Great video,when i was at school back in 90s.i was on school residential(holiday) to snowdonia in wales and we went past bescot depot on the motorway that ran along side it and also saw aston villa football club too.

At 611 on the video diesel going off around the bend heading for brookwood the siding that stops short of the house used to run past the house until freight train with empty rail carrying flat bogees was switched onto the siding of the main line and crashed into the back of a load of frieght cars the impact snapped one of them in half and it was up in the air like a large pyramid right next to the house it took hours and hours of them trying to figure it out so that the thing didn't topple into the side of the house that was about mid 1970s I lived in the Kingsway which is around 100 yards from that house the noise of the impact was deafaning

You got Rick Rolled!

Sad to see all those great locos in such a state of disrepair Im sure with love and affection they would still do the job

Re.e.ber storming this shed in 1972. A group of us went through the gap in the fence and down the hill. We we were rumbled when we ended up in the depot itself and had to be removed via the road entrance. Happy days

Just came across this channel. Liked and subbed.

In Tinsley 47236 inside the shed was ex Canton TMD in 1974-86 & the 47 with No front cab was 47291 in RFD Livery, spares use wfu, I saw the first 2 Rumanian Built 56001/002 arrive on 7 Aug 1976 (I was inside the shed) pushed into the Maintenance Depot by a Class 31, Both were so New & Shiny in old BR Blue Livery, in them days we were spoilt for choice for Loco's, Just buy an old Locoshed Spotters book to see how many Diesels BR had in them days.

Great Video, That's how I remember 87101 Stephenson in that livery during the 80's often seen in Willesden Depot.

Brilliant late 90s Slam door/ GAT Ex' action..😊👍🏾👍🏾

Old Oak was always great for a discreet stroll round - did you get n by the hole in the canal fence?

Great stuff before all red death took over not a single ying ying in sight

The bridge you took most of the footage from was known as twin bridges, (or tin bridges, depending on who you spoke to). Great footage. Thanks for sharing....

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Nice good video :)

Trains look so much better with no stupidly different coloured doors.

Incredible range of locos. Whereas today......

S&T had blue wagons, great example here.

47150 & 152 where the first 47’s to be converted and operate in multi on Freightliners. They were incredibly suited to that work type being able to hold their own against 2 x 86’s. &5mph climbing up Stoke Bank for 2000 tones was impressive for sure.

Thanks so much for all of these Stafford videos! Reminds me when I used to pull all nights with the FMI gang - BT4, Chalky, Dave Lindsell, onlydjw to name but a few, even though they were a few years after this there was still plnety to see during the day & overnight - with plenty of variety! Cheers, Officer Dibble :)

26th October... rather interesting evening.

What an unforgettable night that was! My 2 memories of it will always be the fire and that dudes blue coat 😁

Goodness, good job the Media didn't hear of that. "NUKE TRAIN BLAZE!!!" 😒

Splendid! Back then i would never of thought class 66's would mean so much to me in the end! 66055 there, i have vids by her driving, or more like blasting off that loco, after getting her token, on the single line to Calvert. . . . I will share some more one day hehe. . . Very interesting video mate, that 20 at the end ooof!!!

Superb 👌

Just before the 66s took over

Great

Cracking video, what year was this please?

Those were the days Steve, still plenty of freight and plenty of tugs to pull them. Newport a shadow of what it was now. Great footage Steve and incidentaly, i have just uploaded one from your neck of the woods, Eastleigh in 1988. Take a look if you have some spare time. All the best, Colin.

Excellent! A regular haunt for me up from Kent in the 90's, so much traffic there. Nice to see 56031 'Merehead' as my ex girlfriend remembers driving that one! Also nice to see her these days masquerading as 69001 down my parts. The loco that is :) . . . I spend hours sometimes playing trains at Donny in my head staring at my 16 x model 56's and others i painted, imagining 1990 again.

These where the days to go train spotting fantastic days full of memories

What an amazing video, thanks for sharing. Some fantastic sector, engineering and load haul liveries and proper mixed freight 👏🏻👍

Great video, with bonus on the route via Portobello. It's still used for services trains and diversions. Pre-pandemic there was a daily Pendolino, TfW 158, and a LM Turbostar timetabled through. Obviously that's changed but when/if service levels ramp up they should start again.

Great video, thanks very much!

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Oh that was such a great blast from the past. It brought back many happy memories of spotting at my local spots of Brocklesby junction and Barnetby back in that era.

Never ventured up the line to Croxton Farm crossing Steve when i used to go to that line. Wish i had now as it looks great.The 58 was a good catch as i don't remember them being all that common to and from Immingham, and the thrash from 56103 was a bit special wasn't it. Good film mate.

My old stomping ground 🤗

Some very nice footage there Steve. Thanks for sharing it

That first bit of 56 emerging and diving back into fog is cinematic gold.

Absolute gold, more please 👏🏻👍😀

At that time the muddy track down to Wrawby was closed due to foot mouth like everywhere else.

I'm looking forward to the Cavalex 00 gauge models of the grids. Between them and Accurascale, they are bankrupting me!

What a lot of 37s! Interesting: a 90 and Class 20s racing 🏁. And the 37/90 parallel departure at the end.

☺At10:09the 1853 Alphaline service to Cardiff Central was delayed by approximately 10 minutes, then literally five seconds later it was delayed by approximately 17 minutes! 😳

The words "The delayed xxxx service to London Paddington" was very common at that time. 🤔 At least there wasn't the endless "Bing bong May we have your attention please" and then repeated all over again in Welsh 🤫

* Great Valenta sound at2:25, though at the time I thought they weren't half noisy ******s

Ah, some nice memories of a day at Reading. * The Turbo unit there at0:31, 165115, was the one involved in the Ladbroke Grove crash in 1999 🤔

Excellent as always, thank you.

Tug & Grid heaven...both been the nasty sheds and day😃👍