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Thanks for this, grew up in east London then Essex through the 70’s & 80’s so this really resonates 🙏🏽

Excellent, very interesting, thanks

Accident 1969..G-AVjZ. Aquaplane...

Great footage and good to hear the Caley is reopening.

A marvellous insight in to East England railway history

24:39 where is that cleaner

25:17 don’t do that

Whose the narrator?

That was just wonderful... No wonder steam traction was phased out those locomotives are so labour intensive but such a wonderful sight 👍 28:12

I remember using one canteen when they just used microwaves 1977 and asking for a Welsh rabbit toast meal when I got it it looked like "the swamp creature".

LOOK AT ALL THAT SKY!!!

Quite a shock seeing one self from the 1960s. The film of the Britannia's at Chelmsford is from the film Britannia at Chelmsford by Michael Ham. I assisted being a close friend of Mike and my parents knowing the Station Master, a Mr Rowlands and bg a close friend. The Brit talking water caught us out, as this was most unusual. This was not the only railway film we made. See also Chalford Turnround

21:16 Oi that’s not the way to put a cork in screw it don’t bang it

@ 48-46....were they all hoping to get on that special train? And how ridiculous it was a dirty old diesel DMU....should have laid on a steam loco.

That was a huge marshaling yard at Whitemoor. The workers were rightly proud of it. Little did they know it would become a category A prison just a couple of decades later.

Greetings from USA. Great video. Informative, historical, enjoyable. Thank you.

And look at us now ,,,pitiful isn’t it couldn’t produce a bolt now sorry full we had it all then and fucked it up

I didnt realise that they had long welded rail in 1947!

I wish there are of more these films great to watch thanks

Brought back memories of watching that in Ashfield House... lol

Factory fodder.

Era before guided missile😂

“Bit of a nuisance, really …” - a phrase I am stealing and which I intend to use often. Another great film, thank you.

Sadly condemmed by British Rail's Not Invented Here attitudes.

He was a genius, despite his self-deprecation.

29.00 ......

Absolutely brilliant

They had no idea what they were destroying. How incredibly sad.

I love the random editing on the train from Lowestoft with water troughs and locations many miles away from East Anglia, and tunnels!

One of the greatest inventions ever done by barns Wallis= England had the best brains in the work that was done in time of war god bless barns Wallis = his work helped towards in winning the war

It was a other world back then.

Brilliant collection of films - especially the GE electrification, as you say, very rare.

Disc-braked EMUs in Britain started in 1965 with the AM10s (cl.310s), albeit with EP not with three-step... and if I correctly recall were retro-fitted with a quite primitive WSP. Makes the 321s really hi-tech by comparison 😂 If only it was still politically correct to select step 3 at the normal braking point, then use 2 or 1 after speed is greatly reduced - booked journey times would come down to what they were in the 1980s!

Very interesting medley of films! I like especially those showing the 'human side' of working the railway; the shed cleaners, drivers etc. Thank you. I've often scoured various BTF archive films on YT but this is the first I've seen of the 1967 opening day of electric New St-Euston expresses.

And yet towns like Wisbech don't have a railway but they are growing bigger and busier. Their is only a few miles of track missing and they don't need to build on the original location.

Wish I’d been on this when I lived not far from there.

A couple of things with this. Living in Bishop’s Stortford during the 70’s all the way to 2010 I am fairly certain the 305’s we used to get to and from Tottenham Hale or Liverpool Street were 4 car units. Also the majority of Stansted Express services stopped at Bishop’s Stortford as well as Tottenham Hale. Later there was a Tottenham Hale only service and a Stansted Mountfitchet and Bishop’s Stortford service alternating between the two services. Stansted Airport station was designed to become a through station but subsequent building has prevented this. Obviously the Flitch Way track bed would have been ideal and the Stansted Airport customers arriving from the east are greatly inconvenienced by the lack of this connection, the 15 minute journey a direct link would take from Braintree currently taking 2 hours+ going via Stratford and Tottenham Hale or into and out of Liverpool Street.

Growing up in Ilford and living my adult life all over east anglia this was an absolute joy! Particularly the little bit of footage of Birdbrook, having lived in Clare and Haverhill and often waking along all the surrounding track beds in the area, thanks for the upload…

Great Vid thanks

Thanks for posting 👍

Nice that the star of the show was a WD 8F !

I only got invited on the track inspection saloon once, from Clapham Junction.

"...bringing beck ,,, nothing falls orf..." priceless accent, coupled with patronising nonsense. Narrator could have done with a spin at the horny-handed stuff too

At least they used, the retained, Railway Viaduct as part of the By Pass. I remember 2 Pubs called the Jolly Sailor, both next to the River but on opposite sides. Now Maldon is 3 or 4 times as big. I lived there, first house I bought, over 40 years ago. Station was a Pub and a Nightclub. Not too far from where Jeremy Bamber, GUILTY, murdered 5 people purely for Drug Money.

Did I see the handsome head of a black cat - at our around 2:33? As with the steam engine our world culture is/would be terrible without a black Moggie around to bring joy to our souls…

Nice to see pictures of the inside of the Branazon

Thanks mate. Cheers cobber.

Although it’s stated that the colour film was 1959. The black and white film was at least 10 years earlier if not literally just after the war. The locos are in wartime black with LNER or NE on them. They couldn’t repaint all of them in BR green immediately. The coaches are still in the LNER teak and that’s obviously the old LNER livery too

Anyone know which box this is filmed at? The main focus anyway.

Anyone know which shed this is filmed at? I’m guessing Crewe.