As a lad I lived in Nineveh Avenue, the problem we had was the loading of coal onto the coal tenders. At 2 am in the morning.

Now that’s a coal train

Found out about this opening day From a Postee in Colectors corner.

I was there. Amazing to think it's more then 30 years ago

3:56 UGHHHH

Very good footage - thanks

It was a fantastic day that day but not anymore

Nice video

That's the BR I remember as a teenager, Ian Allen ABC in hand. Thanks for the memory Pete and friends.

Beautifully made layout shown off with exquisite filmmaking , to be proud of 👍😎

What a lovely video. Brings back so many memories,we used to go nearly every week from Cudworth, I will always remember climbing up the back wall to go through the arch windows into the engine shed, that way if we were kicked out we would still get a lot of numbers on our way out. I saw Winston Churchill the steam engine at Holbeck sheds, I could never get my head around why it was there, Someone might know why and add a comment. I do have some old photos of steam and diesel. They were renewing the station in the mid 60's and there were plenty of new roofing etc. Thank you for bringing happy memories back.

Visit friends there around once a year always meet decent, friendly people. Speak as you find I always believe.

Walked over the footbridge there a few weeks ago when visiting friends in Goldthorpe, it left me with the feeling that we are going backwards and the ruling classes are happy to encourage this.

All these locos were not really that old, but run into the ground and were truly fucked with the bare minimum of anything done to them. Probably thats why we loved them so well. If a health an safety expert in 2023/4 inspected these, nothing would have had moved for months, even 2 or 3 years previous! Yet, with some work and a clean, had years of life in them. Locos that looked clean and lasted to the last day, were so fkd they never made it into preservation, one such being 45156 Ayrshire Yeomanry, the last named loco in proper service if you consider Oliver Cromwell was always going to be preserved as it was the last steam loco through Crewe Works, as because Brittania 70000 was thought to be in such poor condition.. Brick Arches colapsed and locos were withdrawn on the spot. Those locos who survived into preservation have since spent more of their life in loving private ownership than that of BR. Maybe, they wern't economic, which I get, but when allowed to be in top form, outperformed most diesels without double heading at that time. Even the preserved Class 17 Clayton diesel is far more reliable and well performing that BR allowed them to be. A telling indictment on Nationalisation. But it was the honest workman that on a day to day basis made them work, and by fuck they did.

i mean i grew up around her and i was 7 at the time and i spent most of this viedo just smiling remebering going down here with my dad on a weekend and it is so strange to see it compared to now. only thing that hasnt really chaged is the superdrug lol

I was there remember getting a thick ear for getting lost😢

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Awesome film of a period i remember so much and without this film history we wouldnt be able to savour those last days of an era i loved so much

Took ages to get out from the show. It was incredibly busy.

One of the best shows I had been to. The Viggen being highlight for me.

Its an absolute shit hole now full of niggers and Eastern europeans , and old piss heads with one tooth between them sat outside rusty dudley , still arguing and blaming maggy thatcher , sooner sit and complain about that than go out get a job and move on like the rest have !!

Great video, that’s a nice painting. Cheers Josh

Magic❤

Great video showing the skills of a very talented artist, thanks for sharing this video about his work on KZbin.

Amazing! 👏😊

All David's work is available as signed limited edition giclee art prints. The print size is 30 x 42cm plus a border. Prints cost £55 which includes P/P.

The background chatter spoils these videos. But please don't add music.

Excellent quality film and filming on this wonderful railway. Brittania in all her glory!

What an astonishing achievement. Where else would you see a 9F pulling 48 wagons?

Beautiful. The silent scene at 16.00 is almost balletic. It’s all good.

Is the train at 4:10 an unfitted one ? If so, would hate to be the guard of it 😧. Thank you for a great video !

What is the name of the tunnel see at 3:49?

Great Movie Dave .

Excellent vid which just showed upon my viewing list. What a powerful and wonderful beast she is. I have only seen her once at Didcot and immediately fell in love with her, shame she was “sabotaged” when in BR service as she could have really shown what a modern steam engine could do. Hats off to those who had the courage and foresight to buy get as a wreck at Barry and bring her to the high standard of excellence shown here

Great memories 👍👍👍👍😊

Good video

What a Superb layout. Has Pete still got the layout?

Looks superb,even sounds like the real railway!👍✌️😊💜

Brillant filming that Dave .Shows what it was like back in thr Day. Nice to see the L.N.E.R.coaches which were Built for Pete by a Friend of Mine

Absolutely Magic Dave! Some lovely long trackside shots, and a great variety of things running...all spliced together in your excellent style, always great to see 🙂

Welcome back Dave its been 10 months since last posting lol

Brilliant !! Thank you David, and Pete of course. I spotted the Crocodile L squirrelled away in a siding, it would be nice to see it main line, perhaps in a special. Also, I noted the Dynamometer Car doing the rounds. Do you have the wooden shelter front to put on a King for the draughting test runs. That would make quite an unusual and impressive sight.

Superb layout. Love it. 😊

Thank you so much for this time travel. Loved 'Donney', was it shot from Gresley House. I spent hours there watching my beloved pacifics. Never saw a high-vis though.

Catchy loco name.

thats one hell of a lay out lots of work gone in to that.

That is one sick air compressor

this is a great lay out, how long and wide is it,

The opening scene of this appears to be the site of Kilnhurst Central, the canal being on the left. At 1.14 after bridging the canal and the railway (GCR) there was the approach to a municipal tip. Nothing but trees now.

Any idea what year that was? And all the people just walking around on the tracks seems really weird and dangerous!