British Rail-Newcastle 1989 

It wasn't bad but i prefer the original blue & yellow 'Flying Banana' livery.....

I like the Executive style the most too.

Those screaming valentas ,a brown n cream skipper they didnt last long indevon and loco hauled trans pennine did you ever film gateshead.

The GNER blue livery is widely regarded as being the best post privatisation livery.

​@@markcf83The Eurostars also looked amazing in GNER livery too.

When i first started filming i didn't zoom in but then i wanted to underline those i videoed (yes, very 'trainspotting' i know! lol) so if i could read the number through the view finder i was happy and made notes when i got home (no waiting to develope the film like cine). I stll aim to get the numbers now or have a mate ready with pen & notebook, back to basics, can't go wrong with that!

The joy of a Valenta on full bore-hellfire!!! I used to thrash 37s the same way, load regulator permitting!

Remember that they couldn't open the power fully until they'd got past Gateshead......

Plenty of variety back then......

Thank you..... just a day of filming on my way home after a week's holiday filming trains.......

Same here pal. Vastly different today......

I aim to please! There will be more to come.........

Yes, i thought they sounded really great with that Valanta scream!...Still, i have plenty more old school ones to upload.....

Thank you....

There was plenty of variety in those days....

Thank you. I remember a week long BBC programe that foused on the East Coast route for a week, was that Railwatch?.....Could well have been.

Yeah, a Valenta on full bore-Hellfire!!! The HSTs thrashed so much better with original kit

The four that had Mirrlees MB190 engines had even more power.

I've had a soft spot for them since seeing my first one in the summer of 1976 at Swindon. Even better was my first trip out on them Padd to Bristol & back when they entered squadron service later in the year!

Like them or loathe them they are part of railway history, and they helped keep lines open back in the 1980s. Don't forget the Serpell report, the DFT were still trying to do a Beeching and shut most of the network down in that decade. BR's prefered DMU replacement was the class 210 (some shots of which i do have on vid!) which was a diesel version of a 317 EMU (same bodyshell) but was too expesive for the money available to BR at the time, money wasn't so free & easy then so the Pacers were the answer at the time. BR of course managed to find some middle ground between them & the class 210 which was the Sprinter family, at least they had bogies! But i filmed just about everything that moved railway wise to some degree, locos were my main interest but i shot what was around where ever i was filming. It's all history now.....

Soi Buakhao Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad you filmed what you did! And I understand Pacers had a place. I just wish that place was as far away from my house as possible!

lol! You'll notice some of the ones shown here were in GWR chocolate & cream. They were new to the West Country but had already been moved on due to excessive noise + wheel damage on the tight branch line curves! The Western Region obviously shared your view!!!

And still Valanta powered as well......

do you know of any videos of the four that had Mirrlees MB190 engines in them?

It seems each generation the railway "improve" things but actually life gets worse. New trains with hard seats, short trains some of which couple together but are still 2 trains that cannot be walked through, mail traffic on roads, more freight on roads, more contractors working for the railways telling you you "cannot do that" re photos, videoing or just hanging about looking at the trains. Life was better under BR but they were underfunded compared to today. Even then bits of BR made money-InterCity, Freight & parcels and even NSE in its last year as a complete entity! But such is the chaos of life............

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus And don't even consider taking luggage, a pushchair, or bicycle on a modern train. What little space is available will be gone very quickly.

I may have, this is a section of my first video visit here. They were a few more during the 90s but how many captured the station announcements i'm not sure.....

The early 47s were marked for early withdrawl to their their slightly different power equipment.

I seem to recall there was an engine change programme at some point in the past.....

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Yes - the Leyland engines broke down too much - think they were also paired with multi gear gear boxes. The Cummins kit was similar or the same to that fitted to early Sprinters

It was the gearbox that was the problem, the L10 is the same as used in Leyland Olympians. Plus BR were concerned that with Leyland ending bus production spares might become an issue, so they chose Cummins/Voith for commonality with Sprinters

I never signed HST's so i wouldn't like to say. It certainly dfidn't work that way on locos.

Yes, even the Pacers stood the test of time.....

The HST has hardly aged, they still look great today, its gonna be sad to see them go.

There was a buffet car, third from the end. The one with a red stripe above the windows marked 'Resturant-Buffet 125' ! The buffet food wasn't so bad on 125's, i remember going on an All Line Rover with my Dad in 1981 and travelled on HST's quite a bit and they had nice hot toasted sandwich's. I believe they were the first stock to have microwave ovens on board as well although as usual anything on the railway always cost's more, the claim-'that we need staff to sellit', as if shops & cafe's don't? !!!! Never buy food on a station, there's bound to be a shop nearby where you can buy food & drink at half the price on a station!

I had to do a double take. One of the HSTs actually DIDN'T have a buffet car. Never seen that before!

I never spotted that before. I can only assume the buffet coach had a defect and rather than fail the whole train it was knocked out of the set allowing it to run a full day's diagram and not have a whole load of train cancellations that day. Unlike these wonderfull IEPs that are entering service, each set cannot be split unless in works, so one dud coach = whole train out of service! Some progress!

I know. I was on a HST from KGX to Berwick-upon-Tweed a couple of years ago that had a coach missing (not the buffet coach fortunately), it was so late I got compensated for the whole journey.

Xc hsts don't have a buffet car

I'm afraid not.....

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus such a shame I can’t find any footage but cheers

Electric services north of York started in July 1991....

A number of them were taken out of use, some replaced by car parking I believe.

A Leyland National bus body is quite strong, they were built well. Plenty of Nationals preserved and still going strong, complete with blue smoke!

Still not a fan of Pacers, or the Leyland buses for that matter. They're too extreme for me.