Some great footage thanks for sharing 👍

This was a Wonderful year! The trains from 1980 to 2020 were really amazing and aesthetically pleasing! I remember, in 2004 when the Slam- door class 423 vep Trains were about to be retired. The farewell tour was magnificent! ❤❤😊😍😄♥️♥️🚇🚅🚈🎨🖼🛤⏰⌛📅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Exactly 20 years ago this year

Watching this nearly 20 years later is crazy😂. I miss the 90s and 225/125

lol the crusty video quality

Great video went to crewe as a 14yo could hear the avoiding line but didn’t know it existed lol 😂

3:17 back when 375s were brand new! Weird to think these trains are over 20 years old now

Great memories, so glad you filmed the ordinary everyday, that is so fondly remembered now

Hey Russ! You have some amazing footage on your channel! I was just wondering if it would be possible to use some of this in a video/doc I am making on Virgin XC!? I would provide appropriate credit of course - but this would be super helpful! Thanks!

I was hoping to see the pick up shoe gear in detail as these emus were unique in the UK, and its difficult to make out how the third rail and pick ups met up, all I know is that they were not top contact like the rest of the UK third rail system

Nothing looks as forlorn as the scrapyard locomotive And the rest is silence

Great Footage from the Good Years!😃.

Saw my last Class 47 here back in 2004, 47550.

Were the Class 47s running a regular service to/from Lime St?. The reason I ask is that I have some home video taken on the 15th Sept 1990 where we were travelling from Wigan to Lime St to go to a model railway exhibition at Liverpool Cathedral. On the train heading back was a Class 47 diesel named Blackbuck, it was on the back of the engine pulling, though I don't know what class engine was at the front. The carriages weren't the regular DMU type with electric doors but the old fashioned type that could be opened manually by passengers, and the seats were the type you would expect nowadays on an excursion special. Anyone know if this was a special they were running that day?.

My granddad was a engine driver out of Shirebrook west - 60’s 70’s 80’s -1993 / Bernard Betts

my dad worked there at the drs. 😢 39 years

Very nostalgic

As a Trainspoter in the 70s in Cornwall aged 15 I loved every exciting moment.. I'M NOW 61 and I feel so sad for the spotters of today.. HAVING said that I still have a soft spot for the odd locos seen passing by here were I now live in SOUTH WALES. Those brief yet odd moments transport me back 50yrs. So sad that today's railways are predictable and boring. TRAINSPOTTING will never die.. But my era did.

THAT WAS VERY INTRESTING PLEANTY OF CLASS 47,S AND B.R BLUE WHITE DMU,S

Excellent video Great work.

Brighton Trains Station 🚉

Trains Station 🚉

Back in the 70s of that Train video for this

Great old Train videos for this

It's been awhile for this video of the Trains

That must've been filmed a few months before I moved there in the summer of 04.

the life and soul left springburn when the calley went, my whole family worked there at one time or another,a great uncle lost his life when he was caught between two buffers,my memory of it is at home time when the narrow pavements were filled with workers walking home and some wifeys waiting to get the paypacket before the pub got it ,hard times but real

Superb

top stuff

Pair of 47s must of been rare

I'm now going to sit in the corner and cry 😢

Memories of travelling on that line that goes over it getting 33s and 73s

So much going on!

Proper railway compared to the absoloute toss we have now

Sad all those jobs lost,I worked at the side of this yard J C BENNETTS COACHBUILDERS ON PETERSHILL ROAD.

Used to bunk the shed on a monthly basis in the 1970,s. You never had any problems getting to the entrance of the shed, but regularly got kicked out once you walked around inside the shed. Great days.

Good times!

Wrecks were usually left on a scrap scrapline outside the works which had direct access into MCs yard next door, enabling easy disposal of many locos over the years.

Great video ,, back in the good old days 👍

It's ironic that we see 47475, in trans pennine livery, in this video, as she was a parcels sector machine at the time of this video. Moreso, she wasn't even working the Trans Pennine that day! And yes, 47475 is on my layout, and working trans pennine!

Good historical capture.Class 465s now incumbent.Class 415s EPBs long gone but very poor videoing/editing spoils it as a whole sorry to say.😢

Shame you didn't get any footage of the tube station. I am deeply curious as to what it look before and during JLE construction

Priceless 👍

I have lots of old footage of Springs Branch taken during the early-late 90s, and some footage of passing trains heading out of Wigan from Haydock Junction and also at Winwick Junction which we used to go to to watch the trains and take the dogs for a run on the nearby field, something you probably can't do now. We used to walk along the disused line at Golborne that you could get onto from near to the chippy where you walk up the embankment to the line, over the years they fenced it off half way and since then the spare land has been built on with yet more houses and likely to be fenced off to stop anyone getting onto the line. Used to spend hours there in the summer as kids.

My dad worked in the springburn railway till he was made redundant, he was a rigger and was also a health and safety man..

The transport in Glasgow from then and now is night and day, almost loved the rugged aesthetic of Glasgow then too.

No way the observation coach was in there

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This should have been an epic capture but ruined by poor editing or not full filming of any given unit or locomotive.

Nechells In The Background