1980s London | 1980s British Rail | Marylebone Station | Commuters | 1985

The hustle and bustle of the early morning commute at Marylebone station in London.
First shown: 13/11/1985
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[@Czechbound]

This was my station from 2004 to 2007 ( I lived on Upper Berkeley Street ). I would travel every morning to work in Harrow on the Hill. Arriving train would disgorge their passengers. Many, many commuters had Brompton bikes and would cycle off to work. I would get on a nearly empty train and travel to Harrow on the Hill. After days after the London bombings in 2005 there was very heavy armed police presence there ( that morning I travelled from Baker Street. Long delays, and then out tube stopped in Wembley and we heard the news ). My gym was across the road on Balcolme Street. The IRA laid seige to a building there in 1975. I very nice part of London.

[@kenwilkins8237]

Yes it was the spaghetti house siege,the IRA took hostages in an Italian restaurant .I was a driver at Marylebone in the mid 80s,it was very run down and the DMIs were on.their last legs,they were kept going by a great maintenance team.Back in the 80s we had mamy steam locos and a class 40 at Marylebone shed,they were used on.the sunday steam specials to Stratford upon Avon. One of the reasons they could run the ste specials was the fact that the turntable was still usable in.the 1980s.I believe that the 40 was in green livery maybe 40106.

[@person.X.]

I love the way it was possible to open the doors and jump off before the train stopped.

[@mancunianinlondon]

I used to do that, and did it throughout the 80's and the 90's. I also did it on London buses. It was very common. I can't remember when trains switched to auto-lock doors, but I remember being able to do this until at least 1995.

[@201081hero]

Hello commuters with your computers!

[@IndigoJo]

Not in 1985.

[@nickgreaves1242]

Oh, to back back to then….

[@lewisclark1122]

A lovely little station

[@TheCyberSalvager]

Reminds me of the odd occasions that I would go on school trips to London during that era. Things changed when these slam-door trains were replaced with Networker Turbos in the early 1990s.

[@kurthandrews6206]

Aaaaah … nice. Wait., not a very diverse place. 😂

[@mancunianinlondon]

Things were better in those days.

[@hopebgood]

@@mancunianinlondon 🙄

[@hopebgood]

My second job was for Thames Water just near the old New Scotland Yard. A train and tube commute. I hated the commute and I hated the job working out if the prices London councils charged Thames Water to repair roads that had been dug up and repaired was accurate. Zzzzzzzzz.........

[@12crepello]

What! No CDL!? How did they all survive?? 🙄

[@ghgoogle5238]

Don't laugh those trains still in service in 2024. Just been moved out to some inter-parochial Scottish destination.

[@globaltraveller]

They’re not.

[@FordPrefect-tr8fb]

London has been greatly improved and enriched since those terrible white days. Thank you, Westminster.

[@joelpacheco7360]

I hope you are being sarcastic.

[@FordPrefect-tr8fb]

@@joelpacheco7360 Take a guess, Einstein.

[@markmower1746]

Yes those white people in cues with their suits on! Just awful!

[@mancunianinlondon]

@@FordPrefect-tr8fb Britain is damned

[@IndigoJo]

More grey than white, thanks to the particulates from the diesel.

[@buy.to.let.britain]

Named after french writer mary le bone, in 1812, the station has changed little.