Railways 1990. Lancaster, Wigan and Crewe visits

[@Benji_transport_vids]

Great footage, interesting to see Wigan and other areas around that time. At around the 7:13 mark, the platform shown has a sign for the station and during a recent visit has (what i think to be) an intercity bird or something on one of the poles!

[@TheMichaelWilcock2016Railways]

Too far to go back now I'm living in S/Wales

[@ClydebridgeStation]

Spotted a loco in this video, that's on my layout. 47436, at 19:51 at Crewe! But a great video, what a lot of variety in the locomotive holding sidings.

[@TheMichaelWilcock2016Railways]

Those were the days over 30 years ago; just so pleased I kept all my old VHS tapes in good condition

[@mikehooz]

Really great to think back to many hours mis-spent on platform ends, thanks for taking the time to save these old vhs tapes rather than be lost forever to “media obsolescence”. Random fact - the Mk3 set working with 90005 appears to be one of the three “Birmingham Pullman” sets. These were the standard Anglo-Scottish 2xFO, RFM, 6xTSO, but formed up with Mk3b “Pullman” FOs instead of the more usual Mk3a - for covering the once-daily Birmingham Pullman. One diagram would ecs Oxley-New St, work the Up Birmingham Pullman, and then form 1S57 down Royal Scot. The other diagram did 1S47 (first EUS-GLC of the day), back to Euston, and work to Oxley on a EUS-WVH. Can’t remember which working. This kept these sets relatively captive, plus had Mk3 LHCS regularly working via Birmingham and Oxley with a Mk3 allocation other than catering, both of which were unusual for the time.

[@TheMichaelWilcock2016Railways]

Sorry I missed this, with almost 1000 download I sometimes miss one or two comments

[@graemehutchison5145]

Some great traction especially 85030 @23:02 you've got to love that roar. Thanks for sharing.

[@TheMichaelWilcock2016Railways]

More to come, now I have a newer VHS player at last !

[@dublo6231]

For shear variety of traction - Crewe in that era was just a mecca for rail enthusiasts. Thanks for sharing Mike

[@TheMichaelWilcock2016Railways]

At least I kept my original tapes: thanks for watching

[@Phil6219]

Very enjoyable Mike, thanks for sharing!

[@JasonBurtonTRAINS]

fantastic work as always Mike always a pleasure to watch fantastic selection of locomotives and very interesting kind regards from Jason 🖒🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃

[@TheMichaelWilcock2016Railways]

Sorry I pressed the " wide-angle" when I recorded this old vhs tape

[@craighobbs3708]

Much better calling pattern for the Euston train! - Preston, Crewe … maybe swap Watford for Milton Keynes, though!

[@stephenduncan3605]

Still can't understand why London trains don't call at Crewe as it would provide much better connections for places like Derby and Shrewsbury from the North.