i have to go into new street twice a week now with work, it depresses me so much . I used to go practically every saturday as a little spotter and remember days like this , great video mate

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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@kevinfowkes2327

11 ай бұрын

It's a boring interest-free loco desert now but the one saving grace is the massive reduction in diesel fumes. Boy was New Street a smelly smoky hole in the 1980s. The clapped out cross city DMUs running in and out constantly, leaving a haze of blue clag in their wake. Diesel locos aplenty on the cross country and summer Saturday holiday expresses, and 31s on the Birmingham-Norwich route. The concrete above the station and tunnels at both end gave the smoke very limited chance to escape before the next mushroom cloud of it arrived. In retrospect it seems a no brainer that spending hours on end on stations like this did our young lungs no good at all. Catching whiff of it at a preserved railway or classic car show brings it all back.

@nickedwards2904

11 ай бұрын

@@kevinfowkes2327 and yet i am a serious asthmatic and was never ever ill as a result of a day out at new street , the fact u r outdoors is massive. someone passive smoking in a house is far far worse than a day in 1980s new street believe me smoke in a shopping centre , pub etc was a far worse issue for an asthmatic than an exhaust fume going upwards from an engine in an open environment.

Memories memories memories, I used to love coming here from Bristol in the early to mid 1980s , @ 20:20 86252 I am fortunate to have most of the front end flamecut of this loco

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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What another fabulous reminder of a much missed bygone era. Great to compare New Street with your video of Derby. 2 very busy stations, but with totally different atmospheres.

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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I've travelled though BNS quite a few times since 1989 as an adult, but never as a spotter when I was a kid. Having seen this, I wish I had done.

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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lovely film brings back great memories of New Street station . I've been telling my wife about the beer glass filling above New Street station for years and couldn't find footage of it I think she thought I was making it up so cheers for leaving it in at the end .

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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Another wonderful vid of the better days of the railway imo

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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@kevinfowkes2327

11 ай бұрын

Better for enthusiast interest undoubtedly. But look how empty many of the trains are in this video. Not many passengers on the platform either, outnumbered by enthusiasts a lot of the time. Basically the railways were dying of neglect and lack of passengers in the 1980s. What a contrast with today when pretty much everything is full to heaving. Yes often a much less pleasant travelling experience but we can be far more confident today that the passenger railways have a sustainable future - freight perhaps a different discussion.

Great Video, bought back happy memories

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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Real trains with superb locos - British, spacious and not rocking and rolling like motorbikes!

@spompey

4 күн бұрын

Many thanks and best wishes...I like motorbikes too....Mark

Great film once again.

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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What memories, took it all for granted, sat on a brute watching it all, happy as could be!!

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

I think we all did that at the time....many thanks for watching. and for the comment..best wishes...Mark

My grandad used to take me here or Wolverhampton train station to go train spotting plus Smethwick Rolfe Street as him and my Nan only lived a few mile away in Smethwick. Great memories👍👌❤️ Then after a few hours train spotting go upstairs into the shopping centre to Beatties toy shop and look at the model trains wishing they was all mine😢😂😂

@spompey

11 ай бұрын

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.... and that was how most of my youth was mis-spent, at BNS, Bescot and Saltley, LOLZ.

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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Some great movement and footage

@spompey

8 ай бұрын

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Just needs Small Town Boy playing by the Communards doesn't it? So very 1980s. Fascinating video of a long-gone Era. Mind you, whilst interesting and what a joy so many locos around, the downside is surely the fact the place looks absolutely filthy and it cannot have been easy using all those slam-door carriages (I mean, my Mum must have done but a kid, a buggy, the shopping/luggage, ugh).

@dislecsyk991

Жыл бұрын

Bronski Beat 👍

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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@kevinfowkes2327

11 ай бұрын

Buggies were a lot smaller in the 80s and it was a cast iron rule to take the kid out and fold them up whether going on the train or the bus. If you would have tried to wheel them on with the kid sitting inside you would not have been treated kindly either by staff or fellow passengers. Yes a completely different story today, we expect to push big unfolded prams and buggies onto public transport, when my own kids were small I was as guilty of doing that as everyone else.

Fabulous archive! I cant believe the amount of Duffs there were! Would the Peak actually terminate at Euston, because i never saw one there in those times?

@spompey

8 ай бұрын

I believe the peak came off at Nst.....I too have never seen a peak at Euston...many thanks.....Mark

@siddywiddyb

8 ай бұрын

Oh right! Thank you Mark!@@spompey

I got married in October 1987 so the chances are I was probably there somewhere. Great video mate and very happy days.

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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At 15:58, we see 87006 with the name "Glasgow Garden Festival". It had previously been named "City of Glasgow", but gained this name, in late 1987, to promote the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival. After the festival finished, 87006 regained its "City of Glasgow" name. Incidentally, the only other garden festival to be treated to a locomotive name, was Gateshead in 1990, when a HST power car was named, at London kings Cross of all places!

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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That NSE livered 47 hauled train. Wonder if that was the BHM-Lon Padd via High Wycombe?

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

Yes it very well could have been.....Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark

@kevinfowkes2327

11 ай бұрын

The last Birmingham-Paddington via the High Wycombe route came to an end in May 1982. All trains after that went via Oxford and Reading. From 1982 to around 1990 there was one loco-hauled train per day in each direction from Paddington via High Wycombe (almost always a 50) but it started/finished at Banbury. I went on it as a 12 year old in 1988, 50024 with NSE mark 2 stock.

@spompey

11 ай бұрын

@@kevinfowkes2327 Correct in every detail The turn was an OOC turn......and many thanks for watching and best regards....Mark

An InterCity Scotrail 47 was pretty large, particularly if it was heading for the South Coast, when it would have been upgraded to massive

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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London Euston train 45 minutes late?!

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

Well that was a rarity then.....Many thanks for watching and your comment, sorry for the late response was away for 2 weeks...best wishes...Mark

Fantastic times. No character nowadays.

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

..many thanks for watching and for the comment...best wishes....Mark

But the InterCity arriving behind 86258 at4:00is a reminder how one would often need to clean a small area of the window by one's seat (if you were on the platform side) with a water-soaked paper towel from the lavatory if you wanted to be able to see out.

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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Thank you very much for the upload.I have not been to new street since it was rebuilt the signal box has now been closed down signalling been taken over by saltley I believe do you have any videos of class 86 87s running from manchester glasgow or liverpool to london euston at all ? especially from the cab It does not matter if you do not.I just thought that I would ask.thank you very much again.

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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@stephensutcliffe1555

Жыл бұрын

@@spompey thank you.

How come Doyle from CI5 is on the platform opposite?

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

But where is Bodie I ask ? Best wishes....Mark (Not from CI5)

Mix of 310's refurbished (flat windscreens, formic side panels, fluorescent lights, striped moquette) and non refurbished (wood laminate panels, wrap around windscreens). Not a single 304 though. Also a duff on the Padd, not that common then. MK3 RMB's starting to appear, as well as TDM cables on AC locos.

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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Wonderful, today trains all look the same,next to no goods on railways now put it all the roads makes no sense,and as for stopping there parcels Sevier in this day and age thats got to be the biggest covk up every

@spompey

2 ай бұрын

There's no logic to it Chris....many thanks and my sincere regards...Mark