@Markjuk Bring back Network South East, the region that got things done. Electrification to Weymouth, Kings Lynn, the Wessex Electrics, Thameslink, modernisation of the Chiltern Line, Chris Green did a good job.
Does anyone of you remember Grandad(Only Fools And Horses, ep The Yellow Peril) mentioned this commercial? :-) That was the way I found it. Cheers and all the best from Serbia. :)
@Glenn1967ful NSE didnt just modernise the Chiltern line, they saved it! If you recall, BR wanted to close Marylebone, and there was ridiculous talk of a London to Aylesbury busway. Thank God indeed for Chris Green, the man was a BR legend.
Leicester to Sheffield for £5.70? It's £25 for the cheapest full price fare now and can get as high as £50 Standard Class... Rail fares have got out of hand thanks to privatisation and fat cats.
@BritainsRailways On a HST no, they are still manual open doors,imo there will never be another train like it, for me it is like the Concorde of railways only it has lasted 34 years! and believe me some of them will reach 50 years service
Yeah but its not true privatization that's what you've got to remember. Its hardly a true free market if the government owns a monopoly on the actual rail. Believe me if the rail was a truly free market it would be shut down within 6 months as it would be completely unaffordable to any private company. Thats how inefficient it is.
@Markjuk
Bring back Network South East, the region that got things done. Electrification to Weymouth, Kings Lynn, the Wessex Electrics, Thameslink, modernisation of the Chiltern Line, Chris Green did a good job.
ahh... I miss the proper blue and yellow BR livery.
Bring it back I say! :P
I just found out that this is Peter Auty singing.
Does anyone of you remember Grandad(Only Fools And Horses, ep The Yellow Peril) mentioned this commercial? :-) That was the way I found it. Cheers and all the best from Serbia. :)
Wishful thinking to go back to those prices. Those were the days indeed.
"I would like you to call me... President Shiwaddywaddy!"
"Now then, now then, jewellery jewellery, big cigar, dear Jim can you fix it for me to meet Shawaddywaddy...wow...as it appens guys and gals".
@Glenn1967ful NSE didnt just modernise the Chiltern line, they saved it! If you recall, BR wanted to close Marylebone, and there was ridiculous talk of a London to Aylesbury busway. Thank God indeed for Chris Green, the man was a BR legend.
yeah I thouught that when saw this
@hopki65 - Bring back British Rail is all I can say. A cheaper to run network with profits reinvested back into existing and new routes and services.
Leicester to Sheffield for £5.70? It's £25 for the cheapest full price fare now and can get as high as £50 Standard Class...
Rail fares have got out of hand thanks to privatisation and fat cats.
@BritainsRailways
On a HST no, they are still manual open doors,imo there will never be another train like it, for me it is like the Concorde of railways only it has lasted 34 years! and believe me some of them will reach 50 years service
Do you like the train service provided by Showaddywaddy?
That is a standard British Mail Mark 3 carrage of the day. People stuck their heads out the window all the time too.
showaddywaddy
@BritainsRailways
And they are still around today
i like those prices... shame they don't seem to last these days... usualy about 10 times that much!
I'm just quoting Hugh Dennis imitating Jimmy Saville.
Appalling continuity. The shot from the cab is of it coming out of the tunnel with the sea on the left, then cuts to it coming out in a cutting!
In the mid-80s the Thatcher Government wanted to make the railways pay then privatisation backfired it.
@Moss235 Could very well be wrong but are the windows "locked" closed on a lot of the refurbed Mk3 stock?
At 0:19 , can the 125 Group restore the coaches with the original seats?
Yeah but its not true privatization that's what you've got to remember. Its hardly a true free market if the government owns a monopoly on the actual rail. Believe me if the rail was a truly free market it would be shut down within 6 months as it would be completely unaffordable to any private company. Thats how inefficient it is.
cool as
RIP Jimmy Saville
and with inflation that works out at only 14 thousand pounds return (H)
Jimmy Savile....Legend!!
hahaha it's like people didn't know what trains were and how they worked but it's ok jimmy will tell them !
I take it you mean the Jimmy Jangle Jingle?
This sort of thing makes me want to spend lots of money on model HST equipment.
Wish Jimmy could fix Network Rail.
Where can i get those prices quoted at the end and are today's train carriages still filled with rubbish and smell of stale urine.