Very true. I do miss those days, badly.

Bangalore looks likes village of 2nd of 2nd country...

@@anirudh1645 your statement makes no sense. Kindly, rephrase it for us?

He says it looks downmarket and 3rd world @@ranjittyagi9354

Jimmy Hetzer scale models same here! I had them all, except for the Europe episode. Wish these were available to buy, as my vhs tapes are slowly fading into oblivion.

13:20 😮CRUEL FACE OF CASTEISM. OTHERWISE BRAHMAN SAY THAT BRITISHER STARTED CASTEISM IN INDIA. ANY OTHER COUNTRY DID U SEE THIS

Sometimes, not for the better. I miss those steam engines, but I don't miss coal for what it does to the planet.

It may be "old fashion" now, but back in its day, it was the BOMB, dude! Always remember, Swagoto, like that pot of coffee sitting on your kitchen counter, someday you too shall be old and weak!

@@musiccollector Agreed. The sight & sound of steam railway is not quite there now

@@StillPlaysWithModelTrains1956 Surely, Mr. Walker ! What I meant was the documentary is truly a good one. yes old is gold too ! :)

Has it changed? Some parts seem similar to today

very scary still ngl

Can you upload the part on southern railways of India? The sound in some parts of the video is missing and there is no commentary.

Good morning, please put it on the internet and share the link if possible. Could be Google drive sharing. Thankyou good day

When traveling train

Especially Yelahanka. Even up until 10-12 years ago it was a remote station with two proper platforms and that was it. Hardly 5-10 trains stopped there. Look at it now. It's very well maintained , has proper parking and given more importance for stoppage of trains, with a few originating/terminating there.

@@trainfanner47 Advances and modernization bring with them other problems. Of course, the worst of it is the population explosion.

@@musiccollector This population started to increase quite rapidly during the 1920's and after 1950 or so, did so exponentially. The old charm is gone. 1980, we were about 660 million. Now, we're 1.5 billion. Some facts that have contributed greatly to quality of life deterioration: population explosion, forced migration of people from rural areas to cities and towns, several times more big cars on unfit roads with idiotic drivers high on drugs or on their caring two hoots for traffic rules, invasion of the cultures because of Internet on every phone making the generation very dumb, unsocial, depressed, anxious with anger issues in many, way more crime compared to back then, a highly corrupt system that allows for illegal cutting of trees to make way for "hotels" and shops right on major, congested roads. We have had no proper planning in any respect. And as you may have already noticed, very few Indians complain about these things, least of all, the population, traffic and lot of crime. They seem absolutely oblivious to these factors. Nothing can be more foolish than that. Mc Donald's, Burger King, Samsung, big SUV's and malls don't bring any charm, they have torn apart the cultural fabric of the nation. The best they can do is to make every place look the same, in India or outside. It's a dismal picture. I feel very suffocating to live in India while it wasn't so when I was in US 7 years. The main reason for for feeling good was the countryside in US. Their towns and cities have problems too but I could just take a car on rent and drive solo to wherever I wanted. Regards from the Union Territory of Chandigarh, NW India.

​@@trainfanner47The old, pristine charm is lost forever.

@@ranjittyagi9354 Not really. The Route to Kolar that starts from Yelahanka still has remnants of the past

Not a friendly chap at all! I wrote thanking him for this epic program - never replied. After all, why should I care?

Died March 4, 2022 · Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK (pneumonia)

What contributed to population increase suddenly during the 1920's ?

Everything has changed..

Every place in India changed drastically in last 30 years which no one could have imagined in 1980

What. A joke 😂😂😂

The title says 1980. No more, no less. That makes it 43 years old at the moment of my writing this comment. That old charm.

You are much too diplomatic. I have some choice words for idiots like that. Either he can loosen his death-grip on copyright or else this fabulous show will disappear off the face of the earth! Common sense is in short supply. Look at it this way. Keeping it hidden away in some vault, unexposed to future generations is not going to put more money into his pocket. It will disappear into oblivion with him, forever, to be a distant memory. SAD.

The sound is off on this no question. The copy I have on video tape is much better quality than this. This copy is ruined. The real copy is magnificent!

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@@Geeves8612 caN you upload and share your copy too?

@@quark31 yes I can definitely try. It's on video tape at my parents.

@@Geeves8612 I'd so appreciate it. Along with T. Oldfield, I wrote and recorded the original soundtrack but have never heard it since the night it was aired on TV in the 80s. This version is unlistenable, excruciating in fact.... Thanks, if you're able xx

Beatles? What's with that? Where is the connection?

@@musiccollector Harry in one scene Lucy in the sky with diamonds is played virtually in it's entirety. That meant the entire video was muted. I guess things might be different now with the computers a bit smarter

Yeah, and they gave India railways, roads, and many other infrastructure. I see buildings and roads locally built cracking up after just 5 years while the same structures built by British during the turn of the century remain robust, without flaws. We are quick to overlook the good they did though, naturally, there will be some bad.

@@musiccollector Colonialism can have no excuses. The good, if at all any was done, was out of self interest. Let there be no justification for colonising or condescension. India was the the richest, most advanced and erudite nation till about 1700 when the Mughals first and British / European later descended to make it among the poorest. India would have been much better off if it was left as is without the British colonising and other European powers - Portugal for one. Atleast, destiny would have been ours. We shall rise again, the tide is already turning but we will not colonise even at our next zenith. That is India.

​@@musiccollectorthey gave us but only for self use Not for our use 😂😂

England has enormous problems of it's own making since Brexit to have a bucket full of angst.

Did you model your post on what they term the "narrative of angry victimhood"?

How about using some common sense to realise that the audio is sounding weird because it has deteriorated on the VHS tapes?