The North Eastern Railway was not a small railway. It did not stray from its home territory in the North East from Yorkshire to Northumberland but is generally rated on turnover to be the fourth largest of over 100 railway companies at the Grouping of railways in 1923.
I was born in 1944 and what this documentary forgets is that, although Britain successfully stood alone against the Nazis, they effectively lost the war because while Germany and western Europe were rebuilt via the Marshall plan Britain was required to pay the USA back in gold for every item supplied by them during WWII. As a result there were no funds to rebuild the railways or anything else for that matter. In my opinion the country has never recovered from that.
@@jcmgt Yes, I seem to remember it was in 2008. The main problem was that there was no money to invest in the 1940s and 1950s se the UK got well behind Europe in terms of its industrial productivity and has never recovered.
AN IF YOU BELIEVE THIS PROGRAMME YOU'LL BELIEVE ANYTHING !!!!! What a load of amateur nonsense, obviously intended for "public consumption" so riddled from start to finish with hilariously stupid mistakes !!!!!
If women think that maintaining the permanent way during the war is demanding and dangerous, they should try storming the beeches at Normandy. Railway maintenance is something men have been doing for decades, but as soon as women start doing it, they're heroines.
So only eight locos were completely destroyed during the war? Later on, 2,363 stations and 5,000 miles of track were destroyed by our own government. There's just no way the Luftwaffe could compete!
Freight is one thing but the passenger service should not have shown a decline. There were only one million cars on the road just after the war and most of those were subject to petrol rationing So most had to go by train on non suburban journeys.
I was born in 1950 and remember what a dull Britain I lived in. Never a fan of socialism but I would have to agree the Atlee government did a good job of getting us off our knees post 1945. It is sad that the ASLEF railway strike of 1955 and the attitudes of other unions right up to the 1980's did untold damage to Britain's economy and the weakest and poorest people in society. Here we are in the 2020's and what's changed? The wealthy and political classes get steadily richer and seem to do less and less to earn it. Britain on self destruct?
Exactly what is slowly. taking place. Not just Brittany look at the rest of Europe. Look what's going on with open Southern borders in U.S. courtesy of Marxist democratic Obama/Biden white house administration😈
Attlee and his 'nationalise EVERYTHING' lunacy, far from getting the country off its knees, left us even MORE bankrupt than we were in 1945 - whilst adding a huge number of utterly unproductive civil service jobs.
long long back almost four decades ....travelling ....... by ...... the loco steam .....locomotive ........ got anyone .... full of soot and dust ...... but these steam powered locomotives are ..... invariably replaced by electric powered ......... railways and all the states and districts are connected these electric powered locomotives ....... catch up all the ...... mumtaz commuting .... on these cabs ... which are electric powered ..... . catch up with mumtaz the most desired .... beauty queen of the Hindi cinemas preferred only by silver screens of .... Tamil Gemini studios ...... catch up with the elevation of taj mahal ... . only five star restaurants across the metropolitan states ............ taj .. wah taj .. tea ............t.... t
That’s an honourable and good phrase of the narrator ie « the steam locomotive is one of those things that were invented today wouldn’t be allowed.. » or words to that effect…And what better ending than the tones and rythm of « Coronation Scot »… Excellent delivery and vocal narration! Am certain many like me look forward to other editions by your Team! Compliments!
For the first time the british tea growers from great britain started tea estates in india mainly in the state of assam .at that time they established railway train to export made tea to other countries .at first they used steam ships for that purpose.the name of the company that constructed rail roads in tea estates in assam was the assam railway and trading company. It was known as the a.r. and t. Co. Thank you.
British locomotives and railway technology were exported all across the world, to India, China, Chile, Egypt, Iran and many other countries. Assam tea is wonderful tea, definitely worth building a railway to get it to our teapots! Are those railways still working, do you know?
As a youth nothing was better than standing on Doncaster station and watching an A4 Gresley Pacific flying Through on the Centre tracks non stop train to London, with its distinctive whistle sounding.
Lovely video which sums a lot of things ,a friend of my late father was a driver at Thornaby in steam days ,he said the best thing that ever happened was when they got class 37s ,cut his work load by over 3/4
my late uncle was the steam raiser at 51G 1948 i was 8 years of age i went onto all of the engines in the depot Q6 J27 this was my intruduction to BR i am now 85 and still love the railways
Wait a minute. Is it just me? Or did this video have some of the steam chuffing sounds used by TM Books & Video of New Buffalo, Michigan for their videos.
Please note. The Southern had a large network of lines stretching as far as Exeter Plymouth and Wadebridge (Cornwall) and was not just serving commuters from the suburbs of the South East.
45:55 This comment reminds me very much of a poem from my parents' native Sri Lanka "Anguru kaka Wathura bibi Kolamba duwana yakada yaka" translates as "Eating the coal, drinking the water, the metal beast that goes to Kolamba"
My Grandma use to laugh her ass off telling me about riding on these steam trains and coming off them with black faces lol 80 years ago give or take every body in this film is gone but not forgotten
Maybe she shouldn't have had her head out of the window the whole journey! I've come off an express with grubby face and gritty smuts in my hair; Happy Days!
きかんしゃトーマスで昔のイギリスの鉄道に興味を持ち、今日素晴らしい映像を見ることができました。 きかんしゃトーマスは「イギリスの鉄道」をそのまま映像化したんですね！ 日本人としては面白くてしかたありません！ Thomas the Tank Engine got me interested in old British railways and I was able to see some great footage today. Thomas the Tank Engine has visualized "British Railways" as it is! As a Japanese, I can't help but find it interesting!
