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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2010
Darlington to Bishop Auckland via Shildon 1967
Darlington to Bishop Auckland via Shildon 1967
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Shildon Wagon Works - Sans Pareil
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Edits from ' The Rainhill Story ' regarding Shildon and Sans Pareil broadcast in 1979.
Shildon Wagon Works - Protest march through Darlington
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The campaign and closure of B.R.E.L Shildon 1982 - 1984
Shildon Wagon Works - Part 16
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The campaign and closure of B.R.E.L Shildon 1982 - 1984
Shildon Wagon Works - Part 15
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The campaign and closure of B.R.E.L Shildon 1982 - 1984
Shildon Wagon Works - Part 14
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The campaign and closure of B.R.E.L Shildon 1982 - 1984
Shildon Wagon Works - Part 13
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The campaign and closure of B.R.E.L Shildon 1982 - 1984
Shildon Wagon Works - Part 12
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The campaign and closure of B.R.E.L Shildon 1982 - 1984
Shildon Wagon Works - Part 11
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The campaign and closure of B.R.E.L Shildon 1982 - 1984
Shildon Wagon Works - Part 10
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The campaign and closure of B.R.E.L Shildon 1982 - 1984
Shildon Wagon Works - Part 9
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The campaign and closure of B.R.E.L Shildon 1982 - 1984
Shildon Wagon Works - 25 years after closure
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Shildon Wagon Works - 25 years after closure
This absolutely devistated Shildon.The place did become a ghost town and the place was never the same.All them jobs went and every family was devistated.The forge hammer was silenced never to be heard again.An historic town full of skills and generations of fathered and their fathers gone.It crippled the town and all its work force.
The gentleman speaking at the start of the film is Mike Satow, who also founded the Indian National Railway Museum in Delhi.
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Yet another chapter in the sad story of Thatcher's legacy. Now this country produces almost nothing, has almost no heavy industry and almost anything worth owning is owned by foreign companies. I don't think Britain will ever recover from what she did to a once great country.
It wasn’t only in the North. I worked for BREL Temple Mills and was made redundant in 1983 then the site was turned into new Spitalfields
Surprised to see no comments on here. This closure devastated Shildon at the time but was part of a bigger picture regarding political brinksmanship and class warfare. Maggie wanted the power of the unions weakened so she could usher in a vision of a Capitalist utopia.
Unbelievable that we had all that at the time, the plant, manpower, skills, experience and a Government that couldn’t see past their own noses.
Hmmm bill macalpine
Definitely 1970s
back when a apprenticeship meant 5 to 6 years underand guidence of a true tradesman (retired carpenter joiner) just saying
People are nicely dressed and speak well. So the video must be quite old I suppose
probably late 1970s
These replica's built for the 150 year anniversary of rainhill iirc. So 1978.
I find it funny that sans pareil means ‘without equal’ and that they build a replica and put it right next to the original.
The replica should be put back in steam. currently the original rocket sits next to it at shildon, whilst a replica rocket runs demo trains outside.... The sans pareil replica sits there gathering dust, dwarfed out of notice by the enormous lms black five next to it.
@@christopherhogg8364and not to mention it’s somewhat dwarfed by it’s predecessor, as it’s only 7/8 the size of the original
certainly the second best engine to rocket in my opinion
Inferior to rocket in most respects as we know nowadays. back then folks didn't. Sans pareil was the culmination of existing tried and tested technology, rocket was revolutionary. Thing was, had it not broken down it very possibly could've won.
@@christopherhogg8364 But like we say in racing: In order to win a race you first need to finish. A highly tuned car might be very fast but there's always the risk of this being the very factor which makes it break down before finish. I'm no expert in steam engines but my guess is that Sans Pareil was the tuned sports car tasked to pull a heavy load while Rocket was the turbodiesel truck which actually could do that all day long.
@@McLarenMercedes other way round. Sans pareil was built along the lines of the first successful freight locomotives, and entered into a contest for a passenger express locomotive. It had many shortcomings as a result but if it's build quality/finish was better and it finished the trial it is very possible it could have outperformed rocket, rather like the first gloster meteors were outperformed by the latest tempests and spitfires. Sans pareil was a zenith of known technology that couldn't really be improved upon, and it was entered into a trial it arguably wasn't suited for. With its high c of g and mechanical arrangement it must've been terrifying at high speed, it's boiler was also probably not really capable of maintaining enough steam. But it failed because of build quality issues outside of hackworths control. He had many advantages over the Stephenson's - he had experience and was the only man thus far to make a reliable, commercially successful locomotive, he had a very experienced driver of this type of engine (iirc one part of the trials not too well known was that sans pareil was being "turned around" at the end of its runs much faster than rocket) the Stephenson's didn't hold all the cards, but hackworth had very little money, less time and didn't have the equipment to manufacture components himself so he had to contract it out - the construction of the boiler was reputedly a total shambles, the cracked cylinder probably just bad luck that could have been spotted and rectified had the time been available to properly test her - but above all else he was an employed man, existing in a bubble, developing locomotives to solve a very specific problem. Stephenson had a much broader knowledge and social circle... All being said, the right engine definitely won (and would still have been the template for future development in any case - hackworth himself was building engines to that basic form not long after) but strangely the type sans pareil was based on continued to be built and run on the s&Dr network with great success for decades after.
i understand she now needs a new boiler
Ex 7th Batt The ( Durham ) Light Infantry
Good upload and viewing, many thanks.
Mel do you own or now who owns permission to show the BREL Shildon videos? We are organising a Shildon Works reunion for 5th October 2019 and would love to be able to project these videos as a constant show reel through the day. We are also looking to interview ex workers to share their memories, and include these in the showreel.
I was born and grew up in shildon,it was a great town in particular the sixties era it brings back fond memories.
a really nice view! thanks for sharing
I lived there I loved it I must say
I love shildon
Should never of closed
Great grandfather served in the DLI at Ypres during WWI. He's on the Menin Gate. Went to go visit "him" last summer.
Wholesale "murder" of communities and skill-intensive industries! These tragedies should be taught in schools.
Great tribute, thank you!! My Great Grandad was undoubtedly in one of those early photos as he had a senior position in the wagon works and rented the house which is now the timothy hackworth museum for many years....maybe some of his sons and my other relatives who all lived and worked in Shildon in its heyday on the railways or down the mines. Yes there was a pride in the tradition and a wealth of skill built up over generations. Is a disgrace what was done to the town and to the whole of the North East. Thanks Mad Mel. 24Wayney...The shildon history society had a DVD of images for sale a few years ago, I got a copy and it was excellent, but the site seems to be down at the moment? The NRM has a searchable database too :)
such once a proud place built with the blood sweat and tears of our fore fathers only to fall to ruin littered with vermin
Excellent bit of film if the DLI do you have anymore film of this? It would be good to see
used to be a grafting town,full of outsider rats coming in living rent free in private accomadation with no intention of getting a job,the previous owners must be turning in there grave,bowt time this piss pot government made them do something for there giro's like in america!
Well dun 4 this
I just found this stuff. I grew up in Shildon and left in 1977 when I was 19. I still remember the works closing down as me dad kept me posted. This is a great reminder of what a great town Shildon once was. Thanks for putting it all on here, I'd never seen any of it before.
Some splendid images there. Thanks for sharing them.
thanks again for all your uploads
where u get all this stuff from?
shud neva have shut another balls up by the tory government the town has never recovered and never will
Ever thought of learning to spell pal???
My favourite - where can I get a copy of those fabulous pictures please? (I sent a message about the reason). The music suits it well. Thank you and well done!
Wow all those faces. Spotted my partner there - all those years ago, young thing! Well done for this.
Thank you for this - sad memories of the closure but happy ones of the time spent there. Will watch them all!
Alan Johnson (The Relic) R.I.P mate.