Britain's Railways : The Golden Age Of The Big Four 1920-1939 - Railway History
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- Britain's Railways : The Golden Age Of The Big Four 1923 - 1939. The definitive archive film led history of the interwar grouping of Britain's extensive railway network into "The Big Four of the New Railway Era" - The Great Western Railway, the Southern Railway, the London Midland & Scottish Railway and the London & North Eastern Railway.The Railway Act of 1921 was conceived to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies through unnecessary competition and to retain some of the benefits which the country had derived from a government-controlled railway during the First World War.The story of this 'golden age' is told through the original archive cinema newsreel reports of the time and evidence the diversity of locomotive types across the companies : LMSRoyal Scot Class, LNER B17 Class, LMS Patriot Class, LMS Black 5 Class and the 'Streamlined' Locomotives of the GWR, LNER and LMS among many, many more!!
Contents Include.
A survey of the main locomotive types including naming ceremonies and testing experimental locos / Locomotive streamlining - the Kings Class, A4 Class and Princess Coronation Class / Express Steam Locomotive Speed Records : The Cheltenham Flyer, Princess Elizabeth Class and PrincessCoronation Class / Named Express Trains on the 'Race To The North - the Flying Scotsman and the Silver Jubilee / Suburban Electrification on the SR and LNER / Freight trains with heavy and unusual loads / Passenger trains : mainline, branches and backwaters / The closure of the Brill and Devil's Dyke branches / Early Diesel Railcar trials on the GWR, LMSand LNER / The impact of Industrial Action in the 1924 Railway Strike and the 1926 General Strike / The permanent way, itsmaintenance and bridges / Advances in signalling technologies / Royal Trains carrying the Duke Of Gloucester and King George VITOTAL RUNNING TIME - 110 Mins
Some really cracking shots. Nice to be reminded of all classes and types. Great video
@ 51 - 57 that loco looks like L.M.S Princess Royal class 4-6-2 number 6202 Turbomotive . after a turbine failure was rebuilt to 46202 Princess Anne which crashed at Harrow & Wealdstone station in1952. I was eleven at the time, and cycled from my home in Kenton to see the aftermath, what a mess!! As 46202 was so badly damaged it was scrapped, and eventually replaced by 71000 Duke of Gloucester.
Thanks for the train archive video some interesting engine's and information!!😎🚂🚃🚃🚃
Remember me Thomas and Friends
Horn sound of railway of britishers are very energetic for me ..🎉🎉
What is the name of the music in the background.
Fabulous!
2:28 Spencer!
That's the real Oliver in the thumbnail
How the UK has fallen since this era.
My boy Thomas liked this.
Shot appearing on thumbnail doesn't appear anywhere on this trailer. I would have liked to know where it is.
Me too!
Newcastle Emlyn, West Wales - closed to passengers early 1950s, freight mid-1970s.
1:50 locomotive model?
J26 I think
Seems to be lms
LNER J27 ex NER P3 Class
The original bgrouping plan wax to create 6 major railway companies xsomilar to thbe origbinal six regions of BR witbh all tge raileazys of Scotkand being one company and thbe North Eastern Railway not being joined to tbe other companies that formed the LNER. You can read the Grouping Command Paper on the Railwazy Archive.
Nice
CARAMBA QUE VELOCIDADE ESSAS LOCOMOTIVA ALCANÇAVA PARA EPOCA
Very nice 👍 pleasure
Who's watching this as it's the centenary year of the big 4.
Wonder ful
What is the locomotive model 0:26?
Press Start - Looks most like a King Arthur Class (N15) during the big four era, under the Southern Railway. Originally built for the LSWR.
@@noahs.4694 Thank you
@@noahs.4694 lmfao that's a maunsell U class in the video, an N15 didn't even appear
dominic bruh - Fair enough. Can’t say I’m an expert and I haven’t the foggiest idea where an N15 came from. Must’ve punched in the engine number wrong, who knows? I don’t even know why I thought I could tell, being a couple thousand miles from the real thing!
2:28 Spencer Lol
Press Start no it’s Silver Link
@@piggynice-06 Yeah I know
Wait you were talking about Thomas and Friends. Forgot lol
This was in ghostbusters 2
Who else did recognize all Locomotives featured in thid clip?
I recognised BR 46202 Turbomotive
They competed to be,the fastest,cleanest and most modern! What happened??
One Word. Beeching.
@@randomclass4653 Beeching? He sealed the doom of British Railways, the nationalised result of the Big Four - which is what I thought was what this seemingly welcome document was all about…but apparently wasn’t, little but « a warm up cry » aka « a foot in the door ». Can’t anything be done these days without what som e would readily describe as « cynical peddling »? Beeching, for all his faults, was just doing his job, probably « wrong man for wrong job »…Maybe those who called him in ought to be arraigned before the tribunal, but it’s a bit too late now…
What happened to the Big Four then? Post their heroic performance in six years of war they were worn out, just like the rest of our beautifully heroic country and generation of stout-hearted souls…They needed big money to set them up again to their pre-war levels, and shareholders being shareholders were broke too, and most were only such for the gain (not all, but most…). So the taxpayer had to take on the job, and cough up the money, and pay what was earned to those who earned and deserved than had been served before…A big exercise in bookkeeping, accounting and profit and loss, for which old Beeching would be drummed up into service years later…Trouble is, most of us don’t even try to understand profit and loss, what should be paid from what profit may have been made or not from the railway services given after necessary allowances have been set aside for maintenance upkeep and safety of and for those services.
I like the dialogue, vocal delivery, relatively short straight to the point - and of harmonious positivity - aka « forgive us » this is what we want/ed to hear…and see…But the intro’ for intro’ is all and nothing more than just an intro’…
How quickly a welcome delight is turned into a gross disappointment…aka just another sales gimmick….b/ hell and I hadn’t thought I was born yesterday!
Doesn't seem to be for sale anymore...
Where's thomas?
33e 0:19
Times ⏲️ of 🏴
Dirty discussing steam trains, they polluted, electric train were surely much cleaner, and wouldn’t like the return of steamers.
Steam>Diesel/electric
In the 1950's, the results of a survey were published in the "Model Engineer", which found that there were more cases of lung cancer in Cannon Street, in London, than anywhere else in Britain, and also that there were more diesel powered vehicles (busses & taxi's) than anywhere else in Britain. So much for your clean diesels. Phoey! I've ne er heard of anybody getting cancer from steam power. Never mind the visual effects, get your real world facts right. No carcinogens with steam power like there is with diesel.
Shut up. Just shut up
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