It's always great to see Videos of Kensington Olympia as was. Still worth a visit nowadays, although dominated by the frequent TFL trains.

@spompey

16 күн бұрын

Many thanks Mark....It has always been an interesting route for freight heading to and from the continent......best regards...mark

Lovely when XC was run with comfortable trains to many more destinations. The 1745 Dover Western Docks to Manchester Piccadilly was regularly patronised by myself as far as Watford Junction 😁

@s125ish

9 ай бұрын

Was there ever a Kent to Scotland service?

@EM-yk1dw

9 ай бұрын

@@s125ish No but you had the Sussex Scot from Brighton, and in the Summer it used to start at Eastbourne.

@spompey

9 ай бұрын

There was indeed ...The Sussex Scot....You are very welcome and Many thanks for the comment and best wishes....Mark

@shedontanks

9 ай бұрын

@@s125ish In 1998/1999 there was the Ramsgate-Glasgow service which was booked for D9000 as far as Birmingham

Another great video, oh how I yearn for those days! 47 803 in fantastic early Inter City livery looked superb. If only they'd left the livery like that.

@spompey

9 ай бұрын

You are very welcome and Many thanks for the comment and best wishes....Mark

Thanks so much for sharing this, I used to visit Olympia Exhibition centre a couple of times a year during the 80's, and I would try to get a 'direct' train from Manchester, that usually ran via Birmingham, Oxford and Reading, and I would spend some time photographing on the station, I loved the old signal box and the GWR lower quadrant signals. There was an evening service, that ran for about a year at 16:40 Manchester Piccadilly to Brighton, that was quite a fast train as it ran via the normal Picc- Euston route to Willesden where they exchanged the electric loco for a 47 and the train then ran via Olympia and onto the Brighton line from Clapham Junction, it saved crossing town and made a change arriving into Brighton behind a 47 insteadof the usual 3rd rail EMU.

@spompey

9 ай бұрын

I remember this service well too.....You are very welcome and Many thanks for the comment and best wishes....Mark

At 2:00 the lady opening the guards van on her own and collecting her bike ! can you imagine that today? There must have been an event at Olympia for the District line to be running.

@ClydebridgeStation

9 ай бұрын

By the time this video was made, the District Line Olympia branch was back to all day running.

@spompey

9 ай бұрын

Getting her bike onto the train in the first place would be the problem..... Many thanks for the comment and best wishes....Mark

Fantastic video. Great memories,great times. 😊

@spompey

9 ай бұрын

You are very welcome and Many thanks for the comment and best wishes....Mark

Great video. Weird to see an InterCity train stopping at Olympia like it's completely normal.

@davidwolstenholme6413

9 ай бұрын

It was completely normal lots of xcountry trains stopped there as far as I know.

@class43matty

9 ай бұрын

Its not weird...Its normal to see a XC train stop at Olympia Even though Brighton services from Edinburgh Manchester or Birmingham was completely normal back in those days.

@AndreiTupolev

9 ай бұрын

It was. There were several cross-country services a day to Brighton, Dover, Ramsgate and places

@jimmyhillschin9987

9 ай бұрын

What a pedantic, pointless statement.@@class43matty

@jimmyhillschin9987

9 ай бұрын

Obviously it *was*. But since it hasn't happened for decades it most certainly is not now.@@AndreiTupolev

Great video!

@spompey

7 ай бұрын

Many thanks Paul....Mark

Found another 47 that's on my layout, 47831 Bolton Wanderer. It's quite interesting you got both 47803 and 47831. 47803 was due to be named "Bolton Wanderer", but for some reason it wasn't available. So, newly converted 47831 was spruced up, and received the name instead. When 47831 was 47563, it carried the name "Women's Guild", and this was put onto 47803 instead. And if you've understood all of that, then I haven't explained it properly!

@spompey

9 ай бұрын

Understood well my good friend......You are very welcome and Many thanks for the comment and best wishes....Mark

Do you know when the Motorail terminal closed? I remember it being open in 1982. The track looks as it has been lifted, for quite a while, in your video.

@spompey

9 ай бұрын

I do know when I worked at OOC we had turns to Olympia for the car trains, but that was in the later 1970s....I guess it was around mid 1980s......many thanks....Mark

16:45It's Test Coach Iris, now preserved at the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, I think!

@spompey

9 ай бұрын

You are most welcome and many thanks for watching and for commenting....best regards...MARK

Noticed it was pre 3rd rail when it was diesel back then..Good times.

@spompey

9 ай бұрын

You are very welcome and Many thanks for the comment and best wishes....Mark

47418 would have been rather noteworthy, as it was by then allocated to Immingham, and lasted a couple more years before it was withdrawn

@spompey

9 ай бұрын

Again many thanks for the info Andrei....Mark

56032 County of South Glamorgan followed by 56053 County of Mid Glamorgan is pretty neat

The billboard to the top left? Says B..Stard? Wonder if 1989 was around the time comic genius Rik Mayall was premiering his new tv show "The New Statesman"? His character was called Alan B Stard.. Just a thought??. Great traction. Shame no pairs of 33s on stone trains but no matter. Great videos!

@spompey

9 ай бұрын

And great comedians....none of this political correctness stuff like today......33s on stone trains will appear very shortly around S London locations......best wishes....Mark

@christopherruff2464

9 ай бұрын

@@spompey cool. Cheers Mark.

47 heaven

@spompey

6 ай бұрын

You're most welcome and many thanks...Mark

I assume all these Loco's were ULEZ compliant, as we didn't have thousands dropping dead daily with chest complaints......

@spompey

9 ай бұрын

Not sure what ULEZ is......but Many thanks for the comment and best wishes....Mark

@MSmifffy

18 күн бұрын

Well, sadly they did and they still do: www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/environment-and-climate-change/pollution-and-air-quality/ultra-low-emission-zone-ulez-london/ulez-frequently-asked-questions/what-evidence-air-pollution-leads-around-4000-premature-deaths#:~:text=Imperial%20College%20London%2C%20globally%20renowned,deaths%20of%20around%204%2C000%20Londoners.

Wondering why there’s a large billboard that says B*STARD over the south end of the station! 😂

@spompey

9 ай бұрын

There was I believe....Many thanks for the comment and best wishes....Mark

@AndreiTupolev

9 ай бұрын

It could be a reference to Alan B'Stard, Rik Mayall's character from the TV series The New Statesman?