Vintage railway film - Freight and a city - 1966 

China not innocent

I do enjoy these old documentaries. You’re right though. The world is very different now, and not all for the better.

This shunting method is still in use world wide. I’m not sure where it originated but it continues to prove its worth.

@@andrewlangley9507 It is a brilliant system , pity we can not go back to something like this and get a lot of the freight off the roads

Motorway can be solid lorries from end to end, railway, you are lucky to see a train every 10-15 minutes.

I think other countries used rail freight more than the UK. I think Germany for example has more freight going via train

@@James-dv1df Ukraine still uses trains for moving a lot of goods around , still have big marshalling yards on the outskirts of Kharkiv and other mayor cities , you dont see anywhere near the same amount of lorries on the roads as you do in the U.K

@@flybobbie1449 Not anymore. We don't have enough drivers for that! :D

@@gdwnet Well it's what i observe when flying overhead.

it made for great inspiration for model railways

But it worked and people had manual jobs most where fit people to not like the slobs of today!

@@samw2195 exactly.

I do 😂 british telepathe is good , try the old military ones too , and aircraft

man , i do!!! i totally agree. im 45, its kinda relaxing because it reminds me of the trains that were still being used when i was a child in london on the 80s, and as a kid i travelled on trains in and out of london a lot

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our understanding of human society is still very shallow by now, man must be so arrogant to believe that we can rule everything by our will

It did look good brand new though

I thought that was a design feature?

It was a boom time in the 60s. The decline didn't come till the 70s onwards.

Cheap imported steel

@@mikewatt8706 plus cheap imported cars and everything else made from steel. Take away the manufacturing, and much of the rest collapses in short order. We should have been better at making stuff at a good quality and competitive price. Sadly, to this day, it's the foreign companies that have to show us how to do that.

China.

I often wonder what ever happened to all the money the government made from selling us all down the river. The 70's full of power cuts and 3 day weeks. The 80's full of unemployment. Then the credit crunch that caused many people to lose their homes. Then the SECOND so called credit crunch...etc etc. And now it's virus upon virus upon virus... One day these people will run out of excuses to keep us down. Meanwhile the Uk is apparently bankrupt a thousand times over. Bank 0f England has no gold in it anymore... keep printing those £20 notes you fkrs...

@@scooby2142 Ever seen a poor politician? Or one who retires but does so into luxury? There’s your answer

Young woke snowflake millennials dont want to learn anything historical they're all for the present and just dream of being famous on tik tok, you tube etc etc.. sad.

@@SirReginaldBlomfield1234 indeed, the boomers had it terribly hard all their life. Being able to get a job without any education and buying a house at 20 sounds like a really hard chore. Please stop old man. Times have changed.

Yes us boomers had it easy. Just as well as you delicate little flowers wouldn't be here now.

I was born in 68 in Scotland, and while the old man could leave a job on friday and start a new one on monday, the pay was poor. Gosh, this brings back memories 👍. Such as rented televisions. Both parents worked full time, and we could not afford to buy a tv 😳

Compared to the traction power and rolling stock 😂

You're kidding aren't you? My folks grew up in a northern working town. There was a permanent player of coal dust everywhere. It was in their hair, under their nails. Large parts of the town were rubble. The difference now is the litter from fast food and the graffiti. But at least those don't fill your lungs.

@@acciid what town?

@@chriso8485 South Shields. But there are plenty of others in the North East.

They should have taken a bath.@@acciid

I assume now it is more akin to a scene from Charles Bronson's Death Wish.....?

@@bro70 It was until recently, and even featured in movies as such, but has since received something of a renovation - private sector.

@@nemo6686 only it's not really the private sector. It's a public private partnership where local government is still going to foot the bill for social housing while the private company gets to flog "luxury" apartments which are probably still just as crap as they were before but with fancy furniture and a huge rent markup.

@@doorhanger9317 Yay - hipsters!?!?!?!?

@@nemo6686 nothing to do with hipsters. Same old story since the 80s of private companies robbing the assets and tax money of local areas at the behest of "pro-business" national government.

What privatisation? Letting of monopoly franchises to the highest bidder for a few years isn't privatisation - it's merely contracting out the running of the service as dictated by the Civil Service to the highest bidder, who in turn will need to charge the highest fares to recoup the money. What trains must run, how many carriages must they have, and so on. Trains still have drivers, and they're essentially still controlled by shining coloured lights at the drivers. The rail industry is about as ambitious and visionary for its own future as a retired librarian.

Think there was 3 sets but my memory is a little shaky.

There was also the Cow & Calf name, which fits better IMO. Y’know since both units are actually doing the work lol. I like how you could see a precursor to that with two shunters, I’m presuming 08’s, working in tandem but with both seeming to still have their cabs

So it is, I drive to work on that bit of road every day and didn’t recognise it at first

@@johnroberts1768 I lived in Unstone at the time the film was made, on this road.

​@Aussie Pom Let's all get life changing injuries at shitty low paid jobs. OK gammon.

You mean The Hump Inspector at 16:53 ? I bet he'd like that as a job😉

Well spotted, Gove the hump inspector, there must be a joke in there somewhere!

Mr Wan Ker

Only if it was making a loss and draining the public purse.

Thatcher would have tried to close down any industry where blue collar workers were paid a living wage, or were members of a trade union

It’s not simple . . And nostalgia glosses over past miseries. I grew up when union leaders succeeded in bringing down an elected government 1974, held another to ransom for the rest of the decade, and strikes made us the ‘sick man of Europe’. Their agenda was revolutionary - to a system that has failed every country adopting it. Note I say union leaders, not members. By 1979 the country was in crisis - as a student we kept our hospital running by clearing rotting rubbish and bodies because the unions were striking - Winter of Discontent. Thatcher was the response to that, and the same union leaders tried to overthrow her elected government too. This time they lost, and as ever it was the ‘poor bloody infantry’ of union members who suffered rather than their politically driven leaders. Wars leave carnage - and that was near to a civil war. I too regret the loss of good industry, the throwaway society we have now, and the concentration of wealth by financiers and billionaires. I’m still searching for a political philosopher with the answers. Any volunteers?

It's Great Britain not because its Brilliant, more rather, when the Breton people settled here, they refered it as Great Breton, which eventually changed to Great Britain through linguistic changes.

Time always moves on. This video is about moving from Victorian technology to 20th century technology.

Can’t be certain but I’d doubt it, very little steel is made in Britain these days.

@@thomasthornton2002 Same here. Japan started killing our industry, now China is hammering the nails in the coffin. We did this to ourselves. Very sad

@@ronalddevine9587 can’t compete with cheap labour and cheap shipping,

Yes we make high grade special steels and alloys in Sheffield

@@hunty28 No? You getting your facts from a corrupt MP? Sheet fabrication and automated factories are NOT steelworks. They don't have blast furnaces, rolling mills, there's no iron making, no steel making there anymore. The steelworks in Rotherham closed in 1993, Stocksbridge has been mothballed thanks to Tata getting into trouble with the Fraud Office and Liberty Steel trying to buy the site going into administration thanks to the collapse of Greensill Capital this year. British Steel is dead thanks to Europe, China, cheaper imports, and the looney lefty climate change cult. Only Scunthorpe and Port Talbot remain.

1985? The same year Britain began closing down.

All that investment and work with hat went into this....and the place lasted just over two decades. Pathetic. But very sad aswell.

@@robtyman4281 And completely unnecessary. A country of slaves.

It was actually March 1998 when Tinsley TMD closed An absolutely shameful waste of such a good facility

Did you mean 1998?

The modernisation plan came along at the same time motorways were being built, which robbed the railway of wagonload freight. Of course hindsight is 20/20!

A number of the BTF videos here have been up on other channels before which seem to have gone now (far as I'm aware), so that's probably why you recognise it.

But we made it work, and it did so, for quite a long time, and I was part of it in its dying days too. Wasn't our world more interesting back then? I saw all this, and can't believe it now. Great to watch, but heartbreaking.

Tesco seem to like building on old railways they have 3 sites off the top of my head they built on in my city.