Having been to an open day at both Bath Road and St Philips Marsh Depots earlier in the day, I filmed a few of the workings at Temple Meads before catching my train home, all filmed with my old Panasonic M7. Enjoy.
That was the day when St Phillips Marsh and Bath Rd had their open days remember it well. I went to Cardiff to do a bit of spotting and maybe arrived back in Bristol on that 158 near the end of your video. Remember seeing 47363 on a north bound cross country, must have been just after you finished recording, oh happy days. Many thanks for posting great video.
I was a 11 year old boy and god i can still see it now. The old badgerline X39 from Bath and cityline buses with that 47 going out and Bath Road busy how Bristol Has changed. Nice video thank you
nice video mate. brings back good memories from back in the day. gotta love the enormous video cameras and the absolutely terrible clothing that everybody was sporting!!!! haha
+orangepatriot85 Thanks for taking the time to view and comment, nice to know this bought back some fond memories for you. I must admit my old M7 took some carrying about, it was like carrying a suitcase everywhere I went to film at various locations, and yes how dresswear has changed over the last 24 years, who knows what people will be wearing in the next 20 odd years or so ??, cheers...Bill
Cheers Mike, as you will remember the open days at Bath Rd and St Philips Marsh were a great success, did you film the events, if so I bet they would really be worth looking at, thanks for looking/commenting, much appreciated...Bill
Ernest Johnson Cheers Ernie, on the day itself it was a great day out at both depot open days, this bit was just a filler to end the day, thanks for looking/commenting, much appreciated, take care...Bill
Cheers Owen, thanks for taking the time to view and comment. Some of the liveries carried by loco's today are mind boggling they look like travelling advertisement boards. Regards Bill
pjt1974 Thanks for looking, and your kind comment, there was in fact a steam loco on Bath Road Depot, it was 3440 City Of Truro which was taking part in the open day being held there, cheers...Bill
Cheers Daniel, It certainly was nice to see the Inter City livery applied to the GWR HST sets. Thanks for looking/commenting, much appreciated. Regards...Bill
Cheers Jordan, thanks for looking/commenting much appreciated, and yes Bristol has changed a lot in the last 25 years since I filmed this, very few loco hauled services nowadays. Regards...Bill
Those Valenta engines were extremely loud compared to the MTU's that are used these days. Won't be long before the HST's are replaced by the Class 800's. Going to miss the HST.
Cheers Daniel, the Hsts have given sterling service since their introduction over 40 years ago. I believe that the GWR sets maybe moved to Scotland but cannot be sure. Many thanks for taking the time to view and comment. Regards...Bill
Gosh - HSTs as they were originally built - and as I remember them! Would you have any objection if I were to use fragments of the audio from this and other of your videos as sound effects in a free, open-source non-commercial computer game called Simutrans under the Artistic Licence 1.0? I should happily credit you, of course.
They certainly were Michael, pity we don't have the variety of loco's today as we did all those years ago. Thanks for looking/commenting. Regards...Bill
+84asrd84boxy thanks for the comment, I did some filming myself at Bristol Temple meads last Saturday and it was uploaded on Tuesday, care to have a look.
Unfortunately I have no idea when the 150s and 158s began working the Cardiff - Portsmouth services. In another video I filmed a 158 at Cardiff on the 3rd of April 1991 at Cardiff. Regards...Bill
