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Trains in the 1980s - 3 Saturdays at Twyford Station - 1987/88
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ส.ค. 2024
- The first visit to Twyford in September '87 represents one of my earliest attempts at videography, so apologies for the quality. However, it still gives an insight to what a Saturday afternoon on the West of England mainline looked like in 1987. Unfortunately, my records don't show the numbers for lots of the movements, but I can be fairly certain that the Class 50s were 022 Anson, 029 Renown, 030 Repulse and 034 Furious.
The second visit, on a Saturday afternoon (25th June 1988) still includes 4 freight trains in the space of a little over 2 hours. Also Class 50s seen were:
007 Sir Edward Elgar
008 Thunderer
009 Conqueror
016 Barham
041 Bulwark and
044 Exeter
The third visit on the 9th July, from about 1:45pm to 4:30. During that time we were able to see 5 different Class 50s, 4 Class 47s and even a Class 56 on freight. As per usual, I didn't tend to film the HST or DMU activity, but this section does include a couple of shots.
[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 5th September 1987
13:13 25th June 1988
21:50 9th July1988
Happy days indeed.
Long before the overhead wires arrived!
Great footage! Thank you for sharing it with us.
Thanks, you’re welcome. I haven’t actually been back to Twyford since the 1980s, so haven’t seen ‘the wires’ in situ. I guess I’m not missing much 😆😆
Lovely stuff! You were lucky to capture several freights running on the main lines. That was pretty rare east of Twyford.
Thanks for watching. Strange how the passage of time puts things in perspective, isn’t it. 👍😊
brings back memories i love these old diesel loco's thank you ,make a change from class 66 traction today😁
I take it you won’t be watching my 2+ hour EWS Class 66 video then ?! 🤷🏻♂️😱. Thanks for watching and commenting 😊😊😊😊
Grimy BR blue and HSTs still had Valentas. They were the days. 👍🏻
Glad it brought back memories 👍😊
Parcels DMU was a blast from the past!.
Oh, yes, I wouldn’t normally bother with DMUs, sticking to loco hauled, but that was one of my first filming expeditions, and so I think I videoed everything that day - luckily 😊👍.
4:46was a good shot!
My brother used to take me to Sonning Cutting a little further down the line. Happy days
If you haven’t already checked it out, then you might like this video of mine
th-cam.com/video/Mzj26BMPmg0/w-d-xo.html
as it includes views taken on a footbridge overlooking Sonning cutting.
Thanks for watching and commenting 👍😊
Great 😊
Up parcels train, *and* a diesel parcels unit leading the down stopper!