Today's Success Tomorrow's Opportunity (BR Railfreight - 1990)
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- čas přidán 13. 03. 2021
- A dynamic c.1990 film produced on behalf of British Rail's Railfreight division publicising the newly created freight sectors.
Features footage from BTF including Fully Fitted Freight (1957)
Brilliant film. For any of those interested. The title music is Contrapunkt by Francis Monkman as part of the kpm library.
Some of that footage was taken from above many years before drones , very good .
BR moved with the times , and innovated . The class 60 the last true British built freight locomotives was a success in my opinion at the time and was needed to haul heavy freight.
It amazes me they got the shot of the MGR HHAs... They must have been pretty close in the helicopters to those buildings!
Wasn't the class 58 built after the 60's or not?
@@welshtrainspottingchannel no, the 58s were first built in '83, the 60s were first built in 89
Absolutely right!
But circumstances change as do views towards business, and sadly we are seeing less freight on UK rails or so it appears.
Poor strategic thinking,
The rail network compliments the road network, keeping thousands of tons off the roads, improving the local environment.
Mr Benn's voice
Thank you! this has been so useful to helping me better understand sectorisation roles and liveries.
0:39 Same Theme used for the ICE Prototype in Promotional Videos in the late 80s in Germany.
Where can I find these videos?
Corby in Leicestershire? That's news to me!
How many of those Railfreight functions survive in today’s private companies? The transportation of coal has declined significantly as has the steel industry, only the container side has sustained and perhaps expanded.
Construction has grown generally
Biomass!
Freightliner, albeit owned by an American conglomerate.
What a great idea
Is that Ray. Brooks? Mr Benn. Slick 👍
As if by magic, the shopkeeper appeared!
A European single market! What a great idea!!
If it had stayed a single market Britain might still be in it
@@thomasthornton2002 Well said!
@@thomasthornton2002 Britain is hardly the victim, we just played it. Europe changed on our watch, and if you look at MEP election turnouts - apparently we couldn't have cared less.
And then EWS came along and scrapped the bloody lot of locos and stored those nice shiny class 60's for so long they rusted together at Toton. No wonder EWS was internally known as Every Working loco Scrapped...
BR construction reliability was so poor Foster Yeoman and ARC bought their owns locos.
Spot on, they actually wanted to give a good service to their customer in order for their business to have a good reputation and survive.
BR however were never about the customer and always about the staff.
This attitude lives on in railway staff today. The customer isn't the focus, earning as much money for as little work as possible is the goal, when people try to change this, the unions step in and make sure it doesn't happen. That is the real reason Britain is far behind its neighbours in terms of railway travel.
The customer should always be the focus, then the employees can have pay rises and increased benefits.
Another armchair expert.
@@amazoniaamazonia7225 Are you saying he's wrong?
@@steveluckhurst2350 Yes Steve, I was there.
@@amazoniaamazonia7225 so they didn't buy their own locos because of poor reliability and availability of BR stock?
How did that work out guys?