Great stuff, never seen this before. We visited Steamtown in May 1991 and there were quite a lot of people there including families with kids and a few fair rides and some helicopter taking off and landing on a nearby field (no idea what that was about). I presume this would've been a Bank Holiday weekend. There was also Britannia and Duke of Gloucester there outside, as well as the lower half of Nigel Gresley with its wheels in red and the tender in a different part of the shed it was in.
great video nice to see the museum as it was also makes it sad the way its been neglected now i dont remember the museum being open we had a ride on the 15 inch gauge railway the year after the museum shut and i dont think it was long after that the miniature railway was sold of
It's sad, was a good day out. There used to be a Steamport at Southport, but that was shut in the late 90s and the site is now another bloody soulless retail park. Health and safety would have a field day with that place today. I think the last time I visited Carnforth Steamtown would've been the mid 90s.
The 15 inch railway has been changed to a 7/.5 inch and has moved to cinderbarrow, just off the A6. A lot of the old workers there at cinderbarrow used actually drive the 15 inch. So have a stop by
This is fantastic, and you've just earned my subscription as the video is so good. I would give anything just to be able to visit the shed at 10A and I wouldn't mind having a job at West Coast as working with steam is something I want to do when im older.
Thank you so much for this. Many happy memories of Steamtown came flooding back and lots of familiar faces.
We came up to carnforth one day from clitheroe and it was closed down. It was very disappointing. We didn't even get a braw.
I was just in time to see Steamtown as a child, nice to have this video as a memory jogger I must say.
Tommy Stevenson on the regulator - top man, who I worked with many times. Ken Nuttall on the shovel - Carnforth's last man.
My father worked with Tommy Stevenson and Ken Nuttall when he transferred to Carnforth in May 1992
Great stuff, never seen this before. We visited Steamtown in May 1991 and there were quite a lot of people there including families with kids and a few fair rides and some helicopter taking off and landing on a nearby field (no idea what that was about). I presume this would've been a Bank Holiday weekend. There was also Britannia and Duke of Gloucester there outside, as well as the lower half of Nigel Gresley with its wheels in red and the tender in a different part of the shed it was in.
great video nice to see the museum as it was also makes it sad the way its been neglected now i dont remember the museum being open we had a ride on the 15 inch gauge railway the year after the museum shut and i dont think it was long after that the miniature railway was sold of
It's sad, was a good day out. There used to be a Steamport at Southport, but that was shut in the late 90s and the site is now another bloody soulless retail park. Health and safety would have a field day with that place today. I think the last time I visited Carnforth Steamtown would've been the mid 90s.
The 15 inch railway has been changed to a 7/.5 inch and has moved to cinderbarrow, just off the A6. A lot of the old workers there at cinderbarrow used actually drive the 15 inch. So have a stop by
This is fantastic, and you've just earned my subscription as the video is so good. I would give anything just to be able to visit the shed at 10A and I wouldn't mind having a job at West Coast as working with steam is something I want to do when im older.
I realize Im pretty randomly asking but does anybody know of a good website to stream new tv shows online?
@Chris Billy flixportal =)
@Colton Hugh thanks, signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D Appreciate it !!
@Chris Billy happy to help :D