North Wales Coast by steam 1907 (video)

[Y Ddraig Coch]

I came across this on a local history page on facebook yesterday.

Somebody has done a marvellous job of cleaning up the footage so I thought it would be nice to share it here.

This is a great little video of the Irish mail amongst other trains.

 

[Arglwydd Golau]

Wonderful! As you say, what a great job cleaning this up.

 

[krus_aragon]

A very interesting watch, thank you.

A shorter film, from a decade earlier, of the railway around Conwy can be viewed on the BFI website here.

 

[gazthomas]

Very atmospheric. In some ways not so much has changed compared to the road network in the area

 

[Cowley]

Wonderful! As you say, what a great job cleaning this up.

Much agreed. Excellent.

 

[Y Ddraig Coch]

wow I grew up in Gyffin , to see the lack of buildings and wide open landscape in video rather than pictures is really interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I love history, especially railway history and especially when I can see where my house I grew up in would soon be built!!

 

[gazthomas]

wow I grew up in Gyffin , to see the lack of buildings and wide open landscape in video rather than pictures is really interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I love history, especially railway history and especially when I can see where my house I grew up in would soon be built!!

So did I! Titches Chippy

 

[Y Ddraig Coch]

So did I! Titches Chippy

Small world. I lived on the woodlands, opposite where Cadnant school was. Funny it hadn't even been built in either of them videos and has now gone forever while very little of the railway has changed in over a hundred years. (bar the down sizing obviously)

 

[gazthomas]

Indeed it is. I went to Ysgol Gyffin for a time and lived in New Street - dinky terrace houses

 

[Harbornite]

I saw a link to this vid on the Britain's railways remembered facebook group earlier in the week, definitely worth a watch.

 

[ChiefPlanner]

The calm of a pre WW1 Edwardian summer .......splendid stuff.