BBC 1983 - Line Of Dreams - India

Steam journey in India - last few minutes missing

[@karan_for_you]

O. P. Dixit, what a charismatic man. The excitement and the boldness in his shrieking voice and bending himself up to the point where he can recover the blocked revenue that is owed to Railways.

[@ayushkumarjha9921]

This make me Nostalgic even though I was even born at that time.

[@Aboaye6163]

I love this old documanteries 🤗

[@RM12828]

seeing this I am actually so grateful that the disparity has gone down quite a bit today and the conditions of the railways is quite well now

[@MrMohit999999]

What a rare footage of that era

[@ChandranPrema123]

Especially during Indira era

[@sasmalprasanjit2764]

13:30 , "It cost Less To get married at Lower age, Than Being Getting married at Adult" Wow, New concept In Understanding Early Marriage

[@Nathan93Baker]

This documentary is 40 years old.😮

[@ranjittyagi9354]

Yes, I was 6 then though I wouldn't visit this city until 2006 by which time it had become garbage. Now, in 2024, I have no words left. A cousin lives there.

[@rajendradarji5635]

वो क्या ज़माना था सादगी किम्मत थी हर दिल में एक सुकून था

[@Playerone1287]

Aisa kuch nhi tha uncle ji, bhayankar crime that 1980s me koi awaz nhi utha skta tha ab acha hai

[@namasteitaly4401]

Sikho ko mara 1984 mai...Mumbai mai ganster the...gangwar...bhopal gas kand hua tha... emergency lagi. Thi

[@kazemrangzan7668]

As an iranian student in india, I experienced each second of those lovely times. At that time, I was at Bsc first year.

[@swordswam]

Where are you Mr. Dixit, we need more of you now a days, not just in Railways but where not.

[@yashsvidixit7169]

Here I am.

[@tanishsalunkechannel9897]

​@@yashsvidixit7169lolll

[@smookerji]

The proficiency of English language back in ‘70/‘80 had different essence/flavour with acute RP in India and amongst Indians. Post 2000 with the so called reception of MRP this generation speaks despicable/distasteful, barely fathomable.

[@ranjittyagi9354]

That's quite true. Unfortunate.

[@loveislife-bs2fz]

30:04 a very unique concept by Mr. O.P Dixit to catch the ticketless passengers....😊

[@vishal_electrodharwad7678]

Very nice.. Thanks .Fantastic coverage,

[@staringintotheabyss1769]

life was so simpleback then

[@kamrupexpress]

I was growing up in that time. It is nostalgic

[@thisisyou420]

Great Little Railways - Line of Dreams

[@engineeredarmy1152]

23:18 The transition from the owner's voice being overshadowed by the workers hammering the marble to finally that hammer drop transitioning into the music drop. This is quite a masterpiece editing right here and that too for 80s. Would have been very popular if it was made today in the world of internet.

[@premchand5119]

वीडियो बहुत ही सुन्दर लगा पुरानी यादें ताज़ा हो गई

[@HimmatRathorehr]

Liked the TC at the end of the video. Jolly old chap.

[@indiaview9414]

Now BBC stopped to make any documentary over Indian Railways..why?? because Indian Railways stations become so much cleaned, passengers becomes standard level, Train coaches, engines modified and cities too become better than earlier (1980s decade)...Britisher can not see the development in India hence they stopped to make further documentary over Indian Railways...

[@Playerone1287]

Clean and timely trains is normal to them, so why should they make documentaries for something normal, overcrowded un hygienic trains fascinates them so they made documentaries

[@Playerone1287]

I agree that they use documentaries to shame India but at least they're using truth to shame us

[@jonnyreggae100]

Have you not seen the films by Michael Portillo - Great Railway Journeys of the World ? A few episodes were filmed in India. I have travelled a lot on Indian trains. In the UK the railways were privatised and are too expensive and unreliable

[@raviwolfboy]

The Railway Department has kept the responsibility of cleanliness only to maintain its image, sir! The common people still behave like ignorant people regarding cleanliness and are creating filth everywhere. They are setting up shops through illegal occupation and buying fake and substandard goods. There is no control over the children! You should understand who is getting the railway premises cleaned and why you have to pay more ticket fare than before! Karma: The encroachment of outside migrants is continuously increasing in your area. Think about all this yourself sometimes!

[@Oceansta]

According to andhbhakths, everything is a conspiracy against India 😅. Losers.

[@MohitKumar-so4yf]

It's good to see how far we have come😄. jai hind

[@ajaibanerji6677]

This video is a great find, except that about 8 minutes are missing at the end. The only other version which was available on KZbin and elsewhere on the net had very poor picture quality. This is much better

[@Oceansta]

Probably the source from which he has uploaded was corrupt/wiped out at the end

[@ankushmanhas5194]

❤jammu watching 5.2.2024

[@sachinsingh-rh6fq]

I like such type of documentaries ..

[@gurpreetsinghraghu1791]

Loved it

[@ranjittyagi9354]

29:50 What an interesting personality, Mr. Dixit. Regards. 🎉❤

[@abhisheksavant4307]

Op dixit. What a charming personality.

[@triggeredgamer206]

amazing doc just amazing

[@jeetendraprasad9643]

I WAS BORN IN THE YEAR 1980 ....I COULD REMEMBER SOME GLIMPES OF THE OLD STEAM ENGINE OF THAT ERA .... MY FATHER SAYS , IT USED TO TAKE 3 DAYS TO COVER THE JOURNEY OF 1200 KM AND THE PERSON AND HIS CLOTHES BECOME TOTALLY BLACK BY THE BLACK PARTICLES WHICH COMES OUT FROM THE ENGINES CHIMNEY .....REALLY MISSING THOSE DAYS ,, NOW A DAYS FAST MOVING TRAINS ARE THERE BUT THE HEARTS ARE GONE AWAY

[@ranjittyagi9354]

Absolutely. I am happy to come across you and to know of the fact that there are some others who think just the way I do. I am about 3 years older to you. Love you, fellow traveler in life. Made my heart swell. ❤❤❤

[@jitudave7459]

Memorable metergueze train documentry I watched many time ,

[@somnathde8680]

Thanks.

[@sportsworld9856]

40 years ago❤

[@rishipramanick6823]

The transition from stem to nearly cent percent electrification was very fast occurred within 40 years

[@SantosGarage-mr3bv]

Bahut hi pyara video Aankhen Nam ho gai ek aur tha metre gauge ka samrajya railway

[@genericguy_]

The suffering my people had to go through, their kindness taken as weakness😭😭. India will rise again & karma will come for the invaders.

[@harinagarajan2296]

What a contrast. When the tran departs the camera shows an old man and his wife. And then we have these two bandits in the first class yapping about green famine and assorted nonsense (i run into such fellows and (women) in new delhi with regulrity). Nothing has changed. Yet everything has changed in India. Many thanks for this post. Hari

[@solaryatra]

Hari, you must be a philosopher or a person in uber state of consciousness. "Nothing has changed. Yet everything has changed in India." - what a line! The last journey I took in Indian Railways was in 2006. Since then, only memories have remained and they have gone stronger and deeper. Decades ago, we used to travel from abroad to my grandmother's village - that journey would take flight (from UK to Delhi), train from Delhi to our state capital, a bus from capital to village bus stand and finally our bullock carts would bring us to our ancestral home. Alas, nothing of those good old days remain (the generation - grand parents, uncles, aunties all passed away, home sold off, bullock carts replaced with Scorpios) yet everything remains in our minds and souls.

[@lokeshchoubey2634]

मैं भाप के इंजन में सवार हुआ हूं और उसकी सीटी भी बजाई थी तार खींच कर

[@VinayakVidhyasagar]

Thank god no plastics

[@Tz_dipika_005]

Where is the world biggest thief market. 😅😂😂 Guess

[@lokeshchoubey2634]

उस साल महान, अंधा कानून, कामचोर, रिश्ता कागज का, मजदूर, कुली, हिम्मतवाला, नौकर बीवी का फिल्में देखी थीं

[@mohammadakram4749]

जाने कहाँ गए वो दिन 😮

[@talesofatraveler2151]

My city jodhpur yesterday i was at railway staion surprising thing is lots of things has been changed now

[@narendrajonwal9197]

Please superb memories please next part bhi hona chahiye jaipur junction

[@peaceful_to_world]

India and we our people will grow and make India Proud ❤

[@drbvrao2207]

And only this remains... The future India will never ever be this way.... Forget all the traditions, forget the past, forget the glory and forget the farming.... God i want a big catastrophe and let all the world begin again but plz not with kings and kingdom, rules and rulers but with nature and only nature.....

[@ranjittyagi9354]

You captured the emotions very well.

[@ranjittyagi9354]

74.5 crores nearly in 1983, 150 crores now!

[@bollywoodscenesandudayansh5947]

74.58 crores in 1983

[@ranjittyagi9354]

​@@bollywoodscenesandudayansh5947 Thank you dear for correcting me. ❤

[@sidx328]

Wow! Can you upload more documentaries like these please!?

[@VintageLynx]

SID-X Sure, I will be in the coming weeks.

[@sidx328]

Where did you find them btw?

[@VintageLynx]

SID-X I save old TV recordings that would otherwise be thrown out - people throw away old tapes as junk.

[@premchand5119]

Old memories beautiful pictures

[@KK-sr1xd]

Looks really clean

[@jonnyreggae100]

There wasn’t much packaging then, no plastic bags, gutka packets etc. That’s my impression as a tourist

[@mrinmoymukherjee3523]

Do have the full video of this i think it is the of its.

[@sachinmishra7337]

❤❤❤

[@supergirl1892]

Possibly only video Footage of First class from 1980s medium guage..

[@1life_Only]

Quite a sickening divide between rich & poor, class, cast, haves & have nots. It’s thankfully changing albeit at a snail’s pace.

[@roops2939]

Reminds me of the time I took the 8.11 out of Basingstoke.

[@balbirsingj8173]

Steam rail engine wali koi bathinda railways station di hai kya 1986 - 1994 tak di plz kro je hai ta

[@thodarundhupayanam5423]

India during congress rule

[@SonGoku_9000]

Very bad

[@555shekha]

I don't know when will I see or travel by train in my life time

[@DilipKumar-sq2xq]

why? What stops you?

[@rajendrachavan9608]

At 12.37 these chatting two guys on that tea stall are purely "NAUTANKI" by filming gora sahib.

[@kapilsethia9284]

First person asked other to speak this line.

[@Oceansta]

Haha true 😅 it's obvious because their voices are very clearly recorded/dubbed.

[@benjaminsoans7335]

Good old times, when the BBC was the BBC. Nice documentary.

[@vikasdubey9652]

मेरा भारत महान❤ 🌈🙏मगर

[@cvragrochemicals]

pleasent days of india

[@guruprasad_manjunatha]

What's the name of the fort mentioned at 10:30?

[@rockysridhar]

Looks like the year should be 1982 and in those days you could smoke inside the train and still remember there used to be black ashtrays attached.

[@abhijitguha494]

Thank you BBC. Watching the India that has gone by. Watching history.

[@rakeshjoshi-hf8zw]

Op dixit ji looks like a osho

[@Shubhmye]

It was rustic but those are our memories.

[@anujitdatta7633]

Wow, excellent. My India, my INCLUSIVE India. People were so simple, no hatred, no bigotry.....We want this India again

[@user-gw7rg8fs8e]

Circa 1200. Muslims entered Afganistan. Wars happened. They settled. No hatred. No bigotry. Look what it is now. Circa 1920. Pakistan. Inclusive India. No hatred. No bigotry. What happened to the ancient culture now? Same as Bangladesh. Circa 1985. Kashmir. No hatred. No bigotry. No real Kashmini exists there now. Now comes our hero teaching no hatred no bigotry. Let him imagine what will happen to his grandsons in future. Can one be so dumb not to learn from what has been happening since last 800 years?

[@anilchopra4751]

MY INDIA, MY INCLUSIVE INDIA......WOW BRO. YOU ARE GREAT. YOU HAVE A INNOCENT HEART......AS A FLOWER OF ROSE. I WISH....YOU COULD BE MY FRIEND ! RESPECT & LOVE FROM JALANDHAR CITY-144008.

[@anish5152]

They still aren't. See things with your own eyes rather than relying on intermediaries

[@anilchopra4751]

@@anish5152 HAMARA PARIWAR 1880 SE INDIAN RAILWAYS SE JURA HUA HAI ! RAILWAY KO HUM BAHUT ACHCHHI TRAH SE SAMAJHTE HAI......BROTHER !!!

[@XenithForPm]

we're still the same , you're the elitist ignorant here

[@Robinjaa8Bharatpur]

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤

[@RajeevST-fg8yw]

Bai this story in golden 83s not today. This time how can produce this type of a train and mixed life story?

[@VMSCartoons]

How much Indian railways changed !!!

[@bollywoodscenesandudayansh5947]

My birth year

[@santoshgoswami8834]

Wooooo jodhpur railway

[@samersharma1105]

Op dixit rockss😅😅

[@santoshgoswami8834]

Two boys planing for watching movie, And boy asking for pan

[@jayplayz921]

So narrow gauge before they were standard gauge

[@kiranrao4375]

A new documentary should be made with the descendants of the people shown

[@DrH-Pk]

Belong from merta road

[@parwejansari4731]

Good

[@tejaskothari9838]

6:26 Hrithik Roshan 😂😂😂

[@BHARATIYA_TIGER]

Arey bhai 😂

[@Oceansta]

Hahahahahhaha 😅😅😅 good catch

[@heyygore]

Guy in documentary says , caste system should be there ...what a shame..

[@dilipkumar-yw8hc]

Our incredible india

[@bhawanishankar8683]

That time also India was overcrowded.😢

[@ranjittyagi9354]

68 crore folks in 1982. How about now? 150 crores and just apartments everywhere. No charm.

[@niteshshekhar186]

Bhai likh lo iss baar mts me air 36 hai.2024 me cgl me v rank launga

[@TS-1267]

... I Used To See Shirts That Exact We Style In "BRADFRD'S 'John Street Market' In The 1980s @ 3:54.. The Day's Of The 'Co-op' Stamp's You'd fill The Book's With Then Take To 'Sunwin House' for Cash or Credit... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✌️🥪

[@susudarake]

23:45 the music begins from the "The burning Train" movie song. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@RAHULKUMAR-hw2qk]

This is not 1938 Its 1982 documentary

[@VishalKhopkar1296]

0:00 They avoided showing Kashmir in the map because even back then they knew it would be controversial

[@Oceansta]

Even back then? Kashmir was already a disputed area for 35 years when this documentary was made 😢

[@kalyannnBH]

The royality, be it British or Indian always had speciality for themselves. The poor uneducated low skilled people always suffer more not because of the rich, than but themselves ..

[@lokeshchoubey2634]

तब मैं सोलह साल का था हमने दोपहर को शुरू हुआ वर्ल्डकप का फाइनल मुकाबला ब्लेक एंड व्हाइट टीवी पर देखा था

[@KROY0]

This is how bbc portrayed India as a poor and a feeble state..thts y british were crying on chandrayan 3 😂

[@Africanfrogs]

I ran very successfully silk operation in Mumbai for many decades, the communist Chinese and Russians ruined this once great place! I hope one day India to return to its roots of unknown

[@nitinkelkar7774]

The intelligent British! Clearly showed the misbalanced in the Indian society! Where as the uper caste kings feels proud about this

[@ashutoshmishra310]

Yes after looting trillions of dollars as gift.

[@nitinkelkar7774]

@@ashutoshmishra310 Yes we let it happened because of our internal differences.

[@aheat3036]

@@ashutoshmishra310That’s a victimhood lie that Modi is spreading to build hatred against other races, religions and ethnicities!… Modi is the notorious “Butcher of Gujarat” and one of the most corrupt politicians in Indien history!

[@tarunsharma7744]

This will serve as a historic evidence of India's past. The present and future generations will be able to witness the tremendous path of eceonmic and welfare growth. Thanks to the current government!

[@Oceansta]

Stop dreaming pal. It's the collective work done by all governments.

[@memesjunction3914]

8:15

[@rockysharma6793]

83 me tc kya English bol rha h 😮

[@ndyoutube123]

So from 1947 to 1983, this was the improvement. Thanks mchod congress

[@KironManuelCards]

The British gave everything,even now the introduction of the internet.

[@rexalexander4843]

even partition

[@KironManuelCards]

@@rexalexander4843 there was alqeda so India had to be divided.

[@rexalexander4843]

alqeda as the reason for partition is confusing.

[@KironManuelCards]

@@rexalexander4843 alqeda caused the riots.

[@qpr543]

And they stole many things, ha ha!

[@swordswam]

Salary of Rs. 300 to Rs. 400 in 50s and 60s with all the perks, are you kidding me. you could have bought half of Rajasthan, I presume...

[@anilpandey3268]

True. The average starting salary of a Govt servant in 1965 was around 60 Rupees. I doubt even Class I officers got 300-400 Rupees salary, almost unheard of amount in those days.

[@manavprotimburagohain4257]

12:10 Elvis Bhaiiiii

[@bookaufman9643]

I can see that not very many people are watching this video here in 2022. There is a baby at 9 minutes and 15 seconds into this video that has some weird thing going on with its eyes. Has anyone else seen this? Are they just some weird kind of eyeglasses? It's just bizarre looking.

[@paraghule9096]

This is area of congress and his substitute 😢😢😢