BR in the 1980's Preston Station on 30th June 1987 

brilliant , some good memories here :) really enjoyed this

Iconic footage ❤Love the 1980s a decade I grew up in when BR was still in operation ❤

Excellent footage top man 👍

bring back some nice memories of trainspotting on preston station thank you

Great to see this iconic moment in history captured! I learnt some bits from this!

Really captures the scene I remember so well from that era, the Heysham Boat train (the "Bolton, Man Vic, Stockport" train that was unseen in P4 while the Blackpool was changing locos in P3), and even the "biggest Seven" makes an appearance at 29:20. Excellent.

I left Preston Station in 1987 and then flew from Heathrow to Canada for a six week vacation. Thirty Five years later I returned home through Preston to Burnley Rosegrove. I swear nothing had changed except for a second coffee shop on platform 3 :-) Back in Canada now I keep hoping someone would upload a cab ride video for the Preston to York train and back again.

My dad loved trains, I grew up in Preston, and we would take the wonderful old Steam trains to Blackpool. That was before Beeching ruined the trains, cut back on routes and got rid of North Shore, and South Shore, I think the only station was eventually Blackpool Central. I remember train spotting and seeing The Flying Scotsman ! I left Preston when I was 19, and worked for British Airways at Heathrow, as an Air Hostess with BOAC ! I live in America now. It was great to hear the Station announcer’s Lancashire Lad accent ! Ee by gum ! If it’s no longer British Rail, who runs the trains nowadays? I must say that the station looks just as grubby as it always did. I was surprised and delighted to ride trains through Austria and Switzerland in the 1970’s; all the stations were spotless, well painted and with lots of hanging baskets of flowers. Thank goodness I can still buy Marmite and Digestive biscuits in the USA 😊 Thank you for posting this video❤

Good view of Ladywell House in the background, brings back memories when they stopped you taking the short cut and having to walk through town, health and safety.

I like the sign that says," Passengers must not cross the line"...Unless carrying a bicycle.

I used to stand at the end of platform 3 in the eighties. Seems like yesterday, looking at the destination leaflets in the windows, ‘Newton Abbot to Glasgow Central’ what a journey! Class 87s, they were the best 👍 Thanks

Young lad fancied a ride in the back cab of the 47. I remember those days well. Some good locos in thete . Thanks for the entertainment 👍👍😎😎😀

28:40 that’s a lovely old DMU 18:41 jeepers you got a rough auld ride on those diesel rail cars…. All this mixed traffic within about an hour and a half. Amazing. And the sound of the Lancashire station announcer all the way!

great video

Well done for putting this together

A great video. Thank you 🎉

I remember those Blackpool trains with the loco change!

Thanks

them 20`s weren't hanging around

Another great video. I used to like seeing the portion trains at Waverley and was always interested in the coach formation of these trains. I got all excited when the Cornish Scot arrived at the end of the video for Glasgow and Aberdeen. I was looking forward to seeing the rear (Edinburgh) portion and then it failed and had to be reversed into the station! My prediction was RMB, TSO, TSO, BFK, TSO, TSO, BG. I think the announcer also got his stops mixed up for the Edinburgh portion he says, Haymarket, Edinburgh, Dundee, Inverkeithing, Dundee etc, it should be, Haymarket, Edinburgh, Haymarket, Inverkeithing, Dundee....... I see you seem to be heading north, hope you got to Waverley before the Sprinters took over!!!!

Fantastic stuff.

Good old days. Loved the 86s and 87s.

With these lovely shots I m wondering when we might have an electrified heritage railway so we could have some lovely 86s 87s , 90s etc running. And while we’re at it, what about a third rail heritage in the South somewhere, for these lovely slam door units. No?

Class 87s hauling rakes of Mk3 coaches, so many good memories of trips on the WCML!

Basking in the memories of the sprinters and railbus pacers......😊

Great memories of when Preston was interesting! Did you ever get any footage of the Dalston tanks which ran around 10pm during the week with a 56 on three front?

Magic! And thanks to the power problem at 34:26 so we could admire the unbranded Scotrail MkII!

Our first day at Preston summer 89.

June moon here...checking the trains lol 😆

Plymouth Glasgow running into difficulties, wonder if I saw it in Bristol?!

Great days when we had proper trains to get about on.

Those were the days.

Was the first train not heading to Scotland?? Remember train spotting on Preston Station around this time... The 86's were noisy buggers... Now, if he is going to Blackpool, its electric all the way....

still had idiots in those days, great video

What happened to 87021? Was it uncoupled and something else worked forward?

I didn't know good old Bumble did the platform announcements at Preston in 1987!

No refreshment facilities on the16:15to Euston?! I demand to speak to the manager!

Though I'm not sure if carrying your bike across the tracks with no hi viz and the most perfunctory look round (3:47)was approved practice for employees even then 😂

Efficient loco change on presumably the Blackpool train. The electric was uncoupled and off the train within a couple of minutes and the replacement 47 on within five mins

@UnaLunar, where are ya at?

British railway.days

I wonder why they did not combine a Pacer with the Sprinter in 1987 20-24 years before 2010 when the RVAR regulations was passed which requires Pacers to run with Sprinters

@The Soupervisor, yo out there but can't see your comment