The remnants of the buildings bottom right, show how the railways have decreased from their peak in the early to mid 20th century, to where they are now. The buildings were bustling busy places once, reliant on the railways industry. No longer.
Great to see the Central Station over the years see the diamond xings again takes me back to when i worked with the Signal Engineers in the 60,s in the Central Station. Thanks for sharing a great pieice of history and Engineering .Mike
Brilliant idea, very well executed. I find these really captivating, especially the ones of places and subjects I know. From the transitions to the sound effects and the choice of music - it really draws you in. 👍🏻
Thanks Shaun! This video is one of my early projects I have since put out many more - here is one recent example of Newcastle: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pxzkSJMvyVo.html
Truly awesome! That track layout was so complex years ago, but looking at the area again now, I can't imagine how it all fitted in unless some bridging has been demolished.
Wonderful pictoral video of my favourite station, always remember my dad showing and telling all about the famous diamond crossing as a lad and just marvelling at the shear complexities of them, a marvel of what this country could achieve, and also the the unforgivable and sad downgrading of our wonderful railway system, thanks to people like yourself and the photographers for keeping a very important part of our history alive
A lot of the "downgrading" was for good purpose, as sad as it is. The much lower maintenance with the new points over the diamond crossing would have been safer and cheaper. Sorry to be that guy but the new system was put here for a reason.
Fabuleux ! Mille mercis pour ce montage merveilleux. Même au pays du chemin de fer, les rails ont laissé la place aux automobiles... Et ces aiguillages aux courbes élégantes qu'on imagine commandés par autant d'aiguilleurs arc-boutés sur les leviers... Disparus ! Le temps est un ogre jamais rassasié !
さくら more likely that a lot of the modern pictures seems to be taken by crappy digital cameras such as web cams that are used to monitor for example weather. the old ones used film stock which is pretty high res even for 8mm film. Smack up a good dslr or even phone camera and modern tech wins.
This is fantastic, amazing, I feel great respect for the work, the thinkers, inventors, engineers, the workers and the photographers of this presentation!
What a superb way to travel through time; well done, sir! It really brings home the fact that the mainline railways of Britain were largely untouched until the drastic changes from the late 1980's onwards whilst preparing for privatization when the engineers swept away all that wasn't vital to the electric age. How soleless the modern images are by comparison.
Liked it the way it was. Thank you so much, best thing I have ever seen and the music perfect. This should win multiple awards, have you entered anything. You should. THANK YOU
One of the nice features of the station was that the 1959 signalbox was at the end of the footbridge so you could actually see your train approaching on the track diagram.
Yes indeed, and you will have noticed the third-rail electrification in the 1960's. The Tyne Loop was de-electrified and the EMU's transferred to the Southern Region, where they survived for many years. They were classified 2EPB.
I can still remember the platforms where the car park is now for local trains. I can remember going through a barrier to catch the train to North Shields in the seventies and then the train going through a complicated set of points and then to a much bigger Manors station. All gone now and there's only one unstaffed platform at Manors.
Really nice work. I grew up liking the trains as a kid in the 90s when the intercity 225s became an exciting thing and only just found out how complicated the points system used to be. I had no idea the car park used to be platforms!
First class, my mum comes from ashington and when we went to visit nan, we always to the ferry from Ireland and got the train to Newcastle and the lovely curved platform always impressed me
I usually don't like youtube being used for slide shows but this is way better, well made and the music fits so well. I know i'm late but thankyou for this interesting video. I have that old photo of the worlds largest crossing on my work pc, the track men back then had a nightmare I bet when they saw the plans for that lot lol.
Remember the model railway they had running around the Xmas tree, you put a penny in the slot to start an engine off on its journey, also the big red machine that stamped out your name onto a metal strip , and the Record your own voice machine ! Brilliant !
I watch quite a bit of You Tube. This piece of film is very unique and totally amazing how it has been compiled!! How do people think up this type of thing!! Excellent and of course, well done... John
What a brilliant clip of timeline on the railways.i wonder if anyone else has done this near their hometown? Also shame to see those branch lines turned into car parks.thank you for posting
It got bigger again; the metro has two platforms which you can't see as they are underground beneath the north (Neville Street) side of the main station, and there is a new island platform - numbered 5 to 8 - built along and half out of the south side of the station. The entrance to platforms 7 and 8 is an opening through the south wall, which is decorated like a Roman doorway and an inscription about Hadrian's Wall - Gateway to the Roman Empire. The station is probably the busiest it has ever been, at least as far as passenger numbers are concerned - freight trains are pretty infrequent nowadays.
