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Friedrich Rapid

Metals nearly dead, coal gone and wagonload a distant memory.

Wow now that was the middle to late 80s in a nutshell?

Brilliant film. For any of those interested. The title music is Contrapunkt by Francis Monkman as part of the kpm library.

Corporate tosh - all good for the management but make the workers falsely believe they are the key.

BR in the 80's: "running a commuter train intercity isn't a good idea" Northern Rail in the 2010's: "oh yeah i'm sure 142's will work just fine on a 2 hour route"

Mr Benn's voice

Corby in Leicestershire? That's news to me!

This film features the rebuilt Old Course Hotel...obviously there was no room in the script to mention that BR closed the branch to St Andrews the year!

Oh dear Oh dear oh dear....

Typical 80s I love it 😀

Privatisation......worked didnt it.........

now its all shut and gone!! Ive been a railwayman for 47 years at Crewe Works..sad....

0:39 Same Theme used for the ICE Prototype in Promotional Videos in the late 80s in Germany.

The video was absolutely right, and 20 years before the penny dropped. Sadly the system was up against a deadly and wicked adversary. Thatcher.

When I worked at VSC Clapham junction, opened in stages 1980 it was a Disaster! Contractors installed cheap substandard relays which kept failing, constant points track circuit failures. ASE was 'Wrong man for the job'had to be paid off, replacement narcissistic told by Chairman BR Board that he was to be sacked in 6 months time unless failure rate dropped, made lots of recommendations to reduce failure rate, 2 were carried out, wrote that all 4 men on mtc faulting shift had to do outside work, previously top grade didn't want to do outside work, 2nd recommendation can't say but improved railway operations considerably. ASE bought in man from Swanley led a task force team, found lots of equipment faults reduced failure rate.

Why the Soft Porn music at the beginning tho..?? 🤔🤣🤣

Seems very old-fashioned for 1969. The narration style and background music are the same you find in BTF films from the early 50s.

"ESIPS" was the scheme that established the new Swindon B Integrated Electronic Control Centre (a.k.a. 'Swindon Megabox'). The resignalled area replaced the Didcot panel position within Reading Signal Box, which had controlled it since 1965. Uffington's goods loops shown at the start of Part 1 were in fact subsequently removed, as they were too short for the long trains serving Didcot Power Station with imported coal via Avonmouth and had only 25mph entry and exits. Shortly after comes the reinstated relief lines (taken out in 1965) from Challow to Wantage Road, making the 4 mile stretch a four-track railway again. Not many people know this, but as the main commissioning weekend for "ESIPS" happened over 31 March/ 1 April 1994, Didcot was the only major signalling scheme to be commissioned under British Rail and accepted into service by Railtrack. Safety assurance paperwork galore!

Aw, I really wanted to know how long it would take a Red Star parcel to get from Glasgow to Aberdeen.

Oh what a fabulous look back to the prime of my life; the year I left college. What a marvellous trip of nostalgia! The suits, haircuts, ties, vehicles and of course rolling stock liveries. Thoroughly enjoyed this. Gut-wrenching to realise that, with all this investment, reorganisation and optimism, it was all over just a few years later. What a loss of a national asset. Nothing to have replaced it either. One giant step back for the UK ... again.

I enjoyed my time in Red Star parcels. I well remember the PBM computer being foisted on an older generation of clerks some of whom found computers baffling. I thought the PBM system (seem but not mentioned in this film) was excellent and easy to use. Many happy memories bought back for me here (apart from the management BS). It was a shame it came to an end!

How did that work out guys?

Interesting film but a faded print.

And now for something a little more interesting.. the shipping forecast

Worst corporate I've seen

That was at least 200mph!

My mum used to send me fruit cakes by Red Star when I was in uni. Great!

Dicky topping up pension fund day 👍

Dickie Davis - what a pro.

Well getting off roads back then didn't work and it won't work now either

Think that was Temple Mills yard @2.40 and Willesden @13.48

He's got Dickie Davis Eyes.

good grief,remember Dickie on a Saturday.used to love WoS,better than Grandstand.Great memories of the Foster Yeoman 59's.

Blast furnace on Teesside gone, thornaby rail depot gone, ICI gone left over bits sold off to smaller companies, the future of the region?...well its part of the northern powerhouse and the Great 'levelling up ' thing now....🤣🤣🤣🤣....better get a job at an amazon workhouse....sorry warehouse 👍

World of Sport was better. I was hoping for Big Daddy and Kendo Nagasaki.

5:03 I wonder - did he ever finish painting that ceiling?

4 million tonnes of steel or 80,000 tonnes per week and rail moves 31,000. Not that good, is it?

Bloody hell Great to See Ted Hancock I was friends with his Sons David and Phillip Ted we knew him as uncle Edward had a massive train set I used hours with Phil and David and Ed would sit there with train drivers hat . Last time I saw Ted his wife Kate read a beautiful poem at my mums funeral .

World of Sport was great, don't remember any adverts either.

In 1969, I'd love to know how many collieries had the bunkerage and loading facilities to load a complete train in one operation. I worked in three collieries, where the waggons were all split into groups (often 6) for shunting by the NCB's own shunting locos. The only place I worked where they didn't split the train had a new loading facility installed at great expense three years before they declared the colliery uneconomic. By the mid 80s the trains could consist of 45 waggons and haul just short of 1,500 tonnes. I do believe the 1960s and 70s built 2GW power stations all had the facility to handle MGR trains.

In the opening frame the prediction of the future oil shortage. We now have more known reserves than we did then.

The person who coined the phrase, "White Van Man."

Well whatever they tried all that Thatcherite talk didn't work it got given to Lynx, presumably at a fraction of it's value, and a year or two later Lynx shut it down.

It forgets the God given right to bear cars no matter what the cost to the planet motorists don't care.If they use public transport it's the pseudo kind like parkways where the still drive for part of the trip.

Feels like the presenters ought to have been offering everyone tea and biscuits.

Triffic..... all about freight & the sound of an HST at the beginning! This aside, having started on the system in 1975, and been through all the changes,this is brilliant. Just shows how rail is better than road, and in future this will tip over to rail more and more. The best thing about TLF was ,it worked & it worked well. Of course, all good things get ruined, and thanks to privatisation that's exactly what happened. Great video.

Given away for peanuts by John Major.... and the Queen made him a Sir I'd have thought 10 years in the Tower of London would have have been more appropriate for him....as a prisoner not a new job as a Beefeater!

This is worth watching just for the appalling interview dubbing at the end

I like the way that he makes out sectorisation was to make it easier to move things when infact it was really a pre privatization plan.As for new sign posts and liveries he's right about that as Trainload, Regional Railways and Railfreight kept the BR symbol on their trains but NSE and Inter City soon replaced by BR double arrows with the Swallow and NSE coloured box.I think that Maggie's plan was to privatize BR as it's sectors but along came Sir John Major and it got even more complicated but the Queen still made him a Sir when a jail term would have been more appropriate!