Preston station in 1967 

That was amazing. The quality of colour and sound. So glad some people took the trouble to record the final days of steam.

I used to have relatives in Preston(my mam was born there) & I would always spend a week of the school hols there just spotting,in the late 50,s/early 60,s.The Caledonian, The Red Rose and the Mid Day Scot to name just 3.Wonderful memories so a big Thank you for sharing this marvelous footage.

Thanks for the memories. I was 19 at the time and living in Preston. I remember the mucky old trains I took to Blackpool, Blackburn, and occasionally London. I regret to say I welcomed the diesels but of course steam engines were routine at the time and diesels promised the way forward. But so glad that so many steam engines have been preserved and are still allowed to run. May it long continue.

Nice to see actual proof of grimy kettles hauling Blue/Grey stock, and better to see it mixed too. SO many people believe it never happened.

So good to see the trains how they were in the 60's. I used to love going on them. It always felt like an adventure as a kid. It's not the same at all now. The horrible seats (if you can get one after paying for it) on most trains nowadays remind me of those molded plastic high chairs but meant for very dainty adults and without any elbow room.

Oh wow, so this is what it was like around 40 years ago! I live in Preston so its lovely to see the station with steam engines!

Just love the Semaphore Gantry.

Good on you, this is superb footage....invaluable.

In the days before electrification, great piece of footage.

We were all trainspotters in those days. Could have been me on the platform there.

Some very precious shots. A Brit always caused a stir in those last days.

Those were the days - fantastic!

Use to go there with my grandad. Just down the track at chorley

Some excellent stuff there - even the brand-new Brush 4 with four double arrow symbols plus BR containers (as opposed to the toothpaste box liveried ones of later years!). The Britannia and Black Five in all their grime and splendour too! Many thanks. Oh that I could see footage of my local area of that time on here - Barnsley/Cudworth/Stairfoot he typed optimistically............

Excellent footage. Thankyou for sharing.

I always thought that they'd done away with steam by 1966! This is a surprise to see!

Amazing piece of film. I first visited the station in 1982 and there were loads of blue electrics and some DMUs and as a teenager it seemed as though it had always been like that as I was born in 1969 and have no memory of steam on BR. Looking back its hard to believe this is what the station was like just 15 years earlier.

Seems funny to think further south down the line the AC electrics had taken over most services a year earlier. What an interesting juxtaposition of old and new BR was during that era.

I don't remember a big yellow BTA floating around at any point, or any place during the nineteen sixties

I wish I was born twenty years earlier now, exellent vid.

Thankyou

Last stronghold of steam in Britain, 4th August 1968 was the cessation of ordinary freight and passenger workings on BR, 11th August 1968 was the final day tours, followed by the ban being implemented from the next day onwards.

Shame about the BTA it just irritates.

Fantastic footage. Thumbs up! :)

RUINED BY THE LETTERS BTA IN FRONT OF THE VIEWS. A REAL SHAME.

Brilliant

its a shame we had the BTA spoiling this and every other film you made,we already know who you are,so why ram it down our throats,

An excellent film. The BTA does not worry me, but presumably the people who would wish to infringe the copyright of others are the ones who complain the most. The Brush 4 on original Freightliner containers is just as interesting now as the steam locos. Thanks for sharing.

So where's the bloody STATION? Not the shunting yard.

There was a big hoo haa from the unions regarding Freightliner back in the day, they didn't want private firms coming into the BR yards to collect containers, also they wanted guards at the rear of the train as was traditional. BR made or converted a few 10 foot containers into guards cabooses, this arrangement didn't last long ,then the guards moved into the rear cab of the diesel loco. Containers per se weren't popular with the dockers as well, they were secure, no contents got lost

Some good footage but spoilt for me by the huge BTA letters on the screen throughout! My father also did some cine film work at Preston in 1967.

That big BTA logo is truly misplaced and too large. Otherwise the vid is generally good.

Steam was just run into the ground during this year. It's a pity they didn't have the dignity to leave the name plates on the Brits though.

All I keep looking at is BT fucking A

Call me crazy if you like but, I reckon the world would be a better place if we still had steam trains.

Sad to see these noble majestic locomotives so flithy pulling grimy goods trains. Not only the end of steam the End of an engrossing hobby.

Don’t like big BTA logo otherwise just fine

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