Rail Flicks (Previously Rail Chair Videography) is a channel dedicated to producing UK railway films to a professional standard. I have been making railway related videos since the 1980's, mainly in the South of England for rail enthusiasts. Until the launch of this channel on RU-vid in 2019, my material has remained a private collection.
Many recordings enthusiasts made from the 1980's & 1990's have been lost with the demise of video tape recording technology, never having been transferred into the digital domain. With the ever changing rail scene many of these films have now become unique archives of past times and now attract specialist interest.
My intent now is to rescue my recordings, whilst I still have working equipment to remaster them into modern digital format, for publication on this channel. If you' wish to be informed when new content is available, simply subscribe to this channel. I hope you enjoy the content!
We were there last week (June 2024) for the Bullied event. Every member of the Swanage Railway can be proud of what has been achieved and what they continue to achieve. Love it.
Yes, I've been working with Swanage Railway for a number of years with their appeal videos and I have permission to do this and commercial insurance. You can still take some shots but drone law says the drone will need to be at least 150 metres from SR property. Drone law is becoming complex, so it's always best to check with the CAA's website first. It's still possible to get some great photos though. 👍
Had a fantastic couple of days at gala, beautiful weather and very well turned out engines. This railway is so well kept. Staff must have worked really hard so a big thank you to them. Love the drone shots. Keep up the good work
I like the bit towards the end when you were chasing 47484 Isambard Kingdom Brunel. As it hapoens the only one I am short of is 47500 Great Western in the dame livery. I have all the others, 47079 George Jackson Churchward 47484 Isambard Kingdom Brunel 47628 Sir Daniel Goich 50007 Sir Edward Elgar 121020 in GWR chocolate and cream livery And B430 the 117 in GWR chocolate and cream livery All for the GWR 150 celebrations in 1985. I also have the class 57 in the same livery, 57604 Pendennis Castle, in the same livery. I have 60081 in GWR lined green on order with Cavalex through Rails of Sheffield. 47500 is the only one I need to complete the set...
Ahh, good old fashioned semaphores. We don't have those in Canada anymore, but this is the beauty of them. They don't simply tell whether the tracks are clear by color; it's also whether the arm is raised or lowered.
I agree. Sorry I don't have very much control over the adverts RU-vid places on my videos. My options are kept to the minimum, but as a video's popularity grows YT adds more and breaks! I don't like it much either, and I make virtually no money from it.
34092 only ever had two depot allocations.I remember when she was transferred to our depot at Salisbury. We would stop off on our way to school (St. Thomas's), to see the 08.45 train leave. This train always dropped off some vans that were then pushed to the East End by the station pilot. Imagine our surprise that morning when instead of the usual Drummond Tank, the "push out" was done by 34092 !!!! I've no idea what Gabby Hays, or Mick Farrer may have tried to teach us that day, but I'll never forget City of Wells on the "push out !!" .
Brilliant idea but a bit disorienting constantly switching camera angles. Would have been easier to follow had it been presented as a single continuous journey.
Noted, but just think of the reverse shots as being views in the rear view mirror. The drone is always travelling towards Bath, and the rear shots are always linked with the previous forward vision.
I'd have dumped the air and ran back through the engine compartment... very few people would survive a fall at 50mph. In the event, sadly it sounds like it was un-necessary - from the report: "Although the locomotive was extensively damaged and the leading bogie derailed, the integrity of the driver's cab remained intact." Hate things like this, poor bloke just went to work and stuff like this means he's never clocking off. RIP Driver Brooker
A hard decision.....stay with it or jump, at that speed I'd have jumped, hopefully as a driver I'll never have to decide but it's something I ofter think about, especially when passenger often block our cab access into the train carriage with suitcases which could end up trapping us in the cab.
I have fading childhood memories of passing through Blandford by car, to visit family in Mere, and seeing the East Street bridge in the distance. Deeply nostalgic to see it again.
Whilst watching this lovely nostalgic, informative, professionally produced video at my home near the northern end of the S&D at Bradford on Avon Wiltshire has kindled a desire within me to visit Shillingstone station during the coming summer months... Thank You !
Thanks for your comment. Yes, there's more to come, but other edit commitments are getting in the way at the moment. Hopefully, I'll be adding to the YT Library soon. 🙂
Have been following the North Dorset Railway project from the S. Hemisphere. Probably never be able to return to see it in person. These videos from all over UK keep me in touch with progress, and NDR in particular, as one day, long, long ago I visited Shillingstone as 12 year old, and never forgotten that day!
When I was in the Lifeboys in Winton , Bournemouth, our group met up with other troops from round the region at Shillingstone. We went by train from Bournemouth West. I have, regretfully, I have never been on the rest of the line to Bath. My late mother did part of her hairdressing training at Midsomernorton, just before WW II, and travelled on the line many times from her home town of Ringwood. Now living 18,821 km from that area!
I'm grateful to you for this as I was miffed to have missed the celebrations. In return and as a fan of the Charlotte Roses of this world, you really can't miss the splendidly mad Dutchman's version of a certain theme tune belonging to a fond remembered adaptation of the books that got us here in the first place. Intrigued, I hope, name that tune in... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9oZLs9VG78s.htmlsi=ndkoO3otfW_FbUtx
Very well filmed and very informative but i believe you have the year wrong on the two Bailey Gate photographs that say it is 1965,and as the S & D never closed until March 1966 those 2 photo dates are wrong.At a guess i would say 1968/69 for the shot of D6506 on the recovery train,also the state of the p-way is pretty bad.Freight continued up to Blandford until early 1969.I also walked the line from Blandford to Corfe Mullen in 1969 all the track was still in situ.Your film brought back memories.
The two steam locos are carrying the later British Railways crest, which dates the photo to after 1958. The track doesn't look as though it is in regular use, so I think the photo was taken between the closure of the line as a through route in March 1967 and the end of Southern steam in July 1967. Blandford station remained open for freight traffic until 2nd January 1969, although army traffic for Blandford camp was withdrawn at the end of 1967. Great concept for a video series. It's much easier to see from the air where the missing bits of trackbed went. Thanks for making this.
@@RailFlicks it's so good! I was convinced it was a hornby layout until I saw the road traffic 🤣. What drone did you use? The sound from 11mins as the HST powers up and passes Corfe castle I presume... And the final HST closing scene. Just awesome!!! I haven't had a chance to check out your other clips yet
The drone is a DJI Air 2s and DJI Mini 2. Getting the sound right is tricky as the drones do not record sound. The sound is recorded by a static camcorder on the ground and dubbed in afterwards. Except for that thrash through Corfe which was a recording from the 1980's at Reading! SR is limited to 25mph, so engines just ticking over in reality! 😮 Hope you enjoy our other videos too!😉
@@RailFlicks yes I assumed that the trains are limited on that line but still your dubbing adds a lot to your clip to have that classic sound. Love the steam footage too. 👌
An enormous amount of work has gone into producing these videos of the old line, for which I, and I am sure many others, are enormously grateful. When you are on the Pines, as I was several times before its 1962, rerouting, most of what is in your videos is inevitably missed and so many gaps of what is merely seen from train level are filled in. This is particularly because, as child at that time, the journey from Manchester sometimes felt interminable. But maturity brings with it an appreciation of the actual journeys and the countryside. If the S&D was not one of the most loved railways in britain, so many people , including yourself, would not spend so much time and effort filming it, rebuilding it and carving out much of the route for walkers and cyclists. So it must be true.
3:02 I wouldn't have fancied too many shifts on the Spetsbrie archaeological dig to rediscover the station platforms and so on. I'm willing the North Dorset devotees to power on through with their track extension pack B and more so that I can have a go at the deep cutting at Stur. It's always annoyed and intrigued me in equal measure.
Thanks for your support. The next section is 'in the can' awaiting editing. Unfortunately this has had to take a temporary back seat while I sort out a family crisis, but I do intend to extend the series as soon as I am able.
Is this one going to be EP6, Shillingstone to Sturminster Newton and Stalbridge towards Templecombe? I have watched with enormous interest EP1 to EP4 and would love to see drone footage of the line north.
Thank you Mark. Yes I've had a few people commenting about background music and commentary sound balance in a few videos. It's caused by the playback device not being fully compatible with Dolby Digital sound and RU-vid's post upload digital sound resampling. The programmes are made for TV playback in mind. I've tried to fudge it in later productions to cope with a wider variation of devices but our cameras record in DD! Have you tried it on a TV with DD sound?
@@RailFlicks Silent Movies are fine by me, I'm not quite old enough to remember them for real but I'm told they used to be some bu99er banging on a piano at those as well.
@@RailFlicks I won't for today's railway maybe colourful but it is boring with either class 66 freights and loads of passenger trains looking all the same. In those days you had screaming HST's, class 47's on freight and passenger, class 56's, 58's, 37's and 20's on freights. Loads of first generation DMU's where you could see where you were going. Even slightly earlier class 40's, 45's, 25's, 26's and 27's. There was a great variety but now there's utopian conformity on a railway that says it's privatised but isn't. It's now franchised. If it was truly privatised then the government would have no hand in it. No private company has the government owning the land it's buildings stand on.
After steam Kings & Castles in the early to mid 1960s it was the fleet of Class 52 Westerns with 42 Warships to Bristol or Westerns and class 35 Hymeks to Cardiff and Swansea in pairs and back. But once the WR Hydraulic fleets (35,42 & 52) were withdrawn between 1970 and 77 it was 31's, 47s, and Class 50s when they came to the WR in 74/76 some trains did also see 37s on occasion, 50s worked until 1990, 47s finished in 1992 when the rancid Thames Turbo took over all non HST work. The HST first started on the Bristol TM to Paddington then Swansea and Cardiff trains then through the late 70s worked into Cornwall taking over the Loco Hauled train as the years passed, However due to the popular Devon and Cornish resorts there were plenty of additional workings to cover the HSTs with 15 coach Jumbo trains usually hauled by a class 50
