s. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F266288
Love how modern the 321s looked back then
“Ok lads don’t forget, they are here with the cameras today so hats on please.”….. collective sigh “oh come on it’s only today while the camera crew is here”
The class 313s are still running on Southern, along the Coast way route thru chichester. But the same company 'GTR' has watered down the Gatwick Express to being just a more expensive 'normal' train.
Not anymore theyve been scrapped
Ahhhh, Network SouthEast: back in the days when the Railway was all about providing a public service, not about generating huge profits for faceless, souless shareholders.
Zac Daunt-Jones but that service was still a bit shit?
I know this is an old comment, but NSE, and sectorisation more generally, was really the start of the creeping corporatisation and eventual privatisation of BR. It was NSE who started the trend of calling passengers customers, for example.
NSE wasn't about providing a public service it was about the Thatcherite/ Reganite dogma of privatisation.passengers become customers,wallets not people!
I have a 1930s Southern Railway Sectional Appendix, and on the very first page it says :
"OUR PASSENGERS ARE OUR CUSTOMERS
You must think of, and refer to, our passengers as customers... (&c)"
We've gone from having our government run our trains badly to having other people's governments run them even worse, at a much higher cost
ah Network South East those were the days southern slam doors :-D
Im in love with music they use in this video
I agree mate the music is fantastic which we could find out what is
Sounds like it was produced on a Korg M1
We served the south
*And it abandoned us*
Britishit rail reference
It would be a miracle if Network Southeast were still running things would go out fine, Now, we have Govia, Southern, Southeastern and Thameslink, Southeastern is alright, Southern is full of Delays, and Thameslink, not sure
Love watching them come off the ferries 2:20
Ahhhh the English. Lets just give Scotland one company 3:10 never mind how huge the land mass is lol you'd think that Glasgow and Edinburgh could've had its own bit. But nah.
That line out to Margate was horrendously underfunded. I remember a girl I worked with around the time of this video that came in from Chatham and she was always late because of trains
I'm amazed they've highlighted the 'modern' 11:00 parcel car for the Gatwick Express, thats a 1950s built carriage.
I do however wish that it served for example serving Cambridge to Paris via London kings cross
Am I the only one who finds it odd that not only did NSE have a South West route that went all the way to Exeter and Weymouth, but that their South West route was their LARGEST operating area?
They also went as far NORTH as STAFFORD (30 miles NORTH of BIRMINGHAM!)
Also ran trains all the way to Hereford.
50 Hauled
Wow They must Have been 50s to wales
It should have been called network south
Rare shot of a slim jim class 33 next to its phatter brother, awesome :)
Had it been on a diet?
If the services they operated at a loss,then they would lose a few pounds
And coming off the train ferry at Dover
9:31 he looks shocked
heh. Remember when Sprinters and Pacers were NEW?
LOL
Remember when networks we're spanking new? 😍
Lol yeah
Back in the day when you could turn up at the station, buy a ticket for a fixed price, no matter when you travelled (other than before 9.30) and go!
Erm, you still can.
Wish I could find out what that guitar music is,it's lovely..
Try Shazam app.
aww, those were the days when addiscome was a station 4:55
the last train on that route was in 1997 as part of the LILO tour (Last in Last Out) with a class 423 vep unit. Search on yt as there is a video of it.
2:43 feels like California!
They forgot about the isle of wight
He said Isle of Grain, did he mean Sheppey? Allhallows had closed a long time before.
8:40 is there a list of all NSE route numbers?
Good stuff but you've missed the Network Rail link to Kabul...........
+Michael Marsden This was basically a BR employee training video in the mid-80s when Sectorisation occurred.
this must have been made after 1988 since there are clips of class 442's
JamesIvell this video was produced in 1991
If you look carefully at cannon street there's a class 465 which wasn't built till 1997
BusBoy 14 they where introduced into service from 1992
465s were introduced in 1992, if they were introduced in 1997 they'd probably never been painted in NSE colours and instead painted in Connex livery
4:54 Does anyone know in which year the direct services from Brixton to elephant and Castle were stopped? Did they used to call at Loughborough Junction?
Dan Smith I’m joining the question, thank you!
This is helpfull to really get the Fucked up state of NSE to replicate it well
More like "We Un-Nerve the South."
What the heck were BR up to in those days? So concerned about silly branding and very little investment in staff and rolling stock. A very poor attempt to attract private investors.
13:08 soon to have a chat with Farage about that "trading with johnny foreigner" nonsense.
Traresa may did see?
There was an Anglia region?! Since when! It was all Eastern. Come on... get the facts right before telling us about geography! :P
+Brandon Morley Yes there was an Anglia Region. It was split off from the Eastern Region in the 1980s.
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F266288
They did have an "Anglia Electrics" route brand, which did serve the Anglia region.