Memories of Stratford TMD with Class 31, Class 37, Class 50 power.wmv

[TONYBROWNE114]

Depressing, the best maintenance depot in the UK and look at the thanks they got.Politicians give a shit about nobody but themselves.

Went through the engineroom of March based 37102 at Thurso in June 84, could eat your dinner of the floor, again the powers tat be shit on there too.

[BROADTRAIN1979]

 I was always spotting here in the late 70s magnificent!! unlike now it seems like it never happend

[argenvia]

Very good video

do not understand why the world must have the depredation of the rolling stock ... I hate that

Greetings from Argentina

gus

[MrStapletonRoad]

@argenvia Thanks Gus, me to.

[xxxchrist1]

I heard shortly after 2000 that a Venture Capital company owned by Virgin had bought much of the former BR land. This land was subsequently sold - by Virgin, ergo Richard Branson - for development of the Olympic site. I believe the outcome, London's victorious the bid for the games, was known well before it was made official, allowing the necessary palms to be greased, and contracts put in place. Its no coincidence the Chunnel link station at Stratford was started in 2000,

[xxxchrist1]

I lived in student accommodation overlooking the former railyard. At that point large parts of it were being used as a satellite car-park for the Millennium Dome! Guess what? It never had more than three cars in it. There was a free shuttle bus running 4x daily with no-one on it. Outrageous waste of money and resources.

In 2000 work began on the high-speed rail link between St Pancras and the Kent Coast, I have photos of the work starting but at that time I didn't know what the work was for.

[neilrobertt]

what a waste

[MSmifffy]

I've been visiting Stratford on a fairly irregular basis for the past 6/7 years now. Sadly, I only visited once of twice during its heyday and I just cannot put the two together. Of course, with the new shopping centre and Olympic park, it's getting even hard to visualise the depot.

Nice Video

[TheAdrew1967]

i was a secondman there late 80's found thoughts "thanks for posting"

[MrJoggerpete]

That brings back memories back in 1984 i did 2 weeks work experience at Stratford and Liverpool St and that was the best 2 weeks of my life.

I lived in stratford next to the railway and have memories of laying awake at night listening to the 47's and 37's pull out of London with the Norwich trains and the ghostly squeal of the wheels from the shunting and the Lee Valley curve.

Oh Happy days, it makes me sad now when I pass through stratford to see how it is now, but they say that progress!!!

[TONYBROWNE114]

@MrJoggerpete Welcome to the modern 'free'(thats a hoot) corrupt money hungry World, thank God I wont be here to see the mess in 50 years time!

[limehouse11]

Very nice video , ive posted some from stratford but of a later period strange to see class 50s there , what date was this video filmed . i used to go on a saturday morning very quiet then not much going on.

[MrStapletonRoad]

@limehouse11 Thanks for taking a look Ian, The 50s were en route to the scrappy and it was all filmed during November 91.

I will check out your Stratford shots,

Cheers Eddie

[limehouse11]

@MrStapletonRoad So they the 50s would have come from old oak , i went down to old oak 2 weeks ago the buildings are still there but it looks very bleak . kind of strange to think that there is no major depot in london anymore.

[balmesh]

At the risk of being controversial, I dare say that I think that diesels lack the pathos of steam when awaiting the torch? Still very sad, decline of railways for goods even more sad. Thanks for posting - was it a Sunday? . . . Alan

[MrStapletonRoad]

@balmesh I agree Alan, anybody who visited Barry Island scrapyard has the visions of rusting hulks indelably etched on their memory forever. I have some footage of MC Metals which I will upload soon which may bring a lump to your throat.

Not sure what day it was...I think towards the end it was quiet most days.

Thanks for taking a look.

Eddie