Severn Tunnel Junction and Gloucester 1959/1966

[piggyporridge]

@crafty181 I moved away from the area ten years ago but still keep in touch with Peter,spoke with him him today and Sid was mentioned,he is alive but is now looking his eighty plus years. May I ask your name please,I will mention it to peter when I speak with him next.

[piggyporridge]

@crafty181Hello,my name is David Kemble, I was at STJ from 1979 to 1984 as a telephonist and general dogs body and know Sid Stockford well.Do you know Peter Payne ? He started as a guard in 1967 and went on to be chargeman at Undy Hump before going to Caldicot Crossing where he is at present.

[TheKenfig]

This sounds like the boring expedition from Surbiton to Hounslow on Monty Python

[ralphcraddock]

great video. i spent a day spoting at STJ in 1961.no sun that day it rained and i decided it was the bleakest railway station i had ever visited.good fun though.

[revlikestrains]

Wonderful! As I watched it I was looking out for my "Grandad Puffer", at that time an engine driver at STJ.

[GloucesterAdam]

A great video - my Grandfather and Uncle on my Dad's side of the family used to work for the GWR at Newport (South Wales). Great to have seen the locomotives that they would have seen almost every day, and a right shame so many steam trains were scrapped as they are lovely machines - very British indeed. Hope we don't make the same mistakes with the 125s in 10/15 years time! Thanks again for posting.

[ADMIRALSCORNER]

How great to be able to look back in time! Thank you!

[NN2Blue]

What a cracking piece of film - Thank you for sharing! - Mike

[michaelayland]

At Otterspool Junction the line went to Sharpness not Sheerness. That would have been quite a journey!

[atomage2006]

Excellent film and well shot with good voiceover and sound

[MrJames27011]

I love this old film clips seeing how things used to be,this was all 8 years before i was born.it was good to see the class 47 in near ex works condition! also the Severn bridge under construction,fascinating stuff. i love the style of the old GWR infrastucture,modern railways seem so bland now,up to the late 80,s so much was still in exsistence on the network like the signalboxes and period railway station signs and architecture etc,now most of it is concrete and steel structures,shame really

[JohnPW22]

Mmm. left my train spotting book and an AA Roadmap on the bridge here in early 1980's... anyone found it? Brilliant footage! Cheers!

[Agency00Scum]

Thank you ever so much for sharing my childhood playground in the early 70s. I loved Severn Tunnel Junction, train spotting in the sun and cabbing all the diesels in the " new " shed at the western end. Chirps me up no end now they've just this week restored platform 4 and the original 1960s layout.

[prescot70]

Brilliant and evocative video... any chance of putting just the chepstow section on by itself so that i can link it to the site I am building?