16 minutes in and to my absolute delight, Myself and my brother closest to camera waiting for 50008 , I was 17 then on a all line rover for a week, did a massive amount of mileage.
That’s great ! Always nice to hear from someone captured in my videos, but you’re only the third one, I think. I was only 25 myself at the time - happy days 😊👍
Brilliant footage - my home station in the late '70s & early '80s 47's and 50's were the order of the day and we viewed HST's as a lower class of train. Don't remember seeing too many 'grids' around then though.
Thanks, glad you liked it. Sorry there aren’t more shots of DMUs and HSTs, but battery life was a real issue back in the ‘80s and I couldn’t really afford to waste power on “the lower class of train 😊” when there were so many loco-hauled trains to capture. Thanks for watching and commenting. 👍😊
Great video, some rare captures there, Platform 3 in passenger use, 47050 rescuing 50040 on the 1700 Oxford -Padd and 47430 on a Freightliner. 430 was extremely rare outside of Anglia when she was based at Stratford as an Aggregates loco. They used to like to keep hold of her to cover when class 86's were unavailable for the Norwich services, inspection saloon runs, etc...
Brings back great memories, Reading was always a great place to spends the day. I first went there in Half Term Feb '73 with some friends just after the last 'Warships' were withdrawn. Plenty of 'Westerns' and 47's, with some 'Hymeks' and 31's as well as Intercity Unit's, Pressed Steel 117's, 'Tadpole' units. Then later as seen here with 33's 37's, 47's 50's, 56's. Today not much. Still some great memories from yesteryear. Thanks for the terrific footage.
Great back in the day footage of Hoovers operating Since 1967 to other Machines shown Nowadays ,Amazing Sounding Beasts .Alot better then todays Generation of trains ,The sounds Locomotives back then is memorable like the Valenta Paxman Generator in the 125 was like wow greatness.Transport me back to those days with a notebook and pencil taking down Numbers and info about these locos before Health and Safety BS.
My home station, I used to love going here when I was a kid in the 80's and early 90's. I used to love the sound of Valenta powered HSTs, class 50's and the thumpers that used to go to Basingstoke from Reading. Don't get many interesting trains through there now, apart from the odd rail tour, lots of sheds hauling various freight, and also two of the 57's used for the Night Riviera. You do get some of the network rail stock through there as well, but usually late at night or very early in the morning.
Absolutely wonderful footage. Loved the sights and sounds which really brought back memories as I was working on BR Western Region at that time. You filmed it all so well. Many thanks for uploading for us all to enjoy, Just come across your channel Have subscribed and will now work my way through and enjoy your other videos. Best regards.
Yes I did, but only with the still camera, never the video unfortunately. We used to go to Twyford quite a bit, Hanwell and Newbury a couple of times. Wish we’d gone to more places now, obviously; but at the time I don’t think we realised how quickly that ‘golden era’ would be over.
Hi, TH-cam has a section that explains copyright of content and how it works- link below. support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797449?hl=en#zippy= hope this helps 😊
16 minutes in and to my absolute delight, Myself and my brother closest to camera waiting for 50008 , I was 17 then on a all line rover for a week, did a massive amount of mileage.
That’s great ! Always nice to hear from someone captured in my videos, but you’re only the third one, I think. I was only 25 myself at the time - happy days 😊👍
Brilliant footage - my home station in the late '70s & early '80s 47's and 50's were the order of the day and we viewed HST's as a lower class of train. Don't remember seeing too many 'grids' around then though.
Thanks, glad you liked it. Sorry there aren’t more shots of DMUs and HSTs, but battery life was a real issue back in the ‘80s and I couldn’t really afford to waste power on “the lower class of train 😊” when there were so many loco-hauled trains to capture. Thanks for watching and commenting. 👍😊
Great video, some rare captures there, Platform 3 in passenger use, 47050 rescuing 50040 on the 1700 Oxford -Padd and 47430 on a Freightliner. 430 was extremely rare outside of Anglia when she was based at Stratford as an Aggregates loco. They used to like to keep hold of her to cover when class 86's were unavailable for the Norwich services, inspection saloon runs, etc...
Thanks for sharing, glad you enjoyed the video 👍😊
Brings back great memories, Reading was always a great place to spends the day. I first went there in Half Term Feb '73 with some friends just after the last 'Warships' were withdrawn. Plenty of 'Westerns' and 47's, with some 'Hymeks' and 31's as well as Intercity Unit's, Pressed Steel 117's, 'Tadpole' units. Then later as seen here with 33's 37's, 47's 50's, 56's. Today not much. Still some great memories from yesteryear. Thanks for the terrific footage.
Thanks for sharing! Glad you enjoyed it.😊👍
Another brilliant video to help us with building Reading in OO gauge. Many thanks for sharing.👍👍👍
Very welcome
Would love to see your layout on TH-cam.
To see the layout take a look at the Classic Traction videos.
Great filming ...takes me back to the good old days!!!!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it 👍😊
11:49Use of a BRUTE as a step ladder to reach the signal 😀 Health & Safety at Work! 😄
That alone dates the video somewhat, doesn’t it 😄
Great back in the day footage of Hoovers operating Since 1967 to other Machines shown Nowadays ,Amazing Sounding Beasts .Alot better then todays Generation of trains ,The sounds Locomotives back then is memorable like the Valenta Paxman Generator in the 125 was like wow greatness.Transport me back to those days with a notebook and pencil taking down Numbers and info about these locos before Health and Safety BS.
My home station, I used to love going here when I was a kid in the 80's and early 90's. I used to love the sound of Valenta powered HSTs, class 50's and the thumpers that used to go to Basingstoke from Reading. Don't get many interesting trains through there now, apart from the odd rail tour, lots of sheds hauling various freight, and also two of the 57's used for the Night Riviera. You do get some of the network rail stock through there as well, but usually late at night or very early in the morning.
Thanks for sharing👍😊
Great video 😊
Thanks for your continued interest Ashfaq 😊👍
Brilliant Video Footage,I was Out doing Trains Waterloo-Basingstoke on 1/4/88.
Thanks. Watch out for my Basingstoke footage from 1988. 👍😊
Absolutely wonderful footage. Loved the sights and sounds which really brought back memories as I was working on BR Western Region at that time. You filmed it all so well. Many thanks for uploading for us all to enjoy, Just come across your channel Have subscribed and will now work my way through and enjoy your other videos. Best regards.
Many thanks! Makes it all worthwhile 😊.
Apologies for the late response, been busy, yes indeed really takes me back to more analogue time!
Analogue then, yes, but thankfully it’s the digital age has enabled me to share this video and discuss it with others 😊😊
Tyseley unit pulling out of the bay platform at4:30 ... 🤔
And boy, what a smokescreen it's laying 🙃
nice class 50 action there love it ,brings back memories
Great, that was my intention, glad you enjoyed it 👍😊
I remember Hood pulling out of St David’s with a proper inter city train in 1984. What a noise it made!
Hood; my most filmed Class 50; so glad it was preserved. Thanks for commenting 👍😊
Just noticed 50021 Rodney, my name's not Dave.
GWR - God's Wonderful Railway!
Happy Days...
Indeed! Glad it brought back memories 👍😊
Did you go to burnham or slough or taplow in these days?
Yes I did, but only with the still camera, never the video unfortunately. We used to go to Twyford quite a bit, Hanwell and Newbury a couple of times. Wish we’d gone to more places now, obviously; but at the time I don’t think we realised how quickly that ‘golden era’ would be over.
@@OldOakTrains oh ok
Absolutely fantastic stuff,Reading was great for everything,hope you’ve got some videos from here to upload?
Keep watching for more Western Region content from that era. 😊👍
Are these video’s copyrighted?
Hi, TH-cam has a section that explains copyright of content and how it works- link below.
support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797449?hl=en#zippy=
hope this helps 😊