Thanks for your comment, Keith was a friendly guy, back in 1979 when I knew him, he used to pop back in to Stage School to see our agent, who was the singer Phil Colins Mum, used to see him quite often too, fun times.
Ever since I knew of this Wonderful Historic Siite, I have always wanted to visit the place ... 9.am on Wednesday July 19th 2023 ... I am like a kid on Christmas Eve !
at the end of the film, the credits it show MCMLXXXI 1981, which means that Keith Chegwin was about 24 years old at the time.tell me if I am wrong. geat video.
Well this documentary just randomly popped into my head because we watched it at school and I grew up near the Sankey viaduct. Lo and behold it’s on RU-vid 😂
a great film. I saw a video which showed a railway engineer from my son's college...unfortunately, that video is no longer up. I really don't know why...it showed how the Chinese built the line to Lhasa in Tibet...a super video. thanks, c.maki
Round here we have the Lion works, they built the Lion that went to the US. The works had the record as the oldest factory in continuous use. It's now my local nhs health centre.
I worked under the arch running trains round, mainly coal trains coming up from bootle then sent off to fiddlers ferry power station. Great video 😊 RIP kieth 😢
Cheggers was very lucky having access to the historical Moorish Arch site & Wapping Tunnel I'd love to get in there! What a great chappie he was and this shows he could do educational as well !
Access to moorish arch is very easy. Halfway down tunnel road there is a yellow metal door, simply climb over it and voila! You are straight away in moorish arch! And it is such an amazing place to explore. I recently walked the crown street tunneland then the Wapping one. Both are absolutely mind-blowing and oozing history. I highly recommend a trip
Liverpool Road, Manchester was not the first ever terminal station. That goes to Crown St, Liverpool. Why? Because when trains first ran on the 1st day, they started from the Liverpool end. Liverpool Road is the oldest terminal station still in existence. But the Crown St station was of a more advanced design which others followed, using a large train shed.
The oldest working steam train built 1838, that is a quarter of a century younger than the oldest surviving steam train, puffing Billy, built for Wylam Colliery near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The second oldest survivor is its sister, the Wylam Dilly.
i heard he lived on sheild rd, in the 70's, might be wrong though, in the the old Tudor looking place. Then he moved to Newbury, where i seen him lots on the train and in town over the yrs, along with his wife maggie and his sister janice, all always said hello or chatted.
I remember whatching this in 1986 (I was 21 then) I found it to be very interesting (coming from/living in Liverpool) Even though I knew our history, it was good to see it on National T.V. Just towards the end of the programme when sincronised time was mentioned and the formulation The FOOTBALL League thus travling "working class spectaters" I hated it when Kieth used the word "soccer" ... instead of FOOTBALL I suppose this programme could have been taylored for North America.
@@martinbitter4162 Just to confirm ... our world FOOTBALL governing body "F.I.F.A." meaning the Federation International FOOTBALL Association as the World Name for The Game is FOOTBALL ... Fact!.
Where was the first location at 00:15 anybody know!? Looks ooop north by the style of the Bridge !! And had been closed a few years already ! So what double track mainline closed a few years before 1986 ? The Woodhead route ? March - Spalding ? Any others ?
...you need some sky blue with that claret, then maybe you will cheer up and be a little less morose as you jocks tend to be. my chegg comment was a very accurate observation btw.
Two weeks after I made this twerpish comment, poor Cheggers sadly died, RIP. But, bizarrely my next comment was probably addressed to a Hearts FC fan, his team play in claret shirts... whose own comment seems to have been removed. Very odd as his comment was not all that abusive.. as I now try to recall, yes, very odd indeed.
