My great grandfather, Charles Day, was an engineer on the Great Western Railway. He drove the trains from Bornmith to London from the 1860 to 1910. This movie really helped me understand what his job entailed. Thank you for uploading.
@@simontaylor2319 I would be e more concerned about saying that was an engineer but drove the trains. Engineer is American term for driver though the video seems to use engineer for what would be called fireman. Not to mention bornnmith only translates in google search Bournemouth which the GWR never went too. Local railway connected to the LSWR which became part of southern railway. So a very confused person.
@@simontaylor2319 Not only age is issue with their post but also the railway he mentioned doesn’t run where he said drove trains from and engineers don’t drive trains in UK. So lots of things mixed up by the poster. Not sure how you don’t understand that.
@@simontaylor2319 Going to respond another phrase that well known. Pot Kettle Black. You said my post was not understandable and irrelevant. I simply said I didn't understand that statement as in explaining my post and didn't understand why was difficult to understand. My reply didn't say anything yours didn't and if you find that insulting then you may not want to post that at other people in the first place. You said I don't understand you and the post is irrelevant, I replied with I don't understand you. Yet apparently I was not insulted but you were. Hence Pot Kettle Black. Also where did I actually disagree with your post about age being questionable, to have FINALLY AGREED with you. First section of original post "I would be more concerned about saying that was an engineer but drove the trains. Engineer is American term for driver though the video seems to use engineer for what would be called fireman." So where in there did I disagree with you about the age. Didn't mention anything about age but in quite simple English said that the poster had an engineer driving trains, which is not true in the UK but is the American term of driver, so possibly the poster is Amercian. Then pointed out that the video had used the term engineer to describe the fireman. So the poster has a person driving a train that wouldn't do so, though possibly is an American which could be why used engineer. So this is something ELSE that is questionable about the original post and is something that would be MORE concerned about not that the age was not something questionable Second Section: "Not to mention bornnmith only translates in google search Bournemouth which the GWR never went too. Local railway connected to the LSWR which became part of southern railway." The original poster said that drove trains from bornmith to paddington. As I said in that post Bornmith when put into google comes back with reference to Bournemouth (as Bornmith is not a place in the UK) which the Great Western which is where the original poster said drove trains from and who for never went too. Then added who the railway was that ran to Bournemouth. Again no disagreement about you questioning the age of the person in here. But is two other things questionable bits of information from the original poster. Third Section: "So a very confused person." So here not disagreeing with you about the age at all but confirming that the original poster must have quite a bit confused. So in fact am actually AGREEING with you that the poster must be wrong in their understanding. You questioned the age I added that as well would be questioning not only when but that was impossible to have driven trains from Bournemouth to Paddington for the Great Western as an engineer. So please explain to me where I ever disagreed with you around the age in the first place to then FINALLY AGREE in my second post. And no doubt you will be insulted by me pointing this out to you
My Great Great Grandfather gave up his job as a human bird scarer and became a navvy in the 1850s. He was a Chartist and had been to Improvement Classes, becoming literate. Never looked back. South Yorkshire Railway. Thanks GG👍The right move for all our family’s later generations.
Nice documentary. I wish, however, that people would leave films "as is", rather than colouring up or re-sizing to fit 16:9 screens just to pander to the short attention-spans. We don't all need everything to "be modern" to appreciate them, especially when they were made for 4:3 black & white showing...
@@arbjful No worse than others and often not as bad. The one's that really annoy's are The Kiddies who think Britain was the only country to have an Empire ! The other is Britain invented slavery. They want to check out their Moslem pals amongst other's.
Really interesting to see this film 80-odd years on but a pity about distorting the image at certain points so that it looks flattened, a trait of the 1990s when this film was rescued from oblivion (they were trying to fool us into thinking it was a wide screen image). Fortunately DD and others saved many films of all sorts from such oblivion and thank goodness that they did or we'd likely never have had the chance to see this time capsule. Fascinating stuff!
The biggest change of Britain was not it's face but it's sudden change of language from English to Urdu which caused the taxi drivers to get confused causing London bridge to fall down !!!!
That locomotive testing plant, supposedly built by the Great Western Railway, was not at Swindon, and indeed was not anywhere in the United Kingdom. Almost certainly in the USA.
Tried to identify the Victorian 2.2.2. locomotive in the arly part of this film but the nearest I could come up wiht is Charles Sacre's 1883 design for the Manchester and Sheffield and Licolnshire Railway
It didn't take them long to make a mistake. Right at the start they state that Locomotion is next to a Gresley Pacific. WRONG. It's next to a NER Pacific, designed by Sir Vincent Raven.
But it is local corruption and civil strife. Not that imposed by a colonial power, albeit that colonisation remains a factor. Angola’s history under Portuguese control was seldom peaceful or particularly beneficial for the local population either.
It is a most elegant looking locomotive. It usually resides in 'Locomotion' at Shildon. I see that it is currently on loan to the Buckingham Railway Centre at Quainton. Both places are musts, if you are a railfan!
@@mjhartleburyI think you'll find that was how I recorded it. I had to use my capture card to capture this, dunno why it comes out in this aspect ratio
Right at the begining they show 'locomotion' the first loco used on a public railway next to a pacific loco described as a Gresley pacific ,it's actually a Raven pacific of the North eastern railway,a completely different design ! This is at best a poor pot boiler of a video 👎
