British Rail 1995-Llandudno Junction & Chester With Classes 31, 37, 56 & InterCity 125 HST

It's August 1995 and i'm riding on the loco hauled workings along the North Wales coast. The booked 37/4s were suffering low availability and 31s were helping as seen here with 31 405 on a Holyhead train. There's a couple of class 37 hauled ballast workings to & from Penmaenmawr, a class 56 Grid running light engine , 37/4s on Regional Railway coast workings and a Valanta powered Inter-City 125 on a Holyhead to Euston working. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!

[@rocksreynolds3642]

That was a heck of a ballast train for a single 37 to be working, no wonder it was fighting for grip pulling away from the signal stop.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, you had to pull away very carefully with English Electric traction otherwise they over-load and stop with a bang! Class 47s had superb Load Regulators and you could wind them up full without any problems.....

[@chrisdickinson3349]

Loved that. Lived near this line all my life and remember these services. Before I had a car I used to travel on them.
Ironically they have just restarted the ballast trains from Penmaenmawr with GBRf.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, i have seen that in rail mags...... And another freight flow is set to run from LLandudno Junction with slate waste......

[@johnwyldbore73]

Brilliant, takes me right back to a bygone age. 😊

[@Thornaby37]

Excellent archive footage once again 👍
I spent many hours on the North Wales coast in the 1990s when the 37s were working passenger services

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, it was still good fun along the coast line in the 1990s......

[@djtrainspotter]

Nice one! Hard to believe seeing 37116 still at work seen at Tonbridge a few times all these years later! One she remembered driving too x

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, i remember driving 116 when it was hanging around at Acton.......

[@richardpike1387]

Nice bit of driving getting 37111 underway.👌

[@trainrover]

beautiful British Isles...even softer spot for Wales...wow 🍸

[@alanmolyneux5957]

That brought back great memories. The North Wales coast was easy for me to get to and I spent many happy days with a day ranger travelling with 37's along the coast in the mid - late 90's.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Same here, i spent many days chasing along the Coast in the 1990s

[@PEPEMUFAN]

Fantastic Video, I remember seeing such Train traffic at Chester Train Station with the 101s, 47s, 37s even the Class 43 HSTs spend frequently visit to Chester at the odd Weekends👌👍🙂

[@Mytimekid]

Yet more superb footage of the Regional Railways loco hauled workings. Nice one Soi.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you, i did quite a lot along this line during the 1990s..... so more to come!

[@roberthill6216]

Thanks Soi. Two more of my models feature in this video, 37414 and 37429, both in regional railways livery. Had them both for haulage, probably between Chester and Crewe. Wierdly it was cheaper to buy a ticket to Chester from Blackpool North, than it was to Crewe. I'm just to young to have got the 31's on the north Wales coast. The regional railways LCHS was all 37's by that point, appart from for failures.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, on the May 95 timetable change the booked 31 workings were finished. But the booked 37s were failing and all sorts of traction helped out including ballast pool 37/4s, 31s both 0s and 4s and res 47s plus even a couple of 47/9s......

[@craigsibley8161]

👍👍👍 Excellent video once again Mr B....

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you.......

[@TruveIo]

The clag from the Class 37 at 3:30 is truly amazing.

[@paulhedges4778]

Down the van in towyn this line ran the back, my grandad used to take us train spotting

[@imcadam121]

Superb!They certainly knew how to sweat the assets back then.So much for the misconception of good old BR being a monolithic & inefficient corporation.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

BR did very well at making every £ count! By the late 80s it was a well run lean operation. After privitisation the railways had 4 times the amount of money thrown at it and very little ever paid its way again!

[@theimperialist2686]

Nice railway video Soi Buakhao.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you......

[@duncancurtis1758]

Must be the high summer as everything is a golden hue.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, it was August......

[@dilwich]

The class 43 not often seen here on the North Wales coast . . . .

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

There were around 3 round trips each day apart from Sundays......