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I think there are some new videos of ScotRail in 1989 on YouTube . Great video of Falkirk Grahamston and Queen St in 1989 and another video of Queen Street itself in 1989. 37s, 47s 26s 107s 101s Push Pulls, HSTs 150s and 156s . Don’t know how to do the link but go into YouTube and look up contributor Soi Buakhao. Great stuff.

If you search Soi Buakhao on you tube you get some interesting videos! Perhaps best as Legend says to search under contributed or uploader. Best of all subscribe to them and you get emails when they upload something new.

 

Anywhere here it is, great video except for the Sprinters of course.

 

British Rail Scotrail-Falkirk Grahamston & Glasgow Queen St 1989

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDfDAKzDKAY

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A couple of other from Soi Buakhao

 

British Rail Scotrail-Glasgow Queen Street 1989

 

 

British Rail Scotrail-More Glasgow Queen Street June 1989

 

 

British Rail Scotrail-Glasgow Central 1989

 

 

British Rail-Scotrail Glasgow Central Low Level+Motherwell 1989

 

 

And

 

British Rail Scotrail-Stirling & Perth 1989

 

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Since I am on a roll.

 

From spompeytransportvideos

 

Glasgow Queen Street 9th October 1986 Remastered

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUvBQP025Zs

 

And

 

Glasgow Central 9th October 1986 Remastered

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZTVFq7pFlE

 

Mr Spompeytransportvideo has assured me he has footage from Waverley which I am looking forward to seeing. Am hoping Soi also visited Waverley with his camera.

 

Wee reminder as they were already posted on this thread, Bruce Galloway has an excellent set of videos from the 80s including one of Waverley.

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/jbg06003/videos?disable_polymer=1

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtmUzB5NCEk

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OK it is stretching it a bit - but if we allow 1990 into scope - I posted a series of five videos taken on one day at Mossend in 1990 - 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ47SReq68g

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-JOlzPyfI

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NHMdk992RQ

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSb7uihfSDQ

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcoEMkEJLY4

 

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Thanks for doing the Links Waverley. A great series of videos . Actually there’s lots more around the U.K. . Such a lot of freight at Grahmston, you forget that in today’s passenger orientated Railway. The scenes at Queen Street superb with HST blocking the throat , 107s Push Pulls. Took me right back.

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Since I am on a roll.

From spompeytransportvideos

Glasgow Queen Street 9th October 1986 Remasteredhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUvBQP025Zs

And

Glasgow Central 9th October 1986 Remasteredhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZTVFq7pFlE

Mr Spompeytransportvideo has assured me he has footage from Waverley which I am looking forward to seeing. Am hoping Soi also visited Waverley with his camera.

Wee reminder as they were already posted on this thread, Bruce Galloway has an excellent set of videos from the 80s including one of Waverley.https://www.youtube.com/user/jbg06003/videos?disable_polymer=1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtmUzB5NCEk

Many thanks for posting these links, they are are real trip down memory lane.

In the Glasgow Central video there are 3 or 4 trains arriving/leaving, Class 86/87 hauled, and consisting of as few as 4 coaches (air con Mk2's), sometimes 5 coaches plus BG, one even with a Scotrail liveried coach. Anyone know what these short trains were? Did they combine with other trains from Edinburgh at Carstairs to continue south in a bigger consist?

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Many thanks for posting these links, they are are real trip down memory lane.

In the Glasgow Central video there are 3 or 4 trains arriving/leaving, Class 86/87 hauled, and consisting of as few as 4 coaches (air con Mk2's), sometimes 5 coaches plus BG, one even with a Scotrail liveried coach. Anyone know what these short trains were? Did they combine with other trains from Edinburgh at Carstairs to continue south in a bigger consist?

 Exactly correct Adrian. Yes these are the Glasgow portions of trains which split at Carstairs .  There would be an Edinburgh portion of 4 or 5 coaches .  I think these were mainly Birmingham and Manchester trains although some would be from further afield . I remember my first job away to Sheffield catching  "The European" which at that time left Glasgow Central went to Carstairs where a portion joined , then behind the electric from Glasgow ,went onto Preston where a 47 substituted . Then onto Manchester Victoria then extended to Sheffield, where I got off . However it did go onto Harwich to connect with ferries , hence the name.  So there were quite a few services that split at Carstairs  that continued on behind the original electric to Glasgow Central. I think the catering car always went to Glasgow.  In these days the Carstairs - Edinburgh line wasn't electrified , so it was typically a 47 that took them forward

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What looks like the Edinburgh portion of this type of service appears in this video.

 

 

At 36 seconds and again at 2 min 30 seconds.

 

Have got carriage working for Midland Region from 1985 or 6 so have combined portion, buffet coach was unusually in the middle of combined portion. Days out spotting at Waverley usually started by getting one of the two that stopped at Inverkeithing on Saturday mornings.

 

I understand the Edinburgh portion arrived (including the service from Dundee and Aberdeen) first at Carstairs the loco facing towards Glasgow, the Glasgow portion arrived and the Edinburgh portion was pushed back to combine with the Glasgow portion. The diesel from Edinburgh would be detached and the rest of the combined train headed South.

 

Northbound combined services would arrive into Carstairs on the Glasgow line. The train would split. The electric hauled train continued on the Glasgow line whilst the diesel hauled portion would head round the tight bend to Edinburgh. Both directions of travel Edinburgh passengers would reverse at Carstairs as far as the direction of travel was concerned.

 

Have seen photos of 20s and 26s on Edinburgh portions, however normally these would be 47s.

 

One of Trevor Ledgeway's rare videos from Scotland shows an Edinburgh portion arrive.

 

 

And then a combined portion from the South splitting and the Edinburgh portion heading to Waverley

 

 

 

 

TSO TSO BFK TSO TSO RMB seemed a common arrangement for the Edinburgh portions.

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I knew there was a thread somewhere, it turns out it's this one! hahaha

 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/429-scottish-region-photos-1980s/?p=730458

 

also mention of the sleeper here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=39830

 

Thanks for the info/links - sadly the photo links no longer work, but the MK3 Sleeper may well have been 10680, no mention of any MK2D/E's that I can find.

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Link to more details and photos of Carstairs.

 

http://www.jhowie.force9.co.uk/carstairs.htm

 

Unfortunately my website "died" a number of years ago due to a virus attack so that link is dead.  However thanks to the wayback machine the content remains!  https://web.archive.org/web/20040406163734/http://www.jhowie.force9.co.uk:80/carstairs.htm

 

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Unfortunately my website "died" a number of years ago due to a virus attack so that link is dead.  However thanks to the wayback machine the content remains!  https://web.archive.org/web/20040406163734/http://www.jhowie.force9.co.uk:80/carstairs.htm

 

Jim

 

Glad to see the website is still accessible.  Was an interesting read, are all of the pages still available?

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Glad to see the website is still accessible.  Was an interesting read, are all of the pages still available?

 

Yes most of them are still there, although some of the photographs are not in some versions but are in others, you have to play about with the time bar at the top, try the index page

 

http://www.jhowie.force9.co.uk:80/contents.htm

 

Jim

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Ya dancer,

 

Another three excellent videos from Scotland in the 80s!

 

This time the Alan Harrison Collection.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKCLRM6MPt4

 

Manchester to Dundee, mostly Dundee.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6bMHetcD9g

 

Part 2 Inverness

 

and

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCRYKXhmEm4

 

Waverley and Haymarket.

 

Enjoy.

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Thanks for posting the links.

 

I've just watched a few minutes of the Inverness video - absolutely brilliant! The mixed Speedlink hauled by a 37 with a Deltic DIT at around 22.00 is fascinating. Great to see an OBA with round timber loaded across the width of the wagon.

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My first ever sighting of a class 26. As I entered Inverness station on the 17th September 1981 this was the wonderful sight that greeted me!

 

I think the leading loco maybe 26038.

 

 

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26021 & 26023 also at Inverness.

 

 

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