Your filmmaking talent has transformed the mundane into an affecting few minutes of nostalgia, though more than that; you took me right there with Stan.
it's nostalgia but for someone as young as me it's just an imagination and a fascination of how the world has healed from the industry where a open bit of woods was once building and winding gear and tracks
fantastic to see this film about Yates duxbury shunt engine, as I knew the two people on the footplate ,they are Maurice mills the guy changing the points , and Jimmy outram , I worked with them when I was a fireman for B R at Buckley wells sheds bury , brought back great memories thank you . NEIL
I loved this short film very much. I'll accept your invitation and would love to see more please. The last steam railway in private ownership working in the UK. What a shame Stan has now disappeared. I suppose cut up for scrap. Your film making skills has brought a few moments of sheer delight to me. Thanks a million.
I was firing on 80151 on the bluebell on Thursday and my driver was talking about some good RUclips films he’d been watching of industrial railways. Well filmed on decent stock with an artistic eye and longer than usual shots of knowledgeable composure. Not Gandy dancer is it? Sez I Yeah. That’s the one Thumbs up!
It would indeed be lovely to see more of this footage. having seen the ghostly remnants and traces of steam after it had gone it would be lovely to see more footage of this last gasp of the vapour.
Brilliant record! As many have requested, I too would really love to see the full version of this, no editing - just the final product of the film back when you made it! Although your additional narration and maps in this video were also very very good!
This is beautiful and brilliant! Yes yes yes, I would love to see more! I just love these stories of these little engines and railways that were around at the end of steam in Britain, and the engines that survived.
Hi Owen, I'm pleased you enjoyed the film. Stay tuned there's more to come. All three locos survived in preservation, from this railway though I don't think any are running at the moment.
Superb film. I seldom went to Bury during my college years as I had so many friends that went to Bury College. Little did I know that there was a steam industrial railway. Sad to see that so much has changed over the years, as there are hardly any remnants left apart from parts of the viaduct. By the way, out of the question. Do you know what happened to the Beyer Peacock Works at Gorton?
Thanks. I also just had a quick look at Google Streetview at the former Bury Paper Mill. Without this video and the help of old maps, it would make it hard to trace out where the paper mill was located, as there's not much that remained. It makes archives like these become priceless.
Is the full film available? I walked the branch today looking for any history left, aside from the underpass, only some sleepers buried in the dirt remain.
Hi, I have a lot more film of Astley Green, YD Papers and a bit on Bickershaw. Plus BR steam around Manchester. I just need to finish my house and set up my editing room again.
I think I’m coming to this party a bit late, however, I’d love to see more of your film. Did you ever edit any more of it down to digital? If you did a production of it and added your wonderful explanations I’d buy it. Thanks for this little view of it though. Nice live steam collection by the way. I had to sell all my SM-32 rolling stock and engines when I moved. Sigh. All the best.
Great film, but I’m not sure that this was really the last? I know you discount NCB/CEGB operations like the Agecroft Colliery/Power Station, but I recall chasing a Barclay tank engine at CPC(UK) in Trafford Park around 1974/5.
Hang on... I'm certain that the Barclay preserved as 'Spitfire' on the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway (my local) came from CPC Trafford Park - not sure how long she ran in industry, though I suspect she's the same one you saw back then. Edit: Apparently she was still at work there in 1977, which confirms my thoughts as I don't think they had any other engines. Incidentally, she's in ticket at present, and likely in better condition then she was then!
Hi, on this channel in the future after I've worked out a Patreons account to pay for the digital transfer. I don't make enough out of RUclips to cover the electricity my computer uses so I need another method. Thanks for your interest.
There were three steam engines at the mill and all have survive. Andrew Barclay # 945 I believe is at Whitwell & Reepham railway station in Norfolk being overhauled. Peckett # 1159 'Annie ' is at Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway waiting overhaul. Peckett # 1370 'May' is operational at the East Lancashire Railway.
Brilliant footage, I've worked on this locomotive in preservation and this is the first film I've seen of it in proper action. She's out of ticket now unfortunately, but one day she'll steaming again. I would love to she some more footage of her working.
The YD Paper's engines were in such a bad state of repair when they close the railway in 1974, I was surprised they were preserved. I take my hat off to you sir, for the work you put in, to keep these beauties running.
The Whitwell & Reepham Railway in Norfolk - We have 2 Facebook pages - Whitwell & Reepham station and The Friends of Whitwell & Reepham - We are currently overhauling a Robert Stevenson & Hawthorne called Agecroft No.3 - Annie, the loco filmed here is next on the list to be overhauled.
It's the backgrounds of industrial sidings, mills, collieries and other industries which fed into the railways which have mostly disappeared or moved to road linked industrial estates. The present day preservationists are doing a great job. I am grateful for their effort against all odds.
Hi Alex, no it didn't have a name at YD Papers. It got named Annie at the Lavender Line. One of the Pecketts here was was named Annie and the other Peckett named May.
Unless I am wrong, I also volunteer on the same railway as Nico A, and we thought that the current Annie was named as such when the peckett was taken out of traffic an sadly scrapped.
I remember the last days too. I used to go watch the trains work to the exchange sidings when I was about 12 years old. About 1990 I worked for a short time at Tetrosyl at Heap Bridge (in what was left of the Yates and Duxbury factory ) and some of the rails were still in the yard and the remains of a wagon.
Hi Adelle, thanks for your memoirs. I was back there in May and looking around the waste recycling business that now occupies No. 2 mill and there's still some track left in the concrete where 45 years ago I film the little steam engine shunting over it.
Really good, you've beautifully captured a slice of how things were 50 years ago. Of course the steam engine is fascinating but so much of the industry and the people are too. I love the short shot of the fellow checking something, with his immaculate shiny shoes!
I recently shot a commercial on 16mm focussing on the sound so it was all synced up. I'm intrigued by how you recorded the audio for this back in the '70s. I've just started a small film like this on 8mm. But just want to say this was a wonderful video and gutted I have only seen this now! Loved how you also talked about the area today. Subscribing!
Hi Thomas, thanks for you comment. The sound was recorded on a 1/4" tape recorder sometimes in sync sometimes wild with the camera, transferred onto full coat 16mm mag sound and edited on a Steebeck. You are lucky to have the opportunity to shoot 16mm. I did my last 16mm shoot in 2013 and i thought I was the last guy using that format for TV.
@@GandyDancerProductions I find that really fascinating. To do that yourself with your narrations had a very nice mix. It was a part of my university module for a Kodak competition for the penguin chocolate bars. Was a lot of fun and hope an opportunity like that may come again someday. Once again loved the video and look forward to watching your back catalog! - James.
Thank you for filming, preserving and converting this extremely rare footage of 'Stan'. As a young boy in the early 1970's, I used to watch this steam engine working from my grandparents back bedroom window at Broad Oak Terrace, Bury, which overlooks the Roch valley towards what was Yates and Duxburys. My Grandad used to work at the neighbouring mill that was Transparent papers at that time. Nobody would ever believe me at school when I used to talk about this, still working steam engine. I think I last saw what little remains of it, a number of years ago at the Bury Transport museum. Dont know if it ever made it onto the East lancs railway, preservation to-do list. But I hope that it still survives there somewhere.
A wonderful film, many thanks for sharing. Amazing to see such good quality film footage from the time, best I can remember seeing. A model engineering friend of mine grew up in Heywood in the 40s and 50s and remembers the paper mills (and associated smell) extremely well. He's asked me to pass on his thanks for the posting film, it's brought back many memories. It would be great to see more of the film if you get chance.
Thanks for your comments. Since you mentioned it I remember the smell and the dreadful pollution in the river Roach. Some days there was foam from the river drifting round the village.
@@rogermortimer6154 this thread, too, is noteworthy, as it wasn't "all roses" back in the day. If we pine for the old tymes, were have to remember the trade-offs. The town where I grew up used to have some tanneries along the town creek. Folks forget that urine used to be in the tanning recipes.
Great footage of a then unfashionable side of the railways, glad you took an interest, look forward to the next instalments, glad to see at least a couple of locos servived. I'm nosy what took you to the states, work? Looks nice in New Hampshire not Manchester NH?
Yes I for one would love to see all this footage. Brilliant you recorded on 16mm I still have my lovely B&H projector now in need of repair unfortunately. I started my train driving career in 1970 (now retired) strange to think this was still in operation then. Happily pay for a digital copy of your film. Can you recommend a good film scanning company? I have some 16mm prints from the original 35mm negs I purchased from Movietone news about 45 or more years ago.
Would love to see more. We have just done a video on the Lomax Wood colliery inundation of 1834. The colliery was situated where the goods shed were and is available to view on our Chanel
Wonderful short film, would like to see the whole thing. I love to see the industrial past such as this, but sadly so much has gone. To me there is always something reassuring about the sound of a steam train, maybe it's just nostalgia, but let's have more please 😊
I'd love to see more of this film. Have a particular interest in industrial railways, with steam powered ones being my favourite. Are you planning on releasing this whole film?
So interesting. I sort of missed steam being a 1962 baby. I do remember worn out Ivatt's pulling tipplers from Kettering on what was left of the Cambridge line and the Sentinel that used to work at Ise Brook. Lots of images of me in a push chair by 8f's, black 5's and Jubes at Kettering, but I don't l remember that. The fields where I live were riddled with standard gauge, 3ft and meter, even some 2ft and I am always on the look out for evidence that these even existed.
Amazing, I'm a volunteer on the ELR but never realised that a railway branched off from what was the mainline then, just above or across the M66 motorway. And driving along Bury new road and Heap Brow I even haven't noticed the abutments and parapets of the railway bridges. Seeing these old films always learn me something new about the railway history of this region, and that this branch was the last private steam railway is quite a feat. Only NCB steam workings survived longer?
I'm on the other side of the pond just south of Boston. I remember walking the tracks and seeing coal on the roadbed from the steam engines that used to power the old steam engines from the 30's and 40's, one of my aunts lived about 1/4 mile away from that line. The old colony commuter rail went to diesel for a short while before shutting down for good in the late 50's, but the line saw occasional use for freight. In the early 60's they extended the subway line on that old roadbed and that's how i got to work for my working life , it was all above ground till you went uder before Andrew Sq.
There were a couple or more industrial railways like this in Coventry. I don't know exactly when they ceased operations but they would definitely have been in existence in the 1960s and I believe the tracks were still there in the 1970s.
Hello, first time I have seen any film footage of the mill system at Heap Bridge, very interesting. Lived quite close by for a number of years, and have seen some old photos but nothing more, really nice to see the film, Thanks, Steve.
What a wonder little film. As a lad in the 1950's I used to watch a similar engine run from Devonport north yard to the south yard, about 4 miles. One can still the where the track was in Google maps.
Hi, I do mention at 0.24 that there were still National Coal Board railways operating. I have been told a couple of other private industrial lines did survive beyond this one but not ones that operated on a daily basis.
Great footage...my home town is Bury but this scene had all but gone by time my interest had developed towards railway and the Industrial Age. Please upload more! I'm sure. The nearby East Lancashire Railway would be interested also.
What a treat. In Bristol industrial museum they still run the steam train and you can still ride them. They are the Bristol harbour train for cargo. Their is also a steam crane.
Your filmmaking talent has transformed the mundane into an affecting few minutes of nostalgia, though more than that; you took me right there with Stan.
It made me nostalgic and I was born well over 30 years after this was made!
Yes I wish I could chronicle and documentary so thorough and well to preserve things.
it's nostalgia but for someone as young as me it's just an imagination and a fascination of how the world has healed from the industry where a open bit of woods was once building and winding gear and tracks
fantastic to see this film about Yates duxbury shunt engine, as I knew the two people on the footplate ,they are Maurice mills the guy changing the points , and Jimmy outram , I worked with them when I was a fireman for B R at Buckley wells sheds bury , brought back great memories thank you . NEIL
I am so sad that I was born 50 years after I could see steam engines regularly on the main lines
@@thomasthepaintrain8880 i was born like more time than that
This is lovely. Thanks for sharing!
My Grandad worked in those mills. That was interesting to see. I'm from Heywood. Would love to see more
I loved this short film very much. I'll accept your invitation and would love to see more please.
The last steam railway in private ownership working in the UK. What a shame Stan has now disappeared. I suppose cut up for scrap. Your film making skills has brought a few moments of sheer delight to me. Thanks a million.
Fortunately none of the engines when to scrap all were preserved.
Fantastic, would love to see the original film!
Great information, a WT was the last mainline steam engine in the Uk and the Island of Ireland
More please, good films.
Astonishing amount of slack between the crosshead and the slipper on that locomotive.
Hi David, well spotted. These losos were very rundown.
I'd love to see the whole film!
I was firing on 80151 on the bluebell on Thursday and my driver was talking about some good RUclips films he’d been watching of industrial railways. Well filmed on decent stock with an artistic eye and longer than usual shots of knowledgeable composure.
Not Gandy dancer is it? Sez I
Yeah. That’s the one
Thumbs up!
I must come and have a ride on the Bluebell.
That's a lovely little film; the colours and clarity are delightful
Would love to see more. Thank you.
It would indeed be lovely to see more of this footage. having seen the ghostly remnants and traces of steam after it had gone it would be lovely to see more footage of this last gasp of the vapour.
Great Video! Thank you!
Brilliant record! As many have requested, I too would really love to see the full version of this, no editing - just the final product of the film back when you made it! Although your additional narration and maps in this video were also very very good!
This is beautiful and brilliant! Yes yes yes, I would love to see more! I just love these stories of these little engines and railways that were around at the end of steam in Britain, and the engines that survived.
Hi Owen, I'm pleased you enjoyed the film. Stay tuned there's more to come. All three locos survived in preservation, from this railway though I don't think any are running at the moment.
Nice film love industrial railways and small engines. Glad you made the recording.
Very interesting video 👍
This was awesome
A wonderful film. Please upload more
Brilliant, yes please, let’s see more!
Lovely little film, I'd definitely be interested in seeing it in its entirety.
Stay tuned. Things are a bit busy at the moment but once it settle down again I'll post a lot more.
I lived in Bury for a good few years . This was a great place and the people of Bury are salt for the Earth
Thanks for your dedication.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Fascinating.
Want to see more? I'd love to see the rest of this film. Already subscribed and enjoy your videos.
Superb film. I seldom went to Bury during my college years as I had so many friends that went to Bury College. Little did I know that there was a steam industrial railway. Sad to see that so much has changed over the years, as there are hardly any remnants left apart from parts of the viaduct.
By the way, out of the question. Do you know what happened to the Beyer Peacock Works at Gorton?
Thanks for your comment. I believe the impressive boiler shop still survives from the old Beyer Peacock Works on Preston Street, Gorton.
Thanks. I also just had a quick look at Google Streetview at the former Bury Paper Mill. Without this video and the help of old maps, it would make it hard to trace out where the paper mill was located, as there's not much that remained. It makes archives like these become priceless.
Would love to see any more content that you have
Is the full film available? I walked the branch today looking for any history left, aside from the underpass, only some sleepers buried in the dirt remain.
What an amazing story and historical record. Thank you for showing us. How would I view the longer footage? I'm interested regards Ian, Swindon.
But where did Stan leave to?
See video title.
Hi, good question. Where Stan when to is lost in the mists of time. I haven't a clue.
Great video though I thought CPC in Trafford Park used steam until the late 70s?
Hi, I seem to remember the engine was only used occasionally not every day.
One or two of the engines have gone in to preservation and have found on old maps on line co.uk the lay out if the track system
Do you still have any more films of industrial steam around the late 70s early 80s?
Hi, I have a lot more film of Astley Green, YD Papers and a bit on Bickershaw. Plus BR steam around Manchester. I just need to finish my house and set up my editing room again.
You must of been planning ahead back in 1971.
I think I’m coming to this party a bit late, however, I’d love to see more of your film. Did you ever edit any more of it down to digital? If you did a production of it and added your wonderful explanations I’d buy it. Thanks for this little view of it though. Nice live steam collection by the way. I had to sell all my SM-32 rolling stock and engines when I moved. Sigh. All the best.
Hi Steve, yes there's more footage to come. I just have to finish getting my new house sorted and get my office up and running so I can edit.
So sad why nooooooooooooooooo
do you know what happened to the loco after the mills closed?
All three locos survived into preservation but i don't think any are running right now. Their locations are discussed earlier in these comments.
Great film, but I’m not sure that this was really the last? I know you discount NCB/CEGB operations like the Agecroft Colliery/Power Station, but I recall chasing a Barclay tank engine at CPC(UK) in Trafford Park around 1974/5.
Hang on... I'm certain that the Barclay preserved as 'Spitfire' on the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway (my local) came from CPC Trafford Park - not sure how long she ran in industry, though I suspect she's the same one you saw back then.
Edit: Apparently she was still at work there in 1977, which confirms my thoughts as I don't think they had any other engines. Incidentally, she's in ticket at present, and likely in better condition then she was then!
Where can I see this film in full?
Hi, on this channel in the future after I've worked out a Patreons account to pay for the digital transfer. I don't make enough out of RUclips to cover the electricity my computer uses so I need another method. Thanks for your interest.
not all the litte youtubes and get patreons accont i do not think so?
How much is needed? And, if you'd like, I'll square cash or paypal you some seed money to get things rolling...
wow that good of you
That's a very kind offer. Email me through my about page on Gandy Dancer Productions channel home page.
Isn't that an Andrew Barclay?
Hi Arkadiusz, it certainly is.
Is that a Neilson Box Tank? Sorry I'm not too good on steam, I'm better on diesels (But I'm learning!).
Hi Neil, it's an Andrew Barclay built in Scotland.
Does that little engine still exist?
There were three steam engines at the mill and all have survive. Andrew Barclay # 945 I believe is at Whitwell & Reepham railway station in Norfolk being overhauled. Peckett # 1159 'Annie ' is at Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway waiting overhaul. Peckett # 1370 'May' is operational at the East Lancashire Railway.
Oh, thats cool! I think a reunion is in order!
Thanks for sharing! I'd love to see the whole of it.
I'd love to see this film in it's entirety. It shows just how much things have changed, not necessarily for the better either.
Yeah that's called Faddism. Or "progress" for the sake of "progress" as Dumbledore remarked about Umbridge.
@@kishascape ...and remember what happened to her!
Not for the better? You'd prefer all that pollution spewing out into the air?
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 You'd butcher a country's industry and millions of people's livelihoods over 'pollution'?
Brilliant footage, I've worked on this locomotive in preservation and this is the first film I've seen of it in proper action. She's out of ticket now unfortunately, but one day she'll steaming again. I would love to she some more footage of her working.
The YD Paper's engines were in such a bad state of repair when they close the railway in 1974, I was surprised they were preserved. I take my hat off to you sir, for the work you put in, to keep these beauties running.
Waitwaitwait... she's preserved?!
I’m relieved to hear the engine is preserved, it just wouldn’t be right otherwise.
What railway is she on?
The Whitwell & Reepham Railway in Norfolk - We have 2 Facebook pages - Whitwell & Reepham station and The Friends of Whitwell & Reepham - We are currently overhauling a Robert Stevenson & Hawthorne called Agecroft No.3 - Annie, the loco filmed here is next on the list to be overhauled.
The Algorithm has just led me to this film and it's wonderful! I'd love to see the whole thing. Fascinating stuff and beautifully shot.
What a capture from a vanished world. In fact, even shooting 16mm film is a vanished world!
fabulous film full of atmosphere something missing from railways today, almost as if they have been "sanitised".
I agree. There’s almost no friendliness in them here in the US, with the exception of some short lines. It’s all business these days.
Sanitised, like everything else.
It's the backgrounds of industrial sidings, mills, collieries and other industries which fed into the railways which have mostly disappeared or moved to road linked industrial estates. The present day preservationists are doing a great job. I am grateful for their effort against all odds.
The engine is an 0-4-0ST, built by Andrew Barclay in 1904, works Number 945. Its known as Annie in preservation, although i dont know if it was then.
Hi Alex, no it didn't have a name at YD Papers. It got named Annie at the Lavender Line. One of the Pecketts here was was named Annie and the other Peckett named May.
Unless I am wrong, I also volunteer on the same railway as Nico A, and we thought that the current Annie was named as such when the peckett was taken out of traffic an sadly scrapped.
I remember the last days too.
I used to go watch the trains work to the exchange sidings when I was about 12 years old.
About 1990 I worked for a short time at Tetrosyl at Heap Bridge (in what was left of the Yates and Duxbury factory ) and some of the rails were still in the yard and the remains of a wagon.
Hi Adelle, thanks for your memoirs. I was back there in May and looking around the waste recycling business that now occupies No. 2 mill and there's still some track left in the concrete where 45 years ago I film the little steam engine shunting over it.
Beautifully shot on 16mm, looks wonderful, what a gem to have cought. This is a true historical document. Would certainly love to see the whole film.
Really good, you've beautifully captured a slice of how things were 50 years ago. Of course the steam engine is fascinating but so much of the industry and the people are too. I love the short shot of the fellow checking something, with his immaculate shiny shoes!
You just shocked me by pointing out it was fifty years ago....Oh dear!
The stream train who worked on this railway was a really useful engine.
Indeed. The Fat Controller is most pleased.🙂
I loved it and would like to see more.
that is amazing footage and something so delightful.
I think Fred Dibnah will be supping on his Guinness and smiling down at you from top mill chimney
I recently shot a commercial on 16mm focussing on the sound so it was all synced up. I'm intrigued by how you recorded the audio for this back in the '70s. I've just started a small film like this on 8mm. But just want to say this was a wonderful video and gutted I have only seen this now! Loved how you also talked about the area today. Subscribing!
Hi Thomas, thanks for you comment. The sound was recorded on a 1/4" tape recorder sometimes in sync sometimes wild with the camera, transferred onto full coat 16mm mag sound and edited on a Steebeck. You are lucky to have the opportunity to shoot 16mm. I did my last 16mm shoot in 2013 and i thought I was the last guy using that format for TV.
@@GandyDancerProductions I find that really fascinating. To do that yourself with your narrations had a very nice mix. It was a part of my university module for a Kodak competition for the penguin chocolate bars. Was a lot of fun and hope an opportunity like that may come again someday. Once again loved the video and look forward to watching your back catalog! - James.
Thank you for filming, preserving and converting this extremely rare footage of 'Stan'. As a young boy in the early 1970's, I used to watch this steam engine working from my grandparents back bedroom window at Broad Oak Terrace, Bury, which overlooks the Roch valley towards what was Yates and Duxburys. My Grandad used to work at the neighbouring mill that was Transparent papers at that time.
Nobody would ever believe me at school when I used to talk about this, still working steam engine.
I think I last saw what little remains of it, a number of years ago at the Bury Transport museum. Dont know if it ever made it onto the East lancs railway, preservation to-do list. But I hope that it still survives there somewhere.
Thanks for your comment. In the October issue of the magazine 'Railway Bylines' I have an article about this railway and filming it.
A wonderful film, many thanks for sharing. Amazing to see such good quality film footage from the time, best I can remember seeing. A model engineering friend of mine grew up in Heywood in the 40s and 50s and remembers the paper mills (and associated smell) extremely well. He's asked me to pass on his thanks for the posting film, it's brought back many memories. It would be great to see more of the film if you get chance.
Thanks for your comments. Since you mentioned it I remember the smell and the dreadful pollution in the river Roach. Some days there was foam from the river drifting round the village.
There were indeed large blocks of floating foam flying far above on windy days. There are now, I gather, Kingfishers on the Roch.
@@rogermortimer6154 this thread, too, is noteworthy, as it wasn't "all roses" back in the day. If we pine for the old tymes, were have to remember the trade-offs.
The town where I grew up used to have some tanneries along the town creek. Folks forget that urine used to be in the tanning recipes.
I'm sure the NCB were running steam at various locations in Scotland until the 80s notably at Bedlay colliery.
Great footage of a then unfashionable side of the railways, glad you took an interest, look forward to the next instalments, glad to see at least a couple of locos servived. I'm nosy what took you to the states, work? Looks nice in New Hampshire not Manchester NH?
Hi, thanks for your comment. Yes, it was work that brought me to the US.
Thankyou so much for transferring these films to digital. It is a great pleasure to see Lancashire as I remember it from my youth.
Yes I for one would love to see all this footage. Brilliant you recorded on 16mm I still have my lovely B&H projector now in need of repair unfortunately. I started my train driving career in 1970 (now retired) strange to think this was still in operation then. Happily pay for a digital copy of your film. Can you recommend a good film scanning company? I have some 16mm prints from the original 35mm negs I purchased from Movietone news about 45 or more years ago.
Love the nostalgic sound of the engine it has its own signature tune. Lovely film thank you.
Lovely film, however Falmouth docks had steam engines working there at the boat docks until the late 80s with peckett 0-4-0s
i thought that this footage was brilliant that you filmed back in 1971 three years after steam finished on the BR network
Would love to see more. We have just done a video on the Lomax Wood colliery inundation of 1834. The colliery was situated where the goods shed were and is available to view on our Chanel
Wonderful short film, would like to see the whole thing. I love to see the industrial past such as this, but sadly so much has gone. To me there is always something reassuring about the sound of a steam train, maybe it's just nostalgia, but let's have more please 😊
Great stuff, please keep it coming. Living in Bolton, I particularly enjoyed the Astley Green and Walkden films.
I'd love to see more of this film. Have a particular interest in industrial railways, with steam powered ones being my favourite. Are you planning on releasing this whole film?
So interesting. I sort of missed steam being a 1962 baby. I do remember worn out Ivatt's pulling tipplers from Kettering on what was left of the Cambridge line and the Sentinel that used to work at Ise Brook. Lots of images of me in a push chair by 8f's, black 5's and Jubes at Kettering, but I don't l remember that. The fields where I live were riddled with standard gauge, 3ft and meter, even some 2ft and I am always on the look out for evidence that these even existed.
Amazing, I'm a volunteer on the ELR but never realised that a railway branched off from what was the mainline then, just above or across the M66 motorway.
And driving along Bury new road and Heap Brow I even haven't noticed the abutments and parapets of the railway bridges.
Seeing these old films always learn me something new about the railway history of this region, and that this branch was the last private steam railway is quite a feat.
Only NCB steam workings survived longer?
For some reason i really want go make a little OO gauge model of this line now haha
Hi Jame, go for it. It would small with plenty of interesting scenery and lots of shunting to keep you busy.
Brilliant video!! I live in Heap Bridge with my family on the farm that the railway went through! Could we see more videos if possible? Thanks
Oh dear, not heard of Imperial Paper Mill in Gravesend? Closed its steam internal railway in 1978 using fireless steam loco's
I was born in 74 so missed all the steam trains 😔
Fantastic film 👍
I’ve been enjoying watching your videos this morning, thanks for sharing them.
I'm on the other side of the pond just south of Boston. I remember walking the tracks and seeing coal on the roadbed from the steam engines that used to power the old steam engines from the 30's and 40's, one of my aunts lived about 1/4 mile away from that line. The old colony commuter rail went to diesel for a short while before shutting down for good in the late 50's, but the line saw occasional use for freight. In the early 60's they extended the subway line on that old roadbed and that's how i got to work for my working life , it was all above ground till you went uder before Andrew Sq.
There were a couple or more industrial railways like this in Coventry. I don't know exactly when they ceased operations but they would definitely have been in existence in the 1960s and I believe the tracks were still there in the 1970s.
This would make a wonderfully evocative model railway micro layout
With one of the Hatton's Andrew Barclays. Now I think on it, it would look really good.
Hello, first time I have seen any film footage of the mill system at Heap Bridge, very interesting. Lived quite close by for a number of years, and have seen some old photos but nothing more, really nice to see the film, Thanks, Steve.
What a wonder little film. As a lad in the 1950's I used to watch a similar engine run from Devonport north yard to the south yard, about 4 miles. One can still the where the track was in Google maps.
But colliery steam didn't end until the 1980s
Hi, I do mention at 0.24 that there were still National Coal Board railways operating. I have been told a couple of other private industrial lines did survive beyond this one but not ones that operated on a daily basis.
@@GandyDancerProductions still a misleading clickbate title as NCB steam is certainly steam.
Thank you for posting your film. Fascinating absolutely, you can even hear the little engine having a guts full. Lovely, please post more of your work
Wonderful! A fabulous mix of Ivo Peters and John Stilgoe!
It's amazing film of time forgotten. Things were slower and work was hard but there was a real achievement when the job was done.
1/4" play on the cross head there @2:21 Excellent archive footage.
Great footage...my home town is Bury but this scene had all but gone by time my interest had developed towards railway and the Industrial Age. Please upload more!
I'm sure. The nearby East Lancashire Railway would be interested also.
Equally as interesting is the roll of film you had and the camera equipment compared to what is used today. 🇦🇺👍
Fantastic footage and so enriched by the commentary. Many thanks
Great new video .Thanks very much.
Only just seen this. Atmospheric and beautifully shot.
China still had genuine steam railways several years ago. There might still be some today.
Sandaoling Coal Mine is the last.
Still going in 2021
m.bilibili.com/video/BV1w64y127Cg
I post a video link for you... there are others on that page.
Eh by gum old lad this brings back memories of proper steam engines & industry .
Very good video, well produced, nice angles, and with an excellent documentary. Thoroughly enjoyed it and would love to see more! Best wishes from Ken
What a treat. In Bristol industrial museum they still run the steam train and you can still ride them. They are the Bristol harbour train for cargo. Their is also a steam crane.
What a wonderful film about wonders past. Thank you. Richard
Please continue sharing, I have been enjoying your videos.