British Rail InterCity-Watford Junction July 1991 with class 47, 86, 87, 90s + 313 EMU
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- A BR vid from the summer of 1991. We see the action at Watford Junction one evening, mostly Inter-City trains with class 86, 87 & 90s with the odd freight train (47 & 86) and an NSE class 313 EMU. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!
The class 87s were mighty machines
Yes, always good for a storming run along the West Coast line.
Lovely Soi the days before the dreaded Pongolino.
Some classic traction here. I was at Warrington Bank Quay a few weeks back and it was very quiet with bland traction. The freight traffic had died compared to times past!
Soi Buakhao That section of WCML between Weaver Junction (where the Liverpool Line diverges) and Euxton Junction (where the Manchester to Preston via Bolton line joins) is very quiet now with so little freight traffic
You are a Master of your Art. Thank you
My pleasure...... I used to video trains & buses for my pleasure, i'm pleased others enjoy them as well......
Lovely 2 c the old stuff again
I have plenty more......happy viewing!
Man this clip has just reminded me how the 87s used to scream at you as they slowed down! - The blowers for the brake rheostats would be working overtime to blast away all the heat out of the top - often visible as a heat haze above the loco in a similar manner to the hot exhaust gasses of a diesel loco, which of course they weren't! Whoever said the early AC electrics were dull clearly just never took the time to get to know them at all.
I know what you mean, you knew when an 87 was around!
Quite surprising just how many InterCity trains stopped at Watford back then.
Yes, until Virgin Trains VHF timetable Watford Junction had a good Inter-City service. It had a large car park and was considered a parkway station due to its close proximity to the M1 & M25. Not any more though......
Yes at the time I was an LUL staff pass holder and you could travel on “any train” Watford to London
I love the sound of 86s and 87s powering up & down. Use of DVTs seems to have been hit and miss, some trains still with BGs. Would that second one with the two GUVs on the rear have been a Motorail?
The DVT's were still fairly new and BR was having problems with them. The GUV's are indeed Motorail vans but i can't remember if they still ran on service trains at this time or just on the Sleepers (in which case this was just a stock move, bit like the first Down Road IC that has a MkIII Sleeper behind the loco, it was just a stock move). Still some good mixes of coaching stock around this time.
Was Motorail normally that busy? I’m always wondering why it was shut down.
0:33 fantastic horn from the 47
The train at 8:19 with two Mk1 BGs is probably a boat train from Holyhead to Euston. These frequently had two BGs, for the amount of luggage carried.
Thanks for the info, always nice to know what i have filmed!.....
Hi matey, another great video, thank you. Tell me, did you ever get up to Grantham during your travels?
Only once, and that was about a year ago, see it here th-cam.com/video/N2aYUinm2b4/w-d-xo.html. I have of course stormed through many times over the years from Deltics onwards.....
I could have been on one of these going to or from Blackpool!
I'm not sure if there were through workings to Blackpool at this time. But you certainly had to be on an express to get to Preston in order to change.
Yes we changed at Preston to get to Pleasure Beach. I think there was a seldom service to Blackpool North. Our trains were the Glasgow service.
@@djpeekay25 The Pleasure Beach i think is on the Blackpool South service not North. And yes, it runs hourly with a 2 car DMU, even today!
Soi Buakhao sorry I meant there was a train from Euston to Blackpool North.
Great video once again Soi!
I know you're probably sorting through hundreds of tapes but do you recall whether you visited either of the two branches out of Watford with a camera (Croxley Green or St Albans Abbey)?
I never did Croxley with video although i have been over the route with a class 501 EMU and a 38 stock into Croxley Depot the last night bakerloo trains stabled there! I do have some DMU vid of the St Albans Abbey branch from around 1986 time plus there is a couple of shots of the branch at the Watford end on this upload here th-cam.com/video/ABw_5CEIFCU/w-d-xo.html
a stretch of third rail on the down fast...? never noticed that before.
That odd bit was their for the transfer of 313 EMUs. They would creep off the DC lines on 3rd rail power to that point before putting their pan up and running to Bletchley Depot for maintainance. The old class 501s used Croxley but this was shut when they went and Bletchley was used, the 313s being dual voltage. This move normally happen late at night & early morning. I do have another vid taken here where a low hanging air pipe on an 86 makes contact with the juice rail at speed and there was a terrific flash! All caught on film.....
please post! When I was a kid me and a mate used to get the 114 bus to WJ. It was like another world! Two experiences there; 1 a dmu failed on the St Alban's branch and was rescued by a 25 and 2: an up fast clipped a parcel trolley which hand rolled towards the platform edge... One of those old things with steel wheels. Could have been much worse but just threw it back across the platform and clouds of smoke from the emergency braking. Interesting trips
How did we go from Intercity to "Trainbow"
Too many happy-clappy kids running the railway these days!.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus
they have absolutely ruined the railway
@@RealCristiano and fire engines and police cars. Its like living in an episode of my little pony.
I loved working on the rail in the 70s pre T. We would transport your childs trunk ANYWHERE in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for £2.50. Seriously And at Norwich parcels we handled Thousands. A Tribute to my boss Jack Warner and Stan ar Britons Co Op wire brush cartage driver a more
totally beautiful person who enriched my life with his sense of Duty and steadfastness. God bless to all my colleagues who may have known me at BR in the 70s. How fucking hard we worked for 36 to 40 sounds per week. So proud of TSSA.
Thanks for your memories, always nice to hear about all the services that the railways used to provide!
Where is the class 321
I hadn't filmed any up to this point. Further uploads from Watford Junction will feature some.
Locos seem to have taken on strange names since the 60s
The Boys Brigade, what next
Harold Wilson's underpants!!!!!!
Yes, naming got a bit out of hand in the late 1980s and into the 90s....School trophey winners or Capital Radios Help a London Child.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I'm ok school, regiments and being a lover of all things Eastern race horses.
I have an 0 gauge Gresley A3 to build.
It will be with double chimney, German smoke deflectors and a GN coal rail tender.
I got name plates fit it
60059 Tracery of topshed 34A
86243 was named the boys BRIGADE in recognition of the youth organisation celebrating its centenary in 1983 - it carried a badge BB83 by its name plate
It was unnamed in 1993
I was in the boys brigade. The scouts is a spin off. Braden-Powell wanted a non religious organisation. Had some happy days in the boys brigade.