wonderful film, thanks for sharing. As a Welshman now living in S.E Asia, always nice to see my old hometown of Swansea. At 10.00 or so, there was the comment "It is now a Wasteland..." which for me, sadly, sums up a great deal of what was once the United Kingdom. Perhaps if we, the British, stopped electing people to run our country simply on the basis that they have a posh voice and a First from Oxbridge, in Greats, then maybe we might get somewhere....
Great stuff. Hard to believe that during those days all those lovely working beasts were taken for granted and just looked upon as everyday regular modes of transport. Looking back we can appreciate just how amazing those locos were. Sad.
You've got to wonder if there was green GWR paint underneath all that lovely grime 3:00! You can just see the logo! At least the variety was still there in the 90s. Now all trains look the same! Bring back loco-hauled passenger traffic! You forget just how 80s, the 90s were
Lovely seeing Great British Engineering it's what made Britain Great .Has anyone got any pics of Llwynypia station and the old station masters house .Thanks .
wonderful film, thanks for sharing. As a Welshman now living in S.E Asia, always nice to see my old hometown of Swansea. At 10.00 or so, there was the comment "It is now a Wasteland..." which for me, sadly, sums up a great deal of what was once the United Kingdom.
Perhaps if we, the British, stopped electing people to run our country simply on the basis that they have a posh voice and a First from Oxbridge, in Greats, then maybe we might get somewhere....
Superb footage! Thank you
Great stuff. Hard to believe that during those days all those lovely working beasts were taken for granted and just looked upon as everyday regular modes of transport. Looking back we can appreciate just how amazing those locos were. Sad.
Thats a great film......Funny thing is, like so many 'then & now' films and books, I'm already missing the 'now' images......
You've got to wonder if there was green GWR paint underneath all that lovely grime 3:00! You can just see the logo!
At least the variety was still there in the 90s. Now all trains look the same! Bring back loco-hauled passenger traffic! You forget just how 80s, the 90s were
Brilliant first half.
That was interesting thanks.
This is amazing, they could really drive trains 😃
The engines just seem to glide...
Very interesting 👍
It's odd to think that the "now" portion is now almost as old as the "then" section was at the time.
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1:00 wow thats hercules 4277, interesting to know where she was based towards the end of her working days.
My loco shed book of 1960(actually it s a 2004 reprint) has 4277 shedded at Aberbeeg.
Lovely seeing Great British Engineering it's what made Britain Great .Has anyone got any pics of Llwynypia station and the old station masters house .Thanks .
Beautiful area but unfortunately I don't have any pics of the station..
Where do you find the clips? Who filmed them too?
SWINDON????????!!!!!!!!!!!
No toi
why do the tracks look yellow?
breeze 147 I think it’s the effect of the old film, I imagine they were a rust brown colour in reality