BR Blues Part 3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 เม.ย. 2024
- BR Blues - Part 3 of 4
From the mid 1960s through to the 1980s, 'rail blue' became the corporate identity of British Rail. To some, this livery became the norm and fondly remembered by enthusiasts but to others it represented a modern scene at odds with their golden era of steam locomotives. This video explores the various memories associated with such an era and reminisces with those who remember the time well.
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Loving the old footage 👍👍👍
More please.
We never really got the 45 peaks up north that much , but sometimes you would see them on Newcastle to Liverpool trains or at York on Scarborough trains On a Saturday. They were eventually replaced by 47s . I remember one time at Newcastle in the early 80s a peak had just rolled in on a Liverpool to Newcastle train ,and while the shunter unhooked the loco the driver let us in the cab. I always liked the peaks they just had more character than the 47s that we saw all the time. My favourite run behind a peak was over the settle to Carlisle, I can still remember my mates and l with our heads out the windows listening to the sound of that Sulzer engine. Those were the days.
I remember the sidings where the cover pic was taken, Wolverhampton station. The additional island platform added since occupies the space now.
Peaks=B E A utiful 👊
More familiar with the Class 33 locos as they ran the Cardiff to Portsmouth services on the line that passed the residential school I was at in the 80's on the Wiltshire Somerset border.
I got scammed by the thumbnail, came in here for the 86s...
Great 😊
I remember my biggest achievement was getting 1 to 10 of the named peaks and underlining all of the class just happened without fuss.🍺🇬🇧😎
Really good video!
Mid 80's memories of the 50's from Birmingham on the 13.10 and 14.40 Padds. 33's from Crewe to Nantwich. The overnights on Crewe with a Class 08 shunt of the 02.04 to Cardiff stock. 45's from Birmingham to Derby with rattling side panels. 81's and 85's roaring around too 😀
Glad you enjoyed it
Really enjoying this series!
What a great series of films! thanks for taking the time to edit and share these. Brings back many happy memories of my times roving the rails in the 70-90s.
Always had a soft spot for the 33s, maids of all work but they could still hammer along the Western mainline to Bristol when on the Portsmouth-Bristol trains. Their sound not unlike the familiar 26/27s of my native Scotland.
Great to hear the rail enthusiasts' anecdotes and memories too - lifts the film above the usual trip down memory lane. In 1983 with some careful study of the BR ASTT (All Systems Time Table) I travelled all the way from Portsmouth to Crewe behind three Class 33s - Portsmouth to Cardiff (reverse at Bristol) and Cardiff to Crewe. Two other long hauls I enjoyed behind Class 33 were - Brighton to Exeter SD (summer Sat only) and Portsmouth Harbour to Totnes (substitute for failed Class 47) both via Salisbury and the L&SWR route to Exeter
The rail enthusiasts were speaking 20/25 years ago I think, they were recollecting an era which was about 15 years ago then and is now about 40 years ago. A large amount has certainly changed since their discussion.
33's were a Friday Only treat from Poole through Coventry and up to New Street on a once a week service to Leeds
Correct, you have better memory thsn me!
I worked with 33/1s and TCs as Bournemouth guard until they were replaced by Pigs. Later at Salisbury as a driver a workmate told me that he took a 33/1 and 8 TC to Exeter one day and the Western shunter was ready to uncouple the loco for it to run round. He couldn't understand when the driver said 'nah, I'll drive from the other end.'
Never drove one myself sadly (despite the dual controls), but travelled in a few as a guard. I should have asked to have a go, not uncommon then.
@kristina. There was a driver that let his guard have a go on the Sudbury branch. ( Great Eastern ) They both got the Sack. There's always someone watching. This was years ago.
@@arthurrytis6010 More famously, it is believed the Guard was driving the train that jumped the red light which caused the Cowden disaster in the early 1990s, killing himself, both drivers and I think a few passengers in a head on collision on the single track. The Guard was a young rail enthusiast always badgering drivers to let him have a go...the Uckfield branch (like Sudbury) was a rural backwater neglected by management so vulnerable to that kind of thing.
Another good video in the series , pity no film of 44s in the peaks section .
That's a bit harsh, I think the last of the 44s was withdrawn in 1980, that's a good 4 or 5 years before amateur video started to become a thing. For a similar reason there is sadly very little video footage of the Peaks on the top link Midland expresses they were built for, they were replaced by HSTs in 82/83 which again was slightly before enthusiasts started to use video cameras in place of Cine film.
Re the peaks 45/0 and 46s were the main motive power on whst is now cross country until the hst came in during 1982. 45/1s dominated the midland mainline until hst in 1983. Even as late as 84 there was a Fridays only afternoon bristol manchester service that was always a 46, used to take it from bham to wolves after school!
Think the dates were slightly earlier...HSTs took over a large part of Cross Country from Summer 1981 and the Midland Main Line from Summer/Autumn 82 (though this caused some Cross Country services to go back to locos because BR cancelled the last order of HSTs). You are right, a few Peaks lingered on the MML into 83 but it was a full HST timetable from May 1983 aside from the occasional peak hour and mixed mail/passenger workings at night. Amateur video didn't really become a thing until a year or two later, say 84/85, which is why there isn't much video footage of the Peaks on top link expresses. Most of the Peak passenger footage here is of slower regional services, I'm guessing Trans Pennine.
@@kevinfowkes2327 you are defo right re the mml, I was thinking 83 as the peaks were still in charge in summer 82, but it could have been late 82. You may be right about cross country too but there were still a lot of steam heat peaks on the route in 82, that's what made me think it was later. Memories fade. The 45\1s had a few more years on transpennine until sprinters took over about 87 or 88, I was living in York at the time. Unbelievably initially the loco hauled trains were replaced by pairs of 150/2s until I think 158s took over a year or so later. Using 150s on long distance expresses was ridiculous.
Awesome! You're right about 33s being lesser-spotted here in the (wild West) Midlands, they were something of a delicacy, despite being forged in Smethwick!
I was a secondman at Banbury in the 80s,we had a diagram on sunday afternoons to New St with a class 33.Banbury Drivers knew most Diesel classes,and they also had a very comprehensive route knowledge,from Crewe in the north to Eastleigh in the south.I went to Eastleigh one morning with a class 40!!!on a freight and back light engine.
They weren't that unusual on birmingham Portsmouth trains in the early 80s, maybe every week or two. Once a pair of 73s deputised on diesel, must have been 83 or 84 time, presumably because of a loco failure.