British Rail-St Pancras+Victoria+Barking inc Met No 12 Sarah Siddons, Summer 1985

A follow on vid from Paddington August 1985 see us at St Pancras the same day for the evening peak. Featuring class 45s, 47, HSTs, 317s and even an 08 used for shunting parcel vans. Next is a few shots of Victoria with LT Met loco No 12 'Sarah Siddons' on a BR railtour. And to finish is Class 104 BRWC DMUs & Class 302 EMUs at Barking. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!

[@nigel2093]

Bloody cracking video. I was 15 then, when being a rail enthusiast was interesting. There was variety, something different with each service. Everything's so sterile now, it all looks the same. Thanks for posting, really took me back.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I'm pleased you like it. This is some of my earliest video, before this i used cine for a while but it was video that really allowed me to film hours at a time, and with sound! Plenty more to come, happy viewing.......

[@paul_my_plumbs_uk]

The good old days!!! Ian Allen handbook and bunking off school to go train spotting 😂😂😂😂

[@LinesideSouthEast]

Rare sight of Sarah Siddons on BR metals, I doubt that will ever happen again. Shame the departure got blocked out by a unit but we all get bowled at some time or other!

[@Keithbarber]

Barking shots great memories - I used to work Dagenham Dock (ford's y.t.s.) and used the station regularly - 302s were unrefurbished as 1st class was still in the intermediate trailers and not the driving trailers The 104 dmus served the line until late 80s gospel oak - barking - now 710 emu

[@aljonflavin6760]

Good to see my time video, sound shake as it WAS. Great.thanks

[@chriswaring5565]

SOME OLD ROLLING STOCK ON THE LONDON UNDERGROUND LINE GOOD TO SEE THAT OLD L.U LOCO ENGINE

[@kevinduval5751]

Great DMU acceleration rasp tones..

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

The old DMUs had real charachter, the 104's especially noisey!

[@nathanthomas8222]

Love that noise. Good times👍🏻

[@djpeekay25]

Used to use Barking Station to get into central London around the mid 80s, when I was a kid with my Gran, though we lived in Romford. My Gran has a heavy limp due to an accident back in the 60s so she could only board the tube trains easily, hence why we didn’t use Romford stn, plus her pass didn’t cover BR.

[@train4905]

Happy memories.thanku

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

My pleasure....i remember the day of filming well, even now 35 years later.....

[@supersprinter1564]

Great video I really miss the exhaust sounds from first gem dmus and the clouds of smoke on a early winters morning

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you.... The older traction certainly had more character!

[@stephenpowell5912]

Two Class 45 Peak locos and a Rare footage of The Met Loco taking a load out of the Station Luckily enough to be seeing that.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

This was the end of Peaks into London at this time, i wish i had gone out to film more! Sarah Siddons was on a railtour so i knew it was running although i got bowled by the EPB!

[@annescholey6546]

We were in London in 1985 but couldn't go anywhere cos of tensions IRA bombs and Mad Maggie lol

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

You come from a nervous family do you?.......

[@annescholey6546]

On a school trip to the Tower! Police everywhere checking bags..

[@RobinPrice]

absolutely brill bud, i noticed you always put the 38 stock tube train at the end, i thought it was a shot from padd vid. lol. very nicely done, and i look forward to next one.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Robin Price

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thanks. Am away on hol at mo, will be up for loading again mid August.

[@Qwerty1235945]

Superb footage. Those were among the happiest days of my life. I’d have been 14 or 15, and every summer holiday me and a couple of mates would by an East Midlands Rover ticket and bash 31s, 37s, Peaks and anything else we were lucky enough to cop. Duffs were an unfortunate necessity. Halcyon Days. Thanks so much for sharing. Have a sub :-)

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thanks for your comments & sub. I have a very desperate friend of mine who hates 47s with a passion.....although he had 508 for haulage!!!! I'm pleased my films bring back happier times....have you seen this upload of Leicester & Loughborough? kzbin.info/www/bejne/faWceomGg6lroZI or Chesterfield here kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKeaZmWfeNich9U....enjoy!

[@roberthill6216]

Give a duff and hauled stock over a voyager any day!

[@EM-yk1dw]

Excellent Soi

[@siddywiddyb]

Lovely! I did not know the Peaks were in service in 85? I would've thought much earlier?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

There were not many left by then but they soldiered on into 86/87. I think the last to run (until it caught fire) was green painted 45 106 (which i do have a shot of at Eaglescliff of all places!) in 1988.

[@siddywiddyb]

Thank you so much! It is great to see them. One of the strangers to my many days of watching/admiring Diesels of the 80's!

[@HFStuart]

They used to run a Friday evening rush loco-hauled relief that had a peak on it up till very late. I used to catch it up to Wellingborough or Kettering and then come back. Occasionally they'd stick a 31 on which meant that it had no hope of running to time but the loco got the thrashing of a lifetime as the driver did his best.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

The 38 shot is just to upload the end cards onto so as to not ruin the film. It was a request from a subscriber and it makes sense so that's what I now DO!

[@kimleechristensen2679]

I like that, when a youtuber has a unique signature to their video's, some say something unique in their intro, you have 38 stock on the "outtro" 😁

[@NexusFounder]

great stuff - thank you for sharing. :) is that a newspaper train that the GWR green 47 is taking out of St Pancras? just curious because of the Mk1 CK in the middle.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes it was a parcels train. I was quite surprised to see a green GWR liveried one at St Pancras. 1985 was the GWR 150th and they looked after their pet locos and kept them near home at that time.

[@NexusFounder]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus interesting. did many parcels trains have passenger accommodation at that time? yes, not where i'd expect to find one of the GWR liveried locos that year; perhaps it worked something from the WR to Leeds or similar, and then found itself on an MML diagram. :)

[@borderlands6606]

@@NexusFounder Pretty sure they used passenger coaches as parcels stock if nothing else was available. I recall catching a night train on the MML in 1974 that stopped everywhere for parcels and took forever. There was some passenger accommodation, MkI compartment stock IIRC. The only other travellers were squaddies going back to base.

[@tonyjones9442]

Interesting. I always remember london being dirty as a child in the late 70's/early 80s. What did you film this on? In '85 would have been one of those camcorders with the tape in a bag over the shoulder?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

In 1985 i invested in a Panasonic M1 video camera that took E180 tapes. It was one (if the not the first) of the first to be combined as one rather than a seperate camera plugged into a recording unit carried in a bag ect. Being straight onto an E180 meant i never had to copy it across unlike later smalerl video systems so it kept the quality up. Not as good as todays hi definition camers but before this came along it was cine film!

[@Qwerty1235945]

Soi Buakhao it has stood the test of time very well. What a wise investment that was.

[@tonyjones9442]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I've got a clockwork 16mm camera in the house somewhere. It has a 3 turret lens. Cosy £75 per minute if you include reversal film and developing. No sound mind. Bell and Howell I think. I did have a simplex 35mm cinema projector too.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@Qwerty1235945 Thank you, I believe it was, if i had saved up first to buy it i would have missed a lot of things.....

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

@@tonyjones9442 I remember a friend of my Dad's had a wind-up cine camera....saved on batteries i supposed.....

[@AndreiTupolev]

Haha EPB bowlage 9:15 !

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I've had a lot of that! On my Bethnal Green vid a 31 on the King's Lynn gets cut off at the crucial thrash moment by a 305 unit!

[@jasongoulden2938]

Note the class 302s were still fitted with their greasley bogies before being replaced with B5s

[@leftboot83]

Personally, I'm very impressed by Sarah Siddons' acceleration. Didn't know she could pull like that.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

They were very powerful locomotives and had a fair turn of speed.....

[@k333vrr4]

The driver of the Tracker was obviously late for a pint.....great thrash! 🙌🙌

[@racyrich829]

I used to spot at Barking in the late 70s and I loved it when the 37s would blast out from under the bridge on full power taking a run at the flyover.

[@norbertnedsworth7172]

Some good 'vintage' footage, and super quality too given it was 85

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you....i brought one of the first all in one video cameras, the Panasonic M1. They took full sized VHS tapes, so no need to copy off, you had the master that you filmed onto and could watch in your VCR indoors. They started to degrade with age by tye early 200s and i put all i had filmed on to DVD, and now MP4 as well.....

[@AndreiTupolev]

the HSTs at St Pancras may not make quite so much smoke now, but they still sound almost the same. 47079 must have been a noteworthy catch.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, unusual to see in off region in 1985 as it was the GWR celebration year.

[@AndreiTupolev]

I like the announcer at Barking with his sort of incantation "All the Stations to Sarfend"

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, a real local Cockney boy......not many of them left in Barking now....probably all moved to Southend......

[@captainboing]

Sarah siddons. Operating on 3rd rail only. A rarity.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Yes, it happened a couple of times. The engineers changed the negative return to the BR system and it worked a couple of railtours on BR tracks.

[@AndreiTupolev]

There were ever Class 104 DMUs in the London area? I never knew that

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

They came from Ayr, i used to ride home from work on them in early 1985 and they still had their shed code stickers on them! Later on they ended up in NSE colours with the odd set in blue & grey.

[@markburgess4528]

Nice Valetta scream at the start.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

They sounded real good in those days, nothing like a Valenta HST pulling away on full bore!

[@soupdragon12345]

What was that strange engine on the back of that 73 ?

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

That was London Transport's Met Loco No 12 Sarah Siddons. For a while in the 80s it worked on some BR railtours, all they did was change the return currant system as their is no forth negative rail on BR unlike the Underground.

[@stephenpowell5912]

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Beautiful Loco on the back of the Class 73 Express, Then it took a load out of the Station Luckily enough that wasn't missed 💝

[@flippop101]

Superb film!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Thank you, a nice bit of history here.....

[@stephenleary1239]

What was first 47? 47007 Stratford?

[@stephenleary1239]

Or 47500

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

Neither, it was 47 079 G J Churchward which i was surprised to find at St Pancras especially in GWR 150 year!

[@stephenleary1239]

Cheers mate!!