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I presume it was 1 Feb, 2019.I was living near the cemetary in the Lansdown Road. Did prior shopping from the Morrison's a day before due to storm alert. It was a perfect snowfall that day, splendid.

Having served in the Army I can imagine the pride and camaraderie and humour was much the same . These people produced some of the best quality heavy engineering seen in Britain . They and Swindon works deserve all the accolades they get . The Great Western Railway was unique in many ways and all Western Countrymen are proud they served the this wonderful company

Soon Newton Aycliffe will go down the same path as Swindon Works. It’s just tragic for such a new site like Newton Aycliffe…

I'm still amazed all this was going on without me knowing. I assumed in the UK there were just 4 channels, period. I didn't know some areas had cable with many more channels, I thought that didn't start until 1989 with Sky satellite.

I worked there, now is sells crap fast food and designer cloths made in sweatshops . This is Britain being dismantled bit by bit as we become a third world country

Thank you Swindon Cable and the makers of this wonderful documentary. Inspiring for what was achieved and built there for so long; but now sad in equal measure. Thank you for posting this

It's Kate Bush!! 0:57

Thanks for sharing this - it's really interesting to see behind the scenes at Swindon Cable's headend. I've been steadily collecting the parts to build a recreation - I have an American (NTSC) Model MVP video scrambler and matching C6M modulator, same as those in the video but for the American market. What a shame a lot of the UK spec equipment seems to have been scrapped.

Saw it at Derby, had my first ever uni lecture down in Leicester about 45 minutes later, got there in time, worth it😂❤

Wonderful and fitting, fabulous, enjoyed it start to finish :)

Great video Paul. Keep it up❤

a shop, b shop were the best places to work

all respects out to George Lawrence, Christopher Peston, John Gill, Dave Pratt, Simon Harry, Vince, Lance, Terry Bunce, Trev, Long Tall Ken, Pugsy. Mike Difford, John Slocombe, Sipton, Duncan Witerlfood ... probably mostly all RIP but these were the best of the best !

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It is very sad that Swindon will never see them again 😢😢😢 Fling over Swindon.

Thanks for uploading Paul, this is fascinating!

Flew over Colchester this afternoon.

I saw them came over Pasture close 2day.😢😢😢

Great video. I was on that trip, it was amazing 🙂

Very nice catches 👍 had a few journeys right behind the magnificent D345 at the Swanage Railway Diesel Gala last month, awesome sight and sound 😊

Excellent video made in perfect weather

Great video! I've subscribed!

Wish we could go back to those days Paul. The world is so horrible now.

Fabulous coverage as always Paul. What a great day out!

Sky Channel was initially encrypted using Oak Orion scrambling for cable system distribution only, but later on they pulled it going free to air all over Europe for motorised satellite dish owners.

Enjoy the sights and sounds of the recent Spring Gala!

So IT made railway engineering obsolete? Of course not. Its done in France and other places as ever. Thatcher & Co had no authority to shut down Swindon or the mines for that matter. We are the authority. Not them. In law. They did not own what they destroyed. The people did.

Thatcher & Co had no authority to close something that did not belong to them. I hear it closed with full order books. A .gov gets its orders from us. Not vice versa.

Never should of touched it. What a joke

Now Piri Piri Chicken shop. How times change.

i was there that day .... great place to play

Very shortsighted at the time, it had everything needed for the railway. Why put a shopping centre instead of a workshop that could do everything. Just think if it was still there how it could serve preserved railways, even new builds. Very shortsighted.

This is beautiful

Beautiful footage! These locos are gorgeous! 🤌🏻😙👌🏻

Good views n music paul

Thanks .Fantastic coverage,

Really well put together video. enjoyed it, Thanks.

It was also the year Thatcher got rid of all the bus works in every major city along with the miners and the rest of our industry.

As sad as this is/was the same happened all over the country , Donny, Crewe, Derby etc' etc'

Spot on Paul, pity no credits.........

Great see see Dave and hear his voice again. Dave was Radio Rental's Mr Fixit when there were problems on the Swindon Viewpoint Uplink from Victoria Road to RR Shrivenham Road. Always calm and cool-headed, Dave would get us back on the air usually within minutes. P'Nut

I’ve seen a similar documentary about Swindon works Sad to see it all gone The art of “coiling a wire” lost 😡

Good on you old Geysers, go for it.

Remembering hopping the fence when Swindon was breaking peaks. Such a shame that British Engineering has gone, locos from the UK were once shipped worldwide. Now we have boring Class 66s imported and our industry has gone.

The mighty workshops like Swindon and Crewe are now just a memory, the great western is run by Hitachi junk with ironing boards for seats and half the people who live on the site of the works have no idea it even existed while scrolling along their chinese slave built iphones. What a world it became, so utterly depressing and vapid.

I did moved to Swindon for a better comutte to work a few years ago and remember I was excited to check out what is left of Swindon Works, but it's a real shame, watching this documentary, seeing how it once was now reduced to essentially the main shed and side shed where the museam is standing, very little of the herritate was kept it seemed despite without the works Swindon would of been one of many small towns that would get ignored. It's a real shame they didn't preserve move of what Swindon's history.

I was a kid when the works closed . Swindon was THE place to go if you liked railways. Our school had a trip planned for the GWR 100 years celebrations. But they closed the works down and cancelled everything. So many jobs lost.

Old people trust their government, that's where the problem started.

Nikki Mideo - cameraman - passed on the Kegworth air crash Jan 1989. RIP mate.

Good watch. I was born shildon which also lost its major employer, British rail wagon works, town never recovered.