British Rail Network SouthEast 1991-Oxford with class 47, 58, InterCity 125 HST & DMU Met Cam 101

[@AndreiTupolev]

Excellent shot of 47217 with the Cartics.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

And still in BR blue!

[@edwardbarnes2702]

Also love the shop of the car carriers, I expect most of those cars have to the the great scrap yard in the sky to! Great filming as ever. Ed

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Well, yes i suppose they have, considering it was 30 years ago! How time flies.....

[@roberthill6216]

One or two of the mini's might have survived.

[@themightyzanoss8409]

a rare shot of a 58 clagging well done!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

There were a regular site there then, once an hour on average from the Midlands pit to Didcot power station......

[@055deltic]

Another litle slice of history - station annoncements, HST Valenta engines and the sounds of those 1st generation dmus - wonderful! Thanks for all your work editing and posting these - much appeciated

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

My pleasure.....lots more still to come!

[@shane-antonydarcy6234]

How I miss the BR Blue and the HST. Thanks for posting matey. Yet another great posting from you!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you....still lots more to upload.

[@JamesPetts]

Excellent record of the announcement at the beginning!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

That was from the train that you can just see the rear of, on the left hand side......

[@JamesPetts]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Yes I gathered that! That was presumably a Brighton to Manchester cross-country working?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@JamesPetts Yes, it was A Manchester-Brighton working. There were quite a few Cross Country workings through Kenny O in the early 90s.....

[@nathanw9770]

The intercity train at the beginning took an interesting route to brighton! Didn't know they used to go through Olympia and Clapham Junction.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, such workings were introduced in the 1980s by BR and i believe at their peak were around 6 a day each way. Now i don't think any go that way.....

[@111672balernabz2010]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus man p-brighton,liverpool lime street-dover western docks,man p-newhaven not sure on the later,great video..

[@MrGriser]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 1979 was the year they actually started, they only served Clapham Junction between 1986 & 1994. Plus they only started serving Kensington Olympia from May 1986 when the District line started a regular shuttle service there. Services were withdrawn for good in December 2008!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@MrGriser Thanks for the update.....i knew that something happened in the mid 80s as i recall BR making a big announcement about it but the exact date was lost to me in the mists of time....lol

[@waltertownsend3821]

I had to replay that announcement a few times to get my head around the stations.

[@djtrainspotter]

Nice to see more OC's again ooof!! Ye olde 43181, only 14 left in old inter-city livery by that date. Great times.

[@Simon-ui6db]

And to think they've axed the brighton via clapham and east croydon service. Used that a few times when going back home to Oxford when I lived down Sutton.

[@theimperialist2686]

Excellent railway video Soi Buakhao

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

My pleasure.....

[@AndreiTupolev]

Interesting shot of one HST running wrong road overtaking the other, broken down one. Was that the promised Glasgow train, the detective one?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I can't rememeber now, it was 30 years back and these days i can't always rememebr 30 minutes back!....The joys of lockdowns addling the brian.....

[@markcf83]

The Class 47/7 locos had not long replaced the Class 50's on services out of Paddington.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, they had finished in Scotland and NSE grabbed most of them (res got 4 and by 1992 NSE had even got its hands on all 4 of them!) so the 50s were only booked on the Exeters, although my upload here shows a rogue one out on an Oxford or Newbury kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKiZk5WPYr19opI

[@david-stewart]

What super trains 🤔😊👍

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

There did indeed seem to be a lot more variety and charachter back then.....

[@grenanda3099]

They should have keep Network Southwest trains for heritage runs

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

There is a Network SouthEast Society and they have a 4 car Southern EMU.....(a CIG i believe)

[@MrTransportAddict]

Was this actually today irl?

[@themightyzanoss8409]

no it was July 1991

[@JamesPetts]

Also, had 43045 failed?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

It appeared to have shut down. I think a fitter was attending to it because it did leave later on.....

[@frostycola42]

The networker family did not exist in 1991

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

No, they were under construction and Turbo's were introduced to the Great Western lines in 1992. The early Turbos did arrive in 1991 and were for the Chiltern Line, i do have one on test on vid at West Ruislip this summer.....

[@lamborghinihexagons5502]

The 465s existed

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@lamborghinihexagons5502 Only in a BREL workshop! The first was delivered in December 1991 so it would have been 92 before it entered service......