Britain 1950: there's no future in trams Europe 1950: there's room for improvement in this technology Britain 2020's: bus service replaced tram, minor restorations of old service. Europe 2020's: normal tram, prémétro, stadtbahn, snel-tram, tram-train, regional tram…
Beeching wasn't a monster - most railways on the continent went through somilar cuts. Those cuts didn't make it to the oaoers, because they were gradual.
I needed to know why they couldn’t dig a tunnel and do an extension for most of the mainline Trains so that they could extend the unused abandoned underground train stations. Why couldn’t they use the part D78 Stock train doors on the sides and also restructure the front face of the A60 and A62 stock which will include the class 507, class 508, class 313, class 314 and class 315 remix and make them all together and also redesign all of them into an overhead wire line trains and also make most of them into Five carriages per units and also having three Disabled Toilets on those Five cars per units A60 and A62 stock trains and also convert the A60 and A62 stock trains into a Gardner 6LXC, Cummins M11, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Scania N112, Gardner LG1200 and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Engines and also put the Loud 7-Speed Voith Gearboxes even Loud 10-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Gearboxes in the A60 and A62 stock, class 507, class 508, class 313, class 314, and class 315 and also modernise the A60 and A62 stock and make it into 11 carriages per unit so it could have fewer doors, more tables, computers and mobile phone chargers? A Stock Train and 8 Disabled Toilets on those A stock trains. why couldn’t we refurbish and modernise the waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel and make it even much more Larger and extend it to the bank station, making it into a Triple-Track Railway Line so those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden to convert the waterloo and city line Triple-Track Railway tunnel into a High-Speed Railway lines? The Third Euro tunnel Triple-Track Railway line to make it 11 times better for passengers so they could go from A to B. Then put the modernised 11 carriages per unit A Stock and put them on a bigger modernised Waterloo and city line Triple-Track train tunnel so it could go to bank station to those Five countries such as Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. The modernised refurbished 11 carriages per unit A stock could be a High Speed The Third Triple-Track Euro Tunnel Train So it is promising and 47 times a lot more possible to do this kind of project if that will be OK for London Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden. oh by the way, could they also tunnel the Triple-Track Railway Line so it will stop from Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex so that the Passengers will go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden and also extend the Triple-Track Railway Line from the Bank to Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex Stations so that more people from there could go to Australia, Germany, Italy, Poland And Sweden more Easily. Why couldn't they extend the Piccadilly Line and also build brand-new underground train stations so it could go even further right up to Clapton, Wood Street can they also make another brand new underground train station in Chingford and could they extend the Piccadilly Line and the DLR right up to Chingford? All of the classes 150, 155, 154, 117, 114, 105, and 106, will be replaced by all of the Gardner 6LXC, Cummins M11, Volvo B10M, Gardner 6LXB, Scania N112, Gardner LG1200 and Gardner 8LXB Diesel Five carriages three disabled toilets are air conditioning trains including Highams Park for extended roots which is the Piccadilly line and the DLR trains. Could you also convert all of the 1973 stock trains into an air-conditioned maximum speed 78 km/hours (48 MPH) re-refurbished and make it into a 8 cars per unit if that will be alright, and also extend all of the Piccadilly train stations to make more space for all of the extended 8 car per unit 1973 stock air condition trains and can you also build another Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive Companies and can they order Every 87 Octagon and Every 48 Hexagon shape LNER diagram unique small no.13 and unique small no.11 Boilers from those Countries such as Greece, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, can they make Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive speeds by up to 147MPH so you can try and test it on the Original Mainline so it will be much more safer for the Passengers to enjoy the 147MPH speed Limit only for HS2 and Channel Tunnel mainline services, if they needed 16 Carriages Per units, can they use those class 55’s, class 44’s, class 40’s and class 43HST Diesel Locomotive’s right at the Back of those 18 Carriages Per Units so they can take over at the Back to let those Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s have a rest for those interesting Journeys Please!!!!, oh can you make all of those 18 Tonne Boxes of Coal for all of those 147MPH Mayflower and Tornado Steam Locomotive’s so the Companies will Understand us PASSENGER’S!!!! So please make sure that the Builders can do as they are told!!!!!!!!! And PLEASE do something about these very very important Professional ideas Please? Prime Minister of England, Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister of Germany, Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister of Poland and that Includes the Mayor of London.
Keeping that 2-10-4 loco fired over long distances must require serious stamina & musclepower, np lightweight. The operators probably took turns or had an extra buddy ?
Thanks for sharing this fascinating video on how the Channel Tunnel. For those interested in more railway history, I recommend checking out the Hand Drawn History video on Euro Tunnel History: ru-vid.comvMKJUoS5RtA
Maybe the 07.30 Stranraer Harbour (Platform 2 !!) arriving in Glasgow Central ? I caught this train, after a night on the Stranraer Harbour Boat Train (21.15 ex Euston). It was hauled by 86 102 to Carlisle, 47 414 to Ayr, and 20 039 piloting 47 414 to Stranraer Harbour.
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The power car in the middle was something I couldn't quite figure out...in effect giving you two trains, was there a solution to load the two halves evenly so you didn't have the front standing full and 50% open seats in the rear.
Train line, life line, time line, end of line. A nice reminiscence by all of a calmer period, without too much intrusion of our complexer world of today.
Now we are heading back into state ownership. How ironic. I hope this time we don't squander the opportunity to encourage people to take the train for a reasonable price.
The only solution is to bring in a rail company from the far east and give them unlimited legal powers of direct and complete control with no other interference being allowed for at least 40 years, passing laws in Parliament to do so - this would improve standards and lower fares, rail projects would be done much faster and in half the time - strikes would have to be banned on the railways and trade union leaders would have to be arrested if they started strikes, in fact trade unions on the railways would have to be made illegal
The Four coach Double Decker electric unit trains operated on the Charing Cross and Cannon Street to Dartford via Sidcup line. They were painted in Southern Region green at first but this progressively changed to British Railways green in the early 1950s. They received all over blue with full yellow ends around 1970 which lasted before they were unceremoniously retired in October 1971.
What a horrible person Dr Beeching was Newcastle station is more busier nowadays him closing Newcastle station would have been a disaster. Glad that did close
Wow, this video taught me so much about how the Beeching Axe changed trains in Britain! I had no idea that so many stations and tracks were closed because of it. It's sad to think about how it affected rural areas and made things harder for some people. But hearing Dr. Beeching's reasons for doing it made me understand a bit more. Overall, it's interesting to learn about something that had such a big impact on transportation. Consider watching the history of Dr Beeching Report for more insights by Hand Drawn History
I love the Station Hall. It’s so atmospheric. The NER M1 and GER G58 are locos I still wish were there. Also, curious that the museum’s original renovation was 18 months, and the current one is also 18 months.
One of the most important lines Closed by labour was the line From Matlock to Buxton And Matlock It Takes Four Hours to get from Buxton To Matlock You have to go Buxton to Stockport Stockport to Sheffield Sheffield To Derby Derby To Matlock It takes one hour on the bus 🚌 And they it’s quicker by Train!!!! The line was an alternative route to London and the line To Manchester Central should Never have closed Obviously people who make these decisions don’t know Anything about Railway’s Ernest Marples has a lot to answer for Beeching lived in East Grinstead which had a high level and low level station The high level line was closed On the 2 January 1967 The track bed was later used To build a relief road and was Named Beeching Way A Car 🚘 Park was also built On part of the level Station The High Level Station The line from East Grinstead to Hayward’s heath and the from Uckfield to Lewes was another Piece of Railway Vandalism As they were alternate routes To Brighton went main line was Closed for engineering works Or any derailments which Blocked the main line The uckfield to lewes line is Mentioned In ADRIAN’S VAUGHAN book railway blunders
Comfort and service from British Rail in 1985 you could only dream of today....This may have been a one-off run but as a regular user of HSTs and Inter-City services at the time, first class dining, just as in the video was a regular option, on-board buffet catering was excellent and second class had mostly seats with tables, less aircraft style seating. Ive not seen a better service anywhere today on any network from any provider than was provided by BR in 1985!
This is classic misrepresentation of the facts. Beeching didn’t close anything, ministers did. Indeed, most closures happened under the Wilson Labour government, long after Beeching had gone.
Fuck me who cares whoever it was it Labour or Tory, they are both the worst. It was an awful decision to remove alot of railway, with so little foresight a monkey could have done it better. Oh yea lets base our transport on the now and not think about tomorrow. Ring any bells? Near me bypass built under Major. One Lane built, enough for 2 easy, yet lets build for one because noone has the foresight to think between two junctions on M5 will be busy. Yes its a terrible road with so many accidents they made it a 40 zone probably years too late. Neither party has any view to future and actually making something that works. They just do the bare min and this country is so fucking passive about it all you see is yea i'll vote Tory because my mum fucking did. Gone are the days of MP's that actually give two shits, they just want their salary, and in some cases that salary on top of other earnings, sometimes into the millions and you think they give two flying fucks about you? It's so easy.
The people who think the government was ‘evil’ at this time have never been able to explain why, if things were so bad, rail passenger numbers went up throughout this period. Asking people to pay the full cost of their ticket seems perfectly reasonable, especially for relatively wealthy commuters in the south east.
@@Bungle-UK What an outdated view of rail passengers. Let’s ignore the working class people living from payslip to payslip who rely on trains and raise the fares to f- them over?
I lived at Long Drax, right next to the power station, C.E.G.B stood for Central Electricity Generating Board, their land rovers used to make spot checks on the water outflow station that crossed our land out into the River Ouse opposite Hemingbrough, Nth Yorks.
The situation we’d be in now doesn’t bear thinking about if the Settle & Carlisle had closed, because Skipton - Carnforth would’ve been next. What should be happening now is speed improvements. The S&C was designed for 90mph running yet most of it is only as high as 60mph. There also needs to be some overtaking loops.
Here lies the problem with state ownership….money is always tight. It’s was the same under governments of both parties. Those who pitch nationalisation as a magic solution couldn’t be more wrong.
