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THAT Tident sounds lovely

working hard I notice Dave, keeping that chair on the ground

not your usual editing there Dave, you left in a few shots of my bike

not a grey hair in sight those days

notice the Triumphs are coping better with the conditions

Was that first train the old Southport to Lime St service?

Is that the new alignment to the low level at 5:30?

Wow😊

Wow,l i live on the wirral,,lovelly footage😊😊

One of my earliest locomotive memories (1973?) was standing on Brombrough station (a few miles from Hooton) and seeing a 40 (or 37?) come thundering under the bridge headed toward Birkenhead. Amoungst the more familiar DMU's it looked magnificent and dramatic. Every time i used that station in the following years of my childhood, i remembered that moment and would gaze at the bridge span, which now lacked rails which were lifted shortly afterwards - I only remember them being there that one time. Presumably a relic of when Birkenhead Woodside still took express trains from London(?)

I started as a fireman with BR 1974 eastfield traction depot springburn Glasgow

no sign of an AA truck

Where is Hooton?

it was a nice run out

Fantastic stuff - thanks for sharing. - 2:42 is, as I'm sure you know, Bromborough.

Question at 2.20 why are the home signal and the ground shunt signal both cleared at the same time therefore signalling a conflicting move? I don't understand why the interlocking would allow it. Thanks

I can't believe this footage has so few views. I think footage like this is historically important. What saddens me looking back here to now is how much freedom we had then. To think you could get very close to the track, no fences, no stupid barriers and "Passengers must not pass this point" signs at the end of the platform, none of those weird spiked ridge things that they have now. There's no way you'd be able to stand on the slope of that plaform on a station today. I''ve seen some stations where half rhe platform has been fenced off for no apparent reeason. All this health and safety is just about controlling people IMO. I've noticed that most of the road overbridges and even bridges crossing the tracks at stations they have been altered where you can no longer see over and watch. It's ridiculous. Also the stations still had some character to them, now they are clinical and soulless looking with ticket machines, ugly regional rail company colours, metal seating and CCTV cameras everywhere. The trans now are futuristic, soulless looking.

Thanks for uploading this. The only footage i've seen from the Rocket 150 Rainhill event in 1980 is from a TV news broadcast. It's a pity you never filmed Sir Nigel Gresley as I believe that A4 was there that day (a rare sight to see an A4 class steam loco on the West Coast). I bet most people in Rainhill have completely forgotten about this ever taking place. I live fairly locally in Wigan and I never knew about this until a few years ago when I stumbled across a photo.

Great footage, never seen this before. I wonder if the people who run the disused stations website have seen this?.

Form factor is all wrong and frame needs to be widened as everything is unnaturally squashed

Some nice shots there. Shame its a bit juddery but better that than nothing at all. Liked and subbed.

Thanks for uploading this. Fascinating to look back at how it was & the old infrastructure. The old stations, & hall rd depot. I assume it was filmed on one of the express electric or Sunday services, as it didn't stop at some stations. Shame film ran out before exchange, but still great to see this

Enjoyable behind the scenes views! Thanks for sharing!

Dave , you'll be a youtube megastar soon, 4 subscribers already

Great stuff, thanks for posting.✊️

There was Red one and me on the Yellow one. 🐵👍

Brings back memories of last Weekend. Thanks for sharing. Mine was the Yellow Honda Monkey. Cheers Dean aka MonkeyDixAdventures 🥶🐵🐉👍