Its quite surreal watching this and then playing train sim world's spirit of steam pack, also going from liverpool lime street, through edge hill and speke junction, and down to crewe. Almost able to reenact the activities here, although these films capture the magic of steam better
That was fabulous, thank God for youngsters like you in the 60's for your enthusiasm and your ability to film such a sight. Loved every minute of this.
What you call the gridiron is actually the circular goods line. The gridiron is the gravity marshalling yard on the opposite side of the Liverpool - Manchester line. You can see on the map how the circular goods line passes underneath the gridiron in a tunnel. All gone now of course but the abutments of the circular goods line can still be seen. Where the parcels train neeeded assistance is Downhill carriage sidings - still in use today. Great video -- hurrah for nostalgia!
Fantastic film clips, i can’t believe the areas look as they do back then .. it shouldn’t be a surprise but you don’t realise the mess we use to live in and accept…it brings the reality of steam home, dirty and difficult, coal pollution on the ground and soot in the air but, they are beguiling because they breath and snort and huff as they pick up the slack .. well done to you and your dad that film is of historic importance and even today videoing what’s seem uninteresting isn’t in 50/ 60 years time…
I don't know where to begin on how brilliant this is - engines going up and down the 1 in 20, the steel gantries and tight curves, the atmosphere of smoke and mist, the rails almost buried under rainwater and stray coal, Black Fives taking turns to slip, and archetypal dad with his hat, glasses and moustache. Thank you so much for uploading.
I work on a number of steam railways where I live firing locomotives, I still live through this in the 21st century but this film makes me nostalgic for something I'm living, the sound the steam the noise the dirt the grime it leaves me in awe. I can only imagine what the true age of steam would have been like, surrounded by 10 or more Locomotives in steam breathing and pulsating with life. I might be lucky if I saw 4 in one day where I work, I'm thankful I can still experience this to a degree still.
There is nothing like the sounds and smells of a big steam shed. I did fortunately get a last change to experience it in South Africa in the late 1990's
@@GandyDancerProductions a number of drivers I've fired for actually flew over from Australia in the 80s and 90s to live in south Africa so they could work on steam.
Thank you for preserving these films and being lucky enough to have a father who not only shared your love of steam but helped you make these irreplaceable records.
The rapid chuffing as they alternate slipping almost gives the impression of a conversation between them, maybe an argument or the helper hyping up the other.
One of those 5's (the one at the front of the consist) is 44871. Its well know for hauling the final steam service for British Railways. It's now preserved and runs today!
It's great that you had the foresight to record this for future generations. It's also great that you were allowed to get in close to film, just imagine trying it in todays 'safety' culture.
Well i am 75 today, and how well i remember visiting the sheds in the North West in the sixties, the thing you remember so well is how we youngsters could walk round, in the main nobody bothered in fact at some sheds you felt welcome by the workers,no snowflakes in those days.The shed i liked in Liverpool was Bank Hall with its 3 Jubs and 45517 its unrebuilt Patriot,the entrance was a doorway near Bank Hall station. Seems like yesterday,happy times thanks for the nostalgic film.
Hi Eric, it was incredible, looking back, just how open these sheds were considering all the potential dangers in them. The only shed I ever turned away from was York.
@@GandyDancerProductions Yes living not far from Leeds i went there a lot,Copley Hill was the only shed i never got in it was like Fort Knox,yet just up the road at Farnley Jct you were practically welcomed into the shed!Best Wishs Eric
Excellent film. Reminds me of my visit to Tyseley steam shed in Birmingham in 1967. More chuffers in one place than you could shake an Ian Allan loco numbers book at. The excitement!
A really interesting and enjoyable film. Thanks to the younger you for taking the photos, the middle aged you for keeping hold of them, and the older you for editing them together and making them available. Excellent!
As a 14/15 year old I visited Edgehill -in 1962/3 - a wonderful experience - the fireman showed me how to fry an egg on a coal shovel.in the firebox. Edgehil was on the Liverpool Lime Street line - 4 tracks to Ditton Junction going past Edgehill. and onto Euston via Crewe- which was beginning to be electrified. The Red Rose being the star - racing South. Those were the days. Great video Mr Mancunian. Presumably using your wind up Kodak cine camera.
Yes brilliantly filmed. I can’t identify exactly what, but your filming technique, and great audio are so riveting and contemporary. And I am today delighted to learn of a renationalisation of our railways. Separate companies pulling profit for minimal input was a doomed idea which stunted the extent of engineering and technical development.
@@peterpan1435 Yes but the new name `Great British Railways' ?? Unfortunately there's nothing very British about the trains anymore and Great Britain sounds too pompous imo. British Railways woud have been ok to differentiate the new from good old British Rail (which did a good job, by and large, on a shoestring budget and had to put up with constant moaning from the likes of the Daily Mail). I wonder if it annoys the Tories that equipment like Class 43 & Class 91 have become iconic and have lasted so long.
As a kid living in Aintree I used to spend all my spare time at Aintree sheds. Many of the drivers used to give me and my mates a little ride up and down on the footplate. Treasured memories indeed.
This is the best film documenting the atmosphere of the end of steam traction on BR that I've seen - period. Absolutely excellent. Really fascinating commentary and personal context as well. Thank you so much for sharing this great footage.
It’s amazing isn’t it? The culmination of 150 years of skilled craftsmen caring for these amazing machines, driving them, displaying such teamwork and to see this en-masse, as the normal everyday of the time. Wonderful!
Thanks I really enjoyed that, I was a train spotter in London who had family connections in Liverpool and manchester. We once travelled to Liverpool behind 46242 City of Edinburgh and I bunked several sheds in Liverpool and Manchester over the years including Edge Hill, Speke, Birkenhead, Aintree, Newton Heath, Stockport, Heaton Mersey, Springs Branch. Edge Hill was quite a place. nothing like a wet day in an engine shed! I loved Willesden and Crewe South, never forget the smell! and oh the lines of Coronation Pacifics, Britannias, Jubilees and Scots as well as the 8F's, Black Fives and Jinties. I miss them all. A marvellous film!
Hi, thanks for your comment. Unfortunately I missed all the Duchesses in traffic being one of my favorite engines. Newton Heath was my local shed with Stockport Edgeley and Heaton Mersey not far behind. I have a lot more film coming up including those and other sheds so stay tuned.
Just wanted to say what a superb job you did as a camera op back then and as a historical interpreter on this video. I grew up in Liverpool in the 50s and 60s and with a railway daft dad and two railway daft older brothers. This video gave me great pleasure. Many thanks.
I can only echo what everybody else has already said - that these films and photos and your personal recollections form such an important historical archive of a pivotal point in British railway history 🙏.
This has made my week!! Or Month. I researched my ancestors and Edge Hill Works was where one of them a Thomas Scott became a very Early RAILWAY ENGINEER. 1 year Younger than Robert Stevenson the two must have known each other as he moved from Jarrow to take up the position. His Son GEORGE being born in 1833. I do models in 5 inch gauge. Wonderfully having a Black Five Tender sat in our sitting room as you do. David and Lily Reading.
Oh what memories. In the early sixties I realised what was happening and did all I could to get to as many motive power depots as possible and I did very well. Now I have all of those live memories and no one can take them away of ever equal the over helming experience of my achievements. I will leave this world a contented steam enthusiast!
Fantastic!! Sheds and coaling etc are my favourite aspects of the bygone steam era, I just love dirty, hard working locos, all grimy and showing their miles of operation. Extremely well filmed and with sound! Thankyou so much.
Great footage for the period. Thanks for the then and now at the end. For those that weren’t around it does help understand the changes as time moves on.
Excellent film. I got a ride on a black five at Patricroft depot in 66 I was 12 and it was a magical moment in my life. The driver was eastern European and probably a refuge from the second world war, he could only speak broken English but what a nice man.Never went to Edge Hill though the only other sheds I visited were Bolton and Newton Heath.
You had the privilege to film this back then and thanks for sharing. Sad to see many 9FS awaiting scrapping.I do not think you could get any where a railway yard today.
Amazing! takes me back to the late 50's when we went almost anywhere on the railways until that is the shed foreman saw us! Crawled under buffers and couplings but always listening out for the tell tale clunk clink as a row of close-coupled locos were edged further down the road!
In my childhood in the 1950s a visit to the local engine shed was including in our roaming around the village. If no movements were planned the foreman would allow us to to search through the shed looking for engines we had not seen before. This film brought back many happy childhood memories.
Absoloutly fantastic. Born in 1970 I missed the steam years. Used to listen to my parents and older brother (13 years older ) tell me of the age and beauty of steam. Live near the bluebell preservation railway in East Sussex. Absolutely love steam engines. 😍😍
So touching and eloquently filmed and narrated. I'm the son of a locoman, as they were referred to in in the '20s through the early 60s My dad was a mechanical engineer trained by the British at their sheds through the NE (Newcastle, Doncaster Leeds etc). I grew up with the smell of steam and coal in India. I share your delight and nostalgia even now at 80!!
@@GandyDancerProductions So happy to know you visited India in your quest to trace our history of the railways. Wonder if you visited the Railway Museum in New Delhi? I would love to visit the Museum in York; it's a masterpiece; who knows what fate awaits me!
@@dinshawmuncherjee5123 Yes I did visit the museum in Delhi. There were still steam engines passing on the mainline behind the museum when I was there and i took a steam hauled train from Delhi to Patnar later. Brought back memories of British steam and it was the early 1980's
My grandfather worked for British railways, he drove the trains and also worked in the old 12b Carlisle upperby train sheds and retired around the early 1960's.
Very atmospheric, one of the best I have seen on RUclips. We are so fortunate you filmed this, a different world... Reminds me of The Colin Gifford books.
This is just fantastic! Thanks for sharing. I was a Leeds lad and saw much activity in the area but, alas, couldn’t afford a camera! Memories are still very much there, yet only just! Again, thanks.
What a great film. My Grandfather worked at Speke Shed most of his life and my Dad often mentions the dirt and grime there, this really brings it home. Really excellent.
Remember getting chased by the shed foreman when I was 13 just after we bagged patriot Southport. Day ended well after cabbing the Liverpool exchange pilot the crew took us to Bank Hall shed to collect the coaches for the Glasgow express and take them back to exchange. When we got back to exchange our train taking us back home was double headed with jubilee Orion at the head. What a day for a young lad
I could have 'liked' almost every comment, as they reflected my feelings completely because with my father I had many similar experiences chasing those last days of steam holidays' from our home in East Anglia. Beautiful work, more please.
Ah those were the days when you could visit sheds and walk the tracks without being stopped. To day you wouldn't stand a chance, the transport police would soon move you on. No such thing as Health and Safety to worry about. My local shed and coaling station were in Goodwick and was part of Fishguard Harbour, which was in Goodwick and as kids we used to wander around at will. Wonderful times. I love the videos, well done.
We still get a few Steam pulled trains at At Fishguard Harbour and the one think that brings back childhood memories is the smell of steam a engine, wonderful.
Excellent video! Very good quality filming for the time, nice and steady and in colour. A tricky place to negotiate with 1 in 20 gradient, tight curves with check rails and a very greasy track. The video conveys how things were at the end of steam, something that can never be reproduced on preserved railways. I started trainspotting in 1964 but it all disappeared all too quickly. I have never seen a double headed wheel slip like that though! Thanks for posting, have liked a d subscribed.
Great film. The assisting engine then the train engine taking turns to slip was excellent, bet there wasn’t a dry bucket of sand to be had in miles! All those 9s. Waiting to be cut up and barely ten years old. Thanks
when i was at school in the late 50's a mate who's name i can not remember got hold of a group pass for a club to visit edge hill sheds , the group was just us 2 . i remember it was dark dusty , but with the beautiful smell of steam , coal and lubricating oil . we spent at least 2 hours wandering around this wonderland until we were spotted and then escorted out as our pass was for a group of twenty , they did not accept there were 18 more invisible people wandering around the sheds , how i wish i could go back and smell again the essence of the steam loco sheds . i also went to speke siding in the 60's and climbed into the cabs of those engines waiting there to be taken for scrap while watching the electrics pulling the trains on the main line to london
I am in ecstasy too. 🙂 I have those memories of steam sheds too. And a solitary 8F pulling about 40 grey mineral wagons through Kidderminster in the snow.
I remember seeing 45156 at Heaton Mersey and Edgeley sheds...and in 2013 Llangollen railway re-named a black 5 ,Ayrshire Yeomanry, and to complete it, I were given a round trip on the footplate..I know it wasn`t the 45156, but it was good enojugh for me, it rwally did look the part, and filthy too,like many locos were in the 60s..
Fantastic, thank you for sharing. Served my apprenticeship with British Rail and spent nigh on 10 years in total at Edge Hill maintenance depot between 1979 to 89. Wonderful memories.
Brilliant. I was 14 in 1968, I couldn’t take the rundown in steam toward the end of steam, it was so depressing. Fortunately you and people like you kept going.
The steam loco era ended 2 years before I was born so its great folk filmed them for future generations to enjoy, I could almost smell all that smoke and steam ,and couldn't help but notice how weathered unkempt they had become during this period, I presume because they knew they would be getting scrapped soon, great filming 👍
Some of the best footage I've seen of the end of steam with a most interesting commentary. You were a very talented young man and your father an excellent photographer. I enjoyed the maps showing the locations and how so much of the railway infrastructure has disappeared. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for this. As a Wirral lad born in 1969 I missed all this and grew up with my fathers stories of mainline steam. Now we are producing our own Models. Archives like yours are so helpful
Oh Heaven on earth my shed that I visited as a boy. Some days been chased by a grumpy Forman other days talking to our Heroes the Drivers. I now live in Huyton a few stop down in line from Edge Hill were I live as a Boy. Speke I never visited but when going to Chester was always noting trains I seen. The sheds are long gone but those memory's are still there. Some great shots that caught the action , that bring back the taste and the taste of those days when we had a Railway.
Wonderful scenes those 9f what a wonderful scene
Its quite surreal watching this and then playing train sim world's spirit of steam pack, also going from liverpool lime street, through edge hill and speke junction, and down to crewe. Almost able to reenact the activities here, although these films capture the magic of steam better
That was fabulous, thank God for youngsters like you in the 60's for your enthusiasm and your ability to film such a sight. Loved every minute of this.
What you call the gridiron is actually the circular goods line. The gridiron is the gravity marshalling yard on the opposite side of the Liverpool - Manchester line. You can see on the map how the circular goods line passes underneath the gridiron in a tunnel. All gone now of course but the abutments of the circular goods line can still be seen. Where the parcels train neeeded assistance is Downhill carriage sidings - still in use today. Great video -- hurrah for nostalgia!
Fantastic film clips, i can’t believe the areas look as they do back then .. it shouldn’t be a surprise but you don’t realise the mess we use to live in and accept…it brings the reality of steam home, dirty and difficult, coal pollution on the ground and soot in the air but, they are beguiling because they breath and snort and huff as they pick up the slack .. well done to you and your dad that film is of historic importance and even today videoing what’s seem uninteresting isn’t in 50/ 60 years time…
This is so good. It brought so many memories of my teenage years visiting the local shed at Lostock Hall.
I don't know where to begin on how brilliant this is - engines going up and down the 1 in 20, the steel gantries and tight curves, the atmosphere of smoke and mist, the rails almost buried under rainwater and stray coal, Black Fives taking turns to slip, and archetypal dad with his hat, glasses and moustache. Thank you so much for uploading.
That 1:20 is something else! Thank you for this fantastic upload.
I work on a number of steam railways where I live firing locomotives, I still live through this in the 21st century but this film makes me nostalgic for something I'm living, the sound the steam the noise the dirt the grime it leaves me in awe. I can only imagine what the true age of steam would have been like, surrounded by 10 or more Locomotives in steam breathing and pulsating with life. I might be lucky if I saw 4 in one day where I work, I'm thankful I can still experience this to a degree still.
There is nothing like the sounds and smells of a big steam shed. I did fortunately get a last change to experience it in South Africa in the late 1990's
@@GandyDancerProductions a number of drivers I've fired for actually flew over from Australia in the 80s and 90s to live in south Africa so they could work on steam.
Thank you for preserving these films and being lucky enough to have a father who not only shared your love of steam but helped you make these irreplaceable records.
The scene of those class 5s nose to nose slipping away is something special. Overall some truly wonderful footage here, thank you for sharing.
The rapid chuffing as they alternate slipping almost gives the impression of a conversation between them, maybe an argument or the helper hyping up the other.
One of those 5's (the one at the front of the consist) is 44871. Its well know for hauling the final steam service for British Railways. It's now preserved and runs today!
Black 5 44871 is preserved, quite incredible you recorded this in hindsight.
Very different from the pristine heritage railways we see today
Thanks for sharing is fantastic and evocative images of a disappearing world.
I agree, it would be great to see a kettle on a heritage railway in its real working clothes!!
It's great that you had the foresight to record this for future generations.
It's also great that you were allowed to get in close to film, just imagine trying it in todays 'safety' culture.
Hi Paul, It was amazing, compared to today, just how open and easy it was to photograph and that's not just Liverpool it was the same everywhere.
Well i am 75 today, and how well i remember visiting the sheds in the North West in the sixties, the thing you remember so well is how we youngsters could walk round, in the main nobody bothered in fact at some sheds you felt welcome by the workers,no snowflakes in those days.The shed i liked in Liverpool was Bank Hall with its 3 Jubs and 45517 its unrebuilt Patriot,the entrance was a doorway near Bank Hall station. Seems like yesterday,happy times thanks for the nostalgic film.
Hi Eric, it was incredible, looking back, just how open these sheds were considering all the potential dangers in them. The only shed I ever turned away from was York.
@@GandyDancerProductions Yes living not far from Leeds i went there a lot,Copley Hill was the only shed i never got in it was like Fort Knox,yet just up the road at Farnley Jct you were practically welcomed into the shed!Best Wishs Eric
Excellent film. Reminds me of my visit to Tyseley steam shed in Birmingham in 1967. More chuffers in one place than you could shake an Ian Allan loco numbers book at. The excitement!
Glad you enjoyed it
Superb video and great quality filming. Thanks for sharing.
Many thanks!
A really interesting and enjoyable film. Thanks to the younger you for taking the photos, the middle aged you for keeping hold of them, and the older you for editing them together and making them available. Excellent!
I find the THEN more interesting than the NOW. Thanks for sharing your wonderful memories.
As a 14/15 year old I visited Edgehill -in 1962/3 - a wonderful experience - the fireman showed me how to fry an egg on a coal shovel.in the firebox. Edgehil was on the Liverpool Lime Street line - 4 tracks to Ditton Junction going past Edgehill. and onto Euston via Crewe- which was beginning to be electrified. The Red Rose being the star - racing South. Those were the days. Great video Mr Mancunian. Presumably using your wind up Kodak cine camera.
Whoever dubbed the sound onto this vid deserves a special mention
hear hear
The demise of steam, captured superbly in this excellent but poignant film.
the way you produce and edit these together is just supurb. Really didnt want it to end. Bravo 👏
me too
I lived half a mile away and often went around the sidings as children. I could hear the shunting taking place from my bedroom. Very happy days❤️
me too, I lived in Wynne st, early 60's...
Brilliant footage and very well presented! Honestly some of the best BR steam footage i have ever seen, thanks for sharing :)
Aye to that.
Yes brilliantly filmed. I can’t identify exactly what, but your filming technique, and great audio are so riveting and contemporary.
And I am today delighted to learn of a renationalisation of our railways. Separate companies pulling profit for minimal input was a doomed idea which stunted the extent of engineering and technical development.
@@peterpan1435 Yes but the new name `Great British Railways' ?? Unfortunately there's nothing very British about the trains anymore and Great Britain sounds too pompous imo. British Railways woud have been ok to differentiate the new from good old British Rail (which did a good job, by and large, on a shoestring budget and had to put up with constant moaning from the likes of the Daily Mail). I wonder if it annoys the Tories that equipment like Class 43 & Class 91 have become iconic and have lasted so long.
@@peterpan1435 Look at the state of these locos. They look ready to be sliced with cutting torches and sent for melting down and recycling.
i realize I'm kinda randomly asking but do anyone know of a good place to stream newly released tv shows online ?
As a kid living in Aintree I used to spend all my spare time at Aintree sheds. Many of the drivers used to give me and my mates a little ride up and down on the footplate. Treasured memories indeed.
Proper days when kids could rely on grownups
@@TheTommybongos Too true. Wonderful times, todays kids will never get to experience anything like that.
Amazing footage and really lively, exciting commentary!
excellent film of the good old steam days and well narrated thanks for sharing
This is the best film documenting the atmosphere of the end of steam traction on BR that I've seen - period. Absolutely excellent. Really fascinating commentary and personal context as well. Thank you so much for sharing this great footage.
It’s amazing isn’t it? The culmination of 150 years of skilled craftsmen caring for these amazing machines, driving them, displaying such teamwork and to see this en-masse, as the normal everyday of the time. Wonderful!
Thanks I really enjoyed that, I was a train spotter in London who had family connections in Liverpool and manchester. We once travelled to Liverpool behind 46242 City of Edinburgh and I bunked several sheds in Liverpool and Manchester over the years including Edge Hill, Speke, Birkenhead, Aintree, Newton Heath, Stockport, Heaton Mersey, Springs Branch. Edge Hill was quite a place. nothing like a wet day in an engine shed! I loved Willesden and Crewe South, never forget the smell! and oh the lines of Coronation Pacifics, Britannias, Jubilees and Scots as well as the 8F's, Black Fives and Jinties. I miss them all. A marvellous film!
Hi, thanks for your comment. Unfortunately I missed all the Duchesses in traffic being one of my favorite engines. Newton Heath was my local shed with Stockport Edgeley and Heaton Mersey not far behind. I have a lot more film coming up including those and other sheds so stay tuned.
Wonderful and thank you. Glorious days indeed
Thank you. Historical footage!
Fantastic film. Atmosphere, nostalgia and history all in one. Thank you for sharing.
Just wanted to say what a superb job you did as a camera op back then and as a historical interpreter on this video. I grew up in Liverpool in the 50s and 60s and with a railway daft dad and two railway daft older brothers. This video gave me great pleasure. Many thanks.
I can only echo what everybody else has already said - that these films and photos and your personal recollections form such an important historical archive of a pivotal point in British railway history 🙏.
Thanks for your comment. It makes this project all worth while.
Really enjoyed your film especially how you fitted it into the present time? Thanks very much for all your hard work. Keep up the great work!
Well done..!! Thank you for posting this. 👍
Your Stuff Reminds Me Of Railway Roundabout. Its Amazing
I love Railway Roundabout as well.
Nothing like a miserable day in Lancashire.
The world was a different planet back then
It really was
@@MrXbow4300 it s never grim up north
Super atmospheric !! Marvelous.
A compelling watch, and lovely clear explanation of a very complex network of lines
This has made my week!! Or Month. I researched my ancestors and Edge Hill Works was where one of them a Thomas Scott became a very Early RAILWAY ENGINEER. 1 year Younger than Robert Stevenson the two must have known each other as he moved from Jarrow to take up the position. His Son GEORGE being born in 1833. I do models in 5 inch gauge. Wonderfully having a Black Five Tender sat in our sitting room as you do. David and Lily Reading.
Hi, thanks for your comment. There a lot of history around Edge Hill I forgot to mention that the Depot was opened as long ago as 1864.
Oh what memories. In the early sixties I realised what was happening and did all I could to get to as many motive power depots as possible and I did very well. Now I have all of those live memories and no one can take them away of ever equal the over helming experience of my achievements. I will leave this world a contented steam enthusiast!
Lovely narrated old film. Very enjoyable.
Such an important archive, it shows the conditions the footplate and shed staff had to work in.
Grew up in Edge Hill Listening to the sounds of shunting steam engines the clink clink clang of shunted wagons was my bed time serenade.
Great films and informative commentary. V good then and now for context. Thanks for posting
Very enjoyable really well presented didn't want it to finish so good showing how it used to be in the day of steam.
Fantastic!! Sheds and coaling etc are my favourite aspects of the bygone steam era, I just love dirty, hard working locos, all grimy and showing their miles of operation. Extremely well filmed and with sound! Thankyou so much.
Many thanks!
Great footage for the period. Thanks for the then and now at the end. For those that weren’t around it does help understand the changes as time moves on.
Excellent film. I got a ride on a black five at Patricroft depot in 66 I was 12 and it was a magical moment in my life. The driver was eastern European and probably a refuge from the second world war, he could only speak broken English but what a nice man.Never went to Edge Hill though the only other sheds I visited were Bolton and Newton Heath.
You had the privilege to film this back then and thanks for sharing. Sad to see many 9FS awaiting scrapping.I do not think you could get any where a railway yard today.
You have done us a great service with your filming thank you !!
abs amazing vid & what a era
Amazing! takes me back to the late 50's when we went almost anywhere on the railways until that is the shed foreman saw us! Crawled under buffers and couplings but always listening out for the tell tale clunk clink as a row of close-coupled locos were edged further down the road!
In my childhood in the 1950s a visit to the local engine shed was including in our roaming around the village. If no movements were planned the foreman would allow us to to search through the shed looking for engines we had not seen before. This film brought back many happy childhood memories.
Brilliant film, reminds of my days at Newton Heath shed. Thanks for posting.
Hi John, Newton Heath used to be my local shed and I have film of that to show in the future.
Precious video!! Very good part of history for England and fans of steam locomotive
Absoloutly fantastic. Born in 1970 I missed the steam years. Used to listen to my parents and older brother (13 years older ) tell me of the age and beauty of steam. Live near the bluebell preservation railway in East Sussex. Absolutely love steam engines. 😍😍
So touching and eloquently filmed and narrated. I'm the son of a locoman, as they were referred to in in the '20s through the early 60s My dad was a mechanical engineer trained by the British at their sheds through the NE (Newcastle, Doncaster Leeds etc). I grew up with the smell of steam and coal in India. I share your delight and nostalgia even now at 80!!
Hi Dinshaw, I visited India looking for steam locos in the early 1980 and it was similar and as exciting.
@@GandyDancerProductions So happy to know you visited India in your quest to trace our history of the railways. Wonder if you visited the Railway Museum in New Delhi? I would love to visit the Museum in York; it's a masterpiece; who knows what fate awaits me!
@@dinshawmuncherjee5123 Yes I did visit the museum in Delhi. There were still steam engines passing on the mainline behind the museum when I was there and i took a steam hauled train from Delhi to Patnar later. Brought back memories of British steam and it was the early 1980's
My grandfather worked for British railways, he drove the trains and also worked in the old 12b Carlisle upperby train sheds and retired around the early 1960's.
2 years later and here I is watching it again !!
Very atmospheric, one of the best I have seen on RUclips.
We are so fortunate you filmed this, a different world...
Reminds me of The Colin Gifford books.
Thanks Rusty, Colin Gifford was definitely one of my photo heroes.
This is just fantastic! Thanks for sharing. I was a Leeds lad and saw much activity in the area but, alas, couldn’t afford a camera! Memories are still very much there, yet only just! Again, thanks.
What a great film. My Grandfather worked at Speke Shed most of his life and my Dad often mentions the dirt and grime there, this really brings it home. Really excellent.
Remember getting chased by the shed foreman when I was 13 just after we bagged patriot Southport.
Day ended well after cabbing the Liverpool exchange pilot the crew took us to Bank Hall shed to collect the coaches for the Glasgow express and take them back to exchange.
When we got back to exchange our train taking us back home was double headed with jubilee Orion at the head.
What a day for a young lad
Brilliant!
I could have 'liked' almost every comment, as they reflected my feelings completely because with my father I had many similar experiences chasing those last days of steam holidays' from our home in East Anglia. Beautiful work, more please.
A fantastic record. In particular I loved how the helper engine and train engines were slipping one after the other.
Tears in my eyes all the way! Thankyou, wonderful footage beautifully presented thankyou! Obviously subbed to your fabulous channel, Nick Redshed
Any footage of cutting up steam locomotives for scrap?
Brilliant stuff. What a great historical record.
Brilliant footage well done!
Thanks for filming and sharing this with us all .
Fantastic film. Thanks for sharing it
Very nice, and yes I was feeling back to the steam time. Looking forward to see more.
Ah those were the days when you could visit sheds and walk the tracks without being stopped. To day you wouldn't stand a chance, the transport police would soon move you on. No such thing as Health and Safety to worry about. My local shed and coaling station were in Goodwick and was part of Fishguard Harbour, which was in Goodwick and as kids we used to wander around at will. Wonderful times. I love the videos, well done.
Excellent.....so many memories of shed bash's
We still get a few Steam pulled trains at At Fishguard Harbour and the one think that brings back childhood memories is the smell of steam a engine, wonderful.
Excellent video! Very good quality filming for the time, nice and steady and in colour. A tricky place to negotiate with 1 in 20 gradient, tight curves with check rails and a very greasy track. The video conveys how things were at the end of steam, something that can never be reproduced on preserved railways. I started trainspotting in 1964 but it all disappeared all too quickly. I have never seen a double headed wheel slip like that though! Thanks for posting, have liked a d subscribed.
Great film. The assisting engine then the train engine taking turns to slip was excellent, bet there wasn’t a dry bucket of sand to be had in miles! All those 9s. Waiting to be cut up and barely ten years old.
Thanks
Some excellent footage of the railway scene around Liverpool. It was a pleasure to view it.
when i was at school in the late 50's a mate who's name i can not remember got hold of a group pass for a club to visit edge hill sheds , the group was just us 2 . i remember it was dark dusty , but with the beautiful smell of steam , coal and lubricating oil . we spent at least 2 hours wandering around this wonderland until we were spotted and then escorted out as our pass was for a group of twenty , they did not accept there were 18 more invisible people wandering around the sheds , how i wish i could go back and smell again the essence of the steam loco sheds . i also went to speke siding in the 60's and climbed into the cabs of those engines waiting there to be taken for scrap while watching the electrics pulling the trains on the main line to london
Great documentary video.
I am in ecstasy too. 🙂 I have those memories of steam sheds too. And a solitary 8F pulling about 40 grey mineral wagons through Kidderminster in the snow.
I remember seeing 45156 at Heaton Mersey and Edgeley sheds...and in 2013 Llangollen railway re-named a black 5 ,Ayrshire Yeomanry, and to complete it, I were given a round trip on the footplate..I know it wasn`t the 45156, but it was good enojugh for me, it rwally did look the part, and filthy too,like many locos were in the 60s..
Black 5 44871 was used on the 15 guinea special and survived into preservation.
Currently 44871 having work done at Riley and Sons, including a brand new Chimney!
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@@steamengineerPMW 44781 didn't though. It was used in a film blown off the track and cut up unsitu.
Fantastic, thank you for sharing. Served my apprenticeship with British Rail and spent nigh on 10 years in total at Edge Hill maintenance depot between 1979 to 89. Wonderful memories.
Absolutlely fabulous video. The commentary and the context maps make these images come alive after near on 60 years.
Your films of the steam days really do provide a valuable record of a lost era; you're something of a curator. Thanks for uploading.
hear hear
Watching two Black 5`s sharing wheelslip is awesome.
Brilliant. I was 14 in 1968, I couldn’t take the rundown in steam toward the end of steam, it was so depressing. Fortunately you and people like you kept going.
The steam loco era ended 2 years before I was born so its great folk filmed them for future generations to enjoy, I could almost smell all that smoke and steam ,and couldn't help but notice how weathered unkempt they had become during this period, I presume because they knew they would be getting scrapped soon, great filming 👍
Fantastic footage, a credit to you for capturing it all at the end of steam
Absolutely fantastic video, I enjoyed it very much. ❤😊
That was excellent and well put together. That must have been awesome to be so close to 2 Black 5's as they were slipping.
Some of the best footage I've seen of the end of steam with a most interesting commentary. You were a very talented young man and your father an excellent photographer. I enjoyed the maps showing the locations and how so much of the railway infrastructure has disappeared. Thank you for sharing.
so cool. I love this stuff. Thank you kind sir for sharing
Thank you for this. As a Wirral lad born in 1969 I missed all this and grew up with my fathers stories of mainline steam. Now we are producing our own Models. Archives like yours are so helpful
Absolutely fascinating video. Many thanks!
Oh Heaven on earth my shed that I visited as a boy. Some days been chased by a grumpy Forman other days talking to our Heroes the Drivers. I now live in Huyton a few stop down in line from Edge Hill were I live as a Boy. Speke I never visited but when going to Chester was always noting trains I seen.
The sheds are long gone but those memory's are still there.
Some great shots that caught the action , that bring back the taste and the taste of those days when we had a Railway.
Brilliant doco, shame it wasn’t longer. Thanks