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I made a comment on this film a few months ago and have revisited it again ,an absolute gem of pure nostalgia ,what we observe today is rapidly disappearing,who would have thought that every colliery and coal fired power station has gone ,who would have thought that we rapidly approaching the point where we no longer manufacture steel from raw base products ,Gosh scarey ;

Great video, fantastic quality 👍

Can't tell you how much time I spent """trainspotting""" as kid in the dieing days of steam this clip brought it all back thanks

Thanks. I recall that the fairly long bridge over several tracks at Eaglescliffe was used by the "Crossleys" lorries - and there was also a narrow-gauge line that transported clay, crossing what we then knew as "the back road" over the Darlington line at Allens West Halt LX, later emerging at a cross-road with the then A67 road. Bet all that's changed now...

Excellent, that B1 struggling (14.55) to get its train on the move was just super footage.

And , to think , 56 years later , now 100 year old steam engines still thunder around , show me a 100 year old electric loco .... those aweful diesel heitage units are ugly old unreliable plonkers that need a complete rebuild after 80 hours of use , steam engines get a wash out service every 28 days , electric is so throw away . Short sighted BR and listening to that loser Beecham destroyed a brilliant rail network . Steam is greatness personlfied , electric is boring ...

How brilliant. We’ve saved the plant. No more nasty coal and steel. Yes obviously we still use steel, but absolutely no CO2 are coal was used in Britain to make it. Well, yes we did lose tens of thousands of jobs, and yes there was a lot of unemployment, and yes the companies involved are no longer with us and no longer pay tax and yes we now import our steel from China and they burn coal. But look how green is all is.

Excellent video!

that a4 chime is always as memorable to hear

Super vid thanks

Thank-you MOST kindly for your rapid feedback on this one, Peter. I believe that the shot of the 'Q6' on the curve was taken close to the end of Cranbourne Terrace, where my secondary school friend - one Eric Short - a local cycling star - lived. His mum then owned a hairdressing salon on that corner. One way of getting into the house when locked was to open the door of the coal-chute and slide into the void ( hoping for the best)! From the cellar it was possible to access the house (leaving dusty black footprints on the carpet!).

Is that venerable farmhouse at 3m 20s still there? Site now a housing estate? I have not visited this location in decades... I recall that the Billingham (old) station was good for sound recording, most especially of Q6s. Bowesfield Junction was just across the river from the office on Thornaby station where I worked, but I don't think I ever "taped" anything at Bowesfield. However, on Sundays when a diversion from the ECML was in place an "A1" Pacific stood "pilot" there (so that turning the engine was possible).

There was in the nineteen-sixties a rather unpleasant stationmaster at Eaglescliffe - who approached myself and a close friend ("Ned" Emmerson), demanding to be shown a lineside permit. I did not yet possess one, but an older school friend 'Ned' did and so stood his ground. I did not have to leave either - this particular stationmaster knew who my dad was...

Trains on the viaduct definitely WERE visible from the Egglescliffe C.E. school a tad further back from the War memorial... In particular, I once identified a V2 Class heading south - likely on a "parcels" train... The distance JUST enough for young eyes like mine(!) to identify which class of loco it was. (Not that anyone else either knew or cared...)

So good to have the sound.

Fantastic

A special video 👍

Great to see all these wonderful locos l rode behind some of the last few in 1967 so sad to see them all disappear thanks for the memories 🚂

Just the type of video I needed, absolutely amazing, thank you 👍

Excellent video, but for these guys, we'd have less of these memories. It's a shame that they couldn't clean the engines, not even the cab numbers, a legal requirement, and that's with over 20% over manning. But when trade unions rule an industry, that's what you get... Great video, thank you...

Just wonder at the top of the first incline whether or not the steam plant for the incline could also 'pre fill' locomotives with hot water/steam for a fast start to the day. Something Union Pacific did at there Laramie and Cheyenne depots to get a loco ready to go over the hill

Brilliant record of times past.

Philidelphia Works is a housing estate now.

Loved the footage taken on Yarm viaduct! (We then lived in Newlands Road, so our house overlooked the north end of Yarm tunnel). This viaduct could clearly be seen from my junior school - Egglescliffe C.E. The structure was JUST close enough to determine the class of loco heading the train, instance at "playtime". When working for BR at Thornaby, we would visit Bowesfield Junction and many locations along the line to Redcar and from Hartlepool towards Horden Colliery - where hoppers of poor coal/dust were conveyed on a wire out to sea and tipped.. 62005 was also in the roundhouse at that time and I spent some time cleaning her up for a taping and photo-opportunity... (Successful!)

I lived in Farnborough and remember the Bournemouth Belle going through. It suggest a long time ago!

Excellent, truly outstanding, are any of the viaducts still standing? and where were they?

As a snotty nosed train spotter in 1962 my favourite location was Brookwood, Surrey. No platforms on the up and down fast lines, so no speed limit. The Atlantic Coast Express with a Merchany Navy doing over 100 MPH was a magnificant sight. Sadly BR gave up steam and I gave up trains.

Stunning. Thank you ever so much for sharing this.

Went to Brooms RC School 1953 to 1960. Line ran between the school and the Church. Lessons stopped for a minute or two when ore and coal trains passed (hooray from us lot!!) We saw the change from the usual two 0-8-0 engines pulling the ore trucks, to two new 0-10-0 9F's heading up the train - was exciting! Saw many of them including namer 'Evening Star'. Playground was separated from the line by a locked iron gate and a low wall. First hand view - feet away!! A tunnel a few yards further along the playground went under the line and was the access to the single track road past the church and up to the main road. Day school trip to Edinburgh 1958 0:08 0:08 from Annfield Plain station pulled by 'Mayflower' there and back. Train spotted at the Lintz line - not too far from the now famous Beamish/Causey Arch (near Tantobie where I lived), and of course Newcastle Central. Saw many A1, A2 A3 A4's, the new North British 70000's etc,etc. My Ian Allan LNER locos book is a great record of 1957 to 1960 spotting. (Spion Kop - anyone?) Mike Lynch spotting. record of 1957 to 1960. 0:08 i under the line to the acces road past the church

Great video loved the bit in Langholm.

The sound quality is brilliant! Nicely done!

Really high quality footage and fantastic sound too - always something of a rarity back then. Very historically significant so thanka for sharing.

Every day going to and from school in pelaw ,theyd go hammering by happy days !.

Brilliant! It's so nice to see the whole train filmed

Wonderful films, so much changed and lost

Superb!

Superb video, thank you

What a delight to watch, many thanks.

Before the rope hauled system at coatham stob brickworks they did have a locomotive hauled system, I remembered it from when i would visit the works in the 1960s to see my father. I started work there in 1965 and the loco was stood idle in its shed behind the main works building. Sadly after being advertised for sale and getting no offers it was cut up for scrap on site ,I remembered it being in very clean condition as the driver looked after it ,cant remember his name. Happy days long gone.

I used to drive and fire to some of those locos shown.i was a Bricklayers Arms colleague in the 50s and 60s.

I remember watching the steam trains from Chapel Terrace in Tebay.when visiting my grandmother. This was the late 1950s when the engines were maintained in the sheds below. There was something magical about the steam era and it is a great privilage to have been part of it.Thank you for posting.

The 1960s a sad decade for Britain and British Railways. The Beeching cuts went too far and ruined Britain's railway infrastructure and today we are all paying the price. Instead of closing many of the lines across Britain all that was needed was the production of more diesel locomotives to replace the steam. Excellent film of British Railways in Scotland 1966.

Thanks for the awesome videos👍

Always amazes me how all these trains knew where they were going along with signalmen on all those routes without computers or Smart Equipment. And, of course, coal and water replenishment was built in to timetables too. And, shunting was mesmerising, how did they all know where everything was supposed to go?

If the photos round the two-minute mark were taken today, the photographer would be mown down by traffic on the M6.

Great pictures of the Fairburn tank engines tackling the steep incline out of Bradford Exchange towards the signal box at Bowling Junction where my dad worked.when the line was very busy.

The Steam footage on this channel is the best I have seen, better than anything I have bought on DVD. The Southern coaches used to blend with the beautiful greenery of the southern counties, then BR decided to make them all blue and white.

I was at bolton sheds 26 c in fifties so i was lucky

The footage includes Sir Nigel Gresley's special on 1 April 1967. The introductory view could be Britannia 70032 on the same day. I remember standing on Penrith Station that day. Hearing the bell ringing, which was a sign that a train not stopping was approaching, my friend and I thought it would be Sir Nigel, but no, it was Britannia 70032 with a massive freight of 50 wagons, with a long flat one at the front. Although the line is level, the engine was having a real struggle through the station, and was throwing out clouds of black smoke. Sir Nigel came through shortly after. The clean(!) Britannia at the 11 minute mark is 70013 working a football special from Carlisle to Blackpool on Boxing Day 1967, and is believed to be the last steam-hauled passenger train over Shap before the era of steam specials. If steam had continued, the M6 would have been delayed longer. Steam engines stopped for banking assistance about where the M6 crosses the line, just north of Tebay Station. Steam blowing across the M6 was considered to be a danger to road users. There were also concerns that steam locos in the Lune Gorge would interfere with visibility on the M6.

Lovely to see this, and a co-incidence. I have just cleared out some old mags, and found one with a picture of Sam Buckley on the back cover. I never met Sam, but when donating a computer to the British Association of Myasthenics, I met his son and daughter-in-law, who told me that he was the last person to drive a train over Hopton Incline. The other drivers kept stalling it, but Sam got the job done.