We used to go on the Waverley or the Queen Mary from Greenock to Tignabruaich to visit my gran during school holidays. Happy days. I was lucky my dad knew some of the guys working the boats and I remember getting shown round the engine. God it was magnificent. Happy days.
Starting at 1:57, some rare cine film of the Blue Trains in their original livery. I recall them in the early 1960s. Not only the superb saltire blue livery (no yellow panels) and the forward view but also the curved front windows. The 303s as they became were a world first - the first 25kV AC electric multiple units designed from the start for the new voltage, and by an industrial designer. The British Rail Design Panel took a special interest in them as did the Chairman of the BTC Sir Brian Robertson. The very first 25kV AC suburban emus in France and Britain [the two countries that inaugurated the new voltage] that were in use from the mid-1950s were adapted versions of the earlier 1500v DC suburban trains, so the Blue Trains were the first emus in the world designed specially for the electrified lines that we now see everywhere. Restoring a unit to its original 1960 look, design and character would be a great achievement if it were also able to operate specials on the now much more extensive electrified network of Central Scotland.
Thanks for sharing some very rare footage. Eastfield before it got its allocation of the later synonymous class 26s and 27s. Loads of EE type 1s in stead, which is kind of interesting. The "clayton" twin engined loco footage will be of interest to the people who have preserved a class 17.
Great footage..certainly took me back to my childhood. Used to live on the Parkhouse Estate just behind Eastfields, spent many hours watching the steam trains, and shouting to the Drivers..."Got any Guages" the glass tubes they used to monitor water levels, which made excellent pea shooters. Occasionally they would throw you one, and make your day!!! Those were truly the days!!!!
Sadly I can only show you the footage my Dad shot in the 60's and I didnt find any of Muirend. I do however have some then and now pictures of Muirend over on my Flickr page; flic.kr/s/aHsj8y1Aje
wow, absolute flashback to the 60's there and i remember seeing the guys on the end of the platform taking film and photos when i w\as a wee boy. is 02:00 at Kings Park station in the 70's? It looks very like it!
Why did british rail close the second entry to cathcart station in 0ld castle road. You have to walk along delvin road then right underneath the railway then up a flight of stairs to the existing station it is bizarre.
In the late 80's they tried to make it impossible to get on at Cathcart without a ticket. To do this there was a high fence either side of a passageway that led to the station building from the current entrance. This led you into the ticket office and only once you bought a ticket would you get on the platform. This wouldn't work with two entrances so they blocked off the entrance from old castle road. When the fences went the second entrance never reopened. I would love it to come into use again.
We used to go on the Waverley or the Queen Mary from Greenock to Tignabruaich to visit my gran during school holidays. Happy days. I was lucky my dad knew some of the guys working the boats and I remember getting shown round the engine. God it was magnificent. Happy days.
Starting at 1:57, some rare cine film of the Blue Trains in their original livery. I recall them in the early 1960s. Not only the superb saltire blue livery (no yellow panels) and the forward view but also the curved front windows. The 303s as they became were a world first - the first 25kV AC electric multiple units designed from the start for the new voltage, and by an industrial designer. The British Rail Design Panel took a special interest in them as did the Chairman of the BTC Sir Brian Robertson.
The very first 25kV AC suburban emus in France and Britain [the two countries that inaugurated the new voltage] that were in use from the mid-1950s were adapted versions of the earlier 1500v DC suburban trains, so the Blue Trains were the first emus in the world designed specially for the electrified lines that we now see everywhere.
Restoring a unit to its original 1960 look, design and character would be a great achievement if it were also able to operate specials on the now much more extensive electrified network of Central Scotland.
wonderful footage and memories!
This is great footage! thanks for uploading!!
Thanks for sharing some very rare footage. Eastfield before it got its allocation of the later synonymous class 26s and 27s. Loads of EE type 1s in stead, which is kind of interesting. The "clayton" twin engined loco footage will be of interest to the people who have preserved a class 17.
Great footage..certainly took me back to my childhood. Used to live on the Parkhouse Estate just behind Eastfields, spent many hours watching the steam trains, and shouting to the Drivers..."Got any Guages" the glass tubes they used to monitor water levels, which made excellent pea shooters. Occasionally they would throw you one, and make your day!!!
Those were truly the days!!!!
Show me old muirend
Sadly I can only show you the footage my Dad shot in the 60's and I didnt find any of Muirend. I do however have some then and now pictures of Muirend over on my Flickr page; flic.kr/s/aHsj8y1Aje
Hi Jack i took all this footage our david has shown i was raised in Springburn and still have my glass peashooter
Hi, the station at 2:00 is Cathcart station. The railings are around the old second entrance from Old Castle road.
Didn't think that class 87s were that old. Superb slice of history, thanks for the watch😃
brilliant
wow, absolute flashback to the 60's there and i remember seeing the guys on the end of the platform taking film and photos when i w\as a wee boy.
is 02:00 at Kings Park station in the 70's? It looks very like it!
Why did british rail close the second entry to cathcart station in 0ld castle road. You have to walk along delvin road then right underneath the railway then up a flight of stairs to the existing station it is bizarre.
In the late 80's they tried to make it impossible to get on at Cathcart without a ticket. To do this there was a high fence either side of a passageway that led to the station building from the current entrance. This led you into the ticket office and only once you bought a ticket would you get on the platform. This wouldn't work with two entrances so they blocked off the entrance from old castle road. When the fences went the second entrance never reopened. I would love it to come into use again.