class 40 057 on the Bangor 30/04/83

[@digitalmoviedv]

Hi! Great video footage and camera work. Greetings from Italy. Ciao, Stefano.

[@Tom-Lahaye]

Striking 80's atmosphere. The amount of teenagers bashing, cabbing or photographing the 40 action is quite incredible. You won't see teenagers bashing or cabbing a Turbostar or Pendolino in such masses now (and all air conditioned stock and tight H&S regulations make this impossible even when they wanted)

[@vorlonb3]

oh happy days, nice friendly drivers letting the young uns in the cab, no worries about H&S, and a nice bit of thrash from a venerable 40!

[@ewloe01]

Oh for a time machiene! I live in Hawarden and when i was a kid you could hear a 40 leaving Shotton! And watch it almost all the way to Chester! Then you had em climbing the bank to Hawarden station! Christ they used to struggle! I remember 029 on a railtour about 83 load 11! It was hellfire! Took my kids to see 145 but was dissapointed cos the 67 came back up the gradiant!

[@beechy2000]

Brilliant vid, brings back the memories of the 80's bashing these beasts! Nice to see there's still quality action from that period, many thanks and keep up the good work.

[@josephruddock1302]

Reminds me of cabbing 40121 at Preston, it had come from Blackpool and was giving way to an electric. The driver sat me in the drivers seat and started giving me instructions, before I knew it, 121 was uncoupled and rolling down platform 3 to the signal. Then the driver said "I better take it from here". I take it 121 was heading to SP for refuelling as she thrashed away up the UF line ironically running ahead of the train it had just come off.

[@aureol40012]

The clip of 40012 leaving man picc light engine after the Skegness (it’s on here) is me on the power handle! Only time I’ve been told to sit in the chair like you was 55009 in 1985. I drove it for about 3 miles on a passenger train on the NYMR, I’d just turned 15!

[@bradleyaitchison1338]

loved the 40`s,magnificent machines....haymarkets 123 never forget my cab ride in that

[@jeffhawken]

I was on the morning run with this, but baled at Shotton to have 40044 from Carlisle to Leeds. In the wee small hours of the following morning 40057 worked the Bristol - Glasgow sleepers (load 15) from Preston to Carlisle over the S&C. It wasn't fast, but the NOISE! There were a good few bashers on the train that night, I remember.

[@nottudyug]

oh the whistlers-awesome stuff!.... And the whine from those generators when when the power was on full

[@alanlowndes]

Great to watch .Great footage,found it interesting.Thanks for sharing.

[@mrgrumpyuka]

great vvid of one of my favorite 40's .It is ironic that i came across it today (30;4;2113) exactly 30 years on today!

[@arizonabay1970]

Great nostalgia.... and you cabbed it!

[@stephenpowell5912]

Classic Nostalgic Footage from the Early 1980s if I'm right ❤️Definetly remember the Parker Coats with the faux fur hood used to wear one or two of these when I was a Schoolboy ,39 years ago now at 49 ,Feeling nostalgic watching this ❤️❤️❤️❤️🎥Miss those days when Blue Diesel locomotion power ruled the rails .❤️❤️❤️❤️ Nowadays since Privatisation in the Early 1990s to today's Generation of trains ,They don't have the same feel as the classic carriages you could look out from when on a rail journey ,Health and safety BS has seen to that ,Even envy those young lads getting to see the inside of the Class 40 to taking notes from the Driver when Employees looked smart with their BR Hats ,Nowadays it's all H&S nonsense to HI Vis vests ,Take me back to these early times when Thrash was king whatever Class locos operated in the 1970s to the early 1980s .

[@aureol40012]

April 1983!

[@stephenpowell5912]

@@aureol40012 Thanks for letting me know that 39 years later ,Would have been 9 years old going on 10 back then 3 months later 🎥,

[@adammacer]

No kidding - it was almost the uniform.. I have one pic on fb of a young (15?) me and buddies all over the nose of a 40 wearing our blue parkas.. I just wish I could remember if I was on this..

[@dieseldave3879]

5:30 Those were the days: real characters, real trains! 🚂👍

[@Filmitis]

I didnt know "Morrissey" from The Smiths worked on the railway and doing a great pose @ 5.31. I'm surprised how good the whistling sound is at Chester, WBQ and Man Vic for the technology of the day. I started videoing 40's in 1981 and always found when I got close to them the whistling would make the auto sound gain turn the volume of it down :(

[@tracya4087]

brill love it think of a track

[@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge]

Stop me if you think you've heard this one before..... Happy days

[@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge]

There is a light that never goes out......bottom right

[@7822welshsteam]

Bring back loco haulage and un-air-conditioned coaches. You can't call what we have on the network nowadays trains. That sound gives you goose-bumps!! If that isn't what urganomics is all about I don't know what is. Who needed iPods in them days!!!

[@prof.hectorholbrook4692]

Agree!

[@7822welshsteam]

@@prof.hectorholbrook4692 I was at the East Lancs diesel gala yesterday and we were all told to keep our heads in at all times. I'm hanging up my boots.

[@TrainDriverRob]

Bloody hell, what a vid, thrash merchants or what!

[@train4905]

Superb

[@craigoliphant4]

I love this channel, can anyone tell me if there is any footage out there of the North Wales 40's being chased by car, I seem to remember this happening back in the 80's?

[@prof.hectorholbrook4692]

Excellent!

[@aureol40012]

Glad you like it, was a very happy day for this 12 year old boy!

[@duxberry1958]

top video

[@boomheadshot75]

think it was the second man who got out, cos it looks like that guy is talking to someone before he gets into the cab, good chance its the driver

[@mistofoles]

At 4.00 who's the guy in the parka who climbed into cab while the driver was stretching his legs??

[@fatwalletboy2]

No enthusiasts shouting and balling at other enthusiasts here......how times have changed in this entitled get out of my way world we now seem to live in.....

[@Isochest]

Mae hon fideo yn dda iawn!

[@johngriffith5426]

Mae'r fideo hon yn dod ag atgofion melys o'r 60au.

[@31144]

Is that Peacock behind the loco at Warrington BQ ?? Don't arf look like him

[@aureol40012]

yep it is.

[@stuarthurst3944]

The walk gives it away at Man Vic. no getting away with it. That,s the peacock walk

[@roden81]

Where was that station at the start of the video?

[@Georgeasaurus2001]

roden81 abergele

[@squeakyadam]

finished bashing more or less ! by then but cheers -057 sounded absolutely dreadful ,done that route & train more than a few times

[@adammacer]

Lol, driver only knew 2 positions of the thrash handle.. 0 and 10..