Remember it all well 👍

Great video! Tam Bruce was my dad! The one thing that I can remember from back then was just how much my dad loved No 24 and his job!

Fascinating video and historical account. Thank you. I saw Fire Queen a remarkable survivor, and numerous other locos including theLNWR Coal Tank at Penrhyn Castle.

What an excellent video! It brought back many memories to me of my own visits to Speke sheds (8C) in the same era. Loved the quick glance at the Ian Allan books.

I worked at Longsight MPD during the winter of 62/63, a very long a and cold winter, and left after a couple of years , to join another company, while working for that company ,several years later I was sent on a contract to ICI in Barry South Wales, and spent my first day there walking round the scrapyard, surveying the engines waiting to be cut up, many with parts marked ,and awaiting collection ,from loco societies around the country, some that I had worked on, a very sad day,

What a fantastic video!

About 1963 I went to that shed via the'birdcage'.

Very good indeed

Just wonderful. I remember watching the coal crane at Ayr back in 65. It mesmerised me then

Great video and thanks for the honourable mention. Happy to supply you with my photos of the line.

Lovely video. Would be a great line for a railway modeler.

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Very well done! Thank you for producing this

Superb Video !!

Your wonderful video reminded me of watching steam locos as a boy in the early 1970s working at the coal mine where my dad worked in South Wales (Merthyr Vale Colliery). One of them - GWR Pannier Tank 9600 - is still with us in preservation. Most of the wagons were steel by then, but there were a few of the wooden plank variety still in use. The locos would trip work the wagons to the exchange sidings where class 37s would take over. A similar story to the opencast story is currently playing out at Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil. The last coal was removed last year, and now the bunfight regarding the re-lanscaping of the site has begun. Thanks for taking the time to create & share your story.

Superb video!

Absolutely love these videos of yours, Lain! Almost like a railway memoir - it's enjoyable, joining you on a trip down memory lane! Incidentally, I've actually made one of those make shift tenders for my OO stock, a kit built "Gladstone" from the film 'Oh Mr Porter!' - the tender and coal cleverly hides a stay alive capacitor 😊 Take care!

That was very well told a great story of the Pugs and Colleries I hope the remaining. Locomotives will be put back to work on a preservation line Would love to go and see it all but you 12000 miles away 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 good luck to all

Your enthusiastic story-telling really makes me want to visit, well done

Excellent video. I live locally and knew the line well, my father was a driver there, worked at Dunaskin from 1920 till retirement in 1971. I often had cab trips with him from an early age, and was shown (unofficially) how to fire and drive the locos. Now retired I volunteer at the Doon Valley Railway and can often be found driving No 10 on operating days. Keep up the good work!

Great work. I had bought one of the old Hattons Andrew Barclay 0-4-0s second-hand. It just happened to be N.C.B. No. 10. Normally you have to settle for photos of the class for weathering inspiration, but if I ever want to weather mine, I'll have photos of the exact loco.

Brilliant i use to have a 33 record with sounds from Waterside and other industrial railways sadly gave it away many yrs ago!

That was great! I visited Dunaskin for the first time about 1973 and had subsequent visits over the years. Your video story has filled in the missing details for me! I visited the DVR about a month ago and was impressed by their enthusiastic attitude…very welcoming people! Hope to go again soon! Thank you!

Really enjoyed the film ,Thanks

Cracking Video, Thank You 😀

Marvellous!! Only ever had the one opportunity to visit this wonderful railway, in January 1978. No. 24 was the working loco and Tam Bruce offered a footplate ride up to Penyvenie with a train of empties, what a fantastic and unique experience. Just a day spent at Waterside, but I knew that I would have to return, but the closure of the last colliery at Penyvenie later in 1978 put paid to that dream........ must get back up there again soon..............

Another story brought to life by your telling of it. Fabulous.

Lovely to listen to these reminder of later steam and older diesel days 😊

Thanks for compiling a wonderful look back, loved it.❤

Magnificent 👍

Wonderful nostalgic narration. I lived right opposite Nottingham Victoria Station next to the Peacock pub and "The Vic" was my educational playground in its last years. Priceless.

My aunt lived in Crescent Road opposite the mill. I used to walk in and out of the shed without any fuss. I recall that the freight locos were used mainly to bring coal from the Wigan collieries to Spa Road gasworks in Bolton.

Thanks for the memories 👍

Brilliant film evokes many memories of my own early teenage years at Springs Branch and patricroft shed wanderings

Brilliant film. I grew up accross the valley from Horwich loco works where all my Mother`s family worked. I well remember all the steamers lined up there for scrapping. Loco works rec ently gone to build hundreds of houses.

Thanks for sharing your heartwarming memories.

We are taking our mum to re see her engine for her 80th Birthday in February. We haven't visited the Fire Queen for over 50 years.

In your picture of the Jenny Lidd that's him sitting on the back of the engine

Alfred Horlock was my great great grandfather.

Your pic with uncle Walter is so nostalgic I think you missed those beautiful days as a stranger I can feel into the feel of wonderful past

That was superb

What a fabulous series of sixty's scenes

As an ex Boltonian and a train spotter to boot, this brought back many happy memories of much time spent at Bolton MPD (26C and later 9K) and Bolton Trinity St. Many of the locos shown later went on to be preserved, (45110, 45025, 44871, 48773 and others) and many more should have done, particularly 44781, 73069 and green liveried 73014 which were apparently particular pets of the Bolton enginemen.. Three of the four locos that powered the final "10 guinea special" in August 1968 had all spent some considerable time at Bolton MPD - 45110, 44871 and 44781. Many thanks for letting me ride this reminiscence train!!

Thanks for this really enjoyable video great the laid back relaxed way you present it,

Who remembers Bolton driver Bert Welsby? He eventually moved to Buxton, where I worked with him on freight as a guard in the late 70s/early to middle 80s. You never got a snatch off Bert when handling a loose-coupled train, perfect man with years of experience. Great video by the way!

Wonderful trip down nostalgia lane. The 1963 photo of the little boys on the bridge at 1:12 brought back very happy memories. I'm 71 now but the little boy in shorts near the middle could easily have been me. I was 11 in September that year and loved hanging over the footbridge near my home watching the trains and waving at the locomotive crew. They always waved back. Wasn’t it a great time to be a boy? I've subscribed.

Great film Iain, very nostalgic. I had to rush and get my Ian Allan book to see how many locos I'd seen. I loved the smell in Victoria, I didn't know it had anything to do with a brewery. I loved the Isle of Man boat, in a glass case, on platform 3. We used to love, occasionally, buying a first class ticket from Middleton Junction to Victoria and seeing the deflated look on porter's faces when we showed them our tickets. We used to go to Newton-le-Willows and then sneak back to the West Coast Main Line and scramble down the embankment to the trackbed. The most daring thing we put on the line was a penny and seeing it flattened like a pancake. Once, at the age of about 10 or 11 I went with a mate, or two, to York. We had a fantastic adventure and saw Mallard working a train from Scotland to London. That was the proudest entry in my Ian Allan book, British Railways Locomotives, Combined Volume 10'6 (50.5 pence.) I can't imagine my grandson, of the same age, being allowed to do that nowadays.

Fantastic Iain , brings memories flooding back ,you're a very good story teller , I look forward to your next video with anticipation

Grew up near to Edgehill sidings went to sleep to the sound of engines shunting and the tinkle of buffer kissed wagons.

My main memory of Victoria Station was the topless barmaid and the strippers in the Manchester Arms followed by an evening in the Bongo Club (ring the bell for admittance )