Incredible !!!! from the street scenes ,the cars,lorries ,clothes ,the NO trainspotters today chalked board ,derelict depots/yards, the filth of the sheds ,i could go on but what a video .
Superb, historical footage. Big debt owed to those who chose to record these images when equipment and film was relative to today, very expensive. Thank you for posting.
I can just about remember some of this. I grew up in Coughton station and my dad used to take me with him chasing the last of steam all around. Absolutely superb footage, thank you for sharing it
Superb, thank you. I started as an Austin apprentice in 1966, lived in and around Bromsgrove for many years, so this one is particularly interesting to me!
Well, that's a jolly interesting first minute alone, an interesting variety of cars, Midland Red buses, a pre-war Scammell Mechanical Horse, AND Southern diesel 10203!
@@aCivilServant In 1965 when I was 14, I wrote to the Railway Magazine complaining that there was a plan to preserve another Bullied Pacific when it would have been better to save 10000 which I had seen on the scrap line at Derby works. They didn't print it.
To see Ashchurch for Tewkesbury's original staiton in such excellent detail And in colour it truly astonishing! I've enjoyed this video very much and thank you for sharing this!
Excellent cine film. Not many people know this, but at nationalisation in 1948 Church Road Junction was Western Region's first and last box on the Gloucester route. Around ten years later the LMR/WR boundary was moved to south of Barnt Green.
How wonderful! I've never seen footage of the outside of Old Birmingham New Street. Mostly I've only seen footage while the concrete monstrosity was being built and then I grew up only knowing New Street full of Diesels and Electrics.
Yes back then cine cameras and film stock would have been very expensive, plus clockwork mechanism gives a limited shot time at 18 or 24 frames per second. Thanks for another great upload .
This is great footage! Funny all that permanent way work and not a high Viz or hard hat to be seen anywhere. Also I remember all those DMUs where you could sit behind the driver and see the road ahead. I almost managed to convince my mate that the handbrake wheel was a steering wheel to use if the train broke down!
Pity that you only got the start of the curve to the old Gloucester Eastgate, but utterly fantastic film. Travelled a lot down that route in the early 70's, no steam in that time but the rest - magically I was looking at my childhood again
Not my area but captures the era in cars, locomotives old and new, work gangs, trainspotters, decline of freight traffic shown by dereliction of previously used facilities; cold, fog and bright sunny days. Even noticed the "His Masters Voice" sign on a building. "You and Heinz together". Times of pollution through coal burning one may say - but those lupins on that station looked happy enough! 😃Good one on a rainy morning in Staffordshire Moorlands, Coronation weekend.
Noticed how track and trackside maintenance never stopped the trains running. Health and safety today demands that replacement buses do the job instead.
Looks like it was filmed from a trampoline, but that seems to be true of all cine films of the era, even when shot from solid ground. One of life's little mysteries.
Large gangs of track workers, no wonder the railways lost so much money, too many on the payroll. It's how Labour ''achieved'' full employment but it was a false economy.
Incredible !!!! from the street scenes ,the cars,lorries ,clothes ,the NO trainspotters today chalked board ,derelict depots/yards, the filth of the sheds ,i could go on but what a video .
Uniquely interesting
OMG! Never seen New Street from 'back in the day'. Thoroughly enjoyed watching this.
Yeah, fantastic. Wish I was there in real life.
Superb, historical footage. Big debt owed to those who chose to record these images when equipment and film was relative to today, very expensive. Thank you for posting.
Well Said
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this and the footage of Selly Oak and Bournville, Kings Norton.
Just fantastic!!!
I can just about remember some of this. I grew up in Coughton station and my dad used to take me with him chasing the last of steam all around.
Absolutely superb footage, thank you for sharing it
Superb, thank you. I started as an Austin apprentice in 1966, lived in and around Bromsgrove for many years, so this one is particularly interesting to me!
Well, that's a jolly interesting first minute alone, an interesting variety of cars, Midland Red buses, a pre-war Scammell Mechanical Horse, AND Southern diesel 10203!
Shame the Bullied diesels and other diesel prototypes weren't saved.
@@aCivilServant In 1965 when I was 14, I wrote to the Railway Magazine complaining that there was a plan to preserve another Bullied Pacific when it would have been better to save 10000 which I had seen on the scrap line at Derby works. They didn't print it.
To see Ashchurch for Tewkesbury's original staiton in such excellent detail And in colour it truly astonishing! I've enjoyed this video very much and thank you for sharing this!
Excellent cine film. Not many people know this, but at nationalisation in 1948 Church Road Junction was Western Region's first and last box on the Gloucester route. Around ten years later the LMR/WR boundary was moved to south of Barnt Green.
Great shots of Ashchurch and diamond crossing toward Tewkesbury
Brings back memories of train spotting in late 50s.
How wonderful!
I've never seen footage of the outside of Old Birmingham New Street.
Mostly I've only seen footage while the concrete monstrosity was being built and then I grew up only knowing New Street full of Diesels and Electrics.
Yes back then cine cameras and film stock would have been very expensive, plus clockwork mechanism gives a limited shot time at 18 or 24 frames per second.
Thanks for another great upload .
Fascinating. I know many of the locations quite well - so much has changed, and not for the better.
JAWDROPPINGLY AMAZING.
This is great footage! Funny all that permanent way work and not a high Viz or hard hat to be seen anywhere. Also I remember all those DMUs where you could sit behind the driver and see the road ahead. I almost managed to convince my mate that the handbrake wheel was a steering wheel to use if the train broke down!
Pity that you only got the start of the curve to the old Gloucester Eastgate, but utterly fantastic film. Travelled a lot down that route in the early 70's, no steam in that time but the rest - magically I was looking at my childhood again
Wonderful, thank you for posting.
Not my area but captures the era in cars, locomotives old and new, work gangs, trainspotters, decline of freight traffic shown by dereliction of previously used facilities; cold, fog and bright sunny days. Even noticed the "His Masters Voice" sign on a building. "You and Heinz together". Times of pollution through coal burning one may say - but those lupins on that station looked happy enough! 😃Good one on a rainy morning in Staffordshire Moorlands, Coronation weekend.
Absolutely stunning!!
Noticed how track and trackside maintenance never stopped the trains running. Health and safety today demands that replacement buses do the job instead.
Gosh, that PW gang at3:30 looked awfully close to the train, and in shadow like that you could barely see some of them!
And yet fatalities/injuries were few (more than now though). I guess they had the sense and experience to stay enough distance away.
Looks like it was filmed from a trampoline, but that seems to be true of all cine films of the era, even when shot from solid ground. One of life's little mysteries.
Obviously haven't watched any Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, or Laurel and Hardy. Those camera operators were professional too. ☺😀
@ 0-04...what is that cream coloured convertible car?
Wonderful footage…. Particularly Norton and Abbotswood Junctions
Happy days without Candycrush!
Avon valley pre preservation
Large gangs of track workers, no wonder the railways lost so much money, too many on the payroll.
It's how Labour ''achieved'' full employment but it was a false economy.