Why can't Bolton be like this 😪

no jackboot police. council CCTV. beggars and mask wearing karens. no terror laws.... you have been had.

I trained there in the early 90s, stressful times 😂

Video older than me

thumpers sounding very simalar to the 50s,but the 50s always sounded as if they were struguling compared to the 47/7s.

When we arrived by boat with my mom dad brother and sister from Ostend and arrived at Dover Western Docks station I fell in love with it. I love british rail. 😍👌

I remember first seeing and riding on the Networker EMUs as a kid and being instantly fascinated

Canterbury West

I didn’t know that there was a signal box at Prestwich I remember that there was one at Queens Road though

No grafiti

No grafiti

Thank you to the person who made this video. My father who you see in this video passed away in 2020. He worked from a young kid for over 50 years on the Railway. We miss him dearly and I'm sure he would be very proud to see himself at work.Thank you again.

Thank you to the person who made this video. My father who you see in this video passed away in 2020. He worked from a young kid for over 50 years on the Railway. We miss him dearly and I'm sure he would be very proud to see himself at work.Thank you again. 17:10

We need this for tsw5

This is very interesting and historic ❤

Very rare footage of 37886 working round the Oldham Loop!

11:32, definitely 37676 on front, not 671 at the rear though, was a Laira one, 677 maybe?

We used to 'disinfect' the tracks because there would have been lots of tomato plants!! Lol

Every day for ten years I got that train to my work place DWD

Edinburgh Cross Country Driver's&Senior Conductor's worked down to Preston.

My grandparents were earwickers living in Basingstoke

Is the uploaded of this still around?

Relaxing.. I've never seen a signal mounted in the middle of track before... Amazing

Hello l, just wondering if it could be possible if I could some footage from this video for an upcoming video I'm doing for my channel, full credit will be given let me know what you think!

Quick question, say you wanted the train to stop at Signal 3 or 4 for whatever reason, how would you signal that? 3 and 4 don't have Distants, so how does the signaller tell the driver to stop?

I signalled the last passenger carrying train into Bury, I miss those days.

Fab footage 💗💞🗼⛱️🚂

I also remember that we arrived there quite a few times at Dover western Docks from Ostend by boat for holidays 😀and also for many Christmases in London with family. I loved that Dover Western station 😉very much, my mother 😍was from London and we lived in Ostend, we had quite a lot of family there in London. I have tears in my eyes that this is now all a thing of the past.😢Greetings from Ostend to the English 👍

Fantastic video of a unique part of British railway history! :D I was just wondering, would it be possible for me to use this footage as part of an upcoming documentary I'm creating about the history of the Class 73s?

Just before the Class 323 EMUs were introduced. Strange seeing the middle track at Stoke back then.

which year was this?

Thats me in the begining driving

Do you get on the title of this video as "Trains at Sheffield 1991"

I worked at brewery siding from 1974 until it closed,best job ever

I was 8 then. Very good memories of the occasional slam door train turning up at Herne Hill. All sorts of different ones. Some without aisles even. Some with fancy compartments. Some with luggage cars (I hitched in on elf those once!).

I was an Apprentice Electric Traction Fitter when the 504 were first introduced and worked on the maintenance of them. I can just about make out my old work bench on the left hand side of the shed. I wish I had quid for every brake shoe I put on those, first job every morning when a new unit came for service was to go underneath in the pit and check the brakes and replace any worn out Brake shoes. Happy days.

Oh wow. You caught a pair of 37/6 units testing for Nightstar. That's got to be a rarity.

Proper trains

That year freddie mercury died of aids

I was an Apprentice Electrical Engineer Fitter at the Bury MPD when the 504 stock was first introduced and I worked on them for 3 years. They were a vast improvement on the original Electric trains from 1918 which were being used when I first started my Apprenticeship. The electronics were miniature compared to the old stock but much easier to work on and fault find. Many happy memories of working on them and I wish I had a quid for every brake shoe I changed on them!

Been to Wallgate station many times in the late 80s and 90s but don't remember ever seeing those brown and cream liveried Pacer's there. The only ones I ever saw running between Wallgate, Manchester and Southport, as well as from North Western between Wigan and Liverpool, were the regular orange and blue Pacer's. Also I don't remember seeing that class at 2:40 at Wigan.

Bit obvious from the word go. Good though.

Those seem to arc a lot more than top contact 3rd rail

Allways reminds me of going to piccadilly to get the football special to London Eustion and the sounds of the fans echoing under the roof....great memories

Awesome video. I used to love the rattle and roll and noise of the old slam door trains. And the split-flap board at Victoria. Great times!!!

I used to love the scream of that engine.

I remember the 1980s and mountain hiking jaunts to Austria. Catch the boat train from London Victoria and on the Dover approach there were tunnel sections and the break in the sea side wall and that first glimpse of the Channel. When you got off the train you crossed the platform and go along that glass and wood wall past I think it was customs desk which was almost always unmanned. Then emerging on the dockside you'd see the ferry with the foot passenger access ramp for the first time. Just a memory now.

RIP John. Thank you for capturing and preserving some great video footage of the our railways that will forever be cemented in history. I have a deep personal connection with Manchester Victoria and the Bury to Victoria line. Since I was just 1 year old i used to visit my grandparents who lived in Whitefield. They had been there over 40 years throughout my fathers life before he married my mother. I used to ride the old style Metrolink trams that i believe came into service around 1992-3. This was the early 2000's and I remember just how wobbly the ride was along the original jointed track. Used to put a huge smile on my face as it was like a rollercoaster ride. My grandfather sadly passed away but I continued Visiting my grandmother who remained in Whitefield for another 6 years. I was in my teens and the Metrolink was going through phase 1 of its "major upgrade" with the roallercoaster jointed track replaced by significantly smoother and quieter welded rail. Me and gran would travel everywhere on the metro. To Bury for the ELR diesel galas in the summer. Or to Victoria to catch a train to Southport for the day out. These were usually either the Northern blue and purple Class 150's, a 156 or (to my delight and my grans disappointment) a bouncy old pacer 142/144. Some of the best summer holidays of my youth revolved around the grotty smelly underground carpark that is Manchester Victoria and I loved every moment of it. Credit also to my trips to Liverpool from Piccadilly on a timeless 158 always a good day out. So thanks again John for making and uploading these videos for the world to enjoy and reminisce in good memories.

The first 36 seconds explained the entire concept. The rest is just fluff

Just over road for Wigan North Western