British Rail--Stoke-on-Trent January 1990 

Great video and the coal rakes and 37s are iconic of that era.

Some good thrash there. It was so good back then.

my hometown station - oh how its changed - some truly classic traction - great vid

I remember leaving from Stoke-on-Trent in 1968,my only other time was in 1971,never been back since then

Takes me back worked on pway until 94

This brings back memories - being from Crewe would often pass through Stoke when out and about chasing haulage. Steel and coal trains long gone now. I remember once Cockshute depot closed they’d lineup locos in the other bay platform - often have 4 or 5 pairs of 20s there. Great stuff.

Lovely video!

Wow, that brings back some memories! You kind of take things for granted at the time, but of course, all that is now history. Thanks for sharing

Fantastic. Thank you for sharing….

A great great fantastic video. Really enjoyed watching it. Many thanks from chris 👍

Thanks for sharing...really enjoyed this, there are not many videos of Stoke on Trent.great quality for 1990

Brilliant video, brings back many happy memories when my dad worked at Stoke station and i was a nipper

Superb video..... my god, those double headed syphons and pairs of choppers.... we didn't realise how lucky we were in those days ! Just great, thanks for posting.

This is pretty much how I remember Stoke from when I first visited in the (very) late 1990s- I believe it’s changed quite a bit since then, with the centre through road being lifted for one thing. Was that 310 on the Stoke-Stafford local? I travelled on it just before it was finished up, and it was down to a 153 by then ( I was pretty much the only passenger on it) so 4 coaches seems like over-provision indeed! I had no idea that Mark 1s other than BGs survived this late on the WCML. Thanks for sharing.

Fascinating video. I was a student in Stoke at that time, mainly living a stones throw from the station, had spells commuting to/from Longport 88/89, Man Pic 91, with other ad hoc trips to Stafford, Crewe, Euston etc etc. The sounds really being it back. I hadn’t remembered the coal trains at all, steel to/from? Shelton was common through the station. There were also plenty of staff and it reminded me of the ‘porters larking’ line from a poem at school. There was a Nestles chocolate vending machine on pl. 2. Happy times.

excellent video!

i remember a guy in the 80's all he did all day was bash those 304 EMU's out of Man Pic all day long his nickname was Mr Dong :D

This is a great video, really captures past traction!

Lots of Class 20s still going then. 37518 which of course is still with us today, clagging a bit there.

Lovely footage, all smelly dreadful pendos and Voyagers now. Immaculate infrastructure too, I expect there is Buddleia galore there now, Network Rail's trademark in neglect.

Centre Straight through track is now.....gone.!

Thanks for posting. Stoke was my home town and I spent many an hour travelling too and from there, and just watching the trains. Great times.

Good video. No dvt's. Proper trains.

Thank you for posting this great video. Born and raised in North Staffs I've boarded and alighted trains at Stoke station many times over the years. Childhood holidays to Devon, trips to see relatives in London, teenage days out to Manchester and Birmingham to go record shopping, and the period shown here was just before my student days started and the regular journeys to and from Leeds for university. And of course coming back to watch Stoke City! Happy days.

9 minutes. A pair of 20's getting away.froma signal stop. What more could you want.

Why is there a clip of a underground train at end of stoke on Trent and Carlisle videos,?

Great video, though’s 20s sound. sweet as I remember. What camcorder were you using back then? 👍

I really don’t understand why they removed the centre track from the station.

What was the train with all the Mark Is around 12.00?

Skoda at 4:54

310109? Didn't think they went upto that number..

That's stoke jan/90