Railway Roundabout 1959 'A Visit To King's Cross Shed'
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- čas přidán 20. 02. 2011
- Now here's something for any LNER fan, a trip to 'Top Shed' the name given to the shed to LNER's Kings Cross locomotive shed.
Here we see some well known locomotives of the region, including the record breaking A4 pacific No.60022 'Mallard' as well as the famous A3 pacific No.60103 'The Flying Scotsman' in recently overhauled condition.
This also includes some shots of N2 tank engines and mixed traffic V2s.
Footage owned by their respective owners.
I bunked into Top Shed maybe half a dozen times in the early Sixties. Nine Elms, Old Oak Common, Feltham as well, to name just a few, but it was 34A that topped the list for me. Watching this I felt as though I was there again, splendid clip.
Did you ever see steam locos being ripped apart for scrap with cutting torches? That must have been exciting!
brando6BL
Bet you walked down the canal path and through the hole in the fence into Old Oak ?? Me too.
I'm too young to remember steam but it makes my day to see a steam engine at the head of a train on a special working
Interesting to see brand new NBL diesel D 6108 at the beginning . They did,nt last long on the Kings X suburban services and were soon all banished to Scotland
Good to see this upload - and esp Mallard! and Flying Scotsman!
If anyone's interested, the unmentioned A4 we briefly saw as Mallard was coming 'off shed' was "Falcon".
As a Southern Region resident I only managed to spot 'Empire of India', 'Golden Fleece' and 'Golden Plover' among the A4s. But I did get 'Mallard' on my museum visit
Part of me wishes the days of steam to return, but on the other, steam only operating on heritage lines and rail tours makes them even more special.
Some evocative scenes there. So many put out of work ultimately.
This must have been bloody brilliant! As a child I loved going to Guide Bridge to cab Class 76 electrics and to Longsight for many other locos back in the 1970s
The year I started Grammar School. I was looking for some shots of the N2s on locals coming up the drain from the Widened Lines into KX suburban but I suppose that wasn't considered romantic enough at the time.
Thanks for posting.
I never got to 'Top Shed' having come from the West Riding of Yorkshire, but my love was for Gresley's engines and I saw many of them on my weekly visits to Doncaster.
Probably my most exciting engine sighting though was at the then Leeds Central and the lunchtime arrival of the express from King's X, hauled on that day by A3, 'Pretty Polly'. In my excitement I tripped and broke my flask, but the sight, sound and smell of that engine still stays with me.
Cool footage
What a beautiful train
Tears just tears to me eyes !
My dad worked at The Cross from 1945-80 Im always hoping to see him in one of these film clips as he passed away in 1984
Wonder if he ever got to Hull. I was an engine cleaner and sometimes fireman in the early sixties at Dairycoates. Kings Cross men lodged there when working the fish train back to Billingsgate. It had top priority.
@@johnward374 Hi, my dad was a fitter at Kings X and Finsbury park depots, I'm always hoping they'd be films of the guys working in the sheds.
Nice video.
How i wish for those days to return
Same here.
be happy, in the netherlands only a handfull of steam engines were preserved, only like 2 or 3 are in driving condition
I:(
They were nasty polluting locos. We cut up quite a few locos from Top Shed and the LNER, and good scrap they made too!
Sadly though, these things called Diesels were invented and promised to be more efficient than steam engines and pretty soon, the steamers started heading for the scrapyards and diesels replaced them.
Great
A lot of shed bashes were semi legal if you got past any jobsworth security the supervisor on duty would usually let spotters go round if they were not too busy. If you were lucky at Old Oak Common shed they’d let you cab locomotives!
1:24 this loco mallard is now on display in york railway museum
Ryan - N2
Gordon - A3
Diesel 10 - 42 diesel
Spenser - a4
Henry (new shape) - black 5
Henry (old shape) - experimental prototype
Diesel - diesel shunter
The basis' showing in order
Mikentendo2003 diesel was a 08
James-L&YR Class 28
Thomas-LB&SCR E2
Edward-Furness Railway K2
Duck-GWR Pannier
Oliver-GWR 14xx
Donald and Douglas-Caledonian Railway 812
Gordon was an a0 a prototype for the a3
THAT IS NOT HOW YOU SPELL SPENCER ANF I SUBSCRIBED TO YOU
@@gabrielstrainsproductions6541 Spencer is A4
60078 Nighthawk
2:05 this loco flying Scotsman is now gonna celebrate its 100th birthday in February next year
Abrupt end sadly.
The good old days of trains, now in 2018, stinking diesels
Well, actually bullet trains are what are more commonly seen.
DOWN WITH DIESELS (Ecsept Daisy BoCo Mavis Derek Pip Emma Bear Rusty and Frank)
2:15 that’s me on the screen!😃
Role player spotted. Execution program initiated.
No, it isn't.
@@stevebarnes2 Did you payed attention to the date
@@flyingscotsman611productions You're an idiot, not a locomotive.
Wonder who narrated this, sounds like Nicholas Courtney.
Peter Woods ex BBC news reader.
"when i was young and green,he said i remember going to london.You know the place? The station called king's cross"
-gordon
Lol John Adams
Who's watching at 2018?
Keinch Deceda Me
Me 2021
And
Woodcock😆😆😆wtf Who, who would put that name in the express engine!?!?
It is the name of a Game Bird do you not understand ?
She was a good un was woodcock
How some folk live to show their ignorance
Probably someone who didn't have a sordid mind.
A woodcock is a bird.
This engine is almost like gordon from thomas and friends
It's the class Gordon was based on, a Gresley A3, same class as Flying Scotsman.
Quand a mis les mecaniciens et séparés les chauffeurs pour le diesel et l électricité beaucoups d hommes ont déprimés de ne plus conduires leurs locomotives c etaient durs oui mais ils aimaient leurs machines avant guerre ils en étaient titulaires et en avaients la responsabilité . Après guerre il en sera autrements . Mon grand me dira yavait après guerre des americaines la 141 r que tout le monde s'en foutaient plus de titularisations une equipes partaient une autres arrivaient ces pour cela qu il me disait les machines etaient tellements salles l ère moderne .
Flying-Scotsman
THOSE DAMN DIESELS KILLED THOMAS!
we are on the same page
Mallard
My mom's birthday is July 3rd.
MusicalElitist1 I do- don’t you love your own mother? Have a heart you prick
So what! She shares same day with millions of others earth wide. So nothing special.
Gordon and Spencer
Wrong. LNER A3 and A4. Neither of them ever existed.
I'm a TTTE fan but I'm truly annoyed by these comments.
On a side note, Railway Roundabout is in fact a children's tv series.... Wikipedia says so.