This brings back memories. I lived in Plumstead on the 38 & 38 tram routes & caught the tram almost every day. Often I caught the tram to central London and aimed to sit upstairs in the front. The tram had a distinctive rocking motion upstairs I went to Penhill Road to see them being broken up and burnt. I returned home very sad.

I'm glad John Krish realised this was a significant event and decided to document it.

What a beautiful film. So moving to watch the crowd celebrating such a sad moment. I was especially thrilled to see the footage entering the Kingsway tunnel, one of my favourite London Transport relics. Thank you for sharing this!

The Square aluminium box film camera shown is a Newman & Sinclair. I don’t know if The Elephant Will Never Forget, was filmed with one of these, but BTF certainly did use them. They loaded 200 feet of film stock. They were clockwork driven, with two springs, and could run the full load, just over two minutes, with one wind. They were widely used by documentary filmmakers, and were a highly regarded camera. The press camera with the large flashgun looks like a Speed Graphic, though other makers did produce similar ones. I have a Speed Graphic.

sad to see the trams set on fire and smashed up all that history going up in flames

@kitchenmemories-butvegan2447

4 жыл бұрын

So painful to see

Superb. A nostalgic look back at London's iconic double-decker trams. I hope they return someday.

@Richardsrailway

7 жыл бұрын

jslasher1 glad you liked it . Sadly you will only see some of these now in a museum or a working tramway museum.

@andrewhanbury1799

5 жыл бұрын

There is a museum where trams still operate at crich near Matlock Derbyshire I really do recomend They have a b1 class London tram 1622

I bet the cues were hectic in the morning for the buses. Great little movie I nearly bood.

6:10. bloody good for nothing managers

So so so sad to see the tram are gone they will be remembered like this steam engines they hold a place in my heart 💓 they will be missed but not forgotten press f for respect tram Let's remember the tram someone bring the tram back who missed the tram I do 🚋🚊🚋🚊🚋🚊

They made a lasting impression on me and I was only four when they went. I now run a 1/16 model of a London E3 that I made from scratch.

I work at fulwell bus depot in my job that was an old tramshed

@johnjephcote7636

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, when I was there in the trolleybus days they had a lovely track layout in the yard.

Is this narrated by Bernard Cribbins?

9:40 what was that song? I used to know but I can't remember

@Richardsrailway

5 жыл бұрын

BlockBuster 2006 Riding on top of the car by Peter Bellamy

@andrewhanbury1799

5 жыл бұрын

@@Richardsrailway OK thanks

@andrewhanbury1799

5 жыл бұрын

@@Richardsrailway where did you get it from?

@Richardsrailway

5 жыл бұрын

BlockBuster 2006 , it was already on the film , maybe look it up online “ Peter Bellamy riding on top of the car “ ?

@andrewhanbury1799

5 жыл бұрын

@@Richardsrailway ok

SHOULD HAVE KEPT A FEW GOING...THEY ADD CHARACTER & BEAUTY TO THE CITY OR TOWN...

Interesting how things go full circle, trams are snow seen as one of the best forms of green transport, many UK cities have reintroduced them, wonder how much money was wasted removing them instead of investing in them for the future, like they did in Europe.😊

Still trams in london

@eattherich9215

Жыл бұрын

No.

@Jay-8824

Жыл бұрын

@@eattherich9215 in croydon are you dumb surch it

13:09 another bunch motorist

@Richardsrailway

7 жыл бұрын

honey monster 🤣

I like video but I am very sad to see how stupid was this chosen !

@Richardsrailway

7 жыл бұрын

Gianluigi Ferrari what was stupid about it ?

@gmfinc18

5 жыл бұрын

​@fbw71u Except track and tram maintenance is higher, London transport at the time just outright couldn't afford to build and maintain the routes they needed whereas busses could go anywhere. In short, the routemaster with it's seemingly cheaper and more felxible options killed London's tram.

@gmfinc18

5 жыл бұрын

@fbw71u I totally agree that an efficient public transport shouldn't be dropped just because it becomes unprofitable for a time, however we didn't get to make the decisions and we only know now in hindsight that the need for said public transport never went away and only dipped for a while, most cities did get rid of trams over the next 10 or so years and only a few here or there still kept them for various and usually financial reasons. Additionally I may have misspoke regarding the Routemaster, the bus known as the "Routemaster" was indeed introduced 2 years later. Trollybuses took over a major amount of the tram routes that used overhead cables which weren't cut or redirected. Other double decker busses which weren't far off from the well known Routemaster design were already in service by this point as well as tons of other bus types, so cheaper busses were readily available to plug the gap as far as the gov and transport sector were concerned. In fact you can see some of these pre-routemaster style busses in the video at 13:34 The routemaster came about very quickly afterwards as a way of creating a single, cheap, and efficient bus to replace a large portion of the mixed bus and trollybus traffic that were still on the network after the trams left, thus reducing costs even further.