Steam Memories East Midlands & Nottingham 1960's

[@updistant]

Absolutely outstanding content. So grateful to those who spent a small fortune on equipment, film in the day and had the foresight to record such fantastic images of railway history. Thank you for posting.

[@duncancurtis5108]

Including much of what's long vanished.

[@loveeuropehatetheeu5271]

I bet it was a labour of love, I'd do it now if today was 1965.

[@sugarbertie1143]

Great shots at Staveley Works there as well! As far as the Great Central Main Line goes it should never have closed. The fine station of Nottingham Vic was a masterpiece of architecture and if the line was still here I'm sure it would have been a major electrified fast route between London and Manchester. What a sad end and much lamented.

[@richardstuart325]

Grateful thanks to those who filmed this and made it available to the rest of us. I am sitting here in Western Australia, looking at my home town as I can just remember it as a boy.

[@christophersheward9266]

A vaiuable archive of the area.

[@sandralack2494]

RL remember those days I'm 72 now it only seems like yesterday best days of my life love seeing the trains 💗🚂 😅

[@roberttatlow5535]

Great to see City of Nottingham towards the end of the film.

[@peterbeesley8904]

Can't tell you how much I enjoyed the scenes of locos, infrastructure, the coalfield and not forgetting the buses. Priceless, thanks for sharing.

[@duncancurtis5108]

Which scrapyard was that? Wards of Beighton?

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

​@@duncancurtis5108 I'm gonna call Rigleys at Bulwell Forest.

[@GrrMeister]

*I well remember the Nottingham Trams after travelling from Leicester to Arkwright Street on the Great Central with my Mum in the mid 50's to visit my Aunt at Wilford - why were these both Scrapped - absolute Folly and spend Millions on a limited Tram Route today ?*

[@nigeldawson8797]

I lived next door to the Peacock pub on Mansfield Road Nottingham and The Victoria Station was my playground for many years. 😢

[@aljonflavin6760]

Enjoyed very much, scrap man made a fortune. What coal did for us kept us warm gave us electric and jobs but the change was coming.

[@tankmicr00man]

Particularly enjoyed seeing the Deeley and Johnson tanks too!

[@nigelduckworth4419]

If I have seen Bihar and Orissa once, I have seen it 100 times. Every time I went to Manchester Victoria/ Exchange trainspotting what should turn up but Bihar and Orissa like a bad dream. I prayed that the shed would send another Jubilee instead but my prayers were seldom answered. Now I would give my right arm to see it again but second best is the brief glimpse of it in this film at Victoria The remainder is absolutely fascinating and , being from Manchester, I am having to use old railway maps in order to pinpoint where the footage was shot (Victoria apart). That adds to the fun. Many thanks for posting the video.

[@kevinchamberlain5978]

Brilliant. I've lived in the Nottingham area almost all my life and although I'm not a trainspotter. this video is amazing. The city centre scenes are excellent, and in the railway sequences I can recognise most of the surrounding areas.

[@nigeldawson8797]

Priceless. My Dad Geoff Dawson took me to so many of the locations shown and i was with him on the RCTS East Midlander on City of Nottingham to Eastleigh and Swindon in May 1964. Awesome. Thanks. Nigel Dawson

[@mickgreen5334]

Brilliant. Thanks alot. I'm 10 again.😊

[@johnbarlow6990]

Outstanding, with such a variety of locations and locomotives. I was amazed to see shots of Bulwell Common, my local station where I spent many hours trainspotting. Thank you so much for posting this

[@reynardbizzar5461]

I’m here for the buses😂Outstanding quality. Thank you so very much for posting this on KZbin 🎉

[@flunkyminion]

Imagine if we had developed Trolleybus technology instead of ditching it.

[@tonyday7233]

Thanks, i especially like the tank engines in the industrial settings.

[@rogerchaplin9781]

Great, loved every minute of that, many thanks

[@aljonflavin6760]

A great film bus- streets-trains,thanks.

[@johnbarthram2761]

Something very special has been filmed 🎥 here Something lost.

[@larx4074]

Terrific!! Some very evocative scenes, many thanks for sharing.

[@islandhopperstuart]

I thoroughly enjoyed this: thanks to whoever spent a considerable amount of money on colour film in the day as this was an expensive pastime. Nicely digitised too. But what a valuable document this is. A completely lost age, captured. Railways, collieries, ironworks all changed or, in the main gone completely. It's also a reminder how central the railways were to employment: we all seemed to knew someone who was a lifetime railwayman, in my case an uncle who cycled five miles each way to Westhouses depot at all hours of day or night when working on shifts. It's easy to get over nostalgic and wish for those days - the test I always apply to such comments is would you prefer a trip to the dentists then or now - but I mourn for what we lost in that manic rush to clear away the old and replace with the new. At least we have this to remind us.....

[@tankmicr00man]

Excellent comment, my thoughts exactly. Gratitude to those who made it, and thanks so much for posting.

[@sandralack2494]

Really enjoyed the videos thank u went on bus trips with my dad and a lot and catching the train with family to Skegness thank u for showing us good memories

[@davidwallis866]

Excellent indeed!

[@williammcavoywilliammcavoy]

that was a great video

[@tango6nf477]

Back then trolley buses used to operate in many large towns and cities. I have never been able to understand why up to date trolley bus systems have not been reintroduced. They are environmentally clean and do not require so much infrastructure such as rails which cost a lot of money. Its seems to be a simple and cost effective solution but there is no sigh of any interest from our "leaders".

[@electrictractiontrainsandt3063]

I really enjoyed this video!😀👍

[@awol116]

Wonderful - a real gem.👍

[@lostpilgrimmedia_uk]

Cool old footage

[@kevincollis4768]

Excellent

[@kenstevens5065]

What were you back then, Home Ales or Shipstones, Forest or County, Midland or Great Central? Blimey, am I that old! Thank you for posting, halcyon days.

[@tominnis8353]

This is an amazing record. I remember very well those green trolley buses on family visits to my uncle's who lived on Wollerton Road. Thank you. PS: What a terrible eysore the "replacement" buildings were and even more so now, are. They should demolish the lot and rebuild the magnificent Central station . . . .

[@davidpepper3203]

Quite interesting as to the beginning... Looking at the first electric buses... Trolley buses!!

[@colinlambert882]

Many of the engines were withdrawn very shortly after he filmed them. There are two shots of rail tours with goods engines, just before being scrapped. The Fowler 4F, cleaned up in shiny black, seen departing Nottingham Midland 16/10/65 on tour was the last surviving Midland Railway tender engine, withdrawn three weeks later. The most shocking waste were the Riddles 2-10-0s, this one 92137 only built in 1957. Most of them didn’t last 10 years, but this one but lives on as a Hornby model, yours for just £250. The rarest footage, ironically, is of a brand shiney new but very short lived class 37 diesel (D8983) and the only one never re-numbered. It was badly damaged and scrapped after a fatal crash at Bridgend, when just 7 months old in1965. Sadly none of the Johnson goods, 0-6-0s (43658) were preserved, even though over 900 of these and spectacular workhorses were built from 1874 onwards. Again, it is seen all cleaned up pulling a special, presumably just before withdrawal. Very few other shots of BR standards but the Class 5 shown lasted just 11 years from 1957 to 1968 - what a waste! There is one shot of a V2 (Green Arrow) sadly, just pulling a goods. A mere 2-6-2, but with a Kylchap exhaust, they were the equal of any Pacific. The oldest loco is another Johnson, a ‘half cab’ tank, 84 years old when scrapped in 1964. The Coronation Pacific, pulling the “East Midlander“ special, seen at Nottingham Victoria was appropriately ‘City of Nottingham’, withdrawn for scrapping only weeks later in October 1964.

[@johnnybsteelriff]

Stranger seeing Hymeks and GWR steam locos at the end of the video...was this an open day or something?

[@volvos60bloke]

Visually good. Had to mute the cinecamera sound.

[@DominicMiles-c1v]

Its a pity there was no sound recording made to accompany this. I w love to hear the "music" that steam engines make. The smell is easy to imagination.

[@rogermarsh2763]

I was told that Nottiingham (16A) had to turn out one of its Jubilees for the Worksop local. Either it ran tender first on the return, or it was turned on the triangle just west of Worksop ? Can anybody confirm that ?

[@nectafarious8842]

It makes you want to weep with rage and frustration doesn't it? The pitiful political pygmies that dictated the future of what used to be Great Britain summed up in one video. How many billions would have been saved if the Great Central had been used as the HS2 mainline with branches to Birmingham and Manchester?

[@kenstevens5065]

And now they are putting the final layer of icing on the cake with the destruction of even our strategic industries and nett zero.

[@DecentralEyes]

Ruined by the annoying audio, please add a soundtrack or something!

[@volvos60bloke]

better time's . time's what we are going back to now are brexit is fully did . thank you to all what voted for it are future's bright are future's orange lol.

[@steveperry4724]

Some fabulous footage in excellent quality. What a shame the original sound isn't possible but still wonderful images of a long gone era.

[@OiforEngland]

Who would love to go back in time, god this country was great, today's modern plastic looking trains are awful, and the old buildings stand out against the dull modern architecture of today, and to think certain fools call it progression, I for one certainly don't.