We are lucky we we're they.to see these magnificent steam engines I spent many hours like you with this footage. Innocent days what's a real pleasure to see this film thank you 🙂
As a child I remember being taken from Stranraer to Dumfries then to Carlisle then across to Newcastle and then the uproar over axing of the line, I also remember going across later and having to go to Kilmarnock then join the line down south and mum saying that by the time we traveled to Kilmarnock we could have been nearly in Carlisle, good old beeching butcher of the branch lines, ah well I’ve got happy memories of steam rail travel and because we live in Ireland lots of ferry travel and then onwards from either heysham,Liverpool and Stranraer
Prior to the completion of the Manchester and Liverpool to London Electrification underpoweed class 40 diesels were intoduced as a stop gap on expresses out of Euston.Two of the reasons for this was the threat from Camden Borough Council to force closure of Camden Loco under the clean air act and the difficulty in recruiting lowly paid shed staff when other employment opportunities such as Ford of Dagenham could provide cleaner and better paid (if mind numbing) jobs on the production line.
Steam locomotives are inefficient, polluting, outdated technology and need to be torched, scrapped, and recycled to make cleaner traction. But I agree they did rule the rails.... 150 years ago!
We are lucky we we're they.to see these magnificent steam engines I spent many hours like you with this footage. Innocent days what's a real pleasure to see this film thank you 🙂
Fantastic 🤗🙏
Fascinating stuff. Excellent video, thank you.
Thanks for this film, I enjoy looking back over the days of steam. Its pleasant to watch... :-)
Bevoin1970 oy mate your under arrest for extreme nationalism. Steam represents racist Britain!
I was so glad to be part of that in the 60s late 50s.
As a child I remember being taken from Stranraer to Dumfries then to Carlisle then across to Newcastle and then the uproar over axing of the line, I also remember going across later and having to go to Kilmarnock then join the line down south and mum saying that by the time we traveled to Kilmarnock we could have been nearly in Carlisle, good old beeching butcher of the branch lines, ah well I’ve got happy memories of steam rail travel and because we live in Ireland lots of ferry travel and then onwards from either heysham,Liverpool and Stranraer
When everything British was British
Thumbs Up #300 👍 Thank you for all this great footage, sad they are just a memory but you are keeping them alive, Thank you - I Subscribed 👍😎
Prior to the completion of the Manchester and Liverpool to London Electrification underpoweed class 40 diesels were intoduced as a stop gap on expresses out of Euston.Two of the reasons for this was the threat from Camden Borough Council to force closure of Camden Loco under the clean air act and the difficulty in recruiting lowly paid shed staff when other employment opportunities such as Ford of Dagenham could provide cleaner and better paid (if mind numbing) jobs on the production line.
At 01-00, 01-15 I could smell that smoke,steam and hot oil, couldn't you?
Brilliant film, love it. 😊
Great Video.
just goes to prove what I've said all along steam rules the rails.
Steam locomotives are inefficient, polluting, outdated technology and need to be torched, scrapped, and recycled to make cleaner traction. But I agree they did rule the rails.... 150 years ago!
@@PreservationEnthusiast did you also know that electric traction was the 1st to follow steam?
Great Video, I have aubscribed.
Steam in Floopaloo
Happy days long ago. 😁
How many of the steam engines were transferred to remote areas of the Commonwealth such as India or Pakistan?
No transfers were made. They were largely cut up for scrap and recycled.