3. Traincare ’90 (Part 1)

Traincare ’90 is a wonderful insight into the mundane world of train cleaning. This video emanates from the Thames and Chiltern division of Network South East, and starts with the proud boast that they are the ’last remaining all diesel commuter service in London’, with some accompanying footage of revised NSE liveried class 47s and 50s, along with a Chiltern line 115 DMU. We then move on to Old Oak carriage sheds, via a very decrepit looking Marylebone depot. The budget for the video has been blown on 1970s TV favourite Robin Askwith, who plays the part of cleaning stores supervisor. Robin then introduces us to a number of dubious cleaning products - Grimeshifter, an unspecified liquid in a hand labelled bottle - Lancare cream cleanse - Speed-clean and Speed-Polish - Dacralyte (gloves and goggles required) - Gwish (gloves required but goggles ’not necessary’) A lady in a probably-not-uniform-issue velour tracksuit then sets about the interior of a Netwo