Absolutely cracking video of a station I have driven trains into many thousands of times. Fabulous to rekindle memories when the Peak rolled in.....Happy days....

@spompey

2 ай бұрын

You're very welcome and now I am jealous that you drove "Peaks" one class of loco I never even rode in....Many thanks and best wishes....Mark

Sheffield was a great place for lots of smokey DMU's and a good variety of loco hauled stock. Happy memories of how it used to be

@spompey

10 ай бұрын

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

@kevinfowkes2327

10 ай бұрын

Pompey has captured well the last year or so before the Sprinters and Pacers really took over Sheffield, not just the loco hauled services to Manchester, Nottingham, Harwich but the locals to Leeds and Doncaster as well. By 87 the local old DMUs were in a terrible condition, noisy and smoky, after 30 years of being worked to death...especially the class 110 Calder Valley sets which appear particularly decrepit on the video and were scrapped soon after.

@cedarcam

10 ай бұрын

@@kevinfowkes2327 Yes it is great to see video of the less glamorous trains. The beginning of the video telling of a mechanical fault with a DMU becoming a more common announcement. The Calder Valley unit arriving first is led by a car which lost its headcode box, I think in a fire. Those units were some of the last built and although run down by now were still better than some earlier Birmingham RCW units that rattled along. By now the centre cars were being removed and I set out to get video of the last 3 car set running.

@spompey

10 ай бұрын

@@kevinfowkes2327 Many thanks kevin for your interesting comment, much appreciated....Mark

Just how I remember 'Midland' trainspotting with my Dad, used to buy me a Mars Bar and a hot chocolate from the vending machine, happy days 😊

@spompey

10 ай бұрын

A proper Mars Bar as well....Many thanks for the memory and for watching....mark

Happy memories for me as it was always a good trip out from Manchester 😊 I can remember going round Darnall sheds at the stroke of midnight collecting DMU numbers from the scrap line lol 😆 I was also fortunate enough to travel the Woodhead route to Victoria before it closed 😢

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks for watching and for your comment best wishes...Mark

Note the empty newspaper vans arriving into platform 1 at around 15:00. September 1987 was very close to the end of all newspaper services on BR so a lucky capture here. The Murdoch newspapers famously stopped using rail at the start of 1986 from the start of the Wapping dispute and after that the remaining papers shifted onto road quite rapidly, leaving very little traffic on rail. I think the last services just about lasted into 1988 but by this point there was already very little left.

@spompey

10 ай бұрын

Many thanks again Kevin.....Mark

Yet more great footage. I recall the announcers voice so well.

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

Many Many thanks for the comment and best regards....Mark

@kevinfowkes2327

10 ай бұрын

Me too. There were two lady announcers who were the mainstay of Sheffield station in the 80s. This one, who sounded like she had a constantly blocked nose, while the other sounded a bit like Barbara Windsor with a Yorkshire accent. I'm sorry the second one wasn't on duty the day you were there as she was much better....her tones do fleetingly appear on a couple of Sheffield YT videos from the period. EDIT - you can hear the other main announcer on this video, about 1 minute 20 seconds in kzread.info/dash/bejne/YnWOy8R7fN3dp7g.html

@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne

2 ай бұрын

@@kevinfowkes2327 Many thanks. I followed the link and do indeed remember that voice too. I also agree about the voice of the lady in this video: DIRE.

Hearing the distinctive sounding woman announcer who was at Sheffield in the 1980s brings back memories for me, and BR's standard three-note chime that preceded the announcements at a lot of stations back then.

@spompey

Ай бұрын

Sadly all automated now.....Many thanks Alan and best regards...Mark

@alanyearsley9731

22 күн бұрын

@@spompey Yes, very true, public address system technology has come a long way since then. They still do occasionally make manual announcements, though.

Remember using Sheffield to change trains to visit my nan in Cleethorpes as a kid.

Even though I know nothing about trains back then or now, this is still great to see. Brings back lots of memories and nostalgia. I used to love seeing trains, hearing them, the noises and smells. Something abit magical about it all when I was a kid. My son loves seeing trains too. We know sod all about them but have learnt a bit through playing Train Sim World 3.

@spompey

24 күн бұрын

That is true and many thanks for your interest always appreciated....Mark

@AlexMitchell-sj4sb

24 күн бұрын

@@spompey hey I just noticed your user name, are you from Pompey? I lived there for 5 and half years. I am back in Sheffield now and lived here as a kid.

@spompey

24 күн бұрын

@@AlexMitchell-sj4sb Around the Pompey area to the north.....best wishes to you....Mark

@AlexMitchell-sj4sb

23 күн бұрын

@@spompey ah OK, I know the area well, lived in Gosport too.

Thanks for sharing, brings back many happy memories of my teens, Sheffield was a place I passed through en route to Worksop in order to see the coal workings - 20s/56s and 58s in the early 80s.

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

Many Many thanks for the comment and best regards....Mark

Things seemed more interesting back then, what's more interesting these days to me are some of the wagons with the complex mechanisms such as those used by network rail. Interesting to see how messy we were back then with all the litter on the track also the air looks dirty and poluted.

@spompey

5 ай бұрын

All those hydro carbons I expect....many thanks Kev and best regards...Mark

Nice catch of the Route Learner 👍👍😎

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

Better than sitting and watching a video as the training school at Waterloo did then.....Many Many thanks for the comment and best regards....Mark

I was at Sheffield that Day Waiting for 45115 On the Newcastle-Poole-And Did the Peak to Birmingham.

@spompey

Ай бұрын

Good old days eh Graham....Many thanks and my sincere regards to you...Mark

What an amazing selection of fist generation DMUs . I wonder when the new stock is "life expired" they will be remembered so fondly?

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks for watching and for your comment best wishes...Mark

@kevinfowkes2327

10 ай бұрын

From my memories of the 80s I don't recall normal passengers being at all fond of the old DMUs, except perhaps if they liked to sit in the front and see where they were going. But even then, many drivers pulled the blind down. When life expired they were noisy, dirty, smoky, smelly, slow and hideously unreliable. The new Sprinter units increased passenger numbers substantially (ironically beginning the overcrowding that still haunts the urban north to this day). Completely different for enthusiasts of course.

The 31 on Dearne turn as it was known, a fairly solid DMU hauled working at the time. I had 31147 and a few others on this reliable turn. The units were fairly unreliable by this point on this particular route.

@spompey

11 ай бұрын

many thanks for the info as always and of course for watching and for the comment...best wishes....Mark

@kevinfowkes2327

10 ай бұрын

"The Dearne turn" always difficult because of the severe mining subsidence between Sheffield and Leeds/York, the Calder Valley 110 units were designed for the Yorkshire hills in their prime but were falling apart by the late 80s (as highlighted in this footage)...no surprise they became very unreliable.

12:36 Peak on the move! 🚂👍

@spompey

10 ай бұрын

Yes I would say, not going for scrap just yet.....many thanks....Mark

Peaks with intercity stock? Never seen that.

@megamanmuppet

Жыл бұрын

Looks like a Cross Country working what with Western Region stock.

Harwich PK! Wow.

@spompey

10 ай бұрын

....many thanks....Mark

What no 1500v DC?

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

All gone by then....big shame...Many thanks for the comment and also for watching...much appreciated....Mark

@kevinfowkes2327

10 ай бұрын

There never was electrification of any description at Sheffield Midland...scandalously there still isn't except for the trams running next to the station. If you're referring to the Woodhead system elsewhere in the city it sadly closed a few years before decent affordable video cameras became available....there is a bit of silent cine film of it on YT and also some TV documentary footage but unfortunately nothing of this sort.

Mansfield and Alfreton parkway now just simple Alfreton

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

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

@kevinfowkes2327

10 ай бұрын

My local station as a child. Reopening Mansfield station in the 90s meant the old name had to change. But it's also lost its old status as well, it was marketed as a major InterCity railhead in the 70s and 80s mostly for long distance travel (served by 2 hourly Sheffield-St Pancras, 3x Nottingham-Glasgow services per day and The European to Harwich)...local traffic was small and discouraged. Today it's merely another stop for the all stations Leeds and Liverpool sprinters, few long distance passengers and indeed the final weekday peak hour St Pancras express routed that way was recently removed from the timetable.

Was the Peak on a Cross Country or Harwich? Shame I couldn't see the stock from the 47s running around ?!

@spompey

Жыл бұрын

The peak was on the Harwich, normally booked for a 45.....Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark

@BenDover-ln6ns

11 ай бұрын

@@spompeySurely the duff was on the North West Dane, I’m sure that train was booked a 31 at the time.

@BenDover-ln6ns

11 ай бұрын

The North West Dane comes from Blackpool hence the engine change, not sure what worked it forward cause 449 worked the afternoon Rhinelander to Harwich, and 45115 is on the 7:45 Newcastle-Poole 1O05. Surprised to see a 47 on the North West Dane as it was a fairly solid EH 31.

@spompey

11 ай бұрын

@@BenDover-ln6ns Yes it may well have been....many thanks for watching and for the comment...best wishes....Mark

@spompey

11 ай бұрын

@@BenDover-ln6ns Again fantastic info to have now.....much appreciated...Mark

Could not understand the train station announcements

@spompey

10 ай бұрын

Not many could.......many thanks....Mark

@sullivanrachael

2 ай бұрын

I couldn’t understand what she said back in 1987 when I was there either!!!

Nice one. I see 45115 there, just been given the APOLLO painted name, as i'd photed her at York 6 weeks earlier without said name. One of the very few snaps i got of a peak, despite me being a regular to St.Pancras in the 80's uh!

@spompey

10 ай бұрын

What a great name that is........many thanks....Mark.