Guide Bridge Depot. 24th August 1973
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- On Friday 24th August 1973 I went to Guide Bridge and filmed what I saw using my Minolta Super 8 mm cine camera. Music by Chris Zabriskie from You Tube Audio Library.
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Deeply regret not visiting the Woodhead route earlier. First descended upon Piccadilly in 1973, and having seen the regular comings and goings of Class 506 emus I enquired about how to get to see the Tommies! I was duly instructed by a “local” lad to take a DMU to Reddish North and walk about 5-10 mins down to the depot. I did as recommended and was not disappointed! Eventually I visited various locations along the Woodhead route and was impressed by the sights of Tommies on freights at Woodhead Station. I became more and more familiar with the route and lamented the closure as a through Trans Pennine route in 1981. I witnessed probably one of the last MGR trains, 47 hauled at Godley Junction heading for Fiddlers Ferry PS in 1981.
Superb footage of the Woodhead 76s at Guide Bridge,now all sadly gone,thanks for sharing.
worked here in the late 70s happy memories
Fantastic footage, so glad you took it
Never saw the line sadly I have to say.
Always had a fascination for the legacy DC system so short lived.
Lovely 8mm footage. The locos still look more European outline than anything British. Closing the Woodhead absurd, even by the wholesale civic vandalism of the time.
Sadly never got to explore the Woodhead route but remember visiting a bus scrapyard (Wombwell Diesels) in 1978 (next to the Wath line) and a 76 went by light engine. The only time I ever saw one move!
Also popped down to nearby Wath depot to see a few in the usual Sunday line up there.
Next time I saw them was February 1983 at Guide Bridge and Reddish, where pretty much every example was withdrawn waiting to be scrapped.
Great video.....makes me wish I'd seen a few more actually working!
Fantastic footage and the music just fits the mood perfectly, thank you...
Crap music, sounds like a stuck door bell.
I remember being escorted down to the drivers' Mess by a frienldy driver in the 1970s as a kid. We saw the roster and they let us go in the electric locos cabs. These were people who were justly proud of the railway they managed. I realise now what an honour it was to be allowed there. Modern Health and Safety rules would forbid it but how can we show our children the way forward?
as kids we got into the depot and shown round was fantastic I ended up going into engineering at crewe locomotive works as a school leaver happy days !!
@@Mog435 you're a lucky man! I just get picked on at school for being a bus and train nerd :(
@@speccylimone3684 I got the same from the "Richard Craniums" . Doesn't help when you are Autistic when no bugger has heard of it. I stick to the Truth living in a World of liars. I am 60 now and my grown up kids are doing great. Take Care Stay Strong particularly now with the Pieceful Menace we face!
@@speccylimone3684 I was too but stand up to these pathological bastards. Stand proud!
What a sight! 76's and a 24 together. Amazing
They're both 25's.
I don't mean the ones at the end although that's a good sight too
@@simongurden9848 Ah, right got yah.
Even more amazing is the 81/82/83/85 next to the 76's.
Superb film,and great memories of a once important railway centre,many thanks for sharing.
I look at this video again an feel respect for the drivers signallers and dispatchers of the woodhead route who showed us youngsters the workings of their railway
Nice footage. Shame there was no sound, I muted the depressing music. Depressing because of the state of our railways now compared to back then.
I got up there (from W. Sussex) in the mid to late 70s when they were all 76s, no Es.
Shame your footage ended with the 76 approaching on what looked like an MGR train, if they were running in 73.
Guide bridge was an amazing place for a southern enthusiast. Seeing 20s, 40s, 47s, 76s and some of the early 8x electrics.
Was also lucky enough to do the Woodhead route a few times on railtours etc., also in and around Wath, Tinsley, past the old Sheffield Victoria station.
Good old days.
Shame its all this foreign rubbish now, in German DB livery.Hey ho.
Thanks for uploading.
My Super 8mm cine camera was a silent one. Most cine cameras were silent in those days. Many years later, I projected the films onto a screen and recorded onto a Video 8 camcorder. The sound recorded was the sound of the projector which sounded a bit like a sewing machine. Years later I copied the Video 8 tapes on to DVD, then after a few more years I copied from DVD onto computer and then uploaded to UA-cam. I added music from the UA-cam library, to replace the sewing machine like sound. I just chose some slow tempo music to accompany the images. I'm glad you enjoyed the images.
Very nice David great to see cheers Steve ..
they where very friendly at the bridge,
Happy memories from my train spotting days in the 70s 👍🏻
Just wish I'd been old enough to see the Woodhead electrics at the time. I just started gaining proper knowledge (when I bought my first copy of Rail Enthusiast magazine) about the classes/routes etc in late 1981 just a few months after the Woodhead electrics were withdrawn. If only I had a time machine.
This footage is the closest you'll get to a time machine
Lived by the wath branch , my childhood bedroom window overlooked wombwell main junction , none stop class 76 coal and frieght trains it was also where the two bankers would be attached at the rear , i went to redish and guide bridge to see them lined up awaiting a final journey across the pennines to be cut up .
I fondly remember these boxy locomotives gliding around guide bridge. Nice shed, staff were always friendly to well behaved spotters. Sadly gone and the whole area changed beyond recognition. Odd to see the 84 (?) on shed. Longsight not far and on the right juice... wonder why it ended up here
Great video. The 76's look awesome when the pantograph are really low down, not so good when they're high up, at level crossings etc where the contact conductor wire has to be higher.
Fantastic footage, thanks for posting
Marvellous stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you.
As a kid in the late 50's/early 60's my cross country runs from school took me past the Reddish Shed twice a week for five years. I enjoyed running past but I often wondered why there were so many loco's sitting around doing nothing. Then watching this video of yet more loco's either sitting around doing nothing or travelling light and therefore costing, not earning, the railway money, I have to wonder what the economics of this line were and if that had some leaning on why the line was deemed uneconomical and had to close.
No, none of it. The line closed because it was none standard as regards Traction and line voltage and the fact that the Traffic was declining and due to investment not forthcoming because the Economy was in recession it was decided to close the whole route. Nothing to do with parked up Locomotives.
The money was made between wath and mottram yard , endless coal trains from the pits of south yorkshire to fiddlers ferry and other coal fired power stations , the NCB decided to move coal underground to hub pits where rapid loading bunkers were built to load coal on to waggons , unfortunately none of these were on the wath branch, being at wooley and houghton main , without the coal traffic woodhead was doomed.
Quality footage of Guide Bridge, it's our local station and seeing footage like this is as rare as hen's teeth. Just out of curiosity have you got any more footage @ Guide Bridge from the 70's & 80's? Cheers
No, this is all I have sorry. If you look on my Flickr pages, there are some photos. Search for David Roy Ball. Look in my Railway Stuff Album. Guide Bridge is on Page 2.
That must be the cleanest 76 I've ever seen at 4:30....although utterly functional in design, they actually looked quite smart when clean! I spy an AC intruder (AL4) around the 7 minute mark. Perhaps on its way to/from Doncaster works? This was the period when major overhauls and upgrades were being made to the AC "roarers" in readiness for electrification into Scotland.
One of the very wide warren-girder gantries over the loco 'parking area' was struck and badly-buckled by a contractor's mobile crane during the removal of the bridge-girders from the old long-dead Denton-Stalybridge avoiding-line "dive-under" that tunneled under the tracks nearby. The redundant girder was subsequently taken-down and cut up, leaving a prominent gap.
After the electrics left, plenty of Class '40's turned up there: there was a refuelling point near the (last) signal-box.
The long footbridge (visible in some shots) is still there: God knows who uses it. The wooden-planked footbridge on the station nearby was set on fire and was taken-down, leaving people to go all the way round via the roadbridge over the line.
I'm a little surprised to see so many of these pre-TOPS numbered locos still carrying the 'E' prefix to their number. This was 5 years after the demise of steam and the discontinuation of the D & E prefixes for diesel and electric traction. I'm also curious about the 1st generation AC electric loco (can't identify the specific class - 82 maybe?) in in the final shot.
I think the E prefix was to distinguish from Class 26 diesels before the Class 76 TOPS code was adopted. Yes, I spotted that rogue AC in there as well, most curious.
we've come a long ways in 50 years.
Maybe the AC electric is a stored class 84. Looks like one with those oval buffers...
76021 looking smart ex works, while an ac interloper sits in the yard presumably awaitin a tow under the hill on its way to Doncaster for maintainance.
6:58 , wonder what the AC electric is doing at guide bridge , i have seen photos of AC electrics being dragged over woodhead to doncaster for attention
I was 6 weeks old when this was filmed . How old do I feel lol
What's the AC electric doing in the yard towards the end of the footage? Great film BTW.
Sorry, I'm not sure. I think there were 25kv wires in the yard.
Probably waiting to be towed to Doncaster works, it was not unusual to see.
Not at Guide Bridge in the 1970s After the Woodhead route closed the Manchester to Hadfield line was rapidly converted to 25kv ac.
Nice film. It’s a Class 84, with its unique oval buffers (for these AC classes). Probably the most troublesome of the early AC locos for BR. It was most likely awaiting transfer for storage, or possibly repair. Many of the class were stored at Bury shed during this period because they were so unreliable. Only the electrification north to Glasgow saved them during this time, as BR needed more AC motive power.
It's possible the AC electric may have been parked ready to be taken to Reddish depot (RS) for new tyres.
7:27 How an earth did that AC locomotive manage to get there?
Duh....towed ??
Never heard a Class 76 before.... they do sound very strange listening to this video!
Great.
Thank you.
Year i was graduated from High School....
Great video shame no sound rather than the music
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