Wow.... what a totally AWESOME video. Nearly every train, a slammer, (EPBs galore, CEPs, CIGs & even a DEMU creeping into the Central side for a down Uckfield), wonderful liveries, beautiful sounds from the motors and if that ain't good then chuck in the jointed rails and cracking announcements, esp the "THIS SIDE OUT PLEASE " one whenever a train arrived on plat 6. Great memories of a fantastic era of EMU operations in south london. Thank you for posting
What a lovely video to post I had so many wonderful memories going on them trains lovely comfortable seats and that old train smell my best memories was leaving blackheath station going towards woolwich and sticking my head out the window in the tunnel and also getting to stay in the guards room with my bike
Ah yes the Old semi fast via Blackheath and Woolwich to Dartford, Gravesend and Gillingham that was a great service, only two stops from London Bridge to Woolwich Arsenal
Excellent video! Brought back many memories. I was an apprentice at Slade Green depot in the 70s so I worked on these units. You have also captured some great views of London Bridge station which will be historical as it is now being radically changed. Thanks for the memories!
Remember it well, I'm contemplating a oo gauge layout but couldn't quite record what units and their liveries were around at the same time, interesting that the new 466 was running alongside the old EPB's. Thanks for recording this.
Years before the thumpers went into 7/7a they were hauled by 33's and the occasional 73 and there used to be a tiny little headshunt just outside of 7/7a where a waiting loco would wait for the train inboard and soon as it had decanted the passengers in it would glide and out with the new service whilst the inboard 33 would slide into the headshunt waiting for the next service, it was quite a cushy number with nice long waits in between driving. There was a kerfuffle one day when somehow a 47 ended up doing duty and it was too big for the headshunt so it ended up occupying one of the other platforms before working light up and down from Sarson's and back again to be hooked up, shows how tiny them 33's and 73's really were compared to the big bruiser 47 and I bet a traction manager got a rocket somewhere that day.
HAP py ( groan ) days. Recall these fondly. Lovely simple old things, can still remember the growl of the old EE507 motors on starting, the whirr of the MG's and of course those Westinghouse DH25 compressors. Miss them dearly. RIP. Spent many happy hours working on them, and the other BR MK1-based sets, including those old DEMUs too. did you know the Electric Railway Museum at Coventry's closing ? I hate to think what'll happen to the old EMUs there. We BADLY need somewhere to run these old crocks, under their own power too, so their memory won't disappear. Alas I fear I'm being optomistic. Look at what happened to the Tyneside sets, 506's, etc.
Wow very impressive video :) The working in multiple formations are quite varied. The one at 1:53 in particular uses a 4 Car set, a 2 car set and another 4 car set :) While the one at 0.04 uses two 4 car sets.
