British Rail Network SouthEast 1990-Basingstoke with Class 47, 50, 205 DEMU, 442 & CIG EMU's
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- It's October 1990 and we are in Basingstoke on a Saturday afternoon, with some nice English Electric & Sulzer thrash. Plenty of classic NSE action with class 50 hauled West of England line services along with a class 205 DEMU Thumper unit. Then there's a couple of class 47's on Inter-City and Freightliner workings while class 442 Wessex Electrics and Cig units complete the NSE front. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!
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From the month and year i turned 16...
I love the sound of the loose rail joints - quite a rare sound these days.
Memories of camping down near Dorchester and travelling on the 442s when new. They were a really comfortable journey- even went to Waterloo on them one time.
This brings back memories, I commuted from Branksome to Waterloo using the 442s in the early 90s.
Those class 442s were really good. I think we should’ve never privatised BR, or at least the train building side of it.
Yes SWR wasted a lot of money trying to upgrade the 442s with AC motors and 3 step enhanced West code brakes but then abandoned them for refurbished Class 458 EMUs. The privatised railway wastes a lot of money, far more than what was ever directed at BR. A perfect example was the scrapping of the class 365 EMUs. It was a shame that BREL was disbanded.
Basingstoke before the ends of the platforms had trees growing out them!
A sad state of the railways countrywide! You can see the same in my Llandudno Junction vids, in the 90s nice and clear, now, all around is a jungle!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus yes it can’t do the infrastructure any good. I have even seen vegetation growing out of trackside drain catch pits. And Network Rail wonder why the permanent way floods!
The slam door trains I do remember as I have been on them before they were replaced by trains with sliding doors.
And the Class 442 would still be used on London Waterloo-Southampton Central, Portsmouth Harbour and Weymouth.
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