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Building nation with the help of loot from National thugs, plunders who drained wealth of other countries

What worthwhile lives they lived, estimable men doing skilled jobs filled with meaning and fulfillment. How little of that we see today in the UK, a devastating loss.

SHOEE! I likem.

Amazing historic record. "We still use horses for local deliveries." No shortage of jobs then, though the pay wasn't lavish.

I wish you could colourise these films

Loved to watch ❤ such a beautiful lovely old steam locomotives & old wagons superb oldy goldy train as i love railways❤❤❤ train

My grand father was a fireman before going in the army. It's obvious that so many railwaymen were very proud . It's sad that there is scant evidence of any pride nowadays

Wonderful movie. I like it.

I used to work for a railway, but not like the guys in this film. I was a telecommunications technician for Canadian National and, back in the mid 70s, often rode on freight trains to get to my work location.

i doubt many kids today could handel this type of work.

Now they have train spotters not looking for a number -- just for a train!!!!!!!!

Great machines of Fire & Water... For the life of me...i can't understand why British Railway engines never were fitted with Headlamps like the American ones. Anyone here to elaborate on the above?

Wonderful snapshot in time. I love seeing the Castles and the differing roles on the railway, especially the depot scenes. It's such a shame that so much of our rsikwsy network was lost in the 1970s.

The late 1940s just after the Second World War was a brief period of time when Britain was civilised. most people had a job and access to a new NHS. By the mid 1960s Britain was becoming over populated and with unemployment and poverty on the rise again as British industry went bust due to lack of post WW2 investment.

As I am from Ceylon saw so many of steam engines and would say about one of the important thing of running the train on the way the person who is the incharge for the signal is so of in concern please.

Is the guard looking out at the Birdcage Bridge,Rugby?

Nice old movie

Could watch these type of film all day. Lovely to look back at how things were run. Thank god they were made to show the old days. Fascinating 😊

If their eyesight did not remain good, were they transferred to other jobs?

For all it was hard work, it was wholesome and supplied good peoples' basic life needs. Where on earth did all that skill and enthusiasm and confidence go ? How on earth did Britain finish up as a sad little banana republic ?

Brilliantly portrayed

A fascinating part of past British history of 78 years ago, with those pay rates, hard manual labour, and everyone smoking!

1946 my farther was still a German prisoner of war over here in england with large round patch on his back to make it easier to shoot him

Dirty, inefficient, labour intensive, but what a mighty machine the steam locomotive is. One of mans most impressive engineering achievements that started off with the lid of a kettle popping up under steam pressure, and someone thinking, hmmm.....

The Super Chief has always been on Track 1. RiP proud engineering firms.

When the country had pride

Mast gadi hi wo. Chook chook gadi.

When I started on BR in June 1979. I went from Traction Trainee to Secondman, in 6 weeks.

What a brilliant concise programme. My Uncle was driver on the Golden arrow, my Dad a fireman on another train and used to toot the horn when he went past my Mum's factory. Both my grandfathers worked on the railway, both footplate workers I think because they got the extra ww2 cheese ration for the excessively long hours they worked.

A fascinating tale of the daily lives of railway men. Those in the foundry seemed to have had no protective devices to guard against eye and body injuries.

Cracking good show!

Fascinating. When Britain did everything for itself, and made everything for iytself and others, superb skills.

£4 @ week and a cottage thrown in, wow is that white privalige that people talk about 😮

21:08 Dude the plot twist!

Very nice indeed, totally absorbing, and a very good ending. Once a train spotter, always a train spotter.

Fond memories of my granddad, he started as an apprentice at Newport (Middlesbrough) shed on the North Eastern Railway in 1908. He became a fireman and then a locomotive driver, transferring to Saltburn shed in the 1920s. He mainly drove the routes Saltburn-Middlesbrough-Darlington or Saltburn-Whitby-Scarborough. He retired in 1961, having made the transition from steam to driving diesel trains, from NER to LNER and British Railways. I can just remember him getting up to walk down the line to work when he was on early turn, with his "bait" tin and bottle of tea. And always with a "Woodbine" in his mouth, which sadly did for him in 1969. My elder brother has his retirement clock and tea bottle. RIP granddad Albert.

My father began training as a fireman on the GWR based at reading during the war.......age 14.

It's a wonder most of those railroad employees could even see, hear or breath after working an entire career in that line of work. OSHA would have a field day with these guys.

Brfore Nationalisation by the Atlee government.

in the days when there was always time for a ciggy

My father was a driver with the LMS before, during and after WW2. Some of the most under appreciated people in the war.

I was born in 1959. Every schoolboy wanted to be a train driver back then. We all had train sets, we weren’t rich, so I had a wind up one. Probably worth a fortune these days though, if it is in working order. Very nostalgic watching this old film. Thank you. 👍

Wow, that lady's singing voice is almost in the ultrasonic range 😂

'Elf and safety' would 'ave a fit!

So much better than the new Jaguar ad !

Almost complete absence of eye protection or other PPE in the foundry areas. A completely different attitude to risk, especially when you think of the systems they had to ensure that the trains ran safely and where we have safety precautions available since the sixties. No wonder people ended up with eye injuries. A fascinating view of how the railways were.

Good

My male relatives were mostly on the LNER in various positions. Steam engines of course. There was a Railway College in York .where my uncle became a railway surveyor . These graduates were sought after by other countries in the Commonwealth.

15.46 looks like Rugby with the Great Central crossing above.

10.25....£8 per week wages....but.......the average price of a semi-detached house in England in 1946, was about £1000-£1,200; ( about £76,000 today )....... to put it in perspective!