A look back in time the Western's

[sargwil]

3.46 that takes me back the Westerns used to come into Clapham Yard on the Southern every night with a milk train and take it down to Morden...those were the days thanks for posting.

[pnr8uk]

Thank you so much for this!

[Ollfie]

As a trainspotting kid in the 1960's I nearly wet myself when me and my school mates caught sight of a Western pulling 40 odd fully loaded coal trucks between Barnsley and Wakefield where our school bordered the Sheffield Leeds 'back line' at Darton. Unbelievable. Our only sadness was we didn't get the number or name as it was maths at time.The class erupted when we saw it from the classroom window and which followed our gaze for miles before losing it in the distance. Happy days.

[TheSheff62]

1 person lived next to a railway line and couldn't get any sleep :)

[BROADTRAIN1979]

what about western reliance??

[secretspyfrog]

This is great footage! It takes me back to my childhood. I am Road Transport Photojournalist for the UK's best selling Magazine. I would be very interested in documenting any restoration projects of loco's with a view to publishing. If anyone is interested please reply!

[ohtheidol]

I admire the Westerns not only for their very handsome looks ( no bulbous noses and tiny windows on these things ) but also their fabulous sound classic V-shaped clag. They were by far the most memorable of the BR diesels.

[JimTLonW6]

Very nostalgic and enjoyable film; not just the engines, but the last of the traditional carriages, jointed rails, semaphores, telegraph poles...

It's no wonder they proved to be so popular in preservation.

[mrparsons16]

went on a pathfinders tour from Brum Int to Penzance pulled by a Western in original livery - never realized how popular it was as there were people on bridges, level crossings, stations, everywhere! Did it in style too in the pullman car - £169 and worth every penny as it brought back a lot of memories (my first trip was when I was 12 years old and I went to Plymouth for the day for 75p!).

[ThousandBasher]

A Really Nice vid mate, I eally enjoyed it.

[gguru1]

Gotta love the all over maroon without the yellow head panels, and with the nearly matching coaching stock, nothing but class all over! If history had gone a bit differently, and the GWR had carried on and built the Westerns themselves, I can vividly imagine them bearing the Great Western livery well and co existing with the Kings and Castles.

I'd imagine that the GWR would have rapidly developed and embraced both steam and diesel technology had they fully recovered after the second War.

[gregrudd]

@gguru1

By all Accounts had nationalisation in the UK had not happened LNER would have gone Alco,Southern would gone with EMD and LMS of course with English Electric and of course GWR would have gone with German based D H designs of which the Westerns and the Warships are.

[CUDDLES67]

BR Western Region maintained the Gods Wonderful Railway traditions and went diesel hydraulic rather than electric. Westerns, Warships and Hymaks!

[Hanglands]

Oh man, theres some fantastic footage!

[warminstercentral]

this is off a video i have .

[vorlonb3]

You know the more i look at this and the more fascinating it gets, early shots of Western Enterprise in sand, Talisman in that low red. Gawd I could go on, wonderful stuff...

[bebajoro77]

Thanks for sharing this. I do miss the song of enthusiastic Maybachs revving away.

[ohtheidol]

sad but true. i've got all but 3 of the 74 westerns on dvd; can anyone beat that?

[citrail]

***** One of the best video's on the tube!*****

[komtasu]

briiliant vid.Certainly brought back memories of when i was secondman at ooc 1971/73.

[simonp1970]

HELLFIRE!!!!

[xxxChrist]

Excellent video, those endless summers riding round the country on railrovers were just the best. Ah my glorious youth....

Thanks for posting this and hurrah for technology.

[XxBec3509]

Westerns Great locos 5*s and a Fav

[AvonRailFan]

great video mate 5stars and fav

[Nige1065]

The regulator handle is on my girlefreinds bed side table off1046 a end door off 1022 also ihave a seat and horns as uplighters sad really but not to me

[Nige1065]

Note my name and number even to this day i re live those days using their numbers to remember things. It was the best days of my life too Mr flanneryged I am fortunate enough to have D1010 numberplate on my wall undernieth 1062's name plate which was fitted to her on the Swindon turntable. . everybody has a favourite mine was 1065 so if you know wher the plates are i would love to contact you firstly by comments oh nearly forgot the regulator handle is on

Yours hydraulically D1065

[zombiesonacid]

Nice old engines them. Did'nt know one crashed though!

[ledzeplad]

The best looking train in the world!!!.....absolute strenght.

[BRITISHHITSINGLES]

wow that last western clip brought back memories i was on that western tribute with my dad ,still at school , the western was a fantastic train, i was lucky enought to see the western many times at iver and west drayon station pulling freight and passengers coaches, on occasions it was double headed ,only this country has the ability to scrap early there best loco as well as the 9f's steam trains before there time and rip up many lines, if they only had an ounce of common sence

[nigelgil]

Excellent piece of archive.Many memories have been relived to the time i spent at Reading General taking their numbers.Never to be replaced a wonderfull diesel.Many happy hors spent chasing Westerns,Warships and Hymeks.The time when railways were railways.Many thanks for sharing.

[warminstercentral]

these fine machines will never be relaced.because nothing could replace them .they were the best then .& in my opinion always will be

[TheRailFan]

great stuff i was seven years old when i seen bathspa station !! i never forgot it :)

[anobrook2002]

Thanks for this i may well have been he second man on the shots around

oxford was at Old Oak Comman from

1974-1980 worked on 63 out of 74

and drove 15 of them now passed out as a driver on them

[flanneryged]

blade5859 Thanks for uploading this "brilliant" Vid.I have not got around to watching all your uploads yet but I will.These Locomotives in their last years represent to me the best time of my life,so seeing and hearing them again means so much to me,once again thanks.Should you ever put a compilation together I would buy it straight away

[blade5859]

Thanks for the fantastic comment and glad u enjoyed the video.

[flanneryged]

These clips are like Gold dust to me,Great

Locomotives, great locations, and even better days.Thank you once again for sharing them with us all.The Enterprise

clip "really" surprised me.

[NickRatnieks]

I caught a glimpse of D1000 at Paddington- Ranelagh Rd, I imagine- just outside the station- it was 1962. I thought for years I had imagined it as every other diesel was either maroon or green. It was years later that I heard about the desert sand- as I remembered a gold engine, so it wasn't my imagination as a small kid!

[NN2Blue]

Excellent collection - thank you for sharing - 5*

[robmasterman]

Another brilliant archive flim of the marvelous Westerns..well shot on 8mm film..thanks for that David..5*..Bob

[blade5859]

Cheers Bob next one will feature the Deltic's.

[NN2Blue]

Only in this country. 25% of the nationalised railway industry was allowed to buy a fundamentally different motive power type; later to be declared "non-standard" and scrapped before being worn out.!

[JGravesend]

This is cracking footage mate! A lot better than a TVP video about the Western Region! Who made this one?

[blade5859]

On further investigation they are from a 3 volume video Archive British Traction by British Railway Heritage.