Newport Station Traffic 1988/89

Activity at Newport Station featuring the last weeks of regular scheduled loco-hauled passenger trains and heritage DMU sets in South Wales.
Filmed and edited by Ray Viney.
Monmouthshire Railway Society website www.mrsoc.co.uk

[@johnlladron735]

Brilliant video, thank you very much! Great memories and I'm not using rose-tinted spectacles when I say that it was better in many ways back then. You can see where the capacity problems occur. A Cardiff-Manchester service went from loco-hauled 5 coaches (250 seats at least), to a 2 car sprinter unit that could accommodate 160. So not only did passengers get a noisier journey, they also had less space because they also lost the guard's van where bikes etc. could go.

[@055deltic]

Thanks for sharing this excellent film! Brought back many happy memories of visiting South Wales on my Rover tickets. Newport was always an interesting stop. From heritage dmus on local services, the 33s on Crewe/Cardiff and Portsmouth/Cardiff services, 37/56s on the various freight haulage and 47s on just about anything! At least you could get a seat in those days and many services still had 1st Class accommodation - a compartment to myself, window open and Class 33 thrash all way from Crewe! Even the ubiquitous HSTs with their Valenta power units were welcome to see and hear. Just so boring now with mu for all passenger trains and the Class 66 dominating freight.

[@railfreightdrivergallagherGBRf]

Those guys chucking the mail bags must have been in training for the future company Hermes! Great video of much missed days. I was Crewe (CD) based at the time.

[@BrianTuckerRailvideos]

Excellent Ray, nicely filmed.

[@AndreiTupolev]

The final month of loco haulage on the Cardiff - Portsmouths before they went over to the lovely 155s 🤗

[@ianjones4116]

I remember the 33s working the Cardiff Manchester's,, normally a 37/4,, even had class 50 Hoovers for a while. Lovely bit of Thrash. Great days, classic loco's. Thanks for posting. 👍😎

[@Gill12283]

Lovely footage of Newport....brings back memories of yesterday 😊

[@andrewbutler6477]

My local station now not worth spending any time here with just units and 66 s even the HST no longer visit about the anything of interest now are the scrap trains to Sims this is a great nostalgia dvd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@aCivilServant]

Class 33 at the start looks like he's on the Cardiff - Portsmouth Harbour. Happy memories.

[@robmasterman]

Another Gem of an upload Ray, enjoyed every minute of it...Regards...Bob

[@rayviney8602]

Thanks Bob. Glad you enjoyed it. More to come hopefully.

[@sianmickiewicz4877]

Nostalgia - well done, 🏅Ray -Ian

[@thefreshprinceofdapto1668]

I used to be in the Army from 1987 -1991 and spent a lot of time waiting at Newport train station for the London Paddington train ... I used to change at Reading for Aldershot. I remember that announcer who you can hear in the background now and then on this video. I often wondered who he was and what happened to him.

[@U2ATOMIC]

Outstanding

[@JamesPetts]

Intriguing. Where were all those locomotive hauled trains going, I wonder?

[@railfreightdrivergallagherGBRf]

Back then loco hauled trains were on Cardiff- Portsmouth/ Manchester/Liverpool/ Weymouth and South Wales Valley lines. They were everywhere seemingly.

[@OlafProt]

I miss diesel loco hauled trains. I suppose it was simply the follow-on from the steam hauled mindset. All the units now are so dull. No variety and very little dirt or clag