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Chap with the mobile phone and Toyota Corolla gave it away

A little masterpiece.

Superb! Had me fooled for a while that is was not a 50s BTF!

Flat bottom rail 😳

Sir John we miss you.

What a truly fantastic film. Well thought out, Narrated and Edited. A modern film that takes you back in time. I worked on the railway for 42 years and loved every minute. I started as a Porter, Parcel worker (Nottm London Rd), Office Lad, Shunter, Guard and then progressed onto the Footplate as a Frieght Driver at Toton and finally to Passenger Driver at Derby. Times and shift working were hard, but I loved every minute. I'm so glad to have worked in a time when the Railway was still great.

Amazing.... Brilliantly well done. If you ever need some aerial footage, then don't hesitate to ask. I'm local to Loughborough and would be delighted to help out. I've just started to share some videos on a channel. I'll be updating these regularly. www.youtube.com/@GCRAerialExpress

Absolutely enthralling! 👏👏👏

The clue is in all those preserved locos! All in the spirit of the BTF films, well done.

We really enjoyed the video thank you for all your hard work that you do. 😊

Great video thanks 😊

Fantastic brilliant so well done, I love all the BTF films you have recreated one perfectly. 👍

02:57 я из России, и у меня в детстве ( когда был СССР) на Новый год мы делали такие же цепи, из цветной бумаги (иногда просто сами раскрашивали красками белые листки, не было готовой цветной бумаги).

I remember them well !

A brilliant pastiche of BTFs!

Love the way they use 'The Lost Lady Found' from Percy Grainger's 'The Lincolnshire Posy' as an intro. The same piece of music was used on John Betjeman's 'Branch Line Railway' made in 1962.

So forward looking to have the whole thing set up and ready for when the snowy weather came. I wonder how long they had to wait.

I’m a Yank, but to my understanding, the worst, longest, coldest and snowiest U.K winters were 1962/3 and 1949. Is this video depicting 1962/3?

Why are people carrying empty suitcases?

Outstanding 👏👏👍😎

Fantastic. But how did you get away with being on the track without a hi-vis on??

Great film, beautifully made in what I thought until now, was an inimitable style! Deserves a lot more views. But don't be disappointed, those who have seen it; love it!

Beautiful! Thank-you!

How sad to see the state of the railways today absolutely crap we should go back to these days ?

They really used the volunteers a lot. One gentleman in a trench coat got on and off a train four times including one boarding right after an arrival.

1962/3 was a very bad winter, people would say, it's a ice-age coming. Gawd it went on for months. Started in December ended somewhere around March I think.

Bit lacking

oof! they fuckingly leaned on that V-Day muzak, hadn't they 💡 queer, how folks around those BI concoct the storybook card as perpetual afterthought 💡💡💡

I am a child of the fifties and this film brings tears to my eyes! The choir singing, the DMU departing and the paper chains all bring the past flooding into memory fresh and exciting as Christmas was in those now far off days. My home was in Eaglescliffe, my bedroom window directly overlooked the 4 track main line. I spent many happy hours watching trains instead of sleeping, listening to the chatter of the crew when halted at a signal, the blaze of the fire when the firebox doors opened and much more! Stupid I know, but I can smell that Christmas tree! I long to go back to those days when my Father would read a Christmas story before bed with only the tree lights on and a coal fire for warmth. Well done to everyone involved in making this video, you had me fooled for a few minutes!

Scene 5:22 ..the man ran towards the train .ohh shit I'm late again 😂😂😂

Wonderful film. If only we could really turn the clock back.

In my part of Canada 🇨🇦 trains are gone and replaced by trucks.

I thought this was trainspotting nostalgia for Vegetarians ?

Absolutely brilliant! Very well done!

A beautful film. I command you to stop making us nostalgic.

Marvellous. An heroic age. Everything spotless, stations being reopened. And, then, Capitalism (greed) destroyed it all.

A capital film. I hope that frightful chap, Dr Beeching, reconsiders his plans.

what a nice film

The narrator's voice sounds like what you might have heard back in the 50's. Aspect ratio is also vintage.

Absolutely loved it. But I would so love to see it in full HD colour, as it would have looked then. Colourful, vibrant and green :)

My grandfather worked on a rural length to the west of Swansea. When I was a kid back in the 50's, during the school holidays, I sometimes used to work with "the gang", on the length which was one hundred yards from my front door.

Top film !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Spectacular recreation. Thank you. -See you all in the year ahead ...

Nice film. Just a pity that the recruitment team at GCR are so poor. I wanted to volunteer on loco overhaul as an engineer or on Signals and Telegraph but was met with complete indifference and offered a position as platform staff! Plus was told I would have to attend interview in the week when I was working. Subsequently I went to GWSR and was welcomed with open arms, I'm now a member of the Steam Dept management team and the Technical Director of Cotswold Steam Preservation Ltd restoring GWR 2807. I'm happy where I am but it's a bit of a drive and I literally pass the GCR 40 minutes into my 2 1/2 hour drive. I know others who have had similar experiences so you need to sort out your recruitment or you will be in trouble.

It was a great life until affirmative action

An excellent documentary thoroughly showing the many layers of employees required to to keep an essential service such as the railway functioning.

This is a spoof right?😂

Mr Colomondeley Warner?

BRILLIANT..WOW ...EXCELLANT ... thank you ...

Little did they know that 50 years down the line, no pun intended, that everything would be in the toilet.