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Looks like you had idiots waving out of the window back in ‘61😂😂

When was this filmed?

Great video

Thank you for posting this tour around Gloucester MPD

It's good to see this material but why try to make it fit 16:9. It doesn't work when made in Academy Ratio. This results in poor composition and the clipped tops loses interesting information. Sorry. I would dearly love to see this in the correct aspect ratio.

OMG , I even got the smell .

I love the subtitles!

I wish I'd been on those lines but these are the next best thing, thank you

I often wondered how many stations Cheltenham had pre Beeching.

Summer 62 just before the Great Steam Purge that wiped out numerous classes at a stroke.

I work at Sandywell Park it is so great to see this old footage. I remember the viaduct but didn't see it demolished...

Love you Cheltenham............

Fantastic!!

Thank you for posting this. Takes me back to my childhood and travelling on both lines out of Andoversford😊

My family lived in Bourton on the Water, and their house was 50 yds from the embankment. I will forward this video on to those still alive, I am sure it will bring back many memories. Thank you for sharing this.

Memories of crossing tramway junction on foot. I remember that there were many lines to cross. The video map shows six. A pedestrian wanting to cross would find it nigh on impossible to decide when it was safe to cross because there were trains coming and going from four directions. Cheltenham, Stroud, Gloucester Eastgate station and Gloucester Central station on the South Wales line. Some trains using the crossing at speed would not allow a pedestrian to reach the other side before they would meet. It was also difficult to judge what line the train would use because a pedestrian could not judge which onward direction the train was intending to go. I remember at night being somewhat apprehensive when one often saw two trains using the tramway going in various directions. To solve the safety problem there was a man on each side of the crossing who operated the road gates and also the pedestrian gates. They must have had some form of communication from a distant overseer; or perhaps from several signal boxes controlling the four directions. I remember as a pedestrian having to wait to cross several minutes, and even so one had scarcely reached the other side when a train came thundering behind one across the crossing. The crossing gate keepers must have been very skilful men. Is anyone able to explain what information the crossing keepers had access to?

94's look like 57's but with shorter panniers or a longer boiler. There's plenty 57's left, but only two 94's in existence as far as I know and I was lucky to be behind one at Dereham. I never understood their point, but it's interesting to see one tanking along here with 8 coaches on a mainline to Paddington. Perhaps that explains them.

THW CHELTENHAM TO SWINDON , ANDOVER AND SOUTHAMPTON RAIL ROUTE , AND THE CHELTENHAM TO KINGHAM AND BANBURY LINE WOULD BE A BOON AND SUCCSSFULL TODAY WITH HIGH USAGE AND LOWER COSTS FOR PASSENGERS THAN FOR MOTORISTS ON BLOCKED ROADS AND MOTORWAYS. MOST CLOSED RAIL LINES SHOULD THEREFORE BE REBUILT, THOUGH LOTS ARE ALREADY PROPOSED FOR URGENT REOPENING !!;A REVERSAL OF THE REDICULOUS BEECHING AND MARPLES CRIMINAL CLOSURES BY THE CORRUPT TORIES !!! IN MID 196X'S.

I feel so grateful to watch this

Brilliant video, many thanks.

That brought back so many memories, including the last train from Kingham to Chipping Norton. 😀😀😀😀

Great to see the old LMS line along Clarks hill .

My grand dad worked there for 50 years retiring in the mid sixties.I believe he cleaned engines or carriages......In the late sixties i regularly went to the sheds as a trainspotter. The guys there were always cool to us and allowed us to wander about as they worked. Just told us to be careful! 😊 Great memories.

That was very special, many thanks

I had just found about my home towns many stations and this is the first footage I have found so I thank you for preserving history long lost.

Really interesting '60s footage of lines around Stroud, Gloucester & Cheltenham

which DVD?

This cuts out really badly.

buen cover del original de Jimmie Rodgers

pity the line isn't working now it would be very profitable

i feel so lucky to see this rare footage, thanks

Wow 3 stations in Cheltenham , now just 1 , Lansdown. There was also a beautiful brick viaduct between Andoversford and Cheltenham which was blown up in the 60s.... I was actually there as a young child when they dynamited it. it blew pieces of bricks much further than anticipated and I remember the spectators being pelted by the pieces. We then all rushed up to scavenge the bricks from the demolished structure. Wanton destruction.

Always nice to see someone cover an Any Trouble song!

Thank you for your appreciation, the clip is from a DVD called Gloucestershire Byways vol. 116 (Mike Clemens Collection) I have no wish to take credit for it's production. It's just sad that so many people who would get so much pleasure from seeing clips like this, never will as it is pretty much hidden in a specialist section. You may also be interested in seeing a clip I have just added to my favourites called MISHAP BEFORE AND AFTER. This BR training film was shot mainly at Leckhampton station in 1958 and again has been hidden away.