This is really cool to watch. Seeing how London has changed so much over the past 30 years! Also nice to see the evolution of traction and rolling stock out around Waterloo...
What a difference to how things are now. Masses of buildings and vegetation of 2024 compared to an almost clear canvas 30 years ago. I love London but I cannot help but think how the newer trains have gone backwards for passenger comforts when older 1963 stock as well as the 319/455/442 etc were better for comfort. Also nice to see how things are different since Eurostar moved from Waterloo to St Pancras in 2007.
It may be the film difference but the sky looks hazy in the old video. Back in the 90s diesels were really polluting, think of all the buses and taxis in London, this was before DPFs were fitted.
This is an interesting video. I actually did a similar-ish video to this recently comparing how the trackside scenery between London Waterloo and Queenstown Road Battersea has changed between 2010 and 2024. It's changed beyond recognition. Looking back how it was as recently as 2010, things looked very much unchanged from the 1980's or even the 1970's! Now though in 2024, apart from a small number of remaining buildings, it all looks very 21st century and almost Blade Runner like!
The skyline and shrubbery seems to have grown up. Sadly no longer class 442's plastic pigs. Best comfy seats ever. Now just the uncomfortable seats on the desiro's.
Pigs weren't bad but the best seats are on the unrefurbished 158/159s. I tried to tell my company at the time, SWR, just to change the moquette but they had to put firmer seating in 🙄 At least the 1st are still the same unlike the Disastro 1st 🥴
Another rare example of the YT Algorillas getting it right for once as a suggestion and thank you to you for this/these videos. I am still smiling as a result even though I didn't see my favourite like it or lump it lump of a building ~ the riverside Nine Elms Cold Store in all its unapologetic lump of concrete-ness. Ditto you decided to turn your attention away from the still extant sidings for the long gone Necropolis Railway 4:30. And if only we had a Smellovision option as we came past the Coffee Company building up from Vauxhall station! It used to be a powerful awakening of the imminent arrival in Waterloo but smells no more. All those towers of rabbit hutches and all those people who thought moving in there and having a balcony would be good! The alternative of the unopenable windows on neighbouring towers is no better though. Each to their own. Thank you once again.
You guessed wrong. We accidentally left off the web address at the end. While at it Peter added a further description but the edit was exactly the same.
I worked trains into Waterloo for 31 years from Bournemouth and Salisbury. I could have been on one of those Pigs as as the guard. Went driving at Sals in 1999. Wish I had shares in the crane hire companies for those construction sites when they were going up ££££££££££
I prefer 1994s landscape. More open space, less concrete jungle and a smaller population. There would have been 6 million people back then compared to the way too overcoweded 8 or 9 million we have now. Great footage though.
The shocking thing is London has a worse than ever housing crisis, but so few of the new builds we see in the video are any kind of a solution. On the contrary, they exacerbate the problem, providing only a glut of a premium properties that further overheat an already bloated real estate landscape.
Realising 1994 was 3 decades ago really makes me feel old! Lots more vegetation now, as well as skyscrapers..
This is really cool to watch. Seeing how London has changed so much over the past 30 years! Also nice to see the evolution of traction and rolling stock out around Waterloo...
Sad to see the backward evolution. Comfortable trains to ironing board seats on the Disastros 🙄
30 years later (as well as a refurb and re-traction), the 455s are still running
And class 159
Unfortunately the 442 is not with us anymore
What a difference to how things are now. Masses of buildings and vegetation of 2024 compared to an almost clear canvas 30 years ago. I love London but I cannot help but think how the newer trains have gone backwards for passenger comforts when older 1963 stock as well as the 319/455/442 etc were better for comfort. Also nice to see how things are different since Eurostar moved from Waterloo to St Pancras in 2007.
It may be the film difference but the sky looks hazy in the old video. Back in the 90s diesels were really polluting, think of all the buses and taxis in London, this was before DPFs were fitted.
the fact the tracks have barely changed in 30 years amazes me for some reason
Right? It's like the railway is frozen in time while everything else is passing by
Well, I'm sure they will have been replaced/relaid at least once since 1994 -but yes the track alignment is the same.
Why would the tracks have to change? It's not an iPhone where you need an annual dopamine release to stay engaged and keep buying.
This is an interesting video. I actually did a similar-ish video to this recently comparing how the trackside scenery between London Waterloo and Queenstown Road Battersea has changed between 2010 and 2024. It's changed beyond recognition. Looking back how it was as recently as 2010, things looked very much unchanged from the 1980's or even the 1970's! Now though in 2024, apart from a small number of remaining buildings, it all looks very 21st century and almost Blade Runner like!
That's the post 2008 money printing machines going prrrrrrrrrrrt for you. Underwritten by your grandgrandgrandgrandchildren.
The skyline and shrubbery seems to have grown up. Sadly no longer class 442's plastic pigs. Best comfy seats ever. Now just the uncomfortable seats on the desiro's.
Pigs weren't bad but the best seats are on the unrefurbished 158/159s. I tried to tell my company at the time, SWR, just to change the moquette but they had to put firmer seating in 🙄 At least the 1st are still the same unlike the Disastro 1st 🥴
The 444 isnt bad but the 450 is meh
Fascinating video. Thank you very much.
Fascinating. Thanks.
Another rare example of the YT Algorillas getting it right for once as a suggestion and thank you to you for this/these videos.
I am still smiling as a result even though I didn't see my favourite like it or lump it lump of a building ~ the riverside Nine Elms Cold Store in all its unapologetic lump of concrete-ness.
Ditto you decided to turn your attention away from the still extant sidings for the long gone Necropolis Railway 4:30.
And if only we had a Smellovision option as we came past the Coffee Company building up from Vauxhall station! It used to be a powerful awakening of the imminent arrival in Waterloo but smells no more.
All those towers of rabbit hutches and all those people who thought moving in there and having a balcony would be good! The alternative of the unopenable windows on neighbouring towers is no better though.
Each to their own.
Thank you once again.
Used to love the smell from that coffee company roasting the beans. I used to lean out as a guard from a Pig or a slammer hoping it would waft my way.
@@kristinajendesen7111 Ha ha brilliant!
The vegetation management was a lot better 30 years ago!
I'm guessing you did a bit of work to sync them up a bit better? Feels like they match a little closer now. Nice.
You guessed wrong. We accidentally left off the web address at the end. While at it Peter added a further description but the edit was exactly the same.
Amazing. Thanks for sharing
An alternate take of the last section of Wessex? Interesting so you tried to film it twice at least?
Kudos to video quality in 1994
I worked trains into Waterloo for 31 years from Bournemouth and Salisbury. I could have been on one of those Pigs as as the guard. Went driving at Sals in 1999. Wish I had shares in the crane hire companies for those construction sites when they were going up ££££££££££
Incredibile footage
Very cleverly done
I prefer 1994s landscape. More open space, less concrete jungle and a smaller population.
There would have been 6 million people back then compared to the way too overcoweded 8 or 9 million we have now.
Great footage though.
Brilliant this MK2 version works way better thank you for sharing
The shocking thing is London has a worse than ever housing crisis, but so few of the new builds we see in the video are any kind of a solution. On the contrary, they exacerbate the problem, providing only a glut of a premium properties that further overheat an already bloated real estate landscape.
Most of the buildings didn’t exist a decade ago. Nine Elms and Battersea has changed so much.
Why are the 2 vids not in sync😂
1994:
Slam doors- Gone
442 "plastic pigs"- Gone
159's- still here
455's- still here
Eurostar's- brand new in 94 gone to St Pancras and some scrapped.
How about steadily shifting to entire new setup🛑🕸🌐
Flats flats flats that most working people can’t afford to live in, either buying or renting. So sad
Many unoccupied ‘investments’ I suspect. And of them a lot of money being laundered.
Working people are meant to use these trains to get to Waterloo from their hovels around Plymouth, daily.
The infrastructure is in an appalling state now
Waterloo looked better 30 years they didn’t have to get rid of the lswr canopies
OK cool we got the same thing again but what did you expect