I've been down that road so many times, and this is the first I've ever seen that level crossing actually working! Great vid
@sirmartinfrobisher4 жыл бұрын
When we first moved from Yorkshire to Hampshire, we lived in Winchester. I was 11 and a train spotter. No school, no friends, so I used to get a platform ticket and spent hours watching whatever came. This was 1960 towards the end of steam. Bonus sights were the Boat Trains on their way to Southampton, usually hauled by “School” Class locos. They usually came through, seemingly flat out, wheels off the rails. The crew scaring the passengers’ lives. We were warned to stay away from the platform edge. I so wanted to travel on one, but alas, that was not to be. I think there was a “Southampton Terminus” station in those days, adjacent to the South Western Hotel, just about where this crossing was sighted. Later we moved to Hythe, directly west of Southampton a fifteen minute ferry ride across Southampton Water. It was paradise compared do the soot blackened towns of home. The Hythe Ferry, moored in Southampton, next to the old Flying Boat berths but all those were gone. I just got to see the three “Princess” flying boats that were dumped at the old RAF base at Calshot but they never flew by then. They were our equivalent of the “Spruce Goose”. At that time Southampton old town was still a bombed out building site.
@southerneruk3 жыл бұрын
60s was the best era for the boat trains, they used to be going in and out of the docks 2 to 4 times a day, South Western Hotel is the building you see on the left, but even that was no longer used in the 60s, The BBC moved into there and done a number of shows in that building. Car train transport use those gates the most now
@osprey6013 жыл бұрын
SUPERB PAINT JOBS ON THE LOCOS AND THAT FIRST COACH ...NICE VID J WELL DONE...SOME NICE CRUMPET TOO!
@davidfarrow44 Жыл бұрын
The crumpet wasn't Duff!
@The6620013 жыл бұрын
that first coach looks amazing and the last looks crap :) nice vid
@MTrains7 жыл бұрын
When Canute Road Still had Halogens :)
@LoganBrazill6 жыл бұрын
M-Trains he sindeed
@avardy2357812 жыл бұрын
epic vid :-)
@AshHill078 жыл бұрын
That Anglia Mk2e looking a little out of place.
@normathomss29515 жыл бұрын
Been on that train years ago
@imautuber3 жыл бұрын
Great video but curious as to why the need for 2 locos
@kevino66182 жыл бұрын
Redundancy, mostly. With the age of the locus, if one gets a fault the other can still pull the train.
@SteamboatWilley13 жыл бұрын
@justinfoulger Any chance of a video of the car trains?
@likklej84 жыл бұрын
Bring back boat trains. Motor cars are boring.
@Rich72James5 жыл бұрын
What is a cruise saver express?
@justinfoulger5 жыл бұрын
It was a budget way of getting customers for Cruise Liners from Scotland to Southampton without having to fly or take a coach.