Vintage railway film - Shunter Blacks night off - 1941

[@RHR-221b]

Thank you again, B B R. My Grampa James Keir Brown was a Shunter during World War Two, afterwards based at St Enoch's Station, Glasgow, and finally Queen Street Station. During the early to mid-1960s, he introduced me (during my early teen years} to Rannoch Station - holidaying in the Polmadie Angling Club's railway camping coach, parked on a siding at Rannoch Station (adjacent to the then extant turntable). Wonderful days. Awoken to a breakfast of ultra-fresh, butter-fried trout, caught by the night-fishermen just a few hours before. The second course of our set-you-up-for-the-day-ahead breakfast included potato scones (well-fired, for my taste), black pudding, white pudding, sliced haggis, fried eggs, fried bread and, more often than not, baked beans. Oh, and (for me, again, well-fired) toast spread with 'real' butter. All washed down with strong, sweet tea, liberally splashed with evaporated milk. Heaven! Thence (!) ... on to Loch Laidon or the Gaur for some R & R, and hopefully catching even more sweet trout for supper et al. Apologies for the ramble. All the best. Rab 🐟 🍻 💚 😎

[@terencewilliammckenna6121]

Happy 80th anniversary to this documentary

[@ronalddevine9587]

Thank God for all the heroic works of Great Britain 🇬🇧 and all of her people. 🙏

[@thepress8229]

yes indeed

[@jimharris9394]

Bravo from the U.S. The entire country had a 36" pair of brass balls. No wimps, no whiners. Just half the countries brass hanging between the legs if everyone; male, female, adult or child.

[@davepayne9162]

just love the old steam trains,shame they had to go.

[@ShodaiGojira-xn3xk]

Some are in preservation though, they even made a working replica of an LNER A1 called Tornado, the Flying Scotsman was the last surviving of it's class (A1/A3)

[@robertmatthews8302]

I just can't see a group of people working so tightly together with the same responsibility and awareness nowadays, sadly.

[@andrewnelson3681]

They’d all run away.

[@valeriebassett3107]

That was really good. That man was a hero!

[@steveib724]

That guy deserves a life time supply of Heineken

[@snakeeyesman]

Oh yes, some good German beer !

[@jimharris9394]

A bloody great set 'o brass balls 'e 'ad there mate!

[@Keyswiz71]

My Great Great Uncle Arthur Salmon was a shunter, originally with the Great Eastern Railway and then after grouping the LNER, working in the goods yard in Stowmarket Suffolk throughout WW2.

[@paulroberts9704]

Brilliant short story...interesting

[@BennettBrookRailway]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@frankem51]

Based on the true story of Norman Tunna GC

[@mickd6942]

Not forgetting Benjamin Gimbert GC and James nightall GC , if ever there was a case for modern locomotives to be named after people then Tunner gimbert and nightall names should still be on locomotives to this day .

[@Thunderer0872]

May be or may be not, this is 1941 if you look at the ticket on the van, Soham was June 1944.

[@donbrearley3148]

I just love that this was produced by Mr. Box and Mr. Carr lol.

[@robertclare6137]

Filmed at Feltham Yard

[@fuzzdmedic]

Not all war hero's were in the fighting forces

[@christophersavill4785]

This was filmed at the old marshalling yards in feltham middlesex i used to knock about on the abandoned sight in the early 70s

[@rottenroads1982]

Shunter Joe Black is a real Hero.

[@nosmo-king]

The ‘elf and safety brigade would go into meltdown today over these working practices.

[@Scotsman60103]

True, they would be useless in that sort of situation. The ammunition van would most likely have exploded and took everyone with it.

[@paulbroderick8438]

And now? All work from home, service industries, hunchbacks in the making from staring at iPhone screens all day long!

[@Rikkyhardo]

It were fair blistering me neck at that

[@barneswallace1944]

Great expression, will try it with my cockney accent. The art of slowing the wagons looks a Health and Safety nightmare. Much enjoyed film and I don't have to communicate in German????

[@roseogrady8785]

Unsung Hero's.

[@Jimyjames73]

WOW - you don't see this any more - it's all in metal containers these days!!! 🙂🚂🚂🚂

[@TheBroomwagon]

Brilliant!

[@knuckles1206]

1:36 G16 SHOT!

[@mce_AU]

Nice.

[@train4905]

Awsome

[@thepress8229]

whew

[@stephensmith799]

What a dangerous thing the unfitted van with three link couplings were. Hundreds of shuttered died doing what Shunter Black was doing. The American and European buck-eye coupler was far, far safer!