Lancashire& YorkshireMemories - Part 4 - Burnley to Bolton

[@michaelstansfield3085]

I didn't do very well at High School as my classroom on the third floor up New North Road, HUDDERSFIELD had a panoramic view of the eastern approach to Huddersfield Railway Station and Leeds Road Football ground. I marveled at the endless coal trains heading west, (spewing copious amounts of C02 to make our planet greener) the new 'Peaks' and the new Trans Pennine DMU's. I have since educated myself to a much better degree through the fascination of the world around me than any school could ever do. A great Uncle in my family worked for the L & Y, LNWR, LMS and BR. I talked to him about the railway when he was over 100 years old. I attended his funeral in my BR Guards uniform as a mark of respect as my employers didn't give a shit about a great man that spent his entire life in the service of and in the development of the railways. William Briggs. R.I.P.

[@keithtanner2806]

A small correction if I may, the first station from Blackburn on the Hellifield line was not Wilpshire but Daisyfield. I used it many times. A few minor mispronunciations, W halley is pronounced “Wall-ee”, Hoghton is pronounced “Ho-tun” and Sough tunnel is “Suff tunnel.” Excellent atmospheric video of an area I knew so well.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@rodleyland7253]

My father was a signalman at Hulton sidings for a couple of years. He would occasionally take me there while my mother worked an extra shift weaving in one of the local mills. It would be around 1952 or 53 and I was 5 or 6 years old. I recall one occasion when he was finishing his shift. He sorted out a lift on the footplate of an engine all the way down to Great Moor Street Station in Bolton, the end of the line. The purpose of that trip? To collect his wages. Different times indeed!

[@flippop101]

What a fantastic piece piece of film and narrative. Glorious!

[@DefJ1m]

Great stuff & close to home for me. I live in New Zealand now but grew up in Burnley and was a keen loco spotter. I was present at 'The Grove' for the last day of steam in August 1968, when I would have been 3 months shy of my 16th birthday - got a few B&W photos to prove it but sadly no videos. My favourite (for reasons obscure to me now...) was always 44949. I remember also several times making the early Saturday morning trek of a few miles to be lineside at RG for the 'half-eight Brit', which was a regular fixture for a while - no idea what the service was but it was headed for Accrington/Blackburn. Happy days.

[@alanspencer7668]

Jealous. Always wanted to visit New Zealand but it never happened

[@DefJ1m]

@@alanspencer7668 Hey, drop in sometime!

[@williamscoggin1509]

Great old footage 👍🏻

[@andybray9791]

Used to have a line bypassing Bolton at west junction

[@barryroberts2196]

Oh happy days. Thanks so much.

[@juliustimber7153]

Do you have any pics of the Standard Railway Wagon Co rolling stock? I was an apprentice there in the late 60’s.

[@robertbolton1274]

a big thank you for uploading these videos. my dad was a driver and fireman on these engines and worked at Agecroft , Newtonheath and Patricroft sheds in the 50s and 60s. bringing back good memories for him.

[@bazmanoid5371]

I am from Blackburn. Really enjoyed this 😊

[@toyotatim2521]

I spent a few summers at Bolton in the mid 1960s, we used to hang around Crescent rd sheds a lot and would sometimes manage to get footplate rides and even drive the locos on rare occasions. I often went down there in the evening as there was a goods train go past at about 1030pm nearly always pulled by a 9F and the highlight would be when it was Evening star. I remember being on the platform at Trinity st station to watch the last ever steam train in August 68, happy days and thanks for sharing the video.

[@kennethsewell4245]

Bolton shed 26c think

[@toyotatim2521]

@@kennethsewell4245 Yes, I always remember it as 26c but apparently it became 9K in 1963

[@kennethsewell4245]

Days stood on great moor street bridge with mi little book crossing no. Out and when a namer came through that was the highlight of the day now 81 they were good days

[@Backwardlooking]

As a teenager I along with other lads crawled in and around Rosegrove Engine shed photographing the locomotives. It would have been around 1965?. A filthy environment with many WD 2-8-0’s as the mainstay to haul coal from the local collieries. Like most B.R. locomotives and carriages they were not cleaned and simply turned-around.

[@Darwenhypnotherapy]

I live in Darwen,the Sough tunnel is pronounced "suff" rather than sow tunnel,great footage,thankyou.

[@stevef9530]

Super, love the end-of-steam scruffiness of it. Preservation is great but it doesn’t have that…

[@ronaldhaynes4042]

The coal wagon being lose couple took some handling up and down gradient ex main line fireman.

[@alanspencer7668]

Until I scrouged a footplate ride, I had no idea just how skillful a fireman's job is. Hats off to all firemen

[@ronaldhaynes4042]

@@alanspencer7668 thanks Alan

[@johnathanryan2117]

Lovely

[@toffeeblue2201]

Rose Grove is nothing but a shell of what it was .

[@normanyates6735]

Sow tunnel! Try suff tunnel. Sough.

[@jeff5015]

Wonderful to see some shed footage, but where is the mention of the Lower Darren Shed 24D. Very disappointing to see you jump from Blackburn station straight to Darwen with no reference to the climb up from Ewood past the shed, and then Lower Darwen station on the loop up through Eccleshill.

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

Yes there should have been mention of the climb up from Ewood past the shed and also plenty of video footage of steam loco scrapping to show how all the locomotives were disposed of!

[@keithtanner2806]

Minotaur was lying on her side on top of a pile of scrap metal at a local Broadheath scrapyard for several weeks. She still had one nameplate in place. I always kick myself for not trying to buy the plate. ☹️c

[@briantaylor24d81]

Showed Bolton West box only box i went in that had small levers are you from Darwen ive a channell brian taylor 24D,only last 30 years thou

[@georgespencer8429]

Do you have volumes 1 to 3?

[@ianking7597]

Yes we do. Genuine copies are available from our website. Regards, Ian, B&R Video Productions.

[@quintoflyer]

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[@a-khanation5279]

What part is Burnley .. time stamp

[@oo0Spyder0oo]

Yeah I wanted to know that as well, I missed it someplace.

[@ianking7597]

The upload of this dvd is not authorized and is an infringement of copyright.

[@erikmorrison2355]

it's an awesome look back In time

[@ianking7597]

Yes it is a lovely look back in time as are all of our archive railway DVDs but it's our (B&R Video Productions) DVD and our copyright. We sell this DVD (and many, many others) on our website and pay royalties on each DVD to the original cameramen, who are usually pensioners. We most certainly did NOT authorize this upload. Regards....Ian, B&R Video Productions.

[@kennethsewell4245]

He getting smoke up thi nose at bradley fowt that were reight gradely

[@keithtanner2806]

Excellent but some of the place name pronunciations are cringe making. 🙉

[@martyhopkirk6826]

Lovely stuff, but why are southerners incapable of pronouncing 'Atherton'? 😆