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what a shame it closed down It would be an amazing steam centre today

Remember visiting with my Uncle, I'd probably be 7 or 8, back then we would have gone on one of the old electric units. How fantastic it would of been if the Dinting Preservation Society had secured the Woodhead route.

"Promo SM" 😅

As a 12 year old at the end of steam Bahamas was a splash of colour among all the dirty black engines. I was at the open day at Edgeley shed when she was on display with Ollie Cromwell and Flying Scotsman. She managed to bring a school rugby match to a halt when she steamed up the Buxton Line past the Grammar School field. A few years later I was polishing her at Dinting. Definitely going to get the book.

Found this gem to watch Fond memories of visiting in 1983 Just found quite a few film slides from Dinting took a few in the shed as well

How beautiful it was ❤

The ballad of the heritage railway spotter: - get to sheds early to see locos being prepared - catch first train, get off to watch it swap ends, and swap ends yourself - hang out of window nearest the engine, getting eyes full of soot - revert to trainspotting mode, hanging out at station, working out which end of station to be at, and which platform to be on for best views - be careful when in close proximity to drain cocks and safety valves - if you see a toilet use it

The good old days when pre-nationalisation liveries were in vogue.

A brilliant look back at a great initiative. Used to love going there as a kid.

What a fantastic video. Marvellous to hear the satisfaction and enthusiasm in the voices. I had no idea there used to be an engine shed in Dinting

Really enjoyed this. I recall after the society had been booted off the site the land owner got egg on his face because his plans to build houses was refused due to access issues. My old mate Ian Jones was a keen member, can't spot him in the video but I suspect he'll be there somewhere. He ran the miniature steam railway at Belle Vue in Manchester.

My uncle George Wilson was a fireman at Dinting Station, working all round Manchester, Moved eventually to Hollyhead Station, where he retired from. Currently in Anglesey, it would be great to get in touch with some old colleagues.

Both Hardwick (in the film) and the Midland compound visited on rail tours. There were very few standard gauge preserved railways operating then so Dinting prospered. Great memories of the place. Happy days indeed.

I little tear in my eye watching this. It seems a lifetime ago. Used to cycle over the hill from Whaley Bridge to volunteer.. Helped clean 6115 the day before it’s last outing on the main line from Dinting. The love of steam engines never leaves you. I have my own steam traction engine now.

Excellent song!

Just watched it again. Many in the video are no longer with us sadly. Happy days and good camaraderie. Still go up to see the overgrown site and think of how it was.

I was great at dinting now glossop as nothing now dinting , Railway museum was brilliant I only live 10 minutes away

These were the guys that made things happen in those days, they were all around the country living their dream.

A great compilation of what looks like many hours of pleasure and team work.

This is a great film. And song. Usually preservation efforts continue to grow and grow so this is quite sad to see after all of the work that went into this place. This film is a wonderful record.

Bahamas is a beautiful engine have a model of her coming friday next week its as she is preserved as well 😀😀😀

Brilliant

Brilliant! Thank you for posting.

Great collection of memories, sad to see it is no more. I visited the engine shed a couple of days ago, now with all its windows smashed, covered in graffiti and hidden in the undergrowth. Wish I`d known about this place in the 80s I could have took my Dad who had been a fireman on the Liverpool -Manchester steam engines in the late 1940s early 50s. Thanks for the upload.

Me Dads from Hollingworth, Greater Manchester and back in the mid seventies we visited our Grandma and Grandpa and during this stay we went to visit Dinting Railway Centre. Wowwwwwwwww.........., what a wonderful and magical place it was! I guess the strongest first impression on arrival and stepping out onto the car park, was the smell of oil, steam and coal mixed with the fresh air of the Yorkshire Dale's. The massive dinosaurs of Steel were so overwhelming to see, so huge, that as a child standing so close up, one couldn't grasp the entirety of a beast like the 'Leander'.

needs re-building; - there or Crowden

lovely song someone I know was a train spotter when he was a lad

Great video an great song featured towadrs the end

great little song you can just about smell the warm oil and the sound of a engine's Whistle

Great video! Hadn't heard of the Dinting Railway Centre before this and it's a shame it closed down in the 90s. A couple questions though, are we able to find the songs in the video cause I'd love to keep listening to them, and why exactly did the Centre end up closing? I can't seem to find the reason anywhere.

My mom grew up and lived in Ingrow on Caister St. from the mid 1940's until the late 1960's (when she moved to the US). She was the only one of her family to leave the Keighley area. My grandmother stayed in that same house on Caister until she passed away and my mom's sister ended up buying a house on that street as well. I remember making many trips over there as a kid from the mid 1980's through the 1990's. I showed this video to my mom and she loved seeing all those old photos from the years when she was a child living there. Thank you so much for sharing.

What a good video, just as it was, happy days, especially when DP2 derailed its bogie alongside Crewe North shed. A huge cheer went up from us trainspotting on the end of the platform. Another time at Crewe me and a mate bunked off school in Hazel Grove and went to Crewe Station. 46244 King George VI came in on a northbound working, What a cop that was. Happy days. 😊

Good days, at least when the sun came out. I remember digging our way into Dinting and clearing points etc after heavy snow.

Great film and great music. I remember meeting John Tait when we worked at GMT. He was at Chunderplan. Thought I saw Arnie Furness briefly. Later on in my railway career I worked with George Wilson who had started as a cleaner at Dinting in BR days. Finished his career at Holyhead. Happy days.

Lots of good memories from volunteering at Dinting in the late 60's and 70's and as a trainee fireman on Bahamas, Tiny and Warrington. Used to go up to Dinting with Brian in his old Commer van along with my neighbour Eric Stevens (Stephens ?) Remember taking the Bahamas sales stand to Tyseley with Eric and others in a rented Ford Transit van. We lost the sales stand off the roof of the van somewhere on the M6 on the way back! Good to see Frank driving his beloved Jacob. Where is Jacob now? George, Eddie and Harold . Good guys. Tom Capewell

Excellent

Great days out there as a kid.

Summed up very well what it was like in the halcyon steam days of trainspotting.

Had great days when my Mum and Dad took me there as a young kid ,

Visited several times..I have a few pics somewhere...

How lovely to see the lads I knew so well again. Would go up with my wife Ruth. She would cook breakfasts for the lads in the old enginemens room c1969/70. Then she would go and polish the brass on Bahamas. I helped lay No 4 road and erect the exhibition hall. Bolted many of the trusses together with Dave Collier. Happy days, it should never have closed.

Isnt LNER apple green wrong fore blue Peter shouldn't it be br apple green

A superb record of the early days of steam preservation. I managed to catch both Steamport and Steamtown as a child and have some memories of them but alas Dinting closed down when I was barely 1 year old so I never got to experience it.

I went saw in 70s and early 80s Leander, Bahamas and Scott’s Guardsman. On later visit saw Blue Peter and stood on footplate of Britten

Used to love going there as a kid, dad was ex- BR. Take stuff for granted though :(

Summer holidays as a child helping my granny, Edith.

what a truly brilliant video. I have happy memories and some video of a gala weekend. It was a great place to visit. Your video shows the great volunteer spirit. Huge thanks for posting.

Hi There, a great film and I was a regular visitor to Dinting in the 70's. What makes this film great is that I am on the footplate of Bahamas with my son Stephen at 4:00 minutes into the film. What a lovely coincidence. Many thanks to the cameraman.

No headlights, grizzled inspectors who were on the steam. All much better.

Great video