Vintage railway film - Diesel trainride - 1959 

We need more simpler times.

Totally agree with you.

it was just your age

It's you yes. World has always been and will always be shitty as long as life exists on its surface to grow old or sick and then die. Once the last human will drop dead though and then the nonsense will end for good.

I bet you're a hoot at parties.

i noticed Oulton Broad i was there a few weeks ago

Plus Wetheral (on the Newcastle & CarlisleRy,) and Bassenthwaite Lake with Blencathra in the background. Good film, though!

What was the station on the sharp curve with wonderful white bridge and black and white brickwork along the platfom edge?

It might as well be Mars, I don't care.

Marples plotted. Beeching was just paid a lot of cash to be Marples' human sield.

@@CullenRick Real music before the electric guitar drowned the commentary 😆

Today the hi Vis jacket has replaced common sense, I know that through watching the youngsters thinking they are emune from danger by wearing them, common sense is getting less, and THAT'S were the dangers lie.

A long journey indeed! Past beccles bank on the east suffolk line. Im sure the opening shots are yarmouth beach station with the distinctive houses in the background.

I think you are correct. At least, I was thinking the same about this stretch. I never rode this by train but have walked it several times (but not from Norwich!).

Yes I thought it was a bit to many mountains for around

For the east of England.

Think it might have started from Gt Yarmouth as one bridge crossing looked very like Reedham on the Yare just after Breydon Water and later the bridges approaching Thorpe St. Andrew. Kicking off from Norwich going west we wouldn`t have seen so much of the broads.

graham frear BTF often used existing stock footage shot for previous productions.

I left England as a child in 1959, emigrated to Canada, and as much as this video tugs at the nostalgic heartstrings...and I was thinking exactly as you are...it belies how incredibly tough life was for much of the public in those days. That being said, I still love cycling the UK countryside, and riding the heritage railways, but yes, a part of me longs for an idyll like this, whether it was attainable or not. I'm deeply torn from watching this...

The kids would have been moaning when are we going to get there by the end in reality…

No search engines back in those days! lol

I quite agree. Precocious little kids.

Seeing that destination blind at 0:37, I can tell you that you can still travel between Holt and Sheringham by steam train and DMU. That is now the North Norfolk Railway. You can see my video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pjZvMH4Kryw.html

I'll make the effort to travel from yorkshire.in the near future

Thank you for that information.ill.get the map out thanks

If any of these lines are still open they won’t look like this now. They’ll be strewn with weeds, rubbish and other crap! Amazing how clean and presentable the track looks in the this film.

I did! Well, I am only two years older than the film but this is very much how I remember my childhood. Nostalgia, perhaps, but I am sure that these were better times in which to live. Certainly it was a better time to have one's childhood... innocent of smart'phones and the internet!

I was six when this film was made. Just like Stuart this is how I remember it as well.

I was nine, old enough to remember my mother crying as we were so poor, she couldn't afford a school uniform for my older sister, and my dad was a hard working decorated war vet. I remember my mother throwing her purse at the wall amidst her desperate tears, and her money, the family's money rolled on the floor...all two pennies. That was the straw that broke the camel's back to emigrate. Make no mistake, I'd love to crawl into that video and live the lavish middle-class dream portrayed. But it's a lie, for all but a few. There's a reason that the late Fifties saw maximum emigrated from the UK. Most had no choice but to doing so.

Just what I was thinking!

Thought it might be around Keswick ? But still a very long shift....

It did say special on the front of the train and, to be fair, not many people would pack a lunch for a short trip into town on a local service!

lol...or he'd had a really good night...

True but a very insightful script. I could imagine my children, when young, saying the same things, logically illogical.

Class 108. Still a few of them about on heritage lines... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OYIz62nsr2o.html

@@michaeljohnson9421 Thanks!

I think it's a 114, as it has 4 large windows between the doors, unlike the 108 which has only 3 since it has the shorter 58 ft frame

Exactly! It does the heart good to see the care and attention to the permanent way then. Even the surrounding countryside looks more cared for. Great days.

c1959 one could travel virtually anywhere by train before the Beeching cuts destroyed the national railway network.

The good news is lines he closed are now reopened. But much more need to be reopened.

There certainly were, son. You were a kid then, and obviously haven't learned much in the interim, except to believe your own BS.