Those were the days. Thanks for posting. Memories awakened!!!!

Used to live close to there. Great memories.

A big thank you .excellent video thank you.

another nice video from my favourite era lots of peaks and a busy bubble car thanks.........keith.

Fantastic! Love these circa 1985-1992 videos of the Midland Main Line around Kettering. Brings back many memories. Please post more! Thanks :-)

Good to see some old footage that doesnt just show through one headphone.

The footage shown is truly the best of British Engineering. Dare i say that I miss the halcyon days of the diesel /diesel electric /diesel hydraulic locomotives. Wonderful and stirring images from a bygone age, (😢). I now wonder more so about people who lived through the demise /end of steam, (🤔). I love the friendly blare of horns of the HST driver.❤.(18:16/18:22). Thank you for the upload. Delboy.

@MrDeltic15

3 ай бұрын

Yes, you dare say that, and I wouldn't disagree - these days it's getting harder and harder to find locos of interest.

Thank you. Still got more footage from the 80's and 90's to come, so stay tuned each weekend for these oldies!

Thanks very much. I'm really glad so many people enjoy my movies, I never dreamt when I started on here I would get such a following.

Hi my name is Phil I did 50yrs on the footplate 1961 to 1968 on steam I finished my time out at longsight as a driver bu1962 till 1964 I was at Trafford Park shed and worked on the class 45s from Manchester Central to London Regards.Phil.

That was really lovely to watch!!! Thanks for posting it on You Tube!!! 10 out of 10 etc!!!

Fantastic video, and memories. I started my train spotting days at Glendon Junction with 45108 being my first spot. Have been searching the net for video of the DH 25's brick train which used to run northbound daily at just after 3pm.

Thank you - it takes me back to those days too, and makes me feel old!

aah the good days. Love peaks and grids and ur videos. This is my fav oldie video

Thanks very much Steve. These were the days indeed.

Absolutely Brilliant Darren, watching this video makes us realise what we are missing nowadays, a great variety of loco's, keep "em" coming, it's a like, and added to my favourites, cheers...Bill

Lovely memories, grew up in Desborough and was a keen spotter late 70s and 80s. We used to bike to glendon junction to catch freights coming off the manton line, remember the signal used to be raised ages before the freight finally appeared around the curve, you could hear it's thrash coming for ages. All those summer holidays spent on East midland rovers, sadly long departed memories and childhood friends and adventures

I'm loving these oldies

Quality has held up really well. Great to hear the differant loco sounds. You had company as well..Be great to see a D.H. parcels these days. Another nice compilation from the past

A Superb trip down memory lane - great video

Nice old footage 👍

marvellous, wonderful stuff, such variety of traction. Great shots and sounds from the locomotives - awesome 56 coming off the curve into view making really light work of the loaded Redland train

Thanks very much Bill. We are missing a lot today indeed - you really have to put the work in now to find some decent 'classic' locos running on the network.

Thanks, glad you're enjoying them. More Peaks and Grids to come still.

Used to bike from Rothwell to "Blue Bridge" to catch the action in the late 1960"s. Many thanks for the memories.

@MrDeltic15

8 жыл бұрын

+gardbjj24 I lived just down the road in Rushton back then, so "Blue Bridge" and Glendon Junction were just a walk across the fields for me - memories indeed.

@gardbjj24

8 жыл бұрын

+MrDeltic15 In the US now. My Dad was in the US forces in WW2 and stayed in. I spent many summer days in the "60s with Grand parents in Rothwell. Grandad was a "driver" on LMS I have pics of him and LMS 10000 in Kettering.

It's interesting you can see the beginnings of the track rationalisation in the background and that they haven't re-instated the 3rd & 4th line that ran for a short distance north of the turnout to Corby where the signal box used to be. You can see the track has been taken out in this video

Thanks very much Ian. This old(new back then of course!)video camera really captured the sound well, and of course having some Grid noise was always welcome :-)

Thank you very much.

Really good to see this. We used to spend every summer evening we could down there or BL or Wellingborough shed in the 70's and early 80's. I can remember green 20's. My earliest memory is watching an Ivatt up the Cranford branch and there are pictures somewhere of me watching a 8f at Glendon bridge but I was 3. Main memories are early diesels, peaks and more peaks! I walk the dog there now, there's these tram things that go by now and again and the occasional steam special.

@MrDeltic15

7 жыл бұрын

Well I was born in nearby Rushton and spent most of my life there, so i'm very familiar with Glendon. Steam finished just before I was born though, so my earliest memories are of 20's, 25's, 45's, and 47's before the HST's and then 56's and 58's arrived. There's quite a bit of footage on my channel from Glendon Junction in the late 1980's, and if you walk the dog up there now you've probably seen my Dad and his dog!

Wonderful video Darren. As Ian has commented on, the soundtrack to this video is a real delight to listen to. It's good to know that at least the 31's are still a fairly regular sight and sound to see on the MML, even if they are only on the odd test train. I have only ever tried one spot to the immediate north of Kettering and that was at Braybrooke in 2011. I have seen on google maps your spot pointing towards Kettering. Will have to try that area soon.

Love the video at numerous points but especially at 17.20 and 19.20 !

@MrDeltic15

8 жыл бұрын

+Paul Bennett Thank you very much - the Corby 'Bubble' was a lovely classic DMU trip back in the day.

AMAZING video mate...The Middy in its former glory, just how it used to be...!!! ~ so many different variations of Passenger traffic here..obviously this being the beginning of the HST era, but still with 45 's which ruled these tracks...& yet to my suprise, so many 47 's..always thought these to be quite Rare on passenger..on the Midland..?? ...Talking of 47 's..very nice indeed to see 2 of my favorite freight formations here..." 47 's on Roundie 's "...very cool indeed..love ' em !!!....., so nice to see 31 's as well ~ Jeese be god. if only the Midland was still like this..!!! :)

Great days. Used to go there in 70's and 80's on our bikes. Any train with an engine on the front always had loads of idiots hanging out the windows, one was usually me. Walked the dog there today in fact.

Thanks a lot. The bubble car was on Kettering to Corby shuttles. The parcel DMU's were about a bit in the late 80's and early 90's - forerunners to 325's in a way! The combos on the parcels trains were quite regular and used to get locos down to London for later parcel workings without the need for a light engine move.

This has to be the best video on you tube for proper Peak thrash! Bloody fantastic Darren! Any more like this?

Thanks. One coming up each weekend for the rest of this year and into 2014 you'll be pleased to know then :-)

I'm on Glendon road bridge looking south at Kettering. As you're looking at that shot the two lines to the left are the slow lines, with the left(former up slow)line just made bi-directional and the adjacent former down slow now disconnected awaiting lifting. The up and down main lines are to the right, and the crossover(Kettering North Junction)between these and the bi-di slow(cutting the old down slow in two)had just been installed to replace Glendon North Junction which had been removed.

Thanks Keith. A bit of loco variety from where I grew up in this one indeed, very different to today. Did have a bit of company from a friend, sadly no longer with us though.

Thanks very much. Still a bit more footage from the 1980's to come yet :-)

Thanks a lot. Yes, a bit more like, but we are approaching the end of the Peaks running - however the final selection still to come includes some footage riding behind with some nice thrash, and the final ever passenger working for a Peak on the Midland.

Another fantastic video again . len

I didn't realise the Corby run re-opened that early :-)

Thanks Hayden. Yes, we've been a bit spoilt for Class 31's on the MML lately, almost like to good old days! Locos certainly sounded better back then too, none of the yinging 66's of today. Some of these spots are still ok for shots today, and Rushton worth visiting soon as two of the bridges are being taken down and replaced anytime now.

Great footage. Question: the HSTs.....................could they only function as a set? Were they powerful enough to haul a train as a single traction unit? Could the? I've only ever seen them on film working as a set. Could they perform alone/working with other locos?

@ianforfun1

8 жыл бұрын

Hello Supa, The design of the HST sets including the locomotives were just for that.....high speed and a low weight of train typically 7 or 8 coaches. True that they had the power of a type 4 Diesel at 2,250 HP each and originally there were plans to incorporate a driver cabin at the blunt end of each loco and was abandoned, some HST sets do have buffer beams on the Grand Central trains sets but I've never seen one on loco duty. The newer class 91 electric locos have a cab at each end (Blunt and sharp) and have full buffer beams. The closest loco to a HST loco is the 125mph class 87 rated at 3.800 HP is a Bo-Bo design and seen working all over the network and were used by Chiltern Railways only to be displaced by the Euro-Light class 68 with a max speed of 100mph! Interestingly enough the Peaks class 45s seen in this brilliant video have the Buffer beam mounted to the Bogie instead of the main frame chassis....!

I enjoy watching your new stuff and noticed this in your back catalogue. Enjoyed very much. I have recently uploaded a slide show of the Midland Mainline in the 1970s which includes some shots of Kettering. The quality of the images is not so good but you might find it interesting.

@MrDeltic15

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much. Yes, this is just one of dozens of movies from the 1980's in my back catalogue, plus around 100 from the 1990's. I'll certainly have a look at that slide show movie of yours as that'll bring back some memories for sure.

Happy days indeed :-)

bubble car :) great video

This is proper traction,remember doing the last peaks 45115"apollo" to derby around that time,various hst liveries,what was the nse brush you filmed?.Anyway keep the brilliant videos coming!

Proper! Great peak action. Grid! Stupid question but what's the run for the Bubble cars? Class 114 Parcel Units, unusual. A couple of combos, 47/45 + 47/31 - failures or double headers? Grid! Great stuff, great shots.

Kind of confused, which way are you facing at 02:06 ? Why is the track broken? Looking today on google Earth isn't going to help since I doubt any of it remains. Thanks for any info.

Cool

45115 'Apollo', I remember her well! I've still got some footage to come from some of the final Peak runs, and the last ever Peak hauled passenger - maybe you might appear somewhere in a clip? Not sure on the NSE 47, but it 'might' have been 47582.

Was that 45037? She did the last one from Pan!

Arguments For and Against that I guess, a bit like the TOC's being privatised too maybe? Difficult to say where we would be now if the railways were all in government hands - would we have so many new trains, stations, and lines opening - who can say for sure though..........?

I wish the government would take charge of the railway instead of N.R it has gone down hill since if you agree.