Full Version of Class 33/1 Push-Pull Farewell Railtour 1988 (Southern Branch lines)

The railtour included visits to Eastleigh Works and all the still open 'Freight Only' branch lines in the area including:
Marchwood & Fawley, Lymington Pier, Hamworthy Goods, Furzebrook Oil Depot (Swanage Branch) and Weymouth Quay Tramway.
At this time many of the now closed and demolished signal boxes were still in place as well a semaphore signalling equipment. e.g. Weymouth Box.
The trip down Weymouth Quay was hampered by the usual ignorance of signage by motorists. Parked cars had to be bumped or towed away!
In 1988 home video recording equipment was in it's infancy. The camera used had an imaging TUBE that took 40 secs to warm up. No steady shot here! I've edited out the worst unwatchable stuff to make this reasonably watchable!
Hopefully, the historic archive content will make up for the now laughable VHS video resolution compared to even a modern mobile phone!

[@EM-yk1dw]

In the good days, the railway was run as a service not a business. BR kept a tight rein on the purse strings but still managed to maintain the line side.

[@alfwedarf7764]

Thank you for uploading this video, such great footage. Loved the start with 47620 leaving with MK1's and the 73 overtaking the railtour.

[@andyhill242]

I love the sound of the class 33 engine, at idle it sounds like it's just going to stop and the governor kicks it back to life again.

[@neilcrawford8303]

Brilliant video.
I remember the REP-TC formations going through Surbiton at speed, but I never ventured to Bournemouth or Weymouth until the 442s were in service. Pennies were tight as an apprentice. So wish I had.
The 33s were an amazing locomotive, they punched well above their weight and horse power on the Weymouth and Salisbury-Exeter routes hauling 8 coach trains. Especially when you consider a TPE class 185 has 750hp per vehicle, yet a class 33 was a humble 1,550hp.

[@brizzolglover7518]

I was on this tour and scratched in a selection of new track with a crompton. Happy memories...

[@begudmaximan953]

Fabulous

[@train4905]

Awsome😊😊

[@duncancurtis1758]

We used to wait for the tcs to power past Churchill Way with a grotty crompton shoving from behind. Fun days on that concrete footbridge facing Salisbury West Yard.

[@Sam_Green____4114]

Guard looks familiar @18:43 ! Was it Terry Mills ?

[@Sam_Green____4114]

Malcolm Ellis @18:18 with the flat cap and orange safety vest on .

[@chriso8485]

Brilliant vid

[@RailFlicks]

Thanks!

[@nickbartlett5928]

On it! Brockenhurst to Dorchester West.

[@steveytravels7914]

I hate been born in 1993 missed everything that was decent about the railway

[@RailFlicks]

Yeah, know what you mean. I just missed steam!

[@dieseldave3879]

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