British Rail-Eastleigh January 1989

[@davidwolstenholme6413]

My second watching of this one, absolutely worth it for the Cromptons and EPBs alone. But the 47s here are looking and sounding superb. Excellent video Soi.

[@railman6868]

A superb video of my working days through Eastleigh on BR Proper traction. great memories thanks

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

My pleasure.... I doubt it's as busy today.....

[@uries15]

This is hugely nostalgic stuff, which represents just about the end of my active interest in the 'modern' railway. I was 18 in 1989 and I had spent much of my teenage years around this area on Runabout tickets especially during the summer holidays. This video is like being back there!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I'm pleased you enjoyed the upload. I do have more from this era, and more from Eastleigh, to upload in the future......

[@markdunwell3288]

I used to go to Eastleigh on a Sunday to take pictures of class 47'S, 73's and Crompton's, for modelling purposes. Absolutely fabulous video Soi. Brought back a lot of fine memories. PROPER trains, proper RAILWAY. Sir Herbert Walker's SOUTHERN PARADISE , thank you for the video Soi 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🚄🚅

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

My pleasure.... i seem to recall filming this on my way home from chasing Routemasters in Southampton!

[@edwardbarnes2702]

Yep another great location, could sit there all day and always something new would appear every few minutes. Remember one day came down from south London, filmed here, jumped and then another train to Salisbury then on a class 47 to Exeter and back to Waterloo in one day all for a special five pound ‘anywhere’ one day Rover ticket, Happy days! Great film again🤓

[@TheMikep25]

Excellent video ! An era we will never see again ! Brought back lots of memories. Thanks for sharing .

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I have more Southern footage, i will upload over time.

[@MarkSmith-tp6zc]

Superb stuff Soi.

[@Thornaby37]

Excellent video 👍 First time I went to Eastleigh (November 1986), 59004 failed coming off the Romsey line with a lengthy aggregates train, blocking the main line north of the station. To the rescue was a single class 33 which took about 10 minutes just to clear the main lines, as it struggled to move the train, barely at walking pace

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Interesting memories..... If the 59 had been on a Jumbo working (which used to work to Acton with 4800 tons) it would never have moved it..... Not often they failed either... I had one where the over-speed tripped but it reset ok, and never had any other trouble with any of them, and i drove all 15 in my time on the footplate!

[@AndreiTupolev]

These videos are so evocative, you can smell the oil and diesel fumes. That's one station that's hardly changed at all, but the background has.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

And the traction! Although the Plastic Pigs are back!!!

[@gibbo9089]

Nice to see the "old layout" of the station and yard - and a plastic pig or two thrown in for good measure. Never seen that done before when the 47 rolls up behind the 33.

[@johnpiper3416]

Another great video, full of interest.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you.

[@neilbolger2679]

Brilliant footage . The most modern shot was the 442s in this. I miss the thumpers and other slam door stock . And as for them little 33s , I enjoyed seeing the shots of them . Overall , nice footage. Thanks for sharing this

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

My pleasure..... this was taken on my return from filming ex London Routemasters at Southampton, so was a spur-of-the-moment thing..... I'm glad i did now of course.....

[@saintnick7]

I'm a volunteer at Eastleigh works and have fond memories of the station in the late 80s early nineties....superb video

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you, i do have some more from here and will get it up over time.

[@davecook3840]

I started my career there in 87. Our yard was to the left of the up platform (where Lidl is now) in a old carriage shed and the usual Portakabins. We where the T part of S&T, the best jobs where always in BRML as you could get a nice cheap hot dinner. Don’t sit in the managers seats though! The Strowger Telephone Exchange can be seen at the St Denys end of the Up Platform. Memories of many happy (but hard) days working out of Eastleigh

[@AaronOxfordExmouth1989]

Absolutely superb video.

[@MikesMovies]

Great video filled with wonderful memories

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you, i do have more from the area....

[@brizzolglover7518]

Even then the changes were apparent. Pigs on the Waterloo services, 47660 on the cross country and shots of 33016 which was withdrawn by the end of the year. Thanks for sharing these unique times...

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

My pleasure......i stopped off on my way home from filming Routemasters at Southampton, i'm pleased i did now....I was lucky then getting 33 016 if was withdrawn that year......

[@30453trains]

Wow, a Regional Railways Mk2 in that InterCity rake, bet they didn’t get to the South all that often. Great video, once again 👍🏻

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Probably added to the rake at short notice and they used a spare Trans-Pennine one! Some MkIIs on the Newcastle-Liverpool's had this liveried stock along with one calss 47, 47 475.

[@AndreiTupolev]

Behind those sad scrappers in the sidings at 4:07 there's an old GWR coach, it looks like. I do hope that was saved for preservation

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

A lot of pre BR coaches survived in the departmental fleet. One such group at the Great Central Railway (Railway Vehicle Preservations) takes great delight in restoring such coaches, such as their LNER teak 'Beavertail' coach.

[@sapper82]

see the comment I've just made.

[@rorynicol3969]

Great video I would Go to Eastleigh in the late 60s your video brings back memories

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Some of the diesel's on this vid may well have been running then, back they are all long gone now........

[@stestepney]

Brilliant vid mate thanks for sharing cheers Steve ..

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

My pleasure, plenty more to come....like this one here kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIGbY52ei7eioJY, enjoy!

[@mikeprice9826]

back in the day when Eastleigh was a good place for enthusiasts

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I haven't been filming there since around 1992 time. I imagine it's changed somewhat.....and not for the better!

[@AndreiTupolev]

Nice Gardner sound from that Bristol VR 12:40!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I see you are like me nd appreciate all things transport! Various buses lurk in the background on some of my vids!

[@KevinCNYC1991]

Per BloodandCustard, 5523 wasn't withdrawn until two years after you took the video. Both motorcoaches were formed into unit 5280, which wasn't withdrawn till the 23rd of February 1993. The trailers were scrapped with motor coaches from 5222 at MC Metals. The trailers from 5222 were reformed into 5280.

[@sk1nzsk1nz34]

In the 70s, I used to watch the trains here. There'd be the occasional 'Western' come through on a stone train to Botley. I'm curious as to how two locos are in the same section at 10.22 in the video.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

The platform is a 'permissive' worked line. If occupied another train or locomotive can be signalled in under a shunt signal (rather than a main aspect). This style of working allows units to couple together or a locomotive to couple to a train.

[@ianjones4116]

Loved the Compartment stock, great fun on spotting trips with the lads (better with a girl). Classic Traction, Classic Times, Class memories !!! Thanks for sharing Soi,, Like from me 👍🐢

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thanks for your memories....i can only imagine the pleasures in compo stock with a girl along.....lol

[@edwardbarnes2702]

Yet another great comment on this video Soi, again even when I was there taking videos of these movements on a day out, sad that all of this gone to the cutters yard so sad, who would have thought yea again, history in the making. Nothing now to get the real enthusiastic guys to record apart from predictable plastic things turning up, Can now love this period even move so we have lived a period of transition really like the steam period..🤓

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I'm pleased you like the videos i put up. Yes, the early diesel days especially were really just the steam age railway but with diesel traction. If there had been some rationalisation earlier on some of the branch and minor lines a few more may have survived. A DMU on a branch line was cheaper than a loco & fireman but if the line still had numerous boxes and lots of station staff long after the duties they used to do had finished it still had no chance to cut its costs. Even a bare bones line is better than no line!

[@mirvids5036]

Didn't know that many 47s were about down there. That was one I missed !

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Lots were about, for x-country InterCity and freightliner workings mainly.

[@EM-yk1dw]

Great Soi. And that is definitely overgrown and uncared for now! Lovely 63 stock with an EPB thrown in for good measure! No rancid Siemens atrocity’s in site.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Eastleigh was always a good spot for action, wether it is now or not i don't know, i haven't been for years!

[@EM-yk1dw]

I really love your videos Soi, brings me back to the golden age when I was really interested in the railway scene, and when the railway was a railway, not a 'business' as it is now. Sadly I think it will take another big incident, (which unfortunately I think will happen, given the way the railway is being run now), before the government see sense and get a grip with it.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I find it sad that having got BR into a very healthy place they decided to smash it to pieces! If it had to be privitised there were lots of ways to do, InterCity, NSE, ect as whole businesses with a regulator to oversee any disputes with the RR network ran as concessions perhaps along the lines of the London bus network which has many operators to run TFLs network, an intergrated network.....that works!!!

[@sparky30368]

Nice video, bet 2 loco's aren't allowed to get that close on the same line today as the 33 & 47 did at the end of Platform 2.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I don't believe the line has been re-signalled so yes it still possible. The platform has permissive working where the second train/loco enters under a shunt signal and can proceed as far as the line is clear until the next signal. Quite common at a lot of stations around the UK.

[@MePeterNicholls]

Went to an open day at Eastleigh in the late 80s as a kid

[@richardkeeler2347]

Those were the days great stuff

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I bet it's a lot quieter there now!Although must still get some freight traffic with the docks not too far away.

[@captainboing]

very nice.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you.....

[@sapper82]

4m07 looks like one of the pair of GWR Full Brakes that were hauled out of the works for scrap about then after several decades as Internal User vehicles. I believe someone in the works stripped them of internal fittings which were then smuggled out and sold to raise funds for a steam loco.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, railway staff can be very inventive about such things! And all for a good cause too.......

[@highdownmartin]

You and jake Atkinson Superb stuff

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you, i aim to please!

[@dgattenb]

bog car bliss... i remember going there as a kid in the early 80s...

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Lots of good action in those days.....

[@pinza55007]

Thanks for posting this great video. It would be a crime for me not to sub.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you.... there's a large amount of classic vids already uploaded with a lot more still to come!

[@ianjones4116]

Social Distancing,,, bring back slam door compartment stock lol. 😎👍🐢

[@stevewyman2822]

..So it did actually exist then..47 354...".my one that got away." ..!!! ~ it was the One & Only 47, which I could not find Anywhere..& Hence was never seen or found... I found all the rest of them though...back in the 80's..!!!.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

You did well. Because they were BR's only true universal traction unit there went everywhere! Most diesel depot's drivers signed them and owning depots took great delight in nabbing another depot's loco and holding on to it for as long as possible, sometimes only being returned via a TOPS request to return to loco to home depot for an exam!

[@pp37903]

It was always a pain trying to complete classes when you were down to the last handful!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@pp37903 It wasn't too bad if chased class 05's, there was only one at Ryde! And of course both 01's were at Holyhead Breakwater, assuming you get into the locked shed you could clear them in one go as well (i did!!!)......

[@neilcrawford8303]

Nine coaches on the Bournemouth bound inter city service. Now you get a 4 car 220, of which one coach is all 1st class and nearly empty. No wonder the Cross Country services are so packed.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Do they go to London?...No, ah well, our elites know exactly what you need, they are experts at everything in life. Don't let on you have 5 car trains, there's some nice single 153 coming up spare soon, they'd make a good substitute for the Vomiters, they could then go to London to help out the over-crowding there....as we all know, 12 car trains aren't quite long enough.....

[@neilcrawford8303]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I don't disagree with the 153 comment. If I ever went to Exeter, I preferred to use SWTs 159 services, than GWRs. Even more so now that it's a sHitachi operated service.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@neilcrawford8303 Yes, i hear the seats on them are dire! The Thameslink 700s are appalling also, took one to Brighton once and wish i hadn't!

[@neilcrawford8303]

@Sicilian Gecko My most recent journey was 1st class from Pad to Plymouth. I still don't rate them.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@Sicilian Gecko I took one from London to Brighton and found them a hard seat to sit on and when in a window seat the bottom of the coach sort of curves in and gets in the way of where your feet naturally want to be. I came home on a 319 which was more comfortable. I still have to try a class 800 type unit, sooner or later i will end up on one and see what i think of them.....

[@joefothergill6303]

What stock operated the now Salisbury to Romsey services at this time?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

DEMU Thumper units, class 205 or 207's......

[@joefothergill6303]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus ah nice one

[@Poler_epic]

What would of worked the Westbury Eastleigh freight

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Depends what locos were to hand, Yeoman trains though would normally use a class 59.

[@simonlilley]

60 years of the Class 33s next year (2020).Be good if there was a celebration gala somewhere.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I'm sure a preserved railway or two will hold one. I'll see if i can make a special compilation upload to celebrate....

[@sapper82]

You don't have any footage of the 4am mad rush from the works to the station?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

No, sorry!

[@kristinajendesen7111]

I could have been working that Pig as a guard. Joined BR-NSE after W&D and LT.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

You sound like me, you got around a bit!

[@toady446]

Was that an EPB on a Weymouth diagram!?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

It was ecs, probably for Eastleigh Works.

[@sapper82]

No, probably a scrapper going in for stripping out.

[@andrewchaston503]

Thatcher was determined to kill off our BR and the ferries, ports, ships and the Union of our country by closing the sleeper service from London to Stranraer. The first commercial nail in the Union of Northern Ireland and Great Britain. And the cow Thatcher was given a blessing from those in control.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, BR readily stripped itself of all the profitable bits it owned, it's inheritance from the Pre-Grouping companies that knew how to make a few quid.....