Class 31, 37, 45, 46, 47 in the North East (Gateshead) 1983

[simonthebailey]

A really great video. Good to 37003 as well. It looks liked a great day out.thank you

[MrDavros1234]

This is really excellent stuff Mr A. - you obviously had top-of the range equipment at the time - ever thought of producing them commercially on dvd?? Was nice to see 37s before they were altered so much with all the modifications and new numbers. The weathering on the 56 isa treat to look at. I look forward to watching your other material on here. Well done! PS Some Claytons would have been nice - lol!

[leylandsherpa]

this is superb i spent many a night at this depot this brings back so many memories rip gateshead tmd and thanks for this trip down memory lane!!!!!!!

[Kylebound26]

Went aged 12 to Tyneside for the first time in 1982 and saw my first 56........loved the general grime of the area.........also went on the Metro which was quite impressive too.

[bwarrrrk]

i want a time machine :-D

[argenvia]

beautiful place to train record

that would be good in the era of steam

Greetings from Argentina

gustavo

[lacaish]

@argenvia gustavo fucking cunt

[argenvia]

@lacaish el coño que te gustaria que te chupe no !!!!!!!

[lacaish]

@argenvia no te quiere nadie

[argenvia]

@lacaish vos me queres , como que no ,,,tenes unas ganas que te agarre la polla

[cawky22]

Still a cracking video mate , I keep coming back to view it .

[msmith4000]

BR Grime Blue Heaven, love the clip thanks for uploading!

[37201xoim]

I spent so long at exactly that position in 1981 - 1984 - very happy hours (when I wasn't getting mugged!). We have lost so much. Thanks once again for a brilliant chronicle of a past which perhaps wasn't that bad...

[aureol40012]

@37201xoim You know, when I think about it I am amazed that we were never mugged for what was £1,500 worth of video equipment considering some of the dodgy places trains took us!

[37201xoim]

@aureol40012

It was seldom more than £1 in my case, on the basis that that was the content of my pockets at the time.......To be fair you could go anywhere in Tyne & Wear 20 times for that princely sum at the time, due to the socialistic folly of integrated and subsidised public transport - now we are much wiser of course...

[tommyfoster100]

bring back memoirs for me i used to train spot there and watch the trains in the depot

[wattass7]

ye know you look at times like these and and wonder what a right state todays railway is in without these places i miss the deltics anyone know the names of the deltics stationed here

[Wikkus]

Nice vid, brings it all back. Cheers.

5*

[Nevets442]

Great to see that. I remember shortly before the flats went up there was an abandoned 08, just dumped on the ballast, not even standing on a line, which looked like if it was put back on the tracks it could ride again.

I remember how busy this depot was in the early 70's, it was literally full of locos on a Sunday.

52A!

[britishbulldog5505]

now i haven't seen a brake van for a long while!

[mondy67]

top vid! makes the railways look boring now,bring back rail blue and the variety what was on offer.

how come gateshead allocation was always scruffy?

[firehorse74]

this is all new flats and houses now, great to watch, i played on this site when i was young!!

[nedchester]

Top stuff there Mr A. Stood there many a time in my time up in Newcastle in the early 1980s

[oggy1953]

AH 37 003, remember seeing it at Stratford back in the 80s. Terrific Vid well done for sharing

[matelot95]

I can remember the days when a Peak was nearly always hauling the Liverpool train from Newcastle. So many times it seemed to be The Leicester And Derbyshire Yeomanry

[tvrcollector]

This brings loads of memories. i was probably standing next to you age 12. you could get round the side of the old penguin reliant garage to view from the old derelict factory behind you overlooking the whole of the sheds.

I also used to get up the grassy bank to the old scrap roads where the old 03 shunters and snow ploughs were stored.

its all flats now and virtually all gone. last time i looked the remains of the old steam shed were still there but thats all.

[smleonard55]

Totaly Monsterous!

Wish I was there, very useful footage as it confirmed some details that will be good on the layout

25 years ago, thats scary!

Lets have some more like thiS soon!

[Froobyone]

Finest nostalgia vid on youtube. Wasn't the world a better place before the HSE. "It's a bit warm in the cab today, I know, I'll just leave the door open" Bliss.

Greatness will never again befall us, because someone in a hi-viz vest will tell us it's too dangerous.

[theredraven]

These days you'd probably have the local scallies throwing petrol bombs through the open door :(

[cawky22]

Hi , that was my Granda at 5 minutes and 6 seconds with the door open .He did 46 years on the footplate.

[3tothesea]

Well worth 9 minutes of my time, 25 years ago i was leaving school, i used to spot all those locos, Top vid.

[cawky22]

I am 90% sure that my granda was driving that 31 at 5minutes and 6 seconds , he worked on the footplate for 46 years . RIP

[aureol40012]

Jesus. Don't know what to say, other than if it was him then respect to the man.

[cawky22]

In fact I am 100% sure it is him , I noticed this video about 3 month ago and could not beleive it when I saw it , he finished his career driving HST 125 's ,the electrics were running but he did not get to drive them , so that will give you an idea when he finished, he is dead now and has been for about 10 years. He took me to York in the cab of a 47 and also up to Edinburgh in a HST , days I will never forget. Thanks for the video

[zipdiskdude]

Good grief, some excellent footage there. Twenty five years ago, seems like only yesterday. GD RIP.

[itsablack1]

hey! It was trendy, just look at this vid, no need for apartments here..

Newcastle was the place i saw my first class 56,seems like another life time now!!

Is there as much frieght passing by these days?

[itsablack1]

good old days they were,1983 i might have been there that day? i see in google earth its all gone :-( what are they building there,don't tell me a shopping fucking centre??

[aureol40012]

Trendy apartments..........

[jackiejayetv]

wow 2 frieghts passing each other,those

WERE the days!

[majornichols]

Excellent! I like the absence of high-vis vests..white shirts (sadly open-necked) seemed de rigeur then.

[MrQXR]

Good old gateshead shed...used to love going there and watch the trains like the ones featured in this brill video.Happy Days

[RCBPearce]

I used to get paid to drive those 31's and 45's!

[spock31132]

Vacuum braked freights and not a 66 in sight! Fuckin brilliant!!!!!!

[baconsandwich2007]

Fan-bleedin-tastic!

[flanneryged]

37 003 One of my old Thornaby friends,the first ten were shedded there.These loco's were

at Haartlepool Stabling point all the time.The

Brake van doesn't half jog the old memory.

[williamwesterkirk]

This is one of the best railway videos I've seen. I've worked at this location in the last few weeks and the railway has been really thinned out. It just shows the ammount of rail traffic that has been lost to the roads. This and the fact that coal power stations and coke works are few and far between. I'm now looking for more of the same. Someone out there must have miles of film that is begging to be transfered to computer and shown to a bigger audience.

I used to have long hair and........

[ladyemily]

As a norroways junction female spotter... icopped everythng from class 20's on the nukes to class 50's on the BTM - Newcastle...

memories

[class37s]

this is when railways were railways - proper locos!i too took all this for granted in the mid 80s when I was 15....look at the railways we have now :( sheds and more sheds and plastic.

[crazyh0rse]

This is one of the best blue-era videos that I have seen in years, and living in S Wales at the time all the loco numbers seen here were mega-kops.

[andyhebden]

Brilliant.

[peak45]

I was 19 years old this year and took all this for granted.Excuse me while i kick myself.

[DirtyJohn]

You Tube is the nearest thing we have to a time machine. That was ace!

[Kidderminsterharrier]

If you went back to Gatehead today and filmmed there. What would we be seeing. 66's probably

[Arpington]

You'd see a single track running in the foreground where there were once four and a load of flatpack apartments built on the site of the depot. There's absolutely nothing left there of interest.

[Arpington]

Wow! That's where I spend every Friday night of my childhood, stood on the wall of Gateshead sheds watching the endless procession of locos. Thanks so much for the memories!

[RUSSANDTILLY]

superb quality as usual