Vintage railway film - Shunter Blacks night off - 1941
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- This vintage railway film, produced by the Ministry of Information in 1941, documents the daily activities of shunters in railway yards and their importance and contribution to the war effort. In this short film, shunter Black helps avert disaster when a bombing raid hits the yards and causes numerous fires.
This film is believed to have been shot at the long gone Southern Railways Feltham marshalling yard. South Western Railway is currently using the site as a depot for 701 class train sets.
Thank you again, B B R. My Grampa James Keir Brown was a Shunter during World War Two, afterwards based at St Enoch's Station, Glasgow, and finally Queen Street Station.
During the early to mid-1960s, he introduced me (during my early teen years} to Rannoch Station - holidaying in the Polmadie Angling Club's railway camping coach, parked on a siding at Rannoch Station (adjacent to the then extant turntable).
Wonderful days. Awoken to a breakfast of ultra-fresh, butter-fried trout, caught by the night-fishermen just a few hours before. The second course of our set-you-up-for-the-day-ahead breakfast included potato scones (well-fired, for my taste), black pudding, white pudding, sliced haggis, fried eggs, fried bread and, more often than not, baked beans. Oh, and (for me, again, well-fired) toast spread with 'real' butter. All washed down with strong, sweet tea, liberally splashed with evaporated milk. Heaven! Thence (!) ... on to Loch Laidon or the Gaur for some R & R, and hopefully catching even more sweet trout for supper et al.
Apologies for the ramble.
All the best.
Rab 🐟 🍻 💚 😎
Happy 80th anniversary to this documentary
I just can't see a group of people working so tightly together with the same responsibility and awareness nowadays, sadly.
They’d all run away.
Thank God for all the heroic works of Great Britain 🇬🇧 and all of her people. 🙏
yes indeed
Bravo from the U.S.
The entire country had a 36" pair of brass balls. No wimps, no whiners. Just half the countries brass hanging between the legs if everyone; male, female, adult or child.
That was really good. That man was a hero!
just love the old steam trains,shame they had to go.
Some are in preservation though, they even made a working replica of an LNER A1 called Tornado, the Flying Scotsman was the last surviving of it's class (A1/A3)
That guy deserves a life time supply of Heineken
Oh yes, some good German beer !
Based on the true story of Norman Tunna GC
Not forgetting Benjamin Gimbert GC and James nightall GC , if ever there was a case for modern locomotives to be named after people then Tunner gimbert and nightall names should still be on locomotives to this day .
May be or may be not, this is 1941 if you look at the ticket on the van, Soham was June 1944.
I just love that this was produced by Mr. Box and Mr. Carr lol.
My Great Great Uncle Arthur Salmon was a shunter, originally with the Great Eastern Railway and then after grouping the LNER, working in the goods yard in Stowmarket Suffolk throughout WW2.
A bloody great set 'o brass balls 'e 'ad there mate!
Brilliant short story...interesting
Glad you enjoyed it
The ‘elf and safety brigade would go into meltdown today over these working practices.
True, they would be useless in that sort of situation. The ammunition van would most likely have exploded and took everyone with it.
And now? All work from home, service industries, hunchbacks in the making from staring at iPhone screens all day long!
Shunter Joe Black is a real Hero.
Filmed at Feltham Yard
WOW - you don't see this any more - it's all in metal containers these days!!! 🙂🚂🚂🚂
Unsung Hero's.
This was filmed at the old marshalling yards in feltham middlesex i used to knock about on the abandoned sight in the early 70s
Brilliant!
Nice.
Awsome
It were fair blistering me neck at that
Great expression, will try it with my cockney accent. The art of slowing the wagons looks a Health and Safety nightmare. Much enjoyed film and I don't have to communicate in German????
Not all war hero's were in the fighting forces
1:36 G16 SHOT!
whew
What a dangerous thing the unfitted van with three link couplings were. Hundreds of shuttered died doing what Shunter Black was doing. The American and European buck-eye coupler was far, far safer!