We are lucky we we're they.to see these magnificent steam engines I spent many hours like you with this footage. Innocent days what's a real pleasure to see this film thank you 🙂
As a child I remember being taken from Stranraer to Dumfries then to Carlisle then across to Newcastle and then the uproar over axing of the line, I also remember going across later and having to go to Kilmarnock then join the line down south and mum saying that by the time we traveled to Kilmarnock we could have been nearly in Carlisle, good old beeching butcher of the branch lines, ah well I’ve got happy memories of steam rail travel and because we live in Ireland lots of ferry travel and then onwards from either heysham,Liverpool and Stranraer
Prior to the completion of the Manchester and Liverpool to London Electrification underpoweed class 40 diesels were intoduced as a stop gap on expresses out of Euston.Two of the reasons for this was the threat from Camden Borough Council to force closure of Camden Loco under the clean air act and the difficulty in recruiting lowly paid shed staff when other employment opportunities such as Ford of Dagenham could provide cleaner and better paid (if mind numbing) jobs on the production line.
Steam locomotives are inefficient, polluting, outdated technology and need to be torched, scrapped, and recycled to make cleaner traction. But I agree they did rule the rails.... 150 years ago!
There should have been plenty of videos of steam locos being cut up for scrap. There wasn't any :( Cut these polluting locos for scrap and melt them down in the furnaces!
buffscrag71 What, "normal" folks like you with a BR logo picture. Do you collect numbers and pictures of trains? I bet you take them to bed with you and spend your wad all over them, you sad anorak.
buffscrag71 Hahaha, you don't fool me; I can just see you spilling your hot secretions all over your loco number books and pictures. OOOO....oooo....OOOO - was that a good set of numbers? UUUU - uuuu - fap fap, fapity fapity .... was that a new loco pic? How was that diesel electric for you? Oh the excitement, you sad sad person!
I was so glad to be part of that in the 60s late 50s.
We are lucky we we're they.to see these magnificent steam engines I spent many hours like you with this footage. Innocent days what's a real pleasure to see this film thank you 🙂
Fascinating stuff. Excellent video, thank you.
Thanks for this film, I enjoy looking back over the days of steam. Its pleasant to watch... :-)
Bevoin1970 oy mate your under arrest for extreme nationalism. Steam represents racist Britain!
Thumbs Up #300 👍 Thank you for all this great footage, sad they are just a memory but you are keeping them alive, Thank you - I Subscribed 👍😎
At 01-00, 01-15 I could smell that smoke,steam and hot oil, couldn't you?
When everything British was British
As a child I remember being taken from Stranraer to Dumfries then to Carlisle then across to Newcastle and then the uproar over axing of the line, I also remember going across later and having to go to Kilmarnock then join the line down south and mum saying that by the time we traveled to Kilmarnock we could have been nearly in Carlisle, good old beeching butcher of the branch lines, ah well I’ve got happy memories of steam rail travel and because we live in Ireland lots of ferry travel and then onwards from either heysham,Liverpool and Stranraer
Brilliant film, love it. 😊
Prior to the completion of the Manchester and Liverpool to London Electrification underpoweed class 40 diesels were intoduced as a stop gap on expresses out of Euston.Two of the reasons for this was the threat from Camden Borough Council to force closure of Camden Loco under the clean air act and the difficulty in recruiting lowly paid shed staff when other employment opportunities such as Ford of Dagenham could provide cleaner and better paid (if mind numbing) jobs on the production line.
Great Video.
Great Video, I have aubscribed.
Steam in Floopaloo
just goes to prove what I've said all along steam rules the rails.
Steam locomotives are inefficient, polluting, outdated technology and need to be torched, scrapped, and recycled to make cleaner traction. But I agree they did rule the rails.... 150 years ago!
@@PreservationEnthusiast did you also know that electric traction was the 1st to follow steam?
Happy days long ago. 😁
How many of the steam engines were transferred to remote areas of the Commonwealth such as India or Pakistan?
No transfers were made. They were largely cut up for scrap and recycled.
There should have been plenty of videos of steam locos being cut up for scrap. There wasn't any :(
Cut these polluting locos for scrap and melt them down in the furnaces!
+heelfan1234 Top trolling! Now back to your heels you perv :D
buffscrag71
Steam locos will be cut, steam locos will be broken apart, steam locos will be melted down. Now back your trains, you Perv ;)
+heelfan1234 Are you trapped in the 1960s? Back to your heels lad, stopping bothering normal folks :D
buffscrag71
What, "normal" folks like you with a BR logo picture. Do you collect numbers and pictures of trains? I bet you take them to bed with you and spend your wad all over them, you sad anorak.
buffscrag71
Hahaha, you don't fool me; I can just see you spilling your hot secretions all over your loco number books and pictures.
OOOO....oooo....OOOO - was that a good set of numbers? UUUU - uuuu - fap fap, fapity fapity .... was that a new loco pic? How was that diesel electric for you?
Oh the excitement, you sad sad person!