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Sounds like no dub i ever heard !

Ex crosti .

Double headed 9Fs: Awesome power!!!!

Very interesting. We are exactly the same age, did exams at the same time etc. I was never a trainspotter, and really I think we are both a little young for the heyday of spotting - very few of my school mates were into trains, maybe 4 or 5 out of a year of about 90. And I grew up close to Bescot, so there had been plenty of spotting going on. Maybe you caught the enthusiasm from your father. Quite a few of my chums were bus spotters - amongst other things our town had trolley buses. After we did our O levels that year, there was a scout trip to a camp in Newton Stewart for a week, and passing through Carlisle the one train spotter amongst us was overjoyed to catch a glimpse of an engine in steam, not sure what it was, but it must have been one of the very last on BR, being the first or second week of August 1968. Sunny days.

WOW your small films are fantastic!!! Love to see!!!

Global warming 😂.

is there an layout or map of this area 1:29

Good filming for 8mm. The sound seems to be in sync. How was it recorded?

the slope to miles platting dosnt seem steep when u are riding but it must be

This is lovely. Thanks for sharing!

Have a model of respite was lord Phil originally made by hornby 😊😊

Great video, thanks for sharing!!!

Thanks for the memories. I walked through a small door next to a wall and down the cinder path with my father who was a goods guard to the Edgeley engine shed to collect his wages. I must have been about ten at the time. I remember the smells of the steam and seeing the remains of the fires after they had been dropped from the engines, and the sooty faces of the engine cleaners as they emerged after cleaning the boiler flues.

Brilliant memories of a lost world

Danke!

Great Video!

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Very reminiscent. I studied at Manchester during the few previous years. At one point what is really an 8F is said to be a Black Five, but very nice.

great too see , can't believe you go the sound so good when you were so young. lived on the London line at Chalford sounds of my childhood hearing them struggle up the hill to Sapperton tunnel thanks for the memories

Some superb Diesel action in this one, most excellent. 💪

Grand memories. Thanks. :-)

Very evocative of an era and love these films. Is the soundtrack original, i.e. your original 8 mm cine had audio feature, or is it added retrospectively?

Exelant video Sad to think that the locomotives we see in the films are cut up I can imagine it mustve gotten quiter when steam met its fate

Really enjoy your films, especially these from the dying days of BR steam. Thanks

I really enjoy your films hope to see more

Atmospheric, you were lucky with the greater longevity of steam, compared to BR(W) in the south..

Excellent video, both as a social record of north Manchester and how the railways have changed in this area. Living in Bury all my life, and travelling into Manchester countless times, I find it fascinating to see the extent of the railways in the area. Additionally, having just edited hours of digitised footage that my late father took on his 8mm cine of my family in the mid 1960's I must say the quality of the footage in your videos is very good by comparison, although, sadly, there was no audio on the footage I have edited. I look forward to the next one.

Wonderful video! Thankyou!

These restored film reels in your videos are AMAZING. Makes me wish I could travel back in time to all the places you've been just to see what they looked like.

Thanks. Superb footage as usual. Looking forward to more and Manchester Central 👍

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That was awesome seeing those work horses around Manchester as that was my train spotting area as I lived in Urmston so had plenty of trips to Victoria 😊 But sadly steam had finished as I was only 11 in 68 🙁

More very special and utterly unique footage. Always enjoy these films!

Once again, excellent! Re your attire in June, weather manipulation anybody?

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The crane is a Ransomes and Rapier of 45 ton capacity built for the Ministry of Supply and handed over to the LNER as number 951516 late to become BR 122, then 1083/45 and latterly ADRR95215. The crane was stationed at Gorton between June 1943 to November 1961 and then on to Newton Heath from 13 June 1965 until withdrawal, January 1979 .

Wow,what a piece of film,thank you for sharing it

Oh so very evocative of the last days...................Many thanks for sharing.............

Superb stuff much missed steam

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You did well to film the breakdown gang at work. Some rare footage there. They always seemed to get stuck in, worked steady n simply. Theirs & the p/way insp’s priority was to get line clear & working again asap. Thank you for posting this good little vid.

I'm absolutely over the moon with the stuff you have put on here! I didn't now the layout at Woodlands road, as by the time I was driving at Bury, Abraham Moss had wiped it all out. However, there was a set of old junction points in the long grass on the up side banking until about 88. And to see the shots of Crumpsall yard as it was, was an eye opener. I remeber it still just about working in 77. But now you've no idea how extensive it really was, first with overgrowth and then housing. Thank heavens you made the effort and took care of your film stocks. Top man, you deserve a beer!

Fantastic never heard about he accident before but heard about the one I think it was Smeadly lane ? where a steam train at a junction just before Victoria station derailed a electric train and crashed through a wall and plunged 30ft below and killed 10 people

Absolutely wonderful videos. A real joy to watch.

I don't remember that crash but in 1967 I had discovered other things! Then I quickly learnt better. Think my two E's at A level had something to do with it. I know you are in touch with Steve Leyland - time you came to the Doffcocker for a lads night out - not that sort!!!

HA !! After that dust up the line would be shut for months nowadays!

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Wonderful video. I knew the Newton Heath engines ‘personally’ you might say. My dad knew one of the inspectors there, Frank Davies. Another Driver was Ray Davies who once let me ride in the cab with him from Victoria to Southport, alas in a DMU. Another driver was the late Trevor Owen who many will remember by his nickname ‘Skwaw’, a driver on the Worth Valley.

Brilliant again, especially for those of us who lived on Exchange in the early to mid 60’s. Why didn’t I have a camera!

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