Vintage railway film - First of the Thirteen - 1970
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- This vintage railway film, produced in November 1970, covers the transition from semaphore to colour light signalling, the consolidation of signal boxes and the upgrading of points of the North Kent Lines between 1967-1970, showing how the entire North Kent Loops from Dartford to London Bridge could be controlled from one Signalling centre in Dartford .
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After seeing this film, I have nothing but admiration for all the workers ,technicians and signalling staff . That wiring job looked like spaghetti junction to me . Nuff respects to em . -bud the painter -
When you first see the wiring it is daunting. It takes some time to learn how to read the circuit diagrams and slowly over the years you get to know how everything goes together. A job where there is always something new to learn as things are constantly developing. Today a huge amount of this type of equipment is still in use along with the new digital electronic systems.
@47:45 Cable jointing is a REAL art!
The days when the railway actually used trains to deliver all the new lineside signalling equipment and to recover the old. Outrageous!!
Its amazing in the whole history of human work you can spot a manager a mile away. 1 their generally better dressed, 2 always carrying something paper / clipboard and 3 constantly delaying whatever's been done.
Nowadays I just forward an email saying "Please deal"! 🤣
4) they tend to carry the can for the “lads” when things go wrong
Note the high viz vests on the managers while the laborers aren’t even wearing shirts much less PPE.
..."1 _they're_ generally better dressed" _they're_ _there_ _their_
And we are better paid 😮😂😂
Very interesting. Thanks.
31 minutes 53 seconds, "Dad do you know the piano's on my foot?" " You have it son, I play it".
Changeover in an 8-hour T3... it would take all weekend these days...
42:54. To think this was all done with relay logic. As I watch this, I struggle to design a block occupancy system for my model layout, meanwhile the engineers who designed this equipment had designed intelligent rerouting into the system. It is important to understand, there was no code or programming done here, all of those functions had to be designed into the hardware. There was no general processor doing the work here, the functions instead depend on the physical wire connections between relay contacts. My mind cannot fathom the complexity.
Whereas I love the subject matter of the Bennett Brook railway postings, I wondered if the prints which are being digitised are really as soft as the posted video. I would understand if the originals were standard 8mm but I would assume they are at least 16mm if not 35mm. I still take super 8 cine film (using a Leicina Special camera) and they seem a lot sharper. Is it the digitisation process which causes the loss in definition?
I've seen a few of these transport films on other channels before, so it could be from screen recordings of those before they were removed.
And the poor low level volume. Shame, it’s a cracking report.
Another marvelous video ☺️ . As for the quality of the videos , if they're ripped from VHS tapes the Res is only going to be 240 / 250 lines regardless of how you digitised them . And no point in trying to use AI to upscale them believe me I've tried to upscale many a low Res video and the results are far from impressive
@@Scots_Diesel nooooo surely not .. theft on the internet 😂
@@Scots_Diesel thanks, that’s brilliant
I was doing trothing when I was line side civils. Good idea getting a train to drop them off now we have to take them on trollies from the access
It's a shame they didn't have HD in this era.
09.30 Asbestos tubes used to carry cabling. I remember the old days.They were bloody dreadful.
They’re gonna be feeling that sunburn tomorrow
You hum it son, I'll play it... Makes more sense.
" . . . sending messages by bell codes, which is a very time consuming process."
THAT is a bloody lie - and yes, I HAVE worked in boxes where trains were offered and accepted using block bells.
Was this recorded on a modern bank camera?
Hi, do you know where i might get a copy of this film? DVD? British Film Institute perhaps?
How much of that asbestos is still there, crumbling away, dust blowin in the wind ?
All those asbestos tubes. Health & Safety police weren't around then.
General awareness of asbestosis didn’t really start until the 70’s. According to Wikipedia, the asbestos industry had been aware of the dangers since the 1930s, but had been slow to act.
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What has what was the Southern Region got now?
Three Bridges, Eastleigh, Wimbledon. Is Feltham still open? Gillingham?
Feltham has shut and is now in Basingstoke ROC. On the South Western: Dorchester, Bournemouth, Brockenhurst, Eastleigh, Salisbury, Havant, Guildford, Woking, Basingstoke ASC, Basingstoke ROC and Wimbledon are extant.
There are still semaphore holdouts at Marchwood and Yeovil Pen Mill.
The remaining small boxes on the Portsmouth direct (Haslemere, Petersfield, Farncombe) are supposed to be shutting in 2025.
Asbestos?
Very much in fashion then!
Around 9mins 30seconds
You'll have to do asbestos you can
Terrorists must not know about how track Ciruits operate.
Pretty sure Amerikans know how _Ciruits_ operate. Whatever a _Ciruits_ is.
They wouldn’t need to. They just need to do what the Great Train Robbery crew did…. Got into the signal heads and used batteries to create false indications. Tampering with track circuits would show up in the control centre very quickly, but tampering with the signals might not.
Sweaty work.