What’s happened to our railways. I remember Bescot like this also Bristol Bath Road, Severn tunnel junction to name but a few all I can say is I’m so glad to have witnessed all these wonderful sights and sounds. Thanks for posting this great video!!!
If you've ever travelled along a motorway you can see where it's all gone! We have lost the yards as the work has all transfered to roads, very sad.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Colas are trying to run Log trains over the Cambrian. Well it's a few lorries off the roads. Good work for the 97s. Love the sound of those Choppers. 👍😎
Bescott how I remember it when I was a kid, I was actually watching very closely to see if I could see my Dad and a 7 year old version of me. Thankyou for posting, it brings back many memories.
Good video I was at bescot in February this year and it's still a busy place but it's not how I remember it in 1985 I was only a kid but the sounds of the choppers class 25s/47s/56s/58s and other loco's was music to my ears!!! I had an hour there as I went for a walk round walsall to pick up something I had bought online!!! I came up from Manchester it was a very cold rainy day but was worth it! I seen a class 70 for the 1st time and there was 3 class 66s 2 class 68s and a class 08 shunter there that was it! I was hoping a pair of class 20s would thrash through but that would have been dreaming lol 😅
Thanks for the info, i may well go back and do some filming. A friday may be a good day, lots of engineers trains getting ready to run for the weekend hopefully......
Great video 👍🏻 Loved Bescot in the late 70s as it was always a great trainspotters heaven. The line between Bescot and Wednesbury was open so you could see the fright trains coming round the corner from the station 👍🏻 Happy days 😊
Hi my name is Phil Holt.I started on the footplate at edgeley shed on the 4th of April 1961as a fireman I did 50yrs I finished my time out at longsight as a driver.And some times we. went that way with passenger trains. Regards.Phil
You had some good years on the footplate there Phil, by the time i got on BR it was at the end and we had the chaos of privitisation but it was still the best job i ever had!
I worked there as a Guard 1979-1981. I remember flitting about all around the yard looking for coal or anything that would burn in order to light the stove in the Guards van. Damn cold on a February morning. Still working unfitted freights and local pick ups, around the Bescot Curve at the time.
@@vincitveritas3872 No hotplate, just a circular top that fitted your brew up tin. They did get red hot at times actually glowing. But they were also very draughty.
I wished my garden backed onto Bescot. Great working yard and one of the best known. Never worked on railways and I truly regret it. What great fun with all those fantastic diesels to choose from
I used to visit often as a kid, was born not too far away. Remember an open day, probably in the 80s I think, which was great fun. Just behind the train at the very start there was a bridge that my dad and his friends used to climb under and watch the steamers going over them.
Love this video, thanks for uploading! So much movement and variety. I remember going past on the M6 on the way to south coast holidays and getting tantalising glimpses of rows of wagons and locos from the back seat of my dad's Vauxhall Belmont!
Classic footage of a great rail yard 😄 It’s totally changed now with the run down of our railway system. Just look at the amount of lorries on the M6 that runs along side Bescot yard. I pass it a lot in my medical lorry and cringe when I see it stood idle like the rest of our rail yards ☹️ Great video thanks Stevie 😎
Used to pass through Bescot travelling between Walsall and Brum such a lot throughout the 80's. Glorious place. Great video full of so much detail to enjoy. About five minutes in, the 08 seems to be moving a wagon loaded with large diameter driving wheels for a six-coupled steam locomotive. Intriguing to wonder which engine they belonged to. Cheers !
I'm guessing that you haven't been there in a while.... The sheds have gone and in the place of the sheds are a couple of 2 man tents that looked like they were erected in an hour.... Hardly any freight and what there is are usually the same 66s, the occasional 70 and once in a blue moon you may see a couple of 37s..
Thank you. I still have a lot more old films to upload as well as some more modern ones. As soon as i have finished working at the St Alban's beer festival I will get back home and start uploading again.
My Dad worked there as an Inspector but died January1980.My brother got to step onto a steam engine with my Dad but i didnt as I was a girl.Miss my Dad if anybody worked with him I would really like to here about his career.His name was Jack Turner. 10:07
I have a few 85's on film here & there. I remember when the North London Line was wired up they used the renumbered 85/1's on Ford's trains from Dagenham so i have a few taken in East London.
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Quiet?? There's more life in a nun's pair of knickers bud... I usually go past Bescot when I'm in my truck to do deliveries up north with pad and pen in hand, but it's really very quiet... There's a stone terminal there at the bottom end of the yard with usually a couple of 66s there... The high level siding near to where the houses are is the same class 66, which is used as the Lickey banker...
Those tanks behind the 85 contained a very toxic substance the name I can't recall but when I was based there I was told that if it leaked a drop there would be no point running away as several square miles would be dead. Hence the barrier wagons fore and aft.
@@phillynch3819 I think you are referring to hydro-cyanic acid known as HNC. It was one of the three dangerous goods which you would use the 'rail dangerous goods' emergency rules (nuclear flasks and toxic gases wee the other two).
