British Rail-March Station 1992
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2018
- A vid from Anglia this time. March was quite a busy place back in 1992. The Norwich's had lost their 31s in favour of Sprinters but there was lots of freight & parcel train activity to be seen. Loco types featured are 31, 37, 47 & 56. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!
I have done all three sides of the former triangle junction to Wisbech, but March to Spalding shut before I got to do it. I also worked March East Signalbox under instruction. But I cannot publish that on the internet !
Always had a soft spot for March - as a small boy almost 60 years ago, with my dad we were treated to a trip round the depot. Steam locos everywhere, including O classes which didn't seem to come further south. I think the experimental fawn and blue 31s were that on that day too. Great video again, excellent panning.
Thank you...i filmed back in these days purley for myself so am pleased they have found a wider audience that appreciates them as well....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Your videos are very much appreciated. There are as entertaining as they are useful for modelling.
Another wonder trip down memory line Soi. Thank you.
...top video thank you, can see the lone signalman is kept super busy with the track layout not to mention operating the semaphores, bet he sleeps well after that lot! 👌
My pleasure.... Yes working the boxes around here were hard work, all lvers, rods & pulleys.....
Excellent again thanks
Nice one again Soi. Shame March to Spalding was shut. It’s needed more than ever now.
There was a double bay at the Peterborough end of the station between the platforms where the branch trains from Wisbech & Spaling locals would use.
Amazing to think that 37219 is still going around - great vid by the way
Thank you, i do have more from here and will upload over time.
I had it for haulage in mainline blue livery in the year 2000, from Warrington Bank Quay to Manchester Piccadilly. It was standing in for a failed 37/4. Happy days.
Nice video, once again. March used to be a regular stop on the Manchester-Sheffield-Notts-Norwich service in the late 90s but seems to have been dropped since EMT got it, always wondered what it looked like. Seems like it was overdue a visit from the weed killing train at the time you visited!
I can't imagine it's any better now!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus It's way better, I live in march and they closed down platform 3 for the line to Wisbeach if I am correct.
@@tom1works There were around 7 platforms at March from what i have seen, especially evident before those white fences were erected. There is a bay on the Peterborough platform, a double bay between the Ely & Spalding platform and of course a far side Spalding platform. The Wisbech service probably ran from the double bay, afairly large station with two main routes off it plus other lines that have closed, like the direst line to Cambridge that avoided Ely for instance....
Very good images, must have been a top camcorder. Keith.
I used a Panasonic M series video camera, they took full sized VHS tapes. That way i never had to copy from small tapes to big ones, that was where you would lose quality. Later transferred to DVD and now on MP4 as well.....
Superb vid
Thank you, there will be more.
31401 to 31424 gave way to 156401 to 156424, not quite so much fun
No! Definatly a come down in rateable traction there......
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Which month did you film this?
Was it.... March?! Heh heh!! ;^D
Another excellent sample of railway action.
I particularly liked the parcels and that Freightliner train hailed by a pair of 37's.!
For the record it was in Summer 91. There is more, i seem to recall as the progressed a pair of 20s made an appearence!
@@PenzancePete lol :)
Yeah this is top notch again, marvellous u took all this footage! Max vol here in studio with 56061 on repeat blasting-off! Mate jus said 'sample that noise woteva that is' !! . . 37219 in its unique BR blue variation, does any body know when exactly Stratford re-painted it in all-over blue? My guess is @ early 1990 ?? Cheers :)
That's about right. A friend of my fathers was a Shed Foreman there on the engineering side. They did all sorts of quirky stuff, 47 674 got a repaint in Large Logo blue using a tin of unstired NSE blue. The loco started in a light shade one end and got darker as the painter went around the loco!!!
Haha brilliant! Yes 674, thats why i could never work out if it was in the earlier lighter NSE blue or other dark blue blimey! Great story, SF was the best for loco enhancements, all them sparrows, grey roofs and black marker boxes eh. 47526 was given the same treatment as 674 i seem to remember. Talking of paints at SF, i jus put a vid on my channel about obtaining some BR blue there lol :)
08 715 also got an all over yellow paint job but it was never actually used in that colour and just left stored, shame! But lots of old style paint jobs, 31 165, 37 216 and of course 219. Some of the staff were definatly 'cranks' and well into railways!
Haha great stuff sir! Yeah i foto'd 08715 parked on its usual road outside 'C' shed in '93 after its paint into 'Dayglo orange' i seem to remember, fantastic memories there. And yes they were great staff, think i was only asked to leave once in about 50 visits i made between '87-99, and that was because it was a monday morning! . . keep these vids coming sir, i must of watched this over 10 times (my era) thanks :)
I have some film taken inside the TMD at Stratford, some locos moving about as well as staic locos. Taken around 1991 time. I'll see if i can dig it out!
Most enjoyable!nice to see there is still plenty of freight at march!The fine railwaymen of this location,fought hard to keep the march-Spalding line open!even keeping a single line in situ until
1986!when the shortsighted BRB destroyed any hope of re opening it,and lifted the line!how right
The men of march where as it is desperately needed now!!
Well there was plenty of freight action in 1992 but how much still passes i'm unsure, although it probably gets a lot of liner trains on the route from Felixstowe to the Midlands.
Aren't there plans to reopen it?
A great blast from the past. March will no doubt be an emaciated shadow of itself due to Network Rail (wot no points and sidings) "rationalisation"
When i went there to video it was a busy place with lots of locos on freight, parcels and passenger workings. I have more from here which i will upload over time.
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I'm sure I am not the only one who would like to see more of your footage from back then. I got a glimpse of March back in 1978 and remember signalboxes semaphores level crossings and class 37s!
Yes, March was a great place-a steam age railway just with more modern traction. I will get some more up over time, it's just i have a large amount of film from all over the UK and try and get a good spread of areas to keep people's interest up!
march back then kinda looks like st denys but a bit different
ok