BR Southern region steam in 1966

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@melodymonger 7 ай бұрын

I'm really blown away by the amount and quality of film footage you have. It's such an amazing archive of everyday railway operation the very year before I was born. I love watching it. Thanks 🙏

@mikebutler3263 5 күн бұрын

Excellent !

@jonathangale6698 7 ай бұрын

Wonderful footage! I remember the Pacifics arriving under the soot stained overall roof at Waterloo, and letting off steam. This brings it all back!

@DavidFennessy-yj7du 29 күн бұрын

Brilliant footage, colour as well!!!!!!!!

@peterbeesley8904 7 ай бұрын

Thank you. I still miss them all, even now

@johnnypoker46 Ай бұрын

I remember spotting 73117 (once 'Vivien'), a very close encounter on the platform at Woking while waiting for my train Needless to say I saw many of the Merchant Navys and a majority of the West Country / Battle of Britain class

@peterjhillier7659 7 ай бұрын

What a beautiful Video thank you for sharing.

@davemitchell9941 7 ай бұрын

Really excellently shot footage. Thank you. I grew up in Plymouth amongst SR steam 62-65. Fond memories & in the preservation era maintained & worked engines on the Swanage branch with a lot of ex Bournemouth & West Country footplatemen. Happy days. 😃

@rodneycooperLMSCoach 7 ай бұрын

Amazing filming and you have matched the sounds very well. I have fond memories of holidays in Fleet in 1961/2 spending most of my days on the platforms.

@eromsele 7 ай бұрын

Fabulous, so many memories. Thank you.

@edwardbarnes2702 7 ай бұрын

Have to say like other comments, some really nice footage for its age, just fab, I remember the year well as being just fourteen years old and bunking off school to stand at Clapham Jct, Went on to being a second man at stewards lane, happy days, dare I even mention the Football. Thanks for posting 🤓Eddie

@robertturner4009 4 ай бұрын

I used to drive and fire to some of those locos shown.i was a Bricklayers Arms colleague in the 50s and 60s.

@KevinMorrison-xj2bt 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic quality colour footage ! Reminds me of my 1950/60's train spotting days, and skiving off school for a day at Clapham Junction ! And us kids shed bashing at Nine Elms, Feltham and Guildford MPD's. Thanks for uploading because they were great days in my life.

@MENSA.lady2 3 ай бұрын

I went to School in Guildford and visited the MPD so often the Manager knew my name.

@KevinMorrison-xj2bt 2 ай бұрын

@@MENSA.lady2 Amazing ! I guess you went in via the main entrance then ? Us kids went down on the station platform then creeped in under the bridge ! There were 'live' rails in the yard so we were careful. Loved the old Q1 Austerity locomotives 'Charlies' which were always on shed, and remember the USA tank loco number 30072. Happy Days !

@pwburch1988 5 ай бұрын

Some great shots around Lyndhurst Rd at 9mins too, now Ashurst New Forest campsite. Thanks.

@jean4barton Ай бұрын

What memories that film brings back, though I lived in Surbiton every year we spent a fortnight at my maternal grandparents in Railway Street, Littleburn, Langley Moor, Co Durham and I got my fill of Q6 and ex WDs not forgetting the the main liners thundering past the miners cottage we stayed in. That was late 1940s early 50s before I went into the RAF in '56.

@TERRYBIGGENDEN 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely entrancing. Thanks! :-)

@cosmicmaniac1886 6 ай бұрын

A totally amazing video.

@davidrobinson8700 7 ай бұрын

Excellent footage of 34101 Hartland (now preserved at the NYMR) and the now preserved Swanage Railway.

@PreservationEnthusiast Ай бұрын

Most of this will end up at Cashmores of Newport and other South Wales yards where Mr Cashmore will rubbing his hands with glee, ready to fire up the cutting torches and slice these into small pieces of melt scrap.

@davidrobinson8700 28 күн бұрын

and Ivatt tank 41312 as well. Cashmores' cutting torches certainly did get through a lot of steam engines (scrap metal is very profitable) but thanks to Dai Woodham for ensuring the survival of so many of them.

@PreservationEnthusiast 26 күн бұрын

@@davidrobinson8700 Dai actually cut 84 steam locos. Mainly GWR types. He loved cutting GWR. There was a lot of extra copper in the fireboxes on those, and he had only bought that weight in steel from BR.

@arthurroberts4504 3 ай бұрын

I lived in Farnborough and remember the Bournemouth Belle going through. It suggest a long time ago!

@tonywise198 4 ай бұрын

A reminder that in the year of winning the World Cup, Steam locos were turned out in a deplorable state. So sad. Great footage.

@robertcrewdson8611 4 ай бұрын

The Steam footage on this channel is the best I have seen, better than anything I have bought on DVD. The Southern coaches used to blend with the beautiful greenery of the southern counties, then BR decided to make them all blue and white.

@PeterHutchinson-jc6wv 4 ай бұрын

Hello Robert, Thank you for your kind comments. I filmed using a Bolex standard 8 clockwork cine camera mounted on a tripod to produce as steady an image as possible. The film transfer was done to a good standard and the soundtrack was created with recordings I made mostly at the time of filming. Editing was done using Pinnacle Studio software on my PC. A fair bit of work went into this and so comments such as yours makes it more worthwhile. Peter.

@robertcrewdson8611 4 ай бұрын

@@PeterHutchinson-jc6wv Thank you Peter, you did a great job on the sound as well. The Bolex Standard 8 was very highly thought of. Got a great review in Amateur Cine World.

@MENSA.lady2 3 ай бұрын

As a snotty nosed train spotter in 1962 my favourite location was Brookwood, Surrey. No platforms on the up and down fast lines, so no speed limit. The Atlantic Coast Express with a Merchany Navy doing over 100 MPH was a magnificant sight. Sadly BR gave up steam and I gave up trains.

@KevinMorrison-xj2bt 2 ай бұрын

Us kids went to Weybridge, and like you watched those great locomotives at speed. They were abused and in terrible condition towards the end in 1966/67 but they just kept of going strong !

@rsbristowe2157 2 ай бұрын

Ahhh "Brookwood for Bisley Camp"

@stephensmith799 2 ай бұрын

As a country boy I was impressed by the superior firm bogie snots which London air generated in about a week. The city had a definite sulphury smell which I liked. A friend called them ‘blooters’.

@ReginaldCarden Ай бұрын

@@rsbristowe2157Ah, two memories. I used to visit Nine Elms engine shed and went to Bisley for a week every summer to shoot, 303's mainly.

@ReginaldCarden Ай бұрын

@@KevinMorrison-xj2btIt's amazing that when I started trainspotting around London in circa 1958, every train was steam hauled. Ten years later they were all gone.