I was so glad to be part of that in the 60s late 50s.

Fascinating stuff. Excellent video, thank you.

We are lucky we we're they.to see these magnificent steam engines I spent many hours like you with this footage. Innocent days what's a real pleasure to see this film thank you 🙂

Prior to the completion of the Manchester and Liverpool to London Electrification underpoweed class 40 diesels were intoduced as a stop gap on expresses out of Euston.Two of the reasons for this was the threat from Camden Borough Council to force closure of Camden Loco under the clean air act and the difficulty in recruiting lowly paid shed staff when other employment opportunities such as Ford of Dagenham could provide cleaner and better paid (if mind numbing) jobs on the production line.

When everything British was British

At 01-00, 01-15 I could smell that smoke,steam and hot oil, couldn't you?

Thumbs Up #300 👍 Thank you for all this great footage, sad they are just a memory but you are keeping them alive, Thank you - I Subscribed 👍😎

Thanks for this film, I enjoy looking back over the days of steam. Its pleasant to watch... :-)

As a child I remember being taken from Stranraer to Dumfries then to Carlisle then across to Newcastle and then the uproar over axing of the line, I also remember going across later and having to go to Kilmarnock then join the line down south and mum saying that by the time we traveled to Kilmarnock we could have been nearly in Carlisle, good old beeching butcher of the branch lines, ah well I’ve got happy memories of steam rail travel and because we live in Ireland lots of ferry travel and then onwards from either heysham,Liverpool and Stranraer

Brilliant film, love it. 😊

Great Video.

Great Video, I have aubscribed.

Steam in Floopaloo

just goes to prove what I've said all along steam rules the rails.

Happy days long ago. 😁

How many of the steam engines were transferred to remote areas of the Commonwealth such as India or Pakistan?

There should have been plenty of videos of steam locos being cut up for scrap. There wasn't any :( Cut these polluting locos for scrap and melt them down in the furnaces!