Storing uncooked fish and poultry on top of the gateaux - unbelievable (2.20)!!

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​@@alanlangridge7819not very healthy.

Hardy stomachs, those Brits in the 1950s@@robertmatthews8302

I thought salmonella

... Salmonella was The Fashion Back Then Eh... EVERYTHING UNDER THE RAW CHICKEN 🍗.... Splendiferous Indeed Old Bean 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 0:25

graham frear Agreed. Though I also love foreign engines as well.

Johnny RoadTrain Actually I mean the ones built outside of the UK, such as American and African Ones.

@Johnny RoadTrain did you see the T V program about. Restoration of Welsh railway 🚂 did you say most of the volunteers who restored them came from England. I don't think Welsh trains foreign. Foreign is overseas.

@@josephmarrison4606 yes the Americans some huge not streamlined and elegant but beautiful.

@Johnny RoadTrain yes I experience that in India years ago just hanging on to the train and carriages.

The great days of steam Man and machine a perfect team The days of black and white Not a woman in sight I long for those days and more I wish it was 1954

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*Paul le Saux* wrote some rather _twee_ commentaries for *BTF* - this is one. But the film is OK, just not as good as most *BTF* films for public release.

Not only that but there were jobs for everyone who wanted one.

Jobs gone because of two thing: 1) West layed it's weapons down, while others where rising; 2) People wanted cheap, no matter what the cost.

@@grevberg Hm, I don't really have the perspective or statistics to confidently assume that employment was easy. We only know what we see from this film & other media that remains from that era. This film strikes a certain mood, one of cheerful British get-on-with-it-ness. But the world was changing so quickly. Britain was still poor from the war; youth was disaffected and starting to get rebellious. Immigration from the Carribean was shaking up the social order, while the traditional poorer classes were busting out of their 'places' and insisting on upward mobility. Nobility was finding it harder to staff & heat their ancient manors, & to hold onto their privileges. New technologies were putting the squeeze on traditional trades. Things were not as harmonious as this film portrays!

no "mad rush" going 120 mph non-stop King's Cross to York with no time to stop for water because they have to be there on time, the driver has to constantly watch every inch of the track and the firemen have to do back breaking work the whole time. It may be have been relaxing for the passengers, but for the crew it was incredibly hard and tiring work

@@thesteelrodent1796 totally agree with you on that

yep back then you didn't have to keep looking behind you every second to make sure some little shitfuck didn't come up behind you to mug you at gunpoint or knife you in the back... because back then England and scotland still had the death penalty

Me too

I know how you feel about this mate

All that coal burning in 1954 just caused killer smogs in winter.

Know what you mean mate. Okay, as someone said on the comments the smoke from these old engines must have been some sort of pollutant, but whether they were enough to cause the smogs I'm not qualified to comment. But I guess you were referring to more than just the characterful old engines, to a whole way of life, a whole ethos that existed in the those days? A sort of decency and solid values which have largely disappeared?

We're all with you on that one Peter.

@@martm216 I think so and our friend missed the point (no pun).

Mallard herself is a piece of my family’s history and heritage. Our pickup is painted in the exact LNER Garter Blue as Mallard, and we live here in the states. So we proudly own America’s Mallard.

An old joke about Indian railways. A man goes to the travel agent in London for a train ticket to Bombay (it is and OLD joke), he's told they can't get him one but they could get him to Boulogne by train and ferry. At Boulogne he asks again and the ticket office tell him they get him as far as Paris and it repeats. Having stayed some months in India he goes to the railwa ticket office in Delhi and asks, in some trepidation for a ticket to London. "Ohh, most certainly sahib, would that be Victoria or Charing Cross you would be requiring"

I wondered about the corridor too. Never thaught such thing existed.

Other civlizied countries started to destroy themselfs as well.

No, she was wantonly destroyed by the politicians (mostly Labour politicians).

@@Maelli535 you mean conservatives not Labor

@@zakmatew Look again! Labour just keeps taking from the pot, the Tories put some back in. But it's time for totally new politicians, Boris is also f***ing useless.

Historian of the postwar period here. Things went out of control because it got so good. Wages went up, inflation went up, attempts to control it failed and led to industrial action. Attempts to control that failed, and left us broke. Then, ultimately, this Britain was killed off in the Thatcher years as it wasn't profitable. Then again, what's for the best, and what's profitable are two entirely different things. (massively simplified of course, I'm not going to run a seminar on "why is Britain a Tory tax haven?" here and now.) I call the Britain depicted in this video "Attlee's Britain", because that is truly what it was. We'd probably still be living this life if Heath had lost the 1970 election, because measures to control inflation and democratise Trade Unions were a core part of Barbara Castle's "In Place of Strife" white paper that'd have likely been implemented if Wilson had won his third term. Labour would've almost certainly been emboldened by that win to confront its Trade Union base before things got out of hand. We'd also have probably seen Castle be our first female PM in that alternative reality, and its likely that our oil wealth would've been nationalised too, making us all a LOT better off. Alas, its just a Historian's daydream now. In short though, there is 100% concrete proof that the Conservative party are the reason we don't have the means to be taking a fancy top-rate express to Edinburgh. They're the ones who failed to get things under control, they're the ones who cut back public spending to within an inch of its life whilst letting their mates put nothing back into this country, and they're the ones who were more than happy to sell off our services to foreign companies to run into the ground at an increased cost to us. But because people of a certain age were effectively bribed a council house, that's all totally fine. The Conservative Party has not had a good leader since Eden, and Labour has not had a good one since Wilson.

I think it still is a Great country.🇬🇧🇨🇮.

Did anyone one had top hats?

Zeeteava Thepipe my grandfathers might have. I know one of my great grandfathers did. My grandmother showed it to me, and there’s a photo of him wearing it. Very dapper.

and Howard Marion Crawford (aka 'Dr Watson')

Check these out 4449 daylight and n&w 611.

at this time there was very little understanding of food safety and hygiene , how the journey of time has show us to be sharp eyed like yourself and see the hazard

The strange thing is that they survived and literally did fight another day two year later.

@@MikeJones-hi8fd Prob good for immune system give it a work out and for sure they didnt know back then

Wasn't that one of the health inspector's main objections in Fawlty Towers' final "Basil the Rat" episode?

@@notroll1279 yes i think so lol

The days when people took a pride in their appearance and dressed up to travel. I remember those days. My earliest memory is travelling on the Golden Arrow from Victoria. The lovely Pullman carriages and good food. Must have been about 1959, maybe 1960. Trains now are about as comfortable as buses.

that sir is a A4 Pacific

Before

A4 60017 Silver Fox: *"Im about to end this man's whole career"*

A lot of straws - not plastic ones of course.

A trough down the middle of the track and a scoop.

@@melanierhianna thanx! ingenious......

New York Central Railroad from USA used scoops too.

How old were you? What kind of adventure were you on?

@@gregorymalchuk272 I was 12 and I was going to Aberdeen with my friend to have a holiday with some of his relatives - his name was Michael Imlach and we lived in Luton - our parents had no problem with us two travelling on our own that far - how times have changed !!!

@@clivehughes2179 In some part of the worl childern (probably not 12) still do travel for some distance without parents. But how was the train ride?

@@zeeteavathepipe3184 The ride was exciting for us seeing so many different places such as York etc. - we had to change at Edinburgh to go on to Aberdeen - I still have photos taken with a Box Brownie - Happy memories

@@clivehughes2179 Maybe one day you will scan the film and put the pictures on a blog or onto a site.

if we can build a A1 from the ground up (Tornado), as well as a P2 (Prince Of Wales), we can sure as hell build a brand new A4 also!

Well the driver did apply the steam brake after the A4’s tender buffers pushed her away from the consist. The driver probably signaled to the shunter that he was ready to couple up and the engine was secure.

And how it was?

I saw Silver Fox and many other Gresley A4s at Hadley Wood, Barnet in the late 50s.

​@davidrees7978 you did...as did I ...Great site and sound by I loved the Deltics too

Playing less of a bastard than when he was chasing Richard Greene

health and safety would be all over that shit if it was here in the states. 🤣

Silver Fox unfortunately was scrapped but 6 of her sister engines still survive . One , Sir Nigel Gresley is now back on the main line and you can hear that lovely chime whistle in action

@@clairefrancis7640 Thanks, but I know that I have ridden on 2 A4's now. I was asking anybody who knows if the actual whistle from Silver Fox still survives somewhere? I do know that an A4 whistle is fitted to one of the large garratt engines at the Welsh Highland Railway in Wales.

If only they were as comfortable

What is PC ? Give us your least favourite bit...

Yes, I had TB. It was great.

The UK was still recovering after the war and it was decided to rely on the internally produced coal for steam rather than on imported oil. Steam ended officially in 1968.