What a lovely video. Brings back so many memories,we used to go nearly every week from Cudworth, I will always remember climbing up the back wall to go through the arch windows into the engine shed, that way if we were kicked out we would still get a lot of numbers on our way out. I saw Winston Churchill the steam engine at Holbeck sheds, I could never get my head around why it was there, Someone might know why and add a comment. I do have some old photos of steam and diesel. They were renewing the station in the mid 60's and there were plenty of new roofing etc. Thank you for bringing happy memories back.
Walked over the footbridge there a few weeks ago when visiting friends in Goldthorpe, it left me with the feeling that we are going backwards and the ruling classes are happy to encourage this.
All these locos were not really that old, but run into the ground and were truly fucked with the bare minimum of anything done to them. Probably thats why we loved them so well. If a health an safety expert in 2023/4 inspected these, nothing would have had moved for months, even 2 or 3 years previous! Yet, with some work and a clean, had years of life in them. Locos that looked clean and lasted to the last day, were so fkd they never made it into preservation, one such being 45156 Ayrshire Yeomanry, the last named loco in proper service if you consider Oliver Cromwell was always going to be preserved as it was the last steam loco through Crewe Works, as because Brittania 70000 was thought to be in such poor condition.. Brick Arches colapsed and locos were withdrawn on the spot. Those locos who survived into preservation have since spent more of their life in loving private ownership than that of BR. Maybe, they wern't economic, which I get, but when allowed to be in top form, outperformed most diesels without double heading at that time. Even the preserved Class 17 Clayton diesel is far more reliable and well performing that BR allowed them to be. A telling indictment on Nationalisation. But it was the honest workman that on a day to day basis made them work, and by fuck they did.
i mean i grew up around her and i was 7 at the time and i spent most of this viedo just smiling remebering going down here with my dad on a weekend and it is so strange to see it compared to now. only thing that hasnt really chaged is the superdrug lol
Its an absolute shit hole now full of niggers and Eastern europeans , and old piss heads with one tooth between them sat outside rusty dudley , still arguing and blaming maggy thatcher , sooner sit and complain about that than go out get a job and move on like the rest have !!
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Excellent vid which just showed upon my viewing list. What a powerful and wonderful beast she is. I have only seen her once at Didcot and immediately fell in love with her, shame she was “sabotaged” when in BR service as she could have really shown what a modern steam engine could do. Hats off to those who had the courage and foresight to buy get as a wreck at Barry and bring her to the high standard of excellence shown here
Absolutely Magic Dave! Some lovely long trackside shots, and a great variety of things running...all spliced together in your excellent style, always great to see 🙂
Brilliant !! Thank you David, and Pete of course. I spotted the Crocodile L squirrelled away in a siding, it would be nice to see it main line, perhaps in a special. Also, I noted the Dynamometer Car doing the rounds. Do you have the wooden shelter front to put on a King for the draughting test runs. That would make quite an unusual and impressive sight.
Thank you so much for this time travel. Loved 'Donney', was it shot from Gresley House. I spent hours there watching my beloved pacifics. Never saw a high-vis though.
The opening scene of this appears to be the site of Kilnhurst Central, the canal being on the left. At 1.14 after bridging the canal and the railway (GCR) there was the approach to a municipal tip. Nothing but trees now.
Thank you for your comment, and as the video has mixed scenes, I cannot be sure on the date of any of them, only to say sometime in the 60's.......sorry.
Not at the moment I'm afraid, Pete and the team have been on a new project working with Hornby called Making Tracks Three. Once completed it will go on show at Chester Cathedral sometime this year.....and it will be in 00 (4mm). I can promise you it will be spectacular.....alas I am not involved.
Quand je vois une locomotive en HO tracter 51 wagons de marchandises puis une autre tracter 12 voitures voyageurs, je me dit que ce sont de vrais trains. Je ne sais pas quelle époque représente ce splendide réseau, mais j'avoue franchement que c'est une réussite.
