Yes, it's a fascinating insight into the flawed mentality of BR just prior to the Beeching era. You can see why the governments of the 1960s got so frustrated with them. An obsession with machines and hardware with hardly any thought about how the world was changing and what would be required to change with it. The idea that "the diesels will help get the railways out of the red" was of course absurd. The railways are inherently loss-making, always have been since the railway mania of the mid-1800s, and always will be, whether nationalised or privatised.

Should have been a 'Sir'

A shame that certain locos were cut up and didn't find their way to Barry Island. The V2 for instance...a numerous class, but only Green Arrow survives and there are no plans so far to restore it.

Well a heavy steam overhaul would take that now because it would be highly specialised task, where as back then it was run of the mill. Like wise, heavy overhaul of electric and diesel take only a few weeks these days

Interesting to hear of the general working life of the locomotives in England. It’s not unknown here in Ireland for the smaller private run companies to have operated locomotives for far longer. One 0-6-4T built by Beyer Peacock, worked from 1882 to 1952!

The Riddles 9F 2-10-0 was withdrawn far too soon and some of the replacement diesels were no competition.

​@@MePeterNicholls Try again. In English this time.

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Such fine footage from such a vintage area. Older than most people

Not quite true what made it possible to get rid of Steam was the massive damage done by breeching with this only task by Marples get rid of the railway. Look that's that's done for us today we have zero capacity. Hence why we had an excess of diesels also

⁠@@damiendye6623I love people that make things up….Beeching never closed anything, ministers did. Indeed, the majority of closures happened under a Labour government, long after Beecing and Marples were gone.

What got rid of steam in a hurry was the clean air act of 1964!

About half the Modernisation Plan diesel electric designs were duds, exactly as you say. DMUs seem to have been more reliable by comparison. Baby Deltics, Co-Bos and the Claytons were the obvious worst cases, but yes, the excursion into hydraulic transmission also an expensive mistake. These errors however, are a lot smaller than the expensive disaster that is Privatisation… a railway that costs taxpayers FIVE TIMES more to run than British Rail. What a drip John Major was.

@@stephensmith799 The railways was nationalised for less than 50 years. Or the majority of its existence it’s been in private hands. As a railway employee of nearly 38 years, the freight side of the business has absolutely boomed, and has been a success.

Most fares are controlled by the department for transport as such they will charge what they are told hence why tickets are way cheaper off peak.

Every train fare in the UK is heavily subsidised and hardly any rail companies make any money….but don’t let’s facts get in the way of your rant 😂

And if you are not put off by the cost of the fares... you have to pick a day when they are running. Then when you can afford the ticket and nobody is downing tools, you arrive at the train you are to board and you find your allocated coach has been taken off and you end up standing in the vestibule from London to Doncaster... more cattle class than economy. Hey, but who's complaining? :()

Show me a spreadsheet!

@@brianhepke7182Almost all trains operate on the east coast are multiple unit, so therefore not easy to remove a coach.

Short journey railways are not economic .

@@snowflakemelter1172 what is

@@stokes8762 tarmacing over unprofitable railways and using them as dedicated coach ways.

they shut nothing , labour did from 1965...they also closed all the pits in the 60.'s and saved none in the 90's / they also cancelled and ruined the uk British aircraft building / industry ( wilson ) etc all labour, careful who you vote for

I was allowed into the cab of DP2 at Grantham. Two years later it was involved in the collision that wrote it off!

love to spend time relaxing and looking out of the English countryside myself, what do you do better with the time you have saved? Rush of somewhere else?

BR was a shambles, you never knew if you would get to work and the carriages were filthy with junk and rubbish littering the trackside.

​@snowflakemelter1172 They did a lot for a fraction of the subsidies given to the 'privatised' companies of today

beeching cut nothing , he did a report . labour acted on this and culled BR from 1965

Use a colon and not a decimal point to make a timestamp work and be useful. Like the other working time stamps here.

​@@johnd8892 I'm not that interested in colons but I do know" The Elizabethan" was not a new name. If fact used from 1953 A4 steam hauled till September 1961. Besides colons, what do you know about Deltics? I have drove them none stop 07 30 Leeds to London Kings X. Even all Azumas now stop at Wakefield.

@@johnward374 you might seek professional help with your problems not wanting to improve knowledge.

​@@johnd8892I have no idea why your looking at this video. Clear off to some English grammar sites, and bore someone else there instead of me.

Hard to see the running in board at 0.16 but it could well be Newark North Gate as it was then displayed.

Definitely Newark Northgate looking South.

@@davidreed9671 Thought it was, thank you, if you look just beyond the signalbox on the left side of the picture, you can just make out a house. My Nan lived there, its in this picture,

That might be because it's just ever so slightly bigger than Britain, not much, just a little.

And by 1960 steam had been fully withdrawn from regular service in the US.

@@Ass_Burgers_SyndromeTake into account that this video states 48,000 miles of track back in 1963, and this was amid the Beeching cuts. I wonder how many miles we had earlier.

And the US has lost almost half that, with 160 thousand miles of track today. Given US population of 103 million in 1917 and 336 million today, that means the US has gone from 13.02 feet of railway track per person in 1917 to 2.51 feet of railway track per person today.

Yet we subsidise the maintenance of the infrastructure while the private companies rake in the profits.

They weren't ugly in the 50's and 60'S but they're horrific now

Modernisation was fine it was breaching that was the con, put in place by the usual Torry scum bags

Privatisation was a bigger con?

By that time there were probably quite a few New Commonwealth immigrants working for BR, but not many on the North Eastern Region of BR where much of this film was shot.

You're probably, the Labour government opened the floodgates with the Immigration Act in 1948@@simongleaden2864

Bet it's changed now!@@andrewrussell4707

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