Nairn Across Britain - From Leeds into Scotland
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- An excerpt from an episode of Nairn Across Britain, from 1972. Architectural critic Ian Nairn visits Carlisle, Longtown signal box & level crossing, Riccarton Junction complete with buildings & footbridge and Hawick station with platforms signs still in place. The feature ends at Edinburgh having followed the Waverley Route northwards.
I agree with most of what he says, the demise of the Waverley Route. His films were so interesting.
Love Mr. Nairn
I like the way he's pumping his beer gut out whilst watching the trains go by.
This will re-open with phase two of the border railway
Great stuff
I've done much research with regard to this wonderful route. You have to look at the politics and the people involved, then you have to look at who gains and who looses....
This without much rocket science will provide your answer.
It's all quite simple really, it was an area targeted for car sales for then British Leyland cars and with the prospect of the government bringing in road tax instead of giving out money in Public subsidiary obligation. They don't care about old iron! or you..
joe sprinter Great comment
Interesting film.
@1:15 "Ribblesdale viaduct" !!!....Not Ribblehead then ???? .
In reply to CommonPorpoise, I'd say it's because Nairn was an anti-establishment figure. A benign troublemaker of the kind that time-serving dullards and charlatans-on-the-make in all ages have sought to suppress.
what's Carlisle famous for ? Nothing is the answer!
It was a temperate city for a looong time, which may explain the lack of fun!
In the 1960s when Wilson was the PM and under the control and influence of the unions, labour closed many lines that should never have been closed. The left wing cat workers unions put massive pressure on the government to close the railways and create the need for cars thus creating work for the car workers. So many route closures were not down to economics or capitalism they were down to the working classes and the unions they belonged to. And those very people and their families themselves fell victim to the axe and power of the state under thatcher. Now these people s children work in low paid jobs without the rights they would have enjoyed if the unions hadn't help to decimate our countries industrial base. Short term self interest bigotry by power crazed unions have done so much damage to the UK. And so many railways were closed due to these unions and the undemocratic power they wielded over the government.
you wrong there mate. Beechin was a torie peer and minister was a motor way builder a torieso same old tories sort term profit for sort term gain. that's why we in mess now
Well that's complete bollocks. Beeching was brought in by the crooked Tory arse Ernest Marple, transport minister under PM Harold MacMillan - he also had business interests in road building - such as the M1 motorway. The plan to close more lines than was necessary was a move towards road construction- indeed the Labour government of 1964 continued with that witch Barbara Castle but the seeds sown were an out and out Tory plan to decimate the railways and favour road transport.
............2,900 miles of track closed before Beeching and 2,300 after! sorry, but railways were in severe decline soon after WW2. People were voting with their feet , travelling on buses, coaches and cars. railways were slowly dying, becoming obsolete. a top heavy, labour intensive workforce could not hope to be sustained by a fast dwindling customer base. sorry.