Thses series of videos are amazing and a show a different world from today in every way ... great archive

Remember in 1976 and 1977 seeing rakes of Mk 1 Coaches being set light to at Bird's Yard in Long Marston - some of the coaches scrapped were better than those on the main railway sometimes! Birds set light to the whole rakes when they arrived and then cut them up wholesale - Asbestos contaminated vehicles went straight to the Snailwell (Cambs) incineration tunnel

It was good to see the coaches and locomotives being saved. It was sad to see the Stanier coach being destroyed.

.... and 3 years before I was born, Ooh! Fancy that!!

5:08 what a brilliant foresight, I love the aluminium tfl busses of 2021

Magnificent - if brief - footage of a Blue Pullman right at the end. Thank you for posting!

I heard Ceylon. That's my country.🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰🙏🙏🙏👈👈👈

What a waste. There was some beautiful wood in those old carriages that would have gladdened the hearts of many woodworkers.

The Beeching report was one of the biggest disasters in the UK's history.

The future etc, and all I heard from those numbers were "cutbacks", they were paving the way for the automobile.

I have this on CD. Yes, it is my favourite Look At Life transport section where the scenes of the London Transport buses filmed in 1964 that will never be equalled! The finest bus types seen are Routemaster RMs and the classic RT family vehicles when at a time buses were more reliable and efficient and London Transport had their own craftsmen and engineers at Chiswick Driver training school and Aldenham Overhaul Works. The silver Routemaster is in view as a 260 thankfully London Transport didn't adopt this to replace red as the colour on the buses and even Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka) were buying old London buses. I'm quite fascinated by the railway scenes too.

...after watching this I'm gonna treat myself to a spot of 'FRED DIBNAH', and other choice films to be sure....

In many ways those of us born between the mid 50s and mid 60s are the luckiest generation. Old enough to remember the original 'horsepower', young enough to be almost able to work out how to use our mobiles…with a little help from the grandchildren.

Those who made those locomotives will cry watching this waste!

As a child and teenager, it was a common site to see roads closed as a brand new coach was transported by road on the start of a journey that would see it going to one of many countries around the world. They were built a short distance from where I lived. I remember once 5 going in convoy.

0:01 Now This Is My Favorite Look At Life Episode Ever Made. Thanks Mate. X

Love every video.👍🇬🇧 Cheers.

The year I was born. ☺

The UK was still building steam locomotives until 1960. Many ended up with short working lives because of the Beeching Plan t modernize UK rail.

@2:44, Largest fleet of diesel locomotives in the world? In the States, after 1960 there was not a single steam locomotive being used in regular commercial service.

The Folly of Progress...

The Reshaping of Britain's Railways revealed that 6,000 coaches costing £3.4 million pounds per year to provide were used less than 18 times per year earning a revenue of £0.5 million after other movement costs were taken into account. Some 2,000 coaches were used 10 or less times per year. BR had started the cull of excess coaching stock long before Beeching wrote his report. The intention was to introduce reservations and higher fares for peak travel periods as used by the airlines. Other coaches were life-expired and were no longer required as DMUs and EMUs had taken over the lines they had been used on. In the case of the mainline coaches, the introduction of the multiple units had taken away the lines they would have been cascaded to.

Omg look at that pollution!

Better than landfill 🇬🇧

2021 - It's not likely to be this year either!

How is life more fulfilling now than it was then?

The affluent society where grownup men can spend their day playing trains and horses.

Did that tram preservation society in the disused quarry later became the Beamish open air Museum?

5:10 Classic British scrooges, so cheap that there was probably a serious discussion at one point to just use motorized shelving units as transports and scrap the buses all together.

If only heritage railway lines could use a time machine to go back and take newly decommissioned engines and rolling stock off BR's hands.

Scrapping the easy way..build a big fire and bung it on..

15 tons of tomato pooree in Anzio eh? Get the wire on then boy ,oi want to be in Norfolk boi Mondayyy.

Where was the transport museum in the New Forest? Am presuming Beaulieu didn't have that amount of space back then.

Given who the narrator is, shouldn’t this edition be called Turner The Wheel?

no wonder ozone layers going