Regular user of the station at this time. Miss the old slam doors. Nothing made you feel more grown up (as a 16 year old) as opening the door as you werent quite stopped.
Back when trains had comfortable seats and plenty of leg room. I used to use the southern region a lot back then. I stay away from trains now though, small uncomfortable seats, not leg room, noisy and cold because of the constant air conditioning running, etc, etc. The old HST's are about the only trains i enjoy travelling on these days, long may they live.
British Rail and NSE got their fair share of hate back in the day, but considering the low level of funding compared to other European countries it's nothing short of miraculous what they were able to pull of. Ironically, it's only since privatisation that state subsidies have risen to levels comparable to (or even higher than in) France, Germany, the Netherlands etc.
The class 442s looked so much better in NSE livery than they ever have done since. That could be said for a lot of trains, the NSE livery was superb
Regular user of the station at this time. Miss the old slam doors. Nothing made you feel more grown up (as a 16 year old) as opening the door as you werent quite stopped.
Woking has a nice art-deco signal box. Surbiton also had a similar one but it was demolsihed.
anyone know the bye-law offence being committed by people ,including some rail staff ,quite frequently in this vid.?
Back when trains had comfortable seats and plenty of leg room. I used to use the southern region a lot back then. I stay away from trains now though, small uncomfortable seats, not leg room, noisy and cold because of the constant air conditioning running, etc, etc. The old HST's are about the only trains i enjoy travelling on these days, long may they live.
6.19 Just remembered his name John Franklin wonder what hes doing now.?
Thats an engineers train not a freight train.
Excellent footage. Shame the audio is only mono. You'd think TH-cam would have a way to correct that.
Nice, the last few months to savour some Network SouthEast.
British Rail and NSE got their fair share of hate back in the day, but considering the low level of funding compared to other European countries it's nothing short of miraculous what they were able to pull of. Ironically, it's only since privatisation that state subsidies have risen to levels comparable to (or even higher than in) France, Germany, the Netherlands etc.
The man at min