Vintage railway film - The signal engineers - 1962 

what's marples beeching got to do with it. the labour party closed the lines and then gave beeching an award. beeching made a report, he had no power

Exactly!

@@bobtudbury8505 Marples owned 80% of the shares of a road construction company named after him (technically he sold them to his wife, with the intention of buying them back fro the same price later) which won several government contracts. Road building companies profit from the closure of railways. As the Minister of Transport, Marples appointed Beeching. Marples later fled the country to Monaco to avoid a big tax bill.

so what, i am glad he built the roads. i am working class and the car has given us the greatest freedom. Factually 99% of the lines were closed by LABOUR from 1965 to 1970 . (beeching had no power) Labour then gave beeching an award ( remember LABOUR closed hundreds of coal mines in the 60's and saved none in the 90's , toxic tony , carful who you vote for @@gregoryclark8217

Mmm yes that's just what I was thinking when I saw that and EP point machines have a lot of power behind them

Funny how the Brits call them "points" and the 'Muricans call them "switches". Whereas us Dutchies call them wissels (changers) which is something between the US name and the German "Weichen", diverters.

I'm Polish and I work on UK railways fixing transformers!

It’s why they call it the railway family. Generations work on the railways. It’s in the blood 👍👍

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@@رمضانحسين-س6و hello squiggles

The Grand Hotel wants its microwave dish back.

My late father done his E grade at Wimbledon A, him and his mate Johnny Woods, me father got F grade at London Bridge whilst Johnny ended up in Victoria. Victoria smoking was prohibited but LB they smoked like chimneys lol

Just like today, then

The dignity and consideration that spawned two world wars and Nazi death camps, Hitler, Stalin, apartheid, racial segregation in the U.S. and so forth? That 'dignity and consideration'? Misty-eyed bollocks.

But not workplace-safety apparently...

@@kieronjohnson8834 Mr. Johnson, you have confused government oversight with citizens on the whole -- a rookie mistake; therefore the "absolutely this" or "absolutely that" narrative of your content is of no viable consequence. Oh, and thank you for the name-calling -- which conveniently addresses my initial post...spot-on as it were. (Now, big boy, gimme a nice big smooooch-o-rama to make the hurt go away!!)

@@pacz8114 How about I throw your thesaurus back at you? In a dignified and considered manner, naturally. Oh, and maybe you need reminding that governments tend to get voted in by people. Popular consent and all that.. people getting what they want. Sorry you were saying something about rookie mistakes?

Don't forget smoking fags, walking on operating tracks and slinging all the old junk on a bonfire!

Also curves, with a very apt poster in the background!

But I bet any applicant was given the training he/she would need to understand the job properly. You wouldn't get any shitty speeches like ' Due to the overwhelming number of applicants, we cannot respond to all the applicants, so if you do not get a response from us within 3 weeks, please suggest that your application has been unssuccessful '.

Haha... was just thinking that myself!

You're damned right! And they SHOULD! A grown man, sticking his fingers into machinery that could move at any time without warning. What kind of an example was he setting for those apprentices??? Would you drive without a seat belt, too?

And sticking your finger in the moving parts without isolating them.

Yep and thats why there were a shitload more injuries and deaths from those jobs back then.

Or hard hats and jobsworth clipboards.

@@_Zekken Oh shut up.

@@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome uhh why?

you must mean pre labour party, they closed the lines never beeching

You really must learn your history before making comments. It was the Tory party transport minister who appointed Beeching

@@davidcorbett62 Yes, but most of the closures proposed in the Beeching report were implemented after Labour had been elected in 1964

@@duckie32x Could well have been despite Labour at the time saying they wouldn’t close lines but saying something to get votes and actually carrying through with your promises are two different things.. What they found was as things had gone so far with the closures it was going to cost too much so they quietly done nothing to stop the closures

NR operates an apprentice scheme for various disciplines including engineering.

You are full of shit.

Really, in West Wales.

Would be a 'boy ee' one these days,or it would be banned!! Woke nonsense!!!

Good spot dude 👌😂👏

Was that your mum or you just train spotty? Hehe,, woke blanker,,, wudge wudge nank nank, say no more!

@@thegardensentinel lol. I wish my mum looked like that.

Yes, because making a job cleaner and easier to do is bad! Not to mention safer, how awful!

@@Secretlyalittleworm ....yes how awful. Exactly.

you mean pre labour, as they closed everything

@@robtyman4281 Safer is not awful.

Soon to be the old Euston, thankfully. I just hope there's somehow space for a Doric Arch in its replacement.

And there was Dr. Beeching who basically ruined rail service throughout Britain.

@@esseel7896 I didn't Know about that background. Business is business. But still, the UK rail system is much better for people movers. The freight systems here in the US is better than across the pond.

@@esseel7896 I've seen two-mile freight trains in the Southwest that spans at least several of your villages and towns if not more. I think that the only country that has more uglier trains than the US is North Korea. They have to buy old stock, so that gives them an excuse.

@@wendellwhite5797 And his Mate Philip Shirley that stuffed the NSW Railway’s in Australia.

Desindustrialization is a consequence of financerization, ecologically correct industry could bring honest jobs back.

@@MatheusFernandes-xf4zm You are right in that banksters are a key factor in the phenomenon of "disappearing" jobs. But they need the help of politicians to get away with this. Interestingly, in Germany, it was the Labour party (SPD) who made it possible that companies like KKR and Blackstone could gobble up big manufacturers and making money from firing everybody. But you don't need the eco-religion in order to fix that: there are privately owned hi-tech companies with tens of thousands of employees who are successfully competing in a free market simply by being built around the idea of keeping people of all skill levels in work and prioritizing security and resilience over disproportional profits and growth for growth's sake (Portugal). I agree that small-scale (ecological) farming could make a huge difference and it's amazing that it's usually the Green party (also Germany) who are openly OPPOSING this concept but FAVOUR giving the big agricultural companies more rights and more land... go figure out why! However, for my region, Left/Green has been the big-big job killer for decades.

Read the actual data on the climate you schmuck.

Nor high vis trains, although it was not long before they gained yellow front panels

Being grandparents maybe?

What do you mean? That they just used you as free help during that time? Forgive me if I got that wrong.