More Memories of Trains on BR in the 1980's 

Excellent video. No tedious introduction, no nasty music, no pausing the film to tell the viewer what they're about to see, just interesting footage. Nice one.

Brings back many happy memories when trains actually had comfortable seats and people weren’t obsessed with having on board Wi-Fi.

It's probably been said a million times before but my god how I used to take all that for granted.

The next best thing to a time machine Loved it

When I was growing up in the 70's I was train mad, there was, and still is a footbridge over the railway at Sworders field, Bishop's Stortford. My parents would struggle to get me away from it every time we went shopping. The thing is, I was never to confident with stairs when I was in single figures but I was obsessed with the footbridge. In the early days class 37's would come along and the bridge would vibrate to the beat of that deep throaty engine. I loved it, whilst being scared at the same time. Class 47's started to take over and the fear subsided, they were more gentle and the bridge didn't seem to shake as much. I live about 1/2 hour away from Bishop's Stortford now and even though I'm getting close to 50 those memories are clear as yesterday. Now if I stood on that bridge the hum of the wires would be louder than the train

Thanks for sharing your videos. Sadly I denied myself this hobby when younger due to peer pressure from a slightly macho sporting environment I found myself in. Wish I’d been more true to myself back then! Slightly sad I missed so much. Fantastic stuff.

Fabulous footage ! Takes me right back to my spotting days in Atherstone and Nuneaton. To see those locations from my youth, it's unbelievable how everywhere has changed so much without realising. Another thing I notice when watching these archive films is the amazing lack of ballast around places like main line stations, never mind yards. The amount of remaining infrastructure from steam days also amazes, things we took entirely for granted in our youth. Keep them coming, they are fantastic films and so appreciated. 👍

Even the rakes of carriages were interesting back then mk1s mk2s mk3s. Sometimes all in the same train. I love the peak in its unfinished paint work.

Thank you so much Roy for sharing your many nostalgic videos! Brings back many happy memories of my childhood, watching these amazing locomotives thrash and clag along the western region mainline. The modern day Japanese locomotives lack the sound, look and character of these past beauties 😢

45107 at 20 minutes is Possibly the 3rd April 1986 Roy,i got a Photo of 45107 that day In Primer Condition and 37142 soon after,great video.

Is the uncredited location at 6:26 Great Chesterford ? Lovely video. Happy memories of Class 45s on the Midland Mainline, Class 151 on the usual Derby - Matlock, the occasional Class 81 / 85 on a WCML passenger, Class 47s on the Liverpool Street to Cambridge and Kings Lynn services (much missed !). Even the Class 305 would be nice today ! Sadly all taken for granted back then. Thanks for capturing these scenes for my generation to remember and for future generations to mourn the passing of a proper railway - loco hauled passenger and even some semaphore signals !

What a wonderful archive. 😊 Did any of us stop and realise how special that time was?

Brilliant as always Roy! Your footage is a treasure trove into the past and provides much inspiration as I build my Dean Park layout. Cheers. Dave

Many thanks for taking the time and effort to post this. I particularly found the sight of the old tracks at Market Harborough to be very thought provoking....a real 'lost opportunity' in my humble opinion...

That was really lovely. Thanks for sharing :-)

Another great 1980s film with lots of interest. Thanks for uploading.

I love these videos, I was leaving school and just getting interested in the railways then. Love to see the "then and now" videos...

Nice footage. Thanks for sharing.

There's not too much more in life than seeing a brush 4 approach you with lights on.Thanks for uploading rock on!😊

This is absolutely amazing Roy. Great footage on what the railways used to be like :-)

People say tha diesels don't have character but I love the different sounds the locos used to make

wonderful to see some old trains!

Excellent footage mate. More please.

@3:12 nice to see the fly-ash service - so rarely witnessed... and how fondly I remember the 25/3s stabled in Euston, left idling for hours. Soon as you came down ramp you could hear that distinctive Sulzer "clonk, clonk, clonk" great days sorely missed

This is absolutely amazing Roy. Great coverage of British Railway in the 1980s. Thanks a lot.

Thanks for sharing you precious collection, it will help me no end with research for the building of my 1980's model railway. Some great footage from a bygone era. Cheers Graham👍

Superb Roy 😁👍

Once again, brilliant; many thanks for sharing.

Great stuff, certainly stirs the memories. Thanks Roy.

Enjoying this😊

Superb footage again! Many thanks for sharing .... and I love the livery of 45107 at Derby! Would make an interesting modelling weathering project! 👍

Fantastic compilation Roy,wonderful memories of how it used to be

Thanks for sharing.

Amazing footage, thanks for sharing Roy

Thank you for posting, brings back so many memories of spotting with my late father.

My train spotting days with my late father , I miss them days so much.

Brilliant content and great photography, Roy. Thank you for posting. I liked your mix of stills shots, invaluble detail now given the passage of time...

Another gem of a video Roy. I don't think we realised at the time how run down the railway was compared to now. Those HST's were a bit of a life saver for the railway to build upon.

Blimey! Reminds me of my almost weekly trips down to London and then onto Kent at that time!

Great video. Happy memories. I'm definitely going to do a model of 45107!

This is a great video 📹👏. Good to see a variety of trains, I model 1978 to 85 and although it's a little past that time it's still a valuable resource. Enjoyed it 👍😊

This brings back happy memories. Days spent train spotting at New Street, Toton, Bescot, Saltley to name just a few

Immaculate permanent way. Nowadays the rail network is an overgrown garden.

Thanks Roy, very impressed to see Nuneaton getting in there. Asda had been built on the up yard site, but the down yard is still there in your footage.

Great video of classic locomotives.

Brilliant footage, and of my birth town Bishops Stortford. Reminds me of yesterday and recognised it straight away. Also reminds me of the massive decline and lack of investment in the railways back then. The Car journey was mode of choice for the general public but the 125 turned it around... well, apart from Jimmy Savile doing the adverts.

Superb video ,the Derby and Toton ones reminds ne of happy days at Leicester with the "cage brigade" and the Leicester Railway wagon society gand ,fond memories indeed

The good old days when there was something interesting to see, so dull by comparison nowadays.

First time I've ever seen or heard of the prototype class 151s. Video footage of 151001must be worth gold...

Thanks Roy.

Back then we craved for the bygone age of pre Beeching cuts and thought the railways weren't the same. What we'd give now to go back to the 70s and 80s, mixed freight trains instead of the block formations of today of primarily containers or aggregates. The variety of locomotives on goods and passenger trains, multiple units being for local, rural or suburban services. Stations still had pilot locomotives and loco stabling points. And, best of all, the trains had windows you could open for fresh air, comfy seating that lined up with the windows, and on inter-city trains, a proper buffet.

Fantastic! Woukd be great if these films could be restored like they are doing with victorian stuff lately.

Excellent footage 👍

Fantastic. 12:45 Never seen an HST formation with Guard SO coaches at either end! Stock move????

That takes me right back!

I still think of this as yesterday , all these new liveries instead of BR blue . It was 35 years ago eeeek ! Wow what happened to that 45 at Derby !

A flat crossing there in the very beginning. Only 1 of them left now on the entire network !

I like some of the old trains that were made up of a rag-tag collection of coaches. Great video 👍

Thanks for showing the full train as they go past. (loco & all the coaches). The formations are useful to know for modelling purposes. I hate it when the video moves onto something else after two or three coaches. What might have seemed a bog-standard rake of WCML MK2s is now useful material for modelling the formations. Videoing all the rakes is useful for those non-standard rakes, like the one in the video with 47522. I guess that was the European?

Brilliant video. I'd love to know what the 25 is doing on that rake of Inter City coaches though.

Another great selection from the BR days, thanks so much Roy. The footage of the Class 151 must be pretty rare. That was an experimental train I believe. Wonder why they chose Pacers over that one which had proper bogies? Cost I suppose. I really loved the sights and sounds of the electrics racing through Nuneaton in the rain. Also the sight and sounds of the old DMU's, particularly the Class 105 at Bishops Stortford. You captured it all so well Roy - and thank you for posting your videos for us all to enjoy and re-live all the fond memories of British Rail. All the best. Vivian.

I only wished I was born earlier so I could of seen the good old days

excellent footage!

Nice video 👍👍😀. I've subscribed to your RU-vid channel 😎👍

Some of those consists on the WCML. BR unwittingly gave their passengers a big choice of accommodation. You could literally walk from an early MK2 corridor to a MK3 saloon and then to a later MK2 saloon.

Ahhh.....the days of BR blue, MGR's, jointed track and window stickers on doors so you could easily pinch them.

Great footage, brings back memories. Lovely livery on 45107 lol

Excellent video which brought back great memories. What would the 25 on MK2 air cons at Derby have been working. Surely not an MML train? Loved the original livery of HST power cars. Thanks for sharing this.

I was so train mad I decided to leave school and do a apprenticeship with London Underground and became a driver , the fascination with trains be it electric steam diesel , the love affair goes on , went Canada aswel checked out the trains there , what a experience !

So much reclaimed for development....our shrinking railway?

HST 125s on claterty-clack, clackerty-clack track lol. What a juxtaposition!

Rats / Choppers + Peaks.....its a massive thumbs up from me Roy :) I wonder if 45107 was saying farewell & going to Toton? :(

Right at the beginning Roy, is that a Swindon unit I can see in the Nene carriage sidings?

I used to go to school on the dmu out of bishops stortford

11:03 Remains of Northampton - Market Harborough

Miss the sight sound and smell of the 304's up and down the Styal line between Manchester and Crewe.

Fantastic video of now long gone parts of British railway history! :D I was just wondering, would it be possible for me to use this footage as part of an upcoming documentary I'm creating about the history of the Class 151 prototype?

That guy hanging off the 08 footplate and then jumping off at 1'58" - 'elf 'n safety would have a dicky fit nowadays!

when trains had character..................happy days for sure

Terrific!

17:26 British Rail catering for the masses with an all FO train, or maybe a Nightrider or and ECS working??

The British Rail Freight ××× ××××××× ××××××× Office at Corby seemed to have seen happier days

I was a shunter. At.old. oak common. At.this. time.moved to Southall. West.London. freight shunting. Remember. These. Tlmes.well

Amazing! 😍👌

Peterborough only a shadow of its former self, so much going on there back then.

what happened to that class 45?!? 21:13

HST still in the early ECML formation with two catering cars…

Thumbs up.

When trains were trains, not like today’s boring looking things

13:11 weirdest HST 125 consist ever. ... A 2nd / Standard class class coach after the 1st class coach!

2:34 I bet the First Class passengers really appreciated the buffet car being placed in between the two First Class coaches! Imagine that, you pay a King's Ransom for 1st Class and spend the entire journey with Standard Class people walking past you to and from the buffet LOL. NOT!