ScR 1980's 3 - Perth to Stirling

Scenes between Perth and Stirling in the mid 80's. Classes featured are 27,37,47,101 and 254. Services include postal, freight and passenger workings.

[@studebaker4217]

A superb collection of quality footage of real trains - thank you.

[@m1klgordon]

Good heavens, amazing to see this footage. We lived in Auchterarder from December 1984. Gleneagles station as it was and even now, in 2019, post Ryder Cup and all, still has a kind of magic about it.

[@ChrisPipinghot]

That's amazing linesids footage.

[@airthreypark]

The 47 leaving Gleneagles at 3:00 has 4 brake seconds and a full brake in a 7 coach train. Crazy!

[@davidwebster3519]

Again the 47/7s made this video for me. I'm guessing these were operating Glasgow or Edinburgh to Dundee or Aberdeen? Also a very interesting working of push/pull coaches and DBSO hauled by a a rail freight 47. Absolutely fantastic once again 👏

[@alistairshaw3206]

It's great to see the railway when there were real trains, hauled by real locomotives ! The HST set sounds awesome with the Paxman Valenta power units too.

[@stephenpowell5912]

Lovely Footage from back in the day ❤️ When these Diesel units were the norm back then ,Today's generation of Locomotion isn't the same nowadays,Back when I was a boy growing up in the 1980s ,This is what I will remember born 49 years ago ❤️ With Classic Locomotion like this ❤️Since privatisation in the Early 1990s to today ,The railways are a mess with delays here and there ,These are times I will remember with fondness taking down Numbers of the Units passing by if not in Edinburgh but Kirknewton where I would stay at ❤️Love the sound of the HSTs with that screaming Valenta sound ❤️ That's how they should sound ,Hear these also in today's world being retired to history , Remember the good times ❤️😢So much for these having a long fruitful future since 1976 , Without that Paxman Valenta ,It's nothing special nowadays,Just shameful what Privatisation has done 😢

[@alexanderfisher8829]

Brings back memories!

[@marc21091]

Excellent film of the 1980s when ScotRail had good quality loco-hauled InterCity type services. The push-pull Glasgow-Aberdeen trains (Mk 2 AC sets) are especially impressive. Also the Chieftain. The very last train in the series has no less than 13 coaches.

[@airmax1973]

I think the last train was The Clansman.

[@simonpilk]

Those trains are far too long in most cases and too comfortable! Utterly superb videos and well worth watching when we had a real railway.

[@TheDaf95xf]

Classic traction 👍🏻 Even long distance HSTs have gone now 🙁

[@aureol40012]

Amazing.

[@FinlayLavery303]

Apart from the locomotives and name signs Perth has seen little change since the 80s it seems.

[@fraserboyd]

is the last part of this clip "The Clansman'?

[@D5310]

Brilliant vid, maybe you should combine all your vids and make a dvd

[@Victor-fv8mq]

Useless for spotting numbers. Never follows through, always cuts numbers off and wastes too much video taking train into distance.