This is amazing footage. Part of this was shot down Micklewood Lane towards where there's a small airfield and the boating bits etc etc. The crossing is still there as far as i know, along with the original gates they used to close off the road. If you have any more videos like this could you please upload? Or any of old Cannock/Staffs.
Lovely Rare footage of Class 20s in the early 1990s .Was aged 17 going 18 in 1991 when this footage was recorded for prosperity ❤love classic British Rail Locomotion ❤Bet half these kids 32 years ago would be in their Early to late 50s or Early 60s .No Smartphones back then ,Happy Dayz growing up in the Early 1990s born back in 1973 😁
At a time when the 87’s & 86’s were the loco of choice on the Euston-Glasgow/Edinburgh services; to get an 85 diagrammed in their place was a rare treat.
I passed out to drive the class 85 as a young driver at Stonebridge Park I worked a down express from Euston to Rugby with my instructor and also the footplate inspector Mr Harry Owen in 1972 on arrival at rugby i then had to drive a loose coupled freight back to Willesden
I remember clocking 103 mph out of a Class 81 as she climbed Beattock with Load 17 ! Also 85 101 (formerly 85 006) did a railtour to Walton-on-Naze which I did. Happy days.
just how I remember these beasts flying through Stockport from Manchester piccadilly on the London Euston trains! I love class 86/87 and the 90s/91s as they can shift and the sound of there traction motors & fans on the roarers class 86s is awesome! Nice video of some of the best British made electric trains.🥰😍😘
they are making a big mistake getting rid of these power plants over this fake global warming garbage the nuke power industry is pushing so they can build more reactors to blow up and melt down like seller field , japan , the U.S.A., Russia , all destroying the worlds oceans and air.with no were to get rid of there spent fuel that stays deadly for ten thousand years. i will take smoke over fall out any day. one container ship puts out more pollution then all the cars in the world. and they are worried about these old power plants. there is thousands of these ships and no one is crying over them. all the rich and politicians are flying all over the world stinking up the sky. no one is crying over that. every thing to make the regular people suffer as they make money off of us.
Great when they got allocated to Longsight and Edge Hill/Allerton (can’t remember which);you’d appreciate them hauling the Trans-Pennine and Manchester-Holyhead services. Vastly underrated and extremely versatile.
These bring back fond childhood memories ,along with all the other early AL classes, we lived close to the WCML near Stafford ,we couldn't afford to go far trainspotting in those days ,so must of filled all those classes in my combined volume .great times .
I love all classes of 1960s electric locomotive's from class 81 to class 87's plus the 1980s built class 89 & class 90 & the 1993 built class 93 i remember the class 85's well just before they was withdrawn as I started train spotting about 1983 with my brother so the class 86's/87s started dominating the Manchester to Euston trains after the class 81/85's was withdrawn from service! i wish i could go back to those majical day's as they was the best for loco spotting at Manchester piccadilly & Stockport I could just put myself on the platform watching them pass by sadly only one class 85 got saved & preserved 85101/85006 I would love to see it running again maybe one day but I can't see it happening! but the sound of class 81 to 87 at power is awesome good video I enjoyed watching it 🥰😍🤩
The 85s were the most successful of the first generation ac electrics . Some of them were in service on freight trains until the early 90s. I remember back in the day doing over nights at Carlisle seeing 85s on speed link trains passing through the station.
Fab footage of Diesel Traction in the 1990s ❤️⚡Sounds from my Childhood Growing up to my Teenage years born 50 years ago ❤️ Miss the sights of these iconic Diesels and Electric Class 85 and 87 units 🎼🎶⚡❤️
The sound of a roarer powering away on a rainy night at Crewe.... how very atmospheric! Ditto for the 86s and 87s of course, but the scream of the 85s choke cooling fans were especially loud and piercing. This must be toward the end of their careers with everything being in Intercity livery. I never got to ride behind these but I can imagine it must have been a treat leaving New St or Lime St behind one of these with the windows down and the sound of those blower fans echoing around inside the tunnels, the gradually ascending moan of the traction motors as the driver notches up... ahh lovely, so evocative!
What was the purpose of the choke? I thought the fans were for cooling the traction motors. A choke can mean an in-line inductor. They (chokes) are usually used to either create a more constant DC current or for the creation of high voltages in conjunction with a switch.
@@highvoltageswitcher6256 They are used in DC circuits to reduce ripple in low and medium range voltages. You are correct the fans were for keeping the traction motors and various other pieces of equipment cool.
One of the truly successful designs to come out of the first generation of diesel's not to powerful, infact they were quite heavy for what they were, but generally simple with an engine not to stressed and with the ability to double and even triple head ,were quite useful! BR certainly got their moneys worth out of the good old 31!
Well considering they had an extra set of wheels per bogie than any of the other type 2s they are guna weigh more , reminded that the class 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 ,28 and 29 had long been cut up or were in mass scrapping meant that they can't have been that poor looking at it?.... [ the class 24 and 25 were decent kit ] and 31s lasted from the 60s up until the 2000s! The most infamous British v8, the rover v8 was classed as awful yet kept goin like the class 31 which proved it wasn't as much of a failure when looked at from a different perspective, freight, passenger, parcel, flasks, they did em all with decent reliability once re engined and even on the mirrlees engines.
Nice quality footage that captures the evocative sound of these locos. It's easy to see why they got their nick name! As with some of the other AC electric classes you could often hear the loco approaching before you could see it. The only currently surviving locos you can still say that about are the class 91 and 92.
