Railway scenes and trains around Glasgow in the 1970's.

[@davidboyce8683]

What a gem this is ,thank you so much.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

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[@TheDaf95xf]

My favourite years of train spotting the 70s 👍🏻

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment. I enjoyed the free sprits of those days.

[@OOElectronics]

Really enjoyed that, thanks!

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

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[@peterg957]

If only we could travel back in time...If only

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Sometimes KZbin enables us to do that.

[@peterg957]

@@Clivestravelandtrains Yes indeed my friend...

[@bigian4379]

70 was a wonderful decade. Just joy for me

[@studebaker4217]

Excellent collection, many thanks.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

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[@rickydub6950]

Cracking pics, thanks for posting 🙂👍

[@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge]

Beautiful photos👍

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

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[@paulsummerfield6357]

Wow service charge and VAT on the hotel bill! Thanks for the upload 👍

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Yes indeed - now we are used to VAT-inclusive prices, which is the law. In the USA they add tax and service to everything separately, so you see a dish on the menu for $20 but they actually expect you to pay $30! Thanks for your comment.

[@bigtone1348]

I have found memories of travelling from Glasgow to Busby and Dunbarton.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

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[@Gregg-eo2le]

Some great old pics 👍Durham UK

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

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[@farmer2954]

Nice to watch!

[@SimonWallwork]

Very nice. In my time the facade at St. Enochs was still there, but the big canopy had gone. Me and my schoolfriends had a great old time running about on the trains, spotting.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment. Life was great when we were young! One of my earliest memories is of a family holiday in Ardrossan, and I would go down to the level crossing at South Beach station to see the steam trains go by! It's not a level crossing now.

[@SimonWallwork]

@@Clivestravelandtrains Haha. It really was! Me and my chums would dog school and travel all over Scotland. We were everywhere! Train crazy- but happy as pigs in shit.

[@shb8124]

Thanks for this and your other 70s railways vids, I'm modelling that particular era so lots of great details to be seen and a few places well known to me here including seeing the old signal box in my home town of Irvine. Yeah those Class 126 DMUs with the corridor connector to make them full through 6 car sets, they were a staple of the Glasgow - Ayr line for a long time but unfortunately our family didn't really have much call to use the trains when I was a kid in the 70s so I don't really remember them as much as I'd like to. Great vid 👍

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment, I appreciate that. What you say about rail travel in the 1970s was typical of that era - people simply drove everywhere and BR hadn't cottoned on on cheap advance tickets like they did in the 1980s. That's one of the main drivers of booming rail travel now.

[@shb8124]

@@Clivestravelandtrains well it wasn't so much the driving thing for us my dad wasn't a driver it was simply more that we were in Dreghorn and either Irvine or Kilmarnock towns were closer and just a wee bus ride away so we never really went much further or need the train though I wish we had.

[@scottc1589]

Great video! I especially enjoyed your photos and memories of St Enoch Station and Hotel. Though likely a few years younger than you, I can relate to how prices, as well as my sense of what is a lot of money for lodging, have changed over the years! Thanks for sharing!

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

I stayed at the hotel because I knew it was going to close. In those days I usually stayed at youth hostels - being closer to my budget. The day I took the pictures at Ayr I'd been staying at the youth hostel, which was on the sea-front. It's no longer a YH unfortunately. I'm glad I have the memories of the St. Enoch Hotel.

[@tracya4087]

great film , thanks from wigan lancashire

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for that - one of my first KZbin films was made in Wigan - kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpymhJqnqZtgeMU I hope you like it, though if I was doing it again I would do things a bit differently - we learn as we go along!

[@tracya4087]

@@Clivestravelandtrains yes as when i was a young lad to have took some notice of the class 40 s , all the best mate

[@richardbrooks50]

Brilliant!

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks.

[@thomasshepard6030]

I was a fireman for BR out of eastfield traction depot springburn I drove many class 27s on the push&pulls queen st to Waverley also any journeys from queen st to Oban with class 37s day and night shift we called it the ghost train to Oban or the mail train life time ago 1974 great footage thank you for the memories also my grandfather and uncle were both steam men out of DAWSHOLM SHEDS MARYHILL LONG GONE NOW IT WAS MY UNCLE JIM WHO GOT ME THE JOB WITH BR HE WAS AT THE SAME DEPOT AS MYSELF WE SPENT MANY SHIFTS TOGETHER AS DRIVER AND FIREMAN I THINK THEY CHANGED MY JOB TITLE TO SECOND MAN BUT ON THE DUTY BOARD MY JOB TITLE WAS FIREMAN

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment, I always like to see these memories from the past.

[@thomasshepard6030]

@@Clivestravelandtrainsthank you for the memories just watched again fantastic I was only 19 in 1974 when I started in the railway

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

@@thomasshepard6030 Thanks again - I joined British Rail in 1973 when I was 19, and left in 1987. I worked in the Eastern Region HQ at York, mainly in the CM&EE Department.

[@thomasshepard6030]

@@Clivestravelandtrainshi Clive just watched your fantastic video again actually made me quite emotional what is the music it goes so well with the video thank you

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

@@thomasshepard6030 Snowy Peaks by Chris Haugen, but I can't remember where I downloaded it from! Thanks for your comment.

[@bingbong7316]

I travelled on the Thames-Clyde "Express" in 1974, it used the Settle and Carlisle I seem to remember, and did at least two reversals on its journey. 12 hours to London, I think, or maybe 13. It was a trip! I still don't understand why Scottish region didn't get 33's and be done with it. The Type 2's were pretty gutless, to be fair.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment. The Thames-Clyde Express reversed at Leeds City and Nottingham. In latter years it only went Glasgow-Nottingham and vice-versa. It did indeed use the Settle & Carlisle.

[@AndreiTupolev]

Interesting views of the Class 126, were they?, Inter-City DMUs, which I've very rarely seen pictures of in any detail

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Those DMU's did seem to be little-known outside the Clydeside area. They also worked boat trains to Ardrossan and Fairlie Pier. I've seen a picture of one at Fairlie.

[@charlie1872]

Thanks so much for taking the time to not only take these photographs but also for compiling/editing them into this great video. I was born in Partick then moved to Knightswood but have lived in Toronto for well over 40 years. I have a model railway as you can see on my youtube site and presently trying to add overhead gantries. I have no idea as to the dimensions for the trusses, any idea where I might find this info? Thanks again Charlie

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment. I'm not sure about the dimensions - will ponder it and let you know!

[@thomasshepard6030]

Hi Charlie Derek Matthew hear its a small world I was just watching this video as I used to work for BR as a fireman out of eastfield traction depot springburn my uncle Jim was a mainline driver at the same depot he was my father’s brother he got me the job how’s things 1974

[@charlie1872]

Hi Derek, good to hear from you. I did not know that. Really is a wonderful small world of model railways😂. How is Alec doing?

[@richardbradley2335]

0.21...went on that !

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

That must have been exciting! Thanks for your comment.

[@richardbradley2335]

@@Clivestravelandtrains Yes....Wolverton was first decent curve out of london and isaw plenty of sick bags !

[@jimross5806]

Brilliant, although there’s something desperately sad about the video. I worked as a Guard on the 314s, 303s, 101s, as well as on the Freight side 1970/80s, maybe that’s why😕

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment - I would call those happy memories; so cherish them, they won't come back!

[@thomasshepard6030]

And me made me very emotional I was a fireman out of eastfield traction depot springburn Glasgow worked the push and pulls Glasgow to Edinburgh and the night train to Oban the ghost train as we called it days long gone by 1974

[@CRB713]

Hi there - really enjoyed this, and fab to see pictures of my neck of the woods long before I came along! Just wanted to note, as I don't think anyone else has (though it's not a big deal), that officially speaking that "orange" you mention on a couple of slides is actually "Strathclyde Red" - for the obvious political reasons! Cheers, Chris

[@Glenn1967ful]

Rail blue was a pretty boring livery and I was glad when local trains went to either the blue and grey livery or a PTE livery in the eighties. The orange used by Strarhclyde PTE was quite striking.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

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[@1974silverboy]

Nice, but I was expecting a VIDEO. for stills, try Flickr.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

Thanks for your comment. My introduction explained that it was made from colour slides. In the 1970s there was no way a teenager like me could afford a movie camera. There are plenty of KZbinrs using stills in their presentations. I am sorry you were disappointed but I learnt years ago that it is impossible to meet everyone's expectations in life. That's how it is.