The Line To Skye Kyle Line 1972

[@stephenpowell5912]

Beautiful video 50 years ago,Lovely part of Scotland and what a great way back in the day to see it courtesy of a Diesel locomotive pulled train with MK1 or MK2 Carriages 🎥♥️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Prefer this sort of Journey on a Class 25,26 or 27 or later on in the 70s The Class 37 pulled train ,Not these Generation of trains that go through there nowadays in the Internet world ,love the classic and simple times long before the World Wide Web ❤️🎥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Proper trains back then feeling relaxed & nostalgic watching this and back when times were simple a relaxing documentary to remember what life was like 50 years ago in 1972 ,Where does the time go ?🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎥❤️Being Born in 1973 now 49 I Still remember growing up with trains like this in the late 1970s to the Early 1990s when these units were being phased out to the site of Sprinters replacing these iconic workhorses that was a sign of the not so good times during the 1980s that was like a Sad loss retiring these iconic workhorses to the history books 🥺This is how I would like to see Scotland on a train like this ,Not today's Generation of so called trains that have a boring look about them ,And long long before Privatisation to Network Rail ,Love the Good old times when Blue Diesel locomotion ruled the rails ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎥

[@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge]

No one mentioned the midges 😬 Stunning in every sense and nostalgia in bucket loads, the sound of the Sulzer engines and the hazy blue and yellow of ancient summers, watched this umpteen times, never tire of it… beautiful 👍👍👍👋

[@dhdove]

I’ve made that beautiful journey several times from Plockton both with my late wife and this year, for the first time on my own. It holds many memories both happy and tinged with sadness. Thank you for posting such a lovely video. TonyS

[@Doricquine]

What a wonderful nostalgic wee film!

[@clivegreatorex6138]

Lovely to see and hear the sounds of 24s and 26s, and what a beautiful scenic line as well!

[@cedarcam]

Wonderful film full of memories of our holidays in those times when a big part of the holiday was travelling there through beautiful scenery in comfort.

[@garyhardwick8489]

What a wonderfully nostalgic film. Thankfully, the lines to the West Highlands are still open today, and a steam hauled journey can still be enjoyed.

[@philiprufus4427]

HOWEVER, - WILL they survive under S N P Stewardship,currently,they are more of a threat than Marples and Beeching ever were, at least financially. The freight and Mail contracts on these lines went decades ago with so called 'privatisation.'

[@humphandhumbug]

@@philiprufus4427privatisation which has nothing to do with the Scottish Government. And the track isn’t either - that’s the responsibility of Network Rail.

[@raybesserdin7542]

That is such a beautiful nostalgic and inspiring film. Thanks for making available for all to see.

[@sugarbertie1143]

Fabulous. Beautiful scenery and the sound of the Sulzer locos at the front of the train. Makes my trip in a Sprinter on the line pale into insignificance. This is nostalgia at its best.

[@DaveP668]

Having done Strathcarron to Kyle today this is a great find. The scenery hasn't changed, the lifestyles have. Railways being used for people and commerce. A loco hauled service would make the slow pace so much more enjoyable than a 158 which doesn't enjoy 25-35mph for mile after mile.

[@daveriddell2481]

I have fond memories of first travelling the line in 1965 at the age of eleven. Seven years later I took the train to Achnashellach for the start of a long walk, leaping to the ground with a heavy rucsac as my carriage had overshot the platform and the train had already started to move away. No health and safety then!

[@sheilaroddick5853]

A friend of mine was station master in1972 at Achnasheen.Takes me back.

[@ianjones4116]

Great stuff, even the Rat 24s got in the film . Hated them as a kid, love them now as an old Git. Lol. Remember doing the highland lines in the late 70s. 👍😎

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

I made my first trip to Kyle in 1972 and still have happy memories (and dodgy colour slides!) of it.

[@chrismithchrismith]

Agree: I'm now 70; as a boy in the 1960s I remember long train journeys down to Cornwall from Yorkshire to visit my father's family, spending most of the time standing by the window at the end of the carriage with my head hanging out. We always jumped off the trains and busses before they stopped. I have never bothered wearing a seat belt (only fined two or three times in forty years). Still ride a motorbike! Still carefree, not interested or complied with lockdowns, vaccinations, all that bullshit. All good 👍

[@ValentaLamenter]

Wonderful video, thanks for sharing.

[@prof.hectorholbrook4692]

Excellent. And PROPER trains too; not only loco-hauled with Mk1s, but the Class 26 powering them along. Almost as mighty as the subsequent Class 37.

[@alistairshaw3206]

Great footage, it's so good to see a real train, loco hauled by a class 26, far better than the sprinters that do the run now!

[@prof.hectorholbrook4692]

Totally agree. The "Buses on Rails" of today are insignificant & a good reason NOT to travel on this & the FNL.

[@Scottish_Transport_Explorer]

@@prof.hectorholbrook4692 sprinters are not bus’s on rails thats the 142 pacers that are bus’s on rails

[@horsehollerer]

"With or without the whisky, we'll be seeing things." 💯

[@TrenyCwm]

This is the best video on KZbin.

[@37201xoim]

Utterly charming.

[@lloydconway3597]

Fantastic !! I love it..!! love the translations of the station names,and the narrator's voice !!

[@AgenoriaModelTrains]

It would be nice if every once in a while they could get a preserved Class 26 to pull a rail tour along the route. It would feel so nostalgic, obviously not as nostalgic as steam but still great.

[@kevinfowkes2327]

A nice idea. I suspect though that starting it from Inverness would make it very difficult to get a profitable payload...not enough enthusiasts live a reasonable travelling distance away. Even railtours starting in Edinburgh or Glasgow struggle to be financially viable, which is why there are so few of them. On top of that, I stand to be corrected but I don't think any preserved class 26s are registered for driving on the main line...a 37 would be a better bet, and more reliable.

[@SteamboatWilley]

I can't imagine today's railway carrying live chickens and newspapers on a passenger train. We have to go back!

[@MrBiorachanBeag]

Great stuff! And yes, narrated by someone who sounds like a local! Glè mhath :-)

[@SteamboatWilley]

If only KZbin's automatically generated subtitles could cope with the local place names!

[@finnersmcspeed5646]

Interesting to see the rhodendron bonanza that is achnashellach.

[@nicks4934]

Loco hauled luxury! Great.

[@kevinfowkes2327]

The release of this film in 1972 was clearly no accident. The government had announced in December 1971 that the line would be closing. Several years later they changed their mind after a "spirited local campaign". Strange that the film doesn't mention the closure proposal at all, in contrast to the many documentaries on the Settle-Carlisle line when it was under threat in the 80s.

[@tango6nf477]

Enchanting

[@oddities-whatnot]

Ah yes, all those lovely diesel fumes to enhance the beauty of the countryside.

[@hannshorsch978]

Splendid, just love this and made a private remix with virtual railways. Since remixing is enabled, am I allowed to publish that cover version?

[@prof.hectorholbrook4692]

Superb. When the railway was truly a Public Service, in those indubitably pre-eminent Nationalised days.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

For a mere 25 years it was a public service, before that is was a service provided to the public by profit making companies. How quickly we forget.

[@kevinfowkes2327]

@@neiloflongbeck5705 British Railways were nationalised for 48 years not 25 (1947-95)

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

@@kevinfowkes2327 whilst still nationalised after 1882 and the sectorisation of BR profit not service was the target.

[@kevinfowkes2327]

@@neiloflongbeck5705 Presume you mean 1982 there? "Profit not service" was the official target of BR for the vast majority of its life. Certainly from about 1963 onwards, that was the year of the first Beeching Report which mentioned this quite openly. I say it was BR's target, because as much as they and the government wanted the railways to make a profit, they never did, aside from a few small surpluses in the late 1980s which were the result of massive land and property sales. Since privatisation the loss making has got even worse of course.

[@Sam_Green____4114]

A Class 25 at the front ? How ? Did it get lost ? A Class 25 must have been very rare ! But surprisingly they worked in all regions of the UK !! When l went in about 85 /86 when 37s ruled !! And the Guard sat in the Guards van area for parcels and mail bags playing cards with the locals on a trunk ,while a 12 or 14 year flagged the train off at stations !! ( his son ?) OMG l had to shut a few carriage doors myself after the train started moving . Not just "on the catch " but wide open !!

[@propstand]

It’s not a ‘25, these were Class 26 or Class 27, “Mc Rat”. So called as the Type 2’s in Scotland and their distinctive Sulzer tick over: “Rat t tat, rat t tat”

[@marshallman7608]

What you think is a 25 is actually a 24. Film switches between a 24 and a 26.

[@scooby2142]

@@marshallman7608 Correct.

[@cedarcam]

We began going on holidays in Scotland around then and I remember 24's and 25's on passenger trains. Most were class 26 or 27 hauled but the outstanding memory was our first holiday seeing a single class 20 nose first on a passenger train, I never saw that again in all the years we went.

[@martinbitter4162]

A time warp to what seem happy days.

[@steveluckhurst2350]

Rose tinted specs? Strikes, 3 day week, unemployment. But at least we had an expensive to operate railway network!

[@philiprufus4427]

@@steveluckhurst2350 DId not find any of it more than a minor incovenience as compared to what happened from the mid eighties to the present. Truth be told, many others feel likewise,just don't say. No Rose Tinted Specs Here, Plenty Reality Though !

[@davidcrawford1235]

I used to get these type of trains after a long cycle ride, didn't have to book in advance or anything like you have to these days, just pop the bike in the guards van. The ticket prices seemed reasonable even at the time unlike today.

[@kevinfowkes2327]

1972 certainly was not a happy time on the Kyle line. The government had announced in December 1971 that the line would be closing. This was part of the propaganda used by the local council and residents in the campaign to keep it open (which was thankfully successful).

[@train4905]

Butfull

[@N00N01]

6:27 wait, that open about it?? Well i guess it is true that the decline is nigh visible when sodden