Lets Go To Birmingham!

[videvideooo]

Milkman hijacks intercity Pullman!

[GMClyde]

Sadly the driver was killed in a railway accident the following year.

[LUNATIC75]

Anywhere but Birmingham. Noooooo!!!

[smithjr125]

Music is: Johann Strauss II's Perpetuum Mobile: musikalischer Scherz for orchestra

[smithjr125]

What is the music?

[SpeedTriple59]

Lets not go to Birminghum...what the feck do you want to go there for..shit then shit now..

[foxcell]

now that's a train trip to take :-D

[freethoughtmusic]

Screw the motorway. Five minutes to Brum? Let's go!

[mazzab1970]

Why is a milkman driving the train? LOL. It is weird to see both bridges in place at 3.38 just before arriving at Leamington. I think the bridge for LNER line which went from Leamington to Rugby was taken down in 1968. That part of Leamington is still known as 'under the bridges' though.

[10Rob11]

At one point it looks like he gets out a mobile phone and reads a text =P And yes, I know it was the 1960's.

[LeamingtonSteve]

it misses Warwick to Hatton

[porno6361]

got the whole boxed set of dvd's,great old railway films,this is on one of them

[colliecandle]

These high speed journeys are tiring [for the eyes] I'd much rather see the whole journey in real time - all that interesting lineside equipment and passing trains

[DucksandDynamite]

Lets not was the driver high on substance

[dauntz88]

Western Region drivers often dressed like that after the end of steam. They also refered to western region hydraulics as "Them Diesel" and class 47s as "Them Electric". Work that one out!

[hahazet]

cool hoe fast was that going

[MG06ZT]

Great stuff.

[InterCity82]

Awesome! :) The best bit is definitely where it has to stop.

Amazing to see so many steam locos too! :)

[aandybandy11]

the driver Ernie Morris was killed in the Knowle and Dorridge rail crash of 1963 along with two other collegues. a freight train was wrongly diverted into the path of ernies express train, very sad footnotr to this film.

[and60007]

Brilliant

[brossen99]

LMS could get you to Birmingham in exact 2 hours with steam in the 1930s

[dplanefilms]

Sure it's the Milkman driving the Blue Pullman at MACH 9. ;)

[1D84down]

Yes and he was the poor bloke later killed at Knowle and Dorridge on a Western (1963?) - signaman's error RIP

[canonprecentor]

Brilliant to see that again, I remember watching it in a film club we had at school! Thanks for posting it!

[signalnorth]

Was the driver delivering milk?

[fosteragnes]

Ironically, the driver in this film was named Ernie - he was Ernie Morris based at Stafford Road shed in Wolverhampton. Sadly, a short while after the film was made, he was killed when the 'Birmingham Pullman' (loco. hauled with normal Pullman coaches on this occasion) collided with shunting goods wagons at Knowle & Dorridge station.

[bluebus270]

Ernie Morris seemed typical of many BR drivers of the time. A miserable sod with a total charisma bypass.

[fosteragnes]

I presume, from this comment, that you knew Ernie personally? If not, then that is a very unkind thing to say. How can you possibly judge what a person is like from short film 'visuals.'

Going around BR in the days of steam I found most footpletemen very friendly and approachable, not at all like your assessment.

[bluebus270]

You know as well as i do that most old BR drivers were (and still are) sour old buggers. That's because in their minds the job is important and people should be in awe of them. My great uncle worked out of Gateshead shed and he was a miserable sod as well.

[GavinS1965]

Not suprised in that uniform!

[traintovietnam]

I'd love to hear what one of these engines sounded like!

[scriltist]

@traintovietnam The MAN power units sounded the same as the Maybach ones used in the Warships. As did the Paxmans in the class 29s.

[davidwoolford]

Brilliant piece of film...but why does the driver look like a milkman!

[mountainrover]

he thinks he's in an ealing comedy!

[porno6361]

great clip,thanx 4 posting,just like london-brighton but with 1 rail less,remember doing cardiff-paddington on one of these about 1966 wen i was 5,sat opposite frank(the w*nk)bough,why aren't one of these preserved,15 yrs ahead of the hst,who wants a strawberry mivvi from the cab?

[scriltist]

@porno6361 I think one was preserved but was scrapped almost immediately when it was found to contain blue asbestos.

[porno6361]

@scriltist should have stripped it all out and kept one going,or put it on display at the NRM :-(

[scriltist]

@porno6361 The point is that asbestos stripping was/is a very expensive operation which was evidently beyond the owners' means. Shame really.

[camsprocketpinion]

Is there no way of watching it at normal speed? Far more interesting!!LOL

[mistofoles]

If you watched it at normal speed it would probably take an hour and a half!

[porno6361]

@mistofoles yeah,but imagine following the route on an old rail atlas and seeing how much things have changed

[woodlandsteve]

His name was Ernie and he was the fastest milkman in the west

[mistofoles]

He did London to Birmingham in just over 5 minutes?? Richard Branson eat your heart out!!

[mistofoles]

Err..why is the train driver dressed like a milkman??

[squeakyadam]

something to do with it being the top very posh train of the time which I believe you had to pay a supplement on top of the train fare and all the staff had to wear Pullman Uniform .

Did laugh at the driver looking like a milkman though

[UkGeoFF09]

My thought exactly when I saw that uniform. lol!

[mistofoles]

Bet he went a hell of a lot faster LEAVING Birmingham!!

[Bigaid]

i love the sound of nthe signals dropping at 4 mins 53 lol!!

[KingOfPrawns]

tremendous..i did that trip in 1962 ? saw Warship Zulu at paddington, and brand new Western Pathfinder at Snow Hill, my first serious train spotting trip. And there after Greenford and northolt LT is The Bridge where i did regular spotting for the Cambrian Coast Express and the new westerns as well the prototype Lion. cheers terrific!

[bohaynowell]

This is excellent! Thanks!

[ghbg00107]

I remember seeing this at school in the early 60's. We were all given Wall's Choc-ices wrapped in foil too - courtesy of British Railways. It was all a real treat, but I am rather nonplussed by the inevitable and uncomfortable fact that I am now about the same age as the train-driver.

[ciadam1003]

Shame they singled Old Oak - Northolt Junction. Chiltern should use Paddington more often!!! Fantastic clip!!!

[steamybrian2]

Thanks for putting this on you tube for us to watch. With a careful study of the film I have noticed that sections of the cab ride film have been edited out thereby missing a number of stations. Have noticed missing South Ruislip-Denham,Bicester area-Banbury, plus sections in the Warwick-Tyseley area.

[wileybrenda]

Bits of another route have been spliced in too. The bit around 2:55 is supposed to be south of Aynho, but there's no quad track there, nor two parallel tunnels.

[barringtonbank]

You would think you were actually in the cab driving the train. Great music, I am saving this in my favorites.

[baconsandwich2007]

Why is the driver dressed like he sells ice creams?????

[xiec]

because he drives the train that sells the ice creams.

[kiriyama202]

Check out the bad-boy Birmingham massive remix! Hear Me Now! On my page!

[Sk8r14kid]

that entire trip.. an he gets a red signal less than a mile before his final stop.. lol