The Good Old days?

[9K43]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkgnTonf-Oc

Just watched the above film about the modernisation of the railways.

Just the job for looks into years gonby

 

[ainsworth74]

Thanks for linking that. Interesting to see my local patch 'back in the day'. It's also strange to think that most of that freight traffic and style of operation would be gone in the next ten/twenty years.

 

[Tulyar]

Thanks, a fantastic link.

I am revisiting my youth (79-84) and my enthusiasm for the rail scene, sadly it is quite dull now imho, quite saddened and shocked to see what has passed in the last 30 years and the dullness of todays loco's.


I think I will be spending a lot of time in the Nostalgia section !!

 

[neilmc]

When I was younger, every town would have a traction depot, and large cities several, which employed a whole variety of men. Then there were local yards with shunting staff, in addition to which every train was crewed by a driver, a fireman and a guard even if it was only a few wagons being transported from one yard to another. Signal boxes were a feature of every junction, there were parcels depots everywhere and it was rare to find an unstaffed station.

Of course, all this came at a price and now that the vast majority of these jobs have disappeared the economies made are such that train travel has become dirt cheap so that you can travel around the modern basic unstaffed network for next to nothing ...

 

[hoffers]

Thanks, a fantastic link.

I am revisiting my youth (79-84) and my enthusiasm for the rail scene, sadly it is quite dull now imho, quite saddened and shocked to see what has passed in the last 30 years and the dullness of todays loco's.


I think I will be spending a lot of time in the Nostalgia section !!

I agree, locomotive traction of today has very little variety and is indeed dull compared to the mid-eighties when all the classes of yesteryear were still pounding the lines. I dread to think how much freight has been lost to road haulage over that time period.

I used to take seeing those locos for granted, oh I wish I could turn back time.

 

[cjp]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkgnTonf-Oc

Just watched the above film about the modernisation of the railways.

Just the job for looks into years gonby

Fascinating.

I find the social side, hair, clothing, no computers,caps, fountain pens and pencils such a trip back to my youth.

And boys in short trousers rather than the ubiquitous demin jeans