This is York Part 1

[scotsman125]

Those were the days 50 years ago. York in steam, a bridge with 4 tracks, the people and everything. Now, a bit of steam (from the NRM), no bridge and 4 tracks - just 2! The people and everything - is changed.

Why IT HAS TO BE modernazaition?! BRING BACK OLD ENGLAND!!!!!!!! THUMBS UP!

[Jonnyriffic]

Oh my lord, this is amazing. I walk in and out of that station every day to go to college. I am speechless from this! :D

6:09 now platform 9, with 10 and 11 on the left.

[barry8472]

Great vid, i still dream of waterloo in full steam

[Lytton333]

Living in York and sometimes finding myself on the station concourse on a Saturday teatime.. I often wonder what the station-master shown here would have thought of the noxious gangs of louts from Middlesborough and Leeds who are already aggressively drunk when decanting from their trains, and intent on causing mayhem and trouble in the town - Or the the screeching/ vomiting/ backside-flashing harlots in hen-parties catching the last train on a Sat night. Welcome to modern Britain..

[ricjuk]

modern life is rubbish...

[yo24ist]

cool! Love it

[yo24ist]

cool!

[gracetsoka]

HOLY COW I STEPPED ON THAT STREET YESTERDAY

[gracetsoka]

i watched this coz am from york thats all

[JimTLonW6]

Very interesting and nostalgic video.

Anyone who would like a spot of sardonic amusement can try turning on the speech transcription. Google hasn't caught up with a Yorkshire accent yet!

[talfacprez]

This film will always remind me of Sir Top n Hat with Thomas Train.

[AcombDave]

Love this film - I used to show it on an old 16mm projector when I was a BR projectionist many many years ago - I know it almost word for word!

[SouthyA]

WH Smith still in the same place lol

[SouthyA]

haha York station still looks the same

[naughtystudios]

Great video.

It's great to see how it used to be with all those steam engines rushing in and out.

It was a bit before I was born though. ;•(

The station still looks the same nowadays, just minus the steam trains.

[Guntherbravin]

I was 16 when I sold ice cream in the York Station, 1962 or 63 I think. My family all worked on the railway. It was no easy task to get from platform to platform in time to sell ice cream to hungry passengers, especially when the train was a troop train. I really loved the old Mallard steam trains.

[vonroon23]

This must be around 1955,, ten years or so before I came to York as a student. The city it briefly shows seems light years away from its present Disney reincarnation. You don't know what you've got till it's gone.

[edj66]

@vonroon23 It's 1953. Good guess.

[Lytton333]

@vonroon23 I'm a York resident.. and you never said a truer word guv'..

It's all gone.. and only a handful like me care..

[yorksteam]

@Lytton333 I know, I'm 31, and missed all this, and I wish I had been there, I can just remember the 4 tracks through, now down to 2!

[yorksteam]

@stateforce you will notice in the list at the beginning that there are infect 2 narrators!

[stateforce]

The way the narrator's accent changes from BBC English to mock Northern is hilarious.

[cleckheatoncentral]

Great. I love the Station call for Hull, via Market Weighton. Its hard to believe that there once was a direct line from Skipton to York, going via Embsay Junction, Ilkley, Poole in Wharfedale, Harrogate and York. What a crimnal act that it is no longer possible!!!

[Teddyboy53Rocker]

Brilliant, I live here and I'm really passionate about the history of the place, hate to see all the old buildings being knocked down and replaced by some stupid plastic and metal rubbish that some architect has won an award for.......thanks for posting it

[Lytton333]

Is that Mrs Grace Robinson doing the station-announcing?

She was there for donkeys years I think? I remember spotting there in '75 and still hearing her mellifluous cadences of recieved pronunciation echoing around the great curved roof - and no.. they weren't 'pompous' either..

Thanks so much for posting this film..

[NYMRTrainGuard]

Great, just great! Just shows how much the railways have changed for the worse over the last 20-30 years. Nice to hear the train anouncer say the hull train will call at Market Weighton, Beverley, Cottingham and Hull :-) Instead of the less interesting route they take today via Selby

[lewisner]

@NYMRTrainGuard And Church Fenton, Castleford....... Service ended in 1970.

[Cool2BCeltic]

Also from the days before there was a stigma attached to trainspotting. I like trains and have an interest in railway history but it doesn't consume my whole life.

[Cool2BCeltic]

Rather pretentious music and a somewhat pompous and patronising voiceover, typical of the era.

[pronatorgator]

@Cool2BCeltic Maybe, but you have the benefit of hindsight; the musical was typical of the era, as was the register of the commentary.

You could argue that the tendency to appear "hip", "ironic", "edgy" and "down with the kids" that typifies film commentary today is even more patronising and insulting.

[modemeyes]

A great video of a once great railway and station 5*

[campainr]

I wonder if those who made this film ever realized what a valuable historical document it would become.

[DPUO]

Mate, I don't know how long this'll last before some bugger goes trying to get it removed, but thanks very much nevertheless. I can remember watching this, no more than five or six years old, and knowing that what I was seeing was very special, and that somehow the world around me was different. And y'know what? Despite that, it's part of why, when I'm in York, I just grin like a lobotomised crackhead. Ta :)

[arturner100]

Fabulous. Fabulous

[CARLOS62B]

This is wonderful

[yorksteam]

yes, it's hard to beieve that the station masters office is now the Wistlestop shop

[CARLOS62B]

yes` times sure have changed,

the quality of service back then was amazing and the station looked so full of life.

[yorksteam]

I like the way there's 15 people with a job to do, from cleaning the cab windows and watering, through checking wheels for cracks and checking axle boxes, checking lamps though loading passengers/unloading parcels. Now there's a driver and guard and around 3 people down the platform to pass the message to the driver!

[CARLOS62B]

Yes` the standards have slipped so much now.

I have always wanted to work for the Railways but everything is on sub-contract now.

York Railway is a shadow of its former self.

[yorksteam]

It's my second home now, and I can't imagine what it was like, I can only just remember the four tracks

[Traceymermaid]

wow thank you for posting, I first saw this film at Haxby Road junior school1st year, 1960, and we had to write an essay about it, it was filmed in 1953, by J Holmes, Our beutiful victorian station was my second home, a platform ticket was an old penny, a Mr Breeds was a station wheeltapper, and my grandad Herbert Halliwell was incharge of the parafin for filling the lamps... ek the good old days......