Vintage railway film - Current events on the Midland - 1980

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  • Опубликовано: 11 дек 2024

Комментарии • 66

  • @sockstarnik
    @sockstarnik Год назад +1

    I particularly enjoyed the part about how much the design of the new stations was so stylish when they were fairly hideous boxes, with zero design flair!

  • @markrobert6028
    @markrobert6028 2 года назад +5

    Loved the balancing act with the ladders and the o/h lines. You can't even hire a ladder from HSS now, "...ladders are for access, not for working from". Liked the footage of the Peaks with MkII stock.

    • @Keithbarber
      @Keithbarber 2 года назад

      Trip down memory lane this film

  • @OlafProt
    @OlafProt Год назад

    Quite mind boggling planning involved in this. Extraordinary

  • @phwbooth
    @phwbooth 2 года назад +24

    Fascinating. Pity about the demolition of perfectly good Victorian stations, though. Is Bedford's 'fiesta-like' restaurant still there, I wonder?

    • @saltspringrailway3683
      @saltspringrailway3683 2 года назад +3

      Exactly

    • @flybobbie1449
      @flybobbie1449 2 года назад +4

      First thing i thought, what horrible plastic world we entered into in the 80's.

    • @skylined5534
      @skylined5534 2 года назад

      @@flybobbie1449
      And it only got far worse!

    • @iman2341
      @iman2341 2 года назад +1

      Its still there and wont be for much longer with EWR needing the space for more platforms!

  • @memyself1566
    @memyself1566 2 года назад +12

    The 1970s - those were the days my friend / We thought they would never end. End they certainly did though.

    • @saltspringrailway3683
      @saltspringrailway3683 2 года назад +2

      Gary Glitter and Jimmy Saville.

    • @flybobbie1449
      @flybobbie1449 2 года назад +2

      @@saltspringrailway3683 Friend said he went to school with Gary Glitter, i asked, what in his car!

    • @skylined5534
      @skylined5534 2 года назад +1

      @@saltspringrailway3683
      Yes because there have never been famous paedophiles in recent times.

  • @RailwayManUK
    @RailwayManUK 2 года назад +4

    Great film and you've got to admire the guys doing the electrification works! This was the cheap version of OLE

  • @MalcolmCrabbe
    @MalcolmCrabbe 2 года назад +10

    Love the levels of Health and Safety we see in these old films... None of this head to toe orange clothing, no mobile platforms, just ladders with hooks on them, and who needs them when you can simply walk the wires ! - At least they had a couple of guys holding the rope around the guys laying on the ladders at an angle of 20 degrees !

    • @thomasburke2683
      @thomasburke2683 2 года назад

      A few years earlier, they would not have had hi-vis bras either.
      Health and safety is constantly changing.

    • @flybobbie1449
      @flybobbie1449 2 года назад +1

      When Piper Alpha rig blew up, all this hi viz health and safety came in. In funny way has lead to all this woke nonsense we have now.

    • @leewinters606
      @leewinters606 2 года назад

      @@flybobbie1449 I bet them hi viz jackets helped when it blew up I think not.

    • @VictorGate
      @VictorGate 2 года назад +3

      Health and Safety has a bad press due to the activities of some petty martinets. The big change in the fifty years I have spent in the Building Industry is the reduction of workers who end their working day in an ambulance. We have all had lucky escapes in the past.

  • @christopherhulse8385
    @christopherhulse8385 2 года назад +5

    I've worked on the railway for 35 years now and always enjoy these types of films, they would have been shown mainly to employees to keep them up to date with developments rather than the ordinary public.

  • @johnodell5310
    @johnodell5310 2 года назад +16

    Wonderful to see a rail project of such a scale that was running ahead of schedule and with great precision. Pity we seem to have learnt nothing in the last decades. (e.g. Crossrail, HS2 etc. way behind schedule and 10 times over budget.) Where did we go wrong?😄

    • @AndreiTupolev
      @AndreiTupolev 2 года назад +9

      Ahead of schedule, except that it was all finished and ready but the unions delayed it by a whole year through their usual uncooperativeness

    • @bro70
      @bro70 2 года назад +5

      These days, any such project will be behind schedule and over budget. It takes time and money to manipulate contracts, sub contracts, so that the get rich quick snakes pick up their over sized slice of the pie....

    • @neiloflongbeck5705
      @neiloflongbeck5705 2 года назад +8

      Because we ignore the true costs of projects in order to get them approved by H.M. Treasury. It's easier to add extras to the bill than get the correct amount approved. But this is what we voted for as a nation.

    • @keef71
      @keef71 2 года назад +5

      @@AndreiTupolev exactly, the brand-new cl.317 EMUs sat in the sidings, 'blacked' by the unions, while the depot fitters struggled to keep the already clapped-out cl.127 DMUs running every day.

    • @garthcox4
      @garthcox4 2 года назад +2

      @@keef71 and then tyseley kept them going til around 1993 replacing even more clapped out dmus, 115s and 116s??

  • @logicalaction
    @logicalaction 2 года назад +2

    Oh the memories of the days of visiting St. Pancras as part of my london terminus spotting days

  • @michaelhunt4445
    @michaelhunt4445 2 года назад +1

    What I remember about the Bed - Pan line is the minimal disruption to passengers during this work.

  • @chrisgironde6669
    @chrisgironde6669 2 года назад +3

    I remember being at school in Bedford when the new station was built

  • @smilevideobritain499
    @smilevideobritain499 2 года назад +5

    most enjoyable. thank you

  • @johnhagen31
    @johnhagen31 2 года назад

    Excellent film - thank you! Takes me right back...

  • @dualityk
    @dualityk Год назад

    Kind of a banger at 12:14, and pleasantly out of place for the rest of the film. Sounds like some of Alan Hawkshaw's music library stuff.

  • @highpath4776
    @highpath4776 2 года назад +1

    The new Kings Cross station for the Moorgate / ( thameslink in due course), section always seemed draughty and underused to my thinking - though I was mainly in the area weekends from after 1984.

  • @Uftonwood2
    @Uftonwood2 2 года назад +2

    They did all this for £80 million quid? Today that would be £80 billion estimate and still go over budget. And they said BR was inefficient.

  • @brianfearn4246
    @brianfearn4246 2 года назад

    Fabulous video

  • @colwynboy7279
    @colwynboy7279 2 года назад +4

    4:05 - construction worker wearing a pair of moccasins?

    • @thomasburke2683
      @thomasburke2683 2 года назад +3

      And a heavy bridge beam hardly an inch away.
      I almost screamed in agony at the sight of it.

  • @garthcox4
    @garthcox4 2 года назад +4

    Those old, smelly, unreliable diesels were used for another dozen years on the busy commuter routes around Birmingham.

  • @kenreeve6549
    @kenreeve6549 2 года назад

    Brilliant thanks ...sounds like the original"leveling up " allocation of money £

  • @Keithbarber
    @Keithbarber 2 года назад

    If this job had ever gone wrong, would they have bed-pan(ic)ed?

  • @highpath4776
    @highpath4776 2 года назад

    Quite why not adding the electrification to corby was beyond my understanding

  • @TerryTheNewsGirl
    @TerryTheNewsGirl 2 года назад

    Anyone want to tell me where this mysterious King's Cross (Midland) was or is?

    • @Michaelbrown1995
      @Michaelbrown1995 2 года назад

      Literally over the road from Kings Cross. It was replaced in the mid to late 2000s (2007 I think, off the top of my head) by the current St Pancras Thameslink platforms.

  • @marksinthehouse1968
    @marksinthehouse1968 2 года назад +1

    It was sad that after all the hard work and finally commuters getting new electric trains the union blacked the class 317s because they were DOO so you had brand new trains left in cricklewood sidings not being used exposed to the element’s one got damaged in a shunting accident ,now days they may of got tagged too then thank goodness the graffiti was just a minor problem except the back of the top deck of a 220 bus

  • @dieseldave3879
    @dieseldave3879 2 года назад +1

    👍

  • @jiversteve
    @jiversteve 2 года назад +4

    Current affairs? That’s a really bad pun!

  • @michaelmccarthy2983
    @michaelmccarthy2983 2 года назад +1

    Can you do the transperth driver view from Perth to thornlie and from thornlie to Perth at dusk please

    • @AndreiTupolev
      @AndreiTupolev 2 года назад

      These are old videos produced by British Rail. I don't think they'd have that in their library

    • @randomclass4653
      @randomclass4653 2 года назад

      @@AndreiTupolev y'know transperth is an aussie company?

    • @AndreiTupolev
      @AndreiTupolev 2 года назад

      @@randomclass4653 yes exactly, so there's not likely to be much about them in the BR archives

    • @randomclass4653
      @randomclass4653 2 года назад

      @@AndreiTupolev i'm pretty sure he's asking for a driver's eye view by Bennet Brook railway. Since they do it on transperth lines that's why.

  • @randomclass4653
    @randomclass4653 2 года назад +1

    wow , for quality in 1980 , it has barely changed since 1963 and the audio quality is much worse compared to 60s ones! I never expected that from early 80s films until now!

    • @flybobbie1449
      @flybobbie1449 2 года назад +2

      One assumes this ended up on vhs.

  • @EM-yk1dw
    @EM-yk1dw 2 года назад +2

    Marylebone is still full of smelly diesels

    • @Keithbarber
      @Keithbarber 2 года назад +2

      And will remain so for a long time to come as it's been heavily modernised for diesel running

    • @EM-yk1dw
      @EM-yk1dw 2 года назад +2

      @@Keithbarber Indeed maybe battery working too

  • @VictorGate
    @VictorGate 2 года назад

    Thou shalt not work upon the seventh day for it is double time and thou wouldst waste the money earned there on on drink.

  • @michaelmccarthy2983
    @michaelmccarthy2983 2 года назад +1

    Can you do the transperth driver view from Perth to thornlie and from thornlie to Perth at dusk please