Thank you for sharing these great films.

Magnificent film , personal memories and great places filmed from . 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I visited Edge Hill with the Ian Allan shed directory, plus about 50 other sheds all over the country. Incredibly, you could walk around about the shed and surrounds. I never got asked to leave. I got quite a few rides in the cab, I didn't ask, I was asked up. I was between 10 and 16 at the time. We had freedom, fitness and learned about life.

This is important history, not just railway, but social and economic. Excellent that you did this, congratulations. Love the odd bits of Lancastrian-Mancunian accents caught at the time of the derailment. I hope this is watched and studied in 4025, not just 2025.

Someone just shared this on Facebook, what a brilliant video, thanks for making it all those years ago. I've subbed as you seem to have more videos i'll enjoy.

Do have any footage of the mineral lines in kearsley? Thanks for sharing the almost forgotten history of our towns.

What a find.. As a kid in the late 60s early 70s i remember the shunt. Do i presume that the shunt sent from Transparent to Yates and Duxbury then to the East Lancs line..... Love to see the entire footage......

Thank you for the great video!

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What a charming video, probably asking the obvious, this line must have joined what is now the east lancs railway

Absolutely fantastic stuff ,i was born just a bit to late really to these amazing sights ,i was to young to spot on my own but do remember a coronation pacific going through Stafford station as a young boy with my father ,then i was hooked on trains

Somehow I feel a sense of magic and awe has been lost since 1968, from British railways. Todays railways just seem like robots- they work well, but there is no fascination, no heart anymore.

Ah yes, my favorite engine company, G823R. 1:00

This is absolute gold. You must produce a dvd will all of your footage!

Is the sound design in this series done in post? I'm a film student in America studying audio and the sound is absolutely incredible.

Thanks so much for enabling us to relive the jaw dropping magic of working steam - beautifully dirty stuff.

Amazing with a real sense of excitement and the commentary makes it even better.

I was a fireman on loco WASP,the driver was HARRY NUTTAL.WALKDEN YARD loco shed, i WORKED OUT OF sandhole Colliery loco shed. Some of the loco names were REVENGE[ Tommy SEADON driver]BRACKLEY [DRIVER EDMOND NUTTALL] SIR ROBERT DRIVER FRANK RUSHTON] to name a few. BRIAN DEAKIN. I now live in PERTH WEST AUSTRALIA.I AM 86. I worked on the locos from 1953 till 19 62.

What a superb collection of shots. Must have quite an expensive activity for you..given the cost of colour film etc...and for this we are extremely grateful. I visited Edgely once ..on a trip to Manchester sheds. As widely mentioned..the entrance down the long cinder path was memorable. Of course another pleasure of shed visits was that memorable smell ! Thanks for being there and recording.Stuff like this will not be forgotten because of the effort people like you put in. Thankyou so much

such defining moments thanks so much for sharing

Lovely WD. Not a loved engine but a good workhorse.

We found an old german firebomb fin on the roof once when we worked on the canopy back in the 70s. it had the date 1938 on it and the word grenze stamped on it.. as a roofer you could find bits of these small firebombs all over factory roofs and drain pools. especially around cheetham hill where we were based.

"I hope no nut falls off, including me." That was pretty funny Your engine is honetly adorble and stunning, and also seems to live up to your surname!

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I have watched this over half a dozen times, and I am still fascinated by the image quality in short sequences, like the one at 2:05 where a tiny cloud of droplets hovers and dances just above the water in the sight glass. Is the narrator with Yorkshire accent really the shunter, or was this someone else reading the lines afterwards?

Thank you so much for this - I'm currently working on a re-creation of the Manchester to Leeds route on Train Simulator, as it was in the 60's, and it's really helpful to see the station as it was. Now all I've got to do is build it....

Wonderful, very nostalgic, brings back so many memories. Thanks for posting 👍 we will be travelling on the Northern Belle from Victoria at some 😊 .

I notice a few tender water tank lids open 😳 Great bit of archive film thanks for posting

well done. Spent many hours on the wall side pilots waiting to bank trains up to Miles Platting. 64s were my favorite.

Good for you that you are not completelly passive at that age. Beautiful country you have and beautiful attitude to live. I envy you :)

Recreating the vanished shed scene at Barrow Hill: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3vIcqubjphoh9E

Wonderful! I used to run 5" gauge live steam culminating a lovely hand-built (by a master engineer - not me!) quarry Hunslet (a big beast in 5") and much modified (again not by me) BR Standard Class 4 tank. Knee arthritis made it difficult to operate steam, so I sold my steam locos and now just have a 5" battery electric. I now have a (very - 2.5 weeks old) new knee so maybe these smaller steam engines could be a way back to live steam? The trouble is, club tracks are 3.5, 5, or 7.25 inch.

Great still shots lovely gradation.. oh and the cine was great too! The 2-10-0s were magnificent machines.

What you call the gridiron is actually the circular goods line. The gridiron is the gravity marshalling yard on the opposite side of the Liverpool - Manchester line. You can see on the map how the circular goods line passes underneath the gridiron in a tunnel. All gone now of course but the abutments of the circular goods line can still be seen. Where the parcels train neeeded assistance is Downhill carriage sidings - still in use today. Great video -- hurrah for nostalgia!

I can remember! When I was a tiny the family used to travel by train to see Mums sister and my cousins at RAF St Athan every summer. We were lucky to have a discount on tickets because my G dad was a steam engine driver. Nothing like the sound and sight of them. Thank you so much.

A fine display of steam engineering ,a pleasure to watch ,many thanks.

Fantastic film clips, i can’t believe the areas look as they do back then .. it shouldn’t be a surprise but you don’t realise the mess we use to live in and accept…it brings the reality of steam home, dirty and difficult, coal pollution on the ground and soot in the air but, they are beguiling because they breath and snort and huff as they pick up the slack .. well done to you and your dad that film is of historic importance and even today videoing what’s seem uninteresting isn’t in 50/ 60 years time…

You might have seen others use this sort of awful music to accompany their videos but I’d never have thought you dunce enough to try the old monkey-see-monkey-do routine yourself.

I followed it once. I knew it was a railway. But nothing remains.. Thc Thirlmere viaduct crosses the river at the end of their s line 🖤

Check out the September edition of 'Railway Bylines'. I tell the story of making the film with lots of photos: www.guidelinepublications.co.uk/index.php?CATEGORY=2&SUB=5

I'd love to see the whole film. :)

Jonathan, your last visit to Edgeley (20th April 1968) came just 3 days after I saw it for the first and only time. Elder brother and I had visited Manchester Victoria and Bolton shed on 17th April 1968. We had overstayed at Victoria and missed our through train back to Leicester from Piccadilly. Passenger enquiries at the latter told us to travel to Birmingham New Street and catch the last train of the day back to Leicester. So while en route to Birmingham NS our train passed Edgeley depot and it was a fantastic sight with many locos in steam. A memory that stays with me was of a filthy Black 5 slowly backing down into the yard, white puffs of smoke from the chimney drifting around the other locos. For the record, the locos we noted as we passed by were 45013, 44888, E3003, 48437, 45018, 45261, 44871 and D3853. There were others but we were unable to write them down in time. Great videos, thank heavens you had the presence of mind to film these scenes for posterity. These truly were the grime and glory years.

I visited Edgely more than once, and most sheds in most cities. Never saw any police btw. My visits were earlier in the sixties, more locos on shed i think. The Ian Allen Locoshed directory took you to all the sheds, down backstreets. Independence and freedom at a young age, i was 12 to16.

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Fabulous, you can almost smell things too.

thanks for sharing, part of your life and experience, enjoyed everything you have shown and said

Wow! All those good works on ur Russell is now paying off! Congrats from the USA

Bravo for ur endurance n creativity to conquer ea. devil in the details

Mr. Dancer, what happened to ur 'Russell' parts 3 - 6 and 12? i hope ur still with us? Trying to learn how to fix n build a 16mm live steam loco, From the USA

abs amazing vid & what a era