Steam Days - 'Going Great Western'

[@adamc1272]

I spent the ages of 3-10 treating these programmes as some kind of life support machine, many thanks for the upload!

[@aaronbuffalo7769]

Micheal Burke's version is emblazoned into my brain, was something about these old tapes that were so awesome. It was more the interesting classic visuals

[@timwebster8122]

My childhood too recorded on Betamax then transferred onto VHS

[@marksalisbury7087]

Brilliant. Thanks for posting this and the others in the series. I used to watch these over and over again when i was a teenager. As soon as i watched them again i was almost reciting them, they were that familiar!

[@matthewchorlton8657]

Mark Salisbury Me too. I was 5 years old when this series aired and I’m now 38. Watching these again literally takes me back all those years to being sat in my bedroom wearing the VHS tape out from watching them so much.

[@Hard-Boiled-Bollock]

Great that Hagley Hall has recently come back to life

[@lastsamurai2000]

Love those steam locos.

[@bhuwanilimbu9731]

I like them to

[@TheGWR0-4-0]

Me too

[@djdaz72]

Great to see this again must be around 1985 judging by the GWR 150 on the locomotive

[@geoffcook9518]

Wonderful, many thanks! Geoff C

[@SunnyIntervalsORG]

Little did they know the GWR name would return in 2015!

[@Sam-cz2bz]

I love going back in time with these great documentaries. 1986?

[@larryarcher4502]

The people of days gone by love the modern the modern Love the days gone by go figure human nature at its best actually it looks like a piece of heaven !!!

[@nonamerooster5413]

I had this one on VHS

[@eratosthenes1563]

excellent series. A shame the BBC does not repeat them

[@orkneyancestor2059]

The BBC is now full of people who call railway stations, train stops.

[@drumtracksdirect]

They were on iPlayer and then all but one episode was taken down. Send them a mail or tweet to get them to reinstate it!

[@bendover9663]

What's the tune at 25:47??

[@DiD86]

"You can't lift it up there!" What they did: Lifted it up there... LOL!

[@SunnyIntervalsORG]

I think he meant you can't lift if from above using a crane. They had to jack it up from underneath instead.

[@DrewDowdell307]

Is this available for purchase on DVD anywhere?

[@Middlesbrough250]

5:30 it know as a hammer beam Roof

[@KurtBenning]

I wish bbc would restore the quest for speed

[@danielangelsanchezgonzalez322]

Impresionantes infraestructuras hechas por brunel, pero las playas de gran Bretaña son un asquito parecen hechas de fango

[@ronaldpollard9098]

the great western was one two railways to the west country the other was the southern.