"Still running trains that are more than 30 years old" Wait, this ISN'T about Amtrak?
@stephenrice4554Ай бұрын
I remember the good days , 2 deliveries per day , first class if posted before mid-day arrived the following morning , second took up to three days . Then , along with everything else , the country got sold to Europe , and it hasn't worked properly since
@misfit2022Ай бұрын
Enjoyable though I much prefer the rhythm of the 1936 version. Who knew WH Auden was the founder of rap 😉
@markcf83Ай бұрын
The best train......IN THE WORLD.
@StuK3232 ай бұрын
I’m only a few minutes in and I really hate Bob Reid
@rapman57912 ай бұрын
Can you imagine the stench of those seats as they remove them from the plane. All those arses farting 💨 and sweating into the material all day. I’ll bet those seats are nasty. 🤢
@michaeljohndennis22312 ай бұрын
In the decades since this film was first made, the U.K. railways have got worse not better, even since the failure of HS2 - at this point, the ONLY solution is to invite in an external body from the CCP, Japan or Taiwan and to change the law to legally give them complete and direct control of the U.K. railways, with no interference of any kind whatsoever being permitted and to totally ban all trade union membership, making all strikes and industrial actions illegal, as we simply have got to change the whole culture that has held the U.K. railways back for decades, through a series of tough and draconian laws focused on improving the railways and ending privatisation, which simply does not work, aside from some (very rare) exceptions - in the last 30 years alone, we have seen fares go up, with standard of service go down, with constant disruptions and industrial actions and it is frankly unacceptable - deliberate mismanagement and wastage has caused the failure of HS2 and many other U.K. rail improvement projects to a stage where very drastic action is now required to get the U.K. railways up to acceptable international standards as the current status of the U.K. railways is abysmal and has no room for improvement - a case in point, aside from HS2 is the high speed rail tunnel under the Irish Sea from Holyhead to Dublin, but because of deliberate mismanagement and wastage it has been constantly suspended and put on hold due to lack of funding
@altt-check1-22 ай бұрын
Surely the volume of mail is not that great in today’s standards? I would say 50% less than what it was here ?
@smudge01612 ай бұрын
13:24 Mike Yarwood
@West_Coast_Mainline2 ай бұрын
How wrong they were
@user-rs5mw8yv5r2 ай бұрын
Clean men, shirt and tie, happy in their work, uniformed, smiles, no litter, nobody staring at a mobile phone, and absolutely NO GRAFFITI. Is it REALLY better today? What have we become?
@kevinfowkes2327Ай бұрын
There was loads of graffiti in the 1980s and the railway stations were absolutely drowning in litter...BR removed most of the litter bins at main stations due to the IRA bomb threat...still the case today but there are a lot more cleaners picking it up.
@thomastoseland71132 ай бұрын
They are VERY noisy engines, i know because I used to ride on one, many times. If you stand next to that then it might hurt your ears. I like the engineering involved, but I don't like the amount of noise it makes. I prefer it's younger brother, the intercity 225.
@DiggoryDiggory2 ай бұрын
Seriously? They unbolted the seats of the plane and removed them? I love this doco and it's easy to think things were better then, but that appears hopelessly inefficient
@coxallk323 ай бұрын
Chris Green was something of a legend.
@seprishere3 ай бұрын
400 a week seems not a lot, especially if it's return? I thought it was 7 tph (3 tph Avanti, 2 tph LNWR, 2 tph Chiltern) now, so about 1600 across the week in both directions (approximate calculation)?
@gunterfessler15204 ай бұрын
Super aufnamen
@dutchy7775 ай бұрын
why are the crossings not open when you get there?
@ValentaLamenter4 ай бұрын
Driver Experience courses like this run on days when the line is closed to the public, so minimal staffing is required. The guard on the train was opening manual crossing gates when we got to them. As for the gates on approach to Dereham, they operate automatically off the track circuit or via a treadle. I forget which.
@scottytoohotty245 ай бұрын
3:44 that is hilarious! Since they were privatised the subsidies have gone up and up taking more and more money out of the tax payers pockets. Tories will do everything they can to make themselves some cash, just look at what they’re doing to the NHS 😂
@MannyAntipov5 ай бұрын
I'd argue that's because of fragmentation as a result of the current set up of the railways. Instead of BR controlling every aspect, there are hundreds of companies within three levels of railway organisation (infrastructure, operators, train manufacturers), resulting in multiple transactions inflating the costs of a single product/service. Even the idea of BR being privatised as a whole made more sense than what we've got...
@ebutuoyYT5 ай бұрын
No tax payer funded land or asset should be sold without a referendum. The government has sold off billions of pounds of UK assets, often for a pittance, this was never government property, it was the tax payers, the government was simply its custodian. The centralised Westminster model of government is not fit for purpose in the modern world.
@onlinefriend38895 ай бұрын
If the government had to give out a referendum for everything it does, in the words of Paul Tyreman, “you’ll be going nowhere.”
@Bungle-UK6 ай бұрын
These long distance commuters are generally very well off - why should the taxpayer subsidise their fares?
@onlinefriend38895 ай бұрын
A lot of motorists are also generally very well off (or so I’m told) - why should taxpayers subsidise their road maintenance in lieu of toll roads?
@Bungle-UK5 ай бұрын
@@onlinefriend3889 they don’t - tax revenue from motorists (fuel duty, Road/vehicle tax, VAT on fuel, car sales and repairs) is far higher than the road building and maintenance budgets.
@paulrobinson45976 ай бұрын
As the train arrives at Euston the guard making the announcement is Trevor Naughton i remember him from my days at Bescot and I am sure that he came to work at Bescot in a supervisor role. I recognized the other guard on the train clipping the tickets was a Wolverhampton man but can't remember his name, happy days 19 past the hour from Wolverhampton and 29 past the hour from Sandwell & Dudley and onto New Street.😊
@thegardensentinel6 ай бұрын
This is how Brummies intended to invade the world! But Mz Fatcha said "We'll be 'aving none of vat", and promptly taxed anyfing dat moved. Boris the bellend, when not partying, found the time to tax everything else. So, 3 cheers for secession,,,ooops, brexit!
@johnjames_cowperthwaite7 ай бұрын
Absolutely fantastic.. I always love to hear, see and feel those Valentas in York station, great footage and thank you. Never ever forgotten.
@rogerhenry34817 ай бұрын
Can someone explain why throttle is constantly variable? Why not a steady, even application?
@ValentaLamenter7 ай бұрын
When the engine revs, suddenly stops and then goes to max revs again? That'll be the 37 slipping on low adhesion sections of track.
@TM-bk3ok8 ай бұрын
Man, in the US I’d pay for this
@andypreston15249 ай бұрын
Return to London please....... TUUUUNES AH.......😂😂😂
@True_NOON9 ай бұрын
8:44 *[LEYLAND]* Also, a bit heartbreaking that railmail as per parcels is going to deminish further, but tbh in delivery parcels it might be on the rise , maybe we'll get 325/2s with their 319 cab and regular traction gears for more redstar better than before , one can dream....
@transportguy1k63510 ай бұрын
Great rail documentary with aviation at the beginning!!! 😁 ✈️ 🚆
@Spudchucker9210 ай бұрын
Sure they were dirty and unreliable especially in later years…but I’d give good money to see and hear the classic Valenta HST’s back on the railways. They sounded amazing, especially on a calm and cold day or night, with the right wind direction and stillness. You could hear that Valenta and Marston coolers howling away for miles. Could even be spooky on a dark and foggy night. I miss these trains so much. The loss of the HST and now the Intercity 225 slowly disappearing has killed any passion I had for trainspotting. All I have are fond memories of childhood, standing on a footbridge with my Mum, eating biscuits and watching the trains go by. A simpler time.
@loveserendib0410 ай бұрын
Did the Transport 2000 guy mention global warming! Propaganda started early.
@MontyCantsin510 ай бұрын
Oh dear, someone is scientifically illiterate.
@True_NOON10 ай бұрын
To be honest, the state that NSE and BR as a whole was in would be to be a person, roughed up on [Mexican sugar] , cold , paranoid , with only scraps eaten for the last 20 days, pushing a giant cube up a rough and difficult hill
@thebrummierailenthusiasts532911 ай бұрын
1:14 this is where I’ve been going to all my life which is Birmingham international
@nigel209311 ай бұрын
An amazing trip down memory lane. Thanks for posting
@matthew060511 ай бұрын
Ive just watched this film for the first time in August 2023 and im sad how things havent changed much and dare i say it gone backwards . We invented the railways now being used all round the world and once the envy of the world , now the service in this country is poor. Im not a commuter nor do i use the rail network often but i feel very sorry for people who do commute regularly. People have to use the trains to go to work to earn money to live . The ticket prices go up each year and the service gets worse year on year . All you people who commute or use the rail network regularly you have my sympathys. Im an old rail enthusiast myself and as a kid during the 80s used to travel all over the rail network getting my numbers im sad to see the network in such a state . One thing that hasnt changed is the blah blah that politicians splaff about railways and whose fault it is that its in such a diabolical state. Since privatisation all the rail companys just pass the buck .British Railways wasnt great but at least it was answerable to the Government and to BR management . My rants over now, but i hope to see an improvement in my lifetime but times running out, im 54 .
@2112Warmachine11 ай бұрын
Night Mail 2: Diesel Electric Boogaloo. Thanks for sharing this video.
@Redchannelconditions11 ай бұрын
This is wonderful I love it. Just going on about the peace and tranquility of the Scottish Isles and Postie bombs round the corner in a Sherpa that’s screaming. I wish they still made telly like this 😅
@tonywise19811 ай бұрын
Letters on doormats at 7am? You have got to be kidding!. In Hampshire you are lucky to get mail by 2pm, except Saturdays when they are trying to knock-off work early, of course. Royal Mail today in 2023 is a joke (and I don't blame my local postman).
@cra8311 ай бұрын
I don’t know who the narrator at 2:47 is but I remember his poetic style from when I was a kid in the 80s/90s and found his voice/style extremely calming
@KRAZEEIZATION11 ай бұрын
Incredible really! Has email eased this off in the last 20 years? Does it still happen today or has it advanced?
@Hascienda278 ай бұрын
Like postage wise ? For letters I’d imagine less but parcels probably equal or more
@Hascienda278 ай бұрын
With ebay and the like of online shopping, excluding Private couriers, Royal Mail Parcels will have gone up in terms of volume, but is definitely less in terms of processing and transportation qualities
@quantisedspace704711 ай бұрын
Did they take the seats out every time ? I thought BCal had dedicated mail planes. If they did, v the seats can't have been very securely anchored.
@jimpikoulis672611 ай бұрын
Casino Royale Mail!!!!
@NowInAus11 ай бұрын
Up there with the Vulcan Howl. ❤
@tankmicr00man11 ай бұрын
We could do with an update to 2023 now, to compare the service then and now!
@simplygregsterev11 ай бұрын
This was a great watch. What an amazing operation it was.
@scottyg728411 ай бұрын
This reminds me of the training film they used to play to me as a cadet in the early 90’s
@davidbuick840111 ай бұрын
08:00 How many people remember such a thing as a third collection?!
@albaproductions960211 ай бұрын
When you could rely on the royal mail.
@The.Badger.11 ай бұрын
"This is the Night Mail crossing the Border........"
@PillSharks11 ай бұрын
I’d do anything to go back to then! I hate what a shit hole the uk has become…
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Now this is what railtours are made for!
"Still running trains that are more than 30 years old" Wait, this ISN'T about Amtrak?
I remember the good days , 2 deliveries per day , first class if posted before mid-day arrived the following morning , second took up to three days . Then , along with everything else , the country got sold to Europe , and it hasn't worked properly since
Enjoyable though I much prefer the rhythm of the 1936 version. Who knew WH Auden was the founder of rap 😉
The best train......IN THE WORLD.
I’m only a few minutes in and I really hate Bob Reid
Can you imagine the stench of those seats as they remove them from the plane. All those arses farting 💨 and sweating into the material all day. I’ll bet those seats are nasty. 🤢
In the decades since this film was first made, the U.K. railways have got worse not better, even since the failure of HS2 - at this point, the ONLY solution is to invite in an external body from the CCP, Japan or Taiwan and to change the law to legally give them complete and direct control of the U.K. railways, with no interference of any kind whatsoever being permitted and to totally ban all trade union membership, making all strikes and industrial actions illegal, as we simply have got to change the whole culture that has held the U.K. railways back for decades, through a series of tough and draconian laws focused on improving the railways and ending privatisation, which simply does not work, aside from some (very rare) exceptions - in the last 30 years alone, we have seen fares go up, with standard of service go down, with constant disruptions and industrial actions and it is frankly unacceptable - deliberate mismanagement and wastage has caused the failure of HS2 and many other U.K. rail improvement projects to a stage where very drastic action is now required to get the U.K. railways up to acceptable international standards as the current status of the U.K. railways is abysmal and has no room for improvement - a case in point, aside from HS2 is the high speed rail tunnel under the Irish Sea from Holyhead to Dublin, but because of deliberate mismanagement and wastage it has been constantly suspended and put on hold due to lack of funding
Surely the volume of mail is not that great in today’s standards? I would say 50% less than what it was here ?
13:24 Mike Yarwood
How wrong they were
Clean men, shirt and tie, happy in their work, uniformed, smiles, no litter, nobody staring at a mobile phone, and absolutely NO GRAFFITI. Is it REALLY better today? What have we become?
There was loads of graffiti in the 1980s and the railway stations were absolutely drowning in litter...BR removed most of the litter bins at main stations due to the IRA bomb threat...still the case today but there are a lot more cleaners picking it up.
They are VERY noisy engines, i know because I used to ride on one, many times. If you stand next to that then it might hurt your ears. I like the engineering involved, but I don't like the amount of noise it makes. I prefer it's younger brother, the intercity 225.
Seriously? They unbolted the seats of the plane and removed them? I love this doco and it's easy to think things were better then, but that appears hopelessly inefficient
Chris Green was something of a legend.
400 a week seems not a lot, especially if it's return? I thought it was 7 tph (3 tph Avanti, 2 tph LNWR, 2 tph Chiltern) now, so about 1600 across the week in both directions (approximate calculation)?
Super aufnamen
why are the crossings not open when you get there?
Driver Experience courses like this run on days when the line is closed to the public, so minimal staffing is required. The guard on the train was opening manual crossing gates when we got to them. As for the gates on approach to Dereham, they operate automatically off the track circuit or via a treadle. I forget which.
3:44 that is hilarious! Since they were privatised the subsidies have gone up and up taking more and more money out of the tax payers pockets. Tories will do everything they can to make themselves some cash, just look at what they’re doing to the NHS 😂
I'd argue that's because of fragmentation as a result of the current set up of the railways. Instead of BR controlling every aspect, there are hundreds of companies within three levels of railway organisation (infrastructure, operators, train manufacturers), resulting in multiple transactions inflating the costs of a single product/service. Even the idea of BR being privatised as a whole made more sense than what we've got...
No tax payer funded land or asset should be sold without a referendum. The government has sold off billions of pounds of UK assets, often for a pittance, this was never government property, it was the tax payers, the government was simply its custodian. The centralised Westminster model of government is not fit for purpose in the modern world.
If the government had to give out a referendum for everything it does, in the words of Paul Tyreman, “you’ll be going nowhere.”
These long distance commuters are generally very well off - why should the taxpayer subsidise their fares?
A lot of motorists are also generally very well off (or so I’m told) - why should taxpayers subsidise their road maintenance in lieu of toll roads?
@@onlinefriend3889 they don’t - tax revenue from motorists (fuel duty, Road/vehicle tax, VAT on fuel, car sales and repairs) is far higher than the road building and maintenance budgets.
As the train arrives at Euston the guard making the announcement is Trevor Naughton i remember him from my days at Bescot and I am sure that he came to work at Bescot in a supervisor role. I recognized the other guard on the train clipping the tickets was a Wolverhampton man but can't remember his name, happy days 19 past the hour from Wolverhampton and 29 past the hour from Sandwell & Dudley and onto New Street.😊
This is how Brummies intended to invade the world! But Mz Fatcha said "We'll be 'aving none of vat", and promptly taxed anyfing dat moved. Boris the bellend, when not partying, found the time to tax everything else. So, 3 cheers for secession,,,ooops, brexit!
Absolutely fantastic.. I always love to hear, see and feel those Valentas in York station, great footage and thank you. Never ever forgotten.
Can someone explain why throttle is constantly variable? Why not a steady, even application?
When the engine revs, suddenly stops and then goes to max revs again? That'll be the 37 slipping on low adhesion sections of track.
Man, in the US I’d pay for this
Return to London please....... TUUUUNES AH.......😂😂😂
8:44 *[LEYLAND]* Also, a bit heartbreaking that railmail as per parcels is going to deminish further, but tbh in delivery parcels it might be on the rise , maybe we'll get 325/2s with their 319 cab and regular traction gears for more redstar better than before , one can dream....
Great rail documentary with aviation at the beginning!!! 😁 ✈️ 🚆
Sure they were dirty and unreliable especially in later years…but I’d give good money to see and hear the classic Valenta HST’s back on the railways. They sounded amazing, especially on a calm and cold day or night, with the right wind direction and stillness. You could hear that Valenta and Marston coolers howling away for miles. Could even be spooky on a dark and foggy night. I miss these trains so much. The loss of the HST and now the Intercity 225 slowly disappearing has killed any passion I had for trainspotting. All I have are fond memories of childhood, standing on a footbridge with my Mum, eating biscuits and watching the trains go by. A simpler time.
Did the Transport 2000 guy mention global warming! Propaganda started early.
Oh dear, someone is scientifically illiterate.
To be honest, the state that NSE and BR as a whole was in would be to be a person, roughed up on [Mexican sugar] , cold , paranoid , with only scraps eaten for the last 20 days, pushing a giant cube up a rough and difficult hill
1:14 this is where I’ve been going to all my life which is Birmingham international
An amazing trip down memory lane. Thanks for posting
Ive just watched this film for the first time in August 2023 and im sad how things havent changed much and dare i say it gone backwards . We invented the railways now being used all round the world and once the envy of the world , now the service in this country is poor. Im not a commuter nor do i use the rail network often but i feel very sorry for people who do commute regularly. People have to use the trains to go to work to earn money to live . The ticket prices go up each year and the service gets worse year on year . All you people who commute or use the rail network regularly you have my sympathys. Im an old rail enthusiast myself and as a kid during the 80s used to travel all over the rail network getting my numbers im sad to see the network in such a state . One thing that hasnt changed is the blah blah that politicians splaff about railways and whose fault it is that its in such a diabolical state. Since privatisation all the rail companys just pass the buck .British Railways wasnt great but at least it was answerable to the Government and to BR management . My rants over now, but i hope to see an improvement in my lifetime but times running out, im 54 .
Night Mail 2: Diesel Electric Boogaloo. Thanks for sharing this video.
This is wonderful I love it. Just going on about the peace and tranquility of the Scottish Isles and Postie bombs round the corner in a Sherpa that’s screaming. I wish they still made telly like this 😅
Letters on doormats at 7am? You have got to be kidding!. In Hampshire you are lucky to get mail by 2pm, except Saturdays when they are trying to knock-off work early, of course. Royal Mail today in 2023 is a joke (and I don't blame my local postman).
I don’t know who the narrator at 2:47 is but I remember his poetic style from when I was a kid in the 80s/90s and found his voice/style extremely calming
Incredible really! Has email eased this off in the last 20 years? Does it still happen today or has it advanced?
Like postage wise ? For letters I’d imagine less but parcels probably equal or more
With ebay and the like of online shopping, excluding Private couriers, Royal Mail Parcels will have gone up in terms of volume, but is definitely less in terms of processing and transportation qualities
Did they take the seats out every time ? I thought BCal had dedicated mail planes. If they did, v the seats can't have been very securely anchored.
Casino Royale Mail!!!!
Up there with the Vulcan Howl. ❤
We could do with an update to 2023 now, to compare the service then and now!
This was a great watch. What an amazing operation it was.
This reminds me of the training film they used to play to me as a cadet in the early 90’s
08:00 How many people remember such a thing as a third collection?!
When you could rely on the royal mail.
"This is the Night Mail crossing the Border........"
I’d do anything to go back to then! I hate what a shit hole the uk has become…