British Rail InterCity-Watford Junction July 1991 with class 47, 86, 87, 90s + 313 EMU 

Yes, always good for a storming run along the West Coast line.

My pleasure...... I used to video trains & buses for my pleasure, i'm pleased others enjoy them as well......

Some classic traction here. I was at Warrington Bank Quay a few weeks back and it was very quiet with bland traction. The freight traffic had died compared to times past!

Soi Buakhao That section of WCML between Weaver Junction (where the Liverpool Line diverges) and Euxton Junction (where the Manchester to Preston via Bolton line joins) is very quiet now with so little freight traffic

Thanks for the info, always nice to know what i have filmed!.....

I have plenty more......happy viewing!

Yes, until Virgin Trains VHF timetable Watford Junction had a good Inter-City service. It had a large car park and was considered a parkway station due to its close proximity to the M1 & M25. Not any more though......

Yes at the time I was an LUL staff pass holder and you could travel on “any train” Watford to London

I know what you mean, you knew when an 87 was around!

The DVT's were still fairly new and BR was having problems with them. The GUV's are indeed Motorail vans but i can't remember if they still ran on service trains at this time or just on the Sleepers (in which case this was just a stock move, bit like the first Down Road IC that has a MkIII Sleeper behind the loco, it was just a stock move). Still some good mixes of coaching stock around this time.

Was Motorail normally that busy? I’m always wondering why it was shut down.

I'm not sure if there were through workings to Blackpool at this time. But you certainly had to be on an express to get to Preston in order to change.

Yes we changed at Preston to get to Pleasure Beach. I think there was a seldom service to Blackpool North. Our trains were the Glasgow service.

@@djpeekay25 The Pleasure Beach i think is on the Blackpool South service not North. And yes, it runs hourly with a 2 car DMU, even today!

Soi Buakhao sorry I meant there was a train from Euston to Blackpool North.

Only once, and that was about a year ago, see it here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N2aYUinm2b4.html. I have of course stormed through many times over the years from Deltics onwards.....

That odd bit was their for the transfer of 313 EMUs. They would creep off the DC lines on 3rd rail power to that point before putting their pan up and running to Bletchley Depot for maintainance. The old class 501s used Croxley but this was shut when they went and Bletchley was used, the 313s being dual voltage. This move normally happen late at night & early morning. I do have another vid taken here where a low hanging air pipe on an 86 makes contact with the juice rail at speed and there was a terrific flash! All caught on film.....

please post! When I was a kid me and a mate used to get the 114 bus to WJ. It was like another world! Two experiences there; 1 a dmu failed on the St Alban's branch and was rescued by a 25 and 2: an up fast clipped a parcel trolley which hand rolled towards the platform edge... One of those old things with steel wheels. Could have been much worse but just threw it back across the platform and clouds of smoke from the emergency braking. Interesting trips

I never did Croxley with video although i have been over the route with a class 501 EMU and a 38 stock into Croxley Depot the last night bakerloo trains stabled there! I do have some DMU vid of the St Albans Abbey branch from around 1986 time plus there is a couple of shots of the branch at the Watford end on this upload here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ABw_5CEIFCU.html

Too many happy-clappy kids running the railway these days!.....

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus they have absolutely ruined the railway

@@RealCristiano and fire engines and police cars. Its like living in an episode of my little pony.

totally beautiful person who enriched my life with his sense of Duty and steadfastness. God bless to all my colleagues who may have known me at BR in the 70s. How fucking hard we worked for 36 to 40 sounds per week. So proud of TSSA.

Thanks for your memories, always nice to hear about all the services that the railways used to provide!

I hadn't filmed any up to this point. Further uploads from Watford Junction will feature some.

Yes, naming got a bit out of hand in the late 1980s and into the 90s....School trophey winners or Capital Radios Help a London Child.....

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I'm ok school, regiments and being a lover of all things Eastern race horses. I have an 0 gauge Gresley A3 to build. It will be with double chimney, German smoke deflectors and a GN coal rail tender. I got name plates fit it 60059 Tracery of topshed 34A

86243 was named the boys BRIGADE in recognition of the youth organisation celebrating its centenary in 1983 - it carried a badge BB83 by its name plate It was unnamed in 1993

I was in the boys brigade. The scouts is a spin off. Braden-Powell wanted a non religious organisation. Had some happy days in the boys brigade.