My first recollection of a film was watching The Flying Scotsman, with poem at my primary school. I think it inspired me to travel. You should all watch 'The Lady killers' it's extremely funny and you might recognise a bridge at the end! My family used those steam trains (I'm over 82 now) and all the big stations smelt of coal smoke. You had to close the windows when going through tunnels as you'd get black marks on your clothes. I went on the sleeper train to Edinburgh on one and had to have the upper bunk as the other person had already taken the bottom one. They left you time to get dressed and ready before turning you out when you got to Edinburgh. PS: Is that Kings Cross hotel still extant? I went to a bookshow there once when I was a librarian, before Maggie Thatcher stopped freebies. We got fed very well! Enjoyed your video very much. Thank you. ❤
I'd love to see them shown pictures of the old LNER streamliner trains, like the Silver Jubilee or The Coronation, particularly the luxury interiors. I bet they'd be gobsmacked at how people were travelling 85-90 years ago!
I was born long after 'The Flying Scotsman' and 'The Ladykillers' yet clearly recall jumping aboard and alighting from still moving trains. Our three cinephiles must be very young if they are afeard of this practice. The chaos of the past was an essential ingredient of maverick creativity; the controlled, antiseptic environment of our contemporary railways is poles apart from the bustling, diesel splattered maelstroms that I remember in my youth.
It was still happening up until the early 90s wasn’t it? Tbf to the staff here though, anyone that works on the railway would cringe at the thought of the safety issues caused by people and moving trains these days.
Fyi Re parcels and packages: British Rail operated a station to station courier service (Red Star parcels) between cities from early 1963 until 1999. Packages were secured in the luggage area by the train guard.
Interesting that Will is convinced that the Downton Abbey opening was platform 8. In fact it was platform 1 at Pickering, on the North York Moors Railway! CGI replacing the roof. At 1:34 a passenger walks up the steps from Park Street to enter the station.
Delightful! I love old films that feature real places - much like a lot of the 70's / early 80's police TV series (Sweeney / Professionals / Gentle Touch) used to film in and around the East End of London, that was still recovering from the bombing from the second World War.
Did platform 0 run over the old King’s Cross York road station and there was an exit from kings main to York road with its own taxi rank my dad use to use it if kings looked busy as to save time
I quite like the lady puppet mascot called Elenoar. Will you be introducing more new services in 2025 including to Scarborough. How comes that you stopped working the Sunderland service or is that because of Grand Central now operates to Sunderland.
@4:00. The approaches are all wrong. They curve too much to the left. The first bridge is too close. The platform doesn't align with the track at the end. No sign of York Road station.
Wait till you show them the old 3rd commuter slam door trains trains that come in they always use to open the doors before the train stopped to t the queues to the tube and taxi ranks. They was mad. Also look
@7:28 Ha ha ha, what? That is NOT the King's Cross concourse. The shed, on the right, is too big. The vaguely Eurostar/class 373 shaped train is unbranded. While 373/1 Regional Eurostars DID operate from KX, they haven't done so for a while. And they don't look quite like that. Pretty sloppy CGI.
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My first recollection of a film was watching The Flying Scotsman, with poem at my primary school. I think it inspired me to travel.
You should all watch 'The Lady killers' it's extremely funny and you might recognise a bridge at the end!
My family used those steam trains (I'm over 82 now) and all the big stations smelt of coal smoke. You had to close the windows when going through tunnels as you'd get black marks on your clothes. I went on the sleeper train to Edinburgh on one and had to have the upper bunk as the other person had already taken the bottom one. They left you time to get dressed and ready before turning you out when you got to Edinburgh.
PS: Is that Kings Cross hotel still extant? I went to a bookshow there once when I was a librarian, before Maggie Thatcher stopped freebies. We got fed very well!
Enjoyed your video very much. Thank you. ❤
I WANT TO KNOW IF YOU WOULD INTERVIEW KIM WOODBURN AND HAVE STAFF TALK ABOUT WHICH VEHICLE THEY PREFER MK4 OR AZUMA.
The hotel is still very much there, and looking very smart, these days, all scrubbed clean of soot.@@MargaretChapman-k1y
I'd love to see them shown pictures of the old LNER streamliner trains, like the Silver Jubilee or The Coronation, particularly the luxury interiors. I bet they'd be gobsmacked at how people were travelling 85-90 years ago!
I was born long after 'The Flying Scotsman' and 'The Ladykillers' yet clearly recall jumping aboard and alighting from still moving trains. Our three cinephiles must be very young if they are afeard of this practice. The chaos of the past was an essential ingredient of maverick creativity; the controlled, antiseptic environment of our contemporary railways is poles apart from the bustling, diesel splattered maelstroms that I remember in my youth.
It was still happening up until the early 90s wasn’t it? Tbf to the staff here though, anyone that works on the railway would cringe at the thought of the safety issues caused by people and moving trains these days.
@4:40 There shouldn't be wires in the shed in 1939. Electrification didn't come until the 1980s.
Fyi Re parcels and packages: British Rail operated a station to station courier service (Red Star parcels) between cities from early 1963 until 1999. Packages were secured in the luggage area by the train guard.
Interesting that Will is convinced that the Downton Abbey opening was platform 8. In fact it was platform 1 at Pickering, on the North York Moors Railway! CGI replacing the roof. At 1:34 a passenger walks up the steps from Park Street to enter the station.
Delightful!
I love old films that feature real places - much like a lot of the 70's / early 80's police TV series (Sweeney / Professionals / Gentle Touch) used to film in and around the East End of London, that was still recovering from the bombing from the second World War.
Do any staff remember the Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety
Go on
8:20 that is definitely King’s Cross Platform 8 as it has a East Coast HST.
The Elizabethan has some shots of King’s Cross.
Did platform 0 run over the old King’s Cross York road station and there was an exit from kings main to York road with its own taxi rank my dad use to use it if kings looked busy as to save time
I quite like the lady puppet mascot called Elenoar. Will you be introducing more new services in 2025 including to Scarborough. How comes that you stopped working the Sunderland service or is that because of Grand Central now operates to Sunderland.
@4:00. The approaches are all wrong. They curve too much to the left. The first bridge is too close. The platform doesn't align with the track at the end. No sign of York Road station.
Wait till you show them the old 3rd commuter slam door trains trains that come in they always use to open the doors before the train stopped to t the queues to the tube and taxi ranks. They was mad. Also look
Haha love that they can just tell that it's platform 8.
It was platform 10 when I was transporter in the 70s
@7:28 Ha ha ha, what?
That is NOT the King's Cross concourse.
The shed, on the right, is too big. The vaguely Eurostar/class 373 shaped train is unbranded. While 373/1 Regional Eurostars DID operate from KX, they haven't done so for a while. And they don't look quite like that. Pretty sloppy CGI.
That’s St Pancras
Give me the plushie!!!
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@@LondonNorthEasternRailway My friend has a crush on Eleanor 💀😆
@@LondonNorthEasternRailwaytrue @trainlord_yt is a no
No Harry Potter films :(
Oooooh very good shout! Episode 2? 🤔 💭
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