1975: SHILDON celebrates THE AGE OF STEAM | Nationwide | Retro Transport | BBC Archive

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

What a treat! Seemingly innumerable steam locos, the Rev. himself (I'd not heard his voice until now) and the gatecrasher HST 125.

[@PunksGitRekt]

4:51 THE RAILWAY LEGENDARY MAN ~ THE REV. W. AWDRY

[@NitroNoriFan]

I worked putting the grandstands up for that event

[@marty6779]

4:50 figured he would show up :D

[@althejazzman]

8:50 "If this was all diesels there wouldn't be a soul here". Try saying that to the diesel galas on heritage railways now!

[@melvinwhitehead8472]

I can vividly remember watching the Cavalcade from a seat in the stand when I was 10 years old. I had never seen or since seen so many steam locomotives. I remember it was special day in 1975. It seems even more so watching this video.

[@Rickstartattooman]

Absolutely brilliant, you gotta love a bit of steam, more the better 👍

[@thomasfan5298]

4:52 wilbert awdry

[@eliotreader8220]

never seen this before. nice tribute to the RWS

[@robalexander8065]

RIP Martin Young.

[@AF1984-fl6ww]

Should make the 1953 Sad Story of Henry adaption.

[@DeepakVerma-cd4fe]

I missed all of that , my dad never took me there in 1975, Im sad I missed that 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@DeepakVerma-cd4fe]

I missed all that it’s not fair they got rid of that shed

[@craig7285]

Is that Jeremy Corbyn at 7:18?

[@andypandy9013]

The Shildon Railway Works, part of BREL (British Railways Engineering Ltd) was killed off by Thatcherism and closed in 1984. The closure was an economic body-blow to that small town. The Labour Party Leader Neil Kinnock said the following in a speech on 28/4/1984: "You have had accolades from BREL, even by Thatcher's ideals you have done enough to exist, but no, you can't exist due to dogma. We have a run-down British Rail - she never uses it - and an ageing wagon stock... The Tories cannot adjust to the idea that unemployment is not free and it is growing more expensive every year. We shed jobs when we should be investing in a properly up-to-date system. Other Governments see the need of railway networks, good connections, why not this Government? Instead we have a Government which seems to have declared war on work. With work you get income, freedom and rights, without you have to fall in line..."