Andy Gibbs - British Rail through the 1970's and 80's.

Andy Gibbs - British Rail through the 1970's and 80's.

Welcome to British Rail through the 1970's and 80's.

There are now well over 7000 images here, whilst mainly from the the 1970s and 80's in BR's classic rail blue era, plus there are some images from earlier and much later too.

Original photographers are credited where known, or marked photographer unknown. Uncredited photos are taken by myself.

Some of the captions I'm sure are wrong and will be / have been corrected, please let me know if you spot any errors or are able to identify any of the 'unknown' locations.

Images from here and others I have, have been compiled into an eight volume series of books. The first five.... Southern Region, Western Region, Eastern Region, Midland Region and the Scottish Regions in the 1970's and 80's are out now from Amberley Publishing, Amazon and all good bookshops. The sixth volume Railways around Brighton was published late in 2021. This has been followed by an Intercity Crosscountry NE-SW book, Table 51 in all its glory. Newly published is West London line album which features trains from Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction.

2024…..The next two books will be Southern locomotives, classes 09, 33, 70,71,73 and 74. This will be followed by a Scottish Region in the 80’s and 80’s revisited.

The Southern Region in the 1970s and 80s.

The Western Region in the 1970s and 80s.

The Eastern Region in the 1970s and 80s.

The Midland Region in the 1970s and 80s.

The Scottish Region in the 1970s and 80s.

Railways around Brighton in the 1970s and 80s.

Intercity cross country rail services.

The West London Line

PHOTO GALLERIES

The big backlog of images is slowly being cleared and these are initially added to the New Images Gallery.

The extremely popular SR accident photos from 'Control we have a Problem' are here, with some additional images. Again, if you spot any errors or omissions let me know.

The galleries of Classes 33, 47 and 73 are compendiums of photos from the regional galleries for ease of searching they should display in loco number order, as should the regional galleries.

I now have a scanner that can deal with Medium Format negative and slides, these are now being added to the galleries they will make great prints as they are mainly scanned at 1500 x 1500. Copies of ALL the photographs are available for sale through this website as are downloads.

Additional pages are being added to the Motorail galleries as I try and catch up with my backlog, several new years of brochures have been added.

The gaps in the list of class 47's are slowly being filled in too.

New galleries: Buses around Brighton, 1950s railway images around the Brighton area and Canada 2016, a road trip through the Rockies during which I managed to capture a few trains. Also being added to are galleries for the Peaks and Class 50’s.

If you would like to start a gallery at Zenfolio please use my refferal code 13U-HSH-3DM and save yourself some money.

You may also be interested in my other website www.1S76.com The Rise and Fall of Cross-Country train services to and from Brighton.

If you have any comments or corrections to the captions please let me know, thank you.

In these strange and troubled times for the whole planet, stay safe everyone.

Andy Gibbs, November 2024.

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I've been a rail enthusiast ever since I was born...... it's in the blood.
Early days trainspotting from home in Brighton and on holiday lead to me getting a student railcard and with camera in hand meant that I could travel much further afield.
With relatives in Nottingham I could also travel much further north, lots of trips out with my late Uncle Tony ( whose gallery of photos is also here) in my teens, then the start of a career with British Rail in 1978 have not diminished my interest.

Nearly 40 years later I've just taken early retirement from the rail industry. Hopefully that will mean not so many delays in getting the photos uploaded.

Featured Galleries & Collections

The Tony Lower Gallery

Visitors 3030

322 photos

Created 25-Feb-24

Modified 25-Feb-24

Brighton Breezy

Visitors 6989

551 photos

Created 31-Jul-23

Modified 31-Jul-23

New Images

Visitors 8185

198 photos

Created 12-Nov-24

Modified 12-Nov-24

Class 33 - The Cromptons

Visitors 3146

541 photos

Created 31-Jul-23

Modified 31-Jul-23

Class 47's - Nothing Duff here!

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1096 photos

Created 31-Jul-23

Modified 31-Jul-23

Class 73 - The ED's

Visitors 2637

244 photos

Created 31-Jul-23

Modified 31-Jul-23

Kensington Olympia and the West London line

Visitors 1187

179 photos

Created 31-Jul-23

Modified 31-Jul-23

Kensington Olympia and the West London line

Canada - September 2016

Visitors 43

22 photos

Created 28-Mar-24

Modified 28-Mar-24

Buses around Brighton and Sussex

Visitors 1011

199 photos

Created 31-Jul-23

Modified 31-Jul-23

Motorail Photos

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41 photos

Created 27-Mar-24

Modified 27-Mar-24

Loco hauled cross country trains

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74 photos

Created 16-Aug-22

Modified 16-Aug-22

Recently Added

New Images

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198 photos

Created 12-Nov-24

Modified 12-Nov-24

1S76 contributors

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286 photos

Created 13-Sep-24

Modified 13-Sep-24

Passenger services in the early years of privatisation

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40 photos

Created 26-May-24

Modified 26-May-24

Passenger services in the early years of privatisation

Odds and Ends

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48 photos

Created 23-May-24

Modified 23-May-24

New Cross Gate 15th March 1973

Visitors 643

4 photos

Created 23-May-24

Modified 23-May-24

Damage at Dorking Various dates

Visitors 834

7 photos

Created 23-May-24

Modified 23-May-24

Chertsey 3rd June 1970

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3 photos

Created 23-May-24

Modified 23-May-24

Maze Hill 4th July 1958

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6 photos

Created 23-May-24

Modified 23-May-24

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Guestbook for Andy Gibbs - British Rail through the 1970's and 80's.

Andy Parkinson(non-registered)

Re the photos of the derailment at Cuxton 1974 this incident was discussed at our Gillingham traincrew reunion today where some colour photos of the incident were shown around. Apparently the derailment was caused by the mineral wagons being placed in the middle between 2 sets of the Marinex ones which resulted in the rear set riding up over the mineral wagons causing the derailment.

Gordon - Dinnages Publishing(non-registered)

https://andygibbs.zenfolio.com/p171983007
Your view of TCD376J would likely be 25-Jun-72.
One similar shot in my photo library is of the same bus at the same location going by how many enthusiasts had been there at the time.
Dinnages BW0829 Jim Jones #3298 Published 2012.
Pulling off Fishbourne ferry CUTHRED.

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Hi Andy do you only have the four photos of the Hampton Ct derail? My father was on the Basingstoke up that got hit that day.

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