British Rail 1991-Kensington Olympia InterCity & Freight with classes 33, 47, 56, 59, 60 & 73
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- It's back to June 1991 now and to Kensington Olympia, back when it had semaphore signalling and a signal box. Plenty of variety on this upload with Cross-Country workings hauled by class 47/8's while Trainload Freight workings are hauled by class 56, 59 & 60. A calss 47 light engine move plus classes 33 & a pair of 73 on engineers trains complete the picture. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!
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When ever I feel melancholy all I have to do is watch one of your top class videos Soi. They make me HAPPY. A wonderful trip down memory lane. All those gorgeous BRUSH TYPE 4'S , E D's GRIDS AND CROMPTONS. A lot of people would pay big money to see that kind of action. The greatest show on earth, WATCHING BRITISH RAIL IN ALL ITS GLORY. A VERY BIG THANK YOU. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🚄🚅
My pleasure...... Thanks for your comments. I still have lots more classic BR video to upload.......
Some outstanding Footage here. Kenny O was such a rare gem in these Days, being the backdoor into London, and having unique running patterns of trains. A bygone Era! Thanks for this!
My pleasure..... If i'd been there in the peaks i would have caught a DEMU Thumper at work on the Kenny Belle as well!
Exactly the era I'm modelling and not far away at all, thanks again Soi Bukhao - you're the bloody best sir!
Thank you, i aim to please!!!!...... Still lots more historic vids to come......
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I know you've got loads of stuff, but if you have anything of the old New North Main Line, or buses aground Greenford in the 80s 90s, I would be so grateful, thanks mate
@@adamc1272 I'll see what i can find......
Loved the ‘Banger Blue’ duff 117 with the Tinsley hand painted name clagging through on that epic freight…..oh well….back to the electric mice in the loft….
Even back then the BR blue locos was few & far between.....
Great film love the 47s and the signalling.
It's certainly all changed there now......
Thanks! Another great piece of footage. Fascinating to note the tired looking Motorail terminal some 10 years after its last use
Yes, all that unused land in the centre of London! Back when it was in use i imagine it had some station staff, it was deserted when i was there!
This is the Kensington Olympia as I remember it best as I started taking photos of trains there from 1992 onwards and it was just a wonderful place with semaphore signalling along with the former Kensington South Main signal box and the class 47s on the InterCity service from Dover Western Docks to Manchester Piccadilly or the Sussex Scot service from Brighton to Glasgow Central. The D stock on the District Line brings back memories as on weekdays it was always a train of C69/C77 stock on the Olympia shuttle but on weekends it was usually a D78 stock. The buses passing along Hammersmith Road bring back memories with London United Metrobuses on route 27 and the Reading Transport Olympians on the former 'Goldline' X1 service alongside Routemasters on the crew-operated 9 and 10 routes. Only in 1993 was when the line was electrified with the third rail and colour-light signalling before the southbound platform was built in 1994. From 1994 it seemed weird seeing class 373 Eurostar EMUs passing Kensington Olympia on their way to and from the former North Pole Eurostar depot and in 1995 and 1996 it seemed even more weird seeing HSTs passing through Kensington Olympia on the short-lived express services from London Waterloo up to the likes of Manchester Piccadilly or Edinburgh Waverley. Thanks for this great memory!
My pleasure.... It's amazing to think how much has gone since this was filmed.......
Thanks for posting this video, the 47 hauled freight with the steel coils & Sheerness Steel wagons was one of the 2 workings to Willesden my depot had at this time. Brings back happy memories 😁
My pleasure.... I think Hither Green crews ran it at the end when it was a Loadhaul Enterprise working and into EWS days. I have a feeling the steel doesn't run anymore..... I might need to spend some time here on my next trip to London...
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus There's no freight traffic at all I'm afraid from the Island now, Sheerness Steelworks shut a long time along with the smaller industries that were rail served. There's more than enough businesses out there that could be rail served but its all on the road now.
Another great railway video Soi Buakhao.
Thank you......
I remember being absolutely delighted when I discovered this train as I needed to get from Birmingham to Brighton and it meant I could go direct. We pulled into Olympia and where, after a long wait, we got shunted over to the other side as the replacement crew hadn't turned up! After another half hour or so we got shunted back to be told that the train was cancelled and my one train trip became, including tubes, five! I didn't rush to take that train again! 😬
So was only 1 platform in use. Looks a mess. Is an Episode of The Sweeney where it shows how it was and a Good pic taken from the Bridge up on the left. So much track taken up
Yes, i rememebr the Sweeney episode filmed here.... In later years the Saltley crews signed the road all the way through to Brighton and there were no more crew changes here. Probably happened when sectorisation took hold.....
It was a brave more by BR to market Kensington Olympia as an Inter-City terminal for London, but I noticed hardly any passengers waiting on the platform.
It was never that busy with IC passengers. But it was a good route for north/south trains, both passenger and freight......
Another great video Soi.
Top stuff.
Thanks for uploading!!
My pleasure......
Nice to see class 73s running on diesel at speed
Yes, i wonder how far they went? I suspect it was only to Brent Yard.....
Excellent location for cross London freight 👍🏻 I spent many hours there in the 70s onwards 😀 47-117 plenty of clagg lol 😆 Shame it got pruned back 🙁
Yes, it was one of London's hotspots for freight...... possibly still is?.....
Wonderful video, thanks.
Used to drive the Brighton Manchester and Brighton Glasgow trains when I was a trainman at Brighton. ( whenever the opportunity arose obviously. ). Loved the W LER from Clapham to North Pole Jnc or Acton Wells via southwest sidings round the back of of old oak. Real London history, from the apartments by the river, where Michael Caine had a place( allegedly) to the rubbish strewn area under the westway , north of kenny where steptoe was filmed. Magic. And a subsidised meal in the P.O. canteen at Reading waiting for our back working. Genuinely happy days
I'm pleased you like the vid. I too worked in the Willesden area although my world ended at Mitre Bridge Junction! I worked the South West Sidings pilot loco job, shunt stock about between South West Sidings, F sidings and Brent Yard to make up trains for the Euston blockade in around 1999/2000 time.....happy days indeed!
Great Video - Kenny O has got to be one of my fav places on the network, although the freight traffic is now far reduced. It's great to see the signal box and I'm guessing the unused (?) platform prior to the development on that side. The station does appear in an episode of The Sweeney when some bad guys use it to avoid being followed by Regan and Carter.
Yes, at this time only the main platform was used although it was possible to get over the other side to film the trains. The sweeney episode you are thinking of was Selected Target.
The platform on which Soi is standing was widened over the track in front of it. The episode of The Sweeney being referred to is in Series 3 which is about to be rerun on ITV4 at some point this week coming.
Great footage oozing nostalgia. Thanks for showing.
My pleasure.......
Awesome video. Kenny O looked brilliant back then with locomotives.
Admittedly it was lacking a passenger service apart from the Inter-City ones and the Kenny Belle in the peaks. It has a much better service today although NSE started the ball rolling with the DMU service between Willesden & Clapham Junctions.......
Excellent footage there.
I used to go through there on the Brighton to Manchester 47 hauled trains, getting on at Gatwick and often off at Reading. Only had a Wednesday afternoon off lol.
That station sees (saw) a lot of drunks, it's usually where the Great British Beer Festival is held next door.
Good old days.
I'm pleased you enjoyed it. These days i work at the beer festival at Olympia although can't drink to much as a worker!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I used to go every year from the 90s onwards but not since a few years before covid. Maybe you've served me ^^
OMG how did I not know KennyO had semaphores in 1991! Looks like a mix of upper and lower quadrants bizarrely
GWR trains sometimes ran there. In fact, at one time, I think it was a Western Region station, before being transferred to the London Midland Region.
I believe Kensington was a joint line between the GWR and LSWR/SR. There was at one time an intensive freight interchange service between the companies. I'm not certain, but I think there was also a diversionary passenger agreement. This meant that train crews had occasional trips on each others lines to keep their route knowledge up to date. Similar arrangements existed elsewhere including Exeter, Weymouth, Yeovil ect.
Certainly had a tidy up since this was taken.
Seems very underused by today's standard although freight has dwindled by comparison as has the District line services.
Great video though.
Thank you..... a real snapshot of time!
Where would these intercity trains have gone from here?
Manchester or Glasgow to & from Brighton. Used to be the highlight of my day looking out of my bedroom window in Coulsdon to see them come past - they always seemed quite exotic compared to my usual diet of EMUs & the occasional 33 & 73
Excellent array of traction there Soi :)
Lots of trction and some classic semaphore signalling as well!
*NOW LET'S BE SERIOUS*
It shows how much of an underused but valuable asset the west London line was compared to the heavy use made of it today
For example, getting up north is much easier with regular southern trains providing a regular service allowing a change of train at Watford junction to a stream of northbound intercity services as opposed to 1-2 intercity trains per day in 1991 and Kensington Olympia is much better connected with access possible from many more parts of London and if no direct train is available one merely changes at shepherds bush or west brompton to reach Olympia quickly
What are those weird little wagons at 3:20?
They are PGA bottom discharge hopper wagons...... Used mainly for aggregate traffic they are similar to coal MGR hoppers
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Thanks.
What year was this Electrified?
1999
4:20 That 47 has two different ends. The back has the black rectangle.
Could have been the result of accident damage.......
No Clapham shuttle that day?
Yes, but the Kenny Belle ran in the peaks only. This was filmed late morning/early afternoon.....
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I would bet ridership figures at KO were rather dismal.
Yes, the station had no manned booking office and few, if any, staff!