BR in the 1980s Manchester Victoria Station in April 1987

Thank you, I was only a boy in the 80's with no money and no way to travel, my Dad used to take me to Victoria, Preston, Wigan, Crewe etc in the 80's and this brings back many happy memories.

This is so good to see again.

Yet another piece of history caught in this footage is at 01:51 when the announcer calls out the train to Blackburn, it is routed via Pendleton and would use the Bridle Heath to Agecroft Junction chord which would soon close, mainly due to the opening of Salford Crescent station later that year allowing trains to "turn off" at Windsor Bridge instead. It's just one of those little things that can slip through but are great to be noticed to bring back memories :)

Spent many a happy hour at Victoria station with my late wife, so many memories come flooding back. Thanks for posting.

Another absolutely first class video, your really treating us with the stuff you’ve uploaded recently. It makes you realise how lucky we were to be trainspotters then. Thank you

Thank you for sharing some railway history from a wonderful era that I hade the pleasure of being part of through the 1980's. This footage brings back some good memories from my many trips in/out of Victoria from Leeds.

Another great video from your archive! Good memories from the location in the blue/grey era, the variety of traction, heritage dmus, rolling stock and types of freight train. Please keep them coming and thanks for sharing. Great to think those 142/150 dmus have now been around as long as the 'heritage' units they replaced - for comfort and ride, I know which ones I would prefer to be travelling on!

I'm fortunate enough to remember Manchester Victoria before it was culled. Probably one of the biggest mistakes ever to be made in Manchester.

I remember back in the late 70s and early 80s a ticket called a "Peak Wayfarer " it gave you cover for trains and buses in the Greater Manchester area slightly beyond after 9am. Great for haulage bashing, spent many an hour going back and too from Victoria to Stalybridge.

Thanks for the memories. I used to go to sales meetings at Nat West's then head office in King Street in the late 80s and make my way home via Victoria.

That took me back a bit. I was in The Signaling School in the summer of 1990 which was based upstairs in the Station Building. I was there for six weeks and it was when the Strangeways Riots were going on, we could see them on the Roof from our classroom. Platform 11 and a bumpy ride on a 142 back to Liverpool Lime St. Happy days 👍

All these views are history, Manchester Victoria has changed beyond recognition, and the Cheetham Hill loop is no more too. Not a Buddliea bush in sight either! Great film and thanks for sharing it.

Great to see the sheer variety of locos, especially the peaks. Good selection of DMUs too just as the Mark 1s were beginning to disappear. I always remember Victoria seemed to be lumbered with far more pacers on local routes than Piccadilly where the 101s hung on.

Just watched your Preston and man vic videos, brought so many memories from my teenage sporting years , spent many a Saturday on both stations being from Bolton great

Love to see the peaks! Great video thank you 👍🏼

Fantastic! Used to love a Saturday morning here, in 1985-87. Good Times.

Class 45s on the Transpennine Route North (Liverpool Newcastle / Scarborough) were truly superb. I used to travel on the 06.00 from Kings Cross to York, to get 3 return trips in to Leeds and back (6 x 45s if you were lucky). This section of the route, allowing high speed running. Great to record such scenes.

Thanks so much for sharing this, I travelled in and out of Manchester Victoria pretty much every working day from 1985 through to 2020, it's a very familiar scene, with 45's and sometimes 46's on the Newcastle, 142 Pacers and 150 units new in service, and the Calder Valley units still working, most evenings I'd get one of those into Victoria from Castleton, they were regularly late! 31s and 25s were still around, the 25s providing pilots and bankers for frieghts up Miles Platting bank, we still got the odd 40 in 85 and 86, 40009 being a regular. Newspaper trains running in and out of Redbank, which is mostly now a forest, apart from the Metrolink depot, thankfully trams run to Oldham and Rochdale up part of the old line. Red Star still operating, such a busy station. The white portacabin, just visibkle outside the East Signal Box, was for the team removing asbestos from the East Box. Thanks again.

Remember it well 1978 to 1987 as a guard at springs branch 1989 to 1991 as a driver before moving to Warrington on the closure of bickershaw colliery. Great footage of a great era

Excellent video brings back many happy memories great video