awwww lovely lovely footage. brings it all back. my grandad used to live in new malden and those iconic sounds i remember so so well, i used to hear from over the way when i used to visit my grandad for a cuppa. wonderful days. also it’s nice to the various slam door emus when they still had their cab ends still without that nasty headlight..as they originally were…no headlight..just that illuminated headcode.
@OldOakTrains5 ай бұрын
New Malden, know it well, my parents used to shop at the Bejam (now Iceland) under the tower block next to the station, when frozen food was still a novelty! Mrs Old Oak Trains worked in New Malden for the first few years we were married, so yes, I know the area well: good memories from the 1980s. Thanks for commenting 😊👍
@drewliszka41869 ай бұрын
Fantastic viewing thanks for posting .
@OldOakTrains9 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it 👍😊. thanks.
@blueskiesabove39509 ай бұрын
Great stuff thanks. I wonder, had all the REPs been retired by this time in 1988?
@AndreiTupolev9 ай бұрын
They'd mostly been withdrawn, though I think three were retained for a while yet
@OldOakTrains9 ай бұрын
Thanks for commenting 👍😊
@mattflaneur4077 ай бұрын
Thanks for posting this. Happy memories of that thudding class 50 beat! I used to hear that from my childhood home 1km away as they opened up heading out through Wimbledon. Although my trainspotting memories are from slightly earlier in the 1980s when they were going through the class refurb and generally (in my memory anyway) were in a lot better condition externally. With a quarter pound paper bag of jelly beans I was happy as Larry on Elm Grove Bridge c1981. 🙂🗒✏
@OldOakTrains7 ай бұрын
Hi Matt. My memories date from the early 80s too, it’s just I couldn’t afford a video camera back then; not that they were available in 1981! Spent many happy school lunchtimes on that footbridge waiting for the 13:10 Waterloo-Exeter hauled by a blue liveried 50 - happy days 👍😊 cheers; Geoff.