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Iain Robinson
Великобритания
Добавлен 22 авг 2011
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Here I share my passion for the wonders of transport history, railways, and industrial heritage.
Join me on a journey where I explore my interests through the medium of writing, blogging, model making and art.
Here I share my passion for the wonders of transport history, railways, and industrial heritage.
Join me on a journey where I explore my interests through the medium of writing, blogging, model making and art.
Tameside Bus Memories 60s and 70s
A nostalgic look back at the days of corporation bus transport in Stalybridge, Ashton and Manchester. Some reminiscences of my schoolday adventures with buses in the sixties, among the mills and smoke of Tameside. As always, I'm very grateful for the help received from photographers, without whom this video wouldn't be up to much.
A huge thank you to the following:
John Kaye- www.sct61.org.uk/index/operator/sa/sa68
John Heighway, via Maljoe- www.flickr.com/photos/11253414@N04/
D Fenton
Andrew HAs- www.flickr.com/photos/21611052@N02/
Alan Murray-Rust- www.geograph.org.uk/profile/9181
Tom Corser- en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Malham_Cove_Yorkshire_Dales.jpg
Embarr Foundation- enbarrfoundation.co.uk/...
A huge thank you to the following:
John Kaye- www.sct61.org.uk/index/operator/sa/sa68
John Heighway, via Maljoe- www.flickr.com/photos/11253414@N04/
D Fenton
Andrew HAs- www.flickr.com/photos/21611052@N02/
Alan Murray-Rust- www.geograph.org.uk/profile/9181
Tom Corser- en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Malham_Cove_Yorkshire_Dales.jpg
Embarr Foundation- enbarrfoundation.co.uk/...
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Видео
Steam in the Hills- Waterside in the Seventies
Просмотров 5 тыс.2 месяца назад
My memories of the Waterside industrial system in Ayrshire. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): uppbeat.io/t/ilya-kuznetsov/collision License code: GWBWFSESSQHTX7IA Ironworks panorama by kind permission of East Ayrshire Leisure/East Ayrshire Council. Huge thanks to the photographers who have been so generous with their marvellous work. Gordon Thomson- www.flickr.com/photos/killie65/ Craig...
Sixties Spotting Days at Bolton
Просмотров 18 тыс.4 месяца назад
My nostalgic look back to the last days of steam power in Bolton, when I wandered around the North West of England with my mate Dave, shed bashing and trying to find loco depots that still had steamers on the roster. A huge thank you to all the photographers listed, who had the foresight to take photos back in the sixties- and then generously allowed me to use their brilliant work. Thank you! T...
Fire Queen
Просмотров 18 тыс.5 месяцев назад
A film about "Fire Queen", currently at Aberystwyth Railway Museum. I've now been told that Fire Queen is not the oldest surviving narrow gauge locomotive...that title belongs to The Pays de Waes, a preserved tank locomotive built in 1844, which is part of the historical collection of the National Railway Company of Belgium (SNCB), on display at Train World. It is reputed to be the oldest prese...
Sixties Shed Bashing In Patricroft
Просмотров 39 тыс.6 месяцев назад
A nostalgia trip back to the nineteen sixties and my visits to Patricroft Loco Sheds. It's all so different now... but perhaps this film will awaken old memories for the spotters and gricers of a certain age. Martin Zero's video about the Clifton Hall tunnel is here: ruclips.net/video/vZkgm-teGw0/видео.html&ab_channel=MartinZero @MartinZero A big thank you to all the people who have generously ...
A Ffestiniog Mystery! I puzzle over some vintage slides.
Просмотров 4957 месяцев назад
A handful of slides featuring the Ffestiniog Railway get me thinking- when were they taken and where?
Sixties Spotting Memories of Manchester Victoria
Просмотров 12 тыс.7 месяцев назад
Loco Spotting at Manchester Victoria... a look back at the times spent at the platform end, noting, observing- and having fun! Thank you to the epic photographers below who gave permission for their work to be shown. Thank goodness you had the foresight to take pictures! William Power www.flickr.com/photos/800maeve/ Trevor Ermel www.flickr.com/photos/163521805@N05/ Ben Brooksbank commons.wikime...
Steams Last Whistle
Просмотров 14 тыс.7 месяцев назад
Join me in a nostalgic trip back, to a time of fading steam and bittersweet schoolyard memories in North West England. If only we could have known how quickly things would change. As usual, I have made great efforts to credit the authors of any photos I have used, but if you have any issues, please get in touch and I will take down any offending material.
Memories of Steam around the North West
Просмотров 14 тыс.8 месяцев назад
Some memories of my teenage adventures on the lineside in the nineteen sixties, bunking sheds and watching trains. I've made great efforts to obtain permissions and copyright for the photos in this video. Of course, many are CC images and I've acknowledged where possible. If you have an image that I have used inadvertently, please contact me and I will take it down.
Elsie Featherstone
Просмотров 2009 месяцев назад
A story I wrote as part of a series which describes the travellers on a bus going into Manchester, back in the nineteen seventies. Elsie is a woman with a secret, one which her friend Maureen has no idea about.
The Runaway Steam Roller
Просмотров 1989 месяцев назад
This story was inspired by something my late father told me. He was one of a large family of siblings and one day in the 1930s they decided to hi-jack a steam roller- with painful consequences!
The Spaceship
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.9 месяцев назад
Two teenage trainspotters spend a snowy saturday watching trains, but get a little bit more than they expected.
The Dewsnap
Просмотров 9739 месяцев назад
A story about two friends doing a little bit of urbexing in South Manchester. Written and read by Iain Robinson.
The Flying Scotsman - short story
Просмотров 2879 месяцев назад
A teenage boy finds a sense of belonging in a railway museum. Written and read by Iain Robinson
I am a 70s man 1958 when I was born the bus station is a fancy pub now it was closed down for a we while then a local construction company came along opened it up, some time later what was a bus station like I said now a fancy pub but for me catching my bus back home used to cost me a thrippeny bit one way that would be sixpence from my house into Whitehaven and back again we had double deckers Bristol's front door plus back door buses plus single buses then in the around 1980 we had a lot of layland's right from our factory just outside Whitehaven now it is only memorys
Pity that it couldn't have been kept as a bus station. I went and had a look at the place in Whitehaven- at least it looks impressive from the outside, although a little underwhelming inside. Thanks very much for your comment!
I’ve just had 10 minutes of happy memories. I lived in Ashton and my dad drove for SHMD on the number 10 or 11 route from St Michael’s square near Ashton parish church.
I’m really glad that I stirred up some happy memories! The 11 was a favourite route of mine- your Dad probably drove me to Ashton😀👍
Trolley buses, fog, flare cans , mills - it's all there from my formative years. The blue of the Ashton buses, slightly 'exotic' , as invariably it was Manc red that got us to Ashton or Picc, As for Salford green........not in this life. The Mancunians were daily fare, if you'll pardon the pun , from '68 to '72 , Openshaw Salvation Army to Jetson street for soul-destroyng school days. Some things hit me right between the eyes , sharp memories fired from a dart gun; the rondel signs on the rear quarters of the rear-entry buses, the coin-in-slot symbol on the Mancs, Openshaw ales Pearl Assurance . . Like yesterday , how did these slip from memory? All this interwoven with creeping around where I should not have done, railway yards, factories, derelict housing , dead canals . All the good stuff. What a super dose of nostalgia this was , and much of it on my home turf .Well done again, Sir !
What a wonderful comment, thank you so much👍oh, I had forgotten the roundel ads on the back of the rear loaders… fab. Yes, the coin in slot signs…I missed the conductors and cheerful clippies. I remember watching them drain and repair the old Huddersfield canal, day by day as my bus passed over on the way into Manc. Yes, Salford greens were rare, esp in Stalybridge, and I remember my first sight of Lancashire United… what was that!! Like you, I loved exploring the old, dormant canals and factories. Thanks for a great comment, and I’m so glad you enjoyed the film👍
Thank you for an entertaining and informative video, it brought back lots of memories for me being an Ashton lad and having also lived in Stalybridge. Funny you should mention Mr. Greenway, he was my geography (and later economics) teacher at school and, as you say, a very nice man. His wife used to teach mathematics at the same school and I had the pleasure of being in her classes too. Mr. Greenway was also an aviation aficionado and I remember him taking a whole bunch of us schoolboys on a trip down to the Farnborough air show one year in the early 1970's with him driving the coach.
Thank you, I wondered if someone else would remember Mr Greenway. I had forgotten that his wife taught maths. I went to Hyde, so that must have been after my time there. I owe Greenway so much. He had a colleague, Mr Metcalfe, who taught physical Geog… he was a stern chap but a good egg, we went on a trip to Anglesey and he kept saying “just a little bit farther lads, a hundred yards and then you can eat your sandwiches… “ half an hour later🤣… metcalfe gave me a metaphorical kick up the fundament and arranged an interview at Manchester college of Art, as I was a lazy sod. That set me up for life. I owe those guys! Thanks so much for your lovely comment👍
My parents never drove a car, so I spent interminable hours on buses. Seeing dim headlights appear through November fog, as a last bus comes into view at some terminus outpost with more than a touch of cemetery gates, is unforgettable. The blast from the heater thawing my extremities, the warm moquette and the concrete shelter left far behind.. simple pleasures.
Brilliant! You’ve summed it all up so well. The concrete bus shelter evokes Stalybridge, or Hyde…such atmosphere. But the heater working? not on SHMD😀 thanks for such a wonderful comment👍
This is a fantastic journey back in time, a story well told too. I have only ever been to Stalybridge a couple of times (excluding passing through on the train from Dewsbury to Manchester), on those occasions to Bower Fold on Mottram Road, to watch some rugby league when Oldham played some matches there (against Dewsbury for me). I see from a map that Stocks Lane is pretty close to the ground.
Thank you👍 ah, yes, Bower Fold, or the “Indoor” as we used to call it(don’t ask me why!) I didn’t know until today that Oldham shared the ground with Celtic. Yes, it’s pretty close to where I used to live, I would catch the 236 into Manchester from Mottram road near the ground. Thanks for your comment!
Cheers mate I remember moving buses from tame street to the new whitelands depot I think it was about 1980ish
Ah, I remember hearing about the new depot, I had moved to Manchester by then. I would have been sad to see the old place empty, but no doubt as one of the people having to work with the antiquated arrangements, you thought differently😂 Thanks very much for your comment👍
Excellent Iain, thank you. 🙂
You are very welcome, I’m really pleased you enjoyed it👍
Hi Iain, Would you happen to have visited Agecroft Shed, only My Uncle Bill was a Fireman out of there in the 60's
Hi Colin, yes, I visited it a couple of times… I’m working on a video about it. There were some friendly locomen there, although sadly I didn’t know their names. It was a great place👍
@@iainrobinson6566 Excellent, I look forward to that one especially Thanks and Best regards Colin
My father worked for SHMD before doing his national service. During the 60s and 70s, I lived in Ashton, Audenshaw, and Hyde. Ashton bus station was a colourful place with liveries of many operators. Even saw a Salford bus marked 64 Peel Green there. (I have no idea what it was doing there). Spent many hours spotting there, with dinner in the Wooden Spoon cafe opposite the bus station. Many thanks for posting this video.
Thank you so much for your comment. Ashton was possibly the most interesting of the bus stations, with, as you say, so many different operators. I remember the cafe, my mate and I used to warm up in there during winter spotting excursions. Ashton was on the 236 route and I remember once the bus demolished one of the shelters! Glad you enjoyed the video👍
Great video, the coaling stage look very like the one at Stoke loco depot.
Thank you, very pleased that you enjoyed the video. I never made it to Stoke, although I know there were some great cops to be had there.
Wonderful! Thank you.
You are so welcome, thank you👍
Brilliant Iain. Thankyou for putting this together.
You are welcome, very glad that you enjoyed it👍
An excellent video, thank you.
Very pleased that you enjoyed it👍
as a bolton born boy i aleays went to wigan to see duchesses on the main line london-glasgow. very impressive engines. in the late 50s my father took me to crewe and doncaster where we visited the works. i will never forget seeing my first streak.
I agree with you, the Duchesses were the most impressive engines, I’ll never forget my first sight of one. Thanks for your comment👍
i spent my childhood born 1953 in bolton änd used to go to victoria trainspotting. was also at newton heath shed which was huge. fond memories of steam era.
Yes, Newton Heath was big! I mean to do a video about it, and Edgeley. I didn’t know Bolton’s railway scene until the sixties, it must have been fine, with those old L&Y locos. Thanks for your comment👍
as a kid growing up in bolton i often sneaked into the sheds to view the engines in the 60s.. this brought back fond memories.
It was great, wasn’t it! Glad I reminded you of some good times👍
What beautiful and historical footage. I was born eight years too late so only a train set or videos where my moments of seeing steam..
Thank you… I am so pleased that you enjoyed the video. One of the few benefits of being ancient is the memories I have of steam.👍
Watching from Sydney Australia. Nice work and beautifully narrated.
Thank you very much! I'm so glad that you enjoyed the video!
Brilliant video - Thank you for posting!!
You’re very welcome, I’m so pleased that you enjoyed it!👍
A wonderful video so effectively delivered. Lovely piece of industrial history from dear old Doon Valley. Thanks.
I’m really pleased that you enjoyed the video. Yes, it is a dear place. Thanks for your comment👍
Great content, marvellous commentary. Thanks.
Really pleased that you enjoyed the video, thank you👍
Remember it all well 👍
Glad you enjoyed it👍
Great video! Tam Bruce was my dad! The one thing that I can remember from back then was just how much my dad loved No 24 and his job!
Glad you enjoyed the video! On the occasions that I met your Dad he was a real gentleman. He always seemed very focussed on his job, but still had time for a chat, and would often invite us into the bothy for a cup of (very strong) tea. Great memories, thank you for your lovely comment👍
My dad was a great man and a great dad, and ive never met anyone who loved there job more than him!@iainrobinson6566
Fascinating video and historical account. Thank you. I saw Fire Queen a remarkable survivor, and numerous other locos including theLNWR Coal Tank at Penrhyn Castle.
I’m really pleased that you enjoyed the video, it was fascinating (and frustrating 😂) to put together.Fire Queen is really special, I can’t wait to see her in her new home. The coal tank is one of my favourite locos, along with the ex L&Y Barton Wright tank. I never saw it at Penrhyn, sadly. Thanks very much for your comment.
What an excellent video! It brought back many memories to me of my own visits to Speke sheds (8C) in the same era. Loved the quick glance at the Ian Allan books.
I’m so pleased that you enjoyed it, and glad it brought back some good memories. Yes, those IA books are so evocative😀 thanks for your comment👍
I worked at Longsight MPD during the winter of 62/63, a very long a and cold winter, and left after a couple of years , to join another company, while working for that company ,several years later I was sent on a contract to ICI in Barry South Wales, and spent my first day there walking round the scrapyard, surveying the engines waiting to be cut up, many with parts marked ,and awaiting collection ,from loco societies around the country, some that I had worked on, a very sad day,
Blimey, that must have been hearbreaking. I had the chance to go to Barry, but I couldn’t face it… so sad. Still, at least you had your memories of working on the locos. Thanks for your comment👍
What a fantastic video!
Thank you so much!❤️👍
About 1963 I went to that shed via the'birdcage'.
It was quite a place, eh!👍
Very good indeed
Thank you very much, that is very kind of you to say👍
Just wonderful. I remember watching the coal crane at Ayr back in 65. It mesmerised me then
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video! The first time I saw the coal boats was incredible, it was a fascinating process.👍
Great video and thanks for the honourable mention. Happy to supply you with my photos of the line.
Thank you very much, Bill. I tried very hard to get in touch, as I would have loved to feature some of your superb shots, but the Railscot site seems to be broken, the contact links don’t work. Very pleased that you enjoyed the video👍
Lovely video. Would be a great line for a railway modeler.
Thank you, yes, I started a model a while ago and I agree. As yet I haven’t worked out a scheme to fit in the washery🧐 and Pennyvenie in within the space I have🤣 thanks for your comment👍
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Very well done! Thank you for producing this
Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed this👍
Superb Video !!
Thank you so much, Chris, really glad that you enjoyed the video👍
Your wonderful video reminded me of watching steam locos as a boy in the early 1970s working at the coal mine where my dad worked in South Wales (Merthyr Vale Colliery). One of them - GWR Pannier Tank 9600 - is still with us in preservation. Most of the wagons were steel by then, but there were a few of the wooden plank variety still in use. The locos would trip work the wagons to the exchange sidings where class 37s would take over. A similar story to the opencast story is currently playing out at Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil. The last coal was removed last year, and now the bunfight regarding the re-lanscaping of the site has begun. Thanks for taking the time to create & share your story.
Thank you so much Stephen for your fascinating comment. I would have liked to have seen more of South Wales back in the seventies, but it’s a long way from Scotland. I did get to Nantgarw coking plant and Maerdy, both of which blew my tiny mind😂 yes, I’ve been following the bunfight at Fros y Fran, in fact we were at Merthyr a few weeks ago. Despite the popular opinion of it, it’s still a fascinating place. I decided not to go into the involved politics of the Ayrshire opencast mining, butI get a feel for what you’re saying🧐about Merthyr. Wish I’d seen it back in the day like you did!👍
@iainrobinson6566 Ah, so you are more than aware of Fros Y Fran? My tenuous connections with the place go back a long way. When my dad started his coal mining career back in the early 1950s, both the local steelworks & pits were still tipping their waste there. Then, after the Aberfan Disaster, caused by the waste tips created by the colliery my dad worked at, ie, Merthyr Vale, the waste was diverted to FyF. His final job prior to the mine closing was to check boreholes at the site to ensure the water levels inside the FyF tips were at safe levels. I'm not old enough to remember steam locos at Cwmbargoed (the place where the coal was loaded onto trains, on and off, for decades: there was always both NCB & private mines operating in the area) but I do recall double & even triple header class 37s with HAA wagons snaking their way up & down the Bedlinog valley, until the 66s took over.
@@stephendavies6949 thanks, Stephen, yes, I live in Wales now (gogledd) and I’m very interested in the slate mines here as well as the mines in the south. I didn’t know about Merthyr tipping into Fros, that’s a little disturbing. Oh, I would love to have seen those last trains with double headed 37’s, very fine. I was just getting a taste for them when the coal mines in Ayrshire closed down altogether… typical me😂 thanks again for your fascinating comment👍
Superb video!
Thank you very much👍
Absolutely love these videos of yours, Lain! Almost like a railway memoir - it's enjoyable, joining you on a trip down memory lane! Incidentally, I've actually made one of those make shift tenders for my OO stock, a kit built "Gladstone" from the film 'Oh Mr Porter!' - the tender and coal cleverly hides a stay alive capacitor 😊 Take care!
I’m really pleased that you enjoy the videos… yes, I hadn’t thought of them like that but you are right. I should do what you have done for my Hattons Barclay, it would be prototypical too! Thanks for the idea. Oh Mr porter… a classic! Thanks for your comment👍
@@iainrobinson6566 exactly that, I wanted a "proper" way of adding a trailer to hide the equipment 😁 It wasn't difficult to do at all, Take care!
That was very well told a great story of the Pugs and Colleries I hope the remaining. Locomotives will be put back to work on a preservation line Would love to go and see it all but you 12000 miles away 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 good luck to all
Thank you very much. The locos are all preserved, although only no.10 is at work. No.17 might come back to life in the next few years, but I don’t think there’s much hope for the others… new boilers are hideously expensive as you know. Thanks very much for your comment👍
Your enthusiastic story-telling really makes me want to visit, well done
Thank you so much, really glad that you enjoyed the video👍
Excellent video. I live locally and knew the line well, my father was a driver there, worked at Dunaskin from 1920 till retirement in 1971. I often had cab trips with him from an early age, and was shown (unofficially) how to fire and drive the locos. Now retired I volunteer at the Doon Valley Railway and can often be found driving No 10 on operating days. Keep up the good work!
Thanks very much for your comment, it means a lot to hear from one of the DVR team. You do a great job. I’m very pleased that you enjoyed the video👍
Great work. I had bought one of the old Hattons Andrew Barclay 0-4-0s second-hand. It just happened to be N.C.B. No. 10. Normally you have to settle for photos of the class for weathering inspiration, but if I ever want to weather mine, I'll have photos of the exact loco.
Yes, I know what you mean- as you can imagine, I have one as well. I’d like one of no.24, but I’m afraid the HighLevel kit is beyond my pay grade😩 thanks for your comment!👍
Brilliant i use to have a 33 record with sounds from Waterside and other industrial railways sadly gave it away many yrs ago!
Oh, that would have been very fine! My sounds are courtesy of a friend who spent time at the trackside at Minnivey. At the time I thought it was a faff, but I’m glad of the sounds now! Thanks for your comment👍
That was great! I visited Dunaskin for the first time about 1973 and had subsequent visits over the years. Your video story has filled in the missing details for me! I visited the DVR about a month ago and was impressed by their enthusiastic attitude…very welcoming people! Hope to go again soon! Thank you!
Thank you! We might have met, it was 73 when I moved there. They were such nice folk, as are the people at the DVR today. I’m so glad they made you welcome. Thanks for your comment👍
Really enjoyed the film ,Thanks
So pleased you enjoyed it. It's brought back many memories, making the film, I'll probably make a sequel!
Cracking Video, Thank You 😀
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!
Marvellous!! Only ever had the one opportunity to visit this wonderful railway, in January 1978. No. 24 was the working loco and Tam Bruce offered a footplate ride up to Penyvenie with a train of empties, what a fantastic and unique experience. Just a day spent at Waterside, but I knew that I would have to return, but the closure of the last colliery at Penyvenie later in 1978 put paid to that dream........ must get back up there again soon..............
Thank you, really glad you enjoyed the film! I'm sure that the day spent with Tam on no.24 is a very special memory for you. Tam was a real gent, as was Davie, his fireman. Yes. it's still a fascinating place. Thanks for your comment.
Another story brought to life by your telling of it. Fabulous.
Thanks so much, I’m really pleased that you enjoyed it👍
Lovely to listen to these reminder of later steam and older diesel days 😊
Thank you, very pleased that you enjoyed the video👍