Ikr. I remember talking to a station overseer (As they're now called) and he admitted he wished we could go back to a time where, if you needed a train, it was as simple as getting empty coaching stock and getting a locomotive from the yard to pull it.
I agree with you. A society has to be measured by it's values, not it's technology. Our society seems to let the technology lead the values completely by the nose, rather than the other way around.
one of the best railway clips on here ..thanks so much.. I didn't see any filthy or wrecked railway workers..they just didn't have moisturiser like bluebus does !!
@TheWidowsSonTemplar Although electronics might be an improvement, I personally feel they are also part of the reason that life these days doesn't seem as pleasant as back then. I'm a driver myself, if you think that because of electronics everything I do is stored and can be found back simply by plugging in a laptop. They can even see when you switch your cab light on. This causes an unease, you can get caught for the smallest mistake, before, if nothing happened, a blind eye could be turned
Really interesting to see how thing use to be done, i do the same job a the stuards now on the same train ( altho its not non-stop or named any more) and its 4 1/2 these days.
this part of the eliszabethen which I have softed spot regaurding for the poeme about the two steam engine drivers and their engine work together these vitage films a have very informative if one wants to now more how a steam engine works
You're joking aren't you? The rail workers look in their 70's and appear wrecks. Most of them are filthy and underfed. It was the era of austerity. Steam? You can keep it.
I'd easliy exchange the offer of all the Maharahjah's treasures of history to live just one week in this marvellous world of yesteryear Britain. Anything is preferable to the Godless, lawless, mad, bad sex-mad bear-pit our land has become today.
Excellent footage of silver fox doing a great job on the Elizabethan
Könnte ich mir stundenlang ansehen. Einfach nur TOLL !!! BRAVO !!!
well the way the narrator tells the story its practically poetic in rhythm and rhyme
Excellent. !!
Very good and evocative film, thanks for posting it!
brilliant just brilliant
I saw the last of the A4s running while serving in the US Army at Menwith Hill near Harrogate 1963 -66. They locomotives even in their twilight days.
Ikr. I remember talking to a station overseer (As they're now called) and he admitted he wished we could go back to a time where, if you needed a train, it was as simple as getting empty coaching stock and getting a locomotive from the yard to pull it.
superb vid !!
Great film. Makes one want to turn back the clock, if only for a few days, to sample what was then a suburb rail network.
What do you mean?
Owen Evans What the bloody hell do I have to mean!
J S Lasher How was it a suburb network?
I agree with you.
A society has to be measured by it's values, not it's technology. Our society seems to let the technology lead the values completely by the nose, rather than the other way around.
one of the best railway clips on here ..thanks so much.. I didn't see any filthy or wrecked railway workers..they just didn't have moisturiser like bluebus does !!
6h30mins hey. According to Google Maps, quicker than using the M1 and A1 by 53mins. Very Impressive!!!
They had a hell of a lot more exercise than us! Even as recently as the seventies people did a lot more exercise
@TheWidowsSonTemplar Although electronics might be an improvement, I personally feel they are also part of the reason that life these days doesn't seem as pleasant as back then. I'm a driver myself, if you think that because of electronics everything I do is stored and can be found back simply by plugging in a laptop. They can even see when you switch your cab light on. This causes an unease, you can get caught for the smallest mistake, before, if nothing happened, a blind eye could be turned
oh ! how I wish I was there
when the railways were a propper railway,not like the shambles we have today
Really interesting to see how thing use to be done, i do the same job a the stuards now on the same train ( altho its not non-stop or named any more) and its 4 1/2 these days.
3:37 A1/A2?
The pinnacle of transport, this is really it.
But here comes Beaching, the big f**!ing shit....
this part of the eliszabethen which I have softed spot regaurding for the poeme about the two steam engine drivers and their engine work together these vitage films a have very informative if one wants to now more how a steam engine works
You're joking aren't you? The rail workers look in their 70's and appear wrecks. Most of them are filthy and underfed. It was the era of austerity. Steam? You can keep it.
I'd easliy exchange the offer of all the Maharahjah's treasures of history to live just one week in this marvellous world of yesteryear Britain.
Anything is preferable to the Godless, lawless, mad, bad sex-mad bear-pit our land has become today.
As opposed to folk being filthy and overfed in their teens nowadays.