That short train - possible DMU substitute - was the particularly most interesting part of the video. The only other time I've seen 2 blue/grey mk1s behind a diesel loco was on the mainline passing Toddington motorway services, roughly around the same era as this enjoyable selection was filmed.
The Duff with the two BSKs were probably on a DMU substitute. It's an interesting scratch rake but something that the modern railway would be able to accommodate today. It's one for railway modellers, too!
Oh how I miss DMUs. Good to see Exeters scratch set having an outing too. Great to see a bit of the old flailing too as the normals look on somewhat bemused 😁
This takes me right back to those seemingly endless summer days just up the coast at Lyme. It’s beautifully shot, really was back there watching with you, could almost feel the heat of the sun. Wonderful
Nice stuff! As a railway modeller, it's really cool to have good enough definition to be able to read the numbers on the coaches! A bit of a rarity was the 3-car 101 with a TBSL (with guards compartment) in the middle... those were few and far between, even in 1990! The HST on a wrong-line-working a6 6:00 was unexpected!
Great video mate, in the time and era I'm modelling! The light engine movements we see, are, like any light engine movement, fascinating. Where have they come from, where are they going? And, that train at 5:09, hauled by the distribution 47, what was that all about?
I lived in Dartmouth 1993-2001 and never once, did I go to Dawlish to watch the trains. Duh me. It was always hot there though right? It always amazed m there weren't idiotic holidaymaker fatalities here tbh given how open the tracks are, and the noise from the sea blotted out oncoming trains. Interesting little set up at 5:20 - "not commercially viable" would be the 2023 phrase I'm sure.
A particularly idiotic bit of trespassing there1:26. And again4:10, there's somebody walking on the track side of the wall, not that the driver of the 47 seems at all concerned
