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Title: 'DIESEL TRAINRIDE' 1959 Style. When DMUs were regarded as the future... Post by: JayMac on February 08, 2012, 21:59:10 A delightfully twee and quaint British Transport Films short from 1959. Music's rather jolly as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXtK_h9rygk Nice to see not all the lines travelled in this film are no longer. I went over one of those swing bridges in Norfolk just last year... Oh, and not a hi-viz or other PPE in sight. :D EDIT: Oh, and doesn't 'Dad' sound like that other rail enthusiast, Michael Palin? ;D Title: Re: 'DIESEL TRAINRIDE' 1959 Style. When DMUs were regarded as the future... Post by: thetrout on February 08, 2012, 22:34:24 Thank you for that bignosemac ;) That was really a pleasure to watch.
Incidentally, through the recommended videos on that link, I found this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=S5iKZf_rwgU Which shows how they did the Electrification from Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria :) Although quite how a "Carol Vodermans Mini Skirt is too short" came up in the same recommended videos section is beyond me! :o ::) :D Title: Re: 'DIESEL TRAINRIDE' 1959 Style. When DMUs were regarded as the future... Post by: JayMac on February 08, 2012, 22:41:22 Hmm, that Carol Vorderman clip is well out of place. Didn't stop me watching it though..... ;D ;D ;D
Incidentally, through the recommended videos on that link, I found this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=S5iKZf_rwgU "All change here for electricity." Dun dun duuuhhh. The voice over and dramatic music gives the impression that the changes to the sparky stuff are a portend of doom... Title: Re: 'DIESEL TRAINRIDE' 1959 Style. When DMUs were regarded as the future... Post by: Brucey on February 09, 2012, 07:46:31 Dad seems to know a lot about the railways ... perhaps he should also be the driver!
Title: Re: 'DIESEL TRAINRIDE' 1959 Style. When DMUs were regarded as the future... Post by: eightf48544 on February 09, 2012, 08:48:05 The BTF Film archive is a real treasure chest I've seen the diesel one and lots of others including some of the staff instructional ones when I was on BR.
In fact most of the Big Four had film units bfore the war along with the GPO. During the war they combined into the Ministry Of information and produced propaganda films. After the war was most nationalised industries had film units. We have a chap in club who is a cine buff who collects 16mm film on which most were produced. He has an aweful lot. They are real insights into life in the 30s to 60s. One I remember was on the lost art of single line working, showing the various ways of setting it up and the use of the different forms. one of the crosovers was at Avril (April?) Hammer. All the passenger trains were hauled by Standards so could be a lot of places. Then they did a goods train, and a S&D 7F comes in to view. Of course no yellow jackets or hard hats. Avril Hammer equals Shepton Mallet on the S&D This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |