British Rail Network SouthEast 1991-London Waterloo with Classes 47, 50 & 73

It's October 1991 and i'm at Waterloo. I was there to see a railtour depart with class 50, 50 029. Also seen is the class 73 Electro-Diesel that had brought the stock in along with class 50s and a 47 on the West of England line expresses. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!

[@nelson408.]

50033 looks totally knackered yet totally glorious (pardon the pun) in that first shot.
Impressive arcing from the 73 as well.

[@petersmith4455]

hi there. network southeast need rapping for maintaining these cl50s in such bad condition, throwing out more smoke than the Titanic, i used to watch them go through Woking in the last days, sad sight, thank goodness some are saved and run with a clean engine

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

They had a hard life on the West of England services, and the crews thrashed them well beyond their permitted speeds! I worked with drivers that had been on those services and heard what punishment they endured......

[@nelson408.]

​@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Who endured the punishment, the locos or the drivers....😄

[@mirvids5036]

Love the 50s. Rode behind all of them back in the 70s and 80s.
Used to love seeing them thunder through Clapham Junction.
Nice Video.

[@Andrewjg_89]

Network Southeast used to operate lots of services in and around London & Southeast England. Most railway stations in Southeast England still have remains of NSE. Especially at London Marylebone.

[@hermitageroad4713]

great video Lyndon

[@jamesfrench7299]

The 50 class remind me of some of our own NSW government railways locomotives which prompted me to search for them. They were the 1969 -70 422 class as well as the 442 class 1970 -73, 80 class 1978-83 and the 81 class 1982-86.
All look very similar.

[@rich_rich90]

I see class 50...I watch 😁

[@SteamboatWilley]

"Glorious" is well named.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, the nameplate was very well positioned....lol

[@aljonflavin6760]

ARE, 50s great thanks

[@OlafProt]

God those wonderful filthy noisy 50s

[@trainrover]

mid-Seventies, the family checked out the Irish republic, and we marvelled at how the railways hummed with tidily shorter trains --- much of your footage features virtually universal deadheading, you see

[@johnmichaeldorienjohn467]

Did The '50 get more love when they were assigned to the Western Region?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Not really...... The refurb programme of the early 1980s helped though.....

[@Keithbarber]

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