what a shame it closed down It would be an amazing steam centre today
@davidsnapebrcrosslane87823 ай бұрын
Remember visiting with my Uncle, I'd probably be 7 or 8, back then we would have gone on one of the old electric units. How fantastic it would of been if the Dinting Preservation Society had secured the Woodhead route.
@brunosimmler65143 ай бұрын
"Promo SM" 😅
@peterflitcroft97563 ай бұрын
As a 12 year old at the end of steam Bahamas was a splash of colour among all the dirty black engines. I was at the open day at Edgeley shed when she was on display with Ollie Cromwell and Flying Scotsman. She managed to bring a school rugby match to a halt when she steamed up the Buxton Line past the Grammar School field. A few years later I was polishing her at Dinting. Definitely going to get the book.
@johnspencer19445 ай бұрын
Found this gem to watch Fond memories of visiting in 1983 Just found quite a few film slides from Dinting took a few in the shed as well
@pamtufnell67519 ай бұрын
How beautiful it was ❤
@spankflaps136510 ай бұрын
The ballad of the heritage railway spotter: - get to sheds early to see locos being prepared - catch first train, get off to watch it swap ends, and swap ends yourself - hang out of window nearest the engine, getting eyes full of soot - revert to trainspotting mode, hanging out at station, working out which end of station to be at, and which platform to be on for best views - be careful when in close proximity to drain cocks and safety valves - if you see a toilet use it
@spankflaps136510 ай бұрын
The good old days when pre-nationalisation liveries were in vogue.
@sarahandwills11 ай бұрын
A brilliant look back at a great initiative. Used to love going there as a kid.
@yppahpeek Жыл бұрын
What a fantastic video. Marvellous to hear the satisfaction and enthusiasm in the voices. I had no idea there used to be an engine shed in Dinting
@christaylor1575 Жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed this. I recall after the society had been booted off the site the land owner got egg on his face because his plans to build houses was refused due to access issues. My old mate Ian Jones was a keen member, can't spot him in the video but I suspect he'll be there somewhere. He ran the miniature steam railway at Belle Vue in Manchester.
@johnlumby5217 Жыл бұрын
Yes Chris. I knew Blod from Dinting and I was his top link driver at Belle View!
@user-ch9fl5sx9u Жыл бұрын
My uncle George Wilson was a fireman at Dinting Station, working all round Manchester, Moved eventually to Hollyhead Station, where he retired from. Currently in Anglesey, it would be great to get in touch with some old colleagues.
@peterflitcroft9756 Жыл бұрын
Both Hardwick (in the film) and the Midland compound visited on rail tours. There were very few standard gauge preserved railways operating then so Dinting prospered. Great memories of the place. Happy days indeed.
@peterflitcroft9756 Жыл бұрын
I little tear in my eye watching this. It seems a lifetime ago. Used to cycle over the hill from Whaley Bridge to volunteer.. Helped clean 6115 the day before it’s last outing on the main line from Dinting. The love of steam engines never leaves you. I have my own steam traction engine now.
@trainsacrossthenorth Жыл бұрын
Excellent song!
@stuartbroome1258 Жыл бұрын
Just watched it again. Many in the video are no longer with us sadly. Happy days and good camaraderie. Still go up to see the overgrown site and think of how it was.
@jasonhirst3323 Жыл бұрын
I was great at dinting now glossop as nothing now dinting , Railway museum was brilliant I only live 10 minutes away
@levelcrossing150 Жыл бұрын
These were the guys that made things happen in those days, they were all around the country living their dream.
@johnlaw3323 Жыл бұрын
A great compilation of what looks like many hours of pleasure and team work.
@petedemaio168 Жыл бұрын
This is a great film. And song. Usually preservation efforts continue to grow and grow so this is quite sad to see after all of the work that went into this place. This film is a wonderful record.
@dansterland1824 Жыл бұрын
Bahamas is a beautiful engine have a model of her coming friday next week its as she is preserved as well 😀😀😀
@dansterland1824 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@crewelocoman5b161 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant! Thank you for posting.
@davidearl20382 жыл бұрын
Great collection of memories, sad to see it is no more. I visited the engine shed a couple of days ago, now with all its windows smashed, covered in graffiti and hidden in the undergrowth. Wish I`d known about this place in the 80s I could have took my Dad who had been a fireman on the Liverpool -Manchester steam engines in the late 1940s early 50s. Thanks for the upload.
@jordomayor52242 жыл бұрын
Me Dads from Hollingworth, Greater Manchester and back in the mid seventies we visited our Grandma and Grandpa and during this stay we went to visit Dinting Railway Centre. Wowwwwwwwww.........., what a wonderful and magical place it was! I guess the strongest first impression on arrival and stepping out onto the car park, was the smell of oil, steam and coal mixed with the fresh air of the Yorkshire Dale's. The massive dinosaurs of Steel were so overwhelming to see, so huge, that as a child standing so close up, one couldn't grasp the entirety of a beast like the 'Leander'.
@jordomayor52242 жыл бұрын
Wish it could all be revived and set up once again one day.
@ANTHONYBOOTH2 жыл бұрын
needs re-building; - there or Crowden
@eliotreader82202 жыл бұрын
lovely song someone I know was a train spotter when he was a lad
@Dragondave10002 жыл бұрын
Great video an great song featured towadrs the end
@eliotreader82202 жыл бұрын
great little song you can just about smell the warm oil and the sound of a engine's Whistle
@Smoking_Gear2 жыл бұрын
Great video! Hadn't heard of the Dinting Railway Centre before this and it's a shame it closed down in the 90s. A couple questions though, are we able to find the songs in the video cause I'd love to keep listening to them, and why exactly did the Centre end up closing? I can't seem to find the reason anywhere.
@bahamaslocomotivesociety56312 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your message. You can hear these songs, and more on the audio documentary we produced on CD, which tells in words and music the creation and the demise of the Dinting Railway Centre. It's entitled 'Steam - in our soul' and it's still available for sale from our museum shop at Ingrow. The price is £5 (plus p&p) - but if you call our shop on 01535 690739 between 11.00 and 16.00 Tuesday to Sunday, I'm sure they would delighted to take your order and post you a copy. You'll also find it on the website by scrolling down the sales page here:: ingrowlocomuseum.com/?page_id=1051 The CD explains why the site closed, but in brief terms we were forced to move by the landlord after a long running dispute over rent.
@GQguy242 жыл бұрын
My mom grew up and lived in Ingrow on Caister St. from the mid 1940's until the late 1960's (when she moved to the US). She was the only one of her family to leave the Keighley area. My grandmother stayed in that same house on Caister until she passed away and my mom's sister ended up buying a house on that street as well. I remember making many trips over there as a kid from the mid 1980's through the 1990's. I showed this video to my mom and she loved seeing all those old photos from the years when she was a child living there. Thank you so much for sharing.
@bahamaslocomotivesociety56312 жыл бұрын
It is a pleasure to be able to share these images and delightful to know that they are appreciated. Thank you for your comment.
@stuartbroome12582 жыл бұрын
What a good video, just as it was, happy days, especially when DP2 derailed its bogie alongside Crewe North shed. A huge cheer went up from us trainspotting on the end of the platform. Another time at Crewe me and a mate bunked off school in Hazel Grove and went to Crewe Station. 46244 King George VI came in on a northbound working, What a cop that was. Happy days. 😊
@stuartbroome12582 жыл бұрын
Good days, at least when the sun came out. I remember digging our way into Dinting and clearing points etc after heavy snow.
@freespiritgb2 жыл бұрын
Great film and great music. I remember meeting John Tait when we worked at GMT. He was at Chunderplan. Thought I saw Arnie Furness briefly. Later on in my railway career I worked with George Wilson who had started as a cleaner at Dinting in BR days. Finished his career at Holyhead. Happy days.
@Stockport9b2 жыл бұрын
Lots of good memories from volunteering at Dinting in the late 60's and 70's and as a trainee fireman on Bahamas, Tiny and Warrington. Used to go up to Dinting with Brian in his old Commer van along with my neighbour Eric Stevens (Stephens ?) Remember taking the Bahamas sales stand to Tyseley with Eric and others in a rented Ford Transit van. We lost the sales stand off the roof of the van somewhere on the M6 on the way back! Good to see Frank driving his beloved Jacob. Where is Jacob now? George, Eddie and Harold . Good guys. Tom Capewell
@ianwarriner81932 жыл бұрын
Excellent
@johnhume43462 жыл бұрын
Great days out there as a kid.
@NickGarswood2 жыл бұрын
Summed up very well what it was like in the halcyon steam days of trainspotting.
@grahamchadwick52422 жыл бұрын
Had great days when my Mum and Dad took me there as a young kid ,
@lawrencecody93162 жыл бұрын
Visited several times..I have a few pics somewhere...
@stuartbroome12582 жыл бұрын
How lovely to see the lads I knew so well again. Would go up with my wife Ruth. She would cook breakfasts for the lads in the old enginemens room c1969/70. Then she would go and polish the brass on Bahamas. I helped lay No 4 road and erect the exhibition hall. Bolted many of the trusses together with Dave Collier. Happy days, it should never have closed.
@jordomayor52242 жыл бұрын
Wonderful recollection and memory's. Thanks for sharing with us all
@jordomayor52242 жыл бұрын
Was once there in Dinting whilst visiting Grandparents. Me Dad was in the Brotish Army and mostly stationed abroad, bit whenever he could he would get back to his homeland to visit his parents and relatives, and spend time in the lively Dales. What a place to grow up in even if when he was a lad it was a tuff l Iife for the average family. Still wouldn't wanna miss this grand Lancashire heritage. Ta Dad for sharing it with your four lads and loving wife. We may not of fully appreciated it back in the days, but TODAY we all certainly DO. Love ya Dad
@jameshardy43543 жыл бұрын
Isnt LNER apple green wrong fore blue Peter shouldn't it be br apple green
@ThePanzer62 жыл бұрын
Yes at the time BR Livered Locomotives weren't as popular as they are now, the trend was for Big Four/Pre Grouping Liveries try to distance the preserved railways from the then recently finished BR steam. The then Owner Geoff Drury decided a fictitious version LNER livery it would have carried if it had been outshopped before BR.
@stephenchappell7512 Жыл бұрын
I think Apple Green 🟩 suits it just fine which is not surprising as it was designed with that colour in mind
@RiflemanMoore3 жыл бұрын
A superb record of the early days of steam preservation. I managed to catch both Steamport and Steamtown as a child and have some memories of them but alas Dinting closed down when I was barely 1 year old so I never got to experience it.
@johnholt93993 жыл бұрын
I went saw in 70s and early 80s Leander, Bahamas and Scott’s Guardsman. On later visit saw Blue Peter and stood on footplate of Britten
@waynedl993 жыл бұрын
Used to love going there as a kid, dad was ex- BR. Take stuff for granted though :(
@mitchpolley38873 жыл бұрын
Summer holidays as a child helping my granny, Edith.
@Drivershell533 жыл бұрын
what a truly brilliant video. I have happy memories and some video of a gala weekend. It was a great place to visit. Your video shows the great volunteer spirit. Huge thanks for posting.
@davidseale82523 жыл бұрын
Hi There, a great film and I was a regular visitor to Dinting in the 70's. What makes this film great is that I am on the footplate of Bahamas with my son Stephen at 4:00 minutes into the film. What a lovely coincidence. Many thanks to the cameraman.
@highdownmartin3 жыл бұрын
No headlights, grizzled inspectors who were on the steam. All much better.