I remember using one canteen when they just used microwaves 1977 and asking for a Welsh rabbit toast meal when I got it it looked like "the swamp creature".
Quite a shock seeing one self from the 1960s. The film of the Britannia's at Chelmsford is from the film Britannia at Chelmsford by Michael Ham. I assisted being a close friend of Mike and my parents knowing the Station Master, a Mr Rowlands and bg a close friend. The Brit talking water caught us out, as this was most unusual. This was not the only railway film we made. See also Chalford Turnround
That was a huge marshaling yard at Whitemoor. The workers were rightly proud of it. Little did they know it would become a category A prison just a couple of decades later.
Yes, I only know of one tunnel on the route all the way from London to Norwich, including all East Anglian branches to Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth, etc., and that's the one just south of Ipswich!!
One of the greatest inventions ever done by barns Wallis= England had the best brains in the work that was done in time of war god bless barns Wallis = his work helped towards in winning the war
Disc-braked EMUs in Britain started in 1965 with the AM10s (cl.310s), albeit with EP not with three-step... and if I correctly recall were retro-fitted with a quite primitive WSP. Makes the 321s really hi-tech by comparison 😂 If only it was still politically correct to select step 3 at the normal braking point, then use 2 or 1 after speed is greatly reduced - booked journey times would come down to what they were in the 1980s!
Very interesting medley of films! I like especially those showing the 'human side' of working the railway; the shed cleaners, drivers etc. Thank you. I've often scoured various BTF archive films on YT but this is the first I've seen of the 1967 opening day of electric New St-Euston expresses.
And yet towns like Wisbech don't have a railway but they are growing bigger and busier. Their is only a few miles of track missing and they don't need to build on the original location.
A couple of things with this. Living in Bishop’s Stortford during the 70’s all the way to 2010 I am fairly certain the 305’s we used to get to and from Tottenham Hale or Liverpool Street were 4 car units. Also the majority of Stansted Express services stopped at Bishop’s Stortford as well as Tottenham Hale. Later there was a Tottenham Hale only service and a Stansted Mountfitchet and Bishop’s Stortford service alternating between the two services. Stansted Airport station was designed to become a through station but subsequent building has prevented this. Obviously the Flitch Way track bed would have been ideal and the Stansted Airport customers arriving from the east are greatly inconvenienced by the lack of this connection, the 15 minute journey a direct link would take from Braintree currently taking 2 hours+ going via Stratford and Tottenham Hale or into and out of Liverpool Street.
Growing up in Ilford and living my adult life all over east anglia this was an absolute joy! Particularly the little bit of footage of Birdbrook, having lived in Clare and Haverhill and often waking along all the surrounding track beds in the area, thanks for the upload…
"...bringing beck ,,, nothing falls orf..." priceless accent, coupled with patronising nonsense. Narrator could have done with a spin at the horny-handed stuff too
At least they used, the retained, Railway Viaduct as part of the By Pass. I remember 2 Pubs called the Jolly Sailor, both next to the River but on opposite sides. Now Maldon is 3 or 4 times as big. I lived there, first house I bought, over 40 years ago. Station was a Pub and a Nightclub. Not too far from where Jeremy Bamber, GUILTY, murdered 5 people purely for Drug Money.
Did I see the handsome head of a black cat - at our around 2:33? As with the steam engine our world culture is/would be terrible without a black Moggie around to bring joy to our souls…
Although it’s stated that the colour film was 1959. The black and white film was at least 10 years earlier if not literally just after the war. The locos are in wartime black with LNER or NE on them. They couldn’t repaint all of them in BR green immediately. The coaches are still in the LNER teak and that’s obviously the old LNER livery too
