Trains In The 1990's Reading, November 1991 'Class 47 Frenzy'
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- A feast of locos at Reading on a grey Autumn day, with a mix of Class 47's on various workings in particular, but also Class 08, 33's, 37's, 56, 59, and 60, plus HST's, DMU, EMU, and DEMU. Filmed on one day during November 1991.
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Wow!! Blast from the past. Reading as I remember it . . . . happy days 😀😀👍👍
A great reminder of how good the railways were for spotting and also how bad for the passenger.
this how i used to remember reading station was, loved it and still miss it , and the dmu,, demu, emu ,class 37/47/etc ,
Reading was a great place to spot loads of different traction from everywhere there was always a surprise to see come rolling up wonce saw doubled up dirty old 20,s come thumping along that made my day
Good video. I was only 21 then. It's amazing what Reading station looks like now the works almost done there.
MMMMMMMMM, Slam doors, music rearly heard today.
I rember the first time I stood on the platform with an HST blasting threw the station headed west. It took my breath away and I was hooked.
The trains wers so much mire intresting back then with the mix of HST, loco hauled trains and EMUs and DMUs including ghe Thumpers.
This brings back memories! I remember as a kid (9 here) we used to travel from Portsmouth to Stroud about two or three times a year to visit my grandparents. we'd come into reading from either Guildford or Basingstoke and I was amazed by how loud the hst's were. I used to stand as close as possible to them lol. we would get the Paddington to Cheltenham train and I don't think I ever sat in a seat! head out the window all the way!
I was three when this was filmed. I spent a lot of time at Reading and Twyford with my Dad watching trains. At Reading once some guy had parked his ARC Class 59 for lunch on the platform that the cameraman is standing at 1:25. He says to my Dad, myself and my brother that we can come inside and have a look around. It was sweet. Also we were at Twyford once and a 165 turns up. Dad knew the guy, so we got a free train ride in the front to Reading and back. I must've been like seven then. This is an awesome video and has refreshed these treasured memories of my Dad for me. Thanks man
+engasal Thank you very much, glad it brought back some good memories. These were the days when you could cab quite a few locos, sadly it's virtually impossible to do that these days. I've done Reading to Paddington behind the driver in the old DMU's where you could see out the front, but not in the cab - although I have done St Pancras to Kettering in the cab of a 45 :-)
I got to drive an 08 shunter out of a siding once. Imagine drivers allowing you to do stuff like that now - instant sacking on health and safety grounds
Nice film footage, thank you for up loading this. It has brought back memories.
+johnson121able Thank you. I'm glad my old movies are bringing back so many memories for a lot of viewers.
Its quite comical seeing that 08 shunter rush through at speed with one wagon. I've never seen an 08 move so fast!
Love it
Memories
Thanks
Great video. As a local resident so much has changed since then with station rebuild.
Great footage. Brought back so many nice memories of waiting for the right 47 to turn up. Fantastic!
I think if I ever win the lottery, I'll build a model railway room at the bottom of my garden, with a 00-gauge model railway of one end of Reading station at the turn of the 1990s (probably the west end of the station). These scenes were absolutely priceless :-)
Just as i remember it, always loved a day at Reading, nice Gronk action and 37s on the now 6b33? Great vid again Darren, glad you captured so much,
fabulous shots and captures another great collection
spot on memories of Reading Station..thanks
I was always at the West end of that very platform, 1983-5ish.... You have made me feel 18 again. Thank you.
At the start... that's how you drive a shunter and reminds me of shunters around Doncaster station in the 80's. Some modelers should take note, not all shunters were driven at a crawl.
Many thanks, great video!
Magic. Watched it 3 times just gets better each time.
Looking forward to your next release.
Great video Darren, love the 60 in the bayplatform
Love this classic stuff! I model the period 5 years after this, but it's amazing to see traction from back then! I have subscribed and look forward to more!
pure excellence,what a feast of everything,like the cromptons,more please!!
Excellent film Darren , and what a great variety you got in it. Will keep for a second look.or more .
Happy days when the 43’s had ‘PROPER’ engines.......SCREAMING VALENTAS! Used to love it at Paddy if they saw gricers on the platform the drivers would just get her rolling then give it HELLFIRE CLAG out from under the roof leaving everyone coughing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻😂😂 When they sit on idle for a while they give superb clag when you give them the boot! Spent 5 years on SWT as an engineer, got to see some great things including a regular Deltic in belonging to Porterbrook! Sometimes the Orient express for wheel turning! Happy days! Got to drive a few things up and down the yard, shunting! No 66’s in these days THANK HEAVEN awful awful rubbish locos!
As always quality
Such variety! with at least 5 different classes of DMU (+ the Thumper). But the most unusual working, apart from the express shunter, is the 47 hauling two dead HST power cars at ~16'00". Excellent example of 'prototype for everything'!
+Peter Jewell These were great days for variety indeed, lots of different classes and changing colours on locos and stock. Very rare to see HST power cars towed like this today, but more often to see a pair together or even one running solo oddly enough.
Wonderful stuff
Thank you very much.
Ah man...that was cool...the wee Pug " 08 " with just One Roundie..!!!. :)
Early 90s BR is so dieselpunk.
awsum reminds me of the trains I went on as a kid :-)
What a beautiful film. Such a mixture of traffic and in one day! It would be very hard if not impossible to get such variety of trains these day. Mind you who would have thought that 59 was the beginning of the American invasion. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much for that. Yes, if you did that same stint today you wouldn't see that variety for sure, and of course Reading itself has changed dramatically! The 59's are still a novelty for me these days, and I still need two for a photo!
Most of the Class 50 Hoovers had retired by this time though Class 47 locos were still hauling passenger trains even on the Paddington to Oxford line.
Very nice video. Very good start with the switcher zipping by and the end with the two Class 37's. The Class 59 clip is interesting is because iy is the first time I have seen the North American style headlight lit and I have also wondered if can be dimmed (40% of full beam) like a normal North American headlight while passing a train going in the other direction.
Locomotive hauled trains are so much nicer for the passenger when travelling intercity. So much quieter and smoother
You forgot to mention the comfort level being far superior to what The Class 800s offer today. Did a trip to Exeter and that was enough of the 800s for me, I drive there now .
I hates this transition period into privatisation. It felt like the end.
It was certainly a period of change with less locos around and more units - a great period to model though.
hi don't times change now its mainly hst,s class 165/66 dmus and cl 59/66 on the stone trains and the x country voyagers I travelled in from Basingstoke this morning no more
southern thumpers.exellent video home turf to me more please I presume the cl 50s had gone to waterloo Exeter services by this time thanks for sharing regards keith.
Former NWRA Class 47/4 Driver Take ... Part 2: Only right I should comment on my own 'lot' as seen throughout this video! Despite appearances 12:10 may well have been one of us as an Old Oak HSTD to Derby ECS working with Parcels (RES) Class 47/4 no 47471 'Norman Tunna GC' (Inter-City Executive colours) at the head. OR this working could have been for Bristol PM (St Phillips Marsh HSTD) ... 7 x Mk3 Trailers in this format was once termed a 'Class 253' HST Consist or Diagram. Next we have examples of what NSE (NWRA) c/o Denny Martin - Paddington to Reading route manager received from August 1991 to December 1991 in the shape of FDCT cast-offs 47449 'ORIBI' @ 14:35 / 47446 'GALTISHUND' @ 15:40 / 47636 ex-Scottish with it's characteristic ploughs @ 16:25 because at the same time Parcels Sector / RES nicked the likes of 47587 @ 22:12 and 47521 @ 26:38 (and 47530 / 547 / 597 and 598 too!) from our 'patch' wearing full NSE livery!!!
22:30 became the first casualty in January 1992 when 47457 caught fire on depot at OC and 47478 was drafted in from Crewe / CD to NWRA and never returned! Finally we have 47443 which had been the final Class 47/4 to work a Newcastle to Liverpool Trans-Pennine loco hauled duty during April 1991 (passing my school in Saddleworth oddly enough) when named 'North Eastern' showing us how to approach a platform WELL Above the recommended 10 MPH approach speed! Possibly down to 'Tony Barry frighteners' from this direction again! So many good memories watching this ... Other than Tony Barry!!! :o) :o)
As a former NWRA Class 47/4 driver based at OC I found this fascinating: Though I actually started as a Traction Trainee with the RTS around this time. Let's start the nostalgia trip with ... 0:33 going in right direction and fast enough to be getting the living f**k off Tony Barry's patch (absolute REPTILE of a manager responsible for that side of Reading!!!) 3:07 Hybrid DMUs and whatever RG could cobble together from the mainly ex-WM cast-offs were a common sight in this area and between Reading - London Paddington. 3:40 if one remembers carried three different liveries at once as 47824 'Glorious Devon' since conversion to 47/8 'ILRA' configuration during 1989. Became a Class 47/7 (Generation II 47/7) with EWS fourteen years later after being out of traffic (stored at the late Bristol Bath Road / BR) sincew 1999 still in these bizarre colours!
6:18 is definitely 1V96 c/o 47845 or the 12:18 Manchester Piccadilly to London Paddington IC Cross Country duty. Finally for Part 1 ... 9:53 or '253 031' looking a bit 1988 still was 43132: The GOBFUL of a nameplate made possible only by the introduction of this style of plate by Intercity in early 1990 was 'Worshipful Company of Carmen' (named June 1991) and referred to a group of Intercity Sleeper Service staff for the many like me for so long who are not in the know. Beaten only by length / obscurity by 47844: 'Derby and Derbyshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry' as also named in early 1991!
@Fly Drive 2020 Yeah indeed fascinating, as i keep an eye out for an ex-girlfriend of mine driving NWRA sector loco's along here. As you were OC, you'd of known her hehe. . . She just got to drive the last remaining 50's (023/4/6/033/5) at OC in June 1990 aswell. I spotted at OC even more times than SF in 80's and 90's and i didnt know of her existence until 2014 when she started locking-in to my pirate radio shows a few years ago lol!!
But thats another story, meanwhile, i'm intrigued by 47457 catching fire at OC TMD, have u got any more details on that? She gave me an elaborate version of the 47472/533 incident (i modelled 47533), and surprisingly not repaired, considering 47205 was at the 'plant' for about 8 months under repair a year earlier (and there 47522) . . .
47824 was indeed a unique oddball livery varient, (similar to scheme on 47827) but with black marker boxes painted when still 602 @5.88, removed for yellow when going into 824 @4.89, then having No.1 end box put back in black again approx june '90. It recieved Res livery at Doncaster works 1.94 when numbered 47782. Never a dull moment in them days eh!
Btw, i believe 47446 was 'GALTEE MORE' and it is seen returning again as opposed to 47443 (RXLC pool at time).
Nice to see a detailed comment, not too many on youtube eh! There's plenty of Reading vids around this time on here, especially by an ex Acton driver. A colleague of hers who did have a vid of her on the bins, but it was taken down (after i mentioned it on air, still listens to my shows then lol!). Oh the stories jeez. . . .
I wonder what the little wooden shed at the end of the platform, was used for?
excellent video but Reading without 50s doesn't seem right!
Luckily i'd managed to get some footage of Class 50's here previously - of course not that long after the 47's took over they themselves would be replaced by Turbos.
Great to see the Thumper in action. Is it correct that there’s still 1 route with a Thumper running it?
Surely the locomotive at the start would have been a class 09, as it was going quite fast, and only '09s could do above about 20mph if I'm correct?
Driving it like he stole it.
@TrainFan 95 Some of the 08's at Old Oak, Selhurst and Eastleigh were geared for 20mph.
What? Did the Class 59 already exist at that time?!?
till when did the 50s run for NSE?
If I recall correctly the last few finished in the early 1990's before 47's took over the loco hauled services - and then the 159's took over from those of course.
Final NSE Class 50s were replaced by Class 47/7s in early 1992 although 50008 / 50015 and 50050 / D400 continued limited use and rail tour duties beyond NSE retirement. Class 159s began to appear over tail end of 1992: All Class 47/7 haulage gone from NSE by the end of 1993. Hope this rough guide helps :o)
Much thrash