A Future on Rail - 1957
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2020
- Intended for those graduating from school, A Future on Rail is an industry sponsored film produced in 1957 by British Transport Films. The film depicts some of the opportunities offered to new recruits following British Rails modernization plan.
There is still so much romance about the old rail system, I love the old clips,
I liked the lad sitting behind the driver. We went on our first DMU in the late 1950's on the Mundesley line, we sat behind the driver too, and the train touched 60 MPH! Wow!
Love these old films of yesteryear
I still remember the stream engines I used to travel when I was a child
Last gasp of traditional British railways. Steam still being built.
Dr Breaching ( sic)unknown. Marvellous.
Love those old films! I was a whole two years old when they made this one.
very Nice
So funny to see this and then think that only a very short time later The Beeching cuts took most of the system away.
By the end of the 1950s BR was losing £100,000 a day. Something had to go.
And those marshalling yards were a white elephant. Wrong solution to the wrong problem.
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Railways should be a public service not a business, just as the NHS, the closed lines should be reopened and run with low fares, the subsidies to the private companies now is more than it cost to directly fund British railways
@Alexander Challis nooo but meh steam train
Most? Only 33% of the system hardly most. Look across the sea, the island of Ireland, about 2/3s of the rail network was cut (not by Beeching). Even now the rail network continues to shrink.
little did they know at the time Beaching was around the corner to cull it all
beeching closed nothing. the labour party closed the lines
@@bobtudbury8505 wrong Ernest Marples the minister from transport for the conservative government at the the time or the report and it was them who authorised it. Please fact check
@@damiendye6623 don't give me that old rubbish, at the time BR could not even tell us how many staff it employed! Beeching was then set on to do a report by the torys. When the report was made labour was well and truly in power. They then closed the lines. Not all of beechings reccomendations , some were kept open. However they closed 1oo's of miles not on his report. After the deed was done labour gave beeching an award.Beeching had no power. The madness only stopped under heath, the torys in 1970 ( though a few lines were still cut then as the process was under way.this is the truth and facts , do your own research but not wiki, lefty fake facts there.
after taking the speed to .75, i was able to understand some of what was said
I did the same thing with another video. But when I watched a different one the next day, the speaker sounded like he was drunk, slurring his words, etc. I then realized that I failed to change the speed back to normal. LOL Cheers from Upstate NY!
Sounds very nice but it's the beginning of the rot...... Less staff, more profit, same old thing. How lucky we are to participate
So much for the future and modern changes ..... the Woodhead route that was touted as the electric future of our railways lies silent and closed as millions of pounds of taxpayers was wasted in the rush to close our railways
Think there's a campaign
to get it reopened
Re open Woodhead ?.
No chance !, sold to the national grid for cabling use for a pittance.
Millions to repurchase it.
Tunnels have sagged in the centres.
Know the area well.
Also a walk and cycleway, sold for £1 to a private company.
Should never have been axed in the first place.🧐🏴
Seems so quaint now, doesn't it?
There was a future on rail until the Tories and Beeching decided to go too far with the railway closures in the c1960s.
Back when we had jobs and decent railways and public services, before the Tories ruined everything