Midland Mainline in 2003/04 - Valenta HST’s & more!
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Recently I discovered some home videos on VHS that were taken back in 2003 & 2004 on them was lots of old footage taken when I was younger. Obviously this was filmed when I was young some of it by myself and some by my dad. The quality isn’t up to much compared to today’s standards and my quality of filming has come along way but there’s still some salvageable, excellent footage of the Midland Mainline. Best sound is through headphones some awesome Valenta action in this video!
Some shots taken at the “original” St Pancras under the train shed as well as some footage at Bedford & Leicester.
This was also filmed during “project Rio”. For those of you who aren’t aware, while the West Coast Mainline was undergoing a face lift so to speak to allow for the pendolinos to run at 125mph, services were operating from St Pancras to Manchester Piccadilly because of the reduced capacity on the West Coast Route. Meaning some ex. Virgin HST’s & coaches moved over to Midland Mainline to help operate these services. Also at the same time Midland Mainline were undergoing their rebranding from the classic green & orange livery, to the more recent blue & grey livery. So some of the HST’s are a complete mix of colours! Red, blue & green as you will see.
Also featured is a Midland Mainline Class 170 Turbostar at St Pancras and a shot of the first ever class 222 Meridian I had ever seen, filmed in late 2004 just a month or so after entering service.
There’s a shot of a Central Trains class 156 arriving at Leicester.
Another few rare things to look out for are the EMU’s at Bedford! In the background a “Connex South Central” livery 319 operating for Thameslink and a shot of a WAGN class 317... at Bedford!
Certainly a few surprises, even for myself when I looked through the footage for the first time in what must have been over 15 years!
Enjoy this footage, hope it brings back some good memories as it did to me!
Thanks for watching!
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Great to see the old station at Pancras...
Back when the livery was by far one of the best out there.
@ashleyjiscool
7 ай бұрын
Og or remake?
@OfficialRyanx
7 ай бұрын
@@ashleyjiscool OG.
Very good video especially St Pancras before its transformation. :)
Oh very cool. So good to see that people are finding so much interesting retro material. Rather amusing that Class 222 Meridians are retro now, but the old Midland Mainline liveries certainly are. How nice the teal & tangerine was.
Ah the old Valenta sound. Thanks for the video.
2:47 OMG I remember them old announcements
Great video. Nice to see footage from back then.
Excellent video mate, nice trip back a couple of years.
Very nice selection of films
wow, been a while since I saw one of these "2003/2004" videos from you! great stuff :)
Nice 2002-2003 i wish i was around then
@cplayzstuff6907
3 жыл бұрын
Same
@1BarnetTE.
3 жыл бұрын
Same
@thumbsup3763
3 жыл бұрын
I was around when valenta's were just dissappearing in plave for mtu's
@trainandbusfan5706
3 жыл бұрын
You should have been around in the 70s almost everything was loco hauled it was brilliant.
@thumbsup3763
3 жыл бұрын
@@trainandbusfan5706 ye my dad was and the things he tells me about them is inspirational
I really do miss the amazing MML sky blue and light green livery it's looked so good on the class 43s and 222s I just wished they could bring back the amazing livery we all loved but it's never going to happen such a shame
I really miss the old announcement chimes and voice at 2:48
@arturmonteiro8541
9 ай бұрын
Do they still exist anywhere?
Awesome video and nice trains
I'll have to spare time to watch the whole video but its nice, especially during these covid restrictions, to be reminded of what use to be. On my Kindle, on 'My first Trainz set', the HST you get to drive actually has a Paxman Valenta engine in it 😍. Thanks for sharing 🙂👍! Edit (02/11/20): Yep, watched the whole video which was fantastic 🙂👍!
Lovely to hear those engines screaming... but I really miss being able to stand on the platform and really feel the power of it as it passed by...
Very good video, during project rio 2003/04,mml did hire in a first great western hst set, 43003/005,doing St Pancras - Manchester Piccadilly diagrams, had it for a run Leicester - Derby.
Brings back memories of when you could go to the buffet coach on MM and get 4 free cups of coffee, then take back to your single seat…. I wonder how much potential profit was lost in the 10+ years MM gave away tea & coffee for free
Cool
The Class 317 units,of course, were new for the BedPan line when electrified in the early 80's.
Who would of thought the 66 from 2003 hasn’t been updated inside of 2021 or 2015?
Nice archive footage and valenta scream.
I didn't know that those headlights of the Class 43s at 0:09 were around back then. I thought that those ones came about in 2006 to replace the original headlights at 0:24 completely by 2008. I do miss seeing those original ones.
I like the trains lines from early 2000s
@s125ish
3 жыл бұрын
Nathan's Railway Photography do you why?
@nathansrailwayphotography8125
3 жыл бұрын
@@s125ish to see what trains were like those days
@s125ish
3 жыл бұрын
@@nathansrailwayphotography8125 suppose if your young it's acient
@SionsTrainVideos
3 жыл бұрын
@@nathansrailwayphotography8125 me too
@SionsTrainVideos
3 жыл бұрын
and me
Bring them back
Wish I was around when the valentas were still in service
That mix livery HST is a nice livery 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The new head lights spoil the hst
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Such a shame I wasent around in the time of the valentas. I would of loved to see them screeming down the line.
@TrainPlaneHub
3 жыл бұрын
They were honestly the only thing that got me into trains so much when I was little, the sound used to scare me. They were so loud
@s125ish
3 жыл бұрын
Now hsts sound like dmus
@lamborghinihexagons5502
3 жыл бұрын
@@s125ish ikr MTU are nasty, now there are only 3 VP185s left
@lamborghinihexagons5502
3 жыл бұрын
same, i rlly wish i could hear a valenta irl