Well I liked the music - has a haunting quality which fits the subject matter. Thank you for a nostalgic trip back to my train-spotting youth.

@Clivestravelandtrains

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your message, I appreciate that. I recently posted some pictures taken at York and Selby in the 1970s. Have you seen that one? Selby used to be a good place to go on summer evenings after work.

Back when we used to make our own trains. Sigh.

@bobtudbury8505

Жыл бұрын

spot on . nowdays thanks to the eu garbage we even have DB trains on our net work, crazy

What a fantastic compilation of pictures. I lived in Crossgates most of my life and spotted there from 1976 - 83 so Im delighted to see pictures taken there. Thank you.

@Clivestravelandtrains

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment - I may have seen you on the platform there!

Was a golden age for trainspotting

@Clivestravelandtrains

Ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment. It certainly was!

Worked for BR 74 to 89 so recognise all of those locations, you dont relise how run down and dirty the railways were in this area until old photos like these emerge.

@Clivestravelandtrains

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. BR was deprived of finances in those days, and still struggling to deal with a clapped-out post-war inheritance. Network Rail and the TOC's now seem to have a bottomless pit of money! I'm certainly glad to have been around in the 70's.

@jonathanhall7334

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it's good to see things have changed for the better

I was a very regular trainspotter and Deltic Cabber around Leeds Station circa 1976 Incredibly fantastic amazing times getting pulled up and down the east coast by Deltics Just a pleasure Tulyar Nimbus Green Howards Kings Own Light Pinza Crepello Meld Alycydon

@Clivestravelandtrains

18 күн бұрын

Thanks for your comment - happy memories!

Brilliant 🤩

@Clivestravelandtrains

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Did anyone give even the smallest toss back in the 1970s? The state of the railways in Britain after Beeching and Marples had finished with it was absolutely deplorable. If only mass investment had happened in the 1960s instead of shutting down around half the network we'd have the best rail network in the world!

@Clivestravelandtrains

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment. Sadly, the Modernisation Plan of British Rail had a number of failings.

@nigelkthomas9501

2 ай бұрын

@@Clivestravelandtrains The same could be said for many things in Britain back then! Talk about the understatement of the decade! Most of it was down to loony labour!

Thanks for posting this video. I do have to point out a few errors, however. At 2:15, the DMU is heading eastbound from Leeds to Selby. The blind is therefore correct. At 2:22, the Class 47 is heading westbound towards Leeds, and therefore it can’t be a Liverpool to Newcastle service. At 3:41, the service is heading towards Leeds, and can’t therefore be a Leeds-Bradford-Manchester train.

@Clivestravelandtrains

Ай бұрын

Thanks for pointing those out. I think after 50 years my memory let me down a bit, as I never made proper notes of the content of photos I took.

@mofomat

Ай бұрын

@@Clivestravelandtrains No worries. Thanks for creating this video. I enjoyed looking at your photos.

0:09 I can confirm that the "Peak" No 76 on 1S68 is indeed on a service to Glasgow - it is on the "Thames-Clyde Express" which ceased running in 1976.

@Clivestravelandtrains

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that - I wasn't able to check the headcode on-line as that's very hit and miss, depending on enthusiasts' groups uploading them. I guessed from the direction the train was facing, with the Dragonara in the background, that it must have been going via Settle.

@kevinrussell2718

2 жыл бұрын

@@Clivestravelandtrains Yes - the removal of the "Thames-Clyde Express" was the first nail in the coffin for BR's intended closure of the Settle-Carlisle Line - a closure which, thankfully, never took place.

Thanks for posting this. I remember Deltics from my childhood. Got to say the music choice could have been better though and the railway looked grim back in those days.

@Clivestravelandtrains

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. I will compile a selection of Deltic pictures one day. Regarding the music, it is on reflection a bit spooky, but you can turn the volume off. I am thinking to posting my next selection of pictures with no music or sound at all, to see what the reaction is! The railways did seem grim in the 1970's - lack of investment after nationalisation of a clapped-out war-torn netowrk in 1948 was still more than evident.

@johnabbott2575

11 ай бұрын

​@@Clivestravelandtrainsvideo and music are great

@Clivestravelandtrains

11 ай бұрын

@@johnabbott2575 Thanks for your comment.

Tubeway Army Synth Music!

@360scotland4

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment - I remember that band!

very sad some of that

I remember Ilkley station just like that as a boy even the gas lamps!

@Clivestravelandtrains

3 жыл бұрын

I think for years modernisation passed it by, as British Rail had their eyes on closing it. Now it is a plush communter suburb for Leeds and Bradford.

@robertmain4293

5 ай бұрын

Ilkley was the last station on British Rail to have gas lamps. They finally went in the 1980s

What is the soundtrack? Sub focus or something? Soundlike something bicep would play during one of their sets!

@Clivestravelandtrains

2 жыл бұрын

It's Tak by Bobby Richards. It was a free download on KZread.

Wow, leeds united fans must see this

@Clivestravelandtrains

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment - share the film as much as you like on social media!

Very poignant is the image of the remnants of the old Bradford Exchange station.

Fascinating photos... the background noise is totally annoying...tgf mute button

@Clivestravelandtrains

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. I admit this particular sound track is not the best one I have used, but I am learning as I go along. Once I have uploaded a video I don't think it's possible to change the sound track. I have done music, silence, my voice, natural sounds - and that's always the part of my videos I agonise over the most. I'm glad you found the mute button though - some people don't!