Dalston Jn - Broad St. Train driver's cab ride BR 1970s

[whitbyjet65]

What the FUCK is the music??? Whatever it is, it's a steaming pile of shite.

[Ictrlurmnd]

STOP MOANING ABOUT THE SOUND-TRACK YOU FUCKING DICKHEADS.

Nice vid. Probs 80s innit. Nat West tower finished etc.

[peterjayy]

Brilliant stuff, but i agree, shame about the `soundtrack`

[steamybrian]

Nice record of the line and of the long demolished Broad Street station. It was spolit by awful sound track and bad tilt of the camera at around 1 min into the film.

[uhegbu]

Interesting to see how this old route used to be back then.

[mekydro]

Absolutely fascinating comparison with today's re-opened London overground line. Thanks for posting this - shame about the soundtrack though.......

[samthegreencat47]

That bit at the beginning at Dalston junction was a big car scrapyard when I lived there in the mid 90s! Has now reopened as the East London line extension!

[andrewsspace]

Invaluable archival film for modellers living abroad modelling third rail - thanks for posting

[goodchappy]

PIty the 501s have all gone, they had so much more character than the 378s.

Glad this line is mostly reused now though.

[kav816]

I often went on it, alot when i was working in North london, I also went on the last one in 1986, You could see how rundown it was, After it closed I went for a walk along it...

[richardmid67]

Thanks for posting, I used this line in the early 80s if I missed the Highbury to Stratford sevice. Lovely old bouncy 501s, much more interesting than the new stuff.

[smallglories]

What's the old platform on the left at 2:30?

[ReneIgnacio]

@smallglories That would be the former Shoreditch station, located at the corner of Old Street and Shoreditch High Street.

[janaltus]

Excellent film (I love the hairs stuck in the camera gate). I used to travel on this route. The new East London Line is up and running but, as it does not include the City and connections to the Central Line on its route, it isn't half as useful to me as the old line.

[fllosin]

nice clip like the old and new mixed together nice combo

[tonyphillips1984]

the line is open again as part of the east london line

[TimBrown59]

Most of this route is back in use now.

[kentcyclist]

whats the talking about ?

[staypress]

Tower 42 was completed in 1976 cos I used to see it from grans window in 1977

[timmyn101]

This clip cant have been made in the 70s - some of the buildings in the background wernt built until the 80s. Tower 42 can clearly be seen at 1:30 and that wasnt built til 1980. Nice vid though.

[CommutersHateMe]

@timmyn101 construction of tower 42, or the nat west tower as it was originally known, was started in 1971, looks about right skyline for late 70s.

[BROADTRAIN1979]

IM sure that back in the early 70s they used to open up that line for my dad and me as it was like a ghost line, as for canonbury ,we used to have to wake the ticket guy up hardly no light at night on the station, FANTASTIC give me north london line and 501s anytime.

[eetype1]

@caley956. Great anecdote! Just about sums it up!

Remember my first visit to Broad St in 1984. First thing that stuck me was the pungent stench of urine around the concourse area. Only the toilets were alive in that place then!

[gileragfr125]

was this taken from cab of class 501 emu loved them trains as regularly used from wembley central remember the final years of broadstreet wot a shame was left to deteriorate

[rutlandplace]

Another part of london history lost to the wreacking ball,thanks for posting this great footage.Super.

[Bramleyhousemedia]

I'm so glad I read the comments before I made an idiot of myself regarding the soundtrack, because I was sat here thinking that music was up to date for something shot in the 70's!!! I thought it was the drivers radio as well!! Very interesting video though from a historical point of view.

[duxberry1958]

just a short walk from liverpool st station

[viscount812]

Pity the camera didn't keep rolling until the stops - but an invaluable record all the same. The East London Line extension will use much of this trackbed from Shoreditch to Dalston and will be open in the next few months - so you will be able to ride this route (apart from the very end at Broad Street) once again.

[caley956]

As Jim below said, an air of decay...one of my flatmates went to work in the City around 1972, stood on one of the platform at Broad St to get a photo and went straight through it - he dropped about 6 feet! Believe he got compensation off BR, but failed to get the shot.

[DarrensVlog]

Interesting video if you mute the soundtrack!

[Mounhas]

Bit of railway history for sure here. I recall visiting Broad Street station in the 1970's and was surprised how quiet it was, just didn't expect that considering it's usefulness. Tks for the posting bro.

[JimTLonW6]

Fascinating view of this long lost railway, I went to Broad Street in 1968; the aura of decay that hung over everything was very strong. I was in the area of Broad Street recently (Feb 2009), and there was absolutely no sign of the station or the line.

Just for fun, a colleague at work had to go from Tottenham to Epsom. I looked out the times via Willesden and Clapham Jnc, and it was MUCH slower than the cross London option!

[Glenn1967ful]

A very run down railway line that BR seemed to neglect and then abandoned in 1986.

[310335051240]

nice to see the semaphore signals. only ones now left in london are on the westbound barking-gospel oak line between south tottenham and upper holloway.

[LazerSpeed]

At first I thought the music was playing from a radio in the driver cab but it cant be. I recognise the song in the background which is by RedMan (the rap artist from New Jersey) from the album "Tales from the Dark side" which came out in 1994. I believe this stretch of line at the time closed in 1986, but as suggested in one of the previous comments, is being revived to form part of the London Overground. Does make me reminisce though

[falkon14]

its like going back in time

[Glenn1967ful]

Essex

If you are talking about 30 years ago, Broad St had 4 platforms in use and trains went to Watford and Richmond, Surrey.

[EssexResident2000]

The arches that are liverpool street, are they still there today, or were they demolished?

[ahmn14]

The arches that form the west trainshed are still there but have been hemed in by the broadgate development. Just take a look google earth, you will then know what I mean.

[airscrew1]

I think this was filmed in the early 1980s. It looks like the Nat West Tower is finished being built. When I worked on BR in 1979 it was still being built.

[EssexResident2000]

Does anybody know how many trains a day, where they went to and how many platforms were still in use at the time this was filmed?

[EssexResident2000]

True archive material this!

[sussexmews]

Early Hip-Hop soud track too, worthy

[dajwilkinson]

Nice slice of history. Thanks for this video!

[CANLOG]

Love this video

Good music, gives a great feel to the vid

[wieege]

Great vid mate.....brings back many memories. I used to drive the 501's over that route in the mid 80's.

[mill101]

I used to work in a shoe wholesalers that over looked the track at Shoreditch.

My window was on the 3rd floor so I watched trains come and go.

A tiny glimpse of the building at +2.20 on the right.

Soon after there's the old platofim at Shoreditch stn. Already closed when I was there.

In the movie High Heels and Low Lifes (2001) with Minnie Driver there's a short scen filmed on the bridge there that goes over Old Street. You think they'd re-open the right of way for light rail or something.

[andyhessey]

They're not far from finishing that stretch of the new north London Line. The line goes over Old Street, down the back of Curtain Road and swings across Shoreditch High Street just past the Tea Building.

I work just off Old Street so i see them building the new line every day :)

[TimBrown59]

It's going to be part of the East London Line soon.

[bradleyphillips2007]

amazing great video filmed in the 1980s and on a dmu

[Andyhinds]

Wow great footage,but that looks more like the 1980s than the 70s as the Nat West Tower is complete,since when did they have hop hop in the 70s and anyway.But what a screen gem!

[cranmer1549]

Excellent footage. A few derelict platforms along the way.

Brilliant!

[nicholaspwn]

Good historical content. At least we can look forward to some of the route being used again for the East London Line.

[23BOT]

really interesting - this line is being rebuilt for the east london line - the music and super 8 look give it a real sense of that time - brilliant

[amedeunuabona]

CLASSIC... in every sense

[Panarail]

Excellent clip.

[JoeRoss1993]

I heard that broad street station was situated right next to liverpool street station.

[23BOT]

yeah , the two white arches u can see on the left as the train enters broad st - thats liverpool st -

[JoeRoss1993]

Thanks! i suppose thats why broad street is closed because of lack of usage and more passengers using liverpool street station, but broad street did provide a good interchange with the massive station next to it.

[23BOT]

i think broad st served city workers coming from the affluent area of richmond, kew etc as the line was essentially a spur from the existing north london line - and dalston junction is no more - until it becomes part of east london line - yeah broadst is now the massive and sterile complex called broad st , liverpool st was also refurbished extensively

[23BOT]

sorry i meant the complex is called BROADGATE

[tripleseis81]

I imagine people from Richmond used London Waterloo more and got the W&C Line into the City instead as it was probably quicker.

[NODDINGCAT]

Love the radio in the back ground!

[NODDINGCAT]

top marks!

[MadYorkie]

Good Footage a nice bit of history.

[lemonostiftis]

great footage man