@@bobtudbury8505 Well no because actually, it isn’t just LNER, its the way the ECML was done as well, the ECML modernisation was done extremely which is why the overhead lines are held up by wires.
@@kazdrone lots of investment though and not by wire transfer. the labour party decimated BR in the 60's the ninvested nothing and people still vote for this rubbish
@@bobtudbury8505 The line is a factor to why trains are not doing well pal, looking at your other comments it seems your more biased onto the less superior mode of transportation *cars*, Oh well, nothing to worry about, continue spouting shite as it won't get anywhere, trust me one day you'll realise how good the railways can be at times.
Somehow that phone recording gives a sense of sadness. You can hear that the man recording it was saying things genuinely when he thanked everybody for their support.
They're a mandatory study for anyone interested in the world of design! There are a number of books available online about the identity that BR set about creating for itself, and how the extent to which they did that has never been done since (how many modern railway operators brand everything from your napkin to your cutlery?)
MY GREAT GRANDFATHER DESIGNED THE CLASS 50’S I HAVE A PHOTO OF HIM IN THE SECONDMANS SEAT OF 50042 “TRIUMPH” A PHOTO I RECREATED LAST YEAR WITH THR HELP OF A VERY KIND DRIVER WHO LET ME SIT ON THE SECONDMANS SEAT ALL DAY
I'm from Sydney, and our whole transport network is on the edge of full privatisation. Unions are battling an incredibly fierce war, and I'm very scared that it will be similar to the BR's breakup in '94. Having said that, really liked the GWT Merlin livery. Very nice.
To be honest as much as I love privatization I'm really starting to hate it with the public transport sector. Amtrak just ruined it for me and left a bad taste in my mouth on the matter.
With our railways privatisation did good to start with however it reached a point where It can’t do any better to meet demands, something only a nationalised network can do So it will be good for the first decade but hopefully your government realised when the peak is and takes over from there
Even though im only 14, these seem to bring nostalgia, such wonderful edits, please keep doing these. We can only hope we can see railways like this again one day...
I’ve been coming back to this video over and over again, because it makes me feel nostalgic of an era I never knew and it makes me think about what it would have been like
Honestly I'm jealous of BR. All we get here in Murica are typically buses and Ubers. We don't even have passenger trains in most of the country. Respects to BR. You will be missed. *cries in American*
The Swedish railway also split to private operators, now we don’t have a full SJ, now its split to Green Cargo, Jernhus, and many different private operators. This happened in 2001, at least the full SJ lived over 100 years.
The process and nature of european railway privatisation was actually inspired by Sweden, which started it way before 2001, it was actually in the 1980's. The big business public subsidy parasites, lobbied Brussels to encourage the eu to follow the Swedish model, and so the then EC issued directive 1991/440 in 1991 to force the seperation of train and track operations and create a track access charging regime for private train operators. The UK tory party responded with the 1993 railway act, to completely smash up and destroy the state railway (BR), doing in one go, what the eu would mandate more slowly, step by step, eu railway package by package, first to fourth, in a way that the public never asked for, never understood or even knew about, so never consented to, and thus could never oppose. By the time they knew, it would be too late. Here we are today, the fourth railway package has been eu law for 5 years, is still in the long process of being complied with by the eu puppet states, and yet today, many pro eu supporters still deny this legislation actually exists!!! They still think it is a national choice to break off bits of their public state train operation as mandated by the eu fourth railway package, and ignore that all eu states are fully compliant with the first, second and third eu railway packages, which the pro eu fanatics just refuse to comprehend! It has been an absolute disaster for public service, efficiency and costs. It has been a hugely fraudulent transfer of billions and billions of pounds/euros each and every year from european taxpayers to private companies. See Germany today, and how it argues year on year about how to fund it €49 deutschlandticket, a taxpayer subsidised ticket, where most revenue goes to private companies, as nearly all the regional train operations in Germany have been through the competitive tendering process, and most won by private companies.. The deutschlandticket not being valid on DB fernverkehr, which has yet to be broken up and tendered to the private sector, but by eu law, must soon be! The German government will probably sell the idea of breaking up DB fernverkehr as a means to improve its now awful record of poor service, poor reliability and poor punctuality. Ignoring the fact that smashing up DB into hundreds of different companies, is what has made the German railway fall so far from grace to begin with! I wonder how they railways of europe would be today, if Sweden never did what it did in the 1980's, ironically before it was even in the eu!
@@amateurcameraman thanks for letting me know. Quite interesting reading your text. I actually didn’t know that. Im not that proud of a Swede after reading that text hahaha
@@RailAbleYT You can still be proud. We should have learned from what your country did (it is always best to learn from the mistakes of others 😉). But the eu did not create and pass all these laws by accident. And it is no accident that the eu member states have no choice but to comply with the eu laws. What we should all be ashamed of, is that we surrendered our national democracy over such domestic matters to people and institutions that we can't oppose politically, legally or democratically!
Margaret Thatcher thought privatisation was a step too far for BR, so if that doesn't make the privatisation seem like a daft thing to do I don't know what is
@SorcererWaluigi It seemed to work for the airlines. The problem was that the privatised rail system had no competition mechanism; the government told the TOCs what trains to run, where to run them, and what services they could provide. Competition was supposed to happen through TOCs bidding, which effectively led to companies submitting hopelessly overambitious bids to wow the government. In trying to create a system that had the strengths of both state ownership and the private sector, the government ended up creating a system that had the weaknesses of both that completely collapsed when Covid hit.
The saddest part of this announcement is the announcer said (after the thank you for your support part) that he hopes we all continue to travel by British Rail. Not travel safely, just to travel by British Rail. He knew privatisation was not a good thing and hoped it would stop. British Rail should be brought back, and it should be funded and treated by the government properly. It was never doing bad. Privatisation was never a fix for a problem because there was no problem. The only problem was (and still is) the government, and greedy capitalists who run massive public services, without a care for the public who use those services. Its almost been 29 years since British Rail was essentially drowned by brute force. It would be nice if we could stop it becoming 30. The British Rail board still technically exists, with a single staff member to uphold the deal with France over the Channel Tunnel, it could easily be brought back.
@@ccpro8047 Sadly the government rewards failure. They don't care about the public or the transport we deserve, they just care about their rich buddies.
Sorry to break it to you, but the recording is from a machine at rugby telecom. It's about the phone line closing (1991), not Br being desolved (1994) It still evokes a sence of dread, mind you
@@bussesandtrains1218 ...The phone line was closed because BR was being privatised. I do know where the recording comes from. Privatisation wasn't an immediate process, it occured over many years and everyone could see it coming. BR wouldn't continue to support a service that no company wanted to maintain if they knew they were going.
It is! Labour are currently (and hopefully) in the process if renationalising rail again. Although it will be called Great British Railways, I will call it British Rail still.
The clip I've used is not my own creation- I've simply done some editing to the voice recording in the following video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5EvTLxjeepo.html
Hey man, i love your channel, i just subscribed! This is strangely sad, nothing can, or ever will, replace british railways 😢 i tried to replicate your video as a short on my channel, ive just posted it hope you like it :)
I’m American but it’s absolutely pitiful that British Rail fell victim to that horrible woman Margaret Thatcher. The new liveries that came onto the trains were the ONLY good thing that came out of it.
This is an amazing video, amazing work! It came up in my suggestions pretty randomly but it does an amazing job of evoking nostalgic pride for a lost national railway industry. I've never made videos like this but I'm curious how you do it - what software did you use to make this, and how long did it take you?
The videos generally take me about a month to make once I've set off on them, but I go around gathering footage for future releases all the time. I use Davinci Studio as it's by far the most powerful free video suite out there, though also far from perfect. Thanks for enjoying my content!
I will make a looped version once I've uploaded my next video! I won't be able to "extend" the video per se, as that would limit the footage I'd be left with for future content
@@BritishitRailPosting I mean, there's nothing wrong with using the same clips in different videos, so long as the clips actually fit the vibe of the video itself. Its not like you'd be using the exact same clips and same timings and order of clips in each video.
@@BritishitRailPosting I didn't realise on first glance but you're right - I kinda prefer diesel traction and onwards but it's great you still included some steam! This edit is fantastic, thanks again for making this. =D
@@bobtudbury8505 They were in the middle of improving with the 158, 159 and networkers entering service, had they been given more time I am confident that BR would've improved to be one of the best train networks in Europe.
Honestly, the best time period mash up (for medway atleast) would be the 1993/4 pre privatisation and the buses of 2010. Since that would be madness in medway. I can imagine getting a plaxton pointer 1 to the station then getting a brand new networker to london. Would just be so fun. If i could rewrite history i would do that. But now everything i came to love is slipping away. Plaxton pointer 2s in medway are gone. Many enviro 200s are gone/moved. Sapphire is gone. Eclipse urbans are gone. Class 465 im starting to see less and less. The first class 375 will be 30 in 2029. As the first one was testing and entered servixe in 1999. It shows how time flies and we have no control over it and no time to reflet before the next thing is gone.
One last thing I'm not putting as an edit is that. The grittiness of buses, and trains that are aged but still in major use is what many of us love without knowing. How much did you get a grotty Plaxton pointer and assume that they are staying for a long time but suddenly they vanish. Or the arriva medway ALX400s, so many disappeared in 2022/3 so many. My fave ones were gone within 2 weeks of each other. Luckily I got a photo of both on the last day both were in service at the same time.
The unstoppable marching of time often stings because its one of the few aspects of our life we can't have any influence upon, but when it involves us replacing the good with the bad- as it has done with privatisation- it stings evermore. Be it an older version of us, our children, or their grandchildren; we'll see better times come. Even if we're old, broken and wrinkled; we'll be there to tell the stories.
I've been searching for a little while and I can't find the actual recorded message anywhere, am I stupid and is this made up, or am I stupid and can't find the message?
I wish the national transport authority here in Dublin could learn from this . While it's not our train company , irish rail , that they are trying to privatise, they have had a go at the bus system in a small way . When the contract comes up for renewal it will be intresting to see do they kerp the right to run buses here
Though she was responsible for the privatisation of buses, which is something that's gone even more poorly than the rails did, so she deserves all the flak she gets.
Hi @britshitrailposting i was wondering where you found the audio clip of "this is a british rail recoded information message" or if its a text to speech program thanks!
What do you mean by share exactly? So long as you're posting a link to this YT video I'm more than happy for you to share it wherever you like. If you're going to download the raw video file to upload somewhere I simply ask you include credit back to me!