Class 33/1 - British Rail Diesel Trains 1987 - Window Hanging Poole to Weymouth, Dorset.
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- From the archives: A time before HD video, and 'Steady-Shot'! Domestic camcorders are in their infancy.
Window hanging a trip from Poole to Weymouth in 1987, 33102 hauls us to the holiday resort.
In a time when you could hang out of the window, feel the wind in your hair, and the toilet flush in your face!
A lot of change was taking place around this time, as the line was being prepared for electrification. Track was being taken up from Moreton to Weymouth to produce a cost saving 'singleling' of the line and to allow electricity sub stations to be placed on the the old 'down' track bed.
Still with traditional track panels at this time producing the iconic Clickerty-Clack sound before giving way to silent continuous welded rail.
At Weymouth the old Semaphore signalling (remarkably still in place for the year) is being replaced by colour light, and the old box there is on its last legs.
Ah yes, proper trains, unlike the cramped, plastic, soulless rubbish on the railways today ! Nice video, thanks for sharing 👍 Hopefully this scene will be up and running again soon on the wonderful Swanage Railway Heritage line, they are currently working on a 4TC set to go with their resident two Class 33’s
Wonderful video. Back when there was comfortable rolling stock, regular & reasonably priced service .Not like todays 2nd rate service which costs a small fortune.
....and we complained back then! 😄
Amazing Video. I’m from Weymouth now78 years old.In the height of Summer the train used to set off from Weymouth station to the quay. And the town almost came to a standstill, Well! Idiots used to park over the edge of the painted markings.So! The train couldn’t get past.The rail guys and sometimes the Police would help,used to have to bounce the cars off of the markings. Seen it so many times. (There is actually on TH-cam, scenes of them doing this) I could never understand the mentality of these drivers. You park behind the lines.
I have been parked as the train came by,and the effect of being stopped but the train moving was a very strange experience. I have actually tugged the handbrake because I thought that I was moving, the feeling was awful. And on occasions I thought I was going to be sick.Trust me you have to have been there. Many people I have spoken to since then have said the same thing. That they experienced that strange movement. Up close to a moving train when you are stopped ! Horrible. Many years ago. Happier days than these. That’s for sure!
Now I live in Poole and see the train come across the embankment on Poole Harbour,well actually Poole Park. Every day. My flat overlooks the park and the embankment,so it’s part of my life now.
Happy 78th Don. I am 20 years your junior, but I can remember the Weymouth Quay branch. I did it twice. Once on my first visit, aboard the Channel Islands Boat Train in 1985, the 10.35 off Waterloo. It was a 73 to Bournemouth and a 33 to Weymouth Quay with a rake of Mark 1 loco hauled stock (not 4TC) and my second visit was on a railtour that started in Manchester.
Not only do I recall the police walking ahead of the train, but a Ford Cortina driver towing a large caravan. The motorist decided to follow a HGV because everyone gives way to an articulated lorry, and he did not want to reverse his caravan. However, the train did not give way ! The police duly asked the lorry driver to reverse. Next you heard frantic honking by the Cortina driver as the lorry went backwards. I have also done Poole to Hamworthy Goods on a charter train, and Wareham to Swanage on a through train from Waterloo.
😀Great video. From the age of 18 I have travelled from Weymouth on the 4TCs and Class 33/1. Great trains and none of the delays of today. I was on the first up train after they reopened the single track between Dorchester and Moreton, which should never happen as it causes so many delays especially on down trains now to increase the delay repay claim
Singling is a false economy. Not only do you increase operational risk with head on collisions, easier avoidable with double track, the wear and tear on the point works, the extra signalling involved, and the loss of track capacity is simply not worth it. This was a fad of Network South East who also carried out similar policies Salisbury to Exeter, Ely to Kings Lynn and Ipswich to Lowestoft. At one time, they were thinking of doing the same on the Norwich mainline....
Beautiful Sulzer Type Locomotion ❤Back in the day ❤️Better then the foreign made muck running on the Rails in todays messed up Health and safety world ,Take me back to these times .
Very well said
Thoroughly agree 👍
I did this journey many times, thank you! Fond memories.
The line's changed more than I thought it had. Thanks for watching!🙂
Interesting to see the line only just singled between Moreton and Dorchester South. I gather NSE ran out of budget for electrification and so they decided to single the line. Legend has it that the P-Way team were asked which was the better of the two lines to keep, the up or down. They said the down was the better of the two... And then removed it.
Awsome😊😊
Love it thank you very much bought back alot of memories of the old class33 s have you any others .
Thanks for your comment. Yes, there's more to come, but other edit commitments are getting in the way at the moment. Hopefully, I'll be adding to the YT Library soon. 🙂
@@RailFlicksdo you have any cab rides in the mutipull unit
No, I don't think so, sorry.
@@RailFlicksi have a vid i did from wey to dorch i filmed from the cab of a class 444 new electric about 3 years ago .
Not sure what the strange looking signal at 31:03 is, but it appears to be at danger. I can only assume they look as if someone has removed part of the signal arms ?
Ha! Ha! Yes I can see why you'd think that, but it's a 2 aspect colour light signal that has not been commissioned yet. The head has been mounted sideways to show it's not in use. The 'arms' are the lens hoods in profile view! 🙂
Thank you for your explanation. Pointing not yet commissioned signals at 90 degrees to the track, I have witnessed in Austria. However, the correct practice in Blighty is to mount them facing forward and to attach a white X in front. Cheers.
Yes that's true, don't know why they didn't do that. Perhaps the head only went on yesterday and they didn't have a white cross to hand yet? Who knows!🤔