BR Blue 1967-1980 video on Vimeo

[big jim]

Go on waste an hour on this, I just did!

 

 

Some superb archive and amateur footage of steam, diesel and electric to the sound track of radio Caroline and radio 1

 

Enjoy

[cravensdmufan]

Brilliant - thanks for posting.

 

Love is Blue.

[F-UnitMad]

What I hate about the BR Blue Era is that being born in '67, & only getting into trains/trainspotting in late '77, I missed so much of it!!

 

Other than that, it was far more interesting than the current scene - but I suspect that in 1978 older enthusiasts said that about the Steam Era!!

Thanks for posting.

[pinzaboy]

Wow. That was great.

And was that really a buffet I saw in that thumper unit? Never knew that.

Thanks very much for posting!

Tim

[96701]

I hope the EMU leaving with a tail lamp apparently on the front was due to the film being run backwards.

[andy stroud]

This material was in 'Diesels & Electrics on 35mm' by Video125 with a commentry by film historian John Huntley.

Edited October 23, 2018 by andy stroud

[brushman47544]

The coach formations of the WCML electric trains are an interesting reminder that the use of BGs as brake vehicles really only came to the fore with the introduction of the air-conditioned Mk2d, e and f coaches.

[big jim]

i dont know much about old coaches but the one that caught my eye was the merchant navy footage at waterloo in the video, one appears to have a gresley teak? coach in the formation, is that unusual for the southern?

[John M Upton]

Some Gresley buffet cars were moved to the Southern Region in their last years/months. A few even got blue/grey livery.

[cravensdmufan]

I hadn't realised that there was so many double headed Warship workings.on the WR.  Was that commonplace or did these locos have reliability issues? And were they wired for multiple operation or did they each need a driver?

 

Lots of other facinating stuff on this video - I've watched it twice now, both times with finger on the pause key to study detail!

Edited October 25, 2018 by cravensdmufan

[Phil Bullock]

Dont forget that with photos and filming it was often the exotic that was recorded and the mundane ignored.

 

Hence the appearance of double headers may be disproportional to their actual occurrence

 

Cheers

 

Phil

[Titan]

I hadn't realised that there was so many double headed Warship workings.on the WR.  Was that commonplace or did these locos have reliability issues? And were they wired for multiple operation or did they each need a driver?

 

Lots of other facinating stuff on this video - I've watched it twice now, both times with finger on the pause key to study detail!

 

There were trains that were diagrammed for double headed warships, and they were wired for multiple operation for these trains. Think it only happened for a couple of years or so towards the end of the sixties, but during that time were a regular occurrence. 

Edited October 25, 2018 by Titan

[Market65]

Ive seen the video many times now, and it's just all so nostalgic. That was a very important part of BR history - the rail blue years. Well it's gone, along with Radio Caroline and those disc jockeys. So thank  goodness for this video, and others, which enables us to relive those heady rail blue days. 

[62613]

Quiet revolution?

[ess1uk]

Where is the location about 46 mins in?

[The Pilotman]

Where is the location about 46 mins in?

Do you mean Kensington Olympia Motorail Terminal, or the rearward view of the carflats?

[55020]

Where is the location about 46 mins in?

 

I believe it is Kensington Olympia.

[ess1uk]

Just after that

[TRAILRAGE]

Just after that

 

I believe it to be around Old Oak Common area,

 

Trailrage

[DY444]

Where is the location about 46 mins in?

 

It's Old Oak Common filmed from the shed side of the line and showing the original 1962 OO panel box which was superceded in 1967 by one of the "classic" WR 1960s style panel boxes as part of the Paddington remodelling.