I absolutely love it that I have a son that I can take to see some trains and say to him "when I was your age.........."

Gosh Darren..What a show. I've never been here. Wish I'd got nostalgia like this. Cracking good video mate

One minute this is perfectly normal and then the next minute you realise its twenty years ago!! Sadly Bath Road didn't have long to live at this point and was already being run down. Good to see an original parcels livery 47 as well as well as a blue 08. Good times, brother, good times!!

This is very nostalgic for me, although I’m a modern trainspotter, seeing the classic the classic intercity trains was amazing

@MrDeltic15

10 ай бұрын

Well I've been "spotting" since the late 1970s and taking photos/videos from the 1980s to present day, so I've quite a lot to look back on and compare to the modern era. Give me those classic Intercity trains any day!

Nice to see you captured that short time when the RES 47,s were in RES paint but still had their 47/4 numbers before they became 47/7's

@MrDeltic15

7 жыл бұрын

Class 47 renumbering and livery changes around this period were a nightmare to keep up with, all sorts of changes going on - but a great time for filming and the railway modeller.

Thanks Ian. It was only a short visit there(mainly for the Regional Railways 37), but i was very lucky with the power car swap, and yes, the 08 with guards van and parcels coaches was another bonus :-)

Thanks Keith. A bit different now without all the locos around, but still a lot of the same HST's and DMU's, just in different liveries of course.

Yes, the HST is probably the best train ever produced by this country, and still set to run for many more years yet.

Thank you. Yes, a lot of the same units and HST's around, but sadly no depot and locos like back then.

Interesting stuff, brings back happy memories of my earlier days.... Of note at 11.00, is 43011 which was lost in the Southall rail crash.

@emardis8982

6 жыл бұрын

Wow! It requires some great train knowledge to know that. That's actually really weird to think about; a train in this video, just following its usual routine, would be involved in one of the most notable UK rail incidents in recent history...

@jeffburley8630

4 жыл бұрын

Wasn't it the Ladbroke Grove incident. Not Southall?

Yes, very true, as were so many places before the mostly unit formed railways happened - just glad i've got plenty of footage from the late 80's to late 90's.

Great shots Darren and amazing scenes - all those locomotives lined up like that with some idling away - shunter with guards van and rake of parcels - two shots I have never seen before a shunter hauling away a HST PC and a HST PC running light engine - I've seen back to back HST PCs running on engine movements but never a single power car - totally cracking stuff and priceless footage

Certainly a mix of HST liveries about today, but one of my favourites was the original Midland Mainline 'Teal & Tangerine' livery - i really liked that.

@angeltransportpjects

6 жыл бұрын

Known not so affectionately as the 'Snot Green' Midland Mainline colour scheme soon after it was first used in April 1997! Lasted until 2005 and the appearance of my favourite HST livery by coincidence: 'Ocean Blue' Midland Mainline colours although when the EMT livery was being phased in from 2009 onwards the Arrows or HST Power Cars were dubbed 'Greenies' - 43044 was the final one to be EMT'ed during late 2011.

That is one full shed 47 37 heaven 🥰

You're welcome. I've got loads of footage from 1990-1997 from various locations all over the country still to convert and upload.

GR8 vid,,brings back memories

This has got too be one of my favorite videos of yours !! Great Job. Lewis

Thanks very much Lewis, glad you enjoyed it so much.

Good times indeed! Although not close to where I live at all, many a happy trip was spent at Bristol and then on to Exeter and beyond when there was still proper traction on offer. Not sure where that 20 years has gone, but things have certainly changed.

@rassyconkerhead5548

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha that shunter pulling the HST forget the carriages!!! Wonder how far they got until they realised.... maybe all the way to London! LOL!

Thanks - bit more nostalgia about to be uploaded :-)

Excellent Darren.. Love this old stuff !

great video , i remmeber seeing a co-bo at the depot at bristol when i went spotting there.

I wonder when he has children if he'll be saying "When I was your age......Class 66's were everywhere - now there's only a handful left" ;-)

Thanks - some from Leicester in the 1980's & 1990's to come still, including Leicester depot Open Day!

Thanks Steve. Much more to come still :-)

Glad it brought back happy memories for you. A good spot with Southall crash 43011 there, i hadn't realised that. Thanks for comment.

Bristol Temple Meads was much better back then.

EXCELENTE !!!

Thanks. Should have some 87 footage amongst my several Rugby visits(i know i've got 87101 in there somewhere)and some from Nuneaton and Crewe - will be plenty of classic uploads over this Autumn and Winter.

Thank you :-)

47653 3:50 in the brief period it reverted to that number ex 47808 when it went to res (and lost its name once again) before becoming 47781

Hi MrDeltic - thanks for that - I will give you a credit if it makes the final cut. should i credit MrDeltic15?

I think when i was there , they had been withdrawn i seem to remember that there was only 2 left ? but not sure. it was parked down the side of one of the sheds.

Very True

5:57 Spot the 'Nessie' livery (Network SouthEast) on one of those Class 47s. RES (RXLD) operation received these from NSE Thames Line (NWRA) well before they ideally should have done leaving a whole load of everybody else's cast offs to sh*t things up out of London Paddington for NSE Thames Line. Denny Martin (route manager at Reading) had his hands full constantly trying to borrow replacement Class 47/4s and 47/8s quite often for cover! Bath Road was one hell of a depot back in this day ... The day dare I say. Looks like a number of 'home' IBRA Class 47/8s on shed when this excellent video was taken as well as possibly the stored IXXS Class 47/4s from Crewe still - 47508 / 525 / 527 / 555 because the other two were resurrected six months after they arrived from CD. VERY sad to see just recently that Bath Road has been completely obliterated now. So much for 'progress' eh?! :o)

Thanks. Crikey, a co-bo, now that's going back a bit!

Should've kept bath road depot open imo

Hi Nathan. That's fine by me if you want to use some of this footage :-)

oops no tail lamp on the back of the power dragged power car

or the powered one either

Yep, sounds ok to me - "MrDeltic15 on KZread" would be fine.