British Rail-Bristol 1988

Another vid from 1988 this time at Bristol. It shows the last days of the 33s on the Bristol-Portsmouths along with DMUs, HSTs and 47s. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!

[@paulosbourne3131]

Where have wonderful days gone to, so many loco classes gone, thank you.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Sadly so many turned into razor blades......

[@warwickroad4111]

Thanks for the memories! My Grandfather was based at Bristol Bath Road and used to drive the 'Castles' and 'Kings' in the 1940s and 1950s. I would spend a lot of my schoolboy years on Temple Meads in the 1970s/80s! Sad to see what Bath Road Depot has become, and the old Royal Mail buildings.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

The same sad story all over i'm afraid. He'd stand at Temple Meads and be amazed at what has gone. I have more film from Bristol and will upload in time, kepp watching.....

[@markdunwell3288]

This is one of the video's I've seen in a long time . Must have watched it about 20 times. Could not not get enough of Great Western and Mammoth pure class, thank you Soi 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👍♥️♥️♥️

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

My pleasure, i'm pleased you enjoy it!

[@AaronOxfordExmouth1989]

Oh the memories. Cracking stuff. Takes me right back. Thank you.

[@exb.r.buckeyeman845]

4 roads then and parcel vans in the background, now mostly on the road. Newspapers, parcels, postal, all gone.

[@chrisrichmond403]

1988 was the year my mum started working for Travelers Fare on BTM ( If i recall November) , I was 9/10 years old when this video was taken 👍🏻

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I hope it brings back some good memories for you.....

[@chrisrichmond403]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Oh very much so .. In many ways we were spoilt with such good views of a premier loco depot as well 👍🏻

[@rocksreynolds3642]

Wonderful how you got two of my favourite 47s, "Mammoth" and "Great Western", in the same shot.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Pure serendipity....enjoy! There will be more.....

[@joegrey9807]

Nice! I used to go there quite a lot in the mid 80s, Crompton up from Pompey, then I'd park myself at the south end of the station watching locos shuffling in and out of the depot. Thanks for this, great stuff.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I have more Bristol shots, including the depot end. Will get it uploaded at some point, keep watching!

[@gwrdriver1660]

Great videos, I love the fact that you manage to focus in on the loco names and numbers, really handy for modelling , a lot of video from this era just sweeps past and the numbers are a blur. Old VHS was very fuzzy, so it's even more impressive that you've captured such details, Thanks, I've subscribed, Cheers Rich

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thanks for your comments, i'm pleased to have been of help. I like to know what i am filming (if i can, sometimes they whizz by too fast!) so try and get the fleet numbers, happily i had a full sized VHS E180 tape camera, this meant i didn't need to transfer what i had filmed from a small tape to a full sized tape as i filed on the full sized tape! That kept the quality up happily......Still plenty more to come!

[@stephenchecksfield632]

Absolutely fantastic video it's like stepping into a time warp TARDIS so many long gone or depleted locomotive classes brilliant video big thumbs up 👍

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you.... still plenty of golden oldies to upload......

[@stephenchecksfield632]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus looking forward to seeing them the east coast mainline now adays is quite boring really I have to admit I am no fan of the cross country voyager units or the lner azuma units personal I miss the HST and class 91 with the mark 4 stock one locomotive I do remember well on the ecml was the celebrity 47475 In provisional livery and also 45106 in green and the class 37 and 31s and long gone other locomotive classes

[@johnhealy8513]

Superb video of a time when the liveries on the trains were decent too.

[@James47298]

Great vid

[@chris-io1ki]

Great video. Bristol Temple Meads used to be a hive of traction back in the day. Funny seeing blue and grey HST trailers with Inter city swallow power car since inter city executive was the inbetween livery! Hated the 155s. Don't think anyone liked them back then. The 33 invasion was very popular though. Ha,the valley lines C3 is a bonus capture 🤗

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, it was a great place to film trains. I was out to do the Cromptons as they were due to be replaced by Sprinters...

[@AndreiTupolev]

2:12 there's a vinyl roofed Austin Allegro down there!! And looks like a Sunbeam Alpine as well

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I though it only my bus uploads that viewers car spotted on! Well done eagle eyes.....lol I wonder how many other road vehicles can be seen in my railway uploads?......

[@exb.r.buckeyeman845]

Busy old place in it’s day.

[@fgwHST43009]

It's all Intercity Express Trains, Turbos and 158s now with the odd HST and 150/2.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, i doubt i'd spend long there now videoing!

[@IndigoJo]

What is the train that comes in at 7:21, hauled by a class 33 with a mixture of E and W region coaches with the NSE decal on the side? Was that a rail tour?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

That was the Portsmouth to Cardiff service. This was taken not long before the route went over to class 156 Super Sprinter operation.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

There are some more shots of them on my upload here kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKSZmHSwl9mqatU, enjoy!

[@taffboyslim]

I used to get the '89' to and from Cardiff most weekends when I was a student in Portsmouth. The 'Poly' was right next to the line between Southsea and Harbour stations. I soon figured out that, for some reason, the 14:10 was diagrammed for a 47, as opposed to the usual 33, Not that I had anything against 33s, they look and sound lovely, but a 47 with '5 on', plus the fact that this was the only service that didn't stop at Westbury, would mean I would have a quick journey home to Wales. At Bristol, there would either be another loco waiting in the bay (where you were filming) to take the train back out, or the original loco would run round. As I said earlier, the main staple of this service was the 33, but you would occasionally get something different on the Cardiff to Bristol leg. I had a 50 one evening - needless to say I had my head out of the window quite a bit. @soi Thanks for the reminders of great times on British Rail

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@taffboyslim My pleasure! I do have some more shots of this route and i did catch a 47 on one working. And that was right at the end of loco hauled working. Once while filming at salisbury a 47 arrived hauling a 2 car DMU that had failed mechanically so it was put into traffic hauled by the 47. I rode it from salisbury all the way to Bristol TM, 47 033 was the loco, and we flew! We took off like a rocket at each station stop.....happy days!

[@AndreiTupolev]

It seems to have 99 headcode, so it might be Brighton - Cardiff

[@MrGriser]

Good video Class 158's took over the Portsmouth-Cardiff services in 1992 while 150/2's took over the Weymouth runs in the same year. Class 143's took over the Avonmouth services in 1991 though I might be wrong.

[@AndreiTupolev]

Some nice Sulzer action. Fortunately the 155s didn't last long ...

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Well, they're still running but as single cars re-numbered to 153's!

[@TheGWRailfan]

My local station yay!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I bet the traction variety has gone downhill somewhat since these days?......

[@TheGWRailfan]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus yes sadly so. Now I get classes 800, 802, 43, 150, 153, 165 and 166

[@superjohnnygamble6328]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus yes indeed I can remember spending all day at Temple Meads in those days. I was there last year for my first visit for 30 years and after 1 hour I had enough.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@superjohnnygamble6328 I imagine it's quite bland now....i will have to get some Bristol vid uploaded, i have more from other visits....and with plenty going on!

[@superjohnnygamble6328]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnm8iaugrLFlfsU check this one out on the Severn Tunnel Junction.

[@ScotRail-bw7ef]

4:41 and 9 years later, 173 was involved in an accident that would cease it’s existence...

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Ah! Yes, that's when this power car slammed into 6V17 driven by an Acton driver crossing from the Down Relief to Southall Yard on its way to Westbury. This and the Ladbroke Grove accident both involved Acton train crew, two nasty accidents on out doorstep.

[@rocksreynolds3642]

Thanks for the film. Why was the Shippam's coach on its own (2:25)?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I'll check when I'm home and see what's what, about mid July as i'm away from home now.

[@AndreiTupolev]

Shipphams? I think they make fish paste. Chipman's I think they were called, the weedkiller people

[@markkneafsey9447]

the last few seconds before the end is london not bristol.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

The last 20 seconds is the "parting shot" (of a 38 stock leaving Queens Park on the Bakerloo Line in 1985) which i upload to my videos to put the end cards over so as not to ruin the end of my vid!