Class 415 4EPB Cab Ride, London Charing Cross to Bromley North 

This is worth watching to hear the stories from the driver alone! He must have been near retirement, talking about going to Leysdown in 1946/1947 and going “on the juice” in 1959. He must have had a lot of knowledge and tales to tell

It's also interesting being able to hear the conversation taking place in the cab.

Great video, thanks for uploading! I loved listening to the conversation too, very good.

I remember these units and this route very well.

London bridge, how it's changed but it still has train spotters, I was there myself recently. Love these old video's. I have loads which I am copying from VHS to WMV ready to upload to RU-vid. Over 300 but not cab rides I'm afraid. I enjoy riding the trains around London. S many trains running and really interesting scenery, old building and railway structures. Thanks for sharing this

Lovely, takes me back to the old days when I worked for BR Southern Region. Trains had character then. Unlike today's generic plastic and uncomfortable "fine weather" trains.

Love watching these old films, brings back memories of the daily commute into London when I was in my 20's. Also, i'm guessing the litter picker wasn't invented until the 90's 😁

19:50 to the right you can see the remains of the WW2 era overhead lines that Hither Green was famous for and the class 71 had its unique pantograph for. Just a bit further down to the left was an old SR water tower that we tried to get saved from demolition but BR wasn't having it and down it came. The chap was asking about Lewisham flyover, the old army bridge there was only designed to last ten years... before the fast diversion ramp, the line used to go to Nunhead joining the old Crystal Palace-Greenwich line which the Nunhead spur is the last remnant of. Before the Lewisham disaster, the railway crossed straight from the Nunhead spur on its way to Greenwich which only a small part of the former embankment can be seen today just behind where St Johns signalbox was. St Johns used to have two sets of platforms, I remember them well and trains stopping there too as the Catford lines used them a lot.

The good old days with better stock. Great video

Such lovely video back in time

london bridge has changed ! lol

Brings back memories of when I used to drive this route !

Great video and shows just how much change has occurred. London Bridge is unrecognisable now. Used to commute this route for 24 years.

8:04 - The old headshunt for the Oxted line in the days before the thumpers took over at plat 7 and 7a. Banker's trains, class 33 in, 33 waiting at the headshunt and hooked up quickest then back down again for the next load up sometimes TC's sometimes MK1's that when finished did Exhibition duty over at Olympia-Clapham. The whole thing was timed exquisitely too, as the inboard 33 would follow hot on the heels of the outgoing train and just stop at platform end so signalman could visually see outgoing train had cleared and the 33 would "run" the red into the shunt. It was prob the most exercise any of 'em had in London Bridge other than lifting tea mugs. It was a strange setup as SE division the signalmen were grade F but central side they were grade C. Back around then they phased out the last of the old Bulleid 4SUBs which had the delightful corridor compartments and ornate toilets which ran the LB-East Croydon slows.

Fantastic, thanks for posting. Now, to invent that time machine...

I enjoyed the film very much, the driver was a very interesting guy who made this film a bit special.

Same bloke did Liverpool Scarborough and Peterborough to Doncaster via the Joint. I have the Liverpool Scarborough one. Excellent films, I wish I could find then others.

Nice seeing the 1066 electrics that were running when they electrified the line between Tonbridge & Hastings 7:22

Beautiful liveries

Great cab ride, I will attempt to re create this in train simulator

Got the original VHS of this. Not sure whether the cameraman was ex-BR or a big rail enthusiast. Whoever he was, he managed to get into Slade Green while filming from the Cab! Wasn't so successful at Eastleigh though where a driver taking over a DEMU run told him to f"$% off and the filming stopped abruptly!!!

Thirty minutes of listening to Derek and Clive chatting.

The through service from Central London to Bromley North finished completely during the early 1990s.

Slam doors , excellent.

Interesting to see the single line connection from the down fast at the Country end of grove Park. Wonder when that was removed

I remember the crossovers and the old layout for the Cannon St/London Bridge junction (name escapes me) and the former layout at Grove Park before the Networkers came in. I think this was shot around 1987/88? I notice the South Central stock already had the Network South East livery but the South Eastern stock (the EPBs) only had the branding on the Blue & Grey livery. Nice seeing the CEPs in the short-lived Network Express Jaffa Cake livery

My "commute" service, prob my ol' father was working London Bridge 1-6 platforms as this train went thru. The driver's voice sounds familiar. The link line to Bromley North cut out now from platform 3 Grove Park, dunno if they clipped the platform 1 link as that would make servicing the shuttle stock impossible I am thinking. Back in the day, if I overslept or my train was cancelled, I would go to Plat 4 at Grove Park signal phone by the ramp, holler down the line til they put me father on who generously stopped a Hastings or similar express at Plat 2 for me to clamber on, was a perk and a half back then watching the annoyed knowlessmen fuming as I smirked smugly and if lucky, there was sometimes a buffet on the Hasting's so a cup of BR tea (staff rated prices too) BTW David Bowie grew up right next door to Sundridge Park station in a tiny little terraced house behind the College Arm's pub where he did his first gigs, I even went to the same schools and he was our hero locally :)

Good historical video if only to show the assorted litter on the track.

Thrice as many trains back then, huh? 🍸

Drivers eye view of the site of the Hither Green Disaster of 1967.

'Going on the juice'.

More train noise would be nice

and no bloody graffiti

The driver, is his accent rural Kent?

Needs deinterlacing.

It's almost as real as Train Simulator :)

Ageing rolling stock of what was British Rail, of which I remember well, thank heavens for private sector investment with new trains that don’t leak heavy rail though the windows, as was one train on Southern Region.