Some video footage of the Manchester Victoria to Bury line just before it was closed. Sorry about the idiot at the start of the sequence! Some of the video is not of the best quality - my apologies!
Made this return journey every day between 1969 and 1972 when at college in Manchester. Curious how a repetitive and tedious journey can evoke the most treasured memories.. Thank you so much for this experience...
I used to travel this line, so I might be on one of the various films of it. And I was on the very last service back to Bury in august 1991 and I was the last passenger off the station at Bury interchange that night. And as it was the last service they let us travel for free.
Towards the end of their lives, many similar trains to the Bury units began to become very unkempt and untidy. I guess it was because they were going to be withdrawn anyway, so they just didn't bother looking after the interiors.
I still remember going on a Virgin Trains service from Manchester - London when I was about 2 in about 1996/97 🙂 Just wish I knew which locomotive was hauling the train, Could've been a class 86, 87 or 90
