They are about to bury the line under the new A57 bypass. Write to The transport minister LouiseHaigh to get the railway line protected form development. This is your LAST CHANCE.

What a brilliant film , thank you

I’ve just rode my bike down here, very sad to see how it is now

The Closure of the Woodhead Route was the First Step Backward in the Degeneration and Deindustrialisation of the UK. Elif Air Ab Tizak to the Co Conspirators is all I can say!!

This route needs to be reopened with 25kv ac catenary

Crikey I remember watching awestruck as these pieces were being made and listening to the plans for the hare. Those days were touched by magik.

Sad Part: 0:22

Awsome I Just Visit Are are National Railway Museum Here iNUtrecht on 23 April The 1501 its There On static Display Its On My KZbin Chanal If Annyone interest to take a look on it

Frank Savage is a great uncle of mine on my mother’s side of the family so thank you for sharing this. It was a great find during a sleepless night! Most of the Savages worked the docks and canal in one way or another I believe.

It's an interesting fact that if the DC overhead Line Equipment had been retained woodhead would be an excellent route into Manchester from the ECML at Dincaster and the MML at Sheffield with AC/DC compliant trains.

They really epitomized the phrase 'mixed media' in their work.

Seven Class 77 EM2 locos were built but only six were rebuilt as NS 1500 DC overhead wire electric locos. Unfortunately for E27005 Minerva, she was considered beyond economical repair and they broke her up to keep her sisters running.

I flew 495 when it belonged to the Cambridge club in the late 70s. K6CR obviously (well obvious for old folk like me !). I also flew and instructed at Nympsfield for many years later on it my gliding career.

Looked at his art and came to the conclusion he’s a very talented pervert

Awsome 😊

9:50 interesting to see a Wartburg 353 made in East Germany driving behind the bus😮

Ahh... if only all my crashes were so slow and peacefull.

Tony (popeye) Jones thats the most work he has done as never did much on the railway. Daily Telegraph Crosswords was his love .

That was a lot of water, we have the same in Norway now. A lot of rain and snow melted. You got a new subscriber from Norway 🇧🇻

At 3.14 on the video he says it is powered by a Bristol engine this is not correct the fBristol FLF,S were powered with GARDENER 6lxb engines

Fantastic! Thank you for going to the trouble of preserving this amazing piece of history for us all.

Looking forward to this. Nice music, btw. 👍

I saw this video in my recommended and im curious about what kind of exploring would happen in this series!

I love this cathedral, as a greyhound owner, I love the carvings of the greyhounds, thank you, for a beautiful video♥️

I can almost smell it 😂

Stumbled on this trying to find Percy's plans for a Nomad, A blank so far but you can still get Lysander plans of which the hull is very similar. With those and the info on here could I build a Nomad? Not just yet but thanks for sharing a gem.

Interesting and imaginative film.

Excellent quality Cine Film of a time now lost !!. The load was 6 to 10 less HGV on the country roads..

This was always a deliberate and very spiteful move by Thatcher who saw by severing the artery that coal used to be transported, it would weaken and force pits to close. Good black coal has a fraction of the pollutants Polish etc brown muck has that we now import, to think we are sitting on a thousand years worth of decent coal, petrol and rubber can be made from it, fuel gas too but no lets buy Polish brown rubbish and Saudi Arabian oil.

Nice 8mm Film Scan, good variety of shots, aswell as the Bedford river festival i noticed Great Barford around the Lock and Bridge. And also the St Neots lock. I cruised this area between 1984 and 1987. Good to see this upload.

Note at 1:55 in the GWR whistle on the boiler low water alarm - wonder what became of that, it certainly is not at Crofton now!

What a great film. I see you got to see the great man himself, Alan Bloom there. The first time I ever knew this place existed was when Adrian Bloom his son was on Gardeners World with Geoff Hamilton and we went to another railway and they had leaflets for the place. Of course there wasn't any internet then, so you couldn't just look up these things when the programme was on like today.

Thank you for reminding me of how old I really am! 😲

This is the problem with the hire boat community. Next to none or no tuition.

WOW a tonic to see Spaceships, RE,s FLF,s Nationals and old Jumbo Strouds AEC Matador Breakdown Wagon, the FLF 6B used for the last trip, sounded as if someone emptied a bottle of Benzodiasapem in the fuel tank. FHU 59D OH GOD she is awesome, an animal of an FLF. Now in 2023 Stroud Depot of Slavecoach is all Slugs ,Tellytubbies, Motorised Tesco Margerine Tubs, and a couple of Cornflake Packets thrown in for good measure.

3:04 naughty tresspasser

I really feel that the ITA let the nation down with several of the 1968 franchise changes. Not just TWW, but Rediffusion and ABC also lost their franchises. Then 14 years later ATV was watered down into the rather anaemic Central. Tragic!

I'm glad you added your time video ....... after we failed to get it going on the club night.

love the visuals X

How things have changed..a British built bus trailed by British built cars. I grew up in Crewe and these Lodekkas were the buses i grew up with. The front loader in the video was not as nippy as the preceding rear loader from memory.

Really enjoyed this. I'm new to film & often wonder why I love it so. I tend to think that it's maybe because it follows the ancient tradition of story telling but who knows (or cares). Thank you.

My bucket list just got another entry, the countryside is gorgeous

The closure was political. Mrs Thatcher saw 2 alternative routes and also wanted to smash the coal industry. She also wanted rid of the Settle and Carlisle as she saw 2 alternative routes. She didn't care, and we're still feeling the fallout now.

I am utterly amazed. I never realised the Woodhead electrics lasted until 1981.

A truly excellent film Robert. I particularly enjoyed the footage of Framilode Lock, as seen from the river, and I had not seen some of those Michael Handford photos before. Great history with brilliant narration too. Thank you, Paul.

Truly amazing. Thank you for capturing that

Could have formed basis for modern, high-speed trans-Pennine route? Not sure. But pity formation wasn't safeguarded.

fantastic railway hard to believe its gone forever

Nicely filmed ☺

People saying there are no drainage holes in the bucket needs to go to Specsavers