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@YEWGYZE 23 сағат бұрын

That was a great film . Thanks for putting it up .

@Machrihanish 23 сағат бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

@CynthiaLindsey 12 күн бұрын

Nice video 👍

@markbrady4703 12 күн бұрын

Charming.

@lliambunter 15 күн бұрын

He cut that cyclists a bit short in the opening

@rhiconic 16 күн бұрын

All the passengers were probably teachers on holiday as they had more weeks holiday than anyone else.

@tonyadams1629 16 күн бұрын

Hi a lovely film but to me when you show the bus in killin it looks as if it is approaching from the north

@colintraveller 16 күн бұрын

Thry also did another film called Highland Journey a few yrs earlier

@Machrihanish 16 күн бұрын

They did indeed, you can find it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmPGi4urlMaImJo

@colintraveller 16 күн бұрын

Nothing ever beats a Sunset on the west coast .... Could easy take inexcess of 100 plus pics on a given day .

@colintraveller 16 күн бұрын

The unmistakable Duncan Macrae doing the Narration

@neilstewart.acousticguitar1313 16 күн бұрын

Of Vital Spark fame? Thought I recognised the accent

@colintraveller 16 күн бұрын

@neilstewart.acousticguitar1313 The original

@Machrihanish 16 күн бұрын

Does sound a bit like him but it was Duncan McIntyre that did the narration on this one.

@Machrihanish 16 күн бұрын

@@neilstewart.acousticguitar1313 Does sound a bit like him but it was Duncan McIntyre that did the narration on this one.

@johnmehaffey9953 16 күн бұрын

Oh look a tram I do hope they kept them, what do you mean they decided to bin them all and then cost the ratepayers and taxpayers millions to reinstate everything but only on certain routes, only an idiot or someone getting money would even think about this, sorry I was back in my childhood when everything was simple and worked, why can’t we have these idyllic times again without nanny state getting involved, on a very positive note those great engineers and naviies who constructed the west highland railway true heroes

@angusaddison3926 14 күн бұрын

The navies have gone, but I’m sure the north Africans and the Middle Eastern people can turn it to dust 😮

@JohnJSteinbeck 17 күн бұрын

What an enchanting film … beautiful

@brian-k6b1l 17 күн бұрын

Im scottish born and bred ive never heard anyone from scotland sounding like that ..ever …you only heard that style voice in films like this made around that time 😂😂😂

@sandy7299 16 күн бұрын

Yep, Pinewood studios Scottish accent 😂

@brian-k6b1l 16 күн бұрын

@ definetly …perhaps possibly orkney but in reality what the producers think wee all sound like as we know they think we all speak either with that accent or the standard Glaswegian accent

@colintraveller 16 күн бұрын

That's because it's Duncan Macrae doing the narration

@colintraveller 16 күн бұрын

@@sandy7299Don't be so daft .

@colintraveller 16 күн бұрын

Google 3craws Duncan Macrae

@alanpercival840 17 күн бұрын

I am 72 and live in co durham we always went to scotland on holiday in my school days dad also long distance lorry driver once took me to thurso stunning trip . In my working career for a quarry contracting co my world tour took me all over the borders Highlands east coast central belt now well retired we sometimes go on coach trips but my wife says I won't shut up about places I've been would definetly recommend coach trips enjoy

@discoverydave8541 17 күн бұрын

The good old days....salmon galore 🙂

@pzolsky 17 күн бұрын

Those old telegraph poles must have been blowing over a lot in the winter.

@angusaddison3926 14 күн бұрын

I don’t think so, they were often six to ten feet below ground level, why because they understood that if they didn’t, it was a problem for the community. Old ways were solid, they cared for the community.

@alisonlyons4691 14 күн бұрын

Oh my !! This film is such a treasure. My family are Macleod and Fraser on my dads side, and MacDonald and Macintoshon my mums side. I'm so proud of my Highland upbringing. Seeing all the familiar places from when l was 7yrs is such a treat. Thank you, l willbe watching out for more films........Alioban

@pzolsky 14 күн бұрын

@@angusaddison3926 1:19

@pzolsky 17 күн бұрын

The road through Glen Coe seems to have become a bit more busy.

@ronniesimpson6080 17 күн бұрын

Magic

@nevillemason6791 18 күн бұрын

This can't have been made in 1957. The coach at 3:10 pulls out of a side road in Edinburgh. The trams in the main street stopped running on 16th November 1956. The trees are in full leaf so the latest it could have been filmed was the summer of 1956.

@Machrihanish 18 күн бұрын

Well spotted, lesson learned, shouldn't try to work on more than one vid at a time :) It was actually 1953. Thanks for pointing this out.

@richardtorr4553 17 күн бұрын

Well observed, but bits of the film may have been shot in different time periods, its just the whole film was set in 1953.

@charleyscott4544 21 күн бұрын

Love glen Lyon, fishing camping below and around the dam lovely place

@briansearle4138 22 күн бұрын

You can see how ww2 was won , tuff British men .

@Peter-cz8hx 24 күн бұрын

reminds me of hell drivers with sean connery and others.

@lynnmorton7544 27 күн бұрын

Oh, that damn dam! Killin station closed in 1965

@fg-pv5ht 29 күн бұрын

As a kid in the 60s 70s my dad a truck driver use to take me in his lorry during the school holidays, All the kids in my class use to go on about the cars of that time. Me I knew all the trucks by heart Atkinson, Scamels, Fodens and many more. What I see of the trucks nowadays is how few of these manufactures have survived. Volvo, Scania rule supreme.

@RobbieOrr-rq1rw Ай бұрын

Correction, this was back when these tough, hard as nails blokes, were "Lorry Drivers", not truckers, thats a stupid American term, these blokes were the salt of the earth, my Grandfather and three of my uncles were "Lorry Drivers", they were real men, not like these wet, weak blokes, who drive around now, in their air conditioned, automatic geared, big sleeper cabs, they couldn't handle the life of a Lorry Driver, from back then, they are far too soft.

@fg-pv5ht 29 күн бұрын

Your right I find myself saying truck and truck drivers it was then lorry or lorries

@DaimlerSleeveValve 29 күн бұрын

I had a great uncle who was a lorry driver. He gave it up when he realised he made more money by singing in Working Mens' Clubs. He and his wife, who took the bookings (and the cash) travelled the north of England by train and bus, though he had a car for daytime.

@DaimlerSleeveValve 29 күн бұрын

My great grandfather was a LURRY driver. That's a flatbed four-wheeled cart, pulled by horses. His eldest son had the same job, and served through the Great War delivering supplies to the front.

@ruthbees7214 22 күн бұрын

No wonder they were big strong lad's with Bert size meal,s inside them proper job. They don't make them like that anymore. 😂❤Ruth

@plasticbucket Ай бұрын

A champion at keeping them rolling.

@bigcasey4143 Ай бұрын

Ahhh.... The year I was hatched.... When the world was at a slower pace.... And 5 years later a certain Dr Beeching killed off the Killin Branch railway, along with many others...

@caldwellfisher5288 Ай бұрын

When men were men~ and nobody needed or wanted to ask what a woman was.

@jacksonpauljackson2557 Ай бұрын

My dad used to love his dominones god bless him 😅

@jacksonpauljackson2557 Ай бұрын

Thanks for this video loved it 😅

@stevestone4346 Ай бұрын

Beautiful film.

@egbertkuijpers1387 Ай бұрын

Does anyone know what is the make of that little green van at about 14:00? Cute one... Great documentary, fantastic to see how hard it was to drive these trucks, compared to the ones of today😃👍🏼

@Aminutetomidnight Ай бұрын

It's a Morris Commercial I think.

@Machrihanish Ай бұрын

Agree, a Morris Commercial J-type.

@Aminutetomidnight Ай бұрын

@@Machrihanish I wasn't sure if Austin had a version of the same thing but with the Austin name on it, It's a long time ago now.

@Machrihanish Ай бұрын

@@Aminutetomidnight Pretty sure its the J-Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Commercial_J-type

@Aminutetomidnight Ай бұрын

@@Machrihanish it was my first instinct. Happy to go along with your opinion. My favourite van of those times was the Bedford Dormobile though.

@bullfrommull Ай бұрын

This is wonderful. Reminds me of my dad. In his Ablion . Delivering coal to Killin and callender.

@simonjones7727 22 күн бұрын

I remember the coal coming in sacks to Callander. You put it a bunker outside. Another world.

@bullfrommull 22 күн бұрын

@ he used to deliver the coal to old council yard. On the left coming into Callender from stirling.

@simonjones7727 22 күн бұрын

@@bullfrommull Yes, that is still a council yard. There were lots of deliveries in those days. Milk, papers, potatoes in sacks, the messages from McEwan's....We have gone back to that in some ways except now we order things online.

@bullfrommull 21 күн бұрын

@ it was a Albion Revier. I still have its badge.

@simonjones7727 21 күн бұрын

@@bullfrommull i have a Super 8 film that shows Leny Road in about 1972. One of the vehicles that passes is the McEwen's grocery van

@adriaanboogaard8571 Ай бұрын

My first truck at age sixteen was a 1966 Dodge pickup. Two years older me. There was no power steering and a largesteeringwheelthat took some muscles to turn., and the windshield washer was a foot powered pump on the floor. Push and squirt. I love old trucks. Some of the trucks in the video came in toy form matchbox brand made by Lindsey in England. My dad would bring me home a different new one in his lucnch pale on paydays when I was a kid. Very collectble. I have a few. Good memories.

@Machrihanish Ай бұрын

That brings back memories of driving a Bedford with a huge steering wheel, I had forgotten about the foot operated washers, remember them now.

@robertnoble3768 3 күн бұрын

I used work for the n a f f I the man who delivered the fruit and vegetables drove a Bedford with big steering wheel this was early seventies

@alancumming6407 Ай бұрын

We started going to Kintyre on holiday in the latter part of the 60's when I was a wee boy. We stayed in the Dellwood in Campbeltown. It's a beautiful part of Scotland and the time spent there was magical. Southend was my favourite place.

@RussellJamesStevens Ай бұрын

Scotland the brave, Scotland the beautiful❤❤❤❤

@andrewsmith-cm9qw Ай бұрын

I think the opening is filmed from The Caledonian Hotel towards The North British Hotel. I worked in the Caley 1978/80 as a Chef.

@alexanderlawson1649 Ай бұрын

What a snapshot of history, the building of the Glen Lyon Dam, its superb. There is now a good gravel road all round the Dam, its a great ride in the wildest place, equal to anywhere in our devastated land.

@davedixon2068 20 күн бұрын

devastated? been a war I didnt hear about?

@deanwelsh5702 Ай бұрын

My heart goes out to them 4 drivers who all died of silicosis of the lungs due to cement dust woodbines and real ale .

@kevinpennick3604 Ай бұрын

My dad drove for B. R. S after leaving the army. Remember those lorries with fondness as a young boy.

@kennyrowat9838 Ай бұрын

What an amazing video for a snap shot of the past. A train going along the viaduct to killin, the burn coming down from the loch before the dam. Those dams going up. I will think of those men when i next drive that road.

@Machrihanish Ай бұрын

These old British Transport Films are a national treasure :)

@corvus1238 Ай бұрын

I was living in Scunthorpe in 1960. I was 6 years old.

@alexanderlawson1649 Ай бұрын

I wasnt living in Scunthorpe in 1960, I wasnt born till 1961

@anthonysprinks1253 Ай бұрын

Can you actually be alive in Scunthorpe?

@PhilBurns-oc2vg Ай бұрын

The drivers who complain about working conditions now, should have driven in these days. They wouldn't have lasted a week

@vapourwaveculture4059 Ай бұрын

Apart from the fact the trucks then were about 2cm long and they got paid a fair wage.

@puppets.and.muppets Ай бұрын

They get high on the road. 1960

@Machrihanish Ай бұрын

There's always one :)

@philosuileabhain861 Ай бұрын

I remember these BRS lorries at Preston Dock when I was a kid.

@twozerouk Ай бұрын

Oh dear the BRS artic nearly takes out the cyclist in the opening scenes. I hope those guys at Killin were well paid coping with primitive conditions and tired looking trucks. Interesting that labouriously loaded trucks were off loaded by a fork lift at the dam site in minutes. I first saw the film about 15 years and I've driven their route a few times. It's easy in a car but I recall some ferocious pot holes.

@Machrihanish Ай бұрын

I think the pot holes reappear regularly, as if by magic :)

@DavidMartin-ym2te Ай бұрын

Killin only survived another 5 years after this film. Dr Beeching had his way with the branch and the beautiful scenic line up through Glen Ogle to Killin Junction. I believe the new road is still there although overgrown. I have never driven it and might try in the summer - I am only 20 miles away.

@Machrihanish Ай бұрын

Aye Beeching's policy was the end of many services. Glen Ogle is beautiful, hope you manage a wee trip in the summer.

@alancumming6407 Ай бұрын

@@Machrihanish This stretch of line was cited for closure in 1965 but rockfall/landslide sealed it's fate anyway.

@Machrihanish Ай бұрын

@@alancumming6407 Thanks for the update Alan.

@HarryCurrie-o3v Ай бұрын

When truckers where real drivers no power steering or automatics no fancy sleeper cabs and they had to rope their loads

@69spook Ай бұрын

And before the term trucker came to the UK 😂

@antpx Ай бұрын

So we should all have to suffer in the name of "the good old days"?? It's progress, those drivers would have loved power steering and automatic gearboxes, never mind a "fancy sleeper cab. Some loads are roped, proper roping is a skill on it's own. But for the vast majority of loads, it wouldn't be safe.

@KevinPhelann-gc1tu Ай бұрын

And cover with heavyweight canvas often wet or frozen in the wind along a dockside had to be lifted from the ground to the top of the lode at least 1htw dry a 40f would take 3 covers.

@troublebrewing99 Ай бұрын

And most of them were crippled from it.

@KeithDeley 28 күн бұрын

Lorry drivers actually trucker is an American term.