Vintage train film - Let's go to Birmingham - 1962
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- čas přidán 2. 09. 2020
- This vintage railway film, produced in 1962 by British Transport Films, speeds the viewer from Paddington to Birmingham Snow Hill in five and a half minutes - the equivalent of 960mph!
The footage was shot from the cab of a British Railway's 145kph (90mph) Blue Pullman power car.
Sadly, the driver in this film, Ernest Morris, was killed on 15 August, 1963, (about a year after this movie was filmed) in the Knowle and Dorridge rail crash when his express train collided with a freight train at 32 kph (20 mph).
Ernest Morris Will be sadly missed by us all 59 years later
The driver of this train, Ernest Morris, was sadly killed in the Knowle & Dorridge train crash a year after this was filmed.
The man you can see in this clip driving that Pullman train is Ernest morris
Sadly after this was filmed he was tragically killed in the dorridge train crash a year later whilst driving a western express train which collided with a freight train which failed to clear the line ahead
I can remember, as a young child, playing in some woods next to the railway line near Beaconsfield and seeing the Blue Pullman pass by with its venetian blinds at the window and its table lamps and thinking "WOW!" I thought it was incredibly posh and modern. In later years I travelled by Eurostar to Paris, Lyon and Brussels, on Indian Railways, Japanese Railways and even the Wuppertal Schwebebahn all of which would have had my eyes popping if I had seen them as a child but the memory of the sight of the Blue Pullman has stayed with me for almost sixty years. Lovely short film but so tragic about the driver.
The blue and white Pullman livery is nowadays applied to the hsts working with LSL as of now
I can remember watching this on Channel 4 in the early 1990s. Brilliant film.
Wow time travel, great to experience the sights and sounds from before most of us were old enough to remember. So sad how that driver’s life ended though.
Interesting to see this diagram involved the train using the New North Main Line - I grew up at one end (Greenford) and ended up living a flat on Livery Street next to Snow Hill, so, despite being about fifty years out of touch, it was great to see this route on film! Thanks for the upload - couldn't help but feel the driver wished he was on the footplate of a 60xx though!
An excellent little promo film and, as has already been observed in the comments, the Motorman could have easily been mistaken for a Milkman climbing into his milk van, ready to set off on his deliveries. Thanks for posting though, as this is wonderful piece of railway history.
I just looooooooooove your stuff ...
I never knew the Blue Pullman stopped at Leamington until I saw this film.
Right smart acceleration and cornering. They just don't make inertial dampeners liked they used to.
Great
You know the music would be perfect for an intro scene for an episode involving Gordon
That of course is a Strauss polka - but I can't remember its name! I know it well, but the name escapes me! The Strauss brothers composed polkas about trains - Excursion Train, Without Brakes (Ohne Bremsen) - neither of which this is - and others.
@@DrivermanO Perpetuum mobile (Op 257); Johan Strauss II. Marvellous music and entirely appropriate for the film!
The driver looks like he would be more at home at the wheel of an electric milk float than a prestige express train.
Their nickname was indeed "milkman"
Never used Paddington to Snow Hill.. the route was always Euston to New Street..
Moved house since, & now I'm stuck with the totally useless service on the lesser served loop including Northampton.
Please someone invent a time machine, go back & shoot Ernest Marples, I don't blame Beeching, the poor sod gets the hate, but he just did an assigned job.
Rail would be better without Marples & his pro-road/anti rail agenda driven by personal interest.
but that is not a steam train?
Haters will say it's sped up.
The original Hyprelapse/Hispeed video.
He had to look down at his watch...at that speed that was half a mile where he wasn't watching for signals...appalling driving!
Love to see it as originally filmed, lots of steam action.
Compare and contrast with similar footage from the intro of Get Carter with Michael Caine, 1971:
czcams.com/video/jhisIT_CuQ8/video.html