Trains In The 1990's Leicester August 1993 feat BRT Class 20's 

I really needed a little nostalgic entertainment this morning Darren and this video is better than any prescribed medicine. Thank you

Espectacular ,,,me encantan estos videos de esa epoca saludo desde Argentina

Great upload! Its easy to forget just how much has changed in the last 20 years. Loved seeing the double headed class 20s on passenger work. Its clear that the railways were suffering some neglect, running down the assets no doubt so the govt's mates would pick bits up cheap on privatisation...

Marvellous footage

What an excellent video brush/choppers,hst's units old & new many memories brought back did the skeggys around this time in summer 1993,watched a few more addictive!,keep them coming.

Great to see the Master Cutler going through non stop, I managed it once on the MC to London from Sheffield just to go through LR "non stop, and then a few years later a railtour did the same thing behind a 31, both occasions very slowly through the station. Thanks for posting happy days, and cannot get over the footbridge has been there 20 years.

excellent footage!

This is a good video. I have lived in Leicester ever since 2002 and have also been to Leicester station quite a number of times and it's nice to see video footage of Leicester station before I was even born.

Darren...Awesome !!

love this video thank you so much for posting it i am from nuneaton and was at school at the time and our school ran along the nuneaton main line (etone) i used to enjoy legging it down the station incase the vic berry locos came past mostly class 26 27 for cutting up and the skeggy locos loved it we allso had the class 33 on the coalville open days runs aswell. thank you so much for bring back some wonderful moments of my life :) i hope to see more esp any on vic berrys scrap yard .....

The 20s finished for good yesterday

Simply Brilliant! I would have been one when you filmed all this! I just wish I was born 15 years earlier so I got the best of the loco stuff!

Very Nice Footage Darren.Its very similar to the footage i filmed in the late Eighties at York & Dawlish. Trevor.''

Awesome video, being a Leicester fellow myself I have spent many hours photting on this station

Great Video Darren! Nice to see what came through Leicester before i was Born!

Fantastic :-)

Ah the Nuneaton drags, a rare occasion to experience Class 58 haulage!

Leicester was great in August 1993

Brilliant video .thanks .

Thanks Ian.

Good collection, improves at about 05.00 with Tug's, Choppers and a Tyseley 108 DMU. Nice chopper departure at the end.

Yep, that brings memories back of choppers working passengers to Skeggy and back, nice chopper footage. Agree that the old DMU had much more character, Birmingham New Street was always a good one for DMU s also Darren, another top video

It's amazing how little Leicester has changed in the (near enough) two decades that have passed since this was taken. Apart from the centre flower beds having been removed where the centre run around track used to stand, and the obvious absence of the now familiar LCD displays, aswell as a couple of other changes up toward the Loughborough end of the station it could be any year between then and now!

Thank you.

Thanks very much.

Thanks very much, glad it brought back some memories for you as well. Plenty more 1990's(and 1980's)action to come still(i've got hours and hours of footage from scores of locations across the country still to convert and make into movies), so you'll be pleased to know there's another 90's movie coming up tonight and an 80's one later next week - with some 2012 selections inbetween too :-)

I also forgot just what variety of stock there were in the early 90s through Leicester, especially the DMU variety on the Birmingham - Peterborough line, aside from pacers and the rarer first gen DMUs, you could get almost anything passing! I'd be very interested to see any other Leicester footage you have from around this era, or indeed anywhere on the Leicester - Nuneaton section. Excellent collection you're sharing by the way, most enjoyable.

Gotta love the sound of the Class 20's :)

If only we could have DRS or GBRf 'Choppers' on Summer Saturday's to Skeggy now - reckon they'd draw the punters in from all over if they did! Gotta love those old DMU's too, many a happy trip spent in the front seat looking out on board some of those.

Lucky sod driving those 20's love those locos.

No problem, glad you enjoyed it. Plenty more old liveries and loco hauled stock to come from my classic collections still, but there will be some 142's, 150's, and 158's from my trips to Yorkshire in the 1990's i'm afraid - although there will be the final Trans-Pennine 47's too!

Yeah, it's been suggested a few times, but i think it could become less enjoyable and more like work if i do that, and with already having a full time job and plenty of other things keeping me busy i'm just happy to do a few movies as my free time allows - and i'm glad that so many people enjoy them and think they are worthy of making into a DVD :-)

Thanks. I'll have to look at your footage then as i'm sure there's some great stuff from that era. I've got some late 80's footage from Dawlish up already as you've probably seen, and just made a Colton Junction movie from 1993 - that'll probably be uploaded at the weekend.

great video the 2 brt class 20 are still running with drs as 20308 and 309

Thanks Steve, and this is only one which doesn't feature a lot of locos - wait until you see Leicester Open Day when i've made that one! In the meantime(after a current ECML movie tonight)there'll be Colton Junction 1993 coming up on Sunday night, followed by Rugby 1989 later next week - and that really is awesome!

Great video Darren :)

Indeed. The older DMU's certainly had more character, and of course many times you could sit in the front seat and have a driver's(well, secondman's)eye view too.

Cheers Darren,Looking forward to the Colton Video,Trevor.''

Cheers Darren. Will look forward to that then :)

The 100-129s were more cheerful than a Sprinter

Thank you :-)

One thing sectorisation and then privatisation did was bring lots of new liveries, and the late 80's to late 90's was definately 'out with the old and in with the new' - much more interesting than today.

Thanks Michael. Some of the HST's and DMU's still pass today of course, just probably on their third different livery by now! Not sure when i'll make/upload it, but wait until you see my video of Leicester Depot Open Day with all sorts of locos packing the site out!

Tengo muchas más viejos vídeos para su disfrute. Muchas gracias de parte de Inglaterra :-)

Should have some more bits still from Leicester area - last days of the 'Peaks', Leicester Depot Open Day, Nuneaton drags, and more. Peak Forest 1995 coming up this weekend!

For me it was the end of an era when the old DMUs were replaced by the sprinters.

Yes, some good stuff around indeed. I used to bash the 45's(and later 47's)during the final years of loco hauled workings on the Midland Mainline.

Should put them on dvd make some money :)

Thanks. Guess the nearest spots for more freight and variety would be Stafford(afternoon/evening best time), Water Orton(several each hour there), Tamworth(with WCML and NE/SW route there), or Nuneaton(plenty through there, but can be pretty fast!).

Thanks Chris. I guess you still get a pair of 20's through most weeks(on S-stock), and the odd 60 about too, but it's not the same today for sure.

Thanks. One year old was a bit too early to be spotting and filming I guess :-) I guess i'm lucky in some ways being able to film these transition era years when loco hauled trains were still around. Just think how you'd feel now if you were 15 years older though! LOL

Loving the old footage Darren, Could you give me any suggestions of some good Trainspotting spots since im quite new to it, and keep in mind i live in Wolverhampon, all you we usually get in our stations are Voyagers, Pendolinos and 350, maybe the odd old diesel.

Yes, but these were early 80's if i recall so before my videoing started - these had a variety of 47's on drag duties. I do have still shots of 58's though, which is another potential Winter project to scan photos from 70's, 80's, and 90's to upload, either a montage on here or gallery on my Flickr site.

Blimey, I'd have been all of five months old!

2:00 i spy my favorite shunter :P

What a vid of Leicester and no sign of TT on the platform or the "cage brigade" ??

Just to say thanks for filming and uploading this. It's interesting to see pre-privatisation services (especially as I want to model Leicester during this period). I just have a few questions: 1) What service was the railcar at 3:30 doing? Was that a Leicester - Nottingham? 2) What service was the Class 150/156 5-car train doing (the one you see at 3:50)? It's interesting because it's the first I've seen something like this. 3) Were the Class 116/117 units (in both BR and Regional Railways) doing the Birmingham to Norwich runs?

Happy to be of service Keith, but be careful with this medicine or you'll get addicted! :-)