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.

@bjmorley

Жыл бұрын

It amazes me they got the shot of the MGR HHAs... They must have been pretty close in the helicopters to those buildings!

@welshtrainspottingchannel

10 ай бұрын

Wasn't the class 58 built after the 60's or not?

@E34Jimmy

5 ай бұрын

@@welshtrainspottingchannel no, the 58s were first built in '83, the 60s were first built in 89

@BegudMaximan-zp2tc

3 ай бұрын

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.

@BrakeCoach

4 ай бұрын

Where can I find these videos?

Is that Ray. Brooks? Mr Benn. Slick 👍

@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome

6 ай бұрын

As if by magic, the shopkeeper appeared!

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.

@benGBRf

3 жыл бұрын

Construction has grown generally

@TheReverendJones-lv5bz

5 ай бұрын

Biomass!

@MannyAntipov

4 ай бұрын

Freightliner, albeit owned by an American conglomerate.

What a great idea

A European single market! What a great idea!!

@thomasthornton2002

2 жыл бұрын

If it had stayed a single market Britain might still be in it

@wire9486

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasthornton2002 Well said!

@grantjohnstone9787

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

Corby in Leicestershire? That's news to me!

BR construction reliability was so poor Foster Yeoman and ARC bought their owns locos.

@underwaterdick

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@amazoniaamazonia7225

Жыл бұрын

Another armchair expert.

@steveluckhurst2350

11 ай бұрын

@@amazoniaamazonia7225 Are you saying he's wrong?

@amazoniaamazonia7225

11 ай бұрын

@@steveluckhurst2350 Yes Steve, I was there.

@steveluckhurst2350

11 ай бұрын

@@amazoniaamazonia7225 so they didn't buy their own locos because of poor reliability and availability of BR stock?

How did that work out guys?

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...