From BBC archive 1969

[dggar]

This may not be the correct place to post this but a facinating posting has been placed on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea52T1klf-Q

It is a BBC documentry from 1969 and features the Woodhead route from Sheffield to Manchester, Midland route from Birmingham to Sheffield and the the "New" Euston.

It's title:
Engines Must Not Enter The Potato Siding (1969).

 

[wintonian]

On the subject of You Tube vids there is a rather interesting BBC inside story Doc where they spend a few days with NSE and find out what lies behind all the commuter complaints about late running trains, cancelations and overcrowding.

Good job nothing like that happens these days! :?

Link to watch

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

This would make on excellant "archive" railway DVD. I am sure that it would be an addition to many railway collections.

 

[CosherB]

This may not be the correct place to post this but a facinating posting has been placed on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea52T1klf-Q

It is a BBC documentry from 1969 and features the Woodhead route from Sheffield to Manchester, Midland route from Birmingham to Sheffield and the the "New" Euston.

It's title:
Engines Must Not Enter The Potato Siding (1969).

Excellent! Thanks! 150 minutes Euston to Manchester in the '60s with those 1st generation AC electrics.... that's only 1/2 hour longer than the fast Pendos take today!

Did you notice the 47 driver had a 'second man' (what was he for?), whereas the Woodhead route electric driver did not. Tragic that Woodhead was shut!

 

[valenta]

Fascinating footage! A real gem.

 

[38Cto15E]

Gonna take a butchers, thanks for the link.
2nd men were used to look after the train heating boiler, nice easy job in the summer.

A guard could be second man for a loco off a depot as long as it wasn't going more than 15 miles (I think it was 15)
A guard could second man a light engine returning to a depot without restriction, I was once second man on a Class 31 from Stoke on Trent to Leicester via WCML.

 

[western Champion]

Looking after the steam heat boiler.

 

[bnm]

Thanks for the link, dggar. A great little piece of railway history. One wonders just how much stuff the BBC has squirrelled away in its archive, that isn't available online....

Speaking of which, there are some fascinating films from the BBC archive available here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/

Particularly enjoyable is 'The Great Railway Cavalcade' from 1980, filmed at Rainhill, celebrating 150 years of the world's first city to city passenger rail line.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/steamtrains/7305.shtml
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Did you notice the 47 driver had a 'second man' (what was he for?)

Aside from monitoring the steam heat boiler he was also there to keep the unions sweet!