Fantastic memories for me here. My late father took me to this event as an 11 year old. I still love railways to this day....Thanks dad.

@melvinwhitehead8472

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty much the same story for me I traveled up to see the event also as a 11 year old. It was a day I will not forget. I can’t help thinking wouldn’t it be nice if there is an event in 2025 and I can take my Grandchildren.

@rabbit64sj91

2 жыл бұрын

I was eleven also, now just turned 58. I love steam trains, always have. I really hope 2025 sees a bi-centenary celebration. 🚂🚂🚂💞

Fantastic, was there at the age of 4. Lovely to see my father who restored and owned 6960 at Carnforth on the footplate.

I remember sitting on a rickety fence somewhere along the route watching these wonderful machines pass by. I was thirteen. Strange to think that in a little over three years time, half a century will have passed since then.

@Quebecoisegal

2 жыл бұрын

Half a century, weird isn't it!

Best part of the video is that the cast is just the locomotives, I love that

I missed all that I missed all that my heart is sinking I didn’t see anyone of that in shildon

This is absolutely brilliant.

Had a APT model railway as a child what a wasted opportunity like so much in Britain, Could have been World Leading.

Evening Star sure has a talkative whistle!

@SD1fruitbat

2 жыл бұрын

She was just going through that 'noisy teenager' phase. :P

@nikerailfanningttm9046

2 жыл бұрын

she is a queen of her class, Her Majesty Evening Star.

Here's to hoping they do something like this for 2025! Celebrating 200 years of probably the single most important technology ever invented in the history of humanity.. the Railway!

@joshslater2426

Ай бұрын

I’m wagering that they’ll have the T3, the H2 new build, the coal tank, Nigel Gresley, Flying Scotsman, Blue Peter, Tornado, a GWR loco of some sort, and at least one steaming NER loco with a couple of static ones (maybe that’s why No. 910 is having work done at Shildon?).

*glad all of these beauties were preserved!* thank you to those who have helped revive some of these classic steamers, and keep these beauties running smooth as silk as the day they left their builders shop.

I remember this so well at the age of 15 (I am the same age as Evening Star), when I travelled with my dad on a special rail excursion with the Colne Valley Preservation Society to see 'our' newly restored engine Greene King take part. The range and variety of engines taking part in the cavelcade was amazing, but my lasting memory is the sound of all the engines whistling to one another at Shildon. It started with just one or two, but soon they were all joining in creating a sound which will probably never be repeated. Sadly my dad is no longer with us, but my eldest grandaughter loves steam trains.

@michaelcampin1464

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't that the Stour Valley Railway.

@chrisrand5185

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcampin1464 yes, you are correct, it was the Stour Valley Preservation Society at Chappel and Wakes Colne.

@michaelcampin1464

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisrand5185 I remember the viaduct well and the pub below it. If I remember it was called the zshoulder of Mutton.

@michaelcampin1464

2 жыл бұрын

Let's hope we are both around in 2025 if they can be bothered to do a 200 year celebration. I was 15 too

@petermartin3818

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcampin1464 Hi Michael, the pub is the Swan. Shoulder of Mutton is at Aldham. We were there at Shildon with 30841 Green King which moved many years ago to the NYMR. I'm still at Chappel - now the East Anglian Railway Museum. Happy days!

Superb footage!

I was there with a group of others from New Zealand. Great show!

great film. the dubbed clapping is hilarious.

We need these old films to remind our politicians what our country used to do! and how dumbed down we become

Outstanding! - Cheers from South Oz.

I worked there erecting those portable grandstands at that 1975 Shildon event

I remember going to a later "Rainhill trial" event, don't know exactly when but I'd guess not much later (1980-85 probably). Held in exactly the same stretch of line, was a fun day out, still got my and my dad's ticket for it somewhere.

10:20 Evening Star was only 15 years old here. The same age as Tornado is now.

I love 4767's running gear, its so complex, I would love to take her throttle on a trip one day! All of these steamers are my favorite British steamers, as well as LNER W1 No.10000.

Excellent.

love it

Intersseting video

Wow!...Britain gave rail travel to the world. It's still the greatest way to move people, stock, merchandise, and heavy equipment. And when it comes to tourism, it's the Apex way to go. Steam, diesel, electric, a train is still a train. Toot Toot!

Great video H&S a bit different then !

How does it feel to be living my dream😩😍

wonderfull!, please turn fondazione FS italy. who owns steam locomotives abandoned without restoration for 10 years and thinks of electric ones for commercial reasons.

That APT looks really good. When's that coming into service then?

I was there that day too

Wow

Very interesting , good to see the locos....health and safety would have a field day .....lol

@neiloflongbeck5705

2 жыл бұрын

The Health and Safety at Work Act requires employees to be trained to do their work, so what point are you trying to make? All those working on the locomotives and moving around them will have be briefed on what do. As for the public watching them the stewards would be responsible for ensuring they were far enough back.

@johnhenshaw7655

2 жыл бұрын

Elf and safety can just sod off. This country has become a nanny state

@clementmandiopera4481

2 жыл бұрын

British trains are so beautiful

Great piece of footage. I was there for the entire event. However, you blotted your copybook in the credits by stating that the GWR mixed freight loco "COOKHAM MANOR" is number 7208. In fact it is 7808. Small point, but when a guy has spent as many thousands of hours on the restoration of a loco as I have, little details mean a lot.

Ironic finished with loco that probably saved British. Railways

Do you know what the music of this documentary is? Edit: I know now, It's Royal Review by Arnold Steck

I wonder if anything is planned for the 200th anniversary, in 2025

@neiloflongbeck5705

2 жыл бұрын

Probably not to the same scale.

@BibtheBoulder

2 жыл бұрын

Don't hold your breath...

@aarphotos5

2 жыл бұрын

There is something in the works to do with Flying Scotsman & Tornado doing timetabled services on the Stockton and Darlington

@stev3548

2 жыл бұрын

couple austerities and a black five not under steam presumably

@TankEngine75

2 жыл бұрын

Hopefully but locos not operating currently either wouldn't participate or participate but be pushed by another loco (hopefully the latter is the case!)

Health and safety.....what's that? Lol. 😁

The A4 Whistle 7:25 - 7:49 & 7:54

I loove the smell of bluebells, freesias and honeysuckle. I also love the smell of coal fueled steam locos.

Loved hte video but Raveningham Hall was built in 1944 not 1949, otherwise it would never have carried GWR livery.

@18EStudios

2 жыл бұрын

6960 would've carried GWR livery but definently not the one shown which is from the 1920s/early 1930s. I'm assuming it was due to no genuine Collett 49XX Halls in operation at the time. 6990 Witherslack Hall wore the same livery during the 80s and 90s. The GWR livery 6960 currently wears is more authentic for her.

Another musical.The noise of steam locos and trains with explanatory narration would be great without cacophony of crap music.

I was there with my 16 yr old girl friend who'd just moved into the Shildon area. We've been married for over 40 years and we're still good friends and live in Canada. She even puts up with my railway obsession. PS Evidence is surfacing that the front line thug police in the Ottawa unprovoked violence were mercenaries jetted in by the UN.

@bobtudbury8505

2 жыл бұрын

too right, trudi the far left lunitc is following a plan

stevenson rocket won by default, the first steam engine on rails was also not stevenson but a cornishman, beeching shut nothing .the labour party did. we need to write history factually

Sweet 70s. All before the Jiu forced fed us "Diversity." And now the streets are filled with homeless people.

@ronnoman61

2 жыл бұрын

The pay was good too as I remember .

@TankEngine75

2 жыл бұрын

What the hell is a "Jiu" and also what's wrong with Homeless people?

Aaah, How wonderful , no “Heath and Safety” keeping everyone away, no fat people, no one sporting tattoos ( other than sailors) , everyone savouring the event via their own eyes rather than their smart phone, a time when black was a suitable colour for locomotives and not clothing …….aaah, bring on time travel 😎

@TankEngine75

2 жыл бұрын

Ok Boomer

@Tenny_RW

2 жыл бұрын

"no "Health and Safety" keeping everyone away" your funeral if you die on the rails I guess

@jvgreendarmok

Жыл бұрын

@@Tenny_RW Trains are blameless holy creatures.

every minute a pleasure