Good days. Happy days. Shame it's all gone.thanks for the memory.

this is an awesome piece of footage... around this time and before I was visiting the station every weekend and school holiday with my good pal Peter...we were only 9 or 10 years old but in those days you could wander about with little interference...as we lived nearby we spent hours at Snow Hill station....one day the driver from a big green locomotive hauled me up onto the footplate...naturally I was wide eyed in amazement...he gave me a shovel full of coal and told me to throw it in the firebox... I totally messed up and let go of the handle and the shovel went in..the fireman laughed and reached in with a long pair of tongs retrieving the shovel....the driver said to me 'when you go home tell your mom you're no good at lighting fires!' He then helped me back down onto the platform...it was only then I read the name above the massive driving wheels 'King Richard III'. The memory is as strong today as it was 50+ years ago!

@84asrd84boxy

5 жыл бұрын

Felix, It's nice to know that by watching this video that it bought back happy and fond memories for you. It must have been quite an experience for you to be invited upon to the footplate of a King happy days indeed. Thanks for looking/commenting much appreciated. Regards...Bill

Ian, Thanks for looking and commenting, glad you enjoyed watching. Snow Hill indeed was a fantastic place where everything Great Western could be seen, from the mighty Kings, Castles, down to the diminutive Pannier tanks. I have many happy memories regarding Snow Hill. The new Snow Hill of today, even though much needed, is not a patch on the former station, and in my opinion is still very much under utilised...Bill

John, I did exactly the same as you when I was a kid, sneaking round various sheds, it was all part and parcel of our hobby, thanks for looking/commenting, they were indeed happy days, cheers...Bill

John, many thanks for looking/commenting, being an ex (BRWR) fireman this also bought back many happy memories for myself, Snow Hill in my opinion was the premier station in Birmingham and will always remain so, cheers...Bill

Superb material,there should be more comment here thanking you for this fine footage. Respect ! Snow Hill one of Englands most underrated stations ?

3:10 this loco is named after the prime minister and it’s preserved now on display

5:21 they’re bringing two new county locos county of Montgomery and county of Glamorgan for the future

Amazing footage of steam and early diesel at Snowhill! (Adding that for Google+ viewers as defintly worth sharing!) Subbed!

@84asrd84boxy

10 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for looking/commenting, much appreciated, glad you enjoyed watching, cheers...Bill

Great memories Bill. I only had a Kodak Brownie camera in those days so only a few black and white photos survive. Clive.

Thanks Mike, glad you enjoyed watching it, cheers...Bill

Always nice to see a failed diesel, helped out by a neglected steam loco. Tells a tale the then MSM didnt want you to see.

@lennoxschannel7484

Жыл бұрын

But now the diesel must be the one to rescue the failed steam.

Cheers Clive for looking/commenting, I bet your black and White photo's would really be worth looking at, great memories, pure nostalgia, magic days, cheers...Bill

@edmundfifield7285

Жыл бұрын

Saltley. ASTON. MONUMENT LANE SHEDS. NEW STREET SNOW HILL STATION AND TYSELEY, WAS MY HUNTING GROUND What great times0

I still remember. When horses shunted in the tunnel and at stabbing in livery st.

Amazing stuff Bill.

Amazing to think that within 10 years the trains disappeared and the station within 20 years was all gone.

Good God is cold inside there whenever I go there

Lovely stuff, and a reminder of what a fascinating place Snow Hill was in those days. My only criticism is that the name of the place is never mentioned (lol)

@84asrd84boxy

8 жыл бұрын

Cheers John, Snow Hill was indeed a great station to work in and out of with such a variety of workings and loco's especially during the summer season. Thanks for looking/ commenting, much appreciated. Regards...Bill