This is a really interesting film, of course the basic message is the need to be organised and focused at all times, and that has not changed. But the real magic of this is the imagery of the context and styles of the times, evoking memories of when I was an adolescent. The old Mark I coaches were always comfortable to ride in, more so than modern seats. I loved that ladies all dressed up smartly in those days, none of the horrible tracky bottoms, trainers and hoodies everyone seems to wear today. When I was growing up in the 60's it was always impressed on me that when I go out in public I represent my family and what I look like tells a story about my values, so I should always be "properly turned out". How times have changed! I really had to smile with empathy at the passengers caught out with the last minute platform change, especially the lady in the skirt suit and high heels with a child in tow, who was struggling to get up and down the stairs to the new platform in time. That has happened to me so many times! I'm usually dressed for business when I'm going on the train, so I'm normally in high heeled stiletto shoes just like her. They add sophistication to a smart outfit. But in my high heels, running on stairs is not an option! Especially as I usually have a wheelie case as well. So a last minute platform change is a real curse, and it still occurs all too frequently, causing me to miss trains. Thanks so much for posting. Marion
D415 is currently numbered as 50015 and is still around today in preservation. E3155 was renumbered 86234 and was exported to Bulgaria where it is still in daily usage.
Travelled behind one of those to and from Manchester Piccadilly in 1968. Sheila Hancock bought me a drink as a Sixth Former on the return journey following a visit to the Bank of England. Bill Grundy then arrived and pulled her away to the Restaurant Car. 👍🏻🏴
Thought by 1969 they'd have the new Mark 2 coaches with air conditioning. The wood panelling inside seemed strange in carriages which looked so sleek on the outside.
No a/c on mark2 a/b/c. This film was made in 1969 and the mark2d which was the first pressure ventilated/air-conditioned mark2 came in 1972 so no, no a/c stock here. In any case this was mainly filmed with a scratch set which one assumes was made up from Willesden spares, so not the latest stock in the main.
Im a canuck GP and every time i see this its exactly like a day at work, except minutes not seconds. Every day. For 25 years. I feel bad for the last patient always.
Back then, airports like Heathrow were like this and over many decades up to the present day, the U.K. railways worsened while the Japanese railways massively improved to how they are now
7.38 'The 0955 from Euston to the North'. This announcement at an intermediate station is funny and would be meaningless. They surely would have announced the departure time of the train from that station and where it was actually going.
Was it a British thing to have to open the window and use the handle on the outside of the door? I've travelled by train all over Europe and never seen this anywhere else...
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This is a really interesting film, of course the basic message is the need to be organised and focused at all times, and that has not changed. But the real magic of this is the imagery of the context and styles of the times, evoking memories of when I was an adolescent. The old Mark I coaches were always comfortable to ride in, more so than modern seats. I loved that ladies all dressed up smartly in those days, none of the horrible tracky bottoms, trainers and hoodies everyone seems to wear today. When I was growing up in the 60's it was always impressed on me that when I go out in public I represent my family and what I look like tells a story about my values, so I should always be "properly turned out". How times have changed!
I really had to smile with empathy at the passengers caught out with the last minute platform change, especially the lady in the skirt suit and high heels with a child in tow, who was struggling to get up and down the stairs to the new platform in time. That has happened to me so many times! I'm usually dressed for business when I'm going on the train, so I'm normally in high heeled stiletto shoes just like her. They add sophistication to a smart outfit. But in my high heels, running on stairs is not an option! Especially as I usually have a wheelie case as well. So a last minute platform change is a real curse, and it still occurs all too frequently, causing me to miss trains.
Thanks so much for posting.
Marion
D415 is currently numbered as 50015 and is still around today in preservation. E3155 was renumbered 86234 and was exported to Bulgaria where it is still in daily usage.
Valiant
I like how the video opens with a list of adjectives that definitely do not apply to Euston
Thank you for this wonderful upload of days gone by.
Travelled behind one of those to and from Manchester Piccadilly in 1968. Sheila Hancock bought me a drink as a Sixth Former on the return journey following a visit to the Bank of England. Bill Grundy then arrived and pulled her away to the Restaurant Car. 👍🏻🏴
Thought by 1969 they'd have the new Mark 2 coaches with air conditioning. The wood panelling inside seemed strange in carriages which looked so sleek on the outside.
No a/c on mark2 a/b/c. This film was made in 1969 and the mark2d which was the first pressure ventilated/air-conditioned mark2 came in 1972 so no, no a/c stock here. In any case this was mainly filmed with a scratch set which one assumes was made up from Willesden spares, so not the latest stock in the main.
Absolutely fantastic !!
Im a canuck GP and every time i see this its exactly like a day at work, except minutes not seconds. Every day. For 25 years. I feel bad for the last patient always.
Remember very similar trains operating on that line in the late eighties.
Back then, airports like Heathrow were like this and over many decades up to the present day, the U.K. railways worsened while the Japanese railways massively improved to how they are now
I remember the class 50s hauling the Glasgow train on their maiden runs.
7.38 'The 0955 from Euston to the North'. This announcement at an intermediate station is funny and would be meaningless. They surely would have announced the departure time of the train from that station and where it was actually going.
Euston. Spacious.... 🤨
clean, efficient......
No sitting down, loafing fare dodgers😅
@@duncancurtis5108 I've kipped a few times on the floor going back to the late 70s early 80s. Not been to Euston in an age since.
Modern train operators would be delighted to have trains only 18 and a half minutes late…
Travelling by train in Britain is now an ordeal not a pleasure.
Aka The Pain Train. Been on here for several years.
Yes , shame I’ve seen it.
Little did we know that this is what they have modelled our present day trains on.
Ah the days when they allowed people to board trains more than 90 seconds before departure.
Certainly different times…… punctuality can still be an issue today.
Nothing has really changed.
Wasn't this originally called the "Pain Train". Maybe it was an internal educational film?
It was indeed. I began my railway career in the early 1990's and 'The Pain Train' was a part of the training.
Jeeeezzzzz the “music” gave me earache. 😖
Were they just rehearsing or deliberately playing discordantly ?
The good old days
Nice wee cigarette 😂
..." over the points, over the points, over the points...the 6.5 Special steamin' down the line....."
125mph would have been as impossible back then, now it feels slow.
Stop order at carnforth.
Ahh the pain train
Oh …. Come on dear..
Was it a British thing to have to open the window and use the handle on the outside of the door?
I've travelled by train all over Europe and never seen this anywhere else...
Yes and you lean out of the window before the train has come to a halt to open the door before the train stops. All done away with now.
@@Mishima505 yes the inside catches needed quite a bit of strength to open.
Much easier to open the window
@@keytesofessex in Germany the trains used to have handles on the inside which were released by the driver.
Now obviously everything is push-button
Shame about the jazz muzak soundtrack obscuring the unrefurbished Class 50 thrash!!
Was there a railway film of this era that didn't have a modern jazz track? The decade was obsessed with "modernity".
Where was the station with the Platform 8
Bletchley. That platform 8 no longer exists. However new platform 8 has been built on the high level flyover for East West rail
@@desirodriver6651 Thanks
Pain Train Again. Nothing new to see here. "West coast main line rail trip 1969": A misnomer of the plagiarist kind.
Why have you ripped this video off from another owner ??
Its called the Pain Train and belongs to Bennet Brook Railway.
Get your own content. 😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Video ruined by lousy and intrusive background tripe
Ahh, the obligatory annoying jazz...