Docklands Light Railway in the 1980's

[TimBrown59]

Very historic!

[MrPatelsPantry]

Hi. At 2:00, it looks like Battersea Power Station is in view, although this cannot be right. What station is it?

[TimBrown59]

@MrPatelsPantry The train is going east into Poplar station & you can see Blackwall power station, which replaced the Blackwall Railway & was in turn replaced by the DLR extension to Beckton!

[HSTwilliams]

Nice film mate :D

[ISBAILEYDEADYET]

So much waste land in those days. It's how I prefered, it really. Too many people now and it's all fucked up.

[IRL88]

Does anyone know the exact year when the last P86s and P89s ran on the DLR? I know they were sold to Germany in the mid 1990's, but I seem to remember them both being taken out of service in 1996, after which only B90/B92s remained. Could someone confirm that? I could've sworn that I rode on P86s in 1995 or thereabouts.

[WrongRoadRailways]

Cool! It looks like the old station at Heron Quays is in there somewhere. I remember it just after it had closed, the bare island platform compared to the modern covered 2 platform station.

[staymadoyeah]

really nice piece of film

[citytransportinfo]

I wish I had filmed some more of the DLR in its early days

ah well, too late now.

Simon

[crt12]

EastLondon looking much better in the 1980's

[thething100]

These a great..Please post some more!!

[citytransportinfo]

I have a few more super 8 films to copy to computer format. Alas at the present time I am not able to copy video to the computer, this is because I filmed in S-VHS format and my video player has gone wrong as as machines for this format are no longer made so I cannot buy a replacement.

Simon

[StolenMonkey]

there are many S-VHS available to buy on ebay for reasonable prices.

[citytransportinfo]

Thanks.

Just uplifted some more, and all being well this weekend I'll be copying the final few films to the pc

Simon

[metadyneman]

Simon this is excellent stuff.. don't worry about the quality.. it's just good to see.

[citytransportinfo]

btw, I'd like to apologise for the poor quality of the film 'image' - coming from super 8 film it never was as good as modern video, but in processing it for showing 'youtube' make it worse.

Simon

[Mac260]

This is a really wonderful video. The old trains with the big front windows und just these short trains. Just think of the fact that 3-car trains will be introduced in some years. At 1:26 vou can see nothing than the viaduct and the train. It almost seems to me as if the train is running in a desert and there is nothing else. If you will see this today, you probably will never guess that it has looked like that out there.

Is 1:55 the approach to Canary Wharf or what is Canary Wharf today?

[Mac260]

... It looks as if there is nothing around there except than the DLR.

We just had some pictures of Canary Wharf in 1996 in a presentation at University and I thought, there is nothing compared to today and just a big building site. But this is even less than in 1996.

I am interested how it will have developed when I am in London the next time.

[citytransportinfo]

Hi there,

I'm pleased you found this film to be of interest. As you say, the area was a wasteland, and now the place is so busy that they need 3 car trains!

The station at 1:55 is Poplar. Nowadays it has 4 tracks. From what I remember Canary Wharf was built but then before the line opened it was dismantled to allow for construction of the first tower. This station has 3 tracks and 6 platforms, as all tracks have platforms on both sides.

Simon