BR in the 1990s Weymouth Station on 2nd July 1994

BRITISH RAILWAYS IN THE 1990's
Weymouth Station on 2nd July 1994
Continuing with my archive of video recording between the years of 1986 to 2001 this clip is of Weymouth Station on a very warm 2nd July 1994. With the regular daily class 37 hauled departure heading back to Bristol and Cardiff an additional unidentified "RES" Liveried class 47 hauled Rail Tour departs Weymouth. Also an IC class 47 hauled service is captured on tape. I hope the video takes you back to this period with fond memories. Feel free to comment, good or bad, all comments are read and greatly appreciated, but it is not always possible to answer each individually. Sit back and enjoy this latest production remembering all those now long gone Locomotive classes and other types of traction. Many thanks for all subscriptions and all of those viewers who have kindly shown an interest in my material.

[@DOCTORDROTT]

Worked on the 37's on this run many times, some even came back to Canton with " we love Weymouth " stickers on

[@spompey]

Many thanks for sharing the story....and for watching, my very best regards...Mark

[@stephenchecksfield632]

​@@spompeyyea I remember Weymouth station well and the now defunct Weymouth quay tramway at the time I was on holiday there around 1989 and saw a class 37 on the quay tramway on a rail tour and got my first encounter with the class 442 Wessex Electrics units at the time around 1989 I had just turned 18 and I recall showing great interest in the class 442 Wessex Electrics units as it was the first time I had seen one I recall talking to the very friendly and accommodating train driver at the time who showed me round the unit and the opertunity to cab it prior to departure great memories the driver showed great pleasure in showing me around the class 442 Wessex Electric unit great memories Indeed 😊

[@spompey]

@@stephenchecksfield632 Good days then Stephen....many thanks for watching and for the comment...much appreciated...Mark

[@Georgeasaurus2001]

Well from memory, and I believe it was me and my mate who used to put the stickers on. They were reflective silver Dorset County badges they were from the newsagents between the station and the beach on the left of the street,its still there or at least it was on Saturday when I went there on the 50 tour, the ones I can definitely remember doing were 092/097/174/191/230/254, can't remember doing any others they were usually above the numbers just below the drivers window, although 191 also had tgem in the middle of the headcode panel, it still had fragments of them when I saw it at Wigan just before its end

[@Georgeasaurus2001]

If you look for pictures of 37191 on Weymouth Quay you can see the headcode panel one very visible

[@stevehull787]

Great footage 👍

[@spompey]

Many thanks Steve....best regards...Mark

[@stevehull787]

@@spompey thanks mark 👍

[@andrewmcilwraith1997]

Great! I remember that Network South East were doing a £5 anywhere day in 1986, when I lived in London, and I persuaded my friend Fiona to go to Weymouth. It was hauled by something like a Class 33 and of course took 4 hours. We could have gone to Carlisle! Exeter wasn't an option I think and anyway I'd been to Exeter! We travelled down to Weymouth and it poured the whole day! We looked at the tracks to the harbour but didn't see a train (she was predictably entranced by the possibility!). The journey back to Waterloo was a wee bit trying! Anyway, one doesn't see Weymouth much in things and it was good to see. Thanks! Any idea where the other 47 was going (if the other was going to Liverpool - a bit exotic!)? One year later and it would all be privatised and we'd all forget how good it all was. Ho, hum! Thanks!

[@kevinfowkes2327]

It was electric unit from Waterloo to Bournemouth then Class 33 hauled/propelled for the Bournemouth to Weymouth bit. Electrification to Weymouth was completed in May 1988. I think I'm right that the quay branch only operated in the summer months so if your trip was outside the May to September period that's why you saw nothing...also by the end I think it was only a single boat train each way. Timetabled passenger trains to the quay ended in September 1987. Your memory of privatisation isn't the same as mine, I recall nothing significant changed for some years on most services, in terms of the type of rolling stock used. The first major changes had to wait until the early 2000s with Virgin's Pendolinos and Voyagers (the latter displacing 47s on cross country services as seen here). Then slightly after that, the wholesale withdrawal of slam door EMUs all over the south.

[@andrewmcilwraith1997]

Yeah but there wouldn't be any specials from Liverpool after 94! We did go in summer but we didn't see anything on the quay line because we looked at it for 10 minutes in the pouring rain! Thanks for the response.@@kevinfowkes2327

[@vicsams4431]

@andrewmcilwraith1997. Waterloo - Salisbury - Exeter was part of Network South East. The journey would have taken 3 hours 30 mins. Waterloo to Weymouth took 2 hours 40. The 07.10, 09.10, 11.10, 13.10 etc from Waterloo being the Class.50 (later Class 47) hauled trains to Exeter St David's, and the 08.10, 10.10, 12.10, 14.10 departures being Class 33 to Salisbury.

[@vicsams4431]

Waterloo to Weymouth trains departed at xx.30, with the 10.35 being the Channel Islands Boat Train to Weymouth Quay.

[@andrewmcilwraith1997]

Maybe it just seemed longer in the rain! Thanks!@@vicsams4431

[@vicsams4431]

I can remember catching a 442 to Weymouth regularly when the Petroleum Sector Class 47/0 used to work the 16.40 to Bristol / Cardiff. I even remember the Channel Islands Boat Train in the 1980s, that saw a Class 73 Waterloo to Bournemouth and a Class 33 to Weymouth Quay with a rake of unrefurbished Mark 1s.

[@spompey]

I remember it too Vic....Many thanks...Mark

[@andrewmcilwraith1997]

Oh, and I am still pals with her 38 years later!

[@spompey]

Many thanks and best wishes...Mark

[@AndreiTupolev]

47810 would have been the SO Liverpool - Weymouth. Res loco was 47758

[@kevinfowkes2327]

A very lucky capture. There used to be quite a few InterCity cross country services through to Weymouth up until the mid/late 80s but they almost all disappeared after the late-1980s electrification (being terminated at Poole for the most part). This service was a rare exception.

[@spompey]

Many thanks Andrei for the info....most valuable.....best wishes as always...Mark

[@spompey]

Many thanks Andrei for the info....most valuable.....best wishes as always...Mark