British Rail Network SouthEast-Radlett Harper Lane & Potters Bar 1991

[@djtrainspotter]

Blimey you did get about mate! Love this vid, not many about of NSE slide-doors. I am suspecting this is April '91, 60006 + 60035 were accepted into BR traffic 4.91 so might be accumulating milage perhaps. Lol the stuff 56064 and rake throw up along the track is amusing at 15.12, looks like a car wheel-hub! The mayhem begins after the evening rush eh, some fave 47's there like 47477 + 350, nice. For those interested, looks like 56025 @00.50 (the only Romanian Rf Coal 56 without OHL panels on cabends). . . 47626 'ATLAS' @18.25 and 47308 @18.46. I might as well add i modelled 47523 @4.16, 47626 and 47296 @19.04 in 90's. Quality vid, amazing how you consistantly got the numbers so well apart from a unit or 2 in the way!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thanks for your comments. I love the way viewers pick out details that i've missed or long since forgotten about! Yes, the 60s were new then and the Harper Lane job at that tie always produced a new 60 on mileage accumulation, sometimes coupled to a Grid or another 60. A mate of mine lived in PB along the line path so spent many happy hours there and at the station witha friendly railman who had a machine in his office that showed all trains from around Stevenage to Kings Cross, so from the headcodes you knew if a loco working was approaching, very handy for filming! PB was good then for freight and parcels. At around 21.00ish onwards there would be a couple of RfD wagonload trains from Wembley come by and certain nights an oil tanker working The station lights were bright enough to catch then on vid. Future uploads i think.......

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Oh, and lots more places i have been yet to upload, i did indeed chase around the place!

[@djtrainspotter]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Yes same really, luckily i got to see the screen at platform office at Sevenoaks, friendly with the staff there, first learning headcodes, happy days. Yeah good variety at PB indeed.

[@DANEBLUEGNOME]

Pretty incredible this train!!! I can' t expect of that my favourite very much this train it is! 😎👍💗 See 6:19 sec.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

They were still new back then, now some have been scraped with just a few left in service.....

[@DANEBLUEGNOME]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Oh no, why?!! 😦💔

[@EM-yk1dw]

Excellent! Notice the headlight on the 317s go out in the neutral section?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Runs off traction current where's the head & tail lights are fed via the battery so will stay on.

[@DeanPark]

very enjoyable!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I aim to please! I'm trying get get up vids from all different parts of the country but there's more from places i have lived to places there was lots of freight action &/or loco hauled trains.

[@stevewyman2822]

..Nice one....yet a sight sadly never to be seen anymore...31's & 47's @ Potters Bar... :(

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Only if they are being hauled to a preserved railway! I will upload more film from PB over time, i have all sorts of loco hauled action from the early to mid 90s including an odd 86 (charter & liner train) and a Crompton or two!

[@stevewyman2822]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus ..F...K a "33" @ P.B...gotta be Mega RARE...man..!!!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I'm sure i filmed them there twice, both times on charter trains. One for sure was a Crompton+TC set in push-pull mode. It was a Christmas charter from Welwyn Garden City to somewhere in Kent for a Christmas market affair. It was bloody freezing, and i was out early to see it and gone midnight to catch its return which had been delayed for some reason. Bloody crazy, that's what me & my mate were, hanging about to see stuff like that.....