The music's "Let There Be Drums" by Sanday Nelson OK. Great to see high quality colour film from 1960s especially the Blue Pullmans but the video is spoiled by the irritating quick and left to right cutting in the later stages as the music speeds up. The train driver in the side-on cab interior shot looks like the same guy from the "London to Brighton" but now upgraded to colour.
Brilliant film,no ' wrong sort of snow on the line ' then or H & S !.Music sounds like sampled Sandy Nelson, an exciting sound at the time.Remember it well,even out toilet froze up.My dad even blew the main Electricity Board fuse making a makeshift element to melt the ice !.
Great film. Bit too young at 40 to remember the big freeze of '63, but well remember the big ones of '78 and '81. The music is fantastic. It sounded to me like a Joe Meek production at first, but seemed to be an early Johnny Hawksworth with the help of Daphne 'BBC Radiophonic Workshop' Oram. I believe this is on a BFI DVD, might have to snap up a copy!
Fantastic film, really establishes a driving, chugging rhythm through the editing. I love the contrast between the psychedelic jazz music and the shots of snow-covered countryside and British train stations. Miles Davis meets Ivor the Engine!
Do they not fucking notice that the train has a fucking 5 metre high plow on it basically, and their fucking sitting there SHUVLING it, like fucking tards.
Amazing... This was shown on BBC TV over Christmas in about 1974/5 - it was repeated at least once within a week - we didn't have a video - so thanks for letting us watch it again!!
@nylonTS what makes you think it was england? At the start of the video they went through a station that said Tyndrum and that is definately in Scotland. ok???
While those men were busy shovelling snow to open those remote lines up- down at Marylebone in The Kremlin Dr Beeching and his henchmen were plotting as to how they could shut as many of them down as possible. Many years later Beeching said he wished he had been allowed to shut more- including the East Coat Mainline north of Newcastle and the Marylebone/Paddington to Birmingham line. A fanatic chopping the "product range" but this was the railways- a transport network not Dulux paint.
This is a great short film. I remember the BBC used to play it a lot over the Christmas period in the 60's when they needed something to fill the time between the end of an American program and the top of the hour.
@TnT3Run Wow, yeah, have watched this video lots of times and had not noticed it - fantastic, thanks for pointing it out!! Steam train and snow - love it!
1963 the year the infamous Dr Beeching wields his axe and its goodbye to 67,000 jobs , 2000 stations and 4000 miles of track........Dr Crippen had a higher popularity rating.
yeah, snows great, so long as you dont have to work in it! I spent many years working on a Pway maintainance gang, obviously in all weathers, and I can assure you it was a total nightmare! try shovelling snow for 8 or 9 hours a day, invariably soaked through and frozen, snow? you can keep it! didnt see those chaps shovelling in the film exactly enjoying themselves, probably couldnt wait for a hot bath and bed!
The Uk Shut down last year for what, A Few Flake's, I was Still at School aged 9 in SHORT Trouser's & Very Short, The Leds went Red, We were told thats us getting warm.
Looking bavk now it was Tough, But We did not know any Different, We Had Temps of -10 upwards for 3 Solid Months, & the -10 was a Warm Day. It was that Winter that Closed all the Cannal Traffic, As they were Iced in for over 3 Months, They had to melt snow to Drink, They had it Very Bad, & Many Died, God Bless Them all.
THINK this is why I love snow so much! I was born in the heavy snows of 1963, I remember my mum telling me, they lived in a basement flat, and my dad had to dig his way out of the front door, ! aswhen they opned it, the snow was the height of the door and more! when my mum was in labour with me and my twin sister, the midwife had to wait for my dad to dig ou a trench for her to get in!! ever since I LOVE SNOW!!! MY BEST SEASON!
@prben2.here here! i was 10 that year and remeber with joy and with great sadness what this country of mine has become; a third world cesspit with its now creaking doors still open to every piece of trash from any where in the world to come and abuse at will.very very sad.
Standard 4 2-6-4T no.80072 at the beginning still survives today, at the Llangollen Railway. She languished at Barry Scrapyard until 1988, a driving wheel or two sliced through, but returned to operation in 2009. The Jubilee 'Barbados' obviously does not survive. Unfortunately, I couldn't identify the other engines individually, only by class...
in the 60s, with less technology for snow clearing and more snow, we coped...in the new millenium, with more technology for snow clearing and less snow...we don't. At least, not in the UK.
@GWRjim wazzup bro? Haven't see you in awhile, and btte was gone. He close his account. Do me a simple favor, why don't you let other sub subscribe to me also.
it was one of the coldest winters ever in western europe, i was born the winter after that,which was a mild winter according to the metereologic data.
Those were the days, when everybody mucked in, trains smashed through snow drifts, no health and safety crap they have today.
We had better communities, better music, better films, comedies, TV, better toys, which were made of metal in Britain, and unlike the plastic rubbish from China, we have nowadays.
@prben2 you are right,people were a lot less spoiled then nowadays, i myself am born in begining of 1964,so i remember a lot of the sixties( especially the second half,off course..)and life i n general was much less complicated then it is now.
Really interesting to me! I never knew this occurred, and can imagine the difficulties if it happened on such a massive scale. I live on Lake Erie in the US, and can appreciate all of this.
can i just say for the record to all the old timers on here , i lve in 1 of the higest villages in britain and we often get snow like this (last year we had 7 ft snow drifts) and nothing ever stops , maybe slows a bit but not stops .
there is nothing wrong with this country were all rich and healthy if you look at the world as a whole. imigrants are a sign of a healthy country, be worried when they dont want to come anymore. And this generation didt start any wars !!!!!!!!!!
Looks like we will be up to our necks in snow this January in Britland. When US east coast gets it early, as last week, it is a sign for a biggie dump sometime. Hell knows what we would do if leccy goes down. - boilers and central heating not working, and most people have not got a back up, let alone a chimney in their place. Hands around a candle time it will be.
This winter of 62/63 just dragged, we had no central heating or double glazing! the ice could be scraped off the inside of the windows. We had no deliveries of coal for the fire as we lived on a hill so we ended up living and sleeping in one room using up old furniture and fence posts to burn just to keep warm. I was six at the time and remember my mother cooking porridge not on the stove but on the fire in the living room. But it was spectacular to see so much snow!
Enjoyed this thoroughly. I have to agree with TrainmasterCurt that the 60's were a much different (and better, IMO) world. For one thing, I was an innocent child back then!
i had 32 hours on duty on a steam loco 45526 on the fish train the 10.10 pm out of carlisle she was a12B enging we only got to Penirth 18 miles south of carlisle , roads and rail were all snow up , luck we were next to the signalbox at penirth, good old days . retired driver .
I don't understand why people are banging on about foreigners. The fact is loads came over in 1947 to run the NHS that we spent Maynard Keynes well blagged money off the Americans that they gave to us out of fear of communism spreading in the war ravaged countries of Europe. Yes immigration is high. But it's your generation that put us in the EU and your generation that relies in the "foreigners" to build your extensions, loft conversions and decking. Stop being so hypocritical we are all relat
Winter 1962/63 - snow & ice & sub zero over most of UK 12 weeks continuous. Deep snowdrifts isolated towns & villages; cars drove across the Thames from bank to bank; Cambridge: students walked to colleges along frozen River Cam. Ice floes piled up at Tower Bridge, London. No Govt cold weather payments, winter fuel allowances or social welfare for people then like there is now. Central heating rare - coal fires & coal could not get through - BUT people survived! - MUCH tougher & happier then!
UK welcomed refugees from all kinds of persecution, religious (as with the French Protestant Huguenots) and racial discrimination and even deliberate racial obliteration (as with the Jews in WW2), abject poverty and threats to their lives in other countries. The British have been more generous & welcoming than was good for them, and still are as with recent uncontrolled immigration. That will now have to change. Winter 1962/63 lasted from 22 Dec 62 - 10 Mar 63..snow covered ground throughout.
1 inch of snow and the whole of UK shuts down, not back in 63 though eheh. I remeber when I was a kid even (back in early 80s) we had proper snow many feet thick, not the pathetic 2 inches we get nowadays.
@andysim232 My step dad told me when he worked for Lincolnshire County Council on the roads that a few winters he'd gone out with a gang, a JCB and 3 days rations to clear the snow. Bearing in mind that this was in the Fens of all places.
wait a second at 6:00-6:52 is that a Holden B12?, another thing, I have noticed that a lot of the footage (the black and white footage) is from snowdrift at bleath gill!
Wtf, why in british isles locomotives can't live with 10 cms of snow? In another parts of the world this is not a problem even without help from snow cleaners. Probably green lines and rail fill helps but still... I was schocked when trains were cancelled during my visit in Britain, because of 4cm of snow.
@TrainmasterCurt yes but did you notice how primitive the trains were? Were it not for those foreigners the modern trains of England could never have been developed. This video is a perfect portrayal of the hideous whiteness of the thankfully bygone era of primitive British inbreeding!!
@TrainmasterCurt How right you are! Winter of 1962/63 was exceptionally severe &much of the UK was snow covered for 3 months, many parts buried deep in deep snowdrifts. Rivers & harbours froze over. Temps below freezing for many days at a stretch.Those huge steam locomotives fitted with ploughs swept through snow with ease & trains ran to time. Few schools had to close!. Now the UK goes into panic mode & people skive off work when half an inch of snow falls & all schools close immediately!
ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT ,I WAS A TRAIN SPOTTER IN THE 50S AND EARLY 60S,THIS FILM IS SUPERB ,FROM THE STEAM TRAINS TO THE SHEEP IN THE FIELDS ,TO THE MUSIC ,AND MEN ON THE TRACKS ,BRILLIANT AND THANK YOU FOR PUTTING IT ON
Fantastic video! I remember this winter of '63, I was nine years old. Those were the days of waking up to find frost on the inside of the window, my sister and I used to have old coats on the top of our beds to keep warm. Simpler times, and what soft lives we lead now!
You probably don't lad.Which is unfortunate for you,as a de-culturalised nonentity you will find it very difficult to relate to the rest of those around you who do have an ethnic identity.Please get an education.Try w.w.w.englandandenglishhistory.c.o.m
@TrainmasterCurt England has been a "hotch potch of foreigners" for the last thousand years. I fail to see how you could possibly remember a time when it wasn't. I love living in a country as ethnically diverse as the UK.
@narcoman2 Utter,contemptible rubbish lad. I remember how we were always being told how as an 'insular' nation we had always resisted outsiders and were never 'tolerant' of foreigners ,which is why we were so formidable in battle.Today's propaganda is false.Until the deliberate destruction of our unique ethnic identity by our 'elite'unlike most European states we have not seen ceaseless exchange of peoples, languages and national borders.England never had over 1% immigrants in our land before..
@narcoman2 You probably don't lad.Which is unfortunate for you,as a de-culturalised nonentity you will find it very difficult to relate to the rest of those around tyou who do.Please get an education. w.w,w,engtlandandenglishhistory.c.o.m might help you lad.
@narcoman2 - Utter rubbish! Ask your elders and they'll tell you that the UK is now festooned with foreigners unlike previous times - such as the war times - hardly any foreigners whatsoever.
It's curious how some of the people here professing such a love of old England never learned some of the basics of its language.
It's also curious to see how narrow some viewpionts are that there is a presumption all the footage in the video is in England, and not perhaps Scotland (or Wales or Northern Ireland).
The trains here were operating as part of British Railways, not English Railways.
What a trip down Memory Lane. White people doing eachothera favour and helping for the common good. A job to do so let's get on with it! My last visit to England was less uplifting I have to say, and all those people are no longer in evidence. all changed for some melting pot of ethnics...
just bring back the old days mate that what i say..nothing good about living in this country anymore...it rubbish...loved it in the 60s and 70s...just a completely different world.And for the worst in my opinion.
@agaichapter25 Stop whingeing. I loved my younger days too, but I don't look at them through rose coloured glasses like you must do. Just be thankful you live in a peaceful, civilised country. It's not perfect I know, but then neither is anywhere else.
@TrainmasterCurt England has always been a hotch-pot of foreigners as you so nicely put it, it is one of the things that makes us great, I am indeed descended from them...but you sound like a right narrow minded twat!
@75amoeba what fucking good old days..sexism racism homophobia, shit cars shit trains shit food, shit technology, and people didnt shower or bath properly so they reeked of shite. shit telly, shit roads, shit health.
Most of this film shot on the 'western' judging by the preponderance of ex GWR loco's - even 'Barbados' I think, was allocated to the W.R. (Bristol ?) A great piece of quality filming - I'd like to buy a copy of this film if it were available.
Ahh yes! The memories this invokes ! - I was 12 going on 13 that winter!
@colliecandle The film's on a DVD called "Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm Of Film", by the British Film Institute, who posted the video here. You can get it from them or via Amazon UK
@HughJason Ahh! great news. Thank you for the info, I will certainly be ordering a copy of this. Incidentally, my older brother had a 45 record of Sandy Nelson's "Teen Beat" - drove my mum wild when he played it!
@SuperAmos31 You are right-they played it slow then normal then fast to catch the mood of the film-I checked on the chart history-US No 4 Sept 59 and UK No 9 Nov 59
At first I thought the sound was Neu: Super 16, then I realised it wasn't, but this couldn't be influenced by that because this movie was FIRST... Perhaps this soundtrack influenced Neu?
Edit: youtube won't let me post a link to another video... what? The video identifier string for super 16 is 'lno7vUrgRTQ'
@41BobDylan no worries, another upload says its Johnny Hawksworth who re-recorded the tune from some jazz man Sandy Nelson, pitched it both ways lets say and Daphne Oram added effects. Johnny & Daphne r mentioned here in the endtitles, i see now ,but as far as i know the tune is called,
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fgfgfdngnbjgnbjgj543 1 day ago
why is this soundtrack so groovy
DuallyDieselFord 2 days ago
Magnificent seeing proper trains at work, not like this Super Express and High Speed 2 bollocks!
WaerzMedia09 5 days ago
Cool! Daphne Oram did the music effects. I was reading about her recently. Extraordinary woman. Do a google search and go to her org site.
AxeManJax 5 days ago 2
The editor should have gone to Specsavers!
Squarerig 1 week ago
3:23 Horse power !
cvgeeps 1 week ago
The music's "Let There Be Drums" by Sanday Nelson OK. Great to see high quality colour film from 1960s especially the Blue Pullmans but the video is spoiled by the irritating quick and left to right cutting in the later stages as the music speeds up. The train driver in the side-on cab interior shot looks like the same guy from the "London to Brighton" but now upgraded to colour.
FishAndFingerPie69 1 week ago
Brilliant film,no ' wrong sort of snow on the line ' then or H & S !.Music sounds like sampled Sandy Nelson, an exciting sound at the time.Remember it well,even out toilet froze up.My dad even blew the main Electricity Board fuse making a makeshift element to melt the ice !.
flammasherman 1 week ago 2
Great film. Bit too young at 40 to remember the big freeze of '63, but well remember the big ones of '78 and '81. The music is fantastic. It sounded to me like a Joe Meek production at first, but seemed to be an early Johnny Hawksworth with the help of Daphne 'BBC Radiophonic Workshop' Oram. I believe this is on a BFI DVD, might have to snap up a copy!
Gannett2011 1 week ago
Nearly half a milion views! Well deserved, lovely film. I wish I could crawl through the film into that snowy magical world!
hawking8 2 weeks ago
Video quality wasn't half bad in 1963 was it?
Steve47324 2 weeks ago
Brilliant quality upload. I remember the 1963 big freeze very well.
SuperYellowPhoenix 2 weeks ago
So this is what happens when you make a train film while smoking pot!
CGT867 2 weeks ago
Fantastic film, really establishes a driving, chugging rhythm through the editing. I love the contrast between the psychedelic jazz music and the shots of snow-covered countryside and British train stations. Miles Davis meets Ivor the Engine!
DarrenJamesColes 3 weeks ago
This is how it used to be.
I took my 11 plus exam in Feb 63 ( I live in Margate) We struggled through snow about four foot deep....No Problem
Public Transport carried on running...No Problem
The problem for the Authorities nowadays is, when ever it snows, it is always the wrong type.
It is always the type that falls heavily and lays...........
dw69ful 3 weeks ago
Now thats snow, not like the dusting we get today. 1956 was a bad one as well. 5*****
AL
Snoopythack1 3 weeks ago
Do they not fucking notice that the train has a fucking 5 metre high plow on it basically, and their fucking sitting there SHUVLING it, like fucking tards.
byWizpa 3 weeks ago
@byWizpa Why do you have to swear and insult someone? Their should be they're too.
Crochetify 2 weeks ago
Amazing... This was shown on BBC TV over Christmas in about 1974/5 - it was repeated at least once within a week - we didn't have a video - so thanks for letting us watch it again!!
KevTheBusDriver 3 weeks ago
Dear old England as it used to be
where did we go wrong ?
nylonTS 3 weeks ago
@nylonTS what makes you think it was england? At the start of the video they went through a station that said Tyndrum and that is definately in Scotland. ok???
stewmar1946 3 weeks ago
the health and safety boffs would have a fit at that snow plough :)
c4mp3rd4n 3 weeks ago
did'nt have 'wrong kind of snow' in them day's.
b0lliks 4 weeks ago
While those men were busy shovelling snow to open those remote lines up- down at Marylebone in The Kremlin Dr Beeching and his henchmen were plotting as to how they could shut as many of them down as possible. Many years later Beeching said he wished he had been allowed to shut more- including the East Coat Mainline north of Newcastle and the Marylebone/Paddington to Birmingham line. A fanatic chopping the "product range" but this was the railways- a transport network not Dulux paint.
NickRatnieks 1 month ago
In what way have we 'progressed' over the last 50 years?!!
MrAtseyes 1 month ago
I just love the snow the steam and nostalgia,but the shots just got faster and faster!!.what you trying to do ? start a migrain !!!!
jandy501 1 month ago
I really like this video, cool 60's music (?), cool train, cool life with snow:)
AY1000000 1 month ago
I typed in SNOW and snow showed up on my screen..how COOL is THAT???? :)
peepsk771 1 month ago
I type snow in youtube search engine and snow appeared in the result. LOL
011azr 1 month ago
its snowing were i live right now :)
veroarroyo1 1 month ago
This is a great short film. I remember the BBC used to play it a lot over the Christmas period in the 60's when they needed something to fill the time between the end of an American program and the top of the hour.
forestranger2 1 month ago
this + let it snow easter egg = awesome
assassinteam2009 1 month ago
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assassinteam2009 1 month ago
Anyone else come just to use the snowflake button?
TnT3Run 1 month ago 38
@TnT3Run shit.. i was so planning on putting this comment xD
anotherstreetskater 1 month ago
@TnT3Run Wow, yeah, have watched this video lots of times and had not noticed it - fantastic, thanks for pointing it out!! Steam train and snow - love it!
3moonriver 4 weeks ago
@TnT3Run YES!!!!!
TheMinecrafter1299 3 weeks ago
I just came for the snowflake button.
31415equalspi 1 month ago 4
@31415equalspi me too
saxotido 1 month ago
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USPoliticalChannel 1 month ago
cold, what cold? 1963, my toes remember the chilblains of 1963
charleyfarleyish 1 month ago
1963 the year the infamous Dr Beeching wields his axe and its goodbye to 67,000 jobs , 2000 stations and 4000 miles of track........Dr Crippen had a higher popularity rating.
movement26 1 month ago
I see more train than snow...
ashleytisdalesilver7 1 month ago
I love the bit with barbados, when you see her valve gear working so smoothly
barry8472 1 month ago
snur! ah f*kkin love snur, me.
nobovrilformethanks 1 month ago
yeah, snows great, so long as you dont have to work in it! I spent many years working on a Pway maintainance gang, obviously in all weathers, and I can assure you it was a total nightmare! try shovelling snow for 8 or 9 hours a day, invariably soaked through and frozen, snow? you can keep it! didnt see those chaps shovelling in the film exactly enjoying themselves, probably couldnt wait for a hot bath and bed!
beyergarret123 1 month ago
The Uk Shut down last year for what, A Few Flake's, I was Still at School aged 9 in SHORT Trouser's & Very Short, The Leds went Red, We were told thats us getting warm.
Looking bavk now it was Tough, But We did not know any Different, We Had Temps of -10 upwards for 3 Solid Months, & the -10 was a Warm Day. It was that Winter that Closed all the Cannal Traffic, As they were Iced in for over 3 Months, They had to melt snow to Drink, They had it Very Bad, & Many Died, God Bless Them all.
MrStablelad 1 month ago
THINK this is why I love snow so much! I was born in the heavy snows of 1963, I remember my mum telling me, they lived in a basement flat, and my dad had to dig his way out of the front door, ! aswhen they opned it, the snow was the height of the door and more! when my mum was in labour with me and my twin sister, the midwife had to wait for my dad to dig ou a trench for her to get in!! ever since I LOVE SNOW!!! MY BEST SEASON!
dianelovesbsl 1 month ago
I have Locomtion, Rail & Snow and I rekion Snow is the best of the 3 films
goldie103103 1 month ago
Ah! A proper winter. Things carried on then, not like now. They did have a lot more Diesel-Electrics though which helped.Dam the Cutbacks.
994206 1 month ago
@alexduongrandom
youre not sorry alex now will you please stop following me!
GWRjim 2 months ago
@Videoz365
thanks for sticking up for me alex is such a pest!
GWRjim 2 months ago
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alex go away and stop following me on every video i comment on stop it now alex!
GWRjim 2 months ago
come to southern cal and see what real snow looks like
homesquad14 2 months ago
1:Open this video.
Polar Express: Main Theme Song
2:Mute "Snow" then Start at 0.54
3:Relax
ryanlim2002 2 months ago
the picture quality is amazing, looks like it was made yesterday and not the year l was born.
southlondon63 2 months ago
it's amazing how a film of a train ploughing through snow reminds some people how much they hate immigrants.
nuitetjuors1 2 months ago
@prben2.here here! i was 10 that year and remeber with joy and with great sadness what this country of mine has become; a third world cesspit with its now creaking doors still open to every piece of trash from any where in the world to come and abuse at will.very very sad.
reevedavey 2 months ago
white great britain. i remember it with great sadness when i see the mongerilised cesspit i,m now forced to wallow in.
reevedavey 2 months ago
I was 13 years old. And it was bloody cold for what seemed like for ever
kevan417 2 months ago
What fantastic piece of flim
kevan417 2 months ago
Standard 4 2-6-4T no.80072 at the beginning still survives today, at the Llangollen Railway. She languished at Barry Scrapyard until 1988, a driving wheel or two sliced through, but returned to operation in 2009. The Jubilee 'Barbados' obviously does not survive. Unfortunately, I couldn't identify the other engines individually, only by class...
EccentricRichard 2 months ago
in the 60s, with less technology for snow clearing and more snow, we coped...in the new millenium, with more technology for snow clearing and less snow...we don't. At least, not in the UK.
tom201090 2 months ago
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I think snow and brits have a nazi and jew kind of relationship.
They sheldom see one another, but when they do, the fucker friggin fucks the fuckee and the fuckee goes friggin beserk!
iamatumor 2 months ago
I wnat snow. now
ScrubsTheNewcomers 2 months ago
at 6:02 theres a GWR hawksworth county class
GWRjim 2 months ago
@GWRjim wazzup bro? Haven't see you in awhile, and btte was gone. He close his account. Do me a simple favor, why don't you let other sub subscribe to me also.
AlexDuongRandom 2 months ago
@AlexDuongRandom And why would he subscribe to you? You've been pestering me and my friends for too long. None of us will sub you.
Videoz365 2 months ago
@Videoz365 btte is gone! And you should stop treating people like shit!!!!
AlexDuongRandom 2 months ago
@AlexDuongRandom I don't care if BTTE is gone. You're FODD group is gone too.
And I treat people like shit? You're the one harassing Boogerboymeister and all my friends. YOU are treating people like shit.
Videoz365 2 months ago
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@Videoz365 ok how about this, you will be nice as long as I stop harassing booger! And I wanna say that I'm sorry for all this!
AlexDuongRandom 2 months ago
it was one of the coldest winters ever in western europe, i was born the winter after that,which was a mild winter according to the metereologic data.
mitsupitsu44 2 months ago
Those were the days, when everybody mucked in, trains smashed through snow drifts, no health and safety crap they have today.
We had better communities, better music, better films, comedies, TV, better toys, which were made of metal in Britain, and unlike the plastic rubbish from China, we have nowadays.
prben2 2 months ago
@prben2 you are right,people were a lot less spoiled then nowadays, i myself am born in begining of 1964,so i remember a lot of the sixties( especially the second half,off course..)and life i n general was much less complicated then it is now.
mitsupitsu44 2 months ago
I was born in this winter. Maybe that's why I've never minded the cold..
dave4 2 months ago
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Really interesting to me! I never knew this occurred, and can imagine the difficulties if it happened on such a massive scale. I live on Lake Erie in the US, and can appreciate all of this.
jln55 2 months ago
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jln55 2 months ago
fantastic video
kgogis 2 months ago
Nice to see some shots albeit of the wheels of the Turbomotive 6202
TTTEFanNo22 2 months ago
Its a real shame the world doesnt look like that anymore.
GDogOnaFlyTip 2 months ago 33
@GDogOnaFlyTip : I agwee !
MusicPredominates 1 month ago
can i just say for the record to all the old timers on here , i lve in 1 of the higest villages in britain and we often get snow like this (last year we had 7 ft snow drifts) and nothing ever stops , maybe slows a bit but not stops .
there is nothing wrong with this country were all rich and healthy if you look at the world as a whole. imigrants are a sign of a healthy country, be worried when they dont want to come anymore. And this generation didt start any wars !!!!!!!!!!
nathf1980 2 months ago 2
Looks like we will be up to our necks in snow this January in Britland. When US east coast gets it early, as last week, it is a sign for a biggie dump sometime. Hell knows what we would do if leccy goes down. - boilers and central heating not working, and most people have not got a back up, let alone a chimney in their place. Hands around a candle time it will be.
yippitydodah 2 months ago
God, please let it snow like never before this year!
Alibljak 2 months ago
i felt warm!
mhmcupcakes 2 months ago
Is that engine at 1:31 an LMS Fowler Class 4F?
rjconnolly2nd 2 months ago
@rjconnolly2nd
gwr collet goods
andyg3 2 months ago
This winter of 62/63 just dragged, we had no central heating or double glazing! the ice could be scraped off the inside of the windows. We had no deliveries of coal for the fire as we lived on a hill so we ended up living and sleeping in one room using up old furniture and fence posts to burn just to keep warm. I was six at the time and remember my mother cooking porridge not on the stove but on the fire in the living room. But it was spectacular to see so much snow!
ChrisBar57 2 months ago
how did i get here..
mikeizawsome 3 months ago
Enjoyed this thoroughly. I have to agree with TrainmasterCurt that the 60's were a much different (and better, IMO) world. For one thing, I was an innocent child back then!
CSXCP55 3 months ago
hahaha! i shovel snow 2! like, all the time in the winter! :D:D i LOVE the winter!
DEMY160 3 months ago
i had 32 hours on duty on a steam loco 45526 on the fish train the 10.10 pm out of carlisle she was a12B enging we only got to Penirth 18 miles south of carlisle , roads and rail were all snow up , luck we were next to the signalbox at penirth, good old days . retired driver .
Mr46238 3 months ago
Well, we know where England's whingers are - commenting on this video ... ;-)
trekker308 3 months ago 2
This guy has obviously taken recent footage of a heritage railway and made it look old by putting that music too it
beatleforce1 3 months ago
Wow maximum character limit :P
bewers93 3 months ago
I don't understand why people are banging on about foreigners. The fact is loads came over in 1947 to run the NHS that we spent Maynard Keynes well blagged money off the Americans that they gave to us out of fear of communism spreading in the war ravaged countries of Europe. Yes immigration is high. But it's your generation that put us in the EU and your generation that relies in the "foreigners" to build your extensions, loft conversions and decking. Stop being so hypocritical we are all relat
bewers93 3 months ago
Only the steam engines could cope with snow. They were heavy enough and didnt rely on electricity or diesle.
barry8472 3 months ago
Winter 1962/63 - snow & ice & sub zero over most of UK 12 weeks continuous. Deep snowdrifts isolated towns & villages; cars drove across the Thames from bank to bank; Cambridge: students walked to colleges along frozen River Cam. Ice floes piled up at Tower Bridge, London. No Govt cold weather payments, winter fuel allowances or social welfare for people then like there is now. Central heating rare - coal fires & coal could not get through - BUT people survived! - MUCH tougher & happier then!
Verderer 3 months ago
UK welcomed refugees from all kinds of persecution, religious (as with the French Protestant Huguenots) and racial discrimination and even deliberate racial obliteration (as with the Jews in WW2), abject poverty and threats to their lives in other countries. The British have been more generous & welcoming than was good for them, and still are as with recent uncontrolled immigration. That will now have to change. Winter 1962/63 lasted from 22 Dec 62 - 10 Mar 63..snow covered ground throughout.
Verderer 3 months ago
1 inch of snow and the whole of UK shuts down, not back in 63 though eheh. I remeber when I was a kid even (back in early 80s) we had proper snow many feet thick, not the pathetic 2 inches we get nowadays.
I want my snow back.
andysim232 3 months ago 21
@andysim232 My step dad told me when he worked for Lincolnshire County Council on the roads that a few winters he'd gone out with a gang, a JCB and 3 days rations to clear the snow. Bearing in mind that this was in the Fens of all places.
stormwell 1 month ago
@andysim232 yes i remember it when i was a kid as well it back in the 80s we had many feet thick snow up the nee,that was proper snow.
TheVirginradio 1 month ago
@andysim232 thank pollution.
GubnumHD 1 month ago
You wouldn't get trains running in that weather now.
garyc2 3 months ago
brd
urmasterAnton500 3 months ago
@peterpeterxxo And also may I add Sir ghastly people with your vile and misguided thinking would have been seen for what they were.
75amoeba 3 months ago 2
How can quaint old film depicting scenes of old diesel and steam trains working in snow warrant such vile comments !
surreytownsoulie 3 months ago 2
wait a second at 6:00-6:52 is that a Holden B12?, another thing, I have noticed that a lot of the footage (the black and white footage) is from snowdrift at bleath gill!
bskorupk 3 months ago
@solutreansocialclub so fucking what.
peterpeterxxo 3 months ago
I found this on my parnets old "Trains" VHS they had recorded in the 80s. I loved it then, and I still do. A classic bit of work and lovely to watch.
dctim 3 months ago
good footage but physcodelic music put me right off and fast changing footage ! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR !
jonnybarkingmad 3 months ago
Wtf, why in british isles locomotives can't live with 10 cms of snow? In another parts of the world this is not a problem even without help from snow cleaners. Probably green lines and rail fill helps but still... I was schocked when trains were cancelled during my visit in Britain, because of 4cm of snow.
chronius9 3 months ago
tell you what its good to see honest working,not flabby ponce office workers.
balearicsoundwave89 3 months ago
@TrainmasterCurt yes but did you notice how primitive the trains were? Were it not for those foreigners the modern trains of England could never have been developed. This video is a perfect portrayal of the hideous whiteness of the thankfully bygone era of primitive British inbreeding!!
jabowery 3 months ago
@jabowery - I trust you were being ironic.
Britlurker 3 months ago
@TrainmasterCurt How right you are! Winter of 1962/63 was exceptionally severe &much of the UK was snow covered for 3 months, many parts buried deep in deep snowdrifts. Rivers & harbours froze over. Temps below freezing for many days at a stretch.Those huge steam locomotives fitted with ploughs swept through snow with ease & trains ran to time. Few schools had to close!. Now the UK goes into panic mode & people skive off work when half an inch of snow falls & all schools close immediately!
Verderer 4 months ago
See .... life before the Beatles ........ !
Fascinating ..... very fresh film - like time travelling.
kgs42 4 months ago
ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT ,I WAS A TRAIN SPOTTER IN THE 50S AND EARLY 60S,THIS FILM IS SUPERB ,FROM THE STEAM TRAINS TO THE SHEEP IN THE FIELDS ,TO THE MUSIC ,AND MEN ON THE TRACKS ,BRILLIANT AND THANK YOU FOR PUTTING IT ON
MARKETMAN6789 4 months ago
Fantastic video! I remember this winter of '63, I was nine years old. Those were the days of waking up to find frost on the inside of the window, my sister and I used to have old coats on the top of our beds to keep warm. Simpler times, and what soft lives we lead now!
3moonriver 4 months ago
You probably don't lad.Which is unfortunate for you,as a de-culturalised nonentity you will find it very difficult to relate to the rest of those around you who do have an ethnic identity.Please get an education.Try w.w.w.englandandenglishhistory.c.o.m
seaxwielder 4 months ago
love the video of the railways the steam ones that is w
paulboon 4 months ago
what a great piece of film , thanks
thehotash1 4 months ago
This is astonishing.
julesthemadman 4 months ago
@TrainmasterCurt England has been a "hotch potch of foreigners" for the last thousand years. I fail to see how you could possibly remember a time when it wasn't. I love living in a country as ethnically diverse as the UK.
narcoman2 4 months ago
@narcoman2 Utter,contemptible rubbish lad. I remember how we were always being told how as an 'insular' nation we had always resisted outsiders and were never 'tolerant' of foreigners ,which is why we were so formidable in battle.Today's propaganda is false.Until the deliberate destruction of our unique ethnic identity by our 'elite'unlike most European states we have not seen ceaseless exchange of peoples, languages and national borders.England never had over 1% immigrants in our land before..
seaxwielder 4 months ago
@seaxwielder dont be cunt.
narcoman2 4 months ago
@seaxwielder meant wryly...... ;).... More seriously... check your history. We don't have an ethnic identity. Wouldn't want one either.....
narcoman2 4 months ago
@narcoman2 You probably don't lad.Which is unfortunate for you,as a de-culturalised nonentity you will find it very difficult to relate to the rest of those around tyou who do.Please get an education. w.w,w,engtlandandenglishhistory.c.o.m might help you lad.
seaxwielder 4 months ago
@narcoman2 - dont be a dickhead, oops too late for you.
Britlurker 3 months ago
@narcoman2 - Utter rubbish! Ask your elders and they'll tell you that the UK is now festooned with foreigners unlike previous times - such as the war times - hardly any foreigners whatsoever.
Cyberwwwizard 4 months ago
It's curious how some of the people here professing such a love of old England never learned some of the basics of its language.
It's also curious to see how narrow some viewpionts are that there is a presumption all the footage in the video is in England, and not perhaps Scotland (or Wales or Northern Ireland).
The trains here were operating as part of British Railways, not English Railways.
Safetytrousers 4 months ago 2
I am absolutely horrified to see that none of those track workers are wearing flourescent safety vests.
iamaraincloud 4 months ago
@iamaraincloud Well they wouldn't, Hi-Viz vests hadn't been invented at the time.
MrBowsmith 4 months ago
What a trip down Memory Lane. White people doing eachothera favour and helping for the common good. A job to do so let's get on with it! My last visit to England was less uplifting I have to say, and all those people are no longer in evidence. all changed for some melting pot of ethnics...
richardh3547 4 months ago
Really stirring video. Just brings home how pathetic Britains railways are today.
shedontanks 4 months ago
network rail take note
tom201090 4 months ago
Agree with againchapter 25. The 70's wee great times despite the economic problem
TheHendonKissArmy 5 months ago
The Cathedral express came through Lewes a few weeks ago and seeing that locomotive was a joy to behold.
75amoeba 5 months ago
just bring back the old days mate that what i say..nothing good about living in this country anymore...it rubbish...loved it in the 60s and 70s...just a completely different world.And for the worst in my opinion.
agaichapter25 5 months ago 11
@agaichapter25 Agreed. Whatever happened to merry old England?
GoldBloded 3 months ago
@agaichapter25 I feel the same about Canada!
ignatzRat 2 months ago
@agaichapter25 Stop whingeing. I loved my younger days too, but I don't look at them through rose coloured glasses like you must do. Just be thankful you live in a peaceful, civilised country. It's not perfect I know, but then neither is anywhere else.
shrivel1 2 months ago 2
@TrainmasterCurt When England had railways that didn't conk out at the very first inch of snow.
trainlover658 5 months ago
jolly good ! nice editing
VIDEAST1 5 months ago
@TrainmasterCurt England has always been a hotch-pot of foreigners as you so nicely put it, it is one of the things that makes us great, I am indeed descended from them...but you sound like a right narrow minded twat!
Northstander 5 months ago 7
@Northstander Really,please elaborate.
merseynational 5 months ago
@Northstander one of the best retorts ever.
m41incanis 3 months ago
This film is fab, don't get snow like that anymore
jcemcroy 6 months ago
AND WHAT HAPPENED LAST WINTER? The country was brought to a standstill. Where were these beasts when you need them... Bring back the good ol' days...
HighFlyer999 6 months ago
Film editing raised to an Art form. Stunning.
mickram23 6 months ago
Wow.
mickram23 6 months ago
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@TrainmasterCurt Are you really that dumb? England has been a hotch-pot of foreigners for over 2000 years!
robyn21376 6 months ago
Beautiful to see England in the good old days. Where did it all go wrong. Bring back steam I say.
75amoeba 6 months ago 2
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agaichapter25 5 months ago
@75amoeba what fucking good old days..sexism racism homophobia, shit cars shit trains shit food, shit technology, and people didnt shower or bath properly so they reeked of shite. shit telly, shit roads, shit health.
peterpeterxxo 3 months ago
Most of this film shot on the 'western' judging by the preponderance of ex GWR loco's - even 'Barbados' I think, was allocated to the W.R. (Bristol ?) A great piece of quality filming - I'd like to buy a copy of this film if it were available.
Ahh yes! The memories this invokes ! - I was 12 going on 13 that winter!
colliecandle 6 months ago
@colliecandle The film's on a DVD called "Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm Of Film", by the British Film Institute, who posted the video here. You can get it from them or via Amazon UK
HughJason 6 months ago
@HughJason Ahh! great news. Thank you for the info, I will certainly be ordering a copy of this. Incidentally, my older brother had a 45 record of Sandy Nelson's "Teen Beat" - drove my mum wild when he played it!
colliecandle 6 months ago
Oh to be in the era when shit just got done.
Veiwst10 6 months ago
would anyone say the december just gone was worse than this winter?
josh151292 6 months ago
@josh151292 No. Read "Winter of 1962-1963 in the United Kingdom" on wikipedia.
jmorrison230582 4 months ago
the tune is `Teen Beat` recorded originally by Sandy Nelson
SuperAmos31 6 months ago
@SuperAmos31 You are right-they played it slow then normal then fast to catch the mood of the film-I checked on the chart history-US No 4 Sept 59 and UK No 9 Nov 59
tim60s321 6 months ago
@SuperAmos31 This version is by Daphne Oram a pioneer of electronica look her up
OrpheusIsThe1 5 months ago
@SuperAmos31 The tune is Let there be drums by Sandy Nelson.
GSP21 4 months ago
At first I thought the sound was Neu: Super 16, then I realised it wasn't, but this couldn't be influenced by that because this movie was FIRST... Perhaps this soundtrack influenced Neu?
Edit: youtube won't let me post a link to another video... what? The video identifier string for super 16 is 'lno7vUrgRTQ'
andycivil 7 months ago
That was one fearsome winter :)
Raggy60 7 months ago
Gay
MsAwesomo 7 months ago
Anyone know what the song playing is called?
41BobDylan 7 months ago
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sparkygl0s 7 months ago
@41BobDylan
Daphne Oram / Snow
surprises me nobody gives a fuckin shite about the soundtrack, not even mentioned in the description!?
Sound is crucially important and vital for a movie.
olivierpil 7 months ago
@olivierpil I know I was surprised that nobody mentioned the soundtrack. I really like it. Thanks a lot for your help :)
41BobDylan 7 months ago
@41BobDylan no worries, another upload says its Johnny Hawksworth who re-recorded the tune from some jazz man Sandy Nelson, pitched it both ways lets say and Daphne Oram added effects. Johnny & Daphne r mentioned here in the endtitles, i see now ,but as far as i know the tune is called,
Daphne Oram/Snow. ;)
olivierpil 7 months ago
J'ignore si en France aussi ce fut le même hiver . Les images du train dans ces payasages de neige sont super .
Vivement un autre hiver comme ça !
jeanpi314159 8 months ago
i saw that snow i have pictures it was horrible
matthewproductions23 8 months ago
insaw that snow i have pictures it was horrible
matthewproductions23 8 months ago
The train itself is shaped like a snow plow.
3IGGB0SS 8 months ago
@3IGGB0SS
the engine has a snowploug attached onto it!
andyg3 8 months ago