West Highland Railway 1960, A Day In The Life

West Highland Railway 1960, A Day In The Life - BBC Archive

As at 21st January 2025 07:41 GMT

Re: West Highland Railway 1960, A Day In The Life - BBC Archive

Posted by Mark A at 22:42, 20th January 2025

Will that be the London train on the other platform at Queen Street?

Mark

Re: West Highland Railway 1960, A Day In The Life - BBC Archive

Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 19:48, 20th January 2025

Thanks for that, JayMac.

Thirty minutes of fascinating railway history - well worth watching.

I liked the apparently inordinate amounts of atmospheric pollution, and the broad Scottish burrs from the locals in the commentary.

West Highland Railway 1960, A Day In The Life - BBC Archive

Posted by JayMac at 19:09, 20th January 2025

Just watched this little gem of a BBC documentary from 1960 about the operation of, and the people associated with, the West Highland Line from Glasgow to Mallaig.

Very atmospheric. I particularly like the random lineside stop to pick up children for their journey to school, with Mum equipped with a ladder!

The Coffee Shop forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western). The views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit https://www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site at admin@railcustomer.info if you feel that the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules. Our full legal statment is at https://www.greatwesternrailway.info/legal.html

Although we are planning ahead, we don't know what the future will bring here in the Coffee Shop. We have domains "firstgreatwestern.info" for w-a-y back and also "greatwesternrailway.info"; we can also answer to "greatbritishrailways.info" too. For the future, information about Great Brisish Railways, by customers and for customers.