13:50 Running across a switching yard with trains coming down randomly on all the tracks... I'm sure I've had nightmares about that a few times as a kid.
@@Isochest that would cause a lot of uproar from parents and health and safety organizations. Trust me, I wish this was how things were ran today, when I was a young boy in the mid 80’s (late elementary and middle school), I wanted to be a engineer, I still wanted to be one when I started high school (graduated in 93’) but I never liked all the college needed to be a engineer for railroads. So I decided to become a assistant principal at a high school. I’m happy with my job as a assistant principal, I still film trains, I collect railroad equipment and timetables, maintenance books/catalogs, I guess my railroader side doesn’t want to give up on becoming a engineer just yet, even though I’m 47!
Unfortunately, things like minimum wages and excessive labour laws make it hard to employ inexperienced kids… you have to pay them more than they’re worth. That’s why youth unemployment is generally so high.
A splendid documentary and top marks for showing no 18000 GWR gas turbine electric ....pity we couldn’t hear and listen to its noise sound! Thanks anyway!,
@@jimthorne304 Or anything else, it’s just an empty shell. It’s a pity that the power plant didn’t survive. If it had it probably wouldn’t have been possible to operate it in preservation, but it would have been interesting just to see it. It was very different to a typical gas turbine with its large single combustion chamber.
What a difference with similar films made 10 years later. Still all steam apart from the odd shunter, there is mechanisation to speed up work but no automation in general, as can be seen at the hump shunt yard. Most people still have to rely on their own legs or the public transport to get from A to B, private car ownership is still very low. And I wouldn't be that man running after wagons the whole day, he certainly was very fit but it was exceptionally dangerous work, it was the way one of my granddads was killed in 1950, he didn't notice a car rolling down behind the other in the next track when he crossed the tracks.
Of course building the Woodhead tunnel depended on the Standedge canal tunnel to move away the spoil. The Standedge Tunnel has been restored and reopened for canal boats. The Woodedge Tunnels have not. These tunnels, all three of them, interconnect along their length. There has been talk of preserving the M62 for vintage lorry traffic, now that solar panels are causing goods to be shipped by canal... ;-)
Wow it’s Kerosene Castle! The wonderful Woodhead Tunnel. With modern tunnelling it could be replaced,if anyone has ever done the Piccadilly Sheffield bus rail replacement., you’d know why.gret video
Would have taken extra 10yrs £10,000,000 overspend if HSE were about then lol. At least Grandad wouldnt have been Deaf though lol. More job satisfaction back then though, I'm sure. Not like today's Faceless Management. Wouldn't know one end of a shovel from the other. Rant over lol. Great old film. Thanks for sharing. 😀👍
Maid of Orleans! I used to see that boat coming in and out of Folkestone. Incidentally that Radar viewer has a suspicious resemblance to those 'what the Butler saw' machines you used to get on seaside piers....
Just love the music intro gets me thinking of how great the transport system was yes it had its faults but if the government had put the money it needed into the infrastructure instead of letting it die then selling it off breaks my heart
A common language and a common way of living unite our people, think about what is being said hear. The only use of explosives is for building. Not for backpacks on busses! Ahee wiz don't know wiz born back then lad.
@3:54 mark. It sure appears as tho that man is jackhammering through an existing structure. (façade over brick?) Likely just a renovation rather than the actual building of that tunnel?
I was thinking the same thing as there was not many of the four chimney Passenger liners made..so i knew it was something special...so i did a little research and found out is was the RMS Aquitania (as David Mentioned) ..She was sold to the British Iron and Steel Corporation for scrap for £125,000 in 1950 which is the equivalent of £4,315,530 in todays money so I can only wonder how much higher the values was once she was completely dismantled..so the makers of this film probably had no idea that they were filming (if only for a brief moment) the very last of the Four funnel passenger liner being dismantled
When transport was run as a service and purely for profit. We have regressed into a world where people do not matter, only dividends, bonuses and profits are the order of the day.
Nice shot of newbury park bus arch. Meanwhile... leave the industrial workplace in time to dig an allotment. What? And watchfulness on the road. Yep, definitely not 2022
beeble2003 No, it wouldn’t have needed to be replaced after 40 years. Of course, it’s still serving a useful purpose today, carrying cables rather than trains.
That shunter running after wagons and running front of waggons ,one trip or fall and he's a dead man . I know we ridicule health n safety but this is dangerous and thank goodness a long time ago , present day you never step in front of moving waggon or run alongside them
Doesnt matter what country one is looking at in the 50's (or most any decade before now.) it looks as though they were much more crowded then than now., and with people that has prosperous jobs and lives. Thats not what we are told at all tho and certainly today there is no prosperity anywhere.
The non-standard electrification equipment was due for replacement by the early 1980s coupled with the recession of the early 1980s with its falling traffic levels and duplicated routes all lead to the closure of the Woodhead route.
@@itssteve1923 rail can only solve part of the problem. The lack of drivers will still persist even if we can move the goods by rail. What's the point of getting goods to, say Manchester, if there aren't enough drivers in Manchester to get it to its destination at the time the customer want it, especially for those running on a just in time system.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 I hate to say this, but alot of the shortage now is down to Brexit. It's going to hurt the UK badly in the long run, and will only bite harder as the years go by. We really have hamstrung ourselves. As an 'own goal' Brexit has been a pretty spectacular one. And will continue to be. Akin to a defender attempting a 'bicycle kick' to clear the ball from their own goal, only to see the ball fly in the top corner as if perfectly placed.
Not a hard hat or high viz vest in sight ah those where the days, liquid lunch and you still got the job done on time. To much crap and red tape today.
@@charliecroker7380 Hard hat saved my life as a young worker on a construction site 50 years ago. Piece of cast iron fell off a balcony as I was mucking out beside a drilling rig ( the rig was shaking the balcony on a building beside the site) and the cast iron piece hit me square on the head. A headache and sore neck for a few days but not dead or brain damaged.
13:50 Running across a switching yard with trains coming down randomly on all the tracks... I'm sure I've had nightmares about that a few times as a kid.
Was born in 1951. London was safe enough for us kids to play out all day.
here too but not now thanks to blair and the rest b4
@@bobtudbury8505 The "Goat Lovers!"
and now we are here an old man 2020.thank you mum and dad.
Those were the days when companies would train young people, rather than expect expect 'experienced' staff.
We need to return to this right now!
@@Isochest that would cause a lot of uproar from parents and health and safety organizations. Trust me, I wish this was how things were ran today, when I was a young boy in the mid 80’s (late elementary and middle school), I wanted to be a engineer, I still wanted to be one when I started high school (graduated in 93’) but I never liked all the college needed to be a engineer for railroads. So I decided to become a assistant principal at a high school. I’m happy with my job as a assistant principal, I still film trains, I collect railroad equipment and timetables, maintenance books/catalogs, I guess my railroader side doesn’t want to give up on becoming a engineer just yet, even though I’m 47!
Unfortunately, things like minimum wages and excessive labour laws make it hard to employ inexperienced kids… you have to pay them more than they’re worth. That’s why youth unemployment is generally so high.
@@nikerailfanningttm9046 No. Because the "experienced" staff are immigrants bloating the population.
A splendid documentary and top marks for showing no 18000 GWR gas turbine electric ....pity we couldn’t hear and listen to its noise sound! Thanks anyway!,
The remains of that loco can be seen at Didcot, I say remains because it has no engine.
@@jimthorne304
Or anything else, it’s just an empty shell. It’s a pity that the power plant didn’t survive. If it had it probably wouldn’t have been possible to operate it in preservation, but it would have been interesting just to see it. It was very different to a typical gas turbine with its large single combustion chamber.
what a lovely wee film
Building steam locomotives. That would be scrapped 15 years later. And digging a 3 mile tunnel only used for 28 years. That is progress indeed.
What a difference with similar films made 10 years later.
Still all steam apart from the odd shunter, there is mechanisation to speed up work but no automation in general, as can be seen at the hump shunt yard.
Most people still have to rely on their own legs or the public transport to get from A to B, private car ownership is still very low.
And I wouldn't be that man running after wagons the whole day, he certainly was very fit but it was exceptionally dangerous work, it was the way one of my granddads was killed in 1950, he didn't notice a car rolling down behind the other in the next track when he crossed the tracks.
Of course building the Woodhead tunnel depended on the Standedge canal tunnel to move away the spoil. The Standedge Tunnel has been restored and reopened for canal boats. The Woodedge Tunnels have not. These tunnels, all three of them, interconnect along their length. There has been talk of preserving the M62 for vintage lorry traffic, now that solar panels are causing goods to be shipped by canal... ;-)
Wow it’s Kerosene Castle! The wonderful Woodhead Tunnel. With modern tunnelling it could be replaced,if anyone has ever done the Piccadilly Sheffield bus rail replacement., you’d know why.gret video
"Let's start with the Woodhead 3 tunnel..." which will be closed for good in just thirty years time...
Would have taken extra 10yrs £10,000,000 overspend if HSE were about then lol. At least Grandad wouldnt have been Deaf though lol.
More job satisfaction back then though, I'm sure. Not like today's Faceless Management. Wouldn't know one end of a shovel from the other.
Rant over lol.
Great old film. Thanks for sharing. 😀👍
Maid of Orleans! I used to see that boat coming in and out of Folkestone. Incidentally that Radar viewer has a suspicious resemblance to those 'what the Butler saw' machines you used to get on seaside piers....
Just love the music intro gets me thinking of how great the transport system was yes it had its faults but if the government had put the money it needed into the infrastructure instead of letting it die then selling it off breaks my heart
Newbury Park Bus station. It won a design award at the Festival of Britain.
New devices in the refreshment room : looks like a bomb.
They used to be very popular, but seem to have been overtaken by massively more complex devices. I had one, it was great fun to watch it in action.
It was coffee - how very continental!
A common language and a common way of living unite our people, think about what is being said hear. The only use of explosives is for building. Not for backpacks on busses! Ahee wiz don't know wiz born back then lad.
4:11 *MOST DRAMATIZED ROCK DUMP EVER*
Thank you, B B R. R 😎 [Erstwhile Springburn, Glasgow, Boy/Man.]
Aww poor RMS Aquitania 😢
@3:54 mark. It sure appears as tho that man is jackhammering through an existing structure. (façade over brick?) Likely just a renovation rather than the actual building of that tunnel?
Wonder what the 4 funnel ship was in the breakers yard?
That was the RMS Aquitania, the sister of the Mauritania and Lusitania, the last of the grand four-funnelled liners of the Edwardian era.
I was thinking the same thing as there was not many of the four chimney Passenger liners made..so i knew it was something special...so i did a little research and found out is was the RMS Aquitania (as David Mentioned) ..She was sold to the British Iron and Steel Corporation for scrap for £125,000 in 1950 which is the equivalent of £4,315,530 in todays money so I can only wonder how much higher the values was once she was completely dismantled..so the makers of this film probably had no idea that they were filming (if only for a brief moment) the very last of the Four funnel passenger liner being dismantled
When transport was run as a service and purely for profit. We have regressed into a world where people do not matter, only dividends, bonuses and profits are the order of the day.
Nice shot of newbury park bus arch.
Meanwhile... leave the industrial workplace in time to dig an allotment. What? And watchfulness on the road. Yep, definitely not 2022
Well all that 3 year's work at Woodhead was a waste of time and money wasn't it?
Not really. They got 26 years' use from it and it would probably have needed to be replaced after, what?, 40 years or something like that.
@@beeble2003 26 years? Like I said, waste of money!! This route should NEVER have closed!
beeble2003
No, it wouldn’t have needed to be replaced after 40 years. Of course, it’s still serving a useful purpose today, carrying cables rather than trains.
@@srfurley No it wouldn't, and carrying cables? What a waste of a valuable asset.
12crepello
Surely less of a waste than not being used for anything at all?
That shunter running after wagons and running front of waggons ,one trip or fall and he's a dead man . I know we ridicule health n safety but this is dangerous and thank goodness a long time ago , present day you never step in front of moving waggon or run alongside them
Doesnt matter what country one is looking at in the 50's (or most any decade before now.) it looks as though they were much more crowded then than now., and with people that has prosperous jobs and lives. Thats not what we are told at all tho and certainly today there is no prosperity anywhere.
The new woodhead tunnel closed in 1981 it was all for nothing
The non-standard electrification equipment was due for replacement by the early 1980s coupled with the recession of the early 1980s with its falling traffic levels and duplicated routes all lead to the closure of the Woodhead route.
We need a Woodhead reopening There is an endemic shortage of HGV drivers now. Rail can solve this..
@@itssteve1923 rail can only solve part of the problem. The lack of drivers will still persist even if we can move the goods by rail. What's the point of getting goods to, say Manchester, if there aren't enough drivers in Manchester to get it to its destination at the time the customer want it, especially for those running on a just in time system.
@@itssteve1923 Nobody seems to want to do that; climate change issues notwithstanding.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 I hate to say this, but alot of the shortage now is down to Brexit. It's going to hurt the UK badly in the long run, and will only bite harder as the years go by.
We really have hamstrung ourselves. As an 'own goal' Brexit has been a pretty spectacular one. And will continue to be.
Akin to a defender attempting a 'bicycle kick' to clear the ball from their own goal, only to see the ball fly in the top corner as if perfectly placed.
Well the ladies get a mention near the end of the film anyway. "The Channel, fickle as a woman" Easy, simple life back then eh?
😎
And moving ahead to backward. Poor BR.
So was I 09/06/51
Not a hard hat or high viz vest in sight ah those where the days, liquid
lunch and you still got the job done on time. To much crap and red tape
today.
Hard hats at 3:19....
...and a fraction of the deaths and injuries.
@@charliecroker7380 Hard hat saved my life as a young worker on a construction site 50 years ago. Piece of cast iron fell off a balcony as I was mucking out beside a drilling rig ( the rig was shaking the balcony on a building beside the site) and the cast iron piece hit me square on the head. A headache and sore neck for a few days but not dead or brain damaged.
Fat Controller @13:05