Sad to See Elrctra at end of life They outlived their respected Chief Project Engineer thankfully RIP David Rollin CEng FIET
@BrianWatts-i1b3 ай бұрын
Unbelievable loss
@AritraDasGupta-jy8st5 ай бұрын
I presume it was 1 Feb, 2019.I was living near the cemetary in the Lansdown Road. Did prior shopping from the Morrison's a day before due to storm alert. It was a perfect snowfall that day, splendid.
@PaulDavies-r5w7 ай бұрын
Having served in the Army I can imagine the pride and camaraderie and humour was much the same . These people produced some of the best quality heavy engineering seen in Britain . They and Swindon works deserve all the accolades they get . The Great Western Railway was unique in many ways and all Western Countrymen are proud they served the this wonderful company
@ValentaPower8 ай бұрын
Soon Newton Aycliffe will go down the same path as Swindon Works. It’s just tragic for such a new site like Newton Aycliffe…
@veneration110 ай бұрын
I'm still amazed all this was going on without me knowing. I assumed in the UK there were just 4 channels, period. I didn't know some areas had cable with many more channels, I thought that didn't start until 1989 with Sky satellite.
@lemagreengreen6 ай бұрын
Yeah, all the old regional cable networks in the 80s are very interesting. We didn't get cable in my area until 1994 like many areas when Telewest/NTL did their big expansions.
@DOCTORDROTT10 ай бұрын
I worked there, now is sells crap fast food and designer cloths made in sweatshops . This is Britain being dismantled bit by bit as we become a third world country
@neilfitz718611 ай бұрын
Thank you Swindon Cable and the makers of this wonderful documentary. Inspiring for what was achieved and built there for so long; but now sad in equal measure. Thank you for posting this
@paullangcaster790911 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. It is sad we have lost such an important engineering asset.
@jessebarlow127711 ай бұрын
It's Kate Bush!! 0:57
@MarkGenner19916 ай бұрын
♥️♥️♥️♥️
@electrickery Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this - it's really interesting to see behind the scenes at Swindon Cable's headend. I've been steadily collecting the parts to build a recreation - I have an American (NTSC) Model MVP video scrambler and matching C6M modulator, same as those in the video but for the American market. What a shame a lot of the UK spec equipment seems to have been scrapped.
@RightAwayProductions005 Жыл бұрын
Saw it at Derby, had my first ever uni lecture down in Leicester about 45 minutes later, got there in time, worth it😂❤
@RightAwayProductions005 Жыл бұрын
9:17 THATS ME! Centre screen, in the red
@iancastledine7284 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful and fitting, fabulous, enjoyed it start to finish :)
@markmaskelyne Жыл бұрын
Great video Paul. Keep it up❤
@paullangcaster7909 Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Will do!
@grenfellroad8394 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely excellent film, well done.
@truetothegame2928 Жыл бұрын
a shop, b shop were the best places to work
@truetothegame2928 Жыл бұрын
all respects out to George Lawrence, Christopher Peston, John Gill, Dave Pratt, Simon Harry, Vince, Lance, Terry Bunce, Trev, Long Tall Ken, Pugsy. Mike Difford, John Slocombe, Sipton, Duncan Witerlfood ... probably mostly all RIP but these were the best of the best !
@derisleybrittain Жыл бұрын
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
@markmaskelyne Жыл бұрын
It is very sad that Swindon will never see them again 😢😢😢 Fling over Swindon.
@MsCholmondley-Warner Жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading Paul, this is fascinating!
@peckelhaze6934 Жыл бұрын
Flew over Colchester this afternoon.
@markmaskelyne Жыл бұрын
I saw them came over Pasture close 2day.😢😢😢
@rmberry7 Жыл бұрын
Great video. I was on that trip, it was amazing 🙂
@brianbunn3604 Жыл бұрын
Very nice catches 👍 had a few journeys right behind the magnificent D345 at the Swanage Railway Diesel Gala last month, awesome sight and sound 😊
@thefakewasp503 Жыл бұрын
Excellent video made in perfect weather
@HenrysAdventures Жыл бұрын
Great video! I've subscribed!
@SharpblueCreative Жыл бұрын
Wish we could go back to those days Paul. The world is so horrible now.
@jimbozocleft Жыл бұрын
Fabulous coverage as always Paul. What a great day out!
@anthonyperkins7556 Жыл бұрын
Sky Channel was initially encrypted using Oak Orion scrambling for cable system distribution only, but later on they pulled it going free to air all over Europe for motorised satellite dish owners.
@paullangcaster7909 Жыл бұрын
Enjoy the sights and sounds of the recent Spring Gala!
@markp6982 Жыл бұрын
So IT made railway engineering obsolete? Of course not. Its done in France and other places as ever. Thatcher & Co had no authority to shut down Swindon or the mines for that matter. We are the authority. Not them. In law. They did not own what they destroyed. The people did.
@markp6982 Жыл бұрын
Thatcher & Co had no authority to close something that did not belong to them. I hear it closed with full order books. A .gov gets its orders from us. Not vice versa.
@elliotraiupdates Жыл бұрын
Never should of touched it. What a joke
@cartoonhead9222 Жыл бұрын
Now Piri Piri Chicken shop. How times change.
@swinetownswine2 жыл бұрын
i was there that day .... great place to play
@stuartbroome12582 жыл бұрын
Very shortsighted at the time, it had everything needed for the railway. Why put a shopping centre instead of a workshop that could do everything. Just think if it was still there how it could serve preserved railways, even new builds. Very shortsighted.
@lukumanganiyu7672 жыл бұрын
This is beautiful
@imagaybanana20042 жыл бұрын
Beautiful footage! These locos are gorgeous! 🤌🏻😙👌🏻
@paullangcaster79092 жыл бұрын
They are! Thank you!
@s.harrisali83022 жыл бұрын
Good views n music paul
@vishal_electrodharwad76782 жыл бұрын
Thanks .Fantastic coverage,
@colinc4082 жыл бұрын
Really well put together video. enjoyed it, Thanks.
@Guitar6ty2 жыл бұрын
It was also the year Thatcher got rid of all the bus works in every major city along with the miners and the rest of our industry.
@markp6982 Жыл бұрын
Yes. She destroyed so much including mines. All part of the UNIDROIT Treaty signed in 1948. I believe.
@daystatesniper012 жыл бұрын
As sad as this is/was the same happened all over the country , Donny, Crewe, Derby etc' etc'
@markp6982 Жыл бұрын
All deliberate policy to deindustrialise us in favour of EU and Far East.
@petepnut2 жыл бұрын
Spot on Paul, pity no credits.........
@petepnut2 жыл бұрын
Great see see Dave and hear his voice again. Dave was Radio Rental's Mr Fixit when there were problems on the Swindon Viewpoint Uplink from Victoria Road to RR Shrivenham Road. Always calm and cool-headed, Dave would get us back on the air usually within minutes. P'Nut
@NQY-flyer2 жыл бұрын
I’ve seen a similar documentary about Swindon works Sad to see it all gone The art of “coiling a wire” lost 😡
@conorgraafpietermaritzburg37202 жыл бұрын
Good on you old Geysers, go for it.
@graemeforssberg39862 жыл бұрын
Geezers
@HampshireVideo2 жыл бұрын
Remembering hopping the fence when Swindon was breaking peaks. Such a shame that British Engineering has gone, locos from the UK were once shipped worldwide. Now we have boring Class 66s imported and our industry has gone.
@markp6982 Жыл бұрын
It was a deliberate policy due the signing of UNIDROIT Treaty in 1948. Took a while to wreck things here.
@leonblittle2262 жыл бұрын
The mighty workshops like Swindon and Crewe are now just a memory, the great western is run by Hitachi junk with ironing boards for seats and half the people who live on the site of the works have no idea it even existed while scrolling along their chinese slave built iphones. What a world it became, so utterly depressing and vapid.
@4376ED2 жыл бұрын
For your info Hitachi build bullet trains in Japan. The trains they build in the UK are built to UK specs. One thing that Thatcher did was to destroy british manufacturing, of course she was helped by the unions.
@markp6982 Жыл бұрын
Yup. Peeps mainly don't give a toss it seems.
@TheRubberDuck2 жыл бұрын
I did moved to Swindon for a better comutte to work a few years ago and remember I was excited to check out what is left of Swindon Works, but it's a real shame, watching this documentary, seeing how it once was now reduced to essentially the main shed and side shed where the museam is standing, very little of the herritate was kept it seemed despite without the works Swindon would of been one of many small towns that would get ignored. It's a real shame they didn't preserve move of what Swindon's history.
@rockabilly3752 жыл бұрын
I was a kid when the works closed . Swindon was THE place to go if you liked railways. Our school had a trip planned for the GWR 100 years celebrations. But they closed the works down and cancelled everything. So many jobs lost.
@woden202 жыл бұрын
Old people trust their government, that's where the problem started.
@xr6lad2 жыл бұрын
And many didn’t know when there’s a time to strike and when there was a time not to. And thought the government would always pay. And the general public got sick of it. Which is why you got Thatcher.