Severn Tunnel Junction Marshalling Yard - Last Days 

KeoShiareev

How much would it have been to get a cup of tea in a train station in 1966?

Probably 6d, but I'm too old to remember :)

Stan Patterson ul

KeoShiareev

So Sad ...I worked STJ 1960-4 ...Signal Box & Fireman,Great memories !!!! ......

Those wagons would be coupled up manually. At 5:20 you can see the shunter reaching in with his pole to hook the chains on as the brake van and wagon are just about to meet. I guess they would also have to go back and connect up all the air brake pipes once the train was complete.

Timothy Smith some went to Bristol Bath Road, Newport High Street, Gloucester Horton Road, Cardiff Canton, Barry, Margam and Worcester

Judging by Google Maps, which isn't known for it's up-to-dateness I know, it's a place people go to fly tip...

new severn bridge to be excact, but ye your right, still rubbish. lol. ace video, as a Bristol boy, we would save up for a 33 bash to severn tunnel on a Saturday morning. back in the days of pilning seing more trains aswell.

Housing estate on what was the upside sidings and offices. We still have an office on that side for the Operations Managers and a siding for the emergency gators for the Severn Tunnel. Couple of small buildings remain on the up side that now form part of the OLE depot and there some maintenance storage but nothing like you see in the video. On the down side there is nothing, all back to nature, the spare land was sold off and the boundary fence brought in closer to the Down Relief

No, it was because the Mines closed, without the coal trains to marshall it lost its purpose, this yard was no use to handle pallet and container freight that is the majority of trucked freight.

@@grahamariss2111 Magaret Thatcher....

Nothing to do with Thatcher, a change in railfreight was the cause. Bulk loads were the way forward as speedlink made massive losses, that we, the tax payer had to pay for . It was tried again in 1997 and failed again . Coal was in decline in the 1960's I worked in a few rail yards and depots and saw the decline first hand . We had 120 locos based at Canton, same amount as the whole UK now . The class 66 have done nearly a million miles each since new. 23 years old. I worked at Radyr, STJ , Canton, Tidal sidings, AD ,East Usk, and Margam over 47 years .

not impossible - ridiculous and pointless !

Stupid wanker comment...are you for real ?

No, no, no! Health and safety was always a consideration by the people doing the jobs. And, knowing where the danger was, they would act accordingly. When they had become expert at their profession they would do things with their acquired extra efficiency so easily that it might LOOK unsafe to a lay person. The shunters' art is a good example. I think a lot of younger people believe that when older ones complain about 'health and safety', they're talking about the things themselves, i.e. about health, and about safety; and implying that those things are not very important. That's not at all what they're saying. They're using those words as short for 'The Health and Safety Executive', the government body that began to interfere, especially at the end of the 1900s, and to this day, with good natural health and safety practices, producing in the process a lot of very stupid and wasteful regulation, that notoriously makes workers' lives unnecessarily difficult and frustrating.

@@robwilde855 I don't agree with any of that, but that's cool, we're all entitled to our opinions 😃

@@MSmifffy Thanks Mark - and well said. I'll concede one thing to you: the new legislation has forced some - what shall I say - 'rogue' employers to behave better. There are always some who want to get away with shortcuts, to add to the profit margin, and some of them will browbeat employees to go along with less safe practices. This didn't matter so much when I was young when you could just tell them to sod off and then go and get another job fairly easily: it was your own fault if you stayed. Now of course it's much more difficult to get a new job. May I just add that I was born in 1949 and have had lots and lots of jobs, and seen the different ways by which the matter of safety can be approached. What I've learned from it all is that the best results come from an individual's own intelligent appraisal of risks, and their clear understanding of what practices are necessary to ensure safety - rather than unthinking obedience of 'one-size-fits-all' [which they don't] rules imposed by authority. Sensible training is of course always part of it; that tended to be done informally, and as required, not by special courses, as nowadays. I don't know your age, or even if that's relevant to anything discussed here; but many of my generation have seen over the years a steady movement away from a society comprising many sturdy independent characterful individuals to a much greyer world of unprotesting yes-men, afraid to voice any opinion, and it's under this rubric that we see these new 'Health and Safety' attitudes - as just one sub-division of the general dumbing-down of life. We used to be a nation of people who were clever AND had 'common-sense'; now we're merely clever. That's enough from me! No doubt you won't agree with much, but my ideas might resonate with other folk, and be of use in that way. Best Wishes.

Dickhead rivet counter.

i couldnt agree more those who say steam depots and other steam related buildings /track and other steam related facilities that are to be destroyed should be put away at the magisties pleasure for life and THAT MEANS LIFE STEAM RULES THE RAILWAYS and nought will change that. and i mean nothing .

Why are you replying to your own comment? You're clearly deluded, the railway exists not for the benefit of anoraks, but to move people and goods about. If a yard is not needed then it shouldn't be kept open for no reason. Anyway, steam traction is outdated.

oh thats right steam is outdated thats why people are rebuilding new steam locos like tornado/beachyhead /a patriott/a grange /an ivatt262 ect get ya facts right sonny steam will never be out dated because it rules the rails long live steam .

@@timothysmith8300 Are you allowed back on the Internet yet, or are you still chewing crayons? 😂😂

You are an absolute tool.