My late father was a crane driver at the old freightliner site. He recalls the story of a box that opened and a drum fell out killing a man. The barrel was full of golf ball sized ball bearings. He mounted one on wood as a memorial I think we still have it somewhere
My brother and l used to ‘spot’ at Grangetown. After a while there we’d walk the ‘black path’ to South Bank station. So many freight trains. Many varieties of locos. Sentinals busy shunting in the steel works. Well it was 1974!
Fantastic. I used to live some way to the South of Teesside and seeing the Eston Hills, knowing the A66 and Parkway are not too far away, the smoke from the Cooling Tower at ICI Wilton was just great. I have a free-lanced HO scale American Model Railroad based on this area. Please keep these videos coming.
I kept waiting for the train to actually t-bone a dock, you know, like to collide with one, but it never happened, so I’m off to go watch villager news. Bye!
A real shame, not a train to be seen, just like here in North America! I do like the grade crossing protection! Better than here! Is this in Great Britain?
What makes me even sadder is that I remember many lines that I got to see and enjoy are gone forever. Some of them have been turned into hiking biking trails and in some cases you would never know that a rail line was ever there.
The railway is so bland and bare now isn't ? Back in the 60s and 70s there would be sidings everywhere ,boxes , wagons , semaphores and even some trains !! Even in the 80s ! Now it's just bare and featureless !
Worse than that, it's ugly. Nothing to see but grey railings, grey pylons or red and yellow objects in toy town colours. All the chracter and charm gone. Beautiful old brick buildings, chimneys and walls - demolished.
All machinery now next step will be driverless trains???..technology has ruined the love for trains now..80s and 90s were my era some 70s well late 70s..I still go and watch the odd train but my dream now is to start a model railway and run the trains that I hold tight to my childhood...and i will have sidings and the buildings to boot!!!
Something is trickling out of the wagons into the middle of the track after the first level crossing ,on the line entering into the terminal, so I'm guessing some sort of sand or mineral comes in, in bottom discharge wagons !?
@@Sam_Green____4114the trains from the Potash Mine unload on a siding just next to the container terminal so it's likely that we can see on the way :)
No wonder these drivers keep striking for more money. I wouldn’t what a boring job sitting there looking at an empty landscape. Same thing day in day out. Definitely not for me and they deserve every penny. They get.
12 HR days and more with nowhere to have breaks or go to the toilet. Can't doze off in front of a 1000 ton train at 60mph. It's a brutal job worse than truck driving.
My late father was a crane driver at the old freightliner site. He recalls the story of a box that opened and a drum fell out killing a man. The barrel was full of golf ball sized ball bearings.
He mounted one on wood as a memorial I think we still have it somewhere
My brother and l used to ‘spot’ at Grangetown. After a while there we’d walk the ‘black path’ to South Bank station. So many freight trains. Many varieties of locos. Sentinals busy shunting in the steel works. Well it was 1974!
What a fabulous view, it must beat anything in Switzerland.
😆😆looks like a trip to a forced labour camp!!
If I could have my time again being a train driver would be my dream job!!! Great video Kenny
ughh you don't 'drive' a train. You're an Engineer , an operator.
Love the sound of the engine 👌
Great Video. Enjoyed the ride 😊
Fantastic. I used to live some way to the South of Teesside and seeing the Eston Hills, knowing the A66 and Parkway are not too far away, the smoke from the Cooling Tower at ICI Wilton was just great. I have a free-lanced HO scale American Model Railroad based on this area. Please keep these videos coming.
It ain’t smoke from a cooling tower. It is STEAM. Thought the name would have gave you a clue
Ok, Condensate then. I have done plenty of Engineering work at Wilton and back in those days, Middlesbrough was nick-named, 'Smoggi Town'. @@TC-qd1zw
Wow, have you any pictures posted anywhere please? Would be cool to see that !
Hi, thank you for your reply/ I am sorry that I do not have any photos as of the moment.@@johnwalker194
Exellent journey...... thank you.
Me n my brother used to knock about on the Boro railway lines all the time. Had some lucky escapes and close shaves too.
Great cab-ride, all that grimy industry is very interesting! 🚂👍
Nice video and thanks for sharing. Dave
Good job he didn't take the slow train. Nice crop of buddleia en route.
Cool, well done Kenny!
Cool video brother
Interesting ride. Great perspective. Joe
Give u sub.
nice one,
Seems strange not seeing BOS plant and the Coke plant. Wind turbine facility coming on though.
I kept waiting for the train to actually t-bone a dock, you know, like to collide with one, but it never happened, so I’m off to go watch villager news. Bye!
日本からこんにちわ。
海外の貨物は、とても面白いです。
ありがとう。
Was u in a 66 was u I can't quite figure out what engine it is
Very calming. Not exactly High Speed rail though.
What is that sand in the middle of the tracks for?
Where it leaks out of the bottom of the wagons.
A real shame, not a train to be seen, just like here in North America! I do like the grade crossing protection! Better than here! Is this in Great Britain?
What makes me even sadder is that I remember many lines that I got to see and enjoy are gone forever. Some of them have been turned into hiking biking trails and in some cases you would never know that a rail line was ever there.
Teeside, North East England ! Look on a map.for Middlesbrough and it will be towards the North Sea
@@johnwalker194 Teesside ,not teeside ,no river tee
@@RMPOWLS?
Teesside spelt wrong @@johnwalker194
Good
The railway is so bland and bare now isn't ? Back in the 60s and 70s there would be sidings everywhere ,boxes , wagons , semaphores and even some trains !! Even in the 80s ! Now it's just bare and featureless !
Worse than that, it's ugly. Nothing to see but grey railings, grey pylons or red and yellow objects in toy town colours. All the chracter and charm gone. Beautiful old brick buildings, chimneys and walls - demolished.
All those low capacity wagons sitting idly in sidings (in the 1960s they took average of 11.6 days between loads).
All machinery now next step will be driverless trains???..technology has ruined the love for trains now..80s and 90s were my era some 70s well late 70s..I still go and watch the odd train but my dream now is to start a model railway and run the trains that I hold tight to my childhood...and i will have sidings and the buildings to boot!!!
@@therealdeal6846Well said! I work on the railway and it’s not the same anymore. I build models of what I remember from the 1970s-80s too.
no trolley service?? .....hot bacon and tomato rolls? ......cans of stella??
What traffic comes in here ? Tesco containers ?
Something is trickling out of the wagons into the middle of the track after the first level crossing ,on the line entering into the terminal, so I'm guessing some sort of sand or mineral comes in, in bottom discharge wagons !?
Mostly containers but there is / was gypsum trains that ran out of tees dock
@@Sam_Green____4114the trains from the Potash Mine unload on a siding just next to the container terminal so it's likely that we can see on the way :)
oof.. shippin yard or a prison 😆
Three SPADs... ... ...
No wonder these drivers keep striking for more money. I wouldn’t what a boring job sitting there looking at an empty landscape. Same thing day in day out. Definitely not for me and they deserve every penny. They get.
12 HR days and more with nowhere to have breaks or go to the toilet. Can't doze off in front of a 1000 ton train at 60mph. It's a brutal job worse than truck driving.
8:00 minutes in, was that an old station to the left
Как вообще у машиниста хватает терпения так тащиться, когда у него за спиной такая махина, стоит только контроллер повернуть.
8 minutes in, was that an old station on the left
I think that was the old Grangetown station. It has been shut for over twenty years, I believe.