Yes, a great amalgam of steam footage. Thank you. Steam engines may have been inefficient, polluting, noisy and scruffy in their last yers, but oh how wonderful they were!
Hi I did 50 yrs on the footplate I started my time in 1961 at Edgeley shed and did two years at Trafford Park and back to Edgeley I finished my time out at Longsight in 2011 Regards Phil.
I seem to recall that the first week in August 1968, was when I joined the Army. I made a small somewhat uninterest note in my memory as I left K+ that they were cleaning the station after a hundred years of steam. I passed through there about 10years later and they were cleaning again-for the dirt of diesels
Fascinating watching the footage of steam trains but also for a few other details. Firstly, so many young men wearing white shirts. How many young men ever wear a white shirt in their leisure time today? Secondly, the way people were allowed to stand on the tracks. Yes, the 1960s was a different era.
Wonderful footage !! If you’ll allow a criticism though - I consider it a great mistake to superimpose music on film like this. The sound of the engines is all we need !
@@spiritofsteam My criticism is there is not enough footage of steam loco scrap cutting. A few hundred were saved, but over 15,000 were cut, so let's see some scrapping action from Cashmores and Drapers with sparks flying and huge chunks clanging onto the ground. Great cutting action!
I was born in the late 1947 and as i grew up i wondered at the steam railways and their progression through the sixties, i was some what dismayed when they began introducing those awful diesels and diesel electrics, they were more harmful to the environment than steam ever was, but since the sixties we have seen the unqualified different governments getting further involved in our lives and they have over the years completely ruined this country as they sold our heritage and history down the road, they do not know or even bothered to learn the history of this country and the inventions that took place to get this country back on its feet after the ww2. they have been self serving idiots and interfering in the common good of the country, and now in 2024 just look at where this country is now, it's now increasingly becoming a third world nation. And not one politician can say they are proud of what they have achieved, as they have achieved nothing whatsoever, only ruination of a once great nation. There were steam engines built in the 1814, still working and running in the sixties, what company could build such a machine now that would last that long, instead we import cheap substandard goods from abroad that would probably last 5 years if that. No Progressive government since the early 70's have ruined a once great nation in the greed to fill their often opulent pockets.
What you have seen is more to do with the remorseless rise of globalisation and the import of goods made cheaper elsewhere. No government could halt that inevitability. This has left British goods, often unreliable, antiquated and unproductively manufactured, to succumb to better foreign imports. A good example is diesel locos. As for steam, much as we lament the passing of these marvellous machines, it was always substantially inefficient against diesel and especially electric equivalents.
Yes, a great amalgam of steam footage. Thank you. Steam engines may have been inefficient, polluting, noisy and scruffy in their last yers, but oh how wonderful they were!
Hi I did 50 yrs on the footplate I started my time in 1961 at Edgeley shed and did two years at Trafford Park and back to Edgeley I finished my time out at Longsight in 2011 Regards Phil.
Wish I could say that.
Ah, drifting back to those halcyon days.Thank you for the video & those contributors.
Absolutely cracking! Thank you!(ex BR fitter SR cat 4 )
Thank you glad you enjoyed watching
I seem to recall that the first week in August 1968, was when I joined the Army. I made a small somewhat uninterest note in my memory as I left K+ that they were cleaning the station after a hundred years of steam. I passed through there about 10years later and they were cleaning again-for the dirt of diesels
They smell a lot worse!
Fantastic film,,,,,,God bless Dai Woodham
Dai loved cutting GWR engines. He scrapped 84. Mostly GWR. Lots of copper in the fireboxes.
Fascinating watching the footage of steam trains but also for a few other details. Firstly, so many young men wearing white shirts. How many young men ever wear a white shirt in their leisure time today? Secondly, the way people were allowed to stand on the tracks. Yes, the 1960s was a different era.
Thak you!
Thank you for watching
Thanks for watching
Superb - any more please?
I know theres loads more, but thank you! (Any chance of any more ivo peters and industrial steam in East kent pleeeze!)
Will try.
Brings back memories ex br man
13:17 Squirrel! (Metro Vic)
Wonderful footage !! If you’ll allow a criticism though - I consider it a great mistake to superimpose music on film like this. The sound of the engines is all we need !
It is excellent footage but I must add most of the footage you see did not have audio recorded with it originally.
@@spiritofsteam My criticism is there is not enough footage of steam loco scrap cutting. A few hundred were saved, but over 15,000 were cut, so let's see some scrapping action from Cashmores and Drapers with sparks flying and huge chunks clanging onto the ground. Great cutting action!
The sounds are dubbed on from other sources. A bit like singer miming.
Enjoyment of this fine video was ruined by the constant interrupting irritant of adverts every couple of minutes...
I think there should have been more video of scrap cutting of steam locos.
I was born in the late 1947 and as i grew up i wondered at the steam railways and their progression through the sixties, i was some what dismayed when they began introducing those awful diesels and diesel electrics, they were more harmful to the environment than steam ever was, but since the sixties we have seen the unqualified different governments getting further involved in our lives and they have over the years completely ruined this country as they sold our heritage and history down the road, they do not know or even bothered to learn the history of this country and the inventions that took place to get this country back on its feet after the ww2. they have been self serving idiots and interfering in the common good of the country, and now in 2024 just look at where this country is now, it's now increasingly becoming a third world nation. And not one politician can say they are proud of what they have achieved, as they have achieved nothing whatsoever, only ruination of a once great nation. There were steam engines built in the 1814, still working and running in the sixties, what company could build such a machine now that would last that long, instead we import cheap substandard goods from abroad that would probably last 5 years if that. No Progressive government since the early 70's have ruined a once great nation in the greed to fill their often opulent pockets.
What you have seen is more to do with the remorseless rise of globalisation and the import of goods made cheaper elsewhere. No government could halt that inevitability. This has left British goods, often unreliable, antiquated and unproductively manufactured, to succumb to better foreign imports. A good example is diesel locos. As for steam, much as we lament the passing of these marvellous machines, it was always substantially inefficient against diesel and especially electric equivalents.