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Paul Langcaster
Великобритания
Добавлен 1 мар 2014
Welcome to my You Tube channel. Here you will find some of my personal collection along with many of the videos from my days working as the Programme Manager for Swindon Cable. Please feel free to like and share and leave comments. There are videos being added regularly, so please check back for new additions.
The Pines Express - Cross Country HST Farewell railtour
On Tuesday 26 September 2023, a special train to mark the end of the HST with Cross Country.
This is programme provides a record of the celebratory special train to mark the end of the HST's in use with Cross Country. The Pines Express ran from Leeds to Swanage as part of the operator’s farewell celebrations for this fleet after more than 40 years of operation on Cross Country routes.
This is programme provides a record of the celebratory special train to mark the end of the HST's in use with Cross Country. The Pines Express ran from Leeds to Swanage as part of the operator’s farewell celebrations for this fleet after more than 40 years of operation on Cross Country routes.
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Cross Country Trains HST Tribute
Просмотров 19710 месяцев назад
As Cross Country Trains retire their stalwart HST sets it's time to pay tribute to these masters of the rails. They have been retired after over 40 years service as they are considered non standard and expensive to run. Many of us will miss seeing these beauties in action and travelling on them across the country. Here's my short tribute to the Cross Country HST.
Hercules farewell flypast over Swindon
Просмотров 749Год назад
Once such a familiar sight and sound in the skies above Swindon and about to be retired... Three RAF Hercules performed a flypast. They were once based at the nearby RAF Lyneham and were the essential transport plane, used in many conflicts and relief operations.
Classic class 73's at Weston-super-Mare
Просмотров 319Год назад
Diesel's at the seaside and the classic class 73's at Weston-super-Mare. A very rare sight as they duo headed a special from Ashford International.
Class 40 D345 and Class 73's at Swindon 10 June 2023
Просмотров 332Год назад
Chasing some great classic traction action at Swindon on Saturday 10 June 2023. A class 40 heading to Weymouth and a couple of the old Southern's 73's heading to Weston. You don't see that very often!
LNER locomotive 60103 Flying Scotsman, passing through Swindon - 7 June 2023
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The wonderful sight of former LNER locomotive 60103 Flying Scotsman, passing through Swindon today on a special from London Paddington to Cardiff and return.
Swanage Diesel Gala 2023
Просмотров 229Год назад
Some of the very many movements on the Swanage Railway as part of their Diesel Gala 2023. Some great sights and sounds of classic diesel traction in action at Swanage on Sunday 14 May.
Swanage Steam Railway - Spring Steam Gala 2023
Просмотров 434Год назад
A few sights from the Swanage Steam Railway - Spring Steam Gala 2023.
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam railway - Comings and goings 2021
Просмотров 233Год назад
Some more images of the wonderful Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam railway and some of their traction in action on a day back in 2021. This was a much needed trip in between the dreaded lock downs. Fresh air and trains, what more could you want! Recorded 17 August 2021.
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam railway - Comings and goings 2022
Просмотров 5 тыс.Год назад
An afternoon of traction action at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam railway around Toddington. This selection of clips includes diesel and steam traction.
Bristol Zoo Gardens - A final look
Просмотров 545Год назад
This weekend sees the closure of the Bristol Zoo Gardens. I have many happy memories of visits here with my Nan and Mum and Dad... I made a final visit for a look around a few weeks back. Here are a few final memories!
Cardiff Central trains 26 February 2022
Просмотров 1292 года назад
A few of the sights and sounds of the changing rail scene, recorded at Cardiff Central on 26 February 2022.
Gloucestershire Vintage & Country Extravaganza 2022
Просмотров 6532 года назад
South Cerney airfield was the location for the Gloucestershire Vintage & Country Extravaganza, on Friday 5th, Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th of August 2022. Here is a short montage from the event.
GWR Long Rock Maintenance Depot Open Day 2019
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Some of the sights and sounds from the GWR Long Rock Maintenance Depot Open Day on Saturday 13 April 2019.
Clun Castle passes through and returns through Swindon. 11 June 2022
Просмотров 1162 года назад
A Swindon built locomotive passes through Swindon, twice. No.7029 Clun Castle passes through Swindon, the driver whistling as he pays his respects to the once famous locomotive works where the Castle was built back in 1950. Then as the sun sets over the railway works site the engine returns, on it's way back to Birmingham.
Former LMS 'Jubilee Class', No 45596 Bahamas steams through Swindon: 18.06.22
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Former LMS 'Jubilee Class', No 45596 Bahamas steams through Swindon: 18.06.22
Steam in Swindon - Duchess of Sutherland 30 04 22
Просмотров 7222 года назад
Steam in Swindon - Duchess of Sutherland 30 04 22
God's Wonderful Railwaymen 2022 - Swindon Railway Works
Просмотров 38 тыс.2 года назад
God's Wonderful Railwaymen 2022 - Swindon Railway Works
A double helping of steam passed through Swindon
Просмотров 3552 года назад
A double helping of steam passed through Swindon
Swindon built locomotive No.7029 Clun Castle visiting Swindon
Просмотров 5052 года назад
Swindon built locomotive No.7029 Clun Castle visiting Swindon
Steam loco Royal Scot 46100 pauses at Swindon 04.09.21
Просмотров 962 года назад
Steam loco Royal Scot 46100 pauses at Swindon 04.09.21
The Midland HST Pullman at Swindon. 29.05.21
Просмотров 1243 года назад
The Midland HST Pullman at Swindon. 29.05.21
Class 37 409 passing through Swindon with a DVT bound for Cardiff
Просмотров 1053 года назад
Class 37 409 passing through Swindon with a DVT bound for Cardiff
Class 37 409 passing through Swindon with a DVT
Просмотров 683 года назад
Class 37 409 passing through Swindon with a DVT
Brand New IEP 800's on test at Swindon 05.10.17
Просмотров 773 года назад
Brand New IEP 800's on test at Swindon 05.10.17
2x West Coast Railway Class 47's on the sea wall at Dawlish
Просмотров 693 года назад
2x West Coast Railway Class 47's on the sea wall at Dawlish
I presume it was 1 Feb, 2019.I was living near the cemetary in the Lansdown Road. Did prior shopping from the Morrison's a day before due to storm alert. It was a perfect snowfall that day, splendid.
Having served in the Army I can imagine the pride and camaraderie and humour was much the same . These people produced some of the best quality heavy engineering seen in Britain . They and Swindon works deserve all the accolades they get . The Great Western Railway was unique in many ways and all Western Countrymen are proud they served the this wonderful company
Soon Newton Aycliffe will go down the same path as Swindon Works. It’s just tragic for such a new site like Newton Aycliffe…
I'm still amazed all this was going on without me knowing. I assumed in the UK there were just 4 channels, period. I didn't know some areas had cable with many more channels, I thought that didn't start until 1989 with Sky satellite.
Yeah, all the old regional cable networks in the 80s are very interesting. We didn't get cable in my area until 1994 like many areas when Telewest/NTL did their big expansions.
I worked there, now is sells crap fast food and designer cloths made in sweatshops . This is Britain being dismantled bit by bit as we become a third world country
Thank you Swindon Cable and the makers of this wonderful documentary. Inspiring for what was achieved and built there for so long; but now sad in equal measure. Thank you for posting this
Glad you enjoyed it. It is sad we have lost such an important engineering asset.
It's Kate Bush!! 0:57
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Thanks for sharing this - it's really interesting to see behind the scenes at Swindon Cable's headend. I've been steadily collecting the parts to build a recreation - I have an American (NTSC) Model MVP video scrambler and matching C6M modulator, same as those in the video but for the American market. What a shame a lot of the UK spec equipment seems to have been scrapped.
Saw it at Derby, had my first ever uni lecture down in Leicester about 45 minutes later, got there in time, worth it😂❤
9:17 THATS ME! Centre screen, in the red
Wonderful and fitting, fabulous, enjoyed it start to finish :)
Great video Paul. Keep it up❤
Thank you! Will do!
Absolutely excellent film, well done.
a shop, b shop were the best places to work
all respects out to George Lawrence, Christopher Peston, John Gill, Dave Pratt, Simon Harry, Vince, Lance, Terry Bunce, Trev, Long Tall Ken, Pugsy. Mike Difford, John Slocombe, Sipton, Duncan Witerlfood ... probably mostly all RIP but these were the best of the best !
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It is very sad that Swindon will never see them again 😢😢😢 Fling over Swindon.
Thanks for uploading Paul, this is fascinating!
Flew over Colchester this afternoon.
I saw them came over Pasture close 2day.😢😢😢
Great video. I was on that trip, it was amazing 🙂
Very nice catches 👍 had a few journeys right behind the magnificent D345 at the Swanage Railway Diesel Gala last month, awesome sight and sound 😊
Excellent video made in perfect weather
Great video! I've subscribed!
Wish we could go back to those days Paul. The world is so horrible now.
Fabulous coverage as always Paul. What a great day out!
Sky Channel was initially encrypted using Oak Orion scrambling for cable system distribution only, but later on they pulled it going free to air all over Europe for motorised satellite dish owners.
Enjoy the sights and sounds of the recent Spring Gala!
So IT made railway engineering obsolete? Of course not. Its done in France and other places as ever. Thatcher & Co had no authority to shut down Swindon or the mines for that matter. We are the authority. Not them. In law. They did not own what they destroyed. The people did.
Thatcher & Co had no authority to close something that did not belong to them. I hear it closed with full order books. A .gov gets its orders from us. Not vice versa.
Never should of touched it. What a joke
Now Piri Piri Chicken shop. How times change.
i was there that day .... great place to play
Very shortsighted at the time, it had everything needed for the railway. Why put a shopping centre instead of a workshop that could do everything. Just think if it was still there how it could serve preserved railways, even new builds. Very shortsighted.
This is beautiful
Beautiful footage! These locos are gorgeous! 🤌🏻😙👌🏻
They are! Thank you!
Good views n music paul
Thanks .Fantastic coverage,
Really well put together video. enjoyed it, Thanks.
It was also the year Thatcher got rid of all the bus works in every major city along with the miners and the rest of our industry.
Yes. She destroyed so much including mines. All part of the UNIDROIT Treaty signed in 1948. I believe.
As sad as this is/was the same happened all over the country , Donny, Crewe, Derby etc' etc'
All deliberate policy to deindustrialise us in favour of EU and Far East.
Spot on Paul, pity no credits.........
Great see see Dave and hear his voice again. Dave was Radio Rental's Mr Fixit when there were problems on the Swindon Viewpoint Uplink from Victoria Road to RR Shrivenham Road. Always calm and cool-headed, Dave would get us back on the air usually within minutes. P'Nut
I’ve seen a similar documentary about Swindon works Sad to see it all gone The art of “coiling a wire” lost 😡
Good on you old Geysers, go for it.
Geezers
Remembering hopping the fence when Swindon was breaking peaks. Such a shame that British Engineering has gone, locos from the UK were once shipped worldwide. Now we have boring Class 66s imported and our industry has gone.
It was a deliberate policy due the signing of UNIDROIT Treaty in 1948. Took a while to wreck things here.
The mighty workshops like Swindon and Crewe are now just a memory, the great western is run by Hitachi junk with ironing boards for seats and half the people who live on the site of the works have no idea it even existed while scrolling along their chinese slave built iphones. What a world it became, so utterly depressing and vapid.
For your info Hitachi build bullet trains in Japan. The trains they build in the UK are built to UK specs. One thing that Thatcher did was to destroy british manufacturing, of course she was helped by the unions.
Yup. Peeps mainly don't give a toss it seems.
I did moved to Swindon for a better comutte to work a few years ago and remember I was excited to check out what is left of Swindon Works, but it's a real shame, watching this documentary, seeing how it once was now reduced to essentially the main shed and side shed where the museam is standing, very little of the herritate was kept it seemed despite without the works Swindon would of been one of many small towns that would get ignored. It's a real shame they didn't preserve move of what Swindon's history.
I was a kid when the works closed . Swindon was THE place to go if you liked railways. Our school had a trip planned for the GWR 100 years celebrations. But they closed the works down and cancelled everything. So many jobs lost.
Old people trust their government, that's where the problem started.
And many didn’t know when there’s a time to strike and when there was a time not to. And thought the government would always pay. And the general public got sick of it. Which is why you got Thatcher.
Nikki Mideo - cameraman - passed on the Kegworth air crash Jan 1989. RIP mate.
Hi Peter, Did you know Nikki? Cheers, Paul
@@paullangcaster7909 Yes Paul. I was an EMI Systems Engineer on the commissioning team for Swindon Viewpoint, and was subsequently posted as Viewpoint's Engineer for three years. I left Viewpoint in '76, but visited Victoria Road at least once a month, and so was friendly with all the staff, volunteers and users of the facilities there. It was ironic that I travelled up the M1 on 8th Jan 1989, and passed East Midlands airport at 20:15 - five minutes before the aircraft crash there. I learnt that Nikki was onboard the follwing weekend. Your name rings a bell with me - probably through Swindon Cable in the 80's ? Regards, Peter
@@petepnut Peter, I thought I knew your name. I was a volunteer at Viewpoint from about 1978. I later worked for Swindon Cable from about 83, all the way until It closed in 2000. Fond memories of all those pioneering days and Nikki!
Good watch. I was born shildon which also lost its major employer, British rail wagon works, town never recovered.