BR in the 1980s Clapham Junction Station on 29th November 1989

[@christhorne9542]

I was working at Clapham during this time as Station Staff 1987-1990. The staff crossing bell into the yard was constant & hadn’t realised just how annoying it still is 😂 but best 4 years I had on the railway there. When the Clapham rail crash happened I was fortunate enough to be on night shift so had got home to Basingstoke an hour before it took place, but my father was not so lucky as he was amongst the first to respond from BR along with Ernie King & Hopkinson 😂 Proper Railwayman Ernie was.

[@spompey]

You are most welcome and many thanks for watching and for commenting....best regards...MARK

[@EM-yk1dw]

Excellent film again, happy days. I remember the bell.

[@spompey]

You are most welcome and many thanks for watching and for commenting....best regards...MARK

[@matthew0605]

Great Video as always, Great to see the pair of cromptons working hard on their heavy loaded cement train , I used to see those locos at hoo junction with loaded oil tankers coming off the grain branch ,and they were working hard too !!.

[@spompey]

You are most welcome and many thanks for watching and for commenting....best regards...MARK

[@kevinfowkes2327]

A lot of the class 33 aggregates traffic in the late 80s / early 90s was headed for the Channel Tunnel construction site.

[@spompey]

@@kevinfowkes2327 ....many thanks....Mark

[@kevinfowkes2327]

Note the weird signalbox positioned over the tracks on the Windsor lines side of the station at the London end...it was heavily fortified during the war to protect against German bombing, the weight of the fortifications ended up overloading the bridge gantry causing it to collapse onto the tracks (I think in the 1960s sometime), narrowly averting a major disaster. They subsequently shored it back up and the box remained in use well into the late 80s, it was demolished soon after this video (I think in 1990).

[@spompey]

It was around that time...yes......many thanks....Mark

[@minimaxi802]

Clapham Junction, all trains to Waterloo and about 60% to Victoria pass through Clapham Junction with over 1000 trains a day, but the lines to Waterloo and Victoria are not connected so trains cannot be diverted if either Waterloo or Victoria was closed.

[@spompey]

Maybe with a bit of a circuitous route possibly.....and many thanks for watching and for commenting....best regards..Mark

[@kevinfowkes2327]

That was true in 1989 but Kent line trains heading for Victoria could now access Waterloo using the curve built for Eurostar in the 1990s

[@kevinlucioni7256]

Wimbledon Windmill was where Robert Baden-Powell wrote Scouting For Boys.

[@spompey]

many thanks for watching and for commenting....best regards...MARK

[@duncancurtis5108]

Almost got to CJ in 1990 and 1991, on school and college visits but had to settle for closer spotty points. Still, good to know Clapham is still a battleground today, mostly EMUs as ever.😊

[@s125ish]

Was it too far for you ?

[@spompey]

You are most welcome and many thanks for watching and for commenting....best regards...MARK