Love this video. It reminds me of my own youth mis-spent spotting and riding trains in and out of this magnificent station. To most of the regular enthusiasts that visited , the valley lines DMU's were affectionately known locally as the C3's...the class 116s we all went to Barry Island on😎 So very different today! Still a great station and forever my favourite for all of my former happy days👍

Absolutely wonderful. So much has changed in 25 years, this is even pre-sprinter era. And the old curved platforms on the spur to the docks are still there - in those days used for parcels trains, but all gone now. Thanks very much.

Spent over 45 years on those platforms..nice video, thanks

Ahhh Cardiff back when the trains smoked a lot and went clickety-clack! We don't have that anymore but I used to remember so much as I went shopping with my mum.

Nostalgic step back in time, great vid

Thanks so much for sharing this. I was 7 when this was filmed and lived in Cardiff at the time. These days I pass through Cardiff Central Train Station very frequently so this was very interesting! Imo x

wonderful vid... brought back happy memory's, travelling from Portsmouth to Cardiff , was only interested in the hst , 37s etc... did not photograph the station much , the fish platform , post office esplanade station etc.. :(

Re 1:39. My old art teacher, Alan Warburton of Porth County Comprehensive school, painted the daffodils on the water tower. He also painted murals - a 150ft long one on Porth Station and several murals on public urinals in and around Porth - Prince Charles came to see one of them ...that's not a sentence you get to type everyday ;-)

@G0IMB

6 жыл бұрын

Diolch yn fawr gyfer ar hon :-)

Great to see the trains and the pigeon. Great video, thanks for sharing.

This is a fantastic vid, thanks ever so much for bringing back some awesome memories. I spent most of my youth at the end of platform 3!

Brings back memories of some Great Days at Central

Loved that some clips there and even percy pidgeon too!..Love that valenta scream ahh the good ole days...ta for sharing...

A wonderful video, thanks for sharing. I spent my lunchtimes at Central during that era. I wonder what happened to the beautiful station clocks?

@howardhall6915

4 жыл бұрын

In fifties i always went train spotting at that staion one penny for a platform ticket

What a vid, thanks for sharing!

The change to 150s started in 1987 - check out my Website, photos, page 7 of SouthWales section (that's how I found out). When I was the Depot Engineer in the DMU shed I avoided Pacers but they arrived after I left so it would be the early 1990s for Pacers.

1987 - there are some photos on my website, Whamart - click photos, South Wales, about the middle pages.

I don’t think so, but there were a few Derby built classes which looked similar. Someone must make one as I’ve seen them at model railway shows.

Love it, so much more interesting than today. That last shot - is that a 119-101-108 formation?

InterCity 125 should be the only one still existed in Cardiff Central, however the engine has been changed...

Out of interest when did 142s and 150s replace the 101s and 118s I know the 143s weren't introduced to the Welsh Valleys until 1991, I have read that class 150/2s replaced some first gen DMUs in 1987 while the rest were replaced by class 153s in 1992.

When were First Gen DMUs replaced on the welsh valley lines?

Great videos. Happy days during the 70s n 80s when I travelled from Salisbury to Tirphil. A crompton and 5 Mk1s to Cardiff, then a cl 117 up to Rhymney. Would it be at all possible to obtain any copies of your filming during the BR period, perhaps 1970s? onwards, even outtakes. I would be more than happy to pay for costs and it would be for private use only. I am currently modelling Bargoed 1970-1985 in OO.

@chris-io1ki

5 жыл бұрын

Valley lines DMU's were all originally 3 car class 116s. Set no.s C300-306 C312-320 and C330-335

What about the mail trains, never seen sacks moved so quick!!

I think it is a 116-101-108 formation. Things got a bit desperate sometimes.

Does anyone know the class of DMU at the 2:15 mark please? I grew up with all these trains in service (I was 8 in 1987) and have been trying to find out what class I remember going into town on with my late mother. Thank you.

@ianwalmsley2

4 жыл бұрын

That’s a class 116, used on the Valley lines.

@ulysses2162

4 жыл бұрын

@@ianwalmsley2 Thank you so much Ian... I have been trying to find out what class of train it was for a while now. I have such fond memories of it. Do you know if Hornby ever released a set in the 116 class by any chance?

there be monsters!

I feel too much North American influence (lack of electrification). Hope this is quashed soon with the electrification of the Severn Tunnel.

Tidy

Lovely video terrible station