I find it heartbreaking how GB gas changed. What happend to our Empire, Our world position!!
All gone The Arrow is the least of it,,The Dover Docks all gone, as have the Pits, the Engineering works, Dover Marine.. I could crye for whats gone...Stuartthegrant
At 2:42-2:48 The ppl in that carriage are "SMOKING ! "( Dear God in Heaven )...and drinking !! and don't they and everyone around them look to be having a right miserable time of it!! By the way the streets of London look a bit strange -No Costacoffees no Macturds and no-one is dressed like they have an identity crisis-Odd that !!
If you search YouTube for "Southern Electric - Type HA/Class 71 locomotive at Folkestone Warren hauling the Golden Arrow" you'll see one at Folkestone Warren.
They were indeed built at Doncaster, and very powerful things they were - up to 2700 hp. Curiously none of the Southern Region's electric locos were built anywhere near the third rail - the other SR type, the three introduced between 1941 and 1948 (Class 70) were built about half a mile down the road from here at Ashford Works - which didn't see electric services until the early 60s!
I was three years too the train spotting game late to see the 71s in service - all of them went in 1977, as did the class 74s which had been converted from surplus 71s to electro-diesels in 1968. I saw plenty of BRCW Type 3s (D65XX), a.k.a. Class 33s a.k.a. 'Cromptons' at 73A, including all the narrow bodied 'slim jims' built to fit the line between Tonbridge and Hastings. I have seen E6001 a couple of times at York, and she's a beaut - and she's in full working order too.
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I find it heartbreaking how GB gas changed. What happend to our Empire, Our world position!!
All gone The Arrow is the least of it,,The Dover Docks all gone, as have the Pits, the Engineering works, Dover Marine.. I could crye for whats gone...Stuartthegrant
stuartthegrant 3 weeks ago
At 2:42-2:48 The ppl in that carriage are "SMOKING ! "( Dear God in Heaven )...and drinking !! and don't they and everyone around them look to be having a right miserable time of it!! By the way the streets of London look a bit strange -No Costacoffees no Macturds and no-one is dressed like they have an identity crisis-Odd that !!
MrBazzabee 3 months ago
God what class
what happened to dear old England
nylonTS 7 months ago
Thats a proper ferry, she is perfect
barry8472 10 months ago
The MN class were beauties
TheNw1218 1 year ago
Doesn't Channel Packet look gorgeous? !!!
thesinglesculler 1 year ago
oh my god what happened to travel
a time of class when you were treated as a 1st class customer
pride in britan
nylonTS 1 year ago
About 1960, I was stood on a bridge at Petts Wood when I saw the Golden Arrow come through. It had a green leccy engine on the front.
Like owt else in this country its all gone never to return.
ewsiscrap 2 years ago
If you search YouTube for "Southern Electric - Type HA/Class 71 locomotive at Folkestone Warren hauling the Golden Arrow" you'll see one at Folkestone Warren.
SouthernRailwayFilms 2 years ago
As a LNER lad, we did not see leccies to the mainline was juiced in the early 1990's.
Some thing tells me these leccies were made in Donny Plant, and there is a stuffed one in the NRW@York(50A)
I remember in 1960 seeing double headed BRCW engines coming through Donny on Cement trains these locos were D65xx series off 73D shed
ewsiscrap 2 years ago
They were indeed built at Doncaster, and very powerful things they were - up to 2700 hp. Curiously none of the Southern Region's electric locos were built anywhere near the third rail - the other SR type, the three introduced between 1941 and 1948 (Class 70) were built about half a mile down the road from here at Ashford Works - which didn't see electric services until the early 60s!
SouthernRailwayFilms 2 years ago
As a freight guard at HM, we had the electrification trains for about 3 years from April 1993 to Sept 96 ish.
We took out 4 trains per night from Doncaster and worked between Leeds/Skipton/Bradford Foster Sq/Shipley/ Ilkley.
The jobs signed on at 1815 to 0215, then 0215 to 1015.
All trains returned to Doncaster via Wakefield Kirkgate/Hare Park Jct to Doncaster.
Some made lots on ££££'s working these trains through 12hrs and restdays/Sundays.
The Electrification Depot is shut
ewsiscrap 2 years ago
I was three years too the train spotting game late to see the 71s in service - all of them went in 1977, as did the class 74s which had been converted from surplus 71s to electro-diesels in 1968. I saw plenty of BRCW Type 3s (D65XX), a.k.a. Class 33s a.k.a. 'Cromptons' at 73A, including all the narrow bodied 'slim jims' built to fit the line between Tonbridge and Hastings. I have seen E6001 a couple of times at York, and she's a beaut - and she's in full working order too.
SouthernRailwayFilms 2 years ago
Hmm... E5001 I mean!
SouthernRailwayFilms 2 years ago
Ah memories, great posting tks.
Mounhas 2 years ago
is there any way of getting this clip on an dvd???
seriouscoolness12 2 years ago
yea, download and install firefox if your not already using it, download the firefox video downloader ( allows you to download you tube video clips, dowmload the hq version of the file onto your hard drive) use a freeware version of a dvd burning software, covert to dvd file, burn onto a disk and put the dvd in your player and away you go..
26highstreet 2 years ago
Very Interesting. Thankyou.
pollykettle 3 years ago