I am continually fascinated watching this type of documentary film about British engineering feats with locomotives and thinking further afield with aircraft technology Comet, Concorde, VTOL Harrier Jet, Train development with InterCity 125, Deltic diesel, and Electrified Locos and even the cross channel SRN 4 Hovercraft all 180 tons. All huge successes and world leaders yet the moment they all enter service the ongoing development starts to wain and we are left with outdated relics from 30/40 years ago. It's not just politics and financial instability that effects development it's also work ethics when people were proud and had pride in their work . Whereas today's generation put profit and greed before invention and development. No it's a sad situation now when we buy technology from abroad because as a country we have become complacent and xxxxxxx idle!

When Britain used to be a manufacturing nation. Amazing to see the total deindustrialisation that has occurred in my lifetime. Not even the model trains are made in the UK nowadays.

Hi my name is Phil it brings back memories of my time on the footplate 8yrs on steam 50yrs on the footplate I started at edgeley shed on the 4th of April in 1961 in1962 I was made a fireman I finished my time out at longsight as a driver I finished in 2011 Regards Phil.

These short films were often shown at the Pictures before the main film. Always a bonus when it was a railway one!

What brilliant scene from what seemed better days,miss them. Respect for showing them.👍

Love these short films. They were often shown before “the main picture” at the cinema - seeing a railway one was a bonus!

That last line. They couldn't have imagined that long line of successful British locomotives was about to end.

Although I have seen this before it is a tremendous watch.. especially the opening sequence of D208, beautifully clean and new and looking every much as the new beginning for British Railways. I remember seeing them on WCML and on ECML and being impressed and in awe of their power..

A belter of a film. Thank you. Those were the days!

@1:21 A couple of motorists stop off for a few pints of beer before continuing their journey. Some things may have changed for the better since I was born, in June 1959.

Good to see some film of those early D6XX class of Warships. I loved them and the later D8XX batch. The D800 class were based on a German design, and when I visited Berlin in 1990, they were still running them on their rail network. I spotted a couple but never took any photos.

Wonderfull film . Love especially the blue Deltic at the end, one of my favorite locos of all time. The Deltic was such a beautyfull design.

This film was in a mixed train DVD I found and my kids got scared by the beginning music. They got to enjoying the film in later years and we must have watched it a hundred times or more. Very interesting as I'm in the USA.

The exhaust from the first diesel (D208) is so clean that I wonder if the locomotive was actually pulling the train or if it was being shoved from behind. I never knew them to be that clean!

Definitely my favourite period of rail history, probably because I can remember travelling on trains drawn by some of the locos in this film

Most of the export diesels would soon be replaced with American diesels as these proved more reliable and easier and cheaper to maintain than British diesels, especially an advantage in many overseas countries with hot dusty climates and less trained personel. Poor reliability and expensive maintenance was also what plagued many of the domestic types shown in this film, the 900hp BTH type 1, MetVick type 2 CoBo, NBL type 4 and the original Mirrlees powered Brush type 2 all got their reputation soon, the EE locomotives were the ones which proved reliable and useful. I can tell such as I'm involved with both the BTH type 1 and the CoBo in preservation. A V16 engine with a very complicated exhaust manifold has just to many parts for a 900hp locomotive engine, the EE 1000hp V8 out of a 20 is much easier to work on, and lasts longer between breakdowns and overhauls. The exported steam locomotives however were of high quality and many have outlived the diesels that came with them. Also at the end of the film they refer to the prototype Deltic as the largest single unit diesel in the world, which isn't true either. It was the most powerful single unit diesel in the world when built, however many American diesel units were both larger and much heavier as the Deltic, but had less horsepower (EMD E3, Alco PA, FM Erie built to name a few).

Priceless footage!

Thanks for sharing, shared.

The old Deltic was a beast. I remember seeing one being started. It's like opening the gates to Valhalla!

Regards. We used to do our trainspotting on the path leading down to the Edgeley sheds back in the early fifties. Happy memories.

Great to see brings back so many memories

An absolute gem.

Interesting cars at 1:22 - an Austin Healy 'Sprite' (frog-eye) and a Sunbeam Talbot (a very sporty saloon of the day). Well-heeled owners!

Very interesting video & specially the sound

Stunning arcive film

Nice to see Ivo Peters in one of the clips.

8:00 D600 class 41 warship pulling out the station with a passanger train

Beyer Peacock had just finished delivering the 60 class Beyer Garrett locos to NEW SOUTH WALES Government Railways 2 years before this film.

Fantastic to see this

Is this the same Britain that we now live in? I think not. Great film,with very familiar locomotives👍

13:30. That's what i call a shunting yard😲😲😲

Brings back memories

Interesting Vid! Subscribed!

When the world just looked cleaner, no plastic bottles thrown beside the track etc etc. Mass disposable consumerism has a lot to answer for!

I seem to remember that so many diesels were ordered 'off the drawing board' they were frequently failing. The Royal Train used steam to the end. A steam engine would have to have something seriously wrong such as a wheel falling off for it to be declared a total failure. One could even take the side rods down on one side to move the loco at least off the main line.

The first S&D trains took coal from the Shildon area to the river, east of Stockton. It was the finance which came from the two towns!

I was born in 1959. How this country has changed. It’s almost unrecognisable now.

i love the music

"... countries like Africa..."

"In 1955 the British Transport Commission announced a fifteen year plan to modernise the railways..." In 1960 they were still making steam locomotives. Go figure.

I love this guys voice

wooow , great!

7:04 D600 at high speed

Class 40 diesel locomotive .... great machines!

Has anyone else noticed that the map near the beginning of the film shows Stockton as near the Wash & Darlington near Spalding, Linc's?!!

topp notch

Love the little girl trainspotting (with her brothers?) at 7:55.

I loved the film of the old diesels and electrics but I was hoping to see steam as well. 1959 would have been a good year as it was right in the middle of the replacement. Obviously this wasn't the object of the film but it would be nice to find a film of the time that shows all three types of traction.

1959 Britain to the World : "You give us Your resources and we will send You equipment to transport those resources to us faster and in a larger volume" - sounds 'fair' , right ?

16.50. The 46 class electric locomotives of New South Wales

Interesting coverage of the early Brit diesels. Can't say I'm a big fan of their styling though. They look sort of Soviet...

This one seems more for export markets. Would like to know if anyone saw this in a normal cinema back then.

6:53 class 28 metrovicks

I have never seen a class 40 run without a ton of clag

I just subscribed

yet another masterpiece produced by humphrey swingler

The opening section includes the GN line north of Peterborough, filmed from the Stamford line, notably passing Helpston crossing and north of Maxey crossing.

Brilliant film, although it saddens me, our last British built loco was the class 60 in the early 90's. North British Locomotive company in Glasgow were world leaders in steam locomotive building. They couldn't diversify into diesel locomotives, their type 2's were so unreliable that they bankrupted the company. English Electric built many great Diesel locomotives, many are still in use, as did Brush. But we buy Canadian locomotives, and some from Spain now, we build nothing here now.

Pretty good film showing diesels.

Was the electric line the one from Manchester London Road via Woodhead Tunnel to Sheffield?

My favorite br loco is the class 55 deltic diesel loco. 🇸🇪✨✨✨👍👍👍👍

They had the class 28!

Hey I was wondering if you could manage to get another drivers view vid the other day when I was riding the train on the joondalup line I spotted an A series at the Nowergup Depot and It hasn’t been the first time I’ve seen an A set in the yard since they stopped running them on the Mandurah and joondalup lines I was wondering if you could request a drivers view of an A set running up to the Nowergup depot from Claisebrook or Perth station and I was speaking to one of the drivers the other day that mentioned he drove a B series nonstop from butler all the way to Mandurah and I was wondering if you could request those videos as I reckon it’ll be idea for the drivers view videos collection all in real time and time lapse if you can get any footage as I really enjoy watching the cab view videos thank you :)

The map showing Stockton to Darlington is Way out !!

seriously interesting film. Just as an Australian point, though, whilst the electric locos built by Vickers were great - served 40 years, the diesel electrics shown were not so great. Barely lasted 15 years before the much relieved NSWGR administration introduced locally built replacements. They'd tried hard to make them work, but to no avail. Worst locos ever imported into NSW.

We need steam to come back I wouldn’t mind making one if I have the money 🤞

Damn diésels

I'm hoping someone will prove me wrong, but is that am EMD F3 in Pale blue at 16.25? And again at 17.57

Release more videos about indian and other railways.

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Looking at the nap I have just seen in this video. Someone has moved Stockton and Darlington further south.

At 4min 50, where is that?

Funny how there's an almost 'Soviet' feel to the music.

8:04

Is the Writer and Director, Clifford Hornby, the person named of Hornby model trains sets?

see this is what I was talking about

A small comment; Indian Railways went over to Alco,and between the original orders,and Indian built engines,the WAM-2's and variants there are about 2700,engines still operating,and now GE,and EMD,are in the game,so Britain is out,again! The irony is,that the first produced 4000 HP,engine was the protype Kestrel,which I believe was built by English Electric. It was ahead of its time! One other note,it only took 50 plus years to get airbrakes on goods rolling stock,and how many years to get decent headlights on both steam and diesels(also Electrics),in n many ways,Britain was 30 years behind the rest of the world! A trifle too much insolation from the rest of the changes ongoing in the world at large,plus a total lack of investment in technology,and people! A semi-slave type of mentality at the top,impeded many inventions and upgrades,to the detriment of all concerned! The US is in the throes of the same death spiral and with the same mentality,and arrogance! One more item,the INTERNATIONISTS FORGET THAT YOU NEED VIABLE NATIONS TO EXIST,OTHERWISE YOU DIE! That killed Britain and it's killing the US! See what happened to Britain during WW2,when 75% of its merchant fleet was sunk,and it went bankrupt in 1941,and it dependent on the US,for sustenance! A sad fact of history,that was/is overlooked! Thank you for attention! ( Correction: add was between it and dependent)! One other rule is,never depend on 10,000 mile supply lines,as they are subject to interdiction,and how many examples are now extent????🛳⛴⛵⚓⚓⚓⚓⚓⛽🛢🛢🛢🛢

The good people at Greenpark Productions don't seem to have understood the 180-degree rule. 😉

Er, You need another map, Darlington is in the correct place, it has always been there, at least that is where I arrive when I come home from work.

That engine on its way to Spain is back on the rails now! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/idWbeqmFutGtm6c.html

Just imagine the trade deals we could've done now, had we still kept the steel and locomotive industries running here in the United Kingdom - what a waste!

In terms of cleanliness, diesels were hardly an improvement over steam. As for electric engines, it depends where the electricity is coming from.

What happened to our country 😢

That Deltic - its gorgeous blue livery with streamline stripes flowing from its nose to that horrible wasp-pus colour that they slapped on the common service locos - ffs why??

Written by Clifford Hornby you couldn't make it up!!

This was filmed in the year I was born. What has happened in the meantime? We own and build next to nothing today. The trains we now assemble, which is very few indeed, are a Japanese design and product built under license. Successive UK governments have totally neglected industry and let the few successful ones be sold off to foreign ownership. Even strategically important utilities like electricity generation and water supply companies have foreign owners. This has mostly been as a result of Tory policies that ignore most of everything outside the Greater London area and particularly The City of London's financial sector. At the moment it looks like policies [Brexit] has ensured even that is going into severe decline with deals being done within the EU as an alternative. What does the future hold for this once great nation? It is on the cusp of breaking up, again as a result of far right policies.

Steam loco Mallard broke the word speed record at 126 MPH going downhill????. Wow😂😂😂😂😂

What a refreshing change to see an optimistic film about British exports and achievements rather than the self-flagellating woke rubbish we see nowadays.

Was ! THIS ! THE ! FLYING !! ENGLISH ! MAN !!??

When Britain was great,sadly this country has gone to the dogs

Then we joined the common market and they took our industry as they became the EU. I worked in crewe works from 1971 until 1991 and have worked in the rail industry until I retired as did my father and his father before him. Crewe will not be remembered for the railway as it seems to be slowly removed but it will be remembered for Bentley as they are now the biggest employer and not British owned anymore as Rolls Royce in crewe has now been forgotten. RIP crewe works.

Lol mallard was actually recorded at 126.4mph And truo allegedly did 102 I hate when facts are glossed over 😒

And now WE buy from Japan.

Yes the kids used to collect loco numbers...now they just try to push pensioners under them

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To my British friends. I must say these are some of the most butt-ugliest locos I have ever seen.

While this is a fantastic video. It is also clearly propaganda. Britain did help supply multiple nations with locomotives. But to the extent of which they are taking credit for is slightly exaggerated

diesels suck

This is true British self determination. To hell with the EU. We are well rid of them!