Vintage railway film - Power to order - 1941

[@chriswilson2431]

We need more informational tv like this. It’s done in such a way you can’t help but learn. Lovely bit of footage from a bygone era.

[@gibbo9089]

Thank you Mr Cholmondley-Warner for the narration.

[@simon.revill]

“… but remember, in less than a century’s time, it will all be squandered away”

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

As the people and industry turned to the more reliable roads and the ability to travel wherever they wanted. We lost our railways because we decided to not use them.

[@jeffreyhodge5564]

Look at the skills ,not a template in sight ,wonderful!

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

Template seen at 3:46. Should have gone to SpecSqvers.

[@nickmiller76]

This beats "working from home".

[@blackthorne57]

Thank you for sharing this rarely seen film.

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thank you for todays historic film. Quite entertaining and enjoyable. Cheers mates! ❤😊

[@simonfrancisrosanes321]

Do more british vintage railway films. Please.

[@geoffreyvincent6086]

how apprpriate that the photographer for this film was mr hornby

[@Wooburnmusic]

Back in those days work was work, REAL WORK !

[@TurtledIn1991]

Watching this gave me so much pleasure, not just in seeing a WD go together like a massive Airfix kit, but in the pride we used to have for our industry & its creations. The globalistic obsession with the bottom line and outsourcing has really gutted not just Britain, but so many other nations.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

The obsession with the bottom line is what gave us the railways, the motor car and other road vehicles.

[@TurtledIn1991]

@@neiloflongbeck5705 There has certainly been a profit motive behind these things, but I was specifically referring to the way we now "just get a cheaper country to do it" with no regard to how this attitude impacts national security, and the hollowing out of the communities left behind when the main industry in town moves out. Both of these things are coming back to haunt us now.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

@@TurtledIn1991 that's fine but we, as a country, have consistently voted for lower taxes which effectively means lower spending by our government or a higher national debt. We personally want things that our cheap but also want high wages which effectively prices our national products out of the market. The problem is the population not the system.

[@billpugh58]

@@TurtledIn1991 Perhaps now we have left the evil EUSSR we will build everything ourselves? Maybe we dont need to belong to the worlds largest and wealthiest free trade area? The tories will save us :)

[@TurtledIn1991]

@@billpugh58 In a way the tories have already saved us, displaying their incompetence and showing us all what a sham our two-party system really is 🤣 Jokes aside, regardless of how we feel about the Brexit result, what would it say about our commitment to the democratic process if we were to ignore the majority vote of the British people? I say this as someone who voted Remain. In addition, just because we're not politically a part of the EU that doesn't mean we can't still trade with them. There'll be additional hurdles, yes, but if we make our industries and products attractive, they'll find a way to trade with us. The UK is in a really dire spot right now, with the fall of our industrial might coinciding with our dependence on foreign markets squeezing the people from both sides (wages are stagnant, meanwhile our over-reliance on Russian gas is seeing energy prices skyrocket, for example), but I have faith that we can unleash the power of our heritage and reclaim our prosperity. We just need to educate the people on what we used to have; let them know we have options other than being at the mercy of international markets. That's what films like this do really well.

[@trailwayt9H337]

This video is very amazing. Thankyou for given this very interested information of view of made of steam Locomotive. Feeling as very nostalgic in Beautifully 💚👏👏👏👏

[@philliplabuschagne]

British engineering is to be seen world wide. South Africa had a well run efficient railway. Sadly we have nothing left even the stations have been wrecked and lines stolen and sold for scrap.

[@williamhamblen3808]

No personal protective equipment to be seen!

[@TheStickCollector]

I want to get into building steam trains so this is useful

[@reneastle8447]

Good on you, buddy.

[@simonfunwithtrains1572]

Forging shop skills amazing, not much in the way of health and safety about. For more on this read Life In A Railway Factory By Alfred Williams. GWR in the 1800's

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

Just the Factory Act and similar legislation. But still those rivetters lost their hearing.

[@grotekleum]

@@neiloflongbeck5705 Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but now H&S is just to create jobs, constant new regulations on top of new regulations.

[@barneswallace1944]

Took me back a few years even the supervisor foreman wearing a bowler hat. Beeching who probably never soiled his hands, turn in your grave. God rest all the engineers, fitters and foundry workers who built Britain.

[@damianharris2167]

Beeching was just the scapegoat for Ernest Marples and his crooked ways.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

As anybody who can Gogle Richard Beeching would know, he was a research physicist and worked at the Fuel Research Station at Greenwich and then at thomond Nickel Laboratories in a London where he did research I'm metallurgy and mechanical engineering. During the war he work in the ministry of Supply initially working on shell designs riding g to become the Deputy Chief Engineer. After the war he joined ICI working on improving the efficiency of various production lines and improving their production costs. Perhaps you should check the facts before giving your opinions.

[@jeffreyhodge5564]

HELP We want our railways back!

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

You never miss the water until the well runs dry. We, as a country, moved back to the roads away from the railways.

[@timelessengineering]

Great stuff thanks for sharing.

[@AlexTrainmanMontagano]

Awesome

[@478vivi]

le montage est excellent!!!🎥

[@grandpaears8746]

Fabulous !!!

[@qpr543]

Watching this process for the first time!

[@redmi9anio]

...at minute 0:22 what is the name of the viaduct bridge.?

[@allabouttrains6027]

WD356 in this video never got used, it was sunk on the MV Berhala on its way to Turkey on 23 May 1941, off the coast of Freetown Sierra Leone.

[@CarlB_1962]

The only thing we manufacture so efficiently these days is egos.

[@paultrevett1287]

Yep social media has a lot to answer for"!

[@RebelWithACause-ts7de]

UK railways are a shambles today!

[@philliplabuschagne]

Come to South Africa to see a real shambles.

[@p.istaker8862]

It's going to be ok. They're building a new railway that would be better off having the money spent on the trunk routes that were recommended for re-investment in the Beaching report.

[@rottenroads1982]

1941, The UK in involved in WW2 at this time.

[@fredburgessea4925]

Jolly good show what

[@cbaboxsqueeze]

All British actors and broadcasters had that diction right up to probably the 1960's. What they are saying is perfectly clear despite the primitive microphone technology of the period.

[@grotekleum]

@@cbaboxsqueeze Yes, rather, RP ruled the airwaves in thowes deys, ginger beer and ays-scream all round, what!

[@zeddboy46]

Where ha our pride gone?