"Look at what they travel on"... cracked rails "Look at what they travel under"... downed wires "Look around the train"... a disaster zone "Imagine what's behind it"... incompetent executives

0:02 Train of Thought whistlesound origin

* now you're looking at shit maintenance

Nice shots and music, a lot of effort put into this advert by Railtrack. Shame they didn't any of that same effort into their job, looking after the tracks.

“Hello 1401” “Hello Rebecca!”

Railtrack: ‘DON’T look at the trains’ me: *looks at the lovely sectorised BR liveries* Railtrack: ‘YOU HAD ONE JOB’ me: ‘quite frankly, so did you’

One of the first movies I ever set my eyes on, and truly happy that it was a wholesome and happy move as such as this, absolutely amazing movie, and a spectacle of a lost world of steam travel and local railways connecting small communities together. Love it all!

0:01-0:06 Train Of Thought Intro

and now your looking at problems

0:11 The fossil fuel power plant makes this much less enjoyable.

Theres a great film by Ken Loach called The Navigators all about a group of track workers going through the privatisation of BR and the tragic consequences it brings.

Best song to skate to

Pfft. Railtrack was most efficient at moving money away from maintenance budgets and into the pockets of major shareholders. Such a shambles, that even New Labour felt compelled to de-privatise them (not the same thing as re-nationalising).

Most of them locomotives dmu emu ate no more hsts 91s 86s gone 321s 317s and pacers gone the 158s 150s still going as well as 37s 90s

Railtrack advertising here like they were the ones who built all of it. Haha

When you realize THIS is where Train Of Thought got that piece of audio

Another commercial with Maggie Boyle vocals: kzbin.info/www/bejne/onfai3Wwo6uVp7c

Rebecca, Oliver and Toad in real life

There was a rapper who was also a ventriloquist? Was this a one-time thing or was this a legit rapper at the time?

Now Network Rail!

Titfield Thunderbolt is very old

killer bass score by Doug Wimbish!

So if we don’t need to look at trains what do we look a the running gear and stuff then

Failtrack

Classic!....Takes me back!

Ah, Railtrack. A company that were greedy and incompetent with fatal consequences . No wonder they went belly up. The words Ladbroke Grove and Hatfield spring to mind immediately.

Murderers.

Railtrack put shareholders money first before safety

Fun fact: the Bullied Pacific actually made the lineside catch fire just when she went out of shot!

Weren't they the ones who mis-managed maintenance and repair so badly that the pendolino crashed?

damn sylvia robinson greenlit this?

If only Railtrack had taken its own advice and looked at what the trains travelled on, then the Hatfield crash would never have happened.

Quite like the 14xx's whistle. May not sound very realistic, but nice!

someone needs to make a parody of this and change "Now you are looking at railtrack" to "Now you are looking at failure".

WOW!! I HAVE NOT HEARD THIS IN A VERY LONG TIME !! 1982 TO BE EXACT !!!! WHILE I WAS ATTENDING THE SCHOOL OF TELEVISION ARTS IN PRODUCTION AND EDITING NEAR COLUMBUS CIRCLE IN MANHATTAN, NEW YORK CITY OUR CLASSES DIVIDED INTO PROJECTS. ONE OF THEM BOUGHT WAYNE & CHARLIE INTO OUR STUDIO TO VIDEO TAPE THIS SONG !!!! THIS WAS A RIOT !! WE ALL HAD ALOT OF FUN WATCHING THIS !! I THOUGHT THAT THIS WOULD BE A MEGA HIT SONG !! I NEVER HEARD IT AGAIN BUT I SOON SAW WAYNE & CHARLIE ON TELEVISION COMMERCIAL ( I BELIEVE THAT IT WAS MC DONALDS RESTAURANT). THANK YOU Alex Seal FOR POSTING THIS GEM !! THANK YOU YOU/TUBE !!

Something's wrong with the audio . I don't understand a word

The Bulleid West Country hauling the S & D local is 34043 Combe Martin.

I worked in Railtrack's PR department when that ad was made and I still cannot work out why it was made no idea who the target audience was. A waste of money. Nice shots nice music awful company.

Superb film, one of my all time favourites.

Those Steam Engines were made around 1890 to 1900.Great Movie.

If those scenes filmed during the bombing of the rail yard at Vaires were actual scenes for the movie, most were cut. In the movie you never see where Burt Lancaster goes to take cover from the bombing.

I wonder if he ever wanted to release a colored version of this film.

this film turns 50 years

"FIND LABICHE !!!"

On ne traduit pas dans la langue de l'occupant !

For an extended version of this video, take a look at 'Railtrack - The Heart of the Railway'. 'Railtrack Great Western - Signalling the Way' may also be of interest.

Great to see this in colur thanks for posting

So much awesome an realism went into this movie. Lancaster did all of his own stunts, the actors learned how to drive the trains, and they actually blew up a defunct train yard!

The　Movie is monochrome、Making fiim is Color… I wish Color Movie (Sorry, I can not Write English so well　from Japan) モノクロの方がより迫力が出るのは判るけど…本編をカラーで観たかったです。 しかし…Locomotive230？ Iｓ　Class　230　the Engine for Goods Train? I think Class 230 for Passenger Train… 230って主に旅客列車用では？ (also Class 231,Class232.for Passenger Train)

No 3D or gimmicks, just plain old color.