Trains in the 1980s - 3 Saturdays at Twyford Station - 1987/88

The first visit to Twyford in September '87 represents one of my earliest attempts at videography, so apologies for the quality. However, it still gives an insight to what a Saturday afternoon on the West of England mainline looked like in 1987. Unfortunately, my records don't show the numbers for lots of the movements, but I can be fairly certain that the Class 50s were 022 Anson, 029 Renown, 030 Repulse and 034 Furious.


The second visit, on a Saturday afternoon (25th June 1988) still includes 4 freight trains in the space of a little over 2 hours. Also Class 50s seen were:
007 Sir Edward Elgar
008 Thunderer
009 Conqueror
016 Barham
041 Bulwark and
044 Exeter

The third visit on the 9th July, from about 1:45pm to 4:30. During that time we were able to see 5 different Class 50s, 4 Class 47s and even a Class 56 on freight. As per usual, I didn't tend to film the HST or DMU activity, but this section does include a couple of shots.

[Note: this content has been posted to the channel previously but has been re-edited and converted from 4:3 aspect to 16:9].


00:00 5th September 1987
13:13 25th June 1988
21:50 9th July1988