Newport - March 2001

Almost 21 years to the day is this clip of heavy Freight at Newport. The 66's had certainly made their mark on the South Wales freight scene however Class 60's were certainly to the fore in this video. We also see Class 67s on Mail traffic and a Class 47 on a Liner but No 37s or 56s :-(
And yes, i was mad enough to go when it was snowing and yes it was bloomin freezing!!

[@roberthill6216]

Great video, thank you. Nice seeing the variety of freight. It's sad the mail trains are gone.

[@AndreiTupolev]

The words "The delayed xxxx service to London Paddington" was very common at that time. 🤔 At least there wasn't the endless "Bing bong May we have your attention please" and then repeated all over again in Welsh 🤫

[@AndreiTupolev]

☺At10:09the 1853 Alphaline service to Cardiff Central was delayed by approximately 10 minutes, then literally five seconds later it was delayed by approximately 17 minutes! 😳

[@thegridnutter8377]

Lol!! This was the start of the age of the digitally generated announcements and they were going off pretty non stop until the late evening!! Think the weather had something to do with the delays

[@AndreiTupolev]

@@thegridnutter8377 I particularly liked how it used to say "I'm very sorry 😞 for the delay" as if it was an actual person. No you're not, you're a computer program that has no feelings 😑