The only true paradise is a lost one

What a wonderful compilation film. We used to cycle over the Lickeys and sit on the embankment at the top of ''The Bank' all day during the summer holidays. I would guess that this was filmed late 50s to early mid 60s. Wonderful memories.

Great shots. Lovely to see the old system in action but now I feel saddened by what engineering and transport systems we have casually it seems thrown away. Nothing was ever perfect but the huge rail infrastructure was the jewel that needed careful and sensible modernising not slaughtering.

13:43 The only footage I've seen of steam at Sutton Coldfield, I think. The part of the station the train is on has long been the car park.

Amazing footage of Cardiff General Station and 86A shed, even better footage of Neyland shed and Carmarthen, brings back many, many memories of standing on Cardiff Station and sitting in the cab of station pilot 8484 getting warm.

How good was that vid eh..? thanks for that, a step back in time when England was at its best.... when men worked hard for a living...... and society worked for all....

There still is a bricked up entrance and a small section of wall of the original station just down and opposite from The Old Contemptibles pub in Edmund Street.

Amazing footage from my home town. Also lovely to see the steam shed at Ebbw. Very enjoyable.

Would like to see No 7 back in BR Green again

Used to meet at the deviation entrance at 2pm on sundays in the 50s and as soon as you entered the works down the long walk it was engines everywhere magic we bunked south shed and gresty road western shed my friends grandfather was an engine driver at north shed and would take us round on Sunday nights the world seemed perfect happy days 😢

13.14 nice to see a clean 34106 Lydford of Exmouth Junction shed hauling a 13 coach train from Exeter, probably an up ACE.

Thanks - some good memories there. On the gaff for over three years - that one was the very best!

Beautiful memories. My entire youth spent on freezing cold stations waiting for these wonderful machines to scream past Still have my Ian Allen combined volume in the drawer Am now 76 and living in NZ

You can see that there’s about 2 hymeks in their clip taking in turns to take 80079 to Kidderminster Severn valley railway station

The station canopy of bath green park is still here as of today But the station has been converted into a car park and a supermarket of Sainsbury’s

Fascinating! Thanks for that!

Lovely. I always though the Down CCE divided at Machynlleth Pwllheli from Aberystwyth sections) and the Up CCE was joined at Dovey Junction. Nice special to have travelled on though!

We moved to Shepton Mallet just over a year ago, and we have been fascinated with the history of our town that we moved too. The fact that shepton once had two railways with its own stations is incredible. I have been really blessed to find this amazing footage of this historic journey as well and I will watch this many times again. Thank you for sharing it with us..........

Used to go with my grandad in 1967 on this line .he was a guardsman

Cab wouldn't have been so cramped in Broad Gauge days 🤔🧐

This is brilliant 👍❤😊

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Got to love a Pannier Tank 0:20. Does anyone remember the TV show The Flockton Flyer in the 70s? I have photos of me at the WSR Minehead standing in front of it. It was impossibly exciting as a kid seeing a steam train from the telly!! Wow its quite rare to see decent colour footage of the Blue Pullman in action 2:45! Wonderful film of 1st gen DMUs too!

Those were the days when everything seemed to be more tastefully painted.

Q6s. Q7s. V1/3s. V2s. J27s. K1s. A3s. A1s. A4s and even a B16/2! Alas, I remember them well. NYMR still use a J27, a Q6 and a K1.

Runaway train,never come back!

Suggest this could be autumn 1965. 73001 would have come off the S&D from Bath Green Park and was routed away from Bournemouth West. Fantastic memories. Travelled over the S&D to Bournemouth twice organised by Cotham Grammar School Railway Society. Wonderful memories.

Very interesting piece. Loco still have they name plates, but the coaching stock suggests it is close to the end of steam. The Southern sets of coaches seem to be breaking as they acquired BR MK1 full firsts and other maroon vehicles to form the 4TC. Some earlier, in the late fifties, we got round the shed going pass the coaling stage despite the sign. My older brother went first, closely followed by me and finally my mother Auntie Florey who could not believe she would wondering around the entrance to the steam shed having met us for a day in Bournemouth with her grand-nephews. The women did not get pass the coalers, but we got round the shed down the left hand side across the back and ask for permission on the way out having got several cops of dead engines hiding in the shed. Did not realise then that I would regularly travel through BoMo in the early 1970s, with the dividing of Weymouth portions continue the back of a Cl 33 and being pushed onto the back of the REP for Waterloo.

When you could see Britain by train.

Drove the loco on the ELR in Feb 1993.

...actual film of a 9f Crosti boiler working before reconversion... wow!

Lovely video thanks for posting. Liked the sign asking for the ' prevention of smoke and steam at this place.' Then the smoky start up!

Good to see Happy Drivers with a smile & a wave

I was on it

Of all the engines seen in this footage 45593, 45428, 46235 & of course 46115 at still very much with us today.

What a great bit of film. I signalled 5029 many times in c2010 when it came through Yeovil Pen Mill on the trips to Weymouth. Cabled it and travelled behind on many days. Great memories!

2:13 Scotsman has snapped its corridor connection. This was a schoolboy error of railwaymen who weren’t used to corridor tenders. Same thing happened to No 9 at ELR a few years ago, it’s on KZbin.

Wonderful brilliant fantastic

Would be good with sound

A million likes for this, it's so brilliant!

TT 1961 for same service: Cardiff 1.00 Newport 1.20 Stapleton Rd 2.06 Bath 2.28 BoA 2.44 Trow a 2.53 d 2.55 Westbury a 3.04 d 3.08 Warminster a 3.18 d 3.20 Sarum 3.40 thence to Fareham 5.03 where divided Pompey a 5.34 Brighton a 6.24. These days about an hour quicker to Pompey d Cardiff 1.30 a Pompey 4.52

Excellent stuff. Some good "catches" on the way; a North British Type 2 at Patchway and the down Bristol Pullman at Sydney Gardens. You can really feel that climb out of Westbury. Can just see the Dilton Marsh station totem in green; I forgot that was Southern Region. Very well put together.

I often work over these routes,great to see the stations,boxes and lines in their prime.

Brilliant piece of cine film. The days when lineside veg was kept clear so you could admire the countryside. Passes the 0745 Padd-BTM Blue Pullman at Bath Sydney Gardens; some of the 'car stop' markers on Bath Spa platforms for these units survived until the 1980s.

This can't be right. I was told it was always sunny in those days 🙂

Tom boddington film ,arranged by Canton Shedmaster W W Wagstaff . Driver pug Evans x Chester ,fireman Cecil Patch always with knotted handkerchief headgear and loco inspector Harold Wake always with Trilby !

Totaly superb video a film of man and machine in perfect harmony , just think by December of that year she was withdrawn

I managed a visit to Snow Hill in 1966 when going for an interview at Birmingham University. My train left Paddington with a new 47 on the front, but arrived 3 hours late with a Manor. That breakdown changed my life.

Superb another little gem, please keep them coming!

The great thing about the G.C. you could see any loco on it from halls to a spamcan on football specials