It is really amazing how complicated the pointwork at Newcastle used to be compared to its present state.

Brilliant idea, very well executed. I find these really captivating, especially the ones of places and subjects I know. From the transitions to the sound effects and the choice of music - it really draws you in. 👍🏻

Great to see the Central Station over the years see the diamond xings again takes me back to when i worked with the Signal Engineers in the 60,s in the Central Station. Thanks for sharing a great pieice of history and Engineering .Mike

Excellent, I remember from 1966-68 when I traveled by train from South Shields to Newcastle daily for work and was always amazed at the crossings.

Fabuleux ! Mille mercis pour ce montage merveilleux. Même au pays du chemin de fer, les rails ont laissé la place aux automobiles... Et ces aiguillages aux courbes élégantes qu'on imagine commandés par autant d'aiguilleurs arc-boutés sur les leviers... Disparus ! Le temps est un ogre jamais rassasié !

The remnants of the buildings bottom right, show how the railways have decreased from their peak in the early to mid 20th century, to where they are now. The buildings were bustling busy places once, reliant on the railways industry. No longer.

Excelent! I love Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Truly awesome! That track layout was so complex years ago, but looking at the area again now, I can't imagine how it all fitted in unless some bridging has been demolished.

A great film, and I was glad to see the third-rail electrification of the suburban lines shown in the pictures circa 1960.

What a superb way to travel through time; well done, sir! It really brings home the fact that the mainline railways of Britain were largely untouched until the drastic changes from the late 1980's onwards whilst preparing for privatization when the engineers swept away all that wasn't vital to the electric age. How soleless the modern images are by comparison.

I'd give this 10 thumbs ups if I could.

Wonderful pictoral video of my favourite station, always remember my dad showing and telling all about the famous diamond crossing as a lad and just marvelling at the shear complexities of them, a marvel of what this country could achieve, and also the the unforgivable and sad downgrading of our wonderful railway system, thanks to people like yourself and the photographers for keeping a very important part of our history alive

A brilliant piece of work, most stunning changes, incidentally loved the music ........Mark

This is fantastic, amazing, I feel great respect for the work, the thinkers, inventors, engineers, the workers and the photographers of this presentation!

One of the nice features of the station was that the 1959 signalbox was at the end of the footbridge so you could actually see your train approaching on the track diagram.

Stunning. One cant resist keep watching such stuff. It keeps my attention. Well made. 100 times thumbs up.

Very clever the way this has been done, remember the complex diamond crossings in the 60s when train spotting.

Actually, it is a work of inspired genius. Bravo!

A story absolute! What a film. Thanks for sharing.

WOAH THE CAR PARK USED TO BE PLATFORMS!!?

Great old Train videos for this timeline from present to past.

That was excellent, it reminds me of the changing view out of the conservatory window in the original Time Machine movie!

Why the old images look better than of now?

Liked it the way it was. Thank you so much, best thing I have ever seen and the music perfect. This should win multiple awards, have you entered anything. You should. THANK YOU

Excellent video!!! My most beautiful station in England!!! Thanks for making and sharing this history!!!

I was amazed by the simplification of the track work over time. Well done.

What can I say ,great video work and thank you for letting us see the past .Graham.

a delightful video. that was amazing

This is first class very clever and very well made.

I can still remember the platforms where the car park is now for local trains. I can remember going through a barrier to catch the train to North Shields in the seventies and then the train going through a complicated set of points and then to a much bigger Manors station. All gone now and there's only one unstaffed platform at Manors.

A superb piece of work

Amazing!!! ...Fabulous, fantastic video.

Amazing video.. what a time travel!! Brilliant work!!👌👌

Beautiful. And wonderful music !

This is a superb film of a classic location! Thank you!

Really nice work. I grew up liking the trains as a kid in the 90s when the intercity 225s became an exciting thing and only just found out how complicated the points system used to be. I had no idea the car park used to be platforms!

Imagine life back then-sweet in every home and heart. Why does that tear me up in sadness?

Brilliant absolutely brilliant very well done and eye opening seeing all the changes to the track layout.

Lovely presentation, well done.

What a wonderful video. Thank you for creating this.

I had a book when i was a kid, that had a before and after picture of this incredible track layout! Great edit thank you so much!!

What a video, one of the best videos I have ever watched. Brings back a few memories.

I watch quite a bit of You Tube. This piece of film is very unique and totally amazing how it has been compiled!! How do people think up this type of thing!! Excellent and of course, well done... John

Nagyon jó videó Gratulálok! Magyarországról.

My local station! I love this; thank you.

Amazing video thanks for sharing it.

Absolutely amazing!

Fantastic !

That was just great. Thanks.

Man, i wish I could go back in time and witness that yard at its finest. Outstanding video!

Amazing, well put together👍

A work of art! Cheers!

Thoroughly enjoyed that, thanks.

Amazing! Thank You.

Brilliantly done my friend, loved it !

First class, my mum comes from ashington and when we went to visit nan, we always to the ferry from Ireland and got the train to Newcastle and the lovely curved platform always impressed me

Superb video!

Great footage! Neat to watch the changes.

That was amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed that. 🙂

Very well done video , top work !

A superb time & motion study.

What can one say but WOW perhaps? Really interesting and thanks for who took the trouble to do this.

A very well done, great job!

Remember the model railway they had running around the Xmas tree, you put a penny in the slot to start an engine off on its journey, also the big red machine that stamped out your name onto a metal strip , and the Record your own voice machine ! Brilliant !

Great. A lot of work went into this.

Superb video on a time lapse in Newcastle station: a tale of new technology and reduced traffic in trains perhaps.

Class ! Great work James

I usually don't like youtube being used for slide shows but this is way better, well made and the music fits so well. I know i'm late but thankyou for this interesting video. I have that old photo of the worlds largest crossing on my work pc, the track men back then had a nightmare I bet when they saw the plans for that lot lol.

Stunning!

Very well done.

Amazing!! Very interesting 😀😀🤔🤔

I really enjoyed that... thank you

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Really enjoyed this.

Good job. Congratulations!

_ahhhhhh, the ages of steamies. And TTTE characters._

Brilliant...!!!

Enjoyed that, thanks.

Very well done top marks.

Wonderful video!

Bravo, absolute class

Excellent 👍

What a brilliant clip of timeline on the railways.i wonder if anyone else has done this near their hometown? Also shame to see those branch lines turned into car parks.thank you for posting

Amazing work :)

Ouch memories and a awesome way of recording and showing the famous diamond. Well done no very well done.

What a great little vid, thanks

Wow...mega impressive video, IMO.

Brilliant.

very well done!

CONGRATULATIONS!!! VERY BUT VERY NICE

Fantastic ....

Superb production from a non train man.

Very well done

This is fuckin mint tbh, t see how much this fuckin place has changed is outstanding. Think about living back then is unbelievable and how much we’ve changed is so like amazing

i always wish to born in 1900....amazing photographs

Brilliant !!!!

I worked in the SMO at Newcastle in 1966 -changes were starting then -electrics going for a start. Old wooden buildings throughout the station.

The first video i watch on your channel!

very well done

Very clever. You managed to cover my footplate career from 1978 to 2016.