Class 40 footage shot by "Boiler Suit Man" (Mel Thorley) early to mid 1980s скачать в хорошем качестве

Class 40 footage shot by "Boiler Suit Man" (Mel Thorley) early to mid 1980s

My dad and Mel were the only people seriously filming class 40s on VHS in 1984 (my dad had started the year before in March 1983). Mel was a instantly recognisable figure with his white boiler suit with "Electric Blue" porno covers all over it...……. Mel went on to become a driver on the railways (and to fill his garden in Stockport with loco cabs, but that's a different story.....) and I was incredibly chuffed for him when on the day of his retirement he was rostered to drive 40145 out of Man Vic on a railtour; he looked like the cat who got the cream! Anyway, in the 80's me and Mel did a swap of footage and here, with his full permission, is his footage.