One diesel train was playing the William tell overture in this old clip, full of freight trains busy times they were.

excellent video!

Excellent video 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Nice…interesting to see that livery on the HSTs…the green one…didn’t last many years IIRC!

1:33:30 you see the trolley behind the screen, thought it was a rat at first !!!!!

Nice to see the class 71 E5001 at Basingstoke, I went to Chichester to photo it the 33's berthed in the yard the 71 passed and then I took a smoky shot of the 33s coming out of Haywards Heath tunnel up past the platforms 2 or 3 clagging shots one I framed. Very nice, I wish the 71 would work again on the main line. Thanks for the Basingstoke video. Larry.

Love seeing 37s on the beds again, I did it at least twice a year on boxes just to make sure it wasn't stopped best off season to be alone in the berth. loved the area and Haggis evening meal, the only things apart from 156 units it was check out the pubs in Fort Bill. Happy memories.

I would put money on that being Corina driving 47053 on the AUTO playing tunes with the horns! She drove a quite a few of them :D

What a wonderful display of old and new, passenger and frieght. It appears almost a Golden Age, although I suppose some of those train spotting would have looked back to the days of steam. At least in the late nineties you could get a pint for under two quid. Happy Days, thanks for sharing.

Great video and thanks for sharing. The area around Margam has changed so much in recent years. Margam Knuckle Yard is now full of class 66's and Margam TMD closed a number of years ago. The area where you were filming the South Wales main line used to be a great area for filming, but it is all fenced off and overgrown now. I made a slideshow of Margam TMD a few a years ago after it was closed and abandoned. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3_GeninlpVmrLc

Most unusual for a Class 159 to be seen in Reading.

Some more of my routes. Diversionary via Westbury and Castle Cary to Yeovil Junction, pick up a token at Pen Mill and the route across to Brizzle. Nice little run. Unbelievable that low wall at Sydney Gardens, even lower than the one at Dawlish. My favourite route until they took it away from Sals in 2009. I was lucky enough to work the last ever SWT morning train on Saturday the 12th of December to Paignton & back, didn't work the last ever though 2 more that day. Unfortunately at Sydney Gardens they put a fence up by that wall. Doesn't look too bad but it spoiled the general look of the place. Tilehurst is interesting because I had relatives in Woodley, Reading. On a day out in 1965 or 66 we saw Up & Dn Blue Pullmans go past (the only trains that should be blue apart from the Glasgow Blue train, similar to the 310s that I grew up with in Coventry) and at the General - Westerns, Hymeks and Warships of course in their proper colours 😁 Oh for a time machine.

The day of my 15th birthday. I treated myself to a London all zones TravelCard and spent most of the afternoon at West Drayton. There was an awesome thunderstorm towards the beginning of the evening, certainly enjoyed that!! I lived in the land of the stabilizer rail, so to see diesels, especially HST's and 47s made me a very happy lad. I remember the Deltic storming by, it frightened me. 😁

Doesn't really look any different to today xD

5:20 456 024 the only one to be painted in Connex livery

Wonderful stuff! Thank you so much for uploading this. This brings back so many great memories of travelling on the brilliant Mid Hants Daylight Railtours. I travelled on this first excursion and pretty much all of the others right up until the final Daylight tour in October 2004. For me they were the best value Railtours between 1998 and 2004. There was a wonderful atmosphere on the trains between the volunteers who worked on them and the passengers, many of whom became regulars. A great range of destinations were visited over the years and a superb pool of motive power from the Ropley stable provided spirited performances. 31625, 73096, 41312, 34016 & 35005 all took turns in hauling the popular "Green Train" around the country. 73096 is my favourite locomotive and she really proved herself to be a magnificent main line performer. Always reliable and always on top of the job. She only failed once out on the ML but was repaired swiftly by the support crew and carried on with the rest of the rail tour with out problems. I would love to see more footage of 73096 and the Green train on the main line. Thank you once again for a great reminder of the better days of main line steam.

Does anyone know if 73096 was one of the standard 5s originally based on the southern region , we only had a few down here , many having King Arthur names. I looked at my 1967 Ian Allen combined and she'd been withdrawn by then so i have no clue .Thank you everyone .

My grandad was part of the support crew on this railtour, she performed really well! Went on to have loads more railtours and was a huge success!

I will start the comments shall I, What a great railtour !! Southern all the way !!. Green standard 5mt, a rake of southern stock , apart from the HSTs we could have been back in 1960 . Wonderful. She was working hard too in some places , but no problem for her and coped perfectly .The footplate crew were great too, in damp conditions and no sign of slippage .Excellent catches Pompey , keep up the good work ,I'm a big fan and look forward to your other posts .

I wonder what it is like now?hope not weed infested!

I was there at that time as a D/A second man.... I do notice a couple of the guys I worked with in this. Great to see and brought back some memories for me.

Eurostars sucking every drop of power out of the 3rd rail

Thank you. A very good historical document.

Yeovil Junction with 50s and MkII coaching stock. My era - albeit more (and preference for) large logo livery and not that awful Network South East.

The smoky V200 emerging from the little shed is very cute. Looks like it still had the original Maybach engines. Graffiti seemed to be prevalent in Italy even then, though 😕

As a student in Stoke I used to commute from Longport the following winter to this… other journeys too and more commuting to Manchester so I spent quite a lot of time in the station. It always seemed to have quite a lot of staff, and the BR uniforms were pretty eclectic compared with the post privatisation corporate wear. I bought a little book of loco numbers from the little newsagent kiosk… used to buy papers there too. I liked the Nestles chocolate vending machine on the platform too. Loved the class 304’s with the springy seats, warmed in winter… not so much the Sprinters. Sometimes there’d be loco hauled local services - declassified 1st class compartment stock - luxury. Can’t remember what the locos would have been though. All seems a long time ago now - happy memories.

My local station in 1989, what an incredible amount of variety, both freight and passenger, locos and MUs! Thanks so much for sharing..

love this makes me feel old!! lol

That XC at 13.40 on the UP heading in to Platform 2. I may have been the guard on that train. 3 brake vans. Round Bomo West I prepared a XC in the carriage shed, gave the driver the details of the train, how many coaches. Checked the rear 3 coaches, as you did to make sure that the brakes were applied and then climbed up & wound the handbrake off in the rear brake van. Checking the brakes were applied on the rear 3 coaches & walking to the front earlier I never looked above the sole bars to walking to the front (Poole end), in the shed. I gave the driver the indication for a brake test from the rear brake van and we carried out a successful brake test. I then gave him a green flag to leave the carriage shed, he took power and we didn't go anywhere. He tried again, the 47 was straining but the train wasn't moving. Something was wrong. This numbnut then realised I had another 2 brake vans on. I jumped down, went up to the front & apologised to the driver. I was newly passed out that June 😳 Oddly the handbrakes had been applied to the other 2 brake vans as well in the consist. Kudos to the driver for realising something was up and not giving the 47 full power and dragging the train.

Great footage. Sad to think not long after this Ravenscraig closed so the ore and coal traffic stopped and the container base closed. Its pretty boring now

Lovely video. Year before I got my driving job at Salisbury. I could have been a guard on one of those Pigs or slammers. Happy days 😊

Great video. Been there today, delivering to Arlington works. That's one hell of a tight bridge on Campbell rd😅

Filmed from Campbell road bridge

The ( 1980's slam door ) rolling stock has one HUGE benefit ... you can get out easily in a train " accident " .. try doing that when the doors are ( electronically ? ) locked . DAVE™🛑

But not the one at11:40 : G-EYES, Cesena 402, was destroyed in a mid-air collision in 2008

Not many of the trains may still be in service (apart from the 159s), but the Chinook may be 🤠

16.10 is it Jimmy Saville

Those were the best days.

Great video. I never realised how busy Aulnoye was back then. Only a shadow of it's former self now. I really appreciate all these videos you have put up. I have loved the French railways for a long time and it was in the 90s I started getting into the French scene. Thanks for sharing.

The noise from, I presume under the cab is the traction motors, usually unheard from outside because of the diesel engine, I think it’s the traction motors anyway, if someone could enlighten me, thanks

The sound of the Sulzer engine was like a tiger, or demonic washboard being played, absolutely fantastic noise, I remember working at Bickley station in the 80’s on the platform, we had nights there for a couple of periods, two of the 33’s would come through on the down hauling laden hoppers, it was a 1 in 100 climb, the noise at 3 o’clock in the morning of those two really giving it some, crashing rustling past on the far platform, and a glorious smell after in the cold night air of diesel exhaust, like a combination of vanilla and herring oil!!!!!!!

Fantastic stuff! Sadly due to to being “good” at sport and the general feeling I got from my teammates and friends that this hobby and sport didn’t mix I denied myself all of this through the 80’s/90’s. Live not too far away and travelling too and from various sporting locations I would see the flood lights etc and long to go and have a look, but rarely did. All gone now of course and I feel huge regret I wasn’t more true to myself. Massive thanks to you for a least filling in some gaps. Jason.

Amazing to think that quite a few class 37s and 47s from the ER are still with us today. The class 20 choppers are sadly missed though.

Possibly a daft question but how do train drivers know which track to follow? Passed really close at 28:24!

Another location I filmed at this year. I was impressed with the amount of freight that passed in the short time I was there. Even a few loco hauled passenger push pull services pulled by BB22200. How good it looked when you filmed though. I forget how well used the BB16500s were

Absolutely brilliant footage. I went to Thionville this year. The shed was packed with locos but it was a Sunday to be fair. Like my previous comment on the Gare de Lyon video. It's fascinating to see what's changed. Superb to see that BB12000 on the car train

Great video. I do love the French scene. Sadly its not what it once was but there is still some loco hauled passenger services across the country which I try and see before the units inevitably take over.

Interesting that the train at 15:15 has a CEP in the formation. Must have been on short term loan.

Fantastic as well !!!!! thaaaannnxxxxx

Fantastic to have the presence of mind to film this.