British Steam, Diesel & Electric Locomotives - 1959 Train Movie - CharlieDeanArchives

[@brucetharpe762]

18:37 the moment of pure joy you feel when you drive the train of your dreams

[@petertate5741]

Wow ! Brilliant film.British engineering at its best !

[@jimmyviaductophilelawley5587]

Love it! Not a yellow warning panel to be seen!

[@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS]

Great footage here! I liked seeing a class 15 in color! The footage in South Africa was also very nicely done, especially of the Beyer Garratt.

[@graemekornicki6810]

Wow deltic prototype in colour,now we dont even build trains for uk use.how much import tarrif for a 3 million pound loco?

[@phillipcollins9290]

The Garratt was in East Africa on the metre gauge.

[@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819]

Starts off north of Peterborough heading north (film from the Stamford line), then through the northern suburbs of Peterborough past New England and finally through Darlington. Not sure where the viaduct or pub is, but the level crossing is Helpston. The Woohead route many have been the UK's first trunk route to be electrified, but back before WW1 the Line from Shilden to Erimus Yard, Newport (Middelsbrough) was electrified - a short stretch of this line was part of the original Stockton to Darlington line, but most was part of the Clarence Railway.

[@waleedarif6740]

Perhaps Dua Lipa and her music will help bring those days back. 😪😔

[@mikeytrains1]

The first shot of Class 40 D208 looked like a toy to me at first!

[@gortonshameless6746]

Good to see the Wynns Diamond T at 12-32.

[@Pob76]

The pub scene at 1 min 25 secs is ‘ The Old Station Inn ‘ at Taplow. It Was Opposite the Dumb Bell on the A 4 and the favourite drinking hole of Michael Gregsten and Valerie Storie, the very sad couple and victims of the infamous A6 murder mystery. ( pub pulled down 1990s)

[@GrijzePilion]

It all seems so futuristic here...

[@leroyybrown]

That's awesome, Joburg looks like 1930's Chicago

[@finmedia]

A very atmospheric film and of its time; a joy to watch. If only they knew what was ahead...

[@KlunkerRider]

People today look back at steam today with melancholy but forget how for working train crews the switch from labor intensive open to all weather cab hot coal ash soot blasting steam locomotives to clean smooth running easy to control dry weather sealed enclosed cabbed diesels was for them shear manna from heaven.

[@richardthefox3412]

Intro music was also in the Union Pacific film "last clear chance" from 1959.

[@DanielChannel57]

No it wasn't.

[@richardthefox3412]

It was at the end credits and it was a slightly lower pitch.

[@neildelaney5199]

A sad reflection on our times, the UK are now buying engines made in Japan, a great film many thanks

[@mingyuliu6259]

I like how most of these British locomotives had round bull-dog noses just like their American Cousins back in the days.

[@mattsmocs3281]

The deltics were based on the EMD FT demonstrators.

[@mattsmocs3281]

+Keil Gilby true. The motive power was naval but the design was EMD. It also shares with the EMD demonstrators in Europe which were a bit different than the US stock.

[@saradaprasannapattanaik6247]

+Keil GilHobokenby h

[@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS]

And the only ones that don't in this video are the class 20 (which had to run in pairs) and the class 15, which was a failure.

[@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819]

RockyRailroad Animation the Class 20 could run solo, but had to have two crew if running bonnet first.

[@bellawilliams397]

Clip of D238, foretelling of the Great Train Robbery...

[@JGrandcourt]

thanks for sharing.

[@McGrory69]

Only thing we manufacture these days is life boats to ferry New Europeans over from France to turn our towns and cities into cesspits.

[@scopex2749]

Love the old 08 shunter, they were a bugger to start in the cold. Did some shunting in those on a preserved railway. Wow amazing how everything was done by hand, gangs of 4 men with grabs to move a sleeper! Nowadays everything is mechanised trains that lay 300 sleepers a day. OMG NO HEALTH AND SAFETY in those days, watching them drop a loco body onto the traction motors, no hard hats, no goggles, gloves, nothing!!

[@SquishyZoran]

Does anyone know who made that little tug at about 18:05?

[@TheFokker03]

great film,wish i knew who the narrator was.

[@alastairbeaton5245]

The narrator is David de Keyser

[@jimusgrimus]

where did it all go wrong? ..............1979 I say...........

[@richardbell9939]

Turn the music off

[@lillylouise5353]

im sure 2602o is at nrm york lol cant tell if it is or not

[@MegaZsolti]

That intro music is also in a UPRR safety movie. Were USA-made locomotives comparable to English ones?

[@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS]

I like both, although Britain's trains have the restriction of a smaller loading gauge, hence why some of the shunters have no side handrails. Although I still think America's locomotives are very nice, I can't tell the modern ones apart, especially widecabs. British diesels are nice because most were given TOPS numbers, so you don't need to know what class it is, because it says so on the number.

[@richardthefox3412]

"Last clear chance" also from 1959

[@taublix315]

@@richardthefox3412 That's the movie he was talking about

[@ktsp2538]

When you realize early British diesel looked like the early American diesel just with two slopes one on each end instead of the one on American ones at the front

[@bennickss]

What are you saying? Are you trying to compare a Deltic/class 40 to an emd f7? They look nothing alike, the f7s only have one cab while the class 40 has a cab on both ends, making it a lot more practical than the f7 since it doesn’t need a turntable. How is this a ‘when you realise’ thing anyway?

[@ktsp2538]

@@bennickss I dunno this is a year old lol

[@ktsp2538]

@@bennickss I think I was mainly referring to the cab shape

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

the EMD FT and F family will always look better than early BR diesels.

[@ShodaiGojira-xn3xk]

The Deltic Prototype looks slightly like older US Diesels

[@Sergecalifornia]

The only type of locomotives the British are able to bill ar steam locomotive. The more advanced type are of foreign origin. He's not high-speed train in the UK yet. Like Europe or Japan

[@iman2341]

What is the location of @7:10 ?

[@aCivilServant]

I think it's the construction of the Bletchley Flyover

[@animaltvi9515]

A lot of those locos in foreign use seemed American to me . One was definitely an GG1 electric

[@EuroScot2023]

I don't know where you saw a GG1 but it wasn't in this film!

[@GrrumpDaddo56]

best porn i've seen in ages

[@dulls8475]

And now we travel in German built stock. Why did we let this happen?

[@stefankassbohrer2765]

dulls, you´re right. These great british DE-locomotives are missing, but at the Deutsche Bahn it is no different, only red unity mush !

[@rikkilamb]

The tories

[@dulls8475]

@@rikkilamb Also partly because of the unions making us uncompetitive in Shipbuilding and Locomotives.

[@rikkilamb]

@dulls8475 Partly but mostly because rail privatisation almost killed our railway industry too. The unions didn't help though

[@benwetzel8449]

3:17 NO NO NO NO NO! 999 DID IT FIRST

[@michaelnaisbitt1639]

Ben Wetzel This has been a bone of contention since 100 mph was 1st claimed. I say who the hell cares this video is at least ;50 years old

[@michaelnaisbitt1639]

When this clip was made a black man was not allowed to rise to Driver on the Railways of South Africa only to fireman was he allowed. Also a G 20 class Garrett was more powerful than a 59 class. 89430 lbs on 3 ft 6 inch track

[@benwetzel8449]

Michael Naisbitt good point

[@ZAV1944]

The first officiated instance of a steam locomotive going 100mph is Flying Scotsman

[@mattsmocs3281]

That deltic is not the biggest single unit diesel in the world. UP centennials are.

[@immortalsector]

+Matt`s Mocs in 1959 when this video was made it was

[@djb-n9l]

Matt`s Mocs idiot

[@kevvynolan8753]

Matt`s Mocs probably was in 1955

[@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819]

Robert Sumsion as did the Deltics (the prototype (1955) as seen in this film and the 22 production examples). Both the Deltics and the Centennials (1969 and twice the hp) are single unit locomotives.

[@randomclass4653]

But the Up centennials are not Single unit diesels...

[@cheekymescalito3249]

Surprised to see British movie with the narration style very similar to Soviet movies about technological breakthroughs and cult of labour (for example talking about 15 year plans).

[@DanielChannel57]

You know, it's so ironic listening to this guy go on and on about how great, revolutionary and technologically advanced British locomotives are, and yet we Americans basically took over the global export market, and even make most of the UK's engines today.

[@GrijzePilion]

Yes, but today's American trains are being bought from Europe by the bulk. If things continue like they have, American-made passenger trains will be extinct in a few decades.

[@DanielChannel57]

Only some of our passenger engines on the Northeast Corridor are European-made, but not our long distance passenger trains, like the Empire Builder, or definitely our freight engines, which is what America relies mostly on.

[@GrijzePilion]

Most of what's running on the Northeast Corridor today is European-made, or at least foreign-made. I think that's a good thing, because there's good design and technology in these trains. Now the long-distance trains are all-American for now but they're probably going to start using the German-made Charger engines at some point in the not-too-distant future. And the freight trains, they're VERY American indeed. I'm personally not interested in freight trains so I don't know much about them at all, but it does seem that the big, bulky American-style engines are simply a better choice for your freight trains.

[@DanielChannel57]

I wouldn't try to predict THAT far into the future, because back in the 60s, people thought that the American passenger train would die out within a decade, but look what we see now. As for freight, that's always been the big money for railroads, it's pretty much a rule, not just in America, but the rest of the world as well. Keep in mind that the world's first railways started out with freight.

[@njrails2759]

GrijzePilion chargers aren't replacing all of Amtrak's long-distance trains, they are looking into purchasing GE 4 axel tier 4 locomotives similar to the dash 8's they own right now

[@williamrance5086]

We look back with a great sense of nostalgia, the big base drum beating within our chest, wishing those days would return. But, hold on a minute! That music, that posh camp voice of the narrator, surely an embarrassment? Surely, we modern Brits cannot associate ourselves with all of that! What do our American cousins think when they hear all of that stuffiness? It makes me cringe - Dick Van Dyke's 'cockney' rendition from Mary Poppins is easier on the ear than this! And, that is saying something.

[@mikeytrains1]

The stuffiness just makes me think of a poorly made movie. But I like it. BTF knew what they were doing, I wish I could go to Britain(Hopefully I do!), mainly to see British Steam.

[@williamrance5086]

Hi, Mikey. We Brits' have great affection for the Steam era. Because we had huge resources of coal in the UK, and, it was convenient for successive British governments post WW2, we lagged behind the rest of Europe and the States in upgrading to electric and diesel for mainline rail operations. As a result, we had a huge inventory of steam locos, with a vast array of locomotive types well into the 1960s. Before nationalisation of the railways, each region had its own locos and rolling stock - even their own locomotive design engineers'. So, when steam went out, and diesel and Electrical choices came in, vast numbers of locos went to the scrap yard, however, with so much national interest in saving such iconic machines we have, today, many heritage railways, and, many steam locos' licensed to run excursions on the mainline networks. If you are successful in living your dream, then, it is worth checking out on the web and the UK tourist sites for such excursions. Kindest regards. Bill.

[@100SteveB]

Our American cousins used to have similar films with equally camp and stuffy sounding narrators - only with an American accent chucked in. But i have to agree, it all sounds so "stiff upper lipped" - surely us Brits never really sounded like that? (With a few exceptions - Nigel Bruce playing Doctor Watson in the 1939 Sherlock Holmes film, and of course, Prime minister Neville Chamberlain of around the same time)

[@GrijzePilion]

The funny thing is, really, that it was the same everywhere. I'm Dutch and we too had our campy, posh narrator voices. The typical high-pitched version died out in the 60s, it seems, being replaced by a calmer and more normal tone, which remained in use throughout the 80s before kind of going out of fashion in the 90s. Has a certain charm to it, doesn't it? Now of course I say that it was the same everywhere but really, the Dutch aren't much different from our Anglosphere friends at all. We're rather similar, really. So perhaps it's a very different story in Poland, in Spain or in Argentina.