This vintage railway film, produced in 1961 and from the British Pathe website, details the demise of steam locomotives in the UK.
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@nobodynoone25005 ай бұрын
Sad to see them destroyed. All the amazingly difficult work that went into them needs to be appreciated.
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
Say that to the labourers who made them under horrible conditions while the bosses got rich off their backs. The metal doesn't need to be praised, the workers do...
@TommyJensen-pl8qzАй бұрын
you can't save on everything, it would be too expensive and difficult, it also has to be maintained
@Abitibidoug6 ай бұрын
I remember seeing a picture taken in 1957 that summed it up well. It was of locomotive #701, on its last run on the Ontario Northland Railway, and it had a sign on it that said: Farewell to steam, victim of progress. On the upside some farsighted people on both sides of the Atlantic, and other places in the world had the foresight to save a few of them. A small number of them are even in working order.
@jonsteadisno16 ай бұрын
It has long been practice to scrap locomotives that had reached the end of their servicable lives. However, British Railways' decision to discontinue using steam traction in 1968 has often been thought as political, considering that the last engines had only left the production line eight years before.
@kishascape6 ай бұрын
Yeah well now they're overrun with terrorists and getting arrested for visiting the wrong news websites so I guess it all evens out.
@jackking55675 ай бұрын
Much like the coal mines - they never ran out of coal. It was a political decision.
@IgnoredAdviceProductions5 ай бұрын
Considering dieselization happened in America starting in the 40s, I'm more shocked how far behind the curve Europe was in terms of train technology
@JordosGarage5 ай бұрын
Look how far ahead Europe is now
@IgnoredAdviceProductions5 ай бұрын
@@JordosGarage Not in freight, but you're right, they picked up the slack and then surpassed america
@ttff44596 ай бұрын
They'd be worth a fortune today.
@oldandgrey4956 ай бұрын
They are, or what was salvaged from them. Loco number, Cab sides with number, shed plate and all the other 'plates' are worth more today than the engine was worth in scrap metal.
@ID-84916 ай бұрын
The material they were built from is not going to waste. It is sad to see these machines being dismantled but is there anything that is truly permanent?
@nobodynoone25005 ай бұрын
Change is the only constant.
@rudolfmouthaan78925 ай бұрын
Britain went diesel at that time, and the deltics were fast. By the way steam is not gone away. Several projects in the US are reviving the steam locs and several projects in britain building them new from blueprints.
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
@@rudolfmouthaan7892 But no more steam trains that are run on fossil fuels, not on any public routes that transport normal travel or freight routes.
@androidemulator69526 күн бұрын
As a grown man, this brought me to tears. Yes, silly i know . :(
@villarule6 ай бұрын
I can almost taste the asbestos in the air
@TheStickCollector6 ай бұрын
It is a shame that a lot of classes never got preserved We need to build replicas
@philnewcomers91706 ай бұрын
they wernt intrested mate when amachine come to the end of it usefull life its so much scrap The funney thing about cutting up locosthe gas is worth more than the metal .DIE WOODHAM could not make it pay!!!°ttfn&ty
@Jack_Warner6 ай бұрын
@@philnewcomers9170 Did you ever go to school? Your spelling is atrocious.
@Faulty7206 ай бұрын
There is an N7 locomotive preserved
@Fcutdlady6 ай бұрын
You're, like me , an enthusiast, but sadly, we are a minority. I learnt from working on preserving road based transport here in ireland that not every scrap vehicle is in condition whereby it can be preserved. Who would pay for all this, too . As far as i can read, preservation groups are put to the pin of their collar trying to preserve the steam locomotives they have , never mind build more . The place that helped steam preservation groups the most was , ironically, a scrapyard, Woodham Bros. scrapyard Barry, Wales, and its later owner Dai Woodham . Even though Dai Woodham said it was never his intention to do so , freight wagons were easier to scrap and kept his men at work. Locomotives only had the torch put through them when there were no wagons to scrap. 293 locomotives went into woodham bros yard, and 213 were preserved . The most famous one to return to the rails from woodhams was the hogwarts express in the Harry Potter films . Scrapyards also provide parts to keep whats already been preserved running too.
@stokes87626 ай бұрын
@@philnewcomers9170 Never knew that about the gas.
@stephenrose81886 ай бұрын
Very interesting to watch this a second time round with the mixed emotions of the first time and now when we see what can only be described as the industry of preservation and the heritage lines around Britain and beyond we just can't let these pieces of history disappear can we? With 2023 celebrating the centenary of Flying Scotsman and new locomotives being built we have a whole new generation of boys and girls that enjoy nothing more than a day on a steam train. Long live the Raven glass and Eskdale also the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch who never did let steam die, resurgence in the narrow gauge sectors and so on, fantastic! I watched this film back in the day with the same sad heart that I watched mighty battleships being broken up, that really really was a sad sight. Long live our British (and the rest of the world's) industrial heritage, it's great for all ages and fantastic education for the uninformed.
@martybadboy6 ай бұрын
0:54 "being converted into scrap" What a British way of phrasing it. 😀
@feefyefoefum6 ай бұрын
Stratford works closed in 1962. I remember the last old steam locos in 1968/69.
@gilbertporter49926 ай бұрын
Neat at 3:28 we see a North American style "Frisco" boxcar in a British documentary on the scrapping of steam locomotives.
@dfirth2246 ай бұрын
This is a composite of different films from both the UK and America. They were set on fire to burn the wood interiors. They only wanted the steel shells.
@athewake6 ай бұрын
It started here and has been the continuing legacy we find ourselves in today, may we rot in hell for this tragedy.........
@kittyhawk97075 ай бұрын
Saddo .. Oh lets just keep EVERYTHING then ..not bother to reuse the metal .. Keep using resources producing more stuff , whilst all the existing stuff is just left to rot in fields / all over .. not able to be recycled/reused ..because it makes you cry boo hoo ..... oooo the tragedy of reusing metal from old outdated stuff ... give your head a shake you sad melt ... Can you imagine the shithole the country would be if we never got rid of our old outdated stuff .. Old cars , , ships trains just dumped here there and everywhere.. rubbish piled high .. The RAF still using Sopwith Camels, Spitfires and whatever else they used .. because ..hey ho .. why not still use them becaue ..YOU get sad with progress and the need to clear out old tech ......such a tragedy eh ..
@nobbytart276 ай бұрын
Easy to be sentimental about these but i used to work with an old engine driver and he couldnt wait to get off them onto a new "clean" diesel, he didnt miss the steam engines one bit, filthy, dirty, noisy bastard things i think was the quote he used lol
@clayv54224 ай бұрын
It's even sadder when you're a Thomas fan seeing brothers of engines dying
@williamhaurin80806 ай бұрын
I noticed the engineer who ran steam for 20 years switch over to the new locomotive style he looked so depressed
@NefastusJones6 ай бұрын
He's Old School British. Probably embarrassed to be on camera.
@florjanbrudar692Ай бұрын
Al Smith
@goldy_on_pc9306 ай бұрын
the narrator is being a savage to train spotters lol
@thenewadventuresofhenry69985 ай бұрын
"I'm not happy. I keep thinking about the dreadful state of the world. Is it true what the Diesels say? They boast that they've abolished steam!" Dialogue that can depress any real man.
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
Any real man doesn't care if the world is powered by steam or diesel anymore...real men want the world to be livable in the future, and the future is renewable.
@darylcheshire16186 ай бұрын
apparently 12K locos were scapped over a 10 year period. Numerous businesses sprung up, what they wanted was the brass heart which was worth more than all that iron. It took a week for three men to cut up a loco.
@telmas71836 ай бұрын
Only small amounts of brass. A lot had copper fireboxes!
@richardchambers35336 ай бұрын
It would be nice to have some of the old gauges. They are worth a fortune today
@HobbyOrganist6 ай бұрын
Lots of them appear on Ebay every week, the same gages used on engines were used on ships and building boilers, made by Ashcroft, Crosby, American Gage, and many others. I own a number of them from small to 14" diameter with brass cases and dials, but I dont remember any of them costing more than $400 even for the large two
@nobodynoone25005 ай бұрын
@@HobbyOrganist I have seen a great many cost terrifically more, but for a specific model to complete a restoration. Gauges only desirable for looks, not function or correctness are less valuable and can be found on consumer sites like ebay inexpensively.
@ipadize5 ай бұрын
1:16 i know sometime somewhere on earth there was a train with the number 69420 on it
@harrisonc9855 ай бұрын
its probably in a pub or someone’s basement
@pasha123436 ай бұрын
Interesting film 👍🙂
@rustysickle25286 ай бұрын
Amazing that China's last steam loco was built in 2000 and the abundance of coal in some areas actually made it cheaper to operate than diesels around that time.
@sarahjane84005 ай бұрын
And because of their cheap coal, they're still building coal fueled power stations while we have to resort to renewable fuels. No wonder Temu products are so cheap.
@nobodynoone25005 ай бұрын
And polluting the world worse than most other nations combined. One day they will pay for the damage they have done to the planet, but not until it gets worse.
@user-uc9tj5uh8x5 ай бұрын
Солидарна, китай хитрый, плохо себе не сделает точно
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
@@nobodynoone2500 You do know that the UK and the USA have polluted much more than China...just that they did it over 300 years while they exploited and prevented China from industrilizing...search for total historical CO2 emissions by country! Per citizen the UK have emitted 1100 tons of CO2, for china that is 180 tons...for the USA it is 1300 tons!....And people today blame China when Europe and the USA stands for more than 60% of all historical emissions! China stands for 14%, or less than a quarter of what Europe and the US have spewed into the atmosphere.
@CWEditOfficial6 ай бұрын
0:04 "He's quite a sweet fellow really. I think I'll call him Bob." 0:57 "Moments later, Bob is dismembered"
@BuckeyeNationRailroader6 ай бұрын
Based Chad
@invisibleman48276 ай бұрын
Sorry to see it happening - like killing a unicorn - but it's historically very interesting. In a way, it's surprising that these bits of Victorian or Georgian technology lasted so long. By the time this was filmed, we were in the space age, but the Victorian era was still in living memory.
@dfirth2246 ай бұрын
If it hadn't been for WWII they would have been scrapped sooner. In the USA General Motors sent their new FT freight diesels around to all railroads in 1939-40 as demonstrators. After 1940 no American railroad wanted to buy any more steam locomotives. But Pearl Harbor changed all of that. Diesel engines were needed in submarines and smaller Navy ships. Railroads were forced to buy their last steam locomotives in 1944. Today these are the ones that were saved, they were only 10 years old when retired.
@invisibleman48276 ай бұрын
@dfirth224 I see what you mean. Both world wars really held up these changes. The diesel engine appeared in the 1890s and the first electric locomotive in 1879. By the 1900s, the London metropolitan railway had electric trains, and electric trams were everywhere. The two world wars probably meant there was less money and fewer resources. In continental Europe, most of their railways were smashed up by war, and they had to start again from scratch, but in Britain, less so. There wasn't the money to justify the change until labour to do the dirty maintenance jobs on steam locomotives became too expensive.
@peterbray53835 ай бұрын
@@invisibleman4827 Also, there is the question of natural resources and fuel. Britain has some of the best coal in the world, and plentiful. We lack oil and gas; apart from the North Sea and shale. Coal, at the time was cheaper to mine; but gradually became more expensive. Oil and gas for our navy and transport made us dependant of Russia and the US. Independence in this country requires coal.
@invisibleman48275 ай бұрын
@johnmartlew True, true. It held up some technological advances but war efforts kickstart other technological advances. 😊
@invisibleman48275 ай бұрын
@peterbray5383 That's true too. Coal was one of the main reasons for Britain's industrial revolution, plenty of abundant fuel easy to get to. In the 1950s however, oil had suddenly become cheaper, allowing for advances for diesel and petrol engines, and the coal industry had been declining for about 40 years.
@timtim84686 ай бұрын
Steam locomotives were used till the end of the GDR. The era finally ended with the reunification of Germany. I remember passing the place were the locomotives were collected in the early 90s. Did anyone notice the jokes at the beginning here? Signaling, while disappearing indoor. The worker standing between locomotives, when one rolls in.
@erics83026 ай бұрын
It is a shame what has happened to Britain.
@daltongalloway6 ай бұрын
What do you mean? They built better trains and had to scrap the old ones. Britain’s economy needed this after the war
@ronalddevine95876 ай бұрын
It's happened all over, especially here in the USA. It's always welcome to see them preserved.
@willduffay22076 ай бұрын
They were inefficient, dirty, and took hours to get started. Other countries had been electric many years earlier. Steam is evocative and beautiful, but ancient technology.
@Chillaxin2026 ай бұрын
Steam was better
@daltongalloway6 ай бұрын
@@Chillaxin202 no it wasn’t
@aydendunaway82833 ай бұрын
I’m i the only one who finds this somewhat satisfying
@alevans516 ай бұрын
In color!
@paparoysworkshop6 ай бұрын
This is the saddest video I've ever watched. 😢😢😭
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
You have not watched many videos if you say that, this was fun! New life for those old smelly, inefficient and dangerous husks!
@alevans516 ай бұрын
Think of the souvenirs.
@Gubastek6 ай бұрын
You can feel how sad Al Smith is at the end...
@martinmarsola64776 ай бұрын
Sad to see the final position of these engines. 🇬🇧🥲👎🇺🇸
@vovaasmr94725 ай бұрын
When the train caused confusion and delay and Sir Topham was very angry
@iantaf55596 ай бұрын
Such nostalgia for yesteryear. But have we made any progress??
@daltongalloway6 ай бұрын
Yes tons of progress.
@phillipjones34396 ай бұрын
Have we made progress? Well of course we have but I’m so glad I can remember these on the main line.
@tackywhale56646 ай бұрын
Not too much in Britain, I’m afraid.
@joginns7786 ай бұрын
We haven't made much progress since the invention of the host all the train's you see running today are built in the EU or Japan with parts shipped over for reassembly,@@phillipjones3439
@joginns7786 ай бұрын
Host should say HST and forgot to mention our main freight locos made North America,
@julmdamaslefttoe35595 ай бұрын
For those wondering £1500 per locamotive = Roughly £40,000 (50,000$)
@yinglyca16 ай бұрын
Now find a use for EV batteries when they die, as fast as you recycled the railroads.
@DarkVoidIII5 ай бұрын
Except for the EV lithium batteries, which die in a fire and are so difficult to put out most firefighters drag them off to a safe spot and let them burn.
@fujifrontier6 ай бұрын
This hurt to see :(
@user-gu3ih3vz7p4 ай бұрын
😮 omg the year
@simonmcowan68746 ай бұрын
Don't forget, only about 8% of the coal actually produces enough heat to produce enough steam to power a steam engine, yes this is a sad film and I regret the many classes that have been lost.
@KD7QOW-np9gd6 ай бұрын
This. It's sad they had to cut them up, but there was just no way to justify keeping them around.
@manga126 ай бұрын
that is true for the most part, but there are ways to bring up the efficentcy of it and they are more robust then diesles, and often easier to repair with lower tech, yes you got to have huge machines to make the parts but its not like you need more percise stuff to work on electros or diesel electros, and the one bonus of steam is if it can generate heat to make steam it can be used for fuel even cleaner burning light oil, liquid natural gas or burning hydrogen, read up on livio dante porta he did a lot for development and application of sciance and thermal dynamics to steam locos all the way to his dieing day in 2003
@isaiahvang1444 ай бұрын
If these engines had faces, they be screaming in agony and pain. I can picture it now...
@stuartroyle14026 ай бұрын
BOC were rubbing their hands!!
@DavidScholz-bu1ix2 ай бұрын
IT'S THE SCRAPPER'S TORCH!!!!!!!!
@jims63236 ай бұрын
Grandpa's no doubt thinking: there has to be a easier way to make a buck!
@amitchauhan61696 ай бұрын
nice
@georgieippolito99246 ай бұрын
a locomotive is worth more then scrap metal! this is just sad
@Rincewind19556 ай бұрын
So sad…
@andreaseisen70106 ай бұрын
Фильм можно назвать "Как умирали паровозы". 😢
@deanrinehart6 ай бұрын
I know *nothing* about trains but…the silhouette of that first train on screen…same as Thomas?
@axels94896 ай бұрын
[3:04] "The Somerset Light Infantry" sounds strenge to german ears as GE locos have just numbers on them to identify. So who named a loco after a military unit?
@pokemontrainermichael55516 ай бұрын
Let me keep Thomas and Edward
@Ktonrider5 ай бұрын
Were they worth more as scrap, or here in 2024 would they be worth more as full locomotives to collectors?
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
They where worth 15,000£ in todays money in scarp. Today you would not be able to find more than parhaps a dozen buyers, and remember they scrapped thousands of those trains! So you would struggle to sell more than a percent of them...and they would literally take up a whole trainyard...not to mention you would need giant crans to move them around if you do not own a literal train yard.
@mediamarkt56085 ай бұрын
Спасибо интересно.
@pahtriac5 ай бұрын
i guess it made sense back then, but right now it actualy hurts watching this..
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
It makes sense now too, we would not have a use for those old heaps of metal...and we made plenty of things out of the steel that made our society better...
@pahtriac5 ай бұрын
if there are only a few left and you scrap those too you distroy history and the things we learned, and there are things we can learn from them again and there are still uses for them. Museums, historical train rides etc.. these machines contain the absolute basic knowlage of all our advances of today.
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
@@pahtriac All that knowledge is avalible at libraries, in scientific litterature etc. History is not destroyed...history is forever as long as we preserve photographs, texts and science!
@pahtriac5 ай бұрын
books can tell you only so much.. As a hands on person i can guarentee you this.
@nelutu65065 ай бұрын
Is very easy to destroy things, is very hard to build them... Sad.
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
Ehm, they used the steel to build new things...they didn't just destroy them...
@michaelquinones-lx6ks6 ай бұрын
Here in the U.S. they were done by that point, The U.S. (1960) Canada (1961) And the U.K. (1963) Japan (1985)
@florjanbrudar692Ай бұрын
1968 for the UK
@michaelquinones-lx6ksАй бұрын
@@florjanbrudar692 Sorry, i was off by five years my bad, And, thank you for answering my comment, And, greetings from the USA..
@ngle6 ай бұрын
They had to hurry to this beautiful new world.
@eddylloyd74135 ай бұрын
😢
@ArgoPower6 ай бұрын
wtf today a steam locomotive worth like a gold
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
Not really, the shipping for one of those are not cheap! And it has to be an attractive model, in good condition and in working order...and they had thousands and thousands of them! Not just a handful...
@user-uc9tj5uh8x5 ай бұрын
В СССР наверное так же было. Счас некоторые стоят на вокзалах крупных городов на запасных путях, но их мало и они не работают. Многие утилизированы и металл продан в Китай. Безумно жаль. Никто из паровозов не работает. Жаль. Я бы на небольшое расстояние лучше на ретро паровозе проехалась😊❤
@thorstenh.55886 ай бұрын
Especially on steam locomotives...this is not a scrapping, its a slaughtering.
@florjanbrudar692Ай бұрын
You can't slaughter an inanimate object.
@hoopoo37216 ай бұрын
I wonder how much they regret that decision today?
@belindappitman19744 ай бұрын
I have been on the flying Scotsman
@_molls6 ай бұрын
As sad as this is to see, it unfortunately does need to happen as we just can’t save every single steam locomotive, too much metal sitting around for hundreds of thousands of locomotives. However, it would be nice to keep at least one of each class, that would’ve been reasonable, especially as several of the locomotives and rolling stock shown here in this video has at least one surviving example on static display or operable under steam
@TheOriginalJphyper6 ай бұрын
Some rail CEOs developed tunnel vision for progress. They hated the idea of steam and mandated that every last one of their steam locomotives was scrapped for fear of being seen as old-fashioned. That's why we don't have any New York Central Hudsons, for example.
@NarrativaFerroviaria5 ай бұрын
@@TheOriginalJphyperSame here in Spain. In a country where the railroad culture is the half of the half of the half of the half of the less railroad heritage country, the new "vanguards" of progress never EVER suggested the idea of preserving iconinc pieces. Most of the most beautiful pieces we keep in some of our museums, like the Delicias Railroad Museum of Madrid, were preserved more by luck than for historical purposes. Spain is a country where politicians love to forget, destroy, erase and let our History die.
@sjtom576 ай бұрын
Interesting video albeit sad to watch.
@dahamsta6 ай бұрын
3 1/2 hundred weight. What's that in monkey twelfth farthings?
@johno45216 ай бұрын
One CWT = 112 pounds
@bigchungusfootfungus19645 ай бұрын
First it was her once mighty navy then the trains…
@indridcold84336 ай бұрын
Never fear! Steamers are still being built today!
@nobodynoone25005 ай бұрын
Thats not a good thing. They are dirty and inefficient my todays standards. Only china is backward enough to still use them.
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
Where? On what public transport routes? On what freight routes? How many % of world train freight?
@stephensmith44806 ай бұрын
No Thermal Lances in those days, you can't even use Acetylene now. Some hard graft there.
@cbennett16 ай бұрын
Jesus, you can't even have acetylene over there now?
@scootergrant86836 ай бұрын
I don't know so much if that's true@@cbennett1 Alec Steele would talk about his blacksmithing setup and I believe he used an acetylene oxygen setup.
@stephensmith44806 ай бұрын
@@cbennett1 I'm afraid not, not on the Railway that is. I was with the Railway Breakdown Teams for a number of years and we could only use Propane, which just isn't good enough in my opinion, but acetylene is a big no no. Propane does have some advantages, like you can store the Bottles horizontally and use them as soon as they are upright again, which you can't do with acetylene and the Bottles are much lighter but that's about the only good points I can think of, especially for Burning.
@bendingspring6 ай бұрын
Why can’t acetylene be used?
@cbennett16 ай бұрын
@@bendingspring because you'll get a visit from wankers asking for a license
@leeverink326 ай бұрын
😭
@unaeruditi6 ай бұрын
The only kind of metal in the world that has no radioactive isotopes from atomic weapons. Would make great negative controls for the metallurgists.
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
Not really, there are metal from ship wrecks, new mines etc. that have low radioactivity.
@BlueSteel3316 ай бұрын
Actually they were locomotives not 'trains'.
@ChinaExpatsRC6 ай бұрын
Adjusting for inflation those £1500 scrap value locos are worth £27,766 / $35,350 in 2023 money. That isn't THAT much money, a new car costs that much. I wonder why railfans didn't pool money together to buy one? Or why no wealthier railfans didn't buy one? A scrapped steam locomotive in 2023 is worth hundreds and thousands of dollars.
@railtrolley6 ай бұрын
Buying a loco is fairly cheap. Moving it to it's new home is usually where the costs really increase.
@ChinaExpatsRC6 ай бұрын
A scrapped SY Class steam loco here in China goes for around $150,000 but I'm not sure if that includes the delivery fee lol.
@MiG21aholic6 ай бұрын
The UK probably has the most preserved steam locos of any country in the world.
@sumedhadematanpitiarachchi44116 ай бұрын
really sad
@coffeepot31235 ай бұрын
We replaced visible pollution with long distance pollution, god the hypocrisy of mankind.
@neiloflongbeck57056 ай бұрын
The same happens to all vehicles at the end of their useful life.
@nobodynoone25005 ай бұрын
Too bad a machines useful life is seldom realized. And modern machines are built to fail.
@user-do5jn5xk2v5 ай бұрын
Ломать не строить..........
@user-sk9fs4or6j5 ай бұрын
а ведь по сути, паровоз на много долговечнее и экологичнее любого современного поезда. Залил в бак воды, напихал в топку дров и можно ехать. Американцы не знают что во время ядерной войны и постапокалипсиса, паровой будет на много ценнее дизельного поезда
@groenekever6 ай бұрын
worth fortune now lol
@civishamburgum12345 ай бұрын
Time to take a quick bath ni foamer tears down here.
@tylerfall66955 ай бұрын
stream is better than Diesel electric.
@pressureworks6 ай бұрын
The cry of every spotty faced, crusty sock train spotter can be heard
@gspiatti2496 ай бұрын
They made a dumb mistake by scrapping these locomotives
@urbansnipe5 ай бұрын
Those locos would have been packed full of asbestos 😮
@---rz5th6 ай бұрын
At least so anmy were saved at Barry.
@florjanbrudar692Ай бұрын
From Barrry and no, that scrapyard's owner never intended to save them. He's been interviewed too.
@boxcatgames5375 ай бұрын
no.... it horrible each one of them had a life a job they wanted AND you let them rot
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
They are objects, not beings...good they where scrapped, they polluted, where dangerous and slow.
@user-qb8wb5wx5w5 ай бұрын
""PROGRESS OVER SENTIMENTALITY"",,,,,,,THE ATTITUDE THAT HAS A PERCENTAGE TO BLAME FOR SOCIETY BREAK DOWN AND LACK OF SELF RESPECT AND MORALS IN THIS DAY AND AGE😮
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
No, those responsible for that are the tech giants (Making people mentally ill, not talking about lgbtqia+ here...they are normal healthy people) leaving large parts of the internet unregulated and full of toxic hatred.
@stephenking97895 ай бұрын
theres some rly big steam engines now days that are monster in size compared to those old locomotives
@jozefbania6 ай бұрын
In the next 100 years the britain itself will stop exist. Time flows fast.
@kierankay1005 ай бұрын
I bet Sadiq khan had something to do with this
@andyweb77795 ай бұрын
I find that disgusting and im not into trains. £1500 of scrap? Trains that were saved were sold for £60,000. Goodness knows what they're worth now.
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
You would not be able to find a buyer for all the thousands of train engines...the price would probably fall to nothing after you sold only a dozen...and keeping them in storage for 70 years would cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. 1500£ in 1961 is 15,000£ today...
@CARBON105 ай бұрын
The old sound track is so lame
@artysanmobile6 ай бұрын
Steam locomotives were frightfully inefficient and poisonous machines. That should help get over a lot of nostalgia.
@Ardour_of_A_Leopard5 ай бұрын
We could just improve it's efficiency instead of throwing steam into the can and working on entirely new projects. Even if they only reached 50% of today's efficiency, well... Our modern world is ALL about efficiency, everywhere. Yet depression rates are seeing new records. The soul of many things has been sacrificed for efficiency.
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
@@Ardour_of_A_Leopard People where depressed back then too, just that they most often took their lives, murdered or became othewise dangerous or self harming. We now actually diagnose people and help them...we have no real statistics from back then!
@stevie87636 ай бұрын
Criminal
@pairojeans6 ай бұрын
Uploading BTF contents again lol, tut tut copyrighted
@mikethespike75796 ай бұрын
The fate of all technologies. They serve us for a while until something new comes along and then sent to the scrap heap. No use getting emotional about it.
@trevortammen23416 ай бұрын
Such a sad world view
@daltongalloway6 ай бұрын
@@trevortammen2341 what? To not get emotional over the scraping of old stock? Sounds like someone watched a little too much Thomas when they were a kid…
@mikethespike75796 ай бұрын
@@trevortammen2341 "Such a sad world view" No it isn't. It's called accepting reality and not living in the past. Already the fact that you used a computer and the internet to post your comment proves that you fully embrace new technologies and allow obsolete technology to disappear out of your life. You can always visit a museum if you want to look at obsolete technologies.
@trevortammen23416 ай бұрын
I just like steam locomotives guys no need to start insulting me with Thomas the tank engine inferences
@trevortammen23416 ай бұрын
@mikethespike7579 kinda hard to follow your logic because I wouldnt be able to go to a museum if someone didn't get sentimental about old technology like this
@crackerbarrel69656 ай бұрын
Painful to watch.
@TheEsseboy5 ай бұрын
Pure bliss, from steel they where made, and to steel they return to cycle a product life once again.
@johncholmes6436 ай бұрын
Those Britz sure knew how to make the most unattractive, underpowered pieces of scrap iron ever!!
@bertfairbrother77456 ай бұрын
Being replaced by electric, Never ever,ever steam rules.. just my petteth
@stewartjones21736 ай бұрын
He should have been wearing a mask. I wonder how old he was when he popped his clogs.