Farewell 40's Circa 1983 - Manchester Area 

Brilliant. Rare to find great quality films from camera's of this era. Thank you for posting, really enjoyed watching this.👍

I stopped trainspotting after the death of the deltic, i didnt ever think back then that all these other great beasts would disappear too, so thankyou for capturing these and sharing too

Thanks for adding this. It was great to watch. Manchester Vic was a great place to see some interesting locos and stock. They always had to thrash out of the station to get as much speed as possible heading up towards Miles Platting ! Best of all I thought were the shots taken from the bridge at Clegg Hall and this is the very place I spent many many hours from the late seventies to the early eighties with my mate 'Greeny'. There was a signal box and sidings there years ago but I have only seen them in pictures. Just visible in the background is the L&YR signal box at Smithy Bridge. This wonderful village icon is now but a memory having been ripped out and smashed to pieces a few years ago. In those days the whole of BR was like a giant version of a heritage diesel railway. Happy memories of much more interesting times.

Brilliant stuff. Takes me back to my bashing days at 16 years old.

Superb collection. Really enjoyed watching, and will watch again....and again......

Great footage. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Jake really enjoyed this.happy memories

Amazing.. loved the 40's..all the blue dirty diesels..I can smell the fumes from sitting in brute trollies..if only we had time travel..

Fabulous material, thoroughly enjoyed this.

This is great away - so many memories coming back with your videos. Whisper: "is it recording". Pause. "yeah" :)

Excellent video 🤠. I enjoyed seeing the older BR freight trains(workings). Especially with the older style wagons and even with a brake van 😁

Loved the 40 whistlers , those and the 37s where my favs, but I likes all diesels in those days. Superb but never to be repeated unfortunately

Superb. Happy memories

The public were not consulted regarding the butchery of Manchester Victoria station

Growing up in St Albans these were quite hard to see, just the odd one on east coast mainline but my parents dropped me at Manchester Victoria one day and I think I saw about 40 of them in one day.

Great Video.

Did I spot 40126 on shed

nice whistling by that member of staff.

If anyone is going to see this, can I ask what would have been the filming equipment? From a quick google search 1983 was when the first camcorder was released from sony, the Betamovie BMC-100P so this is all the information I have currently.

The magenta effect in part of your video was due to the camera not being white balanced properly with piece of white paper in front of the camera while white balancing.

Hi, if you are going to literally steal my footage then please at least credit us as the owners and creators of ALL this footage.

Nice video

Yes superb early video,video cameras were very expensive then. I would say that its jake atkinson

the time machine

Were the first trains domestic coal?

Funny aint it! We had the 3 car class 158 trans pennine units not bad...then we had the awful class 185 units!!!!! which was effectively a 2 car unit!!!!! Enormous toilet and 1st class(why!!!) and now reverting to loco and carriages!!!!

I'm sure this is from Jake Atkinson, a fellow youtuber.