“Ok lads don’t forget, they are here with the cameras today so hats on please.”….. collective sigh “oh come on it’s only today while the camera crew is here”
The class 313s are still running on Southern, along the Coast way route thru chichester. But the same company 'GTR' has watered down the Gatwick Express to being just a more expensive 'normal' train.
Ahhhh, Network SouthEast: back in the days when the Railway was all about providing a public service, not about generating huge profits for faceless, souless shareholders.
I know this is an old comment, but NSE, and sectorisation more generally, was really the start of the creeping corporatisation and eventual privatisation of BR. It was NSE who started the trend of calling passengers customers, for example.
NSE wasn't about providing a public service it was about the Thatcherite/ Reganite dogma of privatisation.passengers become customers,wallets not people!
I have a 1930s Southern Railway Sectional Appendix, and on the very first page it says : "OUR PASSENGERS ARE OUR CUSTOMERS You must think of, and refer to, our passengers as customers... (&c)"
Am I the only one who finds it odd that not only did NSE have a South West route that went all the way to Exeter and Weymouth, but that their South West route was their LARGEST operating area?
It would be a miracle if Network Southeast were still running things would go out fine, Now, we have Govia, Southern, Southeastern and Thameslink, Southeastern is alright, Southern is full of Delays, and Thameslink, not sure
Love watching them come off the ferries 2:20 Ahhhh the English. Lets just give Scotland one company 3:10 never mind how huge the land mass is lol you'd think that Glasgow and Edinburgh could've had its own bit. But nah. That line out to Margate was horrendously underfunded. I remember a girl I worked with around the time of this video that came in from Chatham and she was always late because of trains I'm amazed they've highlighted the 'modern' 11:00 parcel car for the Gatwick Express, thats a 1950s built carriage.
4:54 Does anyone know in which year the direct services from Brixton to elephant and Castle were stopped? Did they used to call at Loughborough Junction?
the last train on that route was in 1997 as part of the LILO tour (Last in Last Out) with a class 423 vep unit. Search on yt as there is a video of it.
What the heck were BR up to in those days? So concerned about silly branding and very little investment in staff and rolling stock. A very poor attempt to attract private investors.
+Brandon Morley Yes there was an Anglia Region. It was split off from the Eastern Region in the 1980s. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F266288
