Breathtaking seeing stuff like this knowing I was alive then, but too small to appreciate what was around outside the world of my pram. I look at this kind of stuff endlessly and wish I was in a world where everywhere I'd go and regardless of transport method, i'd love it all.
Tremendous stuff. I assume the 40s will have worked through from Euston via Rugby and Leamington, while BNS was being rebuilt, and WCML electrification.
A video that takes me back to my teens where I used to train spot on the GWR line from Snow Hill to Wednesbury. I recall seeing the Class 40s that were being diverted due to the electrification work on the WCML. Your video also shows Western Enterprise which I first saw at Hill Top, West Bromwich. I was waiting for a GWR King and the Western arrived. They have been one of my favourite classes ever since. Thanks for sharing this video. Regards, John
I wish my Dad was still alive to see this - remember him talking a lot about the old Snow Hill station near to where he worked for a while in the 50s and 60s.
Being in my later years I can rember the sad change to steam but Wen is saw the new locomotive I was amazed and then I realised they had steam heating I was amazed I rember going to my grandparents in Dartmouth in the early 63 bad winter and was amazed by no big steam fog wen the locomotive pulled away arring at Dartmouth later that afternoon I can still rember warship pulling in at kingweir a sad day Wen the station closed my grandad was transferred to Paignton Wen I first clapped my eyes on class 52 breathing stam and the first time a saw tinted window on a loco I sneaked a CB ride to the singing in the summer packed lunch at the sidings watching traffic moved a carriage cleaning great day sorry a bout the rambling of an old man but great memories of the westerns every one has there fav locomotive they mighty western s have a great weekend thanks
I'm an old 'un, too, and I have fond memories of the transition from steam to diesel hydraulic traction on the western region. Great days, and sadly, all gone. The heritage railways are great, but don't possess quite the same excitement as the good old days - a bit clinical, and everything's so clean and tidy,
Cracking footage and those Morris cars already rotting away lol
Breathtaking seeing stuff like this knowing I was alive then, but too small to appreciate what was around outside the world of my pram. I look at this kind of stuff endlessly and wish I was in a world where everywhere I'd go and regardless of transport method, i'd love it all.
Good video, like .
Makes me feel old watching this😢 loved the warship and western, great video.
Thanks
Absolutely brilliant 🤩 Proper trains ! Thanks for sharing 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
More excellent footage from a bygone era ❤
Many thanks!
Tremendous stuff. I assume the 40s will have worked through from Euston via Rugby and Leamington, while BNS was being rebuilt, and WCML electrification.
Much appreciated, thank you.
You're welcome!
A video that takes me back to my teens where I used to train spot on the GWR line from Snow Hill to Wednesbury. I recall seeing the Class 40s that were being diverted due to the electrification work on the WCML. Your video also shows Western Enterprise which I first saw at Hill Top, West Bromwich. I was waiting for a GWR King and the Western arrived. They have been one of my favourite classes ever since. Thanks for sharing this video. Regards, John
Glad you enjoyed it.
I wish my Dad was still alive to see this - remember him talking a lot about the old Snow
Hill station near to where he worked for a while in the 50s and 60s.
Thank you. Wonderful to see film of railways past. Early diesel with veteran steam side by side.
Being in my later years I can rember the sad change to steam but Wen is saw the new locomotive I was amazed and then I realised they had steam heating I was amazed I rember going to my grandparents in Dartmouth in the early 63 bad winter and was amazed by no big steam fog wen the locomotive pulled away arring at Dartmouth later that afternoon I can still rember warship pulling in at kingweir a sad day Wen the station closed my grandad was transferred to Paignton Wen I first clapped my eyes on class 52 breathing stam and the first time a saw tinted window on a loco I sneaked a CB ride to the singing in the summer packed lunch at the sidings watching traffic moved a carriage cleaning great day sorry a bout the rambling of an old man but great memories of the westerns every one has there fav locomotive they mighty western s have a great weekend thanks
I'm an old 'un, too, and I have fond memories of the transition from steam to diesel hydraulic traction on the western region. Great days, and sadly, all gone. The heritage railways are great, but don't possess quite the same excitement as the good old days - a bit clinical, and everything's so clean and tidy,
Great footage from a golden period on the Railways. Much appreciated.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great vid thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it