Archive Video from 1984 of 31312 & 31208 working on the spur of the old East Lincs Line to the Geest siding and shunting in Spalding yard has it was at that time, sorry about the quality, only VHS in those days.
I recall watching the Class 08 shunters with sugar beet when I was a boy. It was one of the highlights of visiting my Nan-happy days. Thanks for uploading this, it’s great to see!
I can only remember shunters (08 133 and 08 137) rather than larger diesels, going down to Geests (lots of Interfrigo vans) and also down to the Beet factory. Apart from Tulip weekend, when we had DMUs and carriages stored down there. Great video.
Imagine the coast of maintaining this line and the level crossings just for 3 vans of Banananas? And I bet it didn`t run everday! What was in the 16T mineral wagons?
Great footage, thanks. Not enough eighties footage of local freight workings direct to the factories where the wagons were loaded. Where the two ZGV department tippers loaded with anything at Geest? Seemed to take them for a run and then dump them out of the way for nowt. Thanks for the great upload.
Hello.Enjoying the footage. Just wondering what kind of wagons are behind the 31 when passing the crossing. Are they continental or BR origin? Many thanks.
People say that we drive to fast now lol 0:12 - nothing has changed folks! 6:50 an H&S officer's nightmare lmao quite wonderful. See how we all made it to adulthood without 300 pages of legislation. Nice to see no entitled cyclists 'nipping' through the gates 7:03. What a brilliant film. I suppose you'd never see such small workings these days. Not cost efficient blah blah I loved those old level crossings as a boy, they got opened by hand so quickly - you always got a great view of the train that passed
Wow, never realised the Geest Branch line was still open in the mid 80s, thought that dissapeared when the main Boston-Spalding line got pulled up in the late 60s. Incidentally, one of the packaging stores in the main former Geest (now Bakkavor) building still has the old railway lines concreted into the floors from where they used to bring the trucks into the main building to offload them.