I'm watching this now in 2024 and how things have changed is amazing. I mean look how pretty TYB station house looked when this was filmed! I hope we get back to the nice pretty picket fence situation again. Interesting to hear Fred's experiences. And how H&S has changed so much especially in terms of the track safe aspects "train had gone up so you knew to look out for it when it comes back down" 😄
I'm watching this now in 2024 and how things have changed is amazing. I mean look how pretty TYB station house looked when this was filmed! I hope we get back to the nice pretty picket fence situation again. Interesting to hear Fred's experiences. And how H&S has changed so much especially in terms of the track safe aspects "train had gone up so you knew to look out for it when it comes back down" 😄
Fantastic memories and stories. Good effort to capture these.
Very interesting stuff. Must be hours of accumulated archive footage.
At 2:33 look at how much the carriages are rolling!! 59:30 is absolutely hilarious!!
Interesting that Blaster Bates was consulted on rockblasting, even though he didn't actually carry out the work.
That would have sounded good on his records - The Day I Blew Up The Festiniog Railway...
15:59 maybe a mentor would be a better description