British Rail Scotrail 1989-Edinburgh & Glasgow Queen Street with Classes 47, 101, 107, 150 & 156

[@christopherhood-h8c]

great to see 47/7 & dbso's again

[@AndreiTupolev]

Gosh, the smoke from those old DMUs makes you understand how the Sprinters must have been welcomed

[@adriancarter2863]

The clag in Edinburgh Waverley was astounding at times. Truly gut-reaching 🤮!

[@calderdepot]

Superb stuff. Right in my favourite period. Keep them coming.

[@ClydebridgeStation]

The Sprinter at 1:52, showing Kirkcaldy as its destination, was actually doing a Fife circle working, in this case an inner circle, Edinburgh - Kirkcaldy - Cardenden - Dunfermline - Edinburgh. The blind would be changed at Kinghorn to show Edinburgh, trains on the outer circle would show Cardenden, and the blind would be changed at Cardenden to show Edinburgh.

[@jvgreendarmok]

They changed the "destination" for Fife Circle services to Glenrothes in recent years.

[@adriancarter2863]

Destination Blind now changed at “Glenrothes with Thornton” in both directions on The Fife Circle.

[@JBFlytography]

Bringing back memories of my childhood this one! Going to Edinburgh in the late 80s/early 90s from Fife.

[@benGBRf]

Great to see the old Scotrail 47s, Mark 3s and Mark 2 DBSOs.

[@christopherhunter2892]

I remember the Class 47’s being introduced on the Edinburgh Glasgow route in the Autumn of 1979.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Replacing the worn out, and highly thrashed class 27 push-pull sets! BR had wanted to use Inter-City 125s on the Edinburgh-Glasgow runs but the Department of Roads wouldn't sanction it.....

[@MiniforceRailfan]

The Class 47 was the Grandfather of the Modern Day Scotrail Commuter Trains

[@jvgreendarmok]

Something I remember about the 150 Sprinters was that unlike most trains with the same door layout, passengers could use the single doors at either end.

[@david-stewart]

Incredible footage

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you.....

[@bigian4379]

Class 47 push pull was the best ever trains on the Waverley to Queen street route. Comfort, style and raw power. The ScotFail stuff we have now is just rubbish

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I can't argue with you there......

[@jamesinbolton]

Love these videos, weirdly enough I was actually driving 156449 earlier in the week 😀

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Must be in a right state by now, it was new here and shining!

[@DKS225]

Of all the colour schemes i've seen on Britain's rail network Pre-Privatisation I find The Regional Railways and The Scotrail 47/7's/ MK III DBSO stock the most appealing. That and The Intercity Swallow colours even if it's not shown here. Love your work Soi.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you.... still lots from the past to upload......

[@Thornaby37]

Excellent footage 👍

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you....

[@going2thedogs]

Those Scot Rail class 47’s look good.

[@AMK1000]

47712 is now back in Scotrail livery along with her Mk2/3 push pull rake

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Good to hear......

[@craigsibley8161]

Excellent video 👍👍👍

[@kevvynolan8753]

Over the next few years, this is what the Anglia region looked like

[@AndreiTupolev]

Sprinter coming in with tail lights on? (3:05) 🤨 Actually that's interesting in itself, 156 447/449 strengthened to three cars with a vehicle from 156 500 (in the first one at least) inserted as a middle car.

[@keef71]

I noticed the 3-car 156s, they were actually set up so that this was possible - manual coupling between cars with a separate jumper cable, and a jumper socket on the driving end. Tail lights on is probably just the driver beginning to change ends before the train's in the station!🙂

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

They couldn't run them in standard 2 car units as the 6 car trains had to split at Crainlariach, one 3 car to both Oban and For Bill..... hence the mixing up to make two 3 car units......

[@tomlee9534]

That six car 156 was a strange formation. Two three (unit and a half?) car units lashed together?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, that was because the train split into 2 three car trains at Crainlaric, one half to Oban, the other Fort William. Of course, a six car train of 3 two car units can't split evenly so they reformed the units.....

[@hexagon7895]

In the summers of 1989 and 1992, both Haymarket and Inverness marahslled most of their 156 units into three-car formations. On the West Highland, this permitted a six-car set to work to Crianlarich and then split with three each to Oban/Mallaig. Six is the maximum most stations can take on the WHL. On the Aberdeen-Inverness route, traffic was high enough that two-cars was found inadequate, but the desire to offer a greater frequency meant there weren't enough units if too many four-car (2×2-car) formations were made, three-cars was a compromise. The 3-car arrangement was not perpetuated in 1990 or 1991 due to the late deliveries of the 158 units and the need for 156s to cover on Edinburgh-Glasgow and Glasgow-Aberdeen. Edinburgh-Aberdeen remained LHCS (there were only two ScotRail workings each way then, ECML HSTs and XC workings did the other services), and Aberdeen-Inverness reverted in order to free up more units (Glasgow to Aberdeen was doubled in frequency to hourly in 1990, so required the extra units; Edinburgh-Aberdeen was postponed). Once sufficient 158s were in service, then Inverness-Aberdeen went mostly back to 156s and Edinburgh-Aberdeen was eventually doubled to hourly with ScotRail now offering the majority of services. The 156 design was intended to be flexible, as well as 2-car, sets could be formed as 3, 5, 7 etc as required. This is now no longer possible as the internal BSI couplers have been replaced with fixed bar couplers and semi-permanent MU connectors for reasons of reliability; so 2-car units can only be divided on depots now.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@hexagon7895 thanks for the info ..... Even more complex than I thought!

[@george_kennedy]

Thanks for sharing your videos, great for research. Regarding the first push-pull set at 1:03 , do you (or anyone else for that matter) happen to know the coach running numbers for those mk3s sandwiched between 47 716 and 9709?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I'm not sure they were in a fixed formation back then. A Platform 5 Combined Volume from 1989 may show if there were any official fixed formation sets.....

[@nelson408.]

Typically Scottish summers day in Edinburgh...😆

[@Keithbarber]

2️⃣

[@Sarahbryson321]

101?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

A class of DMU built by Metro Cammell, there are 3 sets at work in this upload.......

[@supertrains156.66]

Class 156 what have br done to you at least scotrail don’t do this to you 3:11 unlike gwr with 150/9 and 158/9