What a fabulous cab ride sequence at the start. Threading between two DMUs made you hold your breath for a moment

Absolutely brilliant 👍🏻 How wrong was they with saying no more steam specials lol 😆

So much respect for all the volunteers who kept and still keep the preservation of heritage railways and engines going. People power.

The smell. The noise. The steam. I'm a child again waiting at Birmingham's Snow Hill for a steam train to take me on an excursion. Happy memories. I saw The Rocket at London's Science Museum before it was moved. I was totally in awe, and touched it as if it was a holy relic! It took the rest of the day before I calmed down...even now, years later, I still get excited by the memory! I guess I'm more of a nerd than I admit.

3:15 This Famous Steam Locomotive Mallard Is Now Part Of The National Railway Museum In York In Yorkshire. Thanks Mate. X

Wonderful to see how far the Heritage Railway movement has come since those early pioneering days in late 1960's - and 4472 / 60103 back in full steam again in 2021!!

It’s interesting to see Pendennis Castle 10 years before being sold to our Australian Iron Ore mega mining company , Hammersley iron in 1977 being shipped to Australia via Sydney on the East coast before being sent to the West coast in Northern Western Australia and was used on The company’s standard gauge tracks on special occasions by employees before the company sold it back to the UK in 2000 for the Didcot railroad? as they thought this was the right thing to do because of its heritage and importance, so the loco has certainly had a unique travelling experience in its time!

Yet here we are 55 years later and she’s still in service!

The sad days of 1968 loads of locos waiting for the torch.

There's a cheerful note to end on, thanks British Rail!

It's still going, lasted longer than those cassette tapes in the video

it looks like March East Junction where the 'scotsman is being watered .There certainly were playing fields there and a similar footbridge in the late 60s!

Boy am I glad for the day someone invented steady-cam rigs.

When you look back we really have fucked up our railways and this country haven't we!

Thanks for posting, what wonderful upload.

British Transport Police is a interesting and useful service for Trains.

I’ve never understood the appeal of those old tanks, I remember steam trains in service in the early 60’s somewhere in the UK, unsure where, might have been in 1962 when my late mother was expecting, couldn’t stand that chocking cloud of smoke, electric and diesel trains were much nicer and cleaner to travel in.

To think she was nearly scrapped. She was brought for £3500 in the end.

12" to the foot scale.

I DO like trains, especially steam trains but I have never ever wanted to drive one. Frankly, sitting at the leading end of something that heavy travelling that fast with that much momentum with no way to swerve or stop is the stuff of nightmares as far as I'm concerned!

Fecking steam trains everywhere now 🤣

Peter Rayner fireman? There was a Peter 'Licker' Rayner at Cambridge depot on the diesels in the 80s !! I wonder if it is the same person?

Think the transport museum in Clapham is now a Sainsburys!

Fast fwrd many years......?....ohh look at that! The flying scotsmen ,still plying her trade😆

no damn wires. what railways should look like

The Keighley and North Valley Railway?????????

King George V at Dawlish there 0:20, easily recognisable by the bell

3:18 imagine opening a museum on a Sunday. Whatever next?

What I love about these is the patronising tone of the voiceover. Particularly prize example of the patronizing chuckle at3:58

"up to £5"??? now that does show you it was a long time ago lol.

what did they just used to light the fire in the firebox? it did not look a oily rag it looked more like a fire lighter made from compressed wood?

Alabord. Alabord.

Sports jackets :)

6:37 Richard Stilgoe?

Bring Back Coal#....

does any one watching this know what half a 100 weight is exactly?

I have proof my identity was used in the UK without my knowledge & still today no clarity except from what I’m Gathering.I was born in 1968. I personally don’t know anything about Locomotives. Major Marketing Software Enterprise Fraud. Very dangerous one too💔