Vintage railway film - First of the Thirteen - 1970

This vintage railway film, produced in November 1970, covers the transition from semaphore to colour light signalling, the consolidation of signal boxes and the upgrading of points of the North Kent Lines between 1967-1970, showing how the entire North Kent Loops from Dartford to London Bridge could be controlled from one Signalling centre in Dartford .

[@ChangesOneTim]

The days when the railway actually used trains to deliver all the new lineside signalling equipment and to recover the old. Outrageous!!

[@matthew0605]

After seeing this film, I have nothing but admiration for all the workers ,technicians and signalling staff . That wiring job looked like spaghetti junction to me . Nuff respects to em . -bud the painter -

[@cedarcam]

When you first see the wiring it is daunting. It takes some time to learn how to read the circuit diagrams and slowly over the years you get to know how everything goes together. A job where there is always something new to learn as things are constantly developing. Today a huge amount of this type of equipment is still in use along with the new digital electronic systems.

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

Its amazing in the whole history of human work you can spot a manager a mile away. 1 their generally better dressed, 2 always carrying something paper / clipboard and 3 constantly delaying whatever's been done.

[@capybara8868]

Nowadays I just forward an email saying "Please deal"! 🤣

[@TheFjmtb]

4) they tend to carry the can for the “lads” when things go wrong

[@nmccw3245]

Note the high viz vests on the managers while the laborers aren’t even wearing shirts much less PPE.

[@coloradostrong]

..."1 _they're_ generally better dressed" _they're_ _there_ _their_

[@mce_AU]

Very interesting. Thanks.

[@clivemortimore8203]

31 minutes 53 seconds, "Dad do you know the piano's on my foot?" " You have it son, I play it".

[@Nick-ye5kk]

Love how the concrete troughs are thrown down, obviously weren't accountable for any damages.

[@glynwelshkarelian3489]

Those concrete troughs were far tougher than you'd think. They are also far heavier than you imagine. They say 220 lbs, that 100kg! How carefully would you lay that down?

[@leonperry123]

It's a shame they didn't have HD in this era.

[@av8r500]

They’re gonna be feeling that sunburn tomorrow

[@AndyWilson53]

You hum it son, I'll play it... Makes more sense.

[@wilsonlaidlaw]

Whereas I love the subject matter of the Bennett Brook railway postings, I wondered if the prints which are being digitised are really as soft as the posted video. I would understand if the originals were standard 8mm but I would assume they are at least 16mm if not 35mm. I still take super 8 cine film (using a Leicina Special camera) and they seem a lot sharper. Is it the digitisation process which causes the loss in definition?

[@zacm.2342]

I've seen a few of these transport films on other channels before, so it could be from screen recordings of those before they were removed.

[@paullane9240]

And the poor low level volume. Shame, it’s a cracking report.

[@Thepigeons377]

Another marvelous video ☺️ . As for the quality of the videos , if they're ripped from VHS tapes the Res is only going to be 240 / 250 lines regardless of how you digitised them . And no point in trying to use AI to upscale them believe me I've tried to upscale many a low Res video and the results are far from impressive

[@Thepigeons377]

@@Scots_Diesel nooooo surely not .. theft on the internet 😂

[@paullane9240]

@@Scots_Diesel thanks, that’s brilliant

[@glynwelshkarelian3489]

09.30 Asbestos tubes used to carry cabling. I remember the old days.They were bloody dreadful.

[@coloradostrong]

Was this recorded on a modern bank camera?

[@jackx4311]

" . . . sending messages by bell codes, which is a very time consuming process." THAT is a bloody lie - and yes, I HAVE worked in boxes where trains were offered and accepted using block bells.

[@thefifteenbillionpoundrailway]

Hi, do you know where i might get a copy of this film? DVD? British Film Institute perhaps?

[@tonywise198]

All those asbestos tubes. Health & Safety police weren't around then.

[@dukeofaaghisle7324]

General awareness of asbestosis didn’t really start until the 70’s. According to Wikipedia, the asbestos industry had been aware of the dangers since the 1930s, but had been slow to act.

[@caroleast9636]

How much of that asbestos is still there, crumbling away, dust blowin in the wind ?

[@PenzancePete]

What has what was the Southern Region got now? Three Bridges, Eastleigh, Wimbledon. Is Feltham still open? Gillingham?

[@brucewoods9377]

Asbestos?

[@ChangesOneTim]

Very much in fashion then!

[@Nick-ye5kk]

Around 9mins 30seconds

[@regd.2263]

You'll have to do asbestos you can

[@ianburnett7333]

Terrorists must not know about how track Ciruits operate.

[@coloradostrong]

Pretty sure Amerikans know how _Ciruits_ operate. Whatever a _Ciruits_ is.

[@beakytwitch7905]

Sweaty work.