I was born in 2000, so I never knew how big Victoria used to be.

Was there just this week and I honestly can't recognise any aspect with what I see here!  The whole area has changed beyond all recognition. Not entirely for the better but such is life.

This was the Victoria I remember

R-I-P Ed. Top man, gone but not forgotten.

Time stops for no one. And these videos are proof of this. Amazing videos. Full of nostalgia.

Terrifyingly poignant for those of us who were there then. I was 22 days shy of my 27th birthday when you were filming that, Eddie. I'm now 59 and 2 days old.

Wow - just look at those shiny smart new looking pacers - who'd of thought 30 years later!

Why was the Cheetham Hill Line closed? It was an easier route to Newton Heath and beyond! The trackwork at this time was far better than today. Transpennine services were in the hands of class 47s and didn’t touch Piccadilly! Stalybridge-Stockport was there to assist joining services out of Manchester Piccadilly.

I now feel old - Man Vic as I remember it in my student days! Thanks for sharing.

The array of semaphore signals heading up miles platting bank was awesome. Even from the cab of a ‘bendy bus’ 142.
Working the last Huddersfield was an eye opener. Also Piccadilly Gardens a no-go after dark, even in those days.

Great video!   I  first  saw Victoria in  1974...

Cracking footage. The last five minutes or so are an absolute joy to watch.

cracking !!!! me there at 33.24 talking to phil grundy ,my motorbike on at the start (white 1986 Kawasaki z400f2)  lol brilliant !!! thanks very much eddie you got anymore gems like this ?

Brought back some memories. I joined BR as a trainee signalman and the signaling school was upstairs in the offices at Victoria. I used to get the train off Platform 11a every day, back to Liverpool Lime st. About quarter to 5 it would be a 142 packed to the gunnels. Happy days.

Fabulous video, how unusual and interesting to see in the signal boxes and back stage as it were, times have certainly changed, virtually unrecognisable. Thanks for sharing.

Glad i was a 70s child grew up seeing this in gtr manachester

Great video. As somebody who never really got to know the 'old' Manchester Victoria as much as I’d like to, this was a real eye-opener.👍🏻

Good grief I closed my eyes and its just like I remember it, same old faces hard at work in the Card School playing "Myth Rhumy", must have been a Pay day judging by the cluster of Railwaymen round the "Bandit," TA Jones in his usual Joking manner,  "Windy" Miller, Harry Baguley, Lees, Robbo and Eugene with the unforgettable McKay bellowing down the phone, is it really all that length of time back?  
Nice one Eddie RIP, good memory of a unique time indeed. 😉

Them diesel engines could pull more carriages than the modern one's, fantastic video

Priceless, a few staff faces there I recognise, despite being there for 18 years I was surprised how much I'd forgotten. Like the ticket barriers, which must have been removed not long after this was filmed. Happy days, leave 10p on the messroom table if you went to the club, the photos on the wall next to the one armed bandit, better than a safety shoe poster. Cheers, Bob Taylor.