Trains in the 1980s - Old Oak Common Depot - January - March 1989

This video opens with what was "on shed" at Old Oak Common depot on New Year's Day 1989.
Class 50s included: 013 Agincourt, 023 Howe (on jacks), 024 Vanguard, 025 Invincible, 026 Indomitable, 030 Repulse, 031 Hood, 032 Courageous, 034 Furious, 035 Ark Royal, 036 Victorious, 038 Illustrious, 040 Centurion 042 Triumph, and 046 Ajax.
Class 47s included: 421, 453, 488, 526, 571, 572, 573, and 580.
Class 31s: 301, 102, 142, 409, and 423.
08s: 837, 821, 361, 634, 523, 804, and 651, and Class 56 045.
The second section is from a visit on Sunday 5th February and shows 50 031 Hood, 50 039 Implacable, 50 040 Centurion, and 56 051 running out of the refuelling shed.
The third visit on Sunday 19th February 1989 had Class 50s present: 013 Agincourt, 023 Howe, 024 Vanguard, 030 Repulse, 031 Hood, 035 Ark Royal, 037 Illustrious, 040 Centurion and 050 Fearless.
Class 47s: 468, 513, 556, 573 and 628.
Class 31 430, Class 56 057, and 08 361.
The final visit in this video is from Sunday 5th March and saw the following locos 'on shed'.
Class 50s:
013 Agincourt (scrapped), 025 Invincible, 026 Indomitable, 034 Furious, 035 Ark Royal, 036 Victorious, 038 Formidable, 040 Centurion, and 050 Fearless.
Class 47s: 598, 609, 624
Class 56s: 036, 043, 055
Class 59 004
and Class 31 142 and 08 361.
[Note: this content has been posted to the channel previously but has been re-edited and converted from 4:3 aspect to 16:9].
00:00 1st January 1989
04:14 5th February 1989
10:28 19th February 1989
18.47 5th March 1989

[@jacksonphreak]

What a fantastic Video!! All those Vacs!! My all time favourite Diesel Locomotive. Thank you

[@OldOakTrains]

Thank you very much!

[@going2thedogs]

Wow, what a trip down Memory Lane. Thks for sharing.

[@OldOakTrains]

Thanks , glad it brought back memories. 👍😊

[@garymcgregor7048]

You can have all my savings. Just take me back to there. I was 21 . Aww happy days

[@OldOakTrains]

Hope the video helped bring a bit of that feeling back - cheers.

[@garymcgregor7048]

@@OldOakTrains certainly did

[@markclifton14]

The good old days. I was 17 in 1989. I started working at Oxford when I was 16 on the PWay Track maintenance . I use to travel to work from Banbury every morning on a class 50. Good old work horses. I’m still on the Railway now. Doing Signalling installation at Birmingham. I miss the loco hauled trains. I got the opportunity when I was 18 to train as a driver based at Old Oak. But could not afford to move into London from Banbury. Biggest regret of my life.

[@OldOakTrains]

Nothings changed there then - I bet it’s still too expensive to move from Banbury into London, even more so perhaps? Thanks for sharing your story, always great to hear what others were doing back in the ‘golden era’. cheers,. Geoff.

[@garymcgregor7048]

Fantastic memories for us guys. Just pump some diesel fumes in now and then and I'm a happy boy. Possibly dead one lol. But die happy 😊 🤣🤣

[@TheDaf95xf]

Great video 😊but I visited OOC in 74 when they had Westerns 🤩

[@OldOakTrains]

Thanks. Bet it was great back then, but I was a bit young to be able to get there under my own steam; Dad never took me even though he was a railway enthusiast, although I remember spending time at Didcot and somewhere on the GWML once. He was more of a Southern steam man! 😆

[@NickGillings-vf3ye]

That red cortina 👌

[@OldOakTrains]

I had beige one with over 90,000 miles on the clock (9 previous owners) just before I bought the video camera. Great cars, cheap and reasonably dependable. 👍

[@Mike-kc8rl]

A time when BR had dozens of miss match liveries and, to be honest, a generally poor railway system! All good fun for train spotters, though I guess?

[@OldOakTrains]

In my view., it’s partly the different liveries that makes the current scene bearable, although I have actually posted a video on the channel of just EWS Class 66s - nearly 3 hours long, if you can stand it! 😆😆😆 - Thanks for watching and commenting 👍😊