End Of BR Blue - Kettering (Late June 1986).wmv

[@philipholmes8585]

I am 71 years old now, My first job when leaving school I was a box boy at kettering North signal box in 1962 for three years went on to signalman at glendon station , happy times, not many of us left now .

[@AaronOxfordExmouth1989]

This is how I will forever remember the Midland mainline. So many fond memories of standing at various London locations, watching the Peaks, Duffs & HST's hurtling back and forth on the main, with 127's and brand new 317's on the slow. Various types on freight and you know, I really miss those days. Thank you for sharing this.

[@johnson121able]

Thank you for uploading this footage. It has brought back some memories, good times.

[@m18tankdestroyer43]

lovely footage. Thank you for uploading this, this bought back many happy memories.

[@MrDeltic15]

Thank you very much. Kettering was my local station and i was just a month short of my 16th birthday when i filmed this, never imagining then what transformations would occur with the trains that passed me and the surrounding area.

[@NapierNimbus]

Great shots and sound Darren - lovely loco hauled stock and shots of the 45s - great sound of the 45 building up the amps and superb clag - lovely Valenta thrash and also a HST with a shut down power car as well departing station

[@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS]

Hell that opening shot really tells a story eh !!!. Gone is the countryside scene. Nice to view mate. Aint ya glad ya saved it.

[@msh14568]

Thanks for the great nostalgia. Keep them coming

[@MrDeltic15]

Thanks. Yes, really miss the Peaks on the Midland.

[@HomeMoviePerson]

Somehow I missed this video from your older collection from our local area. Lovely to see Kettering Station itself as it used to be with signabox, semaphore signals and it's much more open and traditional layout as well as the variety of class 45's, 58's, 56's and HST's of course. Did a bit of research regarding the signalbox, Kettering Signalbox is indeed at the Midland Railway Centre, as is Kilby Bridge Signalbox from a bit further up the line. Before I read your comment I was going to write, what a shame the old signalbox has gone, at least this signalbox was reprieved!

[@MrDeltic15]

Thanks Rich. I bet you remember these sights and sounds very well too.

[@MrDeltic15]

Thanks. Very true about the HST's too. I hated them for killing off the 55's, 50's, 47's, and the like, but give me one now anyday over the 'plastic' Voyagers, Turbostars, and the like.

[@benconway9010]

MrDeltic15 the funny thing about it is that the HSTs are still going while every thing else has gone😞😞

[@MrDeltic15]

Thanks, glad you're enjoying my look back in time movies :-) Yes, still more from Kettering to come. There's one more from 1986(featuring five different Class 45's on various workings!), then some more visits from 1987 up to 1996 - one of those even feauring a double-headed Class 50!!!

[@waynehyde-iu4jb]

I spent many hours at Kettering station, trainspotting in the 50's. My friends had to pay 1d for a platform ticket, but 1 was allowed in for nothing as my dad used to work in the big loco shed. Great days, a couple of hours on the platform and then go scrumping in the hillyhollies off Northfield Ave. We got caught once, a chap was waiting for us near his apple trees. He chased us under the railway tunnel and up Meadow Rd. He caught me outside the gas works and gave me a thick ear. We switched our scrumping raids to an orchard behind the Poppies football ground. Smashing days.

[@MrDeltic15]

Those were the days! You'll have seen even more changes that I have there then. I hardly ever visit the station these days, but then it's pretty much unit central now.

[@waynehyde-iu4jb]

@@MrDeltic15 Do you remember the turntable? My dad was a fire lighter in the loco shed, and he used to give a hand when needed to help turning engines around. I seem to recall they rotated a big metal wheel to turn the table, but I was only a nipper so I may have got the wheel bit wrong. Do you know if Rushton station is a private dwelling now or owned by a steam preservation society?

[@MrDeltic15]

The turntable was before my time I'm afraid, but I've seen a few photos of the old shed and locos. There would most likely have been a large metal wheel on cogs to rotate the turntable manually. Rushton station is a private dwelling as far as I know, having been redeveloped a bit in a recent years along with the more modern houses in the old station yard there.

[@19AJB]

Really enjoyed this - great to see Peaks still in action then, and I loved the Bubble Car at speed! Watching this I have to admit that now I have a certain feeling of nostalgia for the Paxmans in the HSTs too...

[@MrDeltic15]

Our paths may have crossed then, as Kettering station being my local i used to visit it a lot in the late 70's and throughout the 80's, although the videoing only started in the latter part of the 80's. I remember the bay platform often with a parcel coach sitting in it, and then a DMU from either the odd extended Bletchley-Bedford shuttle or the Corby-Kettering shuttle inbetween runs. Glad you enjoyed, and there'll be plenty more Kettering(and nearby Glendon)1980's footage to come :-)

[@rexterrocks]

That was a great sight. I lived in Kettering for years. I miss the old station with the tunnel. I remember the old walk through station with the platform ticket machine. It was nice to see the old signal box there. I lived in Sussex road and had one at the bottom of my garden. I remember watching those passing by from my bedroom window.

[@richphil50]

awesome video Darren.

[@MrDeltic15]

Thanks for the complement, and i'm glad it brought back some memories of those good times for you - you'll find more from this area already on My Channel, and I've got more still to convert and upload too.

[@MEKAYJIMMYNATHE]

Gr8 vid Daz, 55022 going to mid norfolk railway last weekend in march, 40135 aswell, think that might be 145, info of a friend. Cheers, Tony.

[@vorlonb3]

Lovely footage there, love the old peak thrashing away with not a care in the world...

[@rexterrocks]

I used to live in kettering and had the railway at the bottom of my garden. We had a signalbox yards away. I remember watching trains from the Corby junction bit. I always look out for triangular lodge on my way down south now. I used to go to Cohens scrapyard and play on the old trains, it had its own track from kettering Stn to Northampton road.

[@ewloe01]

Miss the peaks full stop!

[@MrDeltic15]

I used to live in Rushton which is the village about half a mile south of Triangular Lodge as you probably know. I remember Cohens Scrapyard too, and even seeing a Class 25 propelling old tube stock down from the station to the scrapyard to be cut up. Now down there it's the A14, Golf Lodge, and a large area of waste ground with access roads for industrial units which have never been built!

[@AlbertH99]

If you walk along the path that runs parallel with track from Rushton to the blue bridge, embedded in the embankment there looks like an old wagon poking out. Do you know anything about it as the wheel pattern looks very old. I worked in the joinery shop behind the pub and often walked that way at weekends.

[@mekydro]

Yes it was good to hear some Screaming Valentas, I miss that sound!

[@MrDeltic15]

Another spot i went to lots of times as i lived in the nearby village of Rushton and would walk across the fields many a time in the 70's and 80's. The old signalbox was superb, and of course it was the end of the longest four track section of railway in the country. There will be some clips from Glendon in my future 'nostalgia' uploads featuring 45's and 47's - plus even 33's and more rare moves!

[@MrDeltic15]

Thanks, and i will do - hopefully one nostalgic upload every weekend with recent footage inbetween.

[@MrDeltic15]

Their predecessors(the similar looking Class 44's)where named after peaks(Great Gable, Whernside, etc)so the nickname followed on to the Class 45's(and Class 46's)even though they were named after regiments and the like.

[@MrDeltic15]

I've got a feeling the signal box was taken away for reuse - maybe the Midland Railway Centre?

[@adriancarter2863]

Where was the Class 104 DMU off to? Corby? Or a local all-stopper to Wellingborough?

[@MrDeltic15]

I don't know i'm afraid, the quality of video back then not good enough to see i'm afraid. I think the ones on freights were 45/0's, and i seem to recall 45128 and 45147 being around at the time?

[@grahamsmith7054]

Peak at 6 Minutes is 45118.

[@matthewpeters5578]

wish this was now hate the way the rail system has turned out all overseas tripe

[@MrDeltic15]

+matthew peters It's certainly a change, especially the loss of pretty much all the loco hauled passenger workings now - it's all called 'progress' of course!

[@benconway9010]

MrDeltic15 lmfao wat progress!!!😄😄😄😄😄

[@ash.l2175]

matthew peters I agree tho I love the new trains we have I do wish we still made are I remeber first watching trains in 200 ish all the 43's, 170's, and the 222's weren't around yet I think I must have just caught the end of unique british built trains

[@thomasnirtrainmannorton3254]

what are the numbers of class 45s

[@vorn29]

I miss the Paxman sound more than anything

[@railwayhonza]

What services were the dmus doing?

[@MrDeltic15]

The passenger ones would have been the evening extension from/to Bedford of a Bletchley to Bedford service.

[@055deltic]

Great variety of motive power once again, did we really take such scenes for granted!? I first got to the Midland mainline in late 1982. Class 45/1 Peaks still ran the Sheffield/ St Pancras services and an occasional HST appeared on a NE/SWS working. How come the Peaks only appeared later in the day on those short coal and Parcel workings - were they on reduced diagrams by then? Thanks for posting ALL these Rail Blue films!

[@grahamsmith7054]

Peak at 16 minutes 50 seconds is 45136.