Titfield Thunderbolt before and after.

[SuperYellowPhoenix]

Came through via the link from My Beautiful Ealing. This is amazing and very nostalgic viewing.

[e2number1]

Shame the engine was cut up...

[lyonnesse100]

What a terrific little film, top marks. As a railwayman of 23 years can we put the blame for the vandalism of our railways at the right door. Ernest Marples was the culprit and he ignored many positive recommendations from Richard Beeching. Marples was a road man and in my opinion used Beeching as a patsy. Great film though.

[davidhaythornthwaite]

preferred how it was than to how it is

[GreenerHill]

Very well done! The part just below the former Viaduct Inn was on the exact spot. I live two miles from the general area, and that makes the film even more fun.

[ThePrestonChannel]

The Good Old Days before Some Arsehole Destroyed the Network and Riped up the lines we all know who he is !

[1983englishman]

What a great bit of work!

[jon8xty]

I have been a longtime fan of the film and have I think found all but 3 locations and took photos of them. I even have some stills of the Thunderbolt and 1401 during filming and some small video as well. I would love to go again to the area to find those remaining locations.

[theconemen]

Brilliant Video..

[MrBazzabee]

And of course Good ol' Beechers was obviously totally innocent of any MALPRACTICE and conspiritorial goings-on,whilst being in the employ of an avaricious,monopoly -seeking,sleaze ridden Cabinet Minister !! (Theres an old saying that goes along the lines of ....IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO !! )

[moonraker185]

so sad all these lines have closed. The S&D would have been very useful now

[revol148]

@moonraker185 the lines closed down because no-one used them prefering for some inexplicable reason to have the independance of their own car - this ever so slightly small point seems to have passed the British people by completely!

[MrBazzabee]

Love how the ball the batsman is receiving is going about 2 feet over the stumps and then -next minute the bails fall off!!..That's camerawork 4 ya'

[Gotthard68]

Stunning! Very well made!

[colwynkid]

Just watched the film for the first time & thought I'd see what was up on you tube. I was Google mapping some of the locations in Freshford. Love this couple of minutes of nostalgia. Brilliant & keep up the good work. 10/10.

[MrGarner76]

where was the film shot!

[MrGarner76]

hi, where was the film shot..

[MrGarner76]

one word...BRILLIANT!

[blaster2012]

i recognised some of the scenes even before the film clip came up.Fields Farm looks to be largely unchanged.

[swifthalf]

I was just google mapping Freshford and thought I'd put Titfield to see what came up. What a dedicated piece of work. Excellent filming and production. Can't wait to show this to my cousins who are also Titfield fans. Have explored the area many times but just can't get enough of Titfield. Thanks P.S. I know its a bit of an imposition but any chance of any more perhaps "Amateuritis" or how about "The duel". ;o)

[stroudtimewatch]

@swifthalf

Hi, tried to do the dual scene but it's now a huge scrapyard with no meaningful comparison.

[capmodesty]

it's ironic and sad that the lines are now all gone.

[mrspivvy]

excellent job! well done, makes me very sad though that all these lines are gone now.

[ICLOK]

Stunning Video... Thanks

[yawroc]

Wow this is brilliant thank you!!

[theatre252]

I used to watch that film as a child. How much england has changed since those days. I doubt if such films about motorways or roads would ever be as popular. The villages and scenes you presented look so sad now when there was once life and form to their landscape. If I had the money I would chop some of those trees down again and at least give those scenes so part of their old life back and to be noticed again. Thank you for sharing. God bless You Tube for allowing the memories to live on

[MrRawMonkey]

Fantastic, well done

[nylonTS]

what a fav video thank you so much

[thepatroller65]

Brilliant Film, Very Well Made And Put Together, Well Done

[TheDepotCat]

Superb video. Thanks for taking the time to make it and post it :)

[AnfieldRed10]

Amazing video. Well done.

[redcarmodels]

Fantastically edited well done, seeing this movie on T.V at three year old and Thomas the Tank engine stories from my Dad every night, got me hooked on railways. 34 years later I'm still hooked and so are my 3 kids LOL!

[LargeFont]

Completely irrelevant to your (very nice) video but it's been pointed out to me before that the knocking off of the bails in the cricket match is completely fixed; the ball goes nowhere near the stumps.

[cribpointcritter]

How fantastic this is, thanks for putting it up. It has always been one of my favourite films.

[rubberdc]

This is EXCELLENT! Please please do some more like this.You obviously know your stuff?Isnt it amazing how the landscapes have changed?

Wonderful.

[johnwaldron1]

What a charming and fantastic video, very well researched and assembled. Thank you.

[revol148]

Great to see a video on youtube that has required so much research! The framing alone must have taken ages! I had a superb walk through the enchanting Midford valley just last weekend taking in the walk along the disused railway line from Radstock to the Limpley stock viaduct - clear blue skies, thousand shades of green countryside set under blazing sun: perfect.

[dragonwelshuk]

Superbly done before & after vid

[JohnnyWaterbucket]

Superb, Very well put together. One of the best produced things Ive seen on You Tube.

[MOHAAVIDEO]

Beeching shoul've been hanged from the gallows!

[Inkyminkyzizwoz]

@MOHAAVIDEO Beeching wasn't responsible for this particular closure - the film was made in 1953 and the line that they used for the Titfield branch was already closed by then. Beeching was appointed in 1963.

Everyone associates railway closures with him, yet they seem to forget that there were many beforehand! The network's peak size was around 23,000 miles - at the time of Beeching's appoitment it was already down to around 18,000.

[MrBazzabee]

@Inkyminkyzizwoz....I know exactly whay you mean...Let's face it after all,.he was just one BIG CUDDLY teddy bear of a guy wasn't he !!!!! Now you mention it ....I miss the ol'fella Good ol'Beechers eh !!!!

[Inkyminkyzizwoz]

@MrBazzabee To be fair, the railways were losing an awful lot of money which we simply couldn't afford to be losing - especially when we were already virtually bankrupt from WWII - and something needed to be done about it, otherwise the whole system could've collapsed!

Also, don't forget that the Minister of Transport who employed Beeching just happened to own a road building company - something which wouldn't be allowed these days!

[Inkyminkyzizwoz]

@MrBazzabee I just found out last night that the only person who can authorise closure of a line is the Secretary of State for Transport, so techincally it's incorrect to say that Beeching closed all these lines! He would've only recommended the closures as Chairman of the British Railways Board.

[MrBazzabee]

@Inkyminkyzizwoz Do you mean that same Minister of Transport that owned a ROAD building company....that...ermm...would­n't be allowed today !!!

[Inkyminkyzizwoz]

@MrBazzabee Yes! What I'm saying is that it isn't actually correct to blame BEECHING for the closures - the real villain was the Minister of Transport!

[bermudarailway]

@MrBazzabee It wasn't allowed then ! Look up Ernest Marples on Wikipedia and you will find out how he got away with it !Dr Beeching wanted to preseve track beds incase they were needed in the future but the powers at be actually encouraged and paid local councils to build over them e.g. At Crawley Down.

[Mendipsman]

You obviously put a lot of work into producing this - well done and many thanks

[Whatusayiswhatuare]

This was really great to see

[alveyman]

Thanks for this , it's quite a thing to see the changes - for the better though? Hmmm

[caley956]

That is one of the best things I've seen on YouTube. Enlightening and sad at the same time. Congratulations and keep it up!

[JontyTrain]

Very well put together, very telling how much busier that road is that previously only had the bus on.

[GWR4079]

this videos make me sad :( only if beeching did not kill this wonderful line.

[4beatlefans]

Well done - must've taken quite a bit of workking out as the landscape has changed so much.

[ExcaliburLink]

Its like seeing a bunch of flashbacks...

[redcarmodels]

Brilliant. One of the most interesting videos on youtube 5*+.

[WhelkMasterGeneral]

Aah! I was thinking of doing the very same thing! You beat me to it!

Seriously though, jolly well done.

Great stuff.

[ArchieUKx]

Absolutly wonderfull nostalgia.

[simierski]

Beautifully done sir. A great tribute to a great film, sad though it is to see tne route in decay, it is amazing to see what remains.

[SamJ0108]

What a great idea - I am hoping to visit the area next year and would like details on the locations of the actual then and now shots can you help?

[otaf1983]

There is a book out detailing all the locations used for this film. Its called "

The Titfield Thunderbolt ~ Now & Then" by Oliver Fosker. Hope thats some help!

[GenghisKhan44]

Superbly done, but extremely sad. :-(

Beeching was an idiot.

[halsalli]

The Limpley Stoke to Camerton line was pre Beeching. It was already closed when the Titfield Thunderbolt was filmed owing to the closure of the colliery it served in 1950.

[GenghisKhan44]

All the same, lots of lines like it and as good as it and even better were axed under Beeching.

All that nostalgia lost to greed and "progress".

[DavidBromage]

And ironically, when T.E.B. Clarke wrote this film he was a neighbour of Richard Beeching.

[TheSteamdriver]

was the titfield thunderbolt filmed near glouster or cardiff or around there counties

[halsalli]

It was filmed in the Cam Valley, just south of Bath

[TheSteamdriver]

thank you

[lightning7070]

Well done, a great idea very well executed.

5*****

[robmasterman]

What an excellent idea, and superb before and after filming....5* Bob

[NN2Blue]

Excellent! 5*

[1946apps]

superb!

[R2tag]

Great bit of filming to be at the same spot each time well done to match the old film :o)

[eastindiaman]

how much better the countryside looked with a branch line running through it!

[neddlykins]

great compilation I`m surprised you didn`t feature the Pub used in Freshford or the cast iron posts remaining at what was the station.,Paulton coal heap...well done though !!!

[ipcress1066]

Brilliant work - must have taken you ages. How short-sighted the people of the 1960s were.

[halsalli]

This line closed was already closed by the time the film was made in the early 1950s

[thunderchild21]

Wow. Excellent video there. You must have gone through some great length to find the actual locations of where the film was based! Many thanks for posting this up.

Jeff

[Cashpotty]

Very good but where was Titfield station???

[Aizoon]

Monkton Combe - those are Monkton Combe schoolboys in the cricket shot.

[DebenValleyLightRail]

I went to a screening of this and a launchof the book in woodbridge. I have posted a video response of the 5 inch gauge titfield thunderbolt loco present at that screening.

[TwertonWriter]

Nicely put together. Happy days.

[signalnorth]

An amazing video. Thank you. Any chance of more locations?

[4beatlefans]

Excellent! I have a number of the 'Then and Now' books and this is a similar slant but with 'live' stuff. Super idea and well done!

[dazxy2001]

what a great video, thanx for posting

[farr64]

brilliant video ,thanks for sending.

[Weslake500]

A big thank you. I love the Titfield Thunderbolt and consider it my all time favourite film. For years I've wanted to visit where it wsa fimed, but unfortunately I live in North Wales UK, Thanks again for a great video and editting, superb stuff.

[KlunkerRider]

Wow thats a great video, thanks

[hackerboy65756u757]

when did they pull the railway up?

also, that's a great piece of film. many thanks for doing that

[GP30RDMT]

That is some crazy stuff. What a great movie.

[GarethJohnMills]

Wow! What a great mini film. I loved The Titfield Thunderbolt and all the quirky Ealing Comedy characters. This video is fantastically made. If I could give 6 stars, I would.

[atomage2006]

Very good - agree with all the previous comments - any more then!?

[eastindiaman]

The countryside looks much better !

[with a railway running through it!]

[Aravonian]

Superb - Bring a tear to your eye wouldn't it? Thanks for a wonderful video!!

[Marillionmad]

If the line was kept open, who knows what could have been....

[yeojohn]

A brilliant piece of film - well done & thank you.

[Moodster020]

One of the best i've seen!

Great stuff, 5* & Fave'd

[SouthernRailwayFan]

Great work, things certainly have changed since the beeching axe. Very good, well done.

[MK55A]

Absolutely brilliant

[riley886]

Top notch

[steamybrian]

Excellent film--well done

[EdP1967]

Great video, I drive this are quite a lot and recognised all of the places, didn't even realize that this great film was shot so locally to me. It will certainly gve me a new perspective when I next pass these places. I'll be the one driving so slowley it holds all the traffic up ;-)

[steamsearcher]

I visit the area quite often and as you can now walk most of the Radstock branch on a new paved footpath go down this.

The two lines running almost parrelel to each other through similar scenery.

Thanks for such a good sorting out of locations and editing.

[john87013]

The Titfield Thunderbolt ran on the already closed former Great Western Railway branch from Limpley Stoke to Camerton, Dr Beeching had no hand in this closure. However he was responsible for the closure of the 'main line' seen in the film at the start of the movie, and appearing in the background as various viaducts etc, which was of course the delightful Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway, pointlessly swept off the railway map in 1966.

[dmncau]

@john87013 os that train running above the other in the opening scene with ex. southern RR bulliet pacific is the S&D?

[duke68012]

Where abouts was the movie filmed? What line did it used to be? It's a shame a heritage railway won't be started to restart the old line as that would be a great publicity angle!

[RICKD790]

This is a superb video! Thank you for posting, 5 stars.

[lordfofs]

Excellent work. It's a shame that your attention to detail only sharpens the blow dealt by time and what they call progress. Still, time marches on, at least until I can find a way to stop it. !

[dek12120]

Super video, brought a lump to my throat.

A golden age.

[hansomcommon]

Fabulous video, please do some more to this superb standard!

[andykimpton]

What a great bit of film my grandad was a member of the film crew when it was shot in the 50s!!

[andyg3]

How sad.

Damn you dr beeching

[otaf1983]

Check out the new book thats now available showing more of the same from the film ! Available from good book stores. The Titfield Thunderbolt ~ Now & Then :o) An excellent publication.

Ols :o)

[stroudtimewatch]

Cheers for that, I managed to get hold of a copy.

[stumpytrain]

Beautifully done, fantastic!

[slumber123]

Fantastic, can't wait for Camrose Zombies though.

[canibenumber81]

Very nicely done. I went on a similar trek back in 2003 but wasn't able to find the small bridge or the lane where the bus has a near miss. It's amazing how little the villages have changed particularly Freshford. Nice Anglia by the way- I used to have a Cortina 1600E a couple of years ago but ain't into old Fords so much these days

[Cool2BCeltic]

An interesting and slightly poignant video. Shows how the film is a memento of a vanished age.

[gloriouskodachrome]

technically superb, framing of the camera was superb, time stands still for no one.

[stroudtimewatch]

Thanks. It took a while to find the locations but was great fun to do.

[artistscyclingclub]

its all gone now

[stroudtimewatch]

Boy Jonty, is that you?

[Midnightgambler]

Well Done

[stroudtimewatch]

Cheers, glad you liked it.

[92819]

Brillant film loved every minute.Will you be making any more in the future.