1960's East Coast Main Line

1960's East Coast Main Line

[@user-vu6ty4vy2m]

E xcellent footage of east coast steam Hadley wood and locations where i spent many happy hours thanks Tony Simpson .

[@MrDavil43]

0.40 to 1.09 From 1960 to 1963 I would often cycle to this very spot (Wagon Road, Hadley Wood) after school and lay in the grass just watching trains for an hour or so before tea. So sad to see the whole area is now fenced off, although the trains of today don't appeal to me, and such sights are now denied to train enthusiasts. Thanks for reviving my memories.

[@TheClockwise770]

I also lived in High Barnet in those days and would similarly cycle to Hadley Wood and stand on the footbridge awaiting the next A4 to come roaring up from London. halcyon days.

[@lnerrules-iw6ry]

Superb Archive Footage. Really like the clip of Mallard departing from King's Cross

[@stephensutcliffe1555]

Thank you very much for this upload it would be very nice if we could have some more like this on the west coast main line great western and midland.thank you again.

[@spankflaps1365]

7:35 Scotsman emerging from the tunnel with the Pullmans and Devon Belle Observation car. Pegler took some of this train to USA.

[@paulnewnes1921]

What I'd give to be transported back to that time for a couple of days

[@MichaelTaylor-ei7es]

Beautiful! 👏👏👏

[@martinsands7987]

would be nice to see this with sound added and sold on dvd

[@lnerrules-iw6ry]

Some of the Archive Footage is features in Mainline 2013 Vol 2 from PSOV with sound.

[@DefJ1m]

3:22 - 3:36 60504 Mons Meg - impossibly exotic!

[@user-vu6ty4vy2m]

6o5o4 a new engine late fifties so a regular sight

[@jimihendrix991]

@@user-vu6ty4vy2m Built 1934-36... ''Formerly London and North Eastern Railway Class A2/2 , 60504 Mons Meg, started life as LNER 2004, a member of P2 [2-8-2] Class of eight-coupled express passenger locomotives, designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, and first built between 1934-1936, in a class of six, numbered LNER 2001-2006. Edward Thompson was appointed new LNER Chief Mechanical Engineer on the 28 April 1941 and decided to gain experience by rebuilding the P2 Class, the first of which to be rebuilt was No. 2005, Thane Of Fife in 1943. Thompson changed the wheel arrangement from 2-8-2 to a 4-6-2 'Pacific' configuration and all the other P2's were rebuilt similarly during 1944. LNER 2004 Mons Meg was rebuilt in November 1944, becoming LNER 504, then BR 60504, and continued in service until withdrawal and scrapping in January 1961.''