5029 March 1963 Newport to Salisbury

[@andrewwilliams2353]

A wonderful film clip.I was 11 years old at the time and to be an engineman on the Western was all I ever wanted to be. Alas, it was not to be. I had to wear glasses from the age of 14 due to short-sight and by the time I'd have been old enough anyway, steam had gone and diesel was in. Might have well been a bus driver. Ah well, I can still enjoy watching these nostalgic clips instead.

[@rogershirley2857]

Beautiful memories. My entire youth spent on freezing cold stations waiting for these wonderful machines to scream past Still have my Ian Allen combined volume in the drawer Am now 76 and living in NZ

[@williamgrant8485]

Wonderful brilliant fantastic

[@SpoonyMcSpoonface]

I often work over these routes,great to see the stations,boxes and lines in their prime.

[@peterkazmierczak7273]

Excellent stuff. Some good "catches" on the way; a North British Type 2 at Patchway and the down Bristol Pullman at Sydney Gardens. You can really feel that climb out of Westbury. Can just see the Dilton Marsh station totem in green; I forgot that was Southern Region. Very well put together.

[@michaelmiller641]

Fascinating! Thanks for that!

[@daystatesniper01]

Totaly superb video a film of man and machine in perfect harmony , just think by December of that year she was withdrawn

[@ChangesOneTim]

Brilliant piece of cine film. The days when lineside veg was kept clear so you could admire the countryside. Passes the 0745 Padd-BTM Blue Pullman at Bath Sydney Gardens; some of the 'car stop' markers on Bath Spa platforms for these units survived until the 1980s.

[@nigelmcbay632]

What a great bit of film. I signalled 5029 many times in c2010 when it came through Yeovil Pen Mill on the trips to Weymouth. Cabled it and travelled behind on many days. Great memories!

[@cosmicmaniac1886]

A million likes for this, it's so brilliant!

[@martianmagician6215]

This is an amazing and nostalgic piece of footage

[@streetscrambler8075]

Superb another little gem, please keep them coming!

[@daveclaridge3747]

Lovely video thanks for posting. Liked the sign asking for the ' prevention of smoke and steam at this place.' Then the smoky start up!

[@atomage2006]

Demonstrates the sheer physicality of firing on express mainline steam - excellent

[@SWRural-fk2ub]

Two points: first, surprising that water was taken at Bath as I did not think Foxes Wood troughs were already closed but that must have been so I suppose. Second, the video gives the impression that the train had not stopped at Westbury as it was doing quite a speed past the shed but again perhaps I am mistaken there too! Thirty years before, it would have been a Star heading the train and the Castle was repeating the policy of using the older engines on secondary duties, although I have never thought Cardiff to Brighton or Portsmouth as 'secondary'.

[@alanbarnes]

Great piece of film.As this was at the end of the big freeze perhaps the troughs had been emptied as a guard against freezing.

[@brianwilliams3483]

Tom boddington film ,arranged by Canton Shedmaster W W Wagstaff . Driver pug Evans x Chester ,fireman Cecil Patch always with knotted handkerchief headgear and loco inspector Harold Wake always with Trilby !

[@davidrobinson8700]

Incredible to think that not only 5029 survives in preservation but also (seen in this footage) 34101 Hartland too at North Yorkshire Moors Rly...

[@updistant]

Absolutely brilliant, an Englishman's home is....

[@amazoniaamazonia7225]

😂Excellent archive of the austere conditions of a GWR loco footplate, the firemen really earnt their crust, it’s a shame the cameramen are not accredited.

[@davidbutterworth5258]

Drove the loco on the ELR in Feb 1993.

[@edwardshirley9314]

This can't be right. I was told it was always sunny in those days 🙂

[@johntyjp]

Cab wouldn't have been so cramped in Broad Gauge days 🤔🧐

[@westcommonroom9737]

TT 1961 for same service: Cardiff 1.00 Newport 1.20 Stapleton Rd 2.06 Bath 2.28 BoA 2.44 Trow a 2.53 d 2.55 Westbury a 3.04 d 3.08 Warminster a 3.18 d 3.20 Sarum 3.40 thence to Fareham 5.03 where divided Pompey a 5.34 Brighton a 6.24. These days about an hour quicker to Pompey d Cardiff 1.30 a Pompey 4.52