Many a winter morning spent staring at the snow covered platform and tracks hoping the train will show up. No mobile phone and live updates in those days. "The garble garble to garble garble has been cancelled". ❤
ahhhh brilliant. my old depot..and another fab fab video. Great to see these great trains whipping up the snow..i love it when it’s a firework show too. crackle!!! excellent as always
i know that spot very well....this i s a real treat. youve caught some great sounds . there use to be a chap who recorded the frieght on tape deck around that time on the platform. what a thing to have been barbed wire height ...i had to make do with the mesh. ! superb !!
February 1991. Sussex Coast lines had EPBs running for weeks after that snow whilst the backlog of failed CIGs & VEPs was dealt with. Remember it well.
I once made it all the way to Woking from Leeds just for the 50s, this was before 47/7s had come down, and the first train I got I had to board before I knew what was on it because it was just about to leave Waterloo. When I made my way to tbe front to see which 50 was on I found a 47/8! Gutted!
@@duncancurtis5108 At least some still survive so not all is lost...and I can sympathise with you as I too missed out on traction on it's way out....many thanks Duncan.....Mark
I had to go into Salisbury that day or I would have stayed at Home, anyway the 50's after this were turning around at Basingstoke by midday, I went up on Elgar and got it back an hour later after saying stuff this in this cold. Note the Wessex hated the snow with their REP motors and the juice needed another de-icer through by the looks of things.
Many thanks for this, a Class 207 on a Bournemouth stopper, very rare.
It seemed a good idea.....Many thanks....Mark
Many a winter morning spent staring at the snow covered platform and tracks hoping the train will show up. No mobile phone and live updates in those days. "The garble garble to garble garble has been cancelled". ❤
Those were the days Gail....many thanks...Mark
First, thanks for the video. Second, thanks for braving the cold with your camera. You’re an absolute hero recording this stuff and sharing.
You are most welcome and many thanks for watching.......best wishes to you....Mark....PS I have thawed out now....
ahhhh brilliant. my
old
depot..and another fab
fab video. Great
to see these great trains whipping up the snow..i love
it when it’s a firework show too. crackle!!! excellent as always
Many thanks Karim....best wishes....Mark
Crikey, that one at about 12:15 had some flats on it!
Must have been sliding around.
Giving the rail head a good hammering!
Threepenny bits we called them.....lovely noise......best wishes....Mark
i know that spot very well....this i s a real treat. youve caught some great sounds . there use to be a chap who recorded the frieght on tape deck around that time on the platform. what a thing to have been barbed wire height ...i had to make do with the mesh. ! superb !!
Yes.....the crackling of the arcing shoes, most spectacular in the dark....I notice the keen PW chap taking pics.....many thanks Bernard....Mark
February 1991. Sussex Coast lines had EPBs running for weeks after that snow whilst the backlog of failed CIGs & VEPs was dealt with. Remember it well.
Yes I do too.....much appreciated Steve....Mark
Interesting that the train at 15:15 has a CEP in the formation. Must have been on short term loan.
If I can remember correctly some CEP's were creeping in on this region...Many thanks and best wishes...Mark
I once made it all the way to Woking from Leeds just for the 50s, this was before 47/7s had come down, and the first train I got I had to board before I knew what was on it because it was just about to leave Waterloo. When I made my way to tbe front to see which 50 was on I found a 47/8! Gutted!
Best wishes to you and what a rotten stroke of luck there....Mark
I blew my last chance n all for the remaining 50s that month.
@@duncancurtis5108 At least some still survive so not all is lost...and I can sympathise with you as I too missed out on traction on it's way out....many thanks Duncan.....Mark
Ah yes winter returned with gusto for the first time since 1987! No snow oop north but windy chasing Choppers.
Yes I did a bit of that myself.....best regards....Mark
I had to go into Salisbury that day or I would have stayed at Home, anyway the 50's after this were turning around at Basingstoke by midday, I went up on Elgar and got it back an hour later after saying stuff this in this cold. Note the Wessex hated the snow with their REP motors and the juice needed another de-icer through by the looks of things.
Yes indeed....still it was a memorable experience.....best regards...Mark
Ahh yes "The wrong type of snow!" :P
And Ice and everything, but it still kept running, unlike todays railway....best wishes...mark
Was going to write this. Yup 3 days later that infamous phrase, though it was the BBC guy who said it not the BR guy
@@PadisherCreel Many thanks.....Mark