Luvly memories 😊

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Terribly lovely, awful Muzak, Mr Warner Chumley with extra posh accent how spiffing marvellous video of Blackpool in happy times.😊, and now it’s horrible 😮 what a shame.

Coal was thilthy!

Resignalling planned for 1987 was then postponed for 6 years for some reason.

Can’t believe there’s footage of Big Bertha beyond the small snippet in Railway Roundabout. It’s a real shame such a unique and beloved engine was scrapped rather than saved.

These Scottish Engines have some unique times over in Scotland with both passenger and freight trains. Many railroads over in Scotland have the same thing.

I was there that day what a lovely memory

Great video again, Alrx. I'm heading to Blackpool on Friday, I'm taking a group on a bingo tour.

Will 34039 Boscastle be mainline certified?

That would get cancelled now😅😅

The last steam on the Southern was on Sunday 9th JULY 1967 (Not 1968) !!!!

Thanks for this video. I remember as a kid being on the wee passenger ferries. No health and safety in those days jumping off onto the jetty.

Big Thank you for viewing this old upload sincerely I don't know what's happened but changes have happened just let's us reminisce of Happier times Lovely beach Lots of shows people behaved great boarding houses. I just don't know Alrx 📽️

Enjoyed thanks.

The Locomotive Exchange trials, 1948.

I used to holiday here as a kid with my parents in the 60s. Who else is watching hoping we may have been inadvertantly captured on this video?

My understanding is that in Russian, stations are known as vauxhaul(s) because the chief engineer of the grand Siberian railway enjoyed his time living in Vauxhall

Amazingly, all the Terrier locomotives featured survive in preservation- 32640 Brighton; 32646 Newington; 32650 Whitechapel; 32670 Poplar..

Was there as a 4 or 5 year old .We were on the Waverley paddle steamer.Would be 1971 or 1972.

Gordon: My brother is on TV!??!!

Another great video, Alrx. Good to see both steam and diesel locomotives working hard. I saw Andania, a class 40 going through Cumbernauld with a 47 on the back a few months ago.

O'Connell Place

Great! Oh how I wish I could make out the words of the songs in the background---when I was wee, I knew the tunes and the odd lines. Can anyone help?

What VHS was this from, may I ask?

Superb video.Thank you

For many years a few buildings remained, but the new industrial estate and Jubilee Sorting Office wiped the remains away. Hard to believe the vast marshalling yards ever existed now.

Excellent footage. Thank you.

I am fae Dundee but love the Glasgow patter and sense humour they love a laugh

Alrxander, is this clip from a longer film? Do you know the name?

Bloody hell 1:44 their must be a twist fault off of the end of that crossing

it looks so clean... neat.... more friendly... you can feel in a way the atmosphere back then... now..... all that has gone..... if we could all go back to this vidio for a week.... you would understand what im trying to say....its sad.. its gone.😪😪😪😪

it looks like a different country..... britain has well gone downhill since then.

Just found this video. Very interesting thank you very much for sharing this

No fun anymore, always someone to have a rule or opinion

Great quality, better days

Wonderful times ❤

Brilliant video, only just found it. Never seen this one before. Remember the elephants on the beach as a kid. Memories, remember them lost children buses, that busy then mum always told us to look for them if lost, ha ha. Brilliant quality, thanks. might be on one of them clips, ha ha.

Aged 12 in 1980, I went to Poland and saw my first ever steam locomotive in action. What stuck in my mind was that I could see under the boiler; effectively seeing right through the locomotive to whatever was happening on the other side. It felt weird and almost freakish. I realised later that my only relationship to steam locomotives up until this point were Hornby model trains. These model steam locomotives were made via a kind of one piece jelly mould for cheapness that didn't allow for this sort of detail.

Do you know those women are superb, ladylike, feminine, sexy, desirable, but much much more. Strong willed and confident, modern women could learn a lot from these wonderful people.

Amazing times...I remember going to Blackpool in the 60's....Love seeing all the old cars and trams....A lost time :):) Thanks for bringing it back

I'm 73 now my house was the first on the Island next to the petrol station, I used to sit up in bed and watch the Billy go by in the mornings, my playground was underneath the turntable in the centre of the bridge and get rained on with rust as the train went overhead . Beecham used the excuse that the bridge was unsafe so they had to close the line, after removing all the timber superstructure they brought in the Royal Navy to blow up the concrete pillars, there was the biggest bang you have ever heard and if you go and inspect those pillars today you will see not a scratch. Unsafe bridge eh?

wonderful thankyou

Seagull effects were rather annoying. But great footage.

That was not Walton on Thames It was NEW MALDEN

Briiliant but sad...

I believe this was shown on Saturday at LWT South Bank Studios in 1984. Chic flick.

A lefthander have a huge long term memory was just 8 & went with Mum on the Cornish Riviera Express hauled by the magnificent Kings .For a pack of cigarettes to crew of the then green liveried Mallard We boarded the foot plate at King's Cross Station & was allowed to blow her whistle ,when much younger travelled on the now gone Tollesbury to Kelvedon light railway ,on a veranda carriage , Mum smoked woodbines then .Its main problem was so many level crossings & the stopping for yarns with ( now gone ) Osborne bus drivers & passengers , King George 6th used it to see the defences ,especially the famous hexagonal tower with homing radio & A.A guns on top, what were they thinking ? That Adolf wanted to invade Tollesbury ,sadly the pier was allowed to rot away,in its early day used by Eduardians as a boat departure point !

They could bring it back as the portsmouth metro raill mass transit the city council are concerning to plan

Alrx: Thank you. Must go and make Darling Mary's late tea. 🤔 I shall enjoy this welcome update, later today. Looking forward to soon appreciating another gem from your *Attic of Treasures!* I remain your Friend: Rab (and Mary!). Stay free, and, as always: All the best. R 🍻😎 🕊