BR in the 1980s Micheldever Station On 9th March 1988

[@BibtheBoulder]

Fantastic entertaining reminder of just what we are missing these days....

[@spompey]

Many thanks for watching and your comment, sorry for the late response was away for 2 weeks...best wishes...Mark

[@appliance004]

Some great shots there! And exactly at the right period too. Many thanks.

[@spompey]

Many thanks for watching and your comment, sorry for the late response was away for 2 weeks...best wishes...Mark

[@JohnPW22]

What an amazing location! Agree with Nick, what a space there! Great period footage too. Lovely!

[@spompey]

Many thanks for watching and your comment, sorry for the late response was away for 2 weeks...best wishes...Mark

[@Paddington.]

Great video. The class 37 on the Ripple Lane tanks worked by Ripple Lane men. How when passing I used to look out for this working when passing by.

[@spompey]

And also they worked the tanks to North Camp.....look for my video..... ....best regards....Mark

[@melodymonger]

Greetings from a 70s Essex trainspotter who now lives in Australia. Thanks for the video 👍. How amazing it was to have a publicly owned national railway service, even if it was crumbling in places.

[@spompey]

Greetings to Australia.....Many thanks for the comment and best wishes....Mark

[@timstrainvideos142]

excellent video... some great class 33 footage!

[@spompey]

Many thanks for watching and your comment, sorry for the late response was away for 2 weeks...best wishes...Mark

[@mrmrst9020]

Excellent video mark brilliant memories mate 👍🏻

[@spompey]

Many thanks for watching and your comment, sorry for the late response was away for 2 weeks...best wishes...Mark

[@OlafProt]

A station that always fascinated me - forever associated with 4VEP for some reason. at 1:10 all that empty space was that once sidings? 2:50 is quite wonderful - 33's were always my favourite as a kid on the 70s and early 80s and seeing this one powering past is a treat! 5:05 & in particular 12:40 a treat too, Thumpers at full pelt! Love seeing the 73s on 2rd Rail power. Brilliant video thanks for uploading! 10:05 hilarious - surely that carriage livery mix (1-then-1-then-1 - only not quite at the end) was on purpose! Bored marshalling yard workers lol

[@AndreiTupolev]

It was constructed during the war as a strategic oil facility

[@spompey]

Many thanks for watching and your comment, sorry for the late response was away for 2 weeks...best wishes...Mark

[@AndreiTupolev]

That was a good Crompton thrash with the cement tanks. That was a pretty substantial load

[@spompey]

Many thanks for watching and your comment, sorry for the late response was away for 2 weeks...best wishes...Mark

[@dandavison3469]

Micheldever was a strategic oil terminal built during WW2 and had large underground tanks.

[@stephenmorris1802]

What a fascinating location, I have never seen on film or in photographs, thank you Mark. I would love to learn more about the workings, such as where the 73 hauled trains were from and to. Classic SR !

[@AndreiTupolev]

Waterloo - Weymouth or Waterloo - Bournemouth with the Class 73s, inter-regionals from Poole to the north or northeast with the 47s

[@stephenmorris1802]

​@@AndreiTupolevThank you very much for the information.

[@spompey]

Many thanks for watching and your comment, sorry for the late response was away for 2 weeks...best wishes...Mark

[@TheDaf95xf]

Absolutely fantastic footage 👍🏻 That 33 had a good load on its back 😄 I was a BR blue train spotter in the 70s and when they stated repainting & re-numbering locomotives I fell out of love with train spotting but I still watch trains and of course your fantastic videos that give me happy memories of how it was 👍🏻 Great location to buddy 😊

[@spompey]

You are very welcome and Many thanks for the comment and best wishes....Mark

[@k333vrr4]

Its really nice to see footage of 73's it seems to me there a forgotten Loco, theres very little on here [KZbin]. I saw 73971 @ Aberdeen October 2021

[@spompey]

Many thanks for watching and your comment, sorry for the late response was away for 2 weeks...best wishes...Mark

[@dieseldave3879]

2:40 Crompton slogging hard on the tankers! 🚂👍

[@spompey]

Many thanks for watching and your comment, sorry for the late response was away for 2 weeks...best wishes...Mark

[@followthetrawler]

I love Micheldever Station - it's our closest and my Grandson loves going to watch the trains there... such a shame the station building couldn't be converted into a cafe or something.

[@spompey]

It is still a great place for your Grandson to be introduced to the railway fraternity....Best wishes....Mark

[@karimkekhia4369]

heeey bro. ahhhh wicked…another..and what i love about this location…it’s really inquire, as the stain is kind of in the middle or nowhere and you have a tunnel at one end and then a goods yard with cars and vans and then just trees and cuttings and an expanse of empty land…is that one of the popham tunnels? i never signed this route past basing. ahhh mate so sad to see the TC stock without its old mate, the REP unit, and coupled up to an ED (i remember these days so well) when the REPs were being slowly withdrawn. seeing this transition after their glory days..so sad and of course all for the new 442s. it funny as the TC and the REPs in their last years always looked to mucky on the cab fronts and were the only slam door stock that seemed to look this way. it made them quite distinctive i guess and it was all part of those beautiful days. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@spompey]

Totally agree.....best wishes to you Karim....Mark

[@kevanhubbard9673]

I don't know if it's still there but it was up until about 4 years ago there was an old Rail Freight Distribution sign at the north end of the sidings at Michaeldever Station with the Oils Sub Sector box.

[@spompey]

Many thanks for watching and your comment, sorry for the late response was away for 2 weeks...best wishes...Mark

[@jackmilne9764]

Hi Mark again my Dad came today he was very impressed and kept saying "this guy here's good" with your filming and that was 24hrs before I was born if your interested that would have been a Wednesday because I was born on a Thursday. I've re uploaded his China trip and about to upload Chester and Mollington street Birkenhead summer 1984 I think. Did you film any Trains abroad like my Dad and his late mate did? Sadly for myself personally my sort of trains go up on a converyer chain and drop do loops etc rollercoasters but I do enjoy the old footage.

[@spompey]

Yes I did a lot abroad and will get round to uploading them, they will start to appear when I am covering the mid 1990s.....I do hope they prove as popular to all as the BR material.....My many thanks to your Dad and of course to yourself......best regards...Mark

[@jackmilne9764]

@@spompey looking forward to them

[@spompey]

@@jackmilne9764 You are very welcome Jack and Dad ...so Many thanks for the comment and best wishes....Mark

[@edf6607]

Dumb question but why are some of the multiple units hauled by locomotives?

[@stephenmorris1802]

That is an excellent question, as a northerner I didn't know class 73s hauled SR EMU sets like this through Hampshire at this time, had just associated them with the Gatwick Express passenger workings.

[@spompey]

Many thanks for watching and your comment, sorry for the late response was away for 2 weeks...best wishes...Mark

[@stefanbradley1617]

Some of them will probably be 4TCs - unpowered multiple units that were built to be used with the 4REPs or 73s

[@BenDover-ln6ns]

If it started with 80** it was a trailer car, sometimes with the more powerful Rep units which were easily detached at Bournemouth,and push pull facilities for non electrified lines. Often doubled up with two x 73s for faster speeds to keep to time.

[@scottjones3782]

Can’t believe that 37 has to pull forward and wait across the main line then reverse! Surely they could have had a spur just after the tunnel to allow them off the main line quickly - I guess it wasn’t that regular a train?

[@spompey]

I believe it was daily or every 2 days......many thanks for watching. and for the comment..best wishes...Mark

[@12crepello]

Excellent video, Thanks. Lots of ED's about. Was this when the REP's were withdrawn to supply components for the new Plastic Pigs?

[@Crepello100]

Good question! And your comment would make sense too and solve my own question. I know that in earlier years there'd be a 4REP(electric) at the London end push/pulling one or two 4TC(non-powered) down to Bournemouth where a Class 33 would take over (minus the 4REP) on to Weymouth. So if the 4REPs had been withdrawn to supply their electric bits to new Class 442s ('5WES' ) there'd need to to be a Class 73 on their instead. That sounds logical but does anyone know for sure?

[@Pjaxable]

It is correct, the 4REPs had there motors taken out as needed for the new 442s, so class 73s was used push/pull the unpowered 4REP and the 4TC's. Quite often there were pairs of class 73's used.

[@AndreiTupolev]

The REPs still had one DMSO, which (supposedly, as it didn't always work) operated in push-pull fashion with the 73s

[@AndreiTupolev]

Others used two TC sets (some with an ex REP buffet car inserted) and a single Class 73, while from the new timetable in May pairs of 73s were often used with 8 TC formations

[@spompey]

Many thanks for watching and your comment, sorry for the late response was away for 2 weeks...best wishes...Mark