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BR in the 1980s Reading Station on 18th May 1988 

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BRITISH RAILWAYS IN THE 1980's
READING STATION on 18/05/1988
Continuing with my archive of video recording between the years of 1986 to 2001 this clip is of Reading Station, filmed from the newly built multi storey car park taken on 18th May 1988. When there were still plenty of class 50's on Padd - Oxford/Newbury services and 47's on cross country trains and even the odd class 50. Look out for the Meldon Quarry trains hauled by class 33's and the Tonbridge Vans with a 33. I hope the video takes you back to this period with fond memories. Feel free to comment, good or bad, all comments are read and greatly appreciated,but it is not always possible to answer each individually. Sit back and enjoy this latest production remembering all those now long gone Locomotive classes and other types of traction. Many thanks for all subscriptions and all of those viewers who have kindly shown an interest in my material.

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@stephenpowell5912
@stephenpowell5912 11 месяцев назад
Lovely Vintage Camcorder footage from back in May of 1988 ,Would have been 14 at the time back then ,Great memories of BR in the late 1980s ,Born in 1973 ,Feeling Nostalgic ❤
@spompey
@spompey 11 месяцев назад
You're very welcome...many thanks for watching and for the comment...best wishes....Mark
@stevesumner3580
@stevesumner3580 Год назад
Excellent time to have filmed, lots of variety of livery, freight and passenger traffic to see. InterCity yellow and Swallow HSTs, 47s and 50s in blue, large logo and NSE. 33s,a splash of a 37 and a sprinkle of grey livery 56s and a Yeoman 59 to round it off, didn't appreciate it at the time and how it was going to change. What a day, so glad you have shared this.
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
You're so welcome and many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@dgattenb
@dgattenb Год назад
many a happy day sitting on the drop platform ... feet away from the hst's etc ... awesome
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@ashleywatts8707
@ashleywatts8707 2 месяца назад
Lovely video, grew up in Reading, by the gasworks, worked on p-way for a short time, spent time on platform as a kid wiv me dad, platform tickets, watching steam, Westerns, so much to see such a diversity of motive power,, thank you, and yes 'Everard junction', amazing.. 👍🤓
@spompey
@spompey 2 месяца назад
Many thanks for the interesting comment Ashley, Glad to have evoked a few memories...Best wishes...Mark
@timstrainvideos142
@timstrainvideos142 Год назад
fantastic footage! some nice hst sounds pulling out of the station. an interesting era with the mix of liveries.
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@grahamtester749
@grahamtester749 Год назад
Nice to see the pair of 33's come,n,go and why they were double headed on the heavy cement freight heading down south good old footage of mixed loco,s and stock from back in the day and but a long lost memory now
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@TheZacDJ
@TheZacDJ Год назад
Got to love those BUT Engines on the 117s. An hour of just absolute bliss. Thank you for sharing - this has taken me back 30 years. Brilliant. Kind Regards Zac
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
You're most welcome Zac....Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@grahamhenderson5609
@grahamhenderson5609 Год назад
what a great video, great to see the old NSE liveried units , the old slammers and the diesel fleet that used to run the Gatwick/ Tondridge services, and of course the legendary roar of the HST fleet
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@stevewaldock4379
@stevewaldock4379 Год назад
Great video!! Interesting to see Reading shot from this viewpoint, especially as this is my favourite era of BR.
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@mrmofthegower3926
@mrmofthegower3926 Год назад
The rasping sound coming from the exhaust of the class 119 at 18:00 mins brings back a lot of memories. Loved those cross country DMU’s.
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
You're most welcome and Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@nigelcurtis218
@nigelcurtis218 Год назад
A brilliant video , but the FIRST time I have ever seen two blue and grey class 117 dmu brake seconds coupled together! Modellers licence with the Lima models not needed! It actually happened
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
You're most welcome....Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@stevieb9699
@stevieb9699 9 месяцев назад
Awesome Video mate. Forgot just how busy the 1980's were with proper trains. An Hour and 11 minutes very well spent...All the best
@spompey
@spompey 8 месяцев назад
You are very welcome and many thanks for watching......all the best .....Mark
@Tornado922
@Tornado922 Год назад
That was amazing to watch, growing up in the 90s I have great memories of the NSE and Intercity Swallow livery on various trains running along the WCML through Leighton Buzzard, loved seeing the GWML in this film with so much variety in traffic!
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
You are most welcome and Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@MrForforfor
@MrForforfor 11 месяцев назад
A cracking Video in a spectacular era. Lived in Worcester at the time but was from Ealing originally so had many trips to RDG right back to the days of steam
@spompey
@spompey 11 месяцев назад
You're very welcome...many thanks for watching and for the comment...best wishes....Mark
@vernongoodey5096
@vernongoodey5096 11 месяцев назад
During this period I worked in central Reading spent most lunch times & evenings waiting for my train to Winnersh. Happy days managed to travel behind 48 of the 50s over 300 Brush 4 (47s) & most 33s Compton’s. Shame the Westerns went toooooooo soon! Remember the only constant thing on the railways is change. Now we have electric units and even the old gas holder has gone. Oh as a side to this I built all the brake units for the new Hitachi units & repaired class 50/60/92 brake compressors along with most mk3 brake distributors (P4s)
@spompey
@spompey 11 месяцев назад
Thanks for your recollections Vernon.....and my best wishes to you....Mark
@HentisRail
@HentisRail Год назад
Fantastic footage, takes me back to visiting in that period. Totally different nowadays. Subbed as well :)
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@vinniechudam1835
@vinniechudam1835 10 месяцев назад
Saturday night in and pure bliss watching this with the volume on full MAX. Interesting to see the different HST formations. You have the 7 coach HSTs with 2 First Open, 1 Buffet + Standard Open and 4 Standard Open saloons and then you have the 8 coach HSTs with 3 FO, 1 Buffet + SO, and 4 SO saloons. I'm guessing the 7 coach HSTs were operating to Bristol Temple Meads while the 8 coach HSTs were opeating to Cornwall and South Wales. Amazing footage, I would have been 10 years old.
@spompey
@spompey 10 месяцев назад
You are very welcome Vinnie and keep those neighbours awake...Many thanks for the comment and best wishes....Mark
@user-zz6gf4zq2z
@user-zz6gf4zq2z 8 месяцев назад
Brilliant as ever!!
@spompey
@spompey 8 месяцев назад
Many thanks and my best regards....Mark
@EssexGayBoi
@EssexGayBoi Год назад
Wow, what a fantastic video, ooh i wish i could have gone there back in the day, give me a time machine!! quickest & best 1hr have spent watching a video, though still not long enough lol, joking.
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
Well done for watching ALL of the vid....I thought it may have been too much..Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark.
@supersprinter1564
@supersprinter1564 Год назад
Great video didnt realise hsts used to pass reading in 1998
@peterharvey1762
@peterharvey1762 Год назад
You mean 88
@dclark988
@dclark988 Год назад
They’ve gone Through reading since the beginning of time
@locohauledforum
@locohauledforum Год назад
Interesting, as someone who lived there for years its easy to place the exact time you were filming with the Tonbridge vans and the evening commuters. lol
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@davidjoyce1021
@davidjoyce1021 Год назад
Literally Everard Junction...
@SirGeorgeButtox
@SirGeorgeButtox Год назад
First thought that came into my head 🤣
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@robbrooks5263
@robbrooks5263 Год назад
I'm just here for the Valentas. :)
@christopdeck3457
@christopdeck3457 Год назад
Funny how white socks were the fashion for drivers and secondmen in the 80’s.
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
Never noticed train crews were being given socks as part of their uniform.......Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@EErail26
@EErail26 Год назад
Excellent…and fascinating choice of adverts in between. I somehow think viewers of this material won’t be interested in Yves St Laurent’s latest thing for beautiful eyebrows, but potentially the one for Spam might attract more interest!!😅
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
My eyebrows are already BEAUTIFUL......Many thanks for the comment and for watching...Best regards...Mark
@martinward9957
@martinward9957 Год назад
Great video and fabulous memories. Quick question, why were the NSE loco hauled seta turning round at Reading that day? A bit unusual?
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
Not sure...Maybe their was a problem with the Newbury line.....just my guess...Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@rikmorley6469
@rikmorley6469 Год назад
Thanks for posting, was everything knackered or just running on poor grade red diesel?
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
Knackered like me I think and my car.....many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@paulaylesbury
@paulaylesbury Год назад
To think that, 35 years on, we still see Class 37s on the network and only in the last 18 months have we really said goodbye to the HSTs through Reading
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
HSTs still being used on many Scotrail services....Not quite gone.....many thanks for the comment and for watching....Mark
@stevenobrien3763
@stevenobrien3763 Год назад
@@spompeystill being used on GWR down Cornwall way I think too only 4 carriages on them though🤔
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
@@stevenobrien3763 On Scotrail now lengthened to 4 as well.many thanks for your reply and interest...best wishes....Mark
@cannadineboxill-harris2983
@cannadineboxill-harris2983 4 месяца назад
Hi There Again my real Name is Mr Cannadine T. Boxill-Harris, I have another interesting idea for most of us Class 307 Fans out there, rather than scrapping most of those Class 307s maybe you guys can convert them and including the refurbishment into those Leyland 680 engines, Volvo B10M Engine, Cummins M11 Engine, Gardner 6LXC Engine, Gardner 6LXB Engine, Gardner 8LXB Engine, Class 307’s and convert all of them into a 2 Carriages and Three Carriages Class 307’s for most of us Diesel Train Fans out there PLEASE. Are you still going to do this interesting type of Project for everyone out there PLEASE?
@spompey
@spompey 4 месяца назад
An interesting idea....many thanks and best regards...Mark
@saadinfo6363
@saadinfo6363 2 месяца назад
Brilliant stuff! But what are those EMUs that appear on the track furthest from the camera such as at 24:00? They look like some kind of Class 42?/43? but I can't see a third rail...
@spompey
@spompey 2 месяца назад
They are 423/421 VEP and CIG on the London Waterloo - Reading via Staines and Ascot route. A half hourly service stopping everywhere with a 36 headcode....1963 stock. The 3rd rail is furthest from the platform edges for safety reasons....many thanks and best regards to you....mark
@saadinfo6363
@saadinfo6363 2 месяца назад
@@spompey Many thanks :)
@dieseldave3879
@dieseldave3879 Год назад
🚂👍
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
Many thanks for watching...best wishes...Mark
@Swindon-wj8ud
@Swindon-wj8ud Год назад
Many happy hours spent on Reading General with not a diesel to be seen and electrics confined to Reading South.
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
Many thanks for your comment and for watching...best wishes...Mark
@AndreiTupolev
@AndreiTupolev Год назад
End of Platform 5 was best.
@spompey
@spompey Год назад
Yes.....or platform 8......many thanks Andrei as always my friend.....Mark
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