Trains at Oakham - 1984 & 1986

[@paulsouthgate8506]

Thanks again Roy for your wonderful 'time machine'! Incredible variety of locos and workings that are so sadly missing from today's UK rail scene.

[@tanyajackson3833]

The dieselisation of BR was a fiasco from a business point of view with so many different designs of loco. Fascinating for the enthusiast though!

[@simon_knows_stuff]

Great footage Roy, thank you for taking the time to share them with us. Very atmospheric too with the snow on the ground.

[@nutmeg5032]

Oh what happy memories, British engineered locos and rolling stock. Now they come from Spain,Japan,Italy,Germany, America etc. I believe the old Airfix kit oo gauge signalbox was based on the Oakham box. Great video.

[@cravensdmufan4449]

Excellent archive footage as always Roy. Very useful for modellers. Some nice short train formations. Very rare detail shot of Mk1 sleepers presumably going off for scrap. Great stuff. Great variety of traction - how I miss the good old BR days! I didn't want this video to end! Thanks very much for sharing your wonderful material.

[@markwilson8002]

Thanks for uploading, I used to love the class 31 passenger sets, 7 coaches, comfy seats, no over crowding.. Seems like we've gone backwards.

[@TheDaf95xf]

Morning from my holiday home in Spain 🇪🇸 What a great way too start our long journey home back to Manchester watching train videos lol 😆 Great BR blue locos especially the twin choppers 🤣 oil tail lamp too 😊 The 150 spoiled it but the 47 sorted that out.....😂 Thanks for shearing this great train spotting era 👍🏻 Stevie 😎

[@tulyar1043]

Enjoyed this video. Especially the views at Ketton. The person painting the area near the left-hand (downside) barrier was called Norman, who worked for the Works dept at Peterborough. The Midland lower quadrant signal in the background is the Ketton down starter, and is still there and working today.

[@trainsontuesday]

Fabulous video, Thanks for showing it. Much different traffic through there now.

[@simonroyle2806]

Wow as a student at Leicester 82-85 I travelled through here many times on the way to March. It seemed to take an age and the carriages were pretty grubby but I loved the journey such lovely countryside.

[@paulbaker916]

Another great video of classic diesel traction. Thanks for your continued uploads. Much appreciated.

[@KevBygrave]

0:37 look how clean those windows are! Brilliant video Roy, god I love these videos Thank you! I have always had a soft spot for the Brush type 2. Regards Kev

[@marknewlyn4365]

Excellent. Love all the oldies such variety. 😎

[@miketurton2705]

Good to see the Airfix Signal box (Oakham Level Crossing) looking so pristine!

[@kimjongbingbongtingtong4430]

Excellent footage, brings back some great memories. Only thing that wasn't on there were the New Street to Great Yarmouth 'holidaymaker specials' - basically a couple of rats with load 14+ that used to overhang every platform on the route - sometimes requiring a stop, then a shuffle and another stop, but thanks to common sense, falling out of the doors that weren't alongside the platform in the days before driver controlled CDL was invented wasn't an issue. The set used to arrive into Norwich where myself and a mate would be thrown out of the brake van with our bikes (basically in the middle of the shunting yard as it was MUCH too long) and we'd wheel them 100yds along the side of the stock until we reached the end of the platform. You wouldn't trust 10 year old's to do that now and H&S would be apopleptic at the idea, but we're both still around now. Thanks for the upload

[@Marcsharp82]

That shot of 25073 is just exquisite

[@antman09ful1]

Great Video Roy, thank for sharing. Mike.

[@robertsmalley8138]

Good to see you are still as keen as ever . I still have the picture you took 45506 at Nottingham . Bob

[@royharrison4122]

HI Bob, How are you? not heard from you for ages.

[@petersharp7644]

This is excellent Roy, both in subject matter and technical quality. You should try offering the footage to one of the major Railway DVD companies, for example Train Crazy or Transport Video Publishing. I'm sure they would be very interested. What a unique sight at Oakham too, with the 31 moving the presumably redundant Mark 1 sleepers out of the passing loop. I wonder if they were heading for scrapping by Mayer Newman at Snailwell?

[@royharrison4122]

Thank you Peter, I have had some video on Paul Furtek's Locomaster Profiles DVD. yes I am sure the Mk1 Sleepers were going to the scrap yard.

[@mickclarke4579]

Surprised at the lack of 37's in this era, nice shot of ford escort xr3i !!

[@warwickroad4111]

Thoroughly enjoyable,thanks for sharing! What a great variety of locos,freight, with signal boxes,crossings and semaphores. Even, I think, a MK4 Ford Cortina at 10.10, and an Escort XR3i at 14.35, lol. So lucky to have had an interest in the railways in that era. I cannot get any enthusiasm over modern diesel locos. Sure, they are easier for maintenance access, hugely powerful and efficient, but they all look like corrugated garden sheds from B&Q! Classes 58/59/66/67 and the 70 (what's that all about?!) Thanks again.

[@royharrison4122]

Thank you, keep watching for my next Archive Video that should have some good shots of cars in a Station Car Park.

[@warwickroad4111]

Lol!

[@derekporter7658]

I miss the sound of English Electric and Sulzer engines.

[@JasonBurtonTRAINS]

Absolutely fantastic video Roy it's good to see video's of train's which we're absolutely amazing in the old day's they we're absolute workhorses ( I was wondering if you had any more video's from norwich) 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@royharrison4122]

Thank you Jason, I don't recall doing anymore Video at Norwich, but I am slowly going through the old footage so may come across some, just doing Kings Lynn & Cambridge area next.

[@JasonBurtonTRAINS]

@@royharrison4122 I shall totally look forward to watching them when you post them on your KZbin channel 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@neilgen2003]

Brilliant, keep them coming 👍

[@johnfellows2867]

The Airfix signal box kit is modelled on the Oakham one.

[@akcbcmcb]

Nice pair of 20's with the empty's on the way back to Wirksworth for some more Sugar Stone.

[@mrmrst9020]

Brilliant 👍

[@annescholey6546]

Wonder where the Peak was dashing off to?

[@antman09ful1]

What software do you use Roy from video to computer please. Regards Mike.

[@royharrison4122]

Hello Mike, I use an Ezycap to transfer from VHS/Video8 to the computer then it is captured in " Power Director" for all the editing.

[@antman09ful1]

Roy thank you very much for this info..

[@EssexGayBoi]

Wow, what another fabulous video, would love to have seen this lot in the day, like someone else said am down south & only saw stuff through Barking/Stratford. So where is Oakham & Ketton please? Keep the vids coming :D loving these :D

[@royharrison4122]

Pleased you enjoyed the Video, Oakham & Ketton are in Rutland, England's smallest county on the line from Leicester to Peterborough with Manton Jct going off to Corby & Kettering.