Class 40s in the 1960s (Pre TOPS)

[@Bren-j7q]

Got the rail bug back in '74 - still have an interest 50 years on! Golden age of BR ( 60s/70s) Miss the 'tats' flying around the Midlands especially the West Coast mainline around the Potteries. Copped the lot a few years on when able to travel around the UK to all the TMDs including Thornaby, Healey Mills, Haymarket, Kingmoor, etc.. Did help that I had BR staff travel facilities and authority to enter TMDs nationwide. Oh, happy days!!

[@paulnolan1352]

Thanks John, great historical footage.

[@foretrak]

Very welcome

[@Francis292]

Excellent footage 👍

[@ЛЬВИНИ]

!Good video, like!

[@foretrak]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@jimmillington8299]

Another gem!

[@daystatesniper01]

Superb as usual , i wonder how many of those cars on thet car train are still with us lol .

[@foretrak]

Good question!

[@peterstudley1804]

Ford anglias and a few ford Thames (anglia vans) and some Ford cortina mk2.

[@kevinfowkes2327]

The most likely answer is that none of them are still with us. Only the most minute percentage of old cars made in the 60s are still intact. Especially bogstandard models. Cars only lasted a few years in those days before turning into rustbuckets and heading off to the scrapyard in vast numbers. Many people bought a new one every year. Amazing how unprotected they were on the flat wagons, they must have sustained a fair bit of damage on occasion.

[@TheDaf95xf]

Saw plenty of them as I lived in Urmston Manchester 👍🏻 Great footage 😊

[@foretrak]

Thank you very much!

[@kristinajendesen7111]

I used to see them dropping off and picking up the tanks from the Mobil site in Tile Hill. I grew up just on the other side in the top half of Canley, nearer to Tile Hill Station.

[@brianbunn3604]

Awesome 🙌 thanks for sharing 😊 Proper trains !

[@foretrak]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@rodgertaylor2387]

Wonderful footage great days thanks for sharing that 👍

[@foretrak]

Thanks for watching

[@johnhenstock9668]

Very good!

[@foretrak]

Thanks!

[@markwilson4052]

Sometimes saw them on 6F57, the BOC tanks Wolves - Ditton

[@m18tankdestroyer43]

😎 Happy Days!

[@1951GL]

Big, heavy, not particularly powerful locomotives which, in their time did a good job - known to spotters as whistlers or blogs - they successfully filled in on the WCML until full electrification. Even then, the more powerful Brush type 4s did the main expresses from 1965 onward.

[@1258-Eckhart]

That sums up the 40's rather well!

[@EdVanMeyer]

A shame there isn't more colour mid 60's film like this out there

[@foretrak]

It's surprising what does turn up in the archive. Stay tuned, they'll be plenty more ;-)

[@tracya4087]

brill