Railway Scenes at Poole in the 1980's
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- West to East across the Borough of Poole. Scenes :- (1) Hamworthy, New Quay, A "Truckline" Ferry arrives into Poole, (2) 09015 shunts wagons toward New Quay, (3) Hamworthy Goods Branch, old Poole station as 33052 "Ashford" departs with steel coil, (3) Hamworthy Junction, 47080 "Titan" comes up the goods branch as 2x4TC's propelled by a 33/1 arrive and depart, (4) Sterte, several views ... 47252 passes with empty oil tanks for Furzebrook, 33111 with "Channel Island Boat train", 33/1's 33109+33117 depart at to Weymouth, 73140 shunts "Presflo" cement wagons in Poole Yard. (4) High Street Level Crossing, 47444 departs with Inter-regional, (5) Baiter/Poole Park, several views .. 73103 passes light, 47286 with oil tanks from Furzebrook, 33011 with Presflo's for Westbury, u.i.d. 47 with Inter-regional service in 1977, 33+TC in 1977, fleeting glimpse of a 73 with Winfrith Nuclear Waste flask, 33009+33208 with oil tanks ex Furzebrook. (6) Parkstone Station, 33032 with TC's up working, 33006 with empty newspaper train, 47056 oil tanks ex Furzebrook going up as 33102 arrives with a down train, 33032 now with steel billets. (7) Branksome Station 2x4TC's +33/1 arrive up, 2xTC's propelled by 4Rep arrive down. Final scene, Class 33/1 passes with empties wagons from Hamworthy Goods.
This video is given is very different feeling of experience to me. It is new information to me also. Catching is very talented. Excellent 👍
Thank you for your kind comment, when I filmed the scenes over 40 years ago I never imagined they would ever be seen by such a wide audience. I am pleased others have enjoyed viewing what was once a common sight and is now long gone. Cheers
@@colinstone1406 good surprise ❤️
Great bit of filming - great memories for me. I live in Derbyshire but my aunt lived at Parkstone. The times I've spent on Parkstone Station , at Poole Park, Poole Station and LCs in the 70s and 80s . Many happy family holidays which were spent between 'holiday' things and watching the 33's, 73's and 47's and the Channel Islands Boat Train going up the bank at 07.50 every morning! Wish I could bring it all back, mum, dad, aunts and uncles all now gone as well.....Thanks for memories of happy times!
Thank you for your kind comment. If the film does nothing else but provoke personal memories then it was worth putting it up on UA-cam, glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
Fantastic. To think also, just 20 years previous the S&D trains used to pound along here. The sight & sound of a 7f 280 with 10mk1s was incredible. As is every shot on this video. 👌🏼
Thank you for you kind comments, back in steam days I went to school by the railway line visible in the background at 6.30. All the 7F's plus multiple other goodies passed by, "we" thought it would never end ! Cheers.
Poole power stations chimneys dominating the skyline
Great video. Used to work for Brittany Ferries. Great to see the old Truckline Coutances ferry at the beginning. Remember the freight trains coming in. Good old days.
If only I had a time machine to go back to these glorious times with all the Freight trains and slam door REPS and 4TCs and no Cross Country Voyagers.
Last time I caught a loco hauled train from Poole was September 1997 the Sunday Princess Diana was killed. I was on the Sunday morning Poole to Glasgow Central.
all my memories in that film didnt want it to end thanks for sharing.
Yah, bring a couple of slam doors in.
@@alexjewell2351gawd what
@@f280ocr Yeah into a few loco's myself
Glad that you enjoyed watching the film, at the timing I was filming it all I never dreamt it would be seen by so many, the internet was way in the future ! Cheers
Fantastic memories 😀 Did plenty of Man Picc/Poole cross country back in the 80s 😂 Push pull 33s heaven 👍🏻
Lovely bit of film thanks for the memories
Blimey that brings back memories, thanks Colin
Oh wow. Brought back some fond memories. Everything I know and love. Used to sit in my aunties back garden on Stert road and watch them shunt the yard. Thank you Colin. From Colin of Parkstone Goods fame.
Brilliant footage crompton heaven 👍👍
OMG preslows ,thanks for posting
Great video.
Colin you might like to know the branch has been tidied up, and although the port end is still cut off from the far end, theres been a Westbury Tarmac train in Realtime trains for 4montha now-many of us waiting to see when they start back down here
Hi Jason. Thank you for that, however I wouldn't hold your breath for anything heading down the Hamworthy branch any time soon ! But that said, I hope I'm wrong. Cheers
Great video, many thanks!
To think I could have been down the road from Hamworthy in the base there around this time, its weird as a few short years earlier I used to talk with the Bournemouth train crews when I was lampsman up at Waterloo and now I live in Gillingham which back then the ESD trains were my duty to maintain and replenish lamps and stores and the 4SUB's still running in off the suburban lines had to have lamps as well. I thought I would live and die in my native south London and then I went to Hamworthy, then back to London and then in 92 moved back down to Bournemouth and pretty much been a Dorset chap ever since. My dad retired from BR and spent his last years as a signaller for Swanage Rly.
Excellent!!!!
Great memories Colin- it was always exciting to see a named 47 on the inter- regional- do you remember which one is seen departing Poole over the level crossing?
Do you also remember seeing (if you were really lucky) a 74 struggling on diesel up Parkstone bank on the ‘02’ parcels- happy times in deed!
47444, that is
AndreiTupolev - Thanks I remember her well! 57310 came thru Poole yesterday- not quite the classic sound but still good to see:-)
Hampton Court MRS are building a model of Hamworthy (Jct) - albeit a little bit later than this film, if anyone has any photos that show the area around the station, particularly the cement terminal just around the corner down the branch, I'd love to see them. The location may be familiar to preservationists as there was a re-repatriated WD 8F (ex Turkish railways IIRC) briefly stored at the cement terminal for stripping and shot blasting.
where is 14:31 ?? Looks very different wherever it is today
Great video, Colin. Have you got any more footage?
Hi Aidan. A reply better late than never ! Sadly I've only a few more bits and pieces taken in Poole, probably not worth showing ? Once the Covid pandemic is sorted out I'll see if my mate who does the "technical stuff" i.e. editing and uploading can sort it out and add it in with a bit of nationwide archive cine film. Cheers
33/0 hauling TCs? Very, very rare.
Not back it wasn't. Would love to see it again now.
it happened every day from Bournemouth to weymouth. Every service was practically like that . That must have stopped in the late 80s but it certainly was not rare
@@nickedwards2904 a non push-pull 33/0 certainly was
In my Navy diving days had 37/4 50 and 33/0 on 4TC that was 1984
15:45 That was a slog! Those tankers were over 100 tons each fully laden weren't they.
12:44 Is this whitecliff?? Looks very different if it is
Hi there, yes it is the Baiter/Whitecliff area, in view is the notorious "road to nowhere" which was intended to link the old town to Sandbanks Road. When the scheme failed, the road which had subsided very badly, was broken up and grassed over. Film clips from 10.42 through to 11.02 and from 11.58 to 13.45 were filmed on reclaimed land, just a few years before filming took place that area was part of Parkstone Bay. When the tide was in, the sea came right up to the railway embankment. The clip at 14.31 of the two Cromptons on the Furzebrook Oil was filmed on what then was waste ground above "keyhole" bridge. A dwelling was later built on the land and the location was lost as a photographic spot. Cheers
Very poignant watching the freight train go past Hamworthy Middle School around the 2 45 mark - I might even have been absent-mindedly staring out of my classroom window at it at that very moment!
Remember this
Wonder what was in the "shocbarfits" near the beginning of the clip?
Coiled Sheet steel for a car factory near Swindon
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Great old footage. Like how the crossing keeper only opened half the gates.
Thank you for the kind comments on the footage, that gate at Ashmore Avenue you refer to was awkward to open, it had got damaged in a gale some years earlier when it got blown back into a train. Cheers