Thank you for these super images! I regularly travelled between Newbury/Reading then Cambridge in the early 1970s. This was when trains looked, sounded and smelled like PROPER trains. I vividly remember standing by my beloved 'Westerns' on hot summer's days as they stood and sweated, waiting to continue to the West Country. I can still feel the radiated heat, smell the oil and hear the controlled thunder... Not like the horrid hissing, whistling things that hurtle soullessly past my garden now in East Anglia.....
Thanks for your comment - and now we are lamenting the passing of HST's! I went to my local station (Lenzie) this morning hoping to film one, but it was substituted by a pair of 170's.
¡Hola buenos días! Came across your channel by pure chance - Glad I did though. I lived in Reading before moving out, here to Spain, eight years ago. Great to see the older platforms at both ends of the station. Your vast collection of photos is a fantastic reference point for my model rail scratch building. I’m looking forward to browsing you site. Stay safe and well. Un saludo. Gary
Thanks for your comment, glad you're enjoying my pictures. In the next few weeks I'll be uploading a film of the border crossing at Cerbère/Port Bou which you might enjoy.
superb: we lived in Crowthorne on the Reading-Redhill line in the 1970s. We used to see those "tadpoles" all the time. If I recall correctly there were six of them in total: 1201 to 1206 with the unsubstantiated claim that 1205 was the fastest. Often we would grab one and travel to Wokingham in the rush hour to grab a different train to Reading that was often powered by a class 33. Only seemed to run once a day if I recall correctly. We also saw class 52s and Hymeks on freight duty along our stretch of track.
Thanks for your comment, glad you liked the pictures. I recall Class 33 locos being used to increase capacity on the odd rush hour train. That happened too on the East Grinstead/Uckfield line.
Some excellent pictures. The Class 123(?) Inter-City DMUs are particularly notable before they moved to Trans-Pennine. Reading station hardly changed at all right up to the end of the 80s when the new concourse was built.
I didn't realise they wewre the very same trains - the Trans-Pennine Units never had end corridor connections. There are pictures of them on my Leeds/Bradford 1970s film.
Thank you for these super images! I regularly travelled between Newbury/Reading then Cambridge in the early 1970s. This was when trains looked, sounded and smelled like PROPER trains. I vividly remember standing by my beloved 'Westerns' on hot summer's days as they stood and sweated, waiting to continue to the West Country. I can still feel the radiated heat, smell the oil and hear the controlled thunder...
Not like the horrid hissing, whistling things that hurtle soullessly past my garden now in East Anglia.....
Thanks for your comments. It's good to invoke such memories!
Lovely photos, thanks so much. :)
Thanks for your comment. Making these films shares my happy memories from the 70s.
Great photos of great trains! When I came to Reading in 1981 there were too many I25's around for it to be as interesting and inspiring as this!
Thanks for your comment - and now we are lamenting the passing of HST's! I went to my local station (Lenzie) this morning hoping to film one, but it was substituted by a pair of 170's.
¡Hola buenos días! Came across your channel by pure chance - Glad I did though. I lived in Reading before moving out, here to Spain, eight years ago. Great to see the older platforms at both ends of the station. Your vast collection of photos is a fantastic reference point for my model rail scratch building. I’m looking forward to browsing you site. Stay safe and well. Un saludo. Gary
Thanks for your comment, glad you're enjoying my pictures. In the next few weeks I'll be uploading a film of the border crossing at Cerbère/Port Bou which you might enjoy.
Lovely photo's esp' of the beloved 52s
Thanks for your comment, much appreciated. I have more to post when I get round to it.
😁 Ha ha! worked away from and returned to your final destination for many years, Preston.
Thanks for the reminis
👍.
Thanks for your comment. I'd forgotten I had slipped a photo of Preston station into the endscreen!
Nice work 👍 Some wonderful images from the mid 1970s here ,- brought back memories. Thank you so much for sharing these 🙂 Cheers Paul
Thanks for your comment, much appreciated.
superb: we lived in Crowthorne on the Reading-Redhill line in the 1970s. We used to see those "tadpoles" all the time. If I recall correctly there were six of them in total: 1201 to 1206 with the unsubstantiated claim that 1205 was the fastest. Often we would grab one and travel to Wokingham in the rush hour to grab a different train to Reading that was often powered by a class 33. Only seemed to run once a day if I recall correctly. We also saw class 52s and Hymeks on freight duty along our stretch of track.
Thanks for your comment, glad you liked the pictures. I recall Class 33 locos being used to increase capacity on the odd rush hour train. That happened too on the East Grinstead/Uckfield line.
Some excellent pictures. The Class 123(?) Inter-City DMUs are particularly notable before they moved to Trans-Pennine. Reading station hardly changed at all right up to the end of the 80s when the new concourse was built.
I didn't realise they wewre the very same trains - the Trans-Pennine Units never had end corridor connections. There are pictures of them on my Leeds/Bradford 1970s film.
I loved these I/C DMUs one the rare occasions I could catch one instead of the regular ones from Newbury to Paddington....so comfortable and smooth!
Great pictures, Clive! Are these digitised slides or scannen pictures?
They are from 35mm colour transparencies, scanned onto my laptop.
Thanks for your comment.