Wonderful piece of archive footage, and very good quality given this must have been filmed in the mid-1980s as the Grainflow workings ended around 1987. Nice shots from inside Wymondham signalbox - a place I was fortunate enough to visit for what is likely to be the last ever steam tour to be served by the box.
Lovely Vid. It's nice too see the Wymondham station hasn't changed, it's still beautiful, especially in the Summer when all the Flowers are festooned all over the place :)
Makes you wonder if there's any Token-locked Single Line Working left in the UK, what with all the centralised Power Box gubbins all ower t' show these days . . .
Look at Wymondham now devoid of those lovely telegraph poles and semaphores replaced by led light signals whose very existence speaks of corporate banality
@@tulyar1043 Actually, grain, as you can tell from "Grainflow" being written on the side. British cement tanks weren't nearly that big in the 1980s. Edit, a year later: oops, I'm an idiot. The green ones at the start are grain; the white ones at the end are cement.
Split box 37s, bloody beautiful machines.
Loved the vid.
Fabulous! Brings back a lot of memories, I used to regularly frequent Brandon station in the early 80's, Wonderful stuff!
Wonderful piece of archive footage, and very good quality given this must have been filmed in the mid-1980s as the Grainflow workings ended around 1987. Nice shots from inside Wymondham signalbox - a place I was fortunate enough to visit for what is likely to be the last ever steam tour to be served by the box.
Lovely Vid. It's nice too see the Wymondham station hasn't changed, it's still beautiful, especially in the Summer when all the Flowers are festooned all over the place :)
Fantastic video - I wish I could go back to those days with real traction :-)
Good thrash leaving in a screen of clag at the end. Even the sight of the DMUs is a pleasure:-))))))) Thanks!
Nice to see a Class 105 in action.
Fantastic clag! I love class 37s.
cor that 105 cravens pity, would have loved to have seen more of that in action these were superb dmus used to ride these a lot back in the 70s
Never mind bloody electric cars and wind farms - will someone invent a bleedin' time machine please? I wanna go back.
The brake van was for opening andd closing all of the train crew operated level crossings.
superb video,great bit of shunting,THANKS,
How many road-blocking juggernauts have replaced that one goods train?
lUCKING fOADS SADLY!
Probably about nine: about two for each of the grain hoppers and about one for the bricks.
@@beeble2003 mental...
Wheres yer orange hi vis matey ? Eeh them were the days eh.
End credits: Filmed by Barry Ketteridge; ex-Stratford driver.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Very good and interesting video, looks like the secondman was driving!
excellent video! what the 4 wheel open wagon behind the loco?
Old Pearson, he knows some stuff!!
Classic stuff, nice Tractor thrash. Love it.
Thanks!
Thankyou excellant vintage history to b treasured!
Nice video. :)
Nice!
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Is there any grain transported by rail now?
I don't think any in the UK now.
I see lots of Transcéréales wagons passing through Mannheim still.
@@Mishima505 Sure, and there's a huge amount of grain transported by train in the US and Canada. The OP was probably asking about the UK, though.
Makes you wonder if there's any Token-locked Single Line Working left in the UK, what with all the centralised Power Box gubbins all ower t' show these days . . .
Wigan Wallgate to Kirkby, token locked single line between Rainford and Kirkby 🙂
Hmmm Red Rover -now I wonder who that can be :)
Look at Wymondham now devoid of those lovely telegraph poles and semaphores replaced by led light signals whose very existence speaks of corporate banality
this was when Britain still had Great in front of her and before health and safety would interfear with that inocent bit of shunting there.
Watching both this video and this one I’ve linked really gives you a sense of what the town is like. ua-cam.com/video/GA6wLMlva6w/v-deo.html
what were the tank wagons on this
Those tank wagons were cement wagons. Might even have travelled all the way from Ketton near Stamford.
@@tulyar1043 Actually, grain, as you can tell from "Grainflow" being written on the side. British cement tanks weren't nearly that big in the 1980s.
Edit, a year later: oops, I'm an idiot. The green ones at the start are grain; the white ones at the end are cement.
ah