Euston Station was one of the evacuation stations for children on September 1, 1939. It chills me a little to be able to see this footage and imagine it as it was then. Thanks for the upload!
I loved the old station. If we got a semi fast home we would overtake a Princess Coronation on a down express up to Primrose Hill and then watch it slowly pass us as we slowed for Willesden Junction, watching the Princess's fireman shovelling hard. There was so much history in that station reflecting its piecemeal expansions. The smoke-blackened propyleum was such a powerful piece of architecture and Hardwicke's Great Hall was beautiful. British Railways had restored it to its original colours.
@@TerryD1471 Reckon that you are right Terry. Sorry about that. It was 1964 after all, and I was only a lad then. In fact the train was the Coronation Scot, the locomotive was named Coronation, and the loco and coaches were in LMS blue and silver livery I think. Duchess of Hamilton had LMS red with gold livery, again with similar coaches on the Coronation Scot train. I asked Percy why they did not keep the stream lining. Because fundamentally it was a pain in the backside to do any maintenance was the answer. And after a near derailment attempting to beat the LNER record, it seems the LMS decided it was too much of a risk to continue to pursue the coveted speed record at the expense of the passengers, locomotive, and crew. Percy got around a good deal of the LMS fleet, and was firing the likes of Coronation and Duchess of Hamilton with streamlining back in the 1930's. I once asked about his most disliked loco on the LMS. Responded in a flash. Princess Royal Class without a doubt. Poor steamers. I think he said that he'd rather have a Black 5 than one of those damn things any day. Percy reckoned that the LMS had some cracking locomotives in the Royal Scot and Patriot Class, but he always loved the Big Lizzies. These were his favorites. My own? Sir William A Stanier FRS....when I last saw Percy he was about to take a turn on her driving........wow, what I would have done to have been on the footplate of that beauty. This must have been one of her last runs because I believe she was scrapped at Cashmores in late 1964. What a pitiful end to such a beautiful locomotive that had given such good service.
Wow... there they are.....the Princess Coronation Class streamliners. My uncle Percy told me about these as a lad. He was on the footplate of them out of Euston!
@@johnclayden1670 ok thanks! I used to think that Camden bank was the flyover section near primrose hill! It makes sense now, because as i recall, they wanted to build a pulley system to aid locomotives.
interesting footage, the streamlined Princess Coronation locomotive at the start of the film is "Duchess of Hamilton", but actually, this is "Coronation" with the nameplates and number changed as they swapped identities - the real "Duchess of Hamilton was masquerading as "Coronation" in the USA and was stranded there when WWII started, only to return to the UK some time later because of locomotive shortages.
The presentable British public still possessed of residual public standards of appearance, now reduced to a nation of larded and homogenised denim-clad globo-scruffs and sartorial Oxfam rejects.. The great scrum of globalisation reducing London to a heap of indifference and deracination. Truly, this has become a land of ugly, scorofulus failure at the hands of dull globalism, social progressivism and labora/tory politics.
@@billpugh58 No price list on their website i'm afraid, but if you want a re-mastered reel I'd guess you better start saving. Fingers crossed you'll keep ahead of inflation. That aside, it's great to have a -free- look at them via RUclips, watermark or not.
Euston Station was one of the evacuation stations for children on September 1, 1939. It chills me a little to be able to see this footage and imagine it as it was then. Thanks for the upload!
I loved the old station. If we got a semi fast home we would overtake a Princess Coronation on a down express up to Primrose Hill and then watch it slowly pass us as we slowed for Willesden Junction, watching the Princess's fireman shovelling hard. There was so much history in that station reflecting its piecemeal expansions. The smoke-blackened propyleum was such a powerful piece of architecture and Hardwicke's Great Hall was beautiful. British Railways had restored it to its original colours.
The Royal Scot....a Princess Coronation Class attached. Uncle Percy was there. Top link driver for the LMS and later BR.
Actually it's the Coronation Scot, the prewar precursor of the Caledonian and all subsequent toplink expresses.
@@TerryD1471 Reckon that you are right Terry. Sorry about that. It was 1964 after all, and I was only a lad then.
In fact the train was the Coronation Scot, the locomotive was named Coronation, and the loco and coaches were in LMS blue and silver livery I think. Duchess of Hamilton had LMS red with gold livery, again with similar coaches on the Coronation Scot train. I asked Percy why they did not keep the stream lining. Because fundamentally it was a pain in the backside to do any maintenance was the answer. And after a near derailment attempting to beat the LNER record, it seems the LMS decided it was too much of a risk to continue to pursue the coveted speed record at the expense of the passengers, locomotive, and crew.
Percy got around a good deal of the LMS fleet, and was firing the likes of Coronation and Duchess of Hamilton with streamlining back in the 1930's. I once asked about his most disliked loco on the LMS. Responded in a flash. Princess Royal Class without a doubt. Poor steamers. I think he said that he'd rather have a Black 5 than one of those damn things any day.
Percy reckoned that the LMS had some cracking locomotives in the Royal Scot and Patriot Class, but he always loved the Big Lizzies. These were his favorites. My own? Sir William A Stanier FRS....when I last saw Percy he was about to take a turn on her driving........wow, what I would have done to have been on the footplate of that beauty. This must have been one of her last runs because I believe she was scrapped at Cashmores in late 1964. What a pitiful end to such a beautiful locomotive that had given such good service.
Wow... there they are.....the Princess Coronation Class streamliners. My uncle Percy told me about these as a lad. He was on the footplate of them out of Euston!
Wow thank you for this!! Never knew they needed banking out of Euston?!
Camden bank is pretty steep .... as much as 1 in 35 or so?
@@johnclayden1670 ok thanks! I used to think that Camden bank was the flyover section near primrose hill! It makes sense now, because as i recall, they wanted to build a pulley system to aid locomotives.
interesting footage, the streamlined Princess Coronation locomotive at the start of the film is "Duchess of Hamilton", but actually, this is "Coronation" with the nameplates and number changed as they swapped identities - the real "Duchess of Hamilton was masquerading as "Coronation" in the USA and was stranded there when WWII started, only to return to the UK some time later because of locomotive shortages.
Great video
What role was played by the black Labrador dog?
Collection box on its back...
Loved the dog at 2.37! Guide dog??
A collecting dog, could be Ray ?
The presentable British public still possessed of residual public standards of appearance, now reduced to a nation of larded and homogenised denim-clad globo-scruffs and sartorial Oxfam rejects.. The great scrum of globalisation reducing London to a heap of indifference and deracination. Truly, this has become a land of ugly, scorofulus failure at the hands of dull globalism, social progressivism and labora/tory politics.
Have a nice cup of tea with plenty of sugar in it and you will feel better.
Lytton333 Swallow a dictionary recently?
People all over the world dressed more formally until the 60's. Living standards in London back then were terrible.
Streamline Coronation in Wartime livery great
Looks blue to me, the go faster stripes were not wartime livery.
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Would have favorited this except for the stupid startrek looking thing placed on the film. Gets a dislike now. That's just stupid.
It's no big deal. Never even noticed it, 'till you mentioned it!
Ruined by people who steal footage from people who have paid for it legally. Pay for it and you get it without the logo. easy.
@@billpugh58 No price list on their website i'm afraid, but if you want a re-mastered reel I'd guess you better start saving. Fingers crossed you'll keep ahead of inflation. That aside, it's great to have a -free- look at them via RUclips, watermark or not.
so how come the film from 1939 looked a lot better than the film from the 50's
35mm compared with 16mm.
Colour footage cost a fortune
46247 City of Manchester.
Sorry it's City of Liverpool; 46246 was Manchester.
@@TerryD1471 Yes, imagine making that mistake as I have a Hornby Dublo model of 46247 City of Liverpool! A mental slip, I fear.
Electric modern trains are better.
No one asked :)
Hindsight is a wonderful attribute.
They're quicker for sure.... After that, I'm struggling.