Welcome to my channel. I live in New Zealand so you will find plenty of New Zealand trains from the late 1980's up to now including plenty of Steam and lot's of scenes now consigned to the archives! Australian Trains from 2009 up to now showing the best of what Australia has to offer and mostly filmed around NSW with a couple of trips to Melbourne to be seen. You will also find my Classic British Rail Series from the 1990's and 2000's where you will see lots of Classic Traction reliving the good day's when there was plenty of variety on the network! Also My European Rail series from various places in Europe filmed in the 1990's when I spent a couple of periods travelling on a Eurail Pass. And now videos from my first trip train watching in the USA! I hope you enjoy and I appreciate your support and positive comments.
Back when Sydney's rail network was still named Cityrail, i first visited Sydney in 2013, just in time for the whole network to be renamed Transport For NSW.
I could have been on the overlander . You could go and stand outside the vestibule of the guards van and have a smoke and enjoy the wind , look out at the loco. It was awesome , the northerner ( in its last incarnation) had it too in the 1990’s
I made many trips on it and the Northerner as well! I remember one trip up 2 Auckland though the night sitting in the front vestibule with all the doors opening listening to the DX climbing the hills!
Proper locos all of them and original engined HSTs with their distinct sound when powering away. These were the good days, I remember spending a day there back when class 33s used to work in on the Cardiff services , I had recorded over 300 locos in a day !
Top video - 156 was THE machine back in 92-94! I remember the tunnel at Haymarket being like a disco with the flames and sparks coming out of her one night on the legendary 2P47 for Perth.. I must look out my old audio tapes as the thrash back then was unlike anything we’ll see again 😢
Absolutely brilliant I grew up watching the sprinters from my grans window from the balgrayhill tower blocks i remember it was closed with a few sidings then seen it getting reopened also seen freights and few shunting manoveres going to st Rollox that’s what got me being a rail enthusiast
I spent many an hour here as a kid in the late 1980s early 1990s with my dad I was about 14 in 1986 best days ever all the class 20s/31s/37s/45s/47s/56s the odd class 58 I loved this place! all the 20s chirping away to each other it sounded like they was talking to each other lol 😅 good video 🥰
7:20 - ex Queensland Railways SX carriages previously used on the suburban system of Brisbane. Also used on Perth’s system for extra services in the late 80s, but later returned to Queensland somewhere in the early 90s. Also love hearing the locomotives’ engine while doing push-pull operation and the control / cab car leading the service back to Auckland. Like at 6:50 Plus ex WAGR railcars at 8:10, they were previously used on the Perth suburban rail system prior to electrification in the 90s And good video btw
Great locomotives. Considering they were powered by a de-rated version of the class 37’s engine and many of those 37’s are still running now, there must have been a large number of very usable power plants made useless when the 31’s were scrapped.
This was my old depot when I was a fireman with BR 1974 my uncle was a mainline driver we spent many shifts together I drove all these engines class37s queen st to Oban day shift and night shift on the ghost train and push &pulls class 27 queen st to Waverley Edinburgh triple header 37s from barassie Ayrshire with massive coal trains a life time ago
A nice look back in time. I remember the 73s on coal traffic to Colmec at Tolworth and Charringtons at Chessington, also belting through Surbiton on various duties inc passenger, mail, parcels, newspaper trains and the occasional ballast or engineering train. Clapham Jct was a busy place for them, the Gat-ex services, and as well as the other passenger and mail/parcel traffic, empty coaching stock moves between Waterloo and the yard at Clapham Jct. Thanks, brought back many memories.
Great video! These things will have been pushing 40 years old when this was filmed, and some of them look very work worn, but still plying the routes and getting the job done. I know the 31s get a bit of stick for one reason or another (underpowered seems to be the common one) but NR were still using them on test trains up until fairly recently, some 60 odd years after they were built, and that certainly says something.
Such eclectic times, full of colour and variety, and some truly fascinating movements. Crewe was buzzing back then. In October 1990 the final class 90 of the build had just entered service so 90049 would have been just weeks old in this clip, and only yards away from where she was built too! Even in the 1990s the UK still has some manufacturing and engineering kudos. Not so much anymore sadly.
