I could have spent a whole day watching the trains there around 1950,if I had been born. The Stratford on Avon line as well Joining the GCR . wonderful.
Halcion days. The sun shone brightly (despite all the smoke) and it looked so busy at the junction. Thanks for sharing these film clips with us, it magics back lost times, places and people.
Excellent video of lost times. Many thanks for uploading. Reminds me of a time when, traveling North on the adjacent M1 motorway with my parents, we raced a black 5 for a few miles passing Ashby Magna station. Great days!
What a waste, of all the railway closures of the 60's the Great Central was probably the most inexplicable and short sighted, how useful it would be today.
As much as a lament the closing of the Great Central, if you read “The Great Central Railway - What really happened” by John Palmer you can see that it’s closure was inevitable. It’s main income of freight, and especially coal, was on a rapid decline and its revenues were rapidly decreasing, there was little choice but to close the line. Shame they didn’t just mothball the whole route for possible future use though - as others have said, how useful would it have been today as HS2!
Ernest Marples has alot to answer for. He commissioned Mr B to shut as much as he could get away with. The final stroke of the pen was Barbara Castle, labour party.
The HS2 that we used to have ...
Lovely to see these old films really helpfull in recreating scenes and stock formations in model form thankyou
I could have spent a whole day watching the trains there around 1950,if I had been born. The Stratford on Avon line as well Joining the GCR . wonderful.
A tragic memory, so much infrastructure swept away with the stroke of a pen.
Halcion days. The sun shone brightly (despite all the smoke) and it looked so busy at the junction. Thanks for sharing these film clips with us, it magics back lost times, places and people.
A lovely video of this much loved and lost line. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent video of lost times. Many thanks for uploading.
Reminds me of a time when, traveling North on the adjacent M1 motorway with my parents, we raced a black 5 for a few miles passing Ashby Magna station. Great days!
A gentler time maybe?
Magic, another great video
What a sad shot of Woodford shed. I went round there as a kid with my dad, when it was busy with V2s, B1s, etc
Deliberately run down by the London Midland region , as was the S and D.
I hurts, it hurts so bad to see the death of our country and our people.
What a waste, of all the railway closures of the 60's the Great Central was probably the most inexplicable and short sighted, how useful it would be today.
As much as a lament the closing of the Great Central, if you read “The Great Central Railway - What really happened” by John Palmer you can see that it’s closure was inevitable. It’s main income of freight, and especially coal, was on a rapid decline and its revenues were rapidly decreasing, there was little choice but to close the line. Shame they didn’t just mothball the whole route for possible future use though - as others have said, how useful would it have been today as HS2!
Lovely video. Pity this line ever closed.
Ernest Marples has alot to answer for. He commissioned Mr B to shut as much as he could get away with. The final stroke of the pen was Barbara Castle, labour party.
Oh how we could be making use of the old Great Central.
Brilliant! Pollution what Pollution! Considering the age of these machines, Well I’ve seen more polluting later class diesel’s Eddie🤓
Nothing wrong with a bit of smoke, nature causes it all the time.