British Railways Diesels & Electric 1960's Western Region

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  • British Railways Western Region taken from 8mm cine in the 1960's

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  • @5705Seahorse
    @5705Seahorse 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Many congratulations to the photographer as this some of the best (I'm presuming) 8mm film I have seen from this period. I was too busy mourning to death of steam to appreciate the variety of diesel traction extant in the 1960s. Not only does this film capture the range of motive power, but also the wonderful mixed goods trains and vast array of semaphore signals and gantries. Excellent stuff!

  • @traintelevision
    @traintelevision 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    some of the best footage ive seen from that great era

  • @TheWesternAS
    @TheWesternAS 11 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The 22 at Padd. That did it for me!!

  • @spiccybaby
    @spiccybaby 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The acceleration of the Western at Exeter 11:20 is exactly how I remember them. Great torque.

  • @roberthorwat6747
    @roberthorwat6747 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Ohhhh the Warships!!! The Westerns!!!... drooooooool The thunderous music those Maybachs made ... superb!

    • @jimusgrimus
      @jimusgrimus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Steady mate.............steady.

    • @sadelsor
      @sadelsor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybach was my favorite engine to work on, last year of my apprenticeship at OOC I was given the honor of overhauling a Hymek engine, after the overhaul I took the job sheet back to my foreman, he told me he had booked it out of Paddington in the afternoon, did I want to "ride it" to Reading, I stayed in the engine room when it pulled out of Paddington, there was no words to explain the feeling of listening to those turbo blowers winding up and knowing that 24 hours ago the engine was in parts on my workbench, very hard to explain my feelings, felt so proud and I was on 20 years old.

  • @AndreiTupolev
    @AndreiTupolev 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How absolutely fascinating. Westerns, Warships, D6300s, and amateur footage of the Blue Pullman in action must be very very rare. Interesting to see how the coaches rock over the pointwork @ 1:48, something they were notorious for

  • @keithedmunds7536
    @keithedmunds7536 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    what a great video I lived next to the western mainline at burnham as a child and remember the transition from steam to diesel and spotting trains to and from Paddington then heyford we walked from there to the usaf base to photo the F111s brilliant thanks pure nostalga.

  • @trainsofthewest265
    @trainsofthewest265 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great to see the old Brush type 47's too.

  • @sadelsor
    @sadelsor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Geoff Webber was my internal combustion engine teacher at the apprentice training school Swindon in 1963, he was also one of the first engineers to travel on the Pullman cushions "just in case"

  • @captainboing
    @captainboing 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The best of times... Thanks for sharing

  • @MarmiteCrumpets
    @MarmiteCrumpets 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The Blue Pullman unit 1:42 to 2:07 really does seem to be rocking over the points. Thought it might have been a trick of the eye with the reflection of the lights in the windows of the unit, but the trailing driving car seems to prove it. Not surprisingly those Swiss designed bogies did for them.

    • @neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819
      @neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      MarmiteCrumpets the film jumps both horizontally and vertically in a randon way, this will be part of the reason that all of the trains are rocking and rolling so much.
      Metro-Camm are beleived to have changed the size of the wheels, meaning that the suspenion was no longer dealing with the forces it had been designed to handle leading to the rough riding that plagued the Bull Pullman sets for their entire service life.

  • @nigelmitchell351
    @nigelmitchell351 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    See the wheel slip of the western, they had I think the highest starting TE of any of the early diesels. No slip sensors, but then all 3 axles linked through prop shafts and gearboxes. Don't you just love them!

  • @likklej8
    @likklej8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved the Western Pullman footage! Its also nice to see a few Collett coaching stock amongst the BR. Good movie thanks

  • @dannydavies2870
    @dannydavies2870 ปีที่แล้ว

    Absolutely brilliant . loved this video.

  • @michaelricks1618
    @michaelricks1618 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Superb films. Thanks so much for sharing these early WR diesel views.

  • @WilliamHBaird-eq2hp
    @WilliamHBaird-eq2hp 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great clips!

  • @trainsofthewest265
    @trainsofthewest265 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was too young to see the Pullman in action, thankfully your film makes up for that;Thanks!

  • @markturner4219
    @markturner4219 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Super old footage of the western region of my late teens - was surprised by the 'electric' in the title. Needless to say non appeared, but OH! the memories of cab rides with my Dad (Cathays and Canton driver) in Hymeks, Westerns and 08 shunters. Actually LM region diesels did come down into western territory quite regularly, especially on the London - Oxford and Northwards stretch where there were several 'entrees' for them, but more usually 45's and 46' s rather than 40's. How I wish 8mm had sound :-)

    • @PreservationEnthusiast
      @PreservationEnthusiast 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mark Turner Great pictures. Has anyone got any footage of diesels being ripped apart with cutting torches. That's my favourite bit!

  • @ThePlayerToBeNamedLater
    @ThePlayerToBeNamedLater 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Superb! Could we call the 60s the heyday of British Rail. So many locos on here that before I had only seen pictures of in my Ian Allen books as a young lad in Scotland in the 80s

    • @owenevans83
      @owenevans83 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Garth W I wouldn't. the loco variety was good but BR was short of cash and the 60s witnessed considerable numbers of line Closures and rationalization of infrastructure.

  • @G0IMB
    @G0IMB 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Blue Pullmans: Forerunners of the 125mph HSTs:-)

  • @DP-uq7fy
    @DP-uq7fy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow, was that really a Class 40 at 8:19, through Heyford? One of my old occasioanl spotting haunts. I can`t tell you how much I miss those days......

    • @agdenyer
      @agdenyer  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      When the class 40 were being withdrawn, the engineering department kept some for engineering work, mainly around Crewe. I am not sure but the time was about right, the wagons look like they were for engineering work.

    • @stevelomas4119
      @stevelomas4119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@agdenyer The engineering 40's were used in 1986/7...pretty sure your footage was late 60's early 70's.

  • @JohnPW22
    @JohnPW22 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Classic WR traction! Would love to know more details of locos, locations if available...

    • @agdenyer
      @agdenyer  10 ปีที่แล้ว

      The shots I think you are on about were taken between Anyho Junction and Oxford whilst on a cnal holiday. So accurate locations are impossible as some were taken from a moving narrowboat. As it is now 50 years since the last vegitation clearing (steam) trains run, to be able to see the railway from the canal may not still be possible.

  • @mickd6942
    @mickd6942 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Enjoyed that

  • @QuantaFilms
    @QuantaFilms 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonderful footage - rolls back the years, I have never seen such good later sixties footage, eg as around Heyford. On a par with Ivo Peters.

  • @Spitsticker
    @Spitsticker 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The dark blue coaches from 9:49 to 10:04 are unusual. Maybe they were sleeper coaches. But I believe the royal train was that colour. There are two locomotives on a short train, in case one breaks down, perhaps?

    • @agdenyer
      @agdenyer  8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Spitsticker It was the Royal Train stabled at Aynhoe. Probably having been used to go to Oxford?

    • @michellemarshall3667
      @michellemarshall3667 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Royal Train always had two locos whatever region it was on. Always both powered,always both immaculate, insurance against failure. Rick.

    • @neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819
      @neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Spitsticker that was the Royal Train, but they are dark plum, not dark blue.

  • @ASCIITerminal
    @ASCIITerminal 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh, for a time machine!

  • @Roo63
    @Roo63 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice :D Thanks.

  • @stevelomas4119
    @stevelomas4119 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video...what would the Yellow squares painted on the side of the coaches be for ?

    • @agdenyer
      @agdenyer  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have no idea, sorry

  • @allan5919
    @allan5919 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Super old footage.

  • @taffboyslim
    @taffboyslim 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why are there yellow squares on some of the coaches?

    • @agdenyer
      @agdenyer  10 ปีที่แล้ว

      If I am right the western Region had clips on the side of some named coach sets which held enamel signs. A modern version of the running boards seen on older stock.

    • @graemekornicki6810
      @graemekornicki6810 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Superb footage from a great era any deltics?

  • @MikesMovies
    @MikesMovies 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:25 class 22! and 3:40

    • @thomastherhymer1
      @thomastherhymer1 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Class 22s were only allocated to Old Oak Common from 1964-on. These were all from the 1962 batch and most of those were withdrawn in 1968 - hardly a long-lived class - but makes dating the shots relatively easy!

  • @stokes8762
    @stokes8762 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nowadays it's lets see how grotesquely ugly we can make a locomotive

  • @simonp1970
    @simonp1970 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nurse.....

  • @G0IMB
    @G0IMB 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mae hon fideo yn bendegedig!