Wish I could travel back to those times. Just hate the way the UK is going these days 😔 Thanks for sharing this remarkable footage from a long lost age. Loved all the little long removed stations along the way.
Best video record from that period. Thanks🙏 Shows how fast Cambrian system firemen could catch tablets! Up to 40mph I was assured. And it all belonged to US🙂
My school playing fields backed on to the line to Welshpool. Every afternoon the Cambrian Coast Express went passed pulled a gleaming Manor. Travelled many times to the coast behind steam. Lovely memories.
what a fantastic film, it brought back happy memories as we used to go to Talybont for years on holiday in the early 60's going from Snow Hill on the Cambrian coast express, reverse at Shrewsbury loco change then train split at Dovey Jnc front part to Aberystwyth then rear part to Pwllheli with another loco from their, even had a shot of Talybont which I recognised pulling in from the trees at the station
Excellent historical record. Many thanks. How we would wish to be able to travel on any of those trains today! At least the main line is still open. The decline of GWR steam can be seen from the removed nameplates.
Brilliant cine film of the steam/ diesel transition, plus so much signalling that BR 'pruned' shortly after. IIRC the Cambrian (along with all ex-GWR lines north of Banbury and Worcester) was transferred to LM Region management only the previous year (1963). A great record of car and tent styles of the era too!
Lovely video I really enjoyed it thanks for sharing. Memories flood back when watching these like being able to buy a platform ticket, remember them? It seemed that there was always a bunch of boys on the platform equipped with a notebook and pencil busily recording locomotive numbers, you don't see this (much) nowadays, a harmless and absorbing hobby.
I noticed BR STD Class 4 75014 right at the end. I was fortunate enough to enjoy a footplate ride on her at the NYMR way back in the 90s soon after her restoration from Barry condition.
Excellent archive, the photographer put a lot of time and expense into making this film, I can remember four minutes of Ciney film was expensive in the sixties.
You mean Cripple sidings, along with my old cabin . Nice shot of Salop sheds too. Cant get over hiw bug Welshpool junction was !! Hopefully my dad was firing on some of these . 👍👍😀
Wanted to let you know I'm writing shit in the morning and painting crap in the afternoon but enjoying it immensely I'm obsessed - wished I'd gone to art college instead 30 yrs ago Anyway NZ has nice scenery and space which 8 love I am painting from no other references than my head (otherwise it feels like cheating) and they sometimes resemble stuff in this world Thank you so much for being my teacher As teachers we don't always think we are doing much - but I just wanted you to know you made a lasting impression on a depressed teenager Best wishes and aroha from Wellington NZ Tajinder Jo (Joanne from Wombourne)
Heather Snowdon, wife of Alan Snowdon. I think Alan Snowdon took some film on the Cambrian. His filming was mostly from through the front windows of dmus on recently-dieselised lines; some only weeks before those lines closed. In a few cases he was able to film from the cab of a diesel locomotive. The Snowdons' films now on RU-vid are true historic documents. They show the driver's view of many rural lines no longer with us.
There's no denying it, diesels ARE effective and effecient. But they lack the charm, personality and life that you get from a steam engine, be it a tank engine, an A4 Pacific, or any other kind you can name. There's just something alive about a steam engine, if that makes any sense.
