Remember in 1976 and 1977 seeing rakes of Mk 1 Coaches being set light to at Bird's Yard in Long Marston - some of the coaches scrapped were better than those on the main railway sometimes! Birds set light to the whole rakes when they arrived and then cut them up wholesale - Asbestos contaminated vehicles went straight to the Snailwell (Cambs) incineration tunnel
As a child and teenager, it was a common site to see roads closed as a brand new coach was transported by road on the start of a journey that would see it going to one of many countries around the world. They were built a short distance from where I lived. I remember once 5 going in convoy.
In many ways those of us born between the mid 50s and mid 60s are the luckiest generation. Old enough to remember the original 'horsepower', young enough to be almost able to work out how to use our mobiles…with a little help from the grandchildren.
@2:44, Largest fleet of diesel locomotives in the world? In the States, after 1960 there was not a single steam locomotive being used in regular commercial service.
More Government Stupidity - and scrapping all of them by 1968 without retaining any for a strategic reserve - shame the 9f's were not kept for freight workings!
@@richardsymonds5159 they had more than enough diesel locomotives, so there was no need for a strategic reserve of steam locomotives. A few years later with further reductions in freight and passenger numbers non-standard diesel locomotives were heading for the scrap yards.
The Reshaping of Britain's Railways revealed that 6,000 coaches costing £3.4 million pounds per year to provide were used less than 18 times per year earning a revenue of £0.5 million after other movement costs were taken into account. Some 2,000 coaches were used 10 or less times per year. BR had started the cull of excess coaching stock long before Beeching wrote his report. The intention was to introduce reservations and higher fares for peak travel periods as used by the airlines. Other coaches were life-expired and were no longer required as DMUs and EMUs had taken over the lines they had been used on. In the case of the mainline coaches, the introduction of the multiple units had taken away the lines they would have been cascaded to.
5:10 Classic British scrooges, so cheap that there was probably a serious discussion at one point to just use motorized shelving units as transports and scrap the buses all together.
I think it might be the Avon causeway. Near Christchurch. They have train carriages in that colour that used to be used as restaurants. No idea if it's still there,
Thses series of videos are amazing and a show a different world from today in every way ... great archive
Magnificent - if brief - footage of a Blue Pullman right at the end. Thank you for posting!
Remember in 1976 and 1977 seeing rakes of Mk 1 Coaches being set light to at Bird's Yard in Long Marston - some of the coaches scrapped were better than those on the main railway sometimes! Birds set light to the whole rakes when they arrived and then cut them up wholesale - Asbestos contaminated vehicles went straight to the Snailwell (Cambs) incineration tunnel
It was good to see the coaches and locomotives being saved. It was sad to see the Stanier coach being destroyed.
5:08 what a brilliant foresight, I love the aluminium tfl busses of 2021
Those who made those locomotives will cry watching this waste!
.... and 3 years before I was born, Ooh! Fancy that!!
What a waste. There was some beautiful wood in those old carriages that would have gladdened the hearts of many woodworkers.
The asbestos in the carriages also wasn't a highlight.
My first thought was: 'I'd have that!'
The Beeching report was one of the biggest disasters in the UK's history.
0:01 Now This Is My Favorite Look At Life Episode Ever Made. Thanks Mate. X
I heard Ceylon. That's my country.🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🙏🙏🙏👈👈👈
As a child and teenager, it was a common site to see roads closed as a brand new coach was transported by road on the start of a journey that would see it going to one of many countries around the world. They were built a short distance from where I lived. I remember once 5 going in convoy.
In many ways those of us born between the mid 50s and mid 60s are the luckiest generation. Old enough to remember the original 'horsepower', young enough to be almost able to work out how to use our mobiles…with a little help from the grandchildren.
The future etc, and all I heard from those numbers were "cutbacks", they were paving the way for the automobile.
Love every video.👍🇬🇧 Cheers.
...after watching this I'm gonna treat myself to a spot of 'FRED DIBNAH', and other choice films to be sure....
@2:44, Largest fleet of diesel locomotives in the world? In the States, after 1960 there was not a single steam locomotive being used in regular commercial service.
The year I was born. ☺
i too also.
The UK was still building steam locomotives until 1960. Many ended up with short working lives because of the Beeching Plan t modernize UK rail.
More Government Stupidity - and scrapping all of them by 1968 without retaining any for a strategic reserve - shame the 9f's were not kept for freight workings!
@@richardsymonds5159 they had more than enough diesel locomotives, so there was no need for a strategic reserve of steam locomotives. A few years later with further reductions in freight and passenger numbers non-standard diesel locomotives were heading for the scrap yards.
The Modernisation Plan, not the Reshaping of Britain's Railways, did for steam traction.
The Reshaping of Britain's Railways revealed that 6,000 coaches costing £3.4 million pounds per year to provide were used less than 18 times per year earning a revenue of £0.5 million after other movement costs were taken into account. Some 2,000 coaches were used 10 or less times per year. BR had started the cull of excess coaching stock long before Beeching wrote his report. The intention was to introduce reservations and higher fares for peak travel periods as used by the airlines.
Other coaches were life-expired and were no longer required as DMUs and EMUs had taken over the lines they had been used on. In the case of the mainline coaches, the introduction of the multiple units had taken away the lines they would have been cascaded to.
Omg look at that pollution!
The Folly of Progress...
Better than landfill 🇬🇧
How is life more fulfilling now than it was then?
2021 - It's not likely to be this year either!
The affluent society where grownup men can spend their day playing trains and horses.
Did that tram preservation society in the disused quarry later became the Beamish open air Museum?
Nope. Crich, Derbyshire.
5:10 Classic British scrooges, so cheap that there was probably a serious discussion at one point to just use motorized shelving units as transports and scrap the buses all together.
Where was the transport museum in the New Forest? Am presuming Beaulieu didn't have that amount of space back then.
You are right. The loco eventually went to the East Somerset railway
I think it might be the Avon causeway. Near Christchurch. They have train carriages in that colour that used to be used as restaurants. No idea if it's still there,
Thanks for the answers.
It was Beaulieu, see banner at 8:09. The Montagues have always had a lot of space....
Given who the narrator is, shouldn’t this edition be called Turner The Wheel?
Scrapping the easy way..build a big fire and bung it on..
If only heritage railway lines could use a time machine to go back and take newly decommissioned engines and rolling stock off BR's hands.
15 tons of tomato pooree in Anzio eh? Get the wire on then boy ,oi want to be in Norfolk boi Mondayyy.
no wonder ozone layers going