This was my trainspotting stomping ground in the '80s! Brings back many happy memories. One thing I had forgotten though, is just how dirty and run down the trains and station looked then! Mind you, my recollection of Birmingham, as a whole, is dirty and run down concrete structures that smelt vaguely of car/bus fumes and urine.😂
Been to far worse places....It was an exciting location for me as a youngster, I did a lot of Audio recording there back in the 1970s having travelled up there on an inter-city train either out of Euston or Paddington...never really ventured far from the station...Many thanks and my best regards to you.....Mark
i would sometimes come up from Taunton behind a 50 and spend a few hours in this area (incl. Bescot), but would always return home with clag in my eyes and dirt on the clothes. New Street was a dirty place and full of diesel fumes. Good times though, and will never be forgotten
New Street back in the day and the rotunda too nice bonus that. Nice mix of diesel and leccys at brum as shown here. Not many spotting on this day! It was always a hive on a Saturday so maybe filmed on a week day.
YES this was a weekday, I did try to avoid Saturdays due to the attention my camera caught and as well as the crowds...maybe some regrets....best wishes....Mark
Why do these retro Trainspotting videos bring me back to a time when I wasn’t even born? I guess it’s just weird seeing the trains in those liveries in the handheld shaky video camera form since all I’ve seen otherwise is pictures
@@spompey I went down a whole youtube rabbit hole after this video was in my recommended: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DF7Pdgqk9EU.htmlsi=vBb0V7SuO_ezwuxW
Great vid, brings back many memories, I used to arrive hear from Bristol Temple Meads in the early to mid 1980s to see the Electrics as we don’t get them here in Bristol, used to love the sound of the whirring of the electric engines , the dirty BR Blue Liveries, ahhh the memories. Thx for posting
It's only when you mentioned the 87 running to Bescot that I've realised that New St didn't have a major stabling point for locos nearby, just that little siding by the signal box.
@@AndreiTupolev Oh of course! Forgot about that. I also forgot about Duddeston. What were the sidings and shed used for there? I remember seeing the odd loco there until about the turn of the century.
