I returned to Marylebone late at night in Southern coaches behind Elder Dempster Lines on Saturday 3 Sept 1966. We came from Sheffield and Nottingham Victoria and whistled all the way from around Wembley. The GC was a beautiful, modern line built to take Berne loading gauge for international traffic.
Sad to watch this film. A lot of these engineers know the inside and out of the steam system. It will makeup for the old steam system. Thank you for the solemn video. ❤😢
Good footage of the Gt Central over Swithland Reservoir. You can still travel that line with steam courtesy of the Great Central Preserved line. Leicester North to Loughborough at the moment.
When an Apprentice at Cromptons in Chelmsford BR compained that our elected motors on Deltic had sheard axles ,so of 3 of us went with earmuffs &; our instuments , shortly afrer leaving Kings Cross awful crunging noise & we were hauled to Derby by steam , lack of gearbox ĺube caaused the gears to shred , no problems with steam locos , all weather macines !
That was a sticthup. Beeching did not recommend closure of that line. That was the work of the minister Ernest Marples. If the vline had remained open it would not have been necessary to buils HST. It was the most modern railway in Britain and it earned more freight revenue per mile than any other route on the network. It was transferred to their old competitor the Midland Region who deliberately buggered up the passenger train services to justify closure.. The labour government of the 60's finished the closure,. Later Gordon Browns government came up with the idea of a HS2 to replace it. Costs are now out of control and HS2 may have to be abandoned.
@@jodeldkAs she did the S&D , deliberate run down of services and timetable changed so trains would not connect...all planned to put people on the roads, now 60 years later, they are all telling us to stay off the roads, clown bonkers Britain..😢
Thanks for the upload. interesting to see most of the tenders where still full of coal as the trains were waiting to be scrapped. Some of the soundtrack was a mismatch but I'm not quibbling.
Aside from some dubious audio dubbing,this was excellent! Birmingham New Street,a Marxist town planners pipe dream,dark, brutalist and souless! Best thing about New St was blasting out of there behind any of the current mainline diesel's of the day in the early 80's! Cool sound track, thanks for posting.
Can we just stop and discuss not only a toffee nosed presenter that expects people around the world to know that poem, but is wearing one incredible suit and lapels!
I returned to Marylebone late at night in Southern coaches behind Elder Dempster Lines on Saturday 3 Sept 1966. We came from Sheffield and Nottingham Victoria and whistled all the way from around Wembley. The GC was a beautiful, modern line built to take Berne loading gauge for international traffic.
Would have made a great HS2
Funny how this topic is uploaded while I am watching " The Titfield Thunderbolt" on TV.
Haha, I was watching it too yesterday!
Me too! 😂
I know I'm late but same here
Sad to watch this film. A lot of these engineers know the inside and out of the steam system. It will makeup for the old steam system. Thank you for the solemn video. ❤😢
Interesting.
Nice to see old trains like this
Delightful nostalgic film.
Edward Thomas is one of my favourite poets and his Adlestrop one of my favourite poems. I'm a steam train lover too.
Many thanks.👍
The modernisation plan and the Beeching Report was a disaster.
A view of days gone by
Good footage of the Gt Central over Swithland Reservoir. You can still travel that line with steam courtesy of the Great Central Preserved line. Leicester North to Loughborough at the moment.
Very rare footage of Cashmores , Tipton yard, very good film indeed...
The characters are very Pythonesque.
I watched to the end how sad, as Sir John Betjimin said. All gone, ALL GONE.
When an Apprentice at Cromptons in Chelmsford BR compained that our elected motors on Deltic had sheard axles ,so of 3 of us went with earmuffs &; our instuments , shortly afrer leaving Kings Cross awful crunging noise & we were hauled to Derby by steam , lack of gearbox ĺube caaused the gears to shred , no problems with steam locos , all weather macines !
That was a sticthup. Beeching did not recommend closure of that line. That was the work of the minister Ernest Marples. If the vline had remained open it would not have been necessary to buils HST. It was the most modern railway in Britain and it earned more freight revenue per mile than any other route on the network.
It was transferred to their old competitor the Midland Region who deliberately buggered up the passenger train services to justify closure.. The labour government of the 60's finished the closure,. Later Gordon Browns government came up with the idea of a HS2 to replace it. Costs are now out of control and HS2 may have to be abandoned.
That's ok, they can just raise taxes. Yay for government!!
Barbara Castle signed the documents to close the line and she was a labour MP
@@jodeldkAs she did the S&D , deliberate run down of services and timetable changed so trains would not connect...all planned to put people on the roads, now 60 years later, they are all telling us to stay off the roads, clown bonkers Britain..😢
Thanks for the upload. interesting to see most of the tenders where still full of coal as the trains were waiting to be scrapped. Some of the soundtrack was a mismatch but I'm not quibbling.
All part of the wastefulness and lunacy.
Aside from some dubious audio dubbing,this was excellent!
Birmingham New Street,a Marxist town planners pipe dream,dark, brutalist and souless!
Best thing about New St was blasting out of there behind any of the current mainline diesel's of the day in the early 80's!
Cool sound track, thanks for posting.
Can we just stop and discuss not only a toffee nosed presenter that expects people around the world to know that poem, but is wearing one incredible suit and lapels!