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  • @alecstronach
    @alecstronach 7 місяців тому +144

    Regardless of who you are or what you believe in, I think the one thing we can all agree on is that the world needs more Spud

  • @mccobsta
    @mccobsta 2 роки тому +444

    Spud is a legend every station needs a spud

    • @stefanxt350
      @stefanxt350 2 роки тому +4

      can you tell anything more about that nice man ?

    • @djpeekay25
      @djpeekay25 2 роки тому +20

      The kind of person who deserves an OBE or MBE.

    • @Chris_34
      @Chris_34 2 роки тому +3

      A Sick Boy and Renton, also👍

    • @mjstefansson7466
      @mjstefansson7466 2 роки тому

      @@stefanxt350 Spud is still alive at 116 and still enjoys breakdancing and collecting hardcore gay porn

    • @prodigalretrod
      @prodigalretrod Рік тому

      @@Chris_34 This Spud has even got the same surname as that Spud.

  • @MeganVictoriaChapman
    @MeganVictoriaChapman 8 місяців тому +64

    Our lovely grandad he is missed by us all everyday a true gentleman x

    • @2ndRodeo_Keziah
      @2ndRodeo_Keziah 4 місяці тому +2

      Oh my, that's wonderful! Which one in the vid was your dear grandad? Spud, or the writer, or... ? 🥰❤

    • @jamiew1664
      @jamiew1664 Місяць тому

      who do you mean?? x

    • @MeganVictoriaChapman
      @MeganVictoriaChapman Місяць тому +3

      @@jamiew1664spud he was my great grandad

    • @MeganVictoriaChapman
      @MeganVictoriaChapman Місяць тому

      @@2ndRodeo_Keziah spud

    • @jamiew1664
      @jamiew1664 Місяць тому

      @@MeganVictoriaChapman what was his real name then?? He was your grandad, now hes your great grandad???? come on mate, wake up to yourself.

  • @mtns7036
    @mtns7036 8 місяців тому +28

    Just eccentric Britain at its best. The long hot summer of 76' spud=legend

  • @markgatland977
    @markgatland977 2 роки тому +143

    Please say there's a blue plaque to Spud at that station...what an absolute star

  • @nickharvey7233
    @nickharvey7233 2 роки тому +383

    Spud - fantastic. Making his little corner of the world better, bit by bit - if only more people took his approach to life. Lovely.

    • @dommidavros2211
      @dommidavros2211 2 роки тому +2

      I'd love to see what he's doing now! Is he still there?

    • @danielf1313
      @danielf1313 2 роки тому +11

      @@dommidavros2211 highly unlikely as the programme was made in 1976 and he was well into his 50s then.

    • @jimtuite3451
      @jimtuite3451 2 роки тому +12

      No Spud today... the station in now unmanned - ticket office closed in the 1980s and Spud with it

    • @dommidavros2211
      @dommidavros2211 2 роки тому

      @@danielf1313 Well where's he working now?

    • @kcat80
      @kcat80 Рік тому +6

      @@dommidavros2211 working? Are you kidding? He's probably over a century old, give the poor man a break

  • @tomvernemusic
    @tomvernemusic Рік тому +252

    That 'Overcrowded Railway Carriage' with everyone able to sit down made me laugh. Now that would mean you're stood nose to nose with a stranger for the entire journey!

    • @hanvyj2
      @hanvyj2 Рік тому +33

      The shots of the busy station... It's almost empty by today's standard.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L Рік тому +13

      @@hanvyj2 I was wondering if it was due to population growth, but the UK’s only gone from 55 to 65 million in those 50 years. I suppose it must just be the migration from rural areas to the cities!

    • @olivercuenca4109
      @olivercuenca4109 Рік тому +16

      @@kaitlyn__L Either that, or the growing popularity of commuting in due to property prices. By the sounds of it, back then it was unusual to travel in for work. Nowadays in many cities it's just not expected that you live near work.

    • @ElZilchoYo
      @ElZilchoYo 9 місяців тому +8

      @@kaitlyn__L The rail service has been massively reduced, the network used to be huge but so many lines were closed because they didn't make profit, as if that's the only purpose of a railway or something. Less trains on each track too, for the same reason, you make more money cramming more people onto less trains.

    • @bubba842
      @bubba842 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@kaitlyn__Lit's definitely not because it's cheaper

  • @RJH1971
    @RJH1971 2 роки тому +153

    The interview with the station announcer over the tannoy is genius

    • @ricjuk
      @ricjuk 2 роки тому +52

      It wasn't really over the tannoy, they just added the echo and reverb in post production. You can see when she's actually announcing she's holding the tannoy button.
      Sorry, a career in film and TV makes you notice these things and spoils everything!

    • @Scottish_TV_Gold
      @Scottish_TV_Gold 2 роки тому +6

      @@ricjuk I don't have a career in film and TV but admittedly doubted she was actually speaking to him that way.

    • @dameaustel
      @dameaustel Рік тому +12

      @@ricjuk Never the less, it was still genius!

    • @davidmeyer188
      @davidmeyer188 9 місяців тому +4

      Also featured in the Dick Emery movie from the 1970s.

    • @postscript67
      @postscript67 8 місяців тому +1

      @@davidmeyer188 "You want to take a photo of my bum?!" Great film.

  • @krognak
    @krognak 2 роки тому +81

    Always love the long-distance shots with the presenter apparently talking to himself, and those around him looking perplexed as if he's just escaped from an institution

  • @timpage3142
    @timpage3142 Рік тому +32

    Bless you Spud. A unique level of respect and service to the paying passenger. None of this level of care given today in our un-staffed platforms. How regressive and so sad.

  • @leeshapon
    @leeshapon 8 місяців тому +11

    what a charming little video! as a gen Z it’s always fascinating to glimpse into the past like this. spud seemed like an absolute sweetheart, RIP

    • @jamiew1664
      @jamiew1664 Місяць тому

      it was wasnt it lee. hope your well mate

    • @leeshapon
      @leeshapon Місяць тому

      @@jamiew1664 thanks mate, i’m well, hope you are too. although my name isn’t lee lol, leesh is my nickname :P

  • @analogueman123456787
    @analogueman123456787 9 місяців тому +34

    Truly, a lost world. 😞

    • @jamiew1664
      @jamiew1664 Місяць тому +3

      its sad isnt it my friend .

  • @karimkekhia4369
    @karimkekhia4369 9 місяців тому +7

    ahhhh this is such a wonderful video and brings back many memories. the newspapers, the smoking, no mobile phones and the old slam door emu units on the southern…. and those orange curtains and first class compartments…amazing good days!!

  • @snotwurfit
    @snotwurfit 9 місяців тому +31

    I loved the old slam-door trains with their individual compartments where you could stick your head out of the window. Happy days

  • @acciid
    @acciid 2 роки тому +451

    Spud is now a ticket machine.

    • @Khayyam-vg9fw
      @Khayyam-vg9fw 2 роки тому +35

      And occasional swat teams of thugs in hi-vis jackets.

    • @sb1056sb
      @sb1056sb 2 роки тому +11

      The mobile phone is what Spud is becoming.

    • @krognak
      @krognak 2 роки тому +9

      Amazing what updates in cosmetic surgery can accomplish

    • @taiterobinson793
      @taiterobinson793 2 роки тому +1

      😞

    • @BABYWOLF--1966
      @BABYWOLF--1966 2 роки тому +22

      Those were the days when people knew your name and were courteous too

  • @jamesfrench7299
    @jamesfrench7299 2 роки тому +174

    I keep expecting 1976 to look more dated but it constantly surprises me how it doesn't. It still looks like modern society. The station signs even look way ahead.

    • @NoName-jq7tj
      @NoName-jq7tj 2 роки тому +25

      Yes. The bored look of commuters in London is the same. The clothes don’t look dated at all. I think this would have filmed over the hot summer of 1976.

    • @noahhughes2501
      @noahhughes2501 Рік тому +23

      Haha! That's because our rail service has largely stagnated since the 80s

    • @NoName-jq7tj
      @NoName-jq7tj Рік тому +7

      @@noahhughes2501 😂😂😂😂😂 Yes but fares are not at the 1980s price bracket.

    • @JudgeHill
      @JudgeHill Рік тому +24

      I love how everyone is insisting "things looked the same" when they certainly did not from a couple crucial perspectives.

    • @Bertie_Ahern
      @Bertie_Ahern Рік тому +7

      People forget most had social media accounts, mobiles and laptops and there was a basic internet shopping offering from most retailers albeit with a smaller range of products than in recent times. But in general the experience of daily life was remarkably similar.

  • @essexginge9167
    @essexginge9167 5 місяців тому +5

    Spud was a man who took pride in his job

  • @JohnHonda101
    @JohnHonda101 Рік тому +53

    Keep adding content like this, I was a happy 10 year old in 1976 with the world at my feet. Things like this make me reflect back to a happier time where I had my whole family around me.

    • @TheMusicalElitist
      @TheMusicalElitist 9 місяців тому

      I love comments like yours: an old man who yearns for ‘simpler times’, using modern technology to do so. What a sad little man you are.

    • @paulfitzpatrick3090
      @paulfitzpatrick3090 8 місяців тому +2

      I was in my last year at school. Never took the time to think what life would be like in 2024. Beyond my comprehension 😊

    • @stephenwride5695
      @stephenwride5695 7 місяців тому

      ​@@TheMusicalElitistC U Next Tuesdxy

  • @steamgent4592
    @steamgent4592 2 роки тому +150

    The seating in the carriages was so much nicer back then compared to today's rail travel.

    • @AtheistOrphan
      @AtheistOrphan 2 роки тому +11

      Absolutely! Around the Dorking area they had very springy bouncy seats.

    • @stopthetories
      @stopthetories 2 роки тому +19

      They were less concerned about fire safety back then.

    • @JW93.
      @JW93. 2 роки тому +6

      Like sardines now

    • @WeaselKing1000
      @WeaselKing1000 2 роки тому

      @@stopthetories Remember proper bin men? Today's snowflakes are so worried about being burned to death, we just got on with it, health and safety gone mad.

    • @ricjuk
      @ricjuk 2 роки тому +16

      They still used those trains until around 2005. I remember the decline beginning around 2003 and it'd be increasingly special if you got to ride on one. They were infinitely cosier and comfier than the brightly lit, uncomfortable and plastic rubbish that replaced them.

  • @hermanmunster3358
    @hermanmunster3358 6 місяців тому +13

    Good old Spud, he was one in a million, the EPITOMY of good customer service. With a sense of duty that really did make his patrons feel highly valued.

  • @gogosegaga
    @gogosegaga 11 місяців тому +71

    I love this channel reminds me why the UK was such a fabulous country.

    • @fruitking6916
      @fruitking6916 9 місяців тому +10

      Yes….WAS.

    • @orlando124431
      @orlando124431 8 місяців тому +4

      Was

    • @kelvinpell4571
      @kelvinpell4571 8 місяців тому +21

      And now it's Somalia with added jihad.....thanks Blair.

    • @Tarek_ElMaddah
      @Tarek_ElMaddah 7 місяців тому +11

      You guys are complaining from few thousands of immigrants that came after your armies destroyed their countries… quite hypocritical

    • @asifitmatters1
      @asifitmatters1 7 місяців тому +2

      Was…

  • @soundseeker63
    @soundseeker63 Рік тому +18

    This is absolutely brilliant "Corporate image BR" era footage. Peak BR you could say. Everything in standard blue or blue/grey, standard rail typface and double arrow symbols everywhere. Captures the hum drum (you could say drab) look of 70s commuting experience perfectly. Hum drum that is except for characters like Spud Murphy who take that level of pride in what they do. He was absolutely in his element, and it showed! Today the station would be unstaffed most likely and you'd get your tickets either via a card-only payment machine or via an app. Progress....?

  • @WarrenCromartie2
    @WarrenCromartie2 8 місяців тому +3

    Love seeing these old trains. I was 7 in 1976. My dad would often take me to London Waterloo for days out. I was obsessed with trains. These days I find this same journey torturous.

  • @jamesdean1143
    @jamesdean1143 Рік тому +42

    RIP Bernard Falk BBC presenter
    1943 - 1990

  • @TheMusicianTom
    @TheMusicianTom 2 роки тому +120

    The announcer Margaret Knight was getting ideas above her station. I’ll get me coat.

    • @RenegadeSound
      @RenegadeSound 9 місяців тому +5

      How dare you make a joke that funny 😄

    • @Bigaitch
      @Bigaitch 9 місяців тому

      It wasn't that funny - mind you I did laugh...😂​@@RenegadeSound

    • @SoofwanMinhas
      @SoofwanMinhas 8 місяців тому +1

      Priceless 😂

    • @premikyam2726
      @premikyam2726 8 місяців тому +2

      a very attractive 1970s woman was Margaret

    • @BobbyJohnson-n4u
      @BobbyJohnson-n4u 3 місяці тому +2

      That hurt me kidneys. 😂😂

  • @Pyhantaakka
    @Pyhantaakka 8 місяців тому +6

    That's a country I would like to visit.

  • @JewelKnightJess
    @JewelKnightJess Рік тому +10

    The world needs more Spuds!!

  • @jonathanwalker7092
    @jonathanwalker7092 2 роки тому +71

    May god if only all South-eastern Rail Staff were like Spud, they should use this as a training film.

    • @joedimaggio3146
      @joedimaggio3146 Рік тому

      They're all immigrants now

    • @Reddsoldier
      @Reddsoldier Рік тому +1

      @@joedimaggio3146 And that has a bearing on their customer service ability? No.
      What does though is that taking time to be a daily pleasantry is not nearly compensated for in pay and that I'm sure rail companies and their shareholders would throw a fit if they saw someone showing compassion and not charging people for the privilege.

  • @timecapsule.
    @timecapsule. 9 місяців тому +8

    I wish we still had "Spuds" at stations today.

    • @insanitymp4447
      @insanitymp4447 9 місяців тому +1

      You can often get a friendly face at the station cafe

  • @tommysteele9487
    @tommysteele9487 2 роки тому +41

    love these BBC films thanks for sharing them

  • @jasonruston3315
    @jasonruston3315 2 роки тому +19

    Spud is true customer service amazing

  • @MrJohnQCitizen
    @MrJohnQCitizen 11 місяців тому +3

    the sound of all those wooden doors slamming. Simply sensational

  • @markpunt9638
    @markpunt9638 Рік тому +5

    What’s a bizarre line to take.
    Commuted on the Brighton line from 1980 to 1990 and it was thoroughly enjoyable - buffet cars, card games, chess.More fun than working.

  • @thomasawl
    @thomasawl 8 місяців тому +4

    spud my beloved

  • @dameaustel
    @dameaustel Рік тому +6

    Spusd Murphy, should be remembered as a national hero. Spuds Commuters club! Imagine a morning call from the station master! WOW!

  • @charlescalthorp5375
    @charlescalthorp5375 10 місяців тому +19

    Those seats had a distinct smell, as did the carriages, and also the doors had a specific “clunk”.
    Lot’s of things one just take’s for granted then one day they are all gone

    • @the8ctagon
      @the8ctagon 9 місяців тому +2

      Those apostrophes that you added to "lots" and "takes" don't belong there. Please remove them forthwith.

    • @Bigaitch
      @Bigaitch 9 місяців тому +2

      Trains have a distinct smell now... probably different to the one you meant though...

    • @UnderscoreZeroLP
      @UnderscoreZeroLP Місяць тому

      @@the8ctagonok

    • @jamiew1664
      @jamiew1664 Місяць тому

      @@the8ctagon actually, it would be much better if you removed yourself.

  • @thomasm1964
    @thomasm1964 2 роки тому +51

    Ah, slam door carriages! I was a kid in 1976 but still grew up to commute (for a few years) on the damn things. So glad to get out of London in the mid-eighties.

    • @fidelcatsro6948
      @fidelcatsro6948 2 роки тому +1

      congratulations

    • @Nicefoolkilla
      @Nicefoolkilla 2 роки тому +3

      I was born in the 80s

    • @JayJay-nc7pr
      @JayJay-nc7pr 2 роки тому +4

      London must have changed a lot from the mid 70s to the mid 80s

    • @spidyman8853
      @spidyman8853 2 роки тому +2

      @@JayJay-nc7pr
      Oh yea very much

    • @snowdog9954
      @snowdog9954 2 роки тому

      You'd hop off as the train pulled in, had to time it just right though or you could fall flat on your face!

  • @pprc5363
    @pprc5363 Рік тому +19

    These days Spud would be charged with stalking for phoning people.

  • @amandajane8227
    @amandajane8227 2 роки тому +27

    I see where Jago Hazzard gets his style. At the start I thought it was one of his videos.

  • @jasonl4411.
    @jasonl4411. 2 роки тому +12

    What a lovely piece of history

  • @adamhughes4442
    @adamhughes4442 2 місяці тому +1

    I was 6 years old in 76. I remeber those old trains and slamming the doors. Memories of a better time.

    • @hopebgood
      @hopebgood Місяць тому

      It's not so bad now mate,,,,

    • @adamhughes4442
      @adamhughes4442 Місяць тому +1

      @@hopebgood oh it is. These are awful times we are living in.

    • @hopebgood
      @hopebgood Місяць тому

      @@adamhughes4442 I'm sorry you feel that way.

    • @adamhughes4442
      @adamhughes4442 Місяць тому +1

      @@hopebgood You think these are good times!!!!!!?
      I'm lost!

  • @Quarker
    @Quarker 2 роки тому +96

    This was a strangely poetic way to look at commuting and almost feels ahead of its time in 1976. Also, the Helvetica font is literally being used for everything in this video!

    • @djslybacon
      @djslybacon 2 роки тому +2

      Helvética is the 70s….

    • @Dunkcanio
      @Dunkcanio 2 роки тому +21

      It's BR's own typeface, Rail Alphabet

    • @bussesandtrains1218
      @bussesandtrains1218 Рік тому

      @@Dunkcanio anything and everything from 1965-1992 used the typeface

  • @clearskies
    @clearskies 9 місяців тому +12

    Margaret is now an automated message

  • @c1v1lwar24
    @c1v1lwar24 2 роки тому +57

    The comb over really is a lost art.

  • @TheUltimateBlooper
    @TheUltimateBlooper 2 роки тому +168

    2:05 love it how people were just jumping off the train as it's still moving into the platform. Different time.
    Also... Please keep posting these little time capsules! I was born in '92, and I find all this stuff before my time to be absolutely fascinating! The BBC has a treasure trove of history in its archives O_O

    • @markhouse256
      @markhouse256 2 роки тому +8

      Slam those doors open!

    • @fidelcatsro6948
      @fidelcatsro6948 2 роки тому +7

      in India you can see people climbing to the top of the train as it moves as well.. even today!

    • @AtheistOrphan
      @AtheistOrphan 2 роки тому +9

      Yeah I remember doing that, had to get your timing just right!

    • @TheUltimateBlooper
      @TheUltimateBlooper 2 роки тому

      @@markhouse256 I think you can slam things *shut*, not open...

    • @TheUltimateBlooper
      @TheUltimateBlooper 2 роки тому

      @@AtheistOrphan Sounds like fun to me! But I can see where someone could get their leg caught or trip and this would be a hazard. Obviously it's MUCH safer to do it the way we do now, but I can't help but think it would be fun to at least try this :)

  • @jackr1779
    @jackr1779 8 місяців тому +2

    Bless Spud! Fly high lovely fellow!

  • @ChrisGWGreen
    @ChrisGWGreen 7 місяців тому +1

    Spud brought me to tears!! Utter legend!

  • @scottg3456
    @scottg3456 Рік тому +5

    What a gent Spud was, if only stations had workers like him now.
    Also crazy to see passengers could smoke on the trains back then!

  • @johnhagan-zr4pm
    @johnhagan-zr4pm 8 місяців тому +3

    Good ol' Spud

  • @davewalker7126
    @davewalker7126 2 роки тому +15

    I can remember that being broadcast! It was the lady in the booth talking back to the reporter using the PA (although I can see now it was not real) that jogged the memory.

  • @azuma892
    @azuma892 2 роки тому +35

    Even railway enthusiasts hate commuting, unless their train is a class due to be withdrawn from service soon, people tend to only treasure things when they are gone. 😉

    • @WeaselKing1000
      @WeaselKing1000 2 роки тому +2

      Witness the baffling affection for the atrocious and wholly without-redeeming-features Pacers here in the UK. Goodbye to them - and good riddance.

  • @Virsho
    @Virsho 9 місяців тому +3

    this feels like I am time traveling

  • @northstar1950
    @northstar1950 7 місяців тому +1

    Amazing bloke, what an ambassador for B.R.

  • @4nna5
    @4nna5 2 роки тому +6

    love the little snippets of Morgenspaziergang in this

  • @JasmineSurrealVideos
    @JasmineSurrealVideos 2 роки тому +48

    I thought this would be quite dull but it was a lovely piece of footage, Spud is a delight, and every station should have a Spud U Like lol (90s joke) and the writerly creativity of the commuters, plus the old solicitor chap was very much like my much missed grandfather in his demeanour and speech. Wonderful stuff. The attractive lady announcer in the booth had such a nice voice as well.

    • @anthonyleighton4754
      @anthonyleighton4754 Рік тому +1

      The country had standards......things weren't dumbed down as much.....

  • @lbukem4259
    @lbukem4259 Рік тому +21

    It's programmes like this that make you realise we're closer to the 70s than we realise - daily routines have hardly changed.

    • @scottyunitedboy2925
      @scottyunitedboy2925 Рік тому +6

      With one difference…the human touch is almost completely gone

    • @Hashterix
      @Hashterix Рік тому +7

      If you pay closer attention you'll realise that other than the buildings and rails being in the same place, and that people still commute, literally everything else has changed. From the technology through to the people themselves and how we interact today. People are complete strangers today and the cohesion in the society you see in the video is now completely vacant.

  • @Thomas-yr9ln
    @Thomas-yr9ln Рік тому +7

    I was 21 back in them days. It seemed like I had forever but now I fear tomorrow.

    • @robertmarsh3588
      @robertmarsh3588 8 місяців тому +1

      Lots of us feel like this I suspect though I was 12 at the time (and an avid trainspotter), so a little behind you.

  • @davidbrazier9246
    @davidbrazier9246 2 роки тому +11

    Spud gave me advice on constructing a rockery.

  • @garryleeks4848
    @garryleeks4848 2 роки тому +20

    Spud commuters club , wonder if it’s still going, good old spud

  • @pmacc3557
    @pmacc3557 9 місяців тому +2

    Brilliant Mr. Spud❤

  • @Alan_GA
    @Alan_GA 8 місяців тому +2

    "Sits in isolated splendor, 13 feet above the station"
    British reporters of yesteryear had a knack for words.

  • @bluecardholder
    @bluecardholder 2 роки тому +3

    That was me in '76 - although my journey was less arduous from the suburbs of London it still eat into the day especially in winter when you never saw the sun during the week.

  • @WhatIfJojoSiwaWasGay
    @WhatIfJojoSiwaWasGay 6 місяців тому +7

    Everyone is talking about Spud, but the absolute poise and eliquence of Michael is incredible! The model English gentleman if ever I saw one

  • @nullnull7495
    @nullnull7495 11 місяців тому +2

    Wow. Spud is soo sweet

  • @cz2301
    @cz2301 2 роки тому +59

    I’d love to see John Cleese dressed as a policeman and arresting the reporter who is screaming in the middle of the platform. He could even come into the scene as the Minister of Funny Walks.

  • @sheppo
    @sheppo Рік тому +6

    It's remarkable how little the look of commuting has changed in 46 years.

    • @richardwills-woodward
      @richardwills-woodward Рік тому +1

      Try more than 150 years! It was similar in the latter half of the 1800's. The modern world and commuting was created in the UK for better or worse.

  • @JarrodBaniqued
    @JarrodBaniqued 2 роки тому +5

    I love the use of the midsection of Rossini’s Thieving Magpie overture here

    • @plinkplanky
      @plinkplanky 2 роки тому +3

      I thought it was from The last track on Kraftwerk's autobahn album

  • @darleytransportandtravel6353
    @darleytransportandtravel6353 9 місяців тому +2

    A first class compartment! If only we could see luxuries like that today.

  • @greentambourine2323
    @greentambourine2323 9 місяців тому +1

    The wonderful Michael Gilbert scribbling away there, I have just read his Game Without Rules book of short stories.

  • @NubianPrince85
    @NubianPrince85 2 роки тому +4

    Love it .....and love Spud...the good old days!

  • @robertw9651
    @robertw9651 Рік тому +2

    I used to go to college for 3 years on the slammers in Kent in the mid to late 90s. I still miss the smell and sound of them not to mention they were far more comfortable than anything modern.

  • @MarknoblesAcidhouseparty
    @MarknoblesAcidhouseparty Рік тому +2

    we grew up in Benfleet ... was great seeing this

  • @krystjanchanerley9288
    @krystjanchanerley9288 8 місяців тому +1

    So well spoken

  • @stephenholt4670
    @stephenholt4670 2 роки тому +7

    3:19 - I imagine people around the station were a little confused to hear Margaret's one-sided conversation broadcast on the tannoy!

  • @thetartanspartan01
    @thetartanspartan01 7 місяців тому +6

    I'm glad even the Beeching cuts could not defeat Spud.

  • @rench1984
    @rench1984 10 місяців тому +39

    People moaned like hell about British Railways in the 1970's. With the state of the railways in 2024, I bet people would go back to 1970's British Railways in a heartbeat!

    • @Housey1985
      @Housey1985 7 місяців тому

      Not sure, the problem with BR was it was entirely reliant on government for its funding and that led to horrific lack of capital investment from 60s to late 80s. Would a new BR be any different?

    • @mirzaahmed6589
      @mirzaahmed6589 6 місяців тому

      No, they wouldn't.

    • @rench1984
      @rench1984 6 місяців тому +2

      @@mirzaahmed6589well we will see. Because it’s about the happen under an incoming Labour government.

    • @karenpff2010
      @karenpff2010 5 місяців тому +1

      Rench1984 clearly never learned of the Beeching Cuts and the "Plan to Modernise the Railway" back then :/ It wasn't all sweetness and roses back then.

    • @rench1984
      @rench1984 5 місяців тому

      @@karenpff2010still isn’t now

  • @Flaccidtetris
    @Flaccidtetris 2 роки тому +21

    Love the bit at 0:34 where the train leaves as they're interviewing him haha

  • @JohnHonda101
    @JohnHonda101 Рік тому +4

    Oh, I doff my cap to Spud.

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles 2 роки тому +49

    "Morning ! Just making sure you're up, don't want you to miss your train !" "Bugger off, Spud, it's my day off."

  • @stevenj2380
    @stevenj2380 Рік тому +1

    Stunning they had doors to compartments the rider could open! OMG. Quaint, civil dangerous (?)

  • @sc3599
    @sc3599 2 роки тому +45

    Great video. Seeing the crowds at Waterloo and comparing with today makes the demographic change that has taken place since then quite stark.

    • @fiverZ
      @fiverZ 2 роки тому +19

      But apparently it's a "conspiracy theory" if you notice it

    • @benfisher1376
      @benfisher1376 2 роки тому +10

      It's quite shocking

    • @donlogan83
      @donlogan83 Рік тому +8

      Ironically Waterloo is one of the places where it’s least visible, given where the trains head to from there

    • @retrodude123
      @retrodude123 Рік тому +6

      @@fiverZliterally no one calls it a conspiracy theory - anything you can check in the census is not a conspiracy theory my friend 😂

    • @fiverZ
      @fiverZ Рік тому +9

      @@retrodude123 It does get called a conspiracy theory...

  • @mikeh5431
    @mikeh5431 Рік тому +2

    Absolutely amazing! Thanks

  • @ChavJag
    @ChavJag 29 днів тому

    I used to do the East Croydon to Victoria train twice a day 5 days a week just before they fazed out the old slam door carriages in the early 90's. Better days

  • @AzrallDRG
    @AzrallDRG Рік тому +4

    0:26 - oh mate, you have no idea how bad it is now. The LUXURY you had then. At least you have a seat!

  • @MichelediMuratore
    @MichelediMuratore 2 місяці тому

    Spud Murphy, what a hero!

  • @justmanic9673
    @justmanic9673 Рік тому +1

    Spud seems like a sweetheart

  • @thefettfan3994
    @thefettfan3994 Рік тому +7

    Those were the days when people spoke face to face in conversations not sending each other a text or surfing the net!!!!!!!

  • @dronespace
    @dronespace 2 роки тому +4

    Spud is a legend

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles 2 роки тому +6

    Spud's cap defied gravity.

  • @rosemarycollyer7008
    @rosemarycollyer7008 6 місяців тому

    What a remarkable guy Spud was

  • @TricksyBix
    @TricksyBix 23 дні тому +2

    How wonderful to see what London used to be like, and how different it is now, thanks to appalling Government policies.

  • @iancragg6192
    @iancragg6192 2 роки тому +7

    Michael Gilbert’s novels are being republished in the British Library Crime Classics series.

  • @rattyfus8218
    @rattyfus8218 6 місяців тому +1

    Been there, done that. I loathed it too!

  • @PompeyBoy66
    @PompeyBoy66 7 місяців тому +1

    This is wonderful. Spud I like.

  • @BDub2024
    @BDub2024 9 місяців тому +3

    Who or what replaced Spud. Hard shoes to fill.

  • @spitfires1979
    @spitfires1979 Рік тому +9

    It is amazing to see the Home Counties and London full of English people, I had almost forgotten what it was like before the age of mass-immigration.

  • @NewRiverRoots
    @NewRiverRoots 6 місяців тому

    We need spud now more than ever.

  • @Quebecoisegal
    @Quebecoisegal 2 роки тому +14

    For a while I traveled from Tunbridge Wells to London, and was amused by the way people queued up expecting the door to be opposite where they stood and they really didn't like it if you got on before they did. I learnt after a few months to walk to Tunbridge Wells West, get on before them, and avoid their petty unpleasantness.
    Spud was clearly a man who enjoyed his job and had a way with people, a great example of how to do it.

    • @veggie42
      @veggie42 2 роки тому +1

      OMG a shame that the railway was gone

  • @peteglobe23
    @peteglobe23 2 роки тому +1

    Everyone likes a good old spud

  • @Luna.3.3.3
    @Luna.3.3.3 3 місяці тому

    2024 - Good luck finding a gem 💖 like *Spud* now days. Absolute Gentleman.🌹❤