British Rail 1991-Paddington with Network SouthEast DMU+Class 47 & InterCity 125 HST
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- It's April 1991 and i'm at Paddington in the evening peak. We see Valenta powered Inter-City 125 HST's alongside Network SouthEast DMU's and loco hauled class 47 workings including a couple of ex Scotrail 47/7's, one in NSE livery, the other still in Scotrail colours. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!
All of that clag! Happy days! Brings back all the memories of the 90s
The bubble car at the end 😎
The Greenford Car..... now the service is cut back to West Ealing only......
Excellent footage 👍
8:40 that HST power car thought it was a steam loco 😂
Probably been idling for a while.... It soon blows though and is nowhere near as bad......
Another great video, perfectly captures the feel of the era.
Great railway video Soi Buakhao
Thank you....
Brilliant. I love the footage of 47 701 still in Scotrail livery, and the real DMUs, class 115 or 117, not sure which. I've never arrived at or departed from Paddington, but I've been considering doing the Penzance sleeper for a long time; this video has spurred me on to do it
The DMUs are Class 117. Cl.115 driving cars had a smaller brake van and TC coaches had more 1st class than 2nd.
@@keef71 thank you for that clarification my friend. I knew it was one or the other.
@@davidwolstenholme6413 no problem David
The bubble car was a class 121, the other DMU's with headcode boxes above the cab roof were the 117s, although a 3 car set leaves with a different class of rear driving car......
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus had another look and the 2-car @0:50 is a cl.116 (small destination blinds instead of headcode boxes)
Nice one! Can smell them fumes now, lovely :)
Lol.....
Another great video and a reminder of how dirty the railway used to be. The shite spewing out of some of those exhausts is disgusting!
The trouble was by then was a lot of locos were due works visits and weren't getting them as they were due to be withdrawn. Plus, diesel engines idling produce a lot of exhaust when they start to work under load, it soon blows through and clears......
Some fantastic footage of some fantastic traction at a fantastic location!
Really enjoyed this video, reminds me of my trainspotting days.
Paddington pre wires ... love it.
great video.
Thank you......
Wow. To see 16 hsts all parked up in Paddington all at once!
It was the start of the evening peak, most platforms were occupied and nearly all Inter-City workings were HST's.....
Excellent video once again Mr B.
Glad you enjoyed it......
Another great video. Does anybody know when WR HST sets expanded to an eight-coach formation? I've seen another one of your videos from Paddington in '85 when they were still using seven car sets. I also wondered if the change was gradual or if formations were expanded pretty much immediately.
Great stuff as always, thanks for the upload!
Not too sure. I know the East Coast sets were always 8 coaches from new. I have a feeling more coaches were constructed in the 1980s to make the WR sets longer. The Cross Country ones normally stayed as 7s though.....
I liked seeing 47701 in Scotrail livery. It can't have been long after this before it was pained in Network Southeast livery and named after Old Oak Common.
There was an open day at Old Oak Common later in the year, i wonder if 701 was named there?
It was named Old Oak Common in August 1991 by Chris Green at Old Oak Common, so I presume that was when the open day would have been? It's 4 months after this footage was taken, so presumably it ran in Scotrail livery for a while before going into works for a repaint and possibly an exam of some kind.
@@roberthill6216 Yes, that sounds about right. I was at the Open Day but it was 30 years ago now....... lol
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Yip, 18th Aug it was, i was there too ofc! And the 19.3.94 + 5.8.00. Surprisingly she said she didnt go to any, i was quite surprised haha!!
47714, which we see at the start, had been working for NSE for just under two years by then. In fact, the ex "Grampian Region" machine was the first ex Scotrail 47/7 to leave Scotland, being overhauled in May 1989 at Stratford. Also, 47581, ex Stratford, had lost its name "Great Eastern", noticeable by the darker paintwork, as the GEML to Kings Lynn was now electrified, and worked by EMUs.
And 47701 didn't carry the Scotrail livery for much longer, as by August 1991, it was in NSE livery, and named "Old Oak Common Traction and Rolling Stock depot". Both 47701 and 47708 left Scotrail on the same day, 31st October 1990, and by coincidence both feature on my layout, 47701 in NSE, 47708 in Scotrail, coupled to its push pull train!
And of course, the Scotrail 47/7s didn't stay too long on the Western, the West of England line came calling with the run down of the 50s, and the 47/7s having extended range fuel tanks.....
Interestingly 47701 was also the 2nd last loco to recieve Scotrail during CEM at Donny as late as Jan 1990. More weird was 47711 getting IC at Springburn in May '90 then having red bodyside stripe replaced with blue one few days later and being unbranded. . . i remember 714 in undercoat at Stratford DRS.
@@djtrainspotter 47714 worked a test train in 1989, in nse livery but with scotrail livery on the doors!
Seems weird to me not seeing any networkers there, as lived in Oxford I'd never been near the train station until it was just networkers and hsts
Have you seen this upload from 1985? th-cam.com/video/yFfgkgtyoZ4/w-d-xo.html
Look at all the diesel fumes everywhere! 🤧 And the end screen of the roof there with several panes of glass missing. Who was responsible for property maintenance then, or was that one of the things that slipped through the cracks during sectorisation, so no one was really responsible?
A diesel railway was a lot cleaner than a steam railway.... Electrification would have been better but the network was only wired in dribs & drabs..... Even now, the Department of Transport don't want to put the wires up to go carbon free, instead believing that unicorn power running on fairly dust is just around the corner...... The lack of maintainence was the result of lack of money that BR had. Once privitisation came in the spend on the railways quadrupled!.....
Cough, cough... brilliant all the same.
It's how life was back then..... less smokey than steam of course......
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