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Inversnecky

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Someone's recently started posting full episodes of the BBC's Making Tracks, presented by Bob Symes and Mary-Jean Hasler:


There were 18 episodes across three series from 1993-1995, focusing on steam in Britain and abroad. It was evidently popular enough to make it onto BBC One, but then disappeared all of a sudden. There are other bits of footage on YouTube as well. I've got most episodes on tape so if I ever get the equipment to upload them, I will do so

Also would highly recommend all six episodes of The Train Now Departing, the BBC series broadcast in 1988 to mark 20 years after the end of steam. It has the sort of gravitas you rarely get from modern BBC documentaries:

The Long Drag:
The West Highlander:
The Holiday Line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtKAmiE1mkM
Steam on the Isle of Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AWSG4I0m5g
Lines of Industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D40hk9WNAh0
The Survivors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Tb9Dsh3XE

Some others from ITV in the 80s:

Mallard - The Drake's Progress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED3m2r8u8kU
Steam on the Settle and Carlisle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a12H63J6gC0
Didcot 20 - A Celebration (GWS): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ5e9SfJ9Vk

And there's also the Seconds from Disaster episodes on Ladbroke Grove: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz34YpGCUj4, and the Kings Cross fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIAenEFpomU

A new link for Seconds From Disaster Ladbroke Grove:

 
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JammyJames08

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There was a tonight with Trevor McDonald featuring Connex South Eastern from 2002. Michael Nicholson presented it. Is that anywhere?
 

SWTCommuter

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This restored and colourised footage of London during WW2 includes some evocative shots of Waterloo station starting at 12 mins 30 secs

 

Swanley 59

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The Wansbeck Piper, the last train on the Wansbeck Line in 1966, from a report on BBC Look North in 1988. I once read a description of this deeply rural route as "the railway they forgot to close" to account for its survival from the withdrawal of passenger services in 1952 until its final demise.

 

SWTCommuter

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1976: Meet the Commuters | Nationwide | BBC Archive
Bernard Falk investigates a modern social phenomenon, commuting. What inspires hundreds of thousands of people to spend up to four hours a day commuting to work in London? How do they pass all that time spent cooped up inside crowded train carriages and buses? Bernard meets all manner of people on his travels, from the Waterloo Station announcer Margaret Knight - who only ever sees the commuters from afar - to Spud Murphy, the helpful stationmaster at East Farleigh - who knows the names of every commuter at his station and tries to bring his own personal touch to their journeys. Solicitor Michael Gilbert uses his commute to write 'whodunit' novels, while another commuter writes poetry, and then there's the bridge players - for whom the daily commute is often too short.

Originally broadcast 4 October, 1976.

 

Undaunted

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Apologies if I've missed it, but for anyone interested in railways south of the river, Geoff Burch's 'Ramblings of a Railwayman' and 'Further Ramblings of Railwaymen' is excellent. Geoff started life as a fireman at Guildford and then moved on to be a secondman at Woking, driver at Effingham Junction and then driver at Woking before becoming a trainer at Waterloo South Sidings training school. It's difficult to do justice to the sheer scope of his material, but the photographs are very evocative and the further ramblings series bring in memories of many other drivers of the era.. There is plenty of steam material, but Geoff's secondman and driving days were in the diesel/electric era and are well covered too.

The series is largely based on his books, which I have to admit to having completely passed me by, but they are now out of stock and don't seem to be easily acquired (when I last looked, anyway).

 

Aarchive

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Memories of the Plymouth to Yealmpton Railway. Based on a book by local railway enthusiast, Anthony Kingdom.

The video is in the original format, but I am planning on updating it soon, including new images and new 'modern' footage.

 

Chrius56000

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And there's this one, "Points and Aspects" by B.R. dealing.with the 1970s resignalling of the WCML from Weaver Junction to Glasgow!


Chris Williams
 

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