British Steam in 1960

[@iangarbutt7451]

Thank you so much for this trip down memory lane... 70 this year and I remember seeing many locos passing through Wanborough near Guildford... 🧡🚂🧡

[@ronaldbayne1431]

Lovely narrative. All video’rs should take note. Easily heard, well enunciated, and beautifully timed. Many thanks. Rmb5*

[@chrisbailey9331]

This has to be one of the best hour’s watching steam locomotives that I’ve spent in ages! Thank you for posting this video 👍🏻😀

[@Japan-in-N]

@@chrisbailey9331 the series is good all the way up to the 60s

[@chrisowen8664]

Hi Thanks for a really good film ,very intersting look at the past .Regards Chris 👍😊

[@Liberator74]

What a lovely video! Really enjoyed it! Thank you

[@robertmarsh3588]

What a fabulous video. So much changed in such a few years, the premature loss of steam, axing of so many routes, and eventually the closure of Swindon works (1985).

[@robertlees7528]

The gleaming warships fresh from the paint shop halcyon days

[@b.2221]

This is awesome, thank you for sharing your video with us all Sir.

[@johnlladron735]

Thank you very much for this wonderful video.

[@steamsearcher]

SUPERB and thank you for posting. When KZbin began there were very few railway films on here Hence my title. Love David and Lily.

[@lauriecooper8194]

Great footage of Bromsgrove and the Lickey incline. All of my childhood train spotting was at these locations, and this brought back and so many happy memories. Thank you very much for posting the video.

[@galbeadon]

Thank goodness for Ivo Peters.

[@nicnak4475]

Fantastic video, thanks for posting 👍

[@techElephant]

Clevedon - we moved there in 1966 when I was three - I remember seeing them demolishing the station while sitting in dad's car parked in Station Road - wonderful footage - would love to see more of Clevedon station and trains if possible.

[@christopherbentley5216]

Excellent. The p/w looks so tidy everywhere. Love this video. I would rather travel on this sort of railway and at a nice speed, than the 125mph of today, looking out on overgrown cuttings and embankments .

[@JohnPW22]

The footage where the loco crosses the road by Gloucester Park was very good to see! My mother fell off her bicycle just there when lightning struck the track! She would have been amazed to see film from those days!

[@johnjephcote7636]

My last trip on the S&D, this time just from 'Coombe down to Bournemouth West was behind a 9F. Later on, I lived in Blandford and would walk my dog, Brunel, down to the river before they demolished the viaduct from the station to the river. I think I saw Evening Star north of Evercreech in the very early 1960s.

[@stephensmith799]

Well named dog👍 On the South Western main line in the early 2000s was a Guard with the lapel badge ‘Daniel Gooch’. I said to him ‘That’s a good name for a railwayman.’ He explained that his manager had read out directive ‘all staff must wear name badges’. Said the guard ‘Does it say what name should be ON the name badge?! The supervisor checked answering “It doesn’t say anything about that here.” So I chose “Daniel Gooch”!’

[@jimmeltonbradley1497]

I remember seeing the little pannier tanks at Gloucester docks when I was a kid, back in the late 1950s. It was around the time when, as an 8 year old, I had just taken up trainspotting with my friends Derek and Geoff Preece, whose dad worked at Fielding and Platt which one of the engines can be seen passing. Makes me feel really old (which, of course, I am!). Also, I went to the Swindon works in 1959, and travelled home to Gloucester behind 5003 Elmley Castle which was, itself, just out of the works.

[@simonfunwithtrains1572]

Remind me of when I was a child waiting for one of the six trains that came past each day on the Westerham branch line. Now of course under the M25 with tens of thousands of cars every day.

[@MrTonyHeath]

Thanks. Takes me back, Happy d.ays

[@167curly]

A very pleasant interlude seeing classic steam locomotives which are in beautifully clean condition too. I enjoyed seeing Mr. Nock in that Pullman journey. A favorite author of mine.

[@showmanpete2805]

this vid needs restoring it's awesome

[@tankmicr00man]

Sounds like surface damage to the CD?

[@kenstevens5065]

Just think if back then we had in our pockets a small phone that could record high quality video instantly.

[@geoffreyford7288]

In 1963 i had a West of England rover ticket for a child which was Sunday to Friday. On one of the trips dad took me to Newton Abbot station i caught train to Bristol then Bristol to Bath Green Park then 53807 on local Bath GP to Templecombe. The train wasn't going up to the main station at Templecombe but stopped at the short low level platform and i had to exit via the gaurds door. Don't remember much about trip, 3 coaches with 2-8-0 on the front a bit overpowered!

[@scopex2749]

OUTSTANDING I so wish they would reopen the S&DJR! Put it this way - it ran RIGHT THROUGH Worthy Farm (Glastonbury) SO it could take THOUSANDS of cars off the road during festival!

[@라이언브-q1x]

Superb trip down memory lane. I'm in my eighties now, but my schoolboy days often took me from Paddington to Gloucester. Many thanks. Oh, you didn't mention the WD"s.

[@grahamwood1941]

Steel trains are still banked by class 66. One ran away in 2020 colliding with a northbound class 170.

[@kenstevens5065]

1960, we all looked forward to the future and the opportunities it could bring a sort of final casting off of the old ways at last. Those of us left now wonder how the World could turn into such a mess. I'd go back to those days if I could, give up today's modern life, relative wealth and comfort like a shot. Thanks to the likes of Ivo who have left us a tiny window to view the World as it once was.

[@arthurmee]

I clearly remember, as a young boy in the early 60s, the feeling of optimism about the future.

[@bigmick562]

I lived in the present from 1953 to 1968 and was quite blissful

[@christhompson2126]

The Class 9Fs always produced good soundtracks for my collection. As a youngster I can recall only one southbound through Eaglescliffe (and I was FAR too close to this massive machine!!!), but of course we saw (and I "taped") plenty of these 9Fs elsewhere.

[@MiLLwallpaul231258]

Marvellous

[@edwardwest5035]

I remember seeing City of Truro and 123 on shed at Old Oak Common in 1960, I was thirteen, I think it was April but I'm not sure. I went to climb into the cab of 3440 not noticing the Brasso on the hand rails I slipped down and took the skin off my shins.

[@Shark30006]

Some of these engines that worked on the Somerset and Dorset Railway are preserved

[@robertlees7528]

My history teacher always called it everscreech jnct

[@petertate8366]

Isn't that Nicholas Courtney doing the narration? (Brigadier Lethbridge Stuart)

[@justinfuller8803]

Pity that Gods Wonderful Rut ever got their hands on the Licky as this was Midland territory. I believe these films all originated from the Railway Round About series.

[@kristinajendesen7111]

Same thing with the West of England when the singled most of the line past Salisbury after they got their hands on it.

[@AndrewWillox-u5l]

The soundtrack seems authentic. Did the camerman have sound recording? How was this done?

[@Trevor_Austin]

Bristol to Bradford? You mean Bradford was a destination? A train stopped there? Things must have been very different then.

[@Shark30006]

Is the Somerset and Dorset Railway still open?

[@LaZoucheCustomshop]

Long gone and hardly a trace remains.

[@mikewilson4847]

Was Lord Beeching's annihilation of our railway system a gross error?

[@bigmick562]

Fireman "Runner Bean".... Inspiration for rowan atkinson

[@Mysimlife-Learnerdriver]

Fireman runner bean ?? On 92104

[@Trevor_Austin]

If a 9F couldn’t handle 12 coaches, what could? This has to be a pointless exercise.

[@Japan-in-N]

Braking was the issue ,many a loco could handle 12 coaches but stopping them was a different matter.

[@spankflaps1365]

I think they mean how would a small wheeler perform on a fast. In terms of bearing temps, coal consumption, ride quality, and whether the crew were happy with it.

[@michaelnaisbitt7926]

The LNER garrett U1 an A2/2 King class Princess Royal or Duchess class LMS garret W class tanks G16 or H16 tanks etc plenty of locos more powerful or close the power of a 9F

[@Japan-in-N]

@@Trevor_Austin as on the S&D it wasn’t power is how good it was at braking.

[@bigmick562]

Tyne dock to consett

[@connorcheevers596]

What video camera is this taken on

[@sgw8903]

It wouldn't have been video back then. Probably 16mm. I did notice a camera name mentioned but don't remember which.

[@kenstevens5065]

@@sgw8903 Just think of the video captures we would have today if there were phone cameras back then and as I remember even still photography was expensive for the ordinary person. Colour was out of the question for most on cost grounds. Affordable cameras were simple, fixed settings for sunny days only. Credit cards to spread costs hadn't been invented!

[@Shark30006]

Class 42 or Class 43 Warship?

[@gazzertrn]

I was born in 1960 , great too see this .