British Rail Chesterfield October 1990 with class 37, 47, 58 & InterCity 125 HST's

An upload now from a subscribers request for some more freight action. So here we have a Autumn day in October 1990 at Chesterfield. As well as freight traffic we have a parcels working, HST & loco hauled Inter-City workings, Sprinters and 37, 47 & 58 on the freight workings. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!

[@SheilaNeedham]

i was a young trainspotter at chesterfield in the 1970s. lots of loco variations to see back then, great fun. locos are what brings character to any railway, alas not so many types nowadays (only class 66s and a few others) big shame really.

[@johnlladron735]

I'm not sure whether to feel nostalgic or sad. Great video of things long gone. Platform approach speeds are now a crawl.

[@tonyrobinson362]

I was a secondman at sheffield in the 70s and we were doing 60 plus entering the platform before we started braking on the Master Cutler, Good days.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

At Reading the HST's stormed into the platform a high rate of knots. Now with TPWS, and drivers not allowed to 'drive properly' (it's like painting by numbers now, "this far from the signal you do this ect") trains creep about taking up track capacity-crazy world!

[@BenDover-ln6ns]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Yes cause all these stupid loops set to stop the heaviest freight train, when most trains can stop on a six pence.

[@nigelkthomas9501]

Some things were so much better back then: proper trains, loco-haulage and no hideously different coloured doors!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, i think it was a more fun filled time! As my vids show.....

[@stephenspinks6486]

You hit the nail on the head mate

[@JohnPW22]

Great to see some freight at speed! Wonderful footage!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, it's nice to get them at speed. Have you seen my Otterington upload here? kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJ-npZ6sbpumbKs

[@JohnPW22]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Wow! That's some intense train speed! I'll be going back through your whole back catalogue now.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@JohnPW22 Thanks,......happy viewing!

[@deanpalmer9663]

Blast from the past , used to go to chesterfield alot as a kid with only living in Sheffield , brilliant days

[@taffboyslim]

In the rare off-chance that anybody didn't know, the Markham works (5:35) is where they built the Channel Tunnel Boring Machines. It's a housing estate now

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

The same sad story for a lot of British industry.....

[@peak45]

I never knew that lol

[@andrewmonagham9742]

Nice video, reminds me of my visit there in August 1990 when I saw much the same stuff. There was a good view from the footbridge to the north of the station, which I used for many photos that day

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

The day i went it was p***ing down, so i had to hide under the canopies.

[@ramblingrob4693]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus He didn't read that I think..

[@markpoole4187]

another excellent vid every one I watch brings back happy memories where I live 58s were very rare always good to see one in your vids keep em coming

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

There was a lot around here in those days, mainly on MGR workings.

[@s125ish]

Loved the br bing bong . Shame it's no more

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

A sort of Hi-De-Hi tone was it? I know Glasgow Central had very unusual tone.

[@s125ish]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus the Glasgow central one lasted for a good while .

[@m18tankdestroyer43]

Nice! I miss those days.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

There was certainly a good variety of traction around then......

[@Jimyjames73]

@ 9:38 - wow - you don't see that any more on our Railway track in England any more - since Royal Mail have stopped using the Railways!!!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

There are still a few trains still running, mainly the Royal Mail owned 325 EMU's from the PRDC at Stonebridge Park.

[@Jimyjames73]

I did not know that - Thank you - I thought that they had completely stopped using thr Railways - but hey - every day is a school day!!!

[@karlosbricks2413]

​@@Jimyjames73 They were all parked up at one point, and one of them was scrapped, but they were reactivated 8 or 9 years ago

[@Jimyjames73]

@@karlosbricks2413 Ok thank you 🙂🚂🚂🚂

[@roberthill6216]

@@karlosbricks2413 Yeah 325010 was involved in an accident, and was written off.

[@TheDaf95xf]

Music to my ears 👍🏻 Not the best of railway era for me as it was the start of the run down of the freight network 🙈 But fantastic all the same 😆

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

A nice blast from the past....

[@AndreiTupolev]

Yes I agree, it was the end of the era when any loco could turn up on anything, and the start of dull predictability (and constant decline in everything (such as two car 156s all the way from Norwich to Liverpool.)

[@annescholey6546]

When engines swapped on coal workings down the Erewash valley lines

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I bet there's nowhere near as much freight traffic along there now!

[@sub39h]

Great video. Does anyone happen to have any details about the working at 1:26? Where is it running from/to? Thanks

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I don't but maybe some of the viewers will???

[@taffboyslim]

See my comment above

[@therschannel5440]

Nice vid

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you, there'is plenty more.....

[@AndreiTupolev]

Mk 1 stock with 47809. Was that a charter? (and a nice wheelflat on that fifth coach.)

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I'm not sure, it has that look about it....

[@westerleighwerek1493]

IC Mk1 stock was used on service trains back then, not that common but there was a few rakes kicking about, some right interesting mixtures every now and then. I was out all the time in 1990, cracking year.

[@paulwinterbourne1865]

Only 8 coaches so probably a Cross Country service, Mk1s unusual though

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@westerleighwerek1493 It could well be an Inter-City cross country service then. I filmed this mid week so it was unlikely to be a charter although not impossible.

[@taffboyslim]

The first coach had one of those paper 'Destination & stations' info sheets stuck to the door, so it probably isn't a charter (I used to 'collect' them off trains in Cardiff). Plus there's a guy waiting to get on with 4 bags of shopping :-). My guess is a Newcastle-South West England/South Wales service. I moved to Dronfield (the station between Chezzy and Sheffield) in 1989 but still travelled back to Wales by train quite a bit. In those days it was usually a 47 with all sorts of stock, but they were inevitably replaced by HSTs. I used to play golf at Tapton Park municipal golf course in Chesterfield (George Stephenson lived at Tapton House). There were some cracking views looking west over the railway with the town and twisted spire beyond, I used to love playing golf on a summer evening and seeing/hearing the mail train go through behind a 47, along with 58s and 56s on MGRs and 37s barking their way through the station on steel trains. Good times.

[@stephenspinks6486]

God i miss the bones pulling the mgr trains pity they either met tgeir end or had to emigrate to earn a living for those later years if service.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Unusual engines, you'd open the power handle and not much would happen....'and then a bit of a rumble and then movement. If light engine they would shoot off like a rocket!.....Nice little engines to work on i thought......

[@geoffbarry9540]

I just watched this for the first time today and was about to post exactly the same comment when I read yours. What a little time capsule those run-throughs are; 32 years ago, blimey. Wish I'd been stood there instead of 10,000 miles away (although I did pick up my MBA that year, so not all bad)(although Crystal Palace lost the cup final that year too, so...).

[@stephenspinks6486]

@@geoffbarry9540 a palace fan we must think alike even through some of the horror shows dished up over the years 😂