I think that Schools Class engines was at Cohen's Yard at Kettering- with an Underground train ready for the torch- a long way from home. Odd to see those L & Y tank engines still with LMS numbers.I hadn't realised that Vivaldi wrote all those Beatles tunes for them- they had to rock them up a bit- give them that Mersey Beat feel!!
Leave it to the British to make such fine engines! Our Amercan ones are too...monstrous. I'll take a Flying Scottsman over a Big Boy and day! Of course, U.S. ones are a bit more intimidating...but British ones are more beautiful, smooth, elegant. Ups and downs on both sides.
@ZekPatterson All engines are lovely, and you can see beauty in the most run down examples. I am lucky enough to have seen them working in England, Zambia for 3 years in the 1960s in the Philippines and later in China.
@ZekPatterson A generous comment, much appreciated by this Englishman. Interestingly, one of the locomotives shown (the tank engine 30072) is in fact American. How I'd like to see some US steam locomotives! As you say, ups and downs on both sides.
I think that Schools Class engines was at Cohen's Yard at Kettering- with an Underground train ready for the torch- a long way from home. Odd to see those L & Y tank engines still with LMS numbers.I hadn't realised that Vivaldi wrote all those Beatles tunes for them- they had to rock them up a bit- give them that Mersey Beat feel!!
NickRatnieks 5 months ago
I must know where you got this music! It's all fitting to the photos shown here.
zaku32888 9 months ago
The photographs take me back to being a kid again,there with my pocket notebook and pencil, getting all those numbers down. Great memories. Thanks.
JohnMC894 10 months ago
..........eine schöne reihe von schönheiten.........thanks
OSSI002 1 year ago
Great pictures. I must know who is playing these Beatles songs.
StormadoStormChasing 1 year ago
Great selection of shots...and the music too. Obviously it`s Yellow Submarine etc. by The Beatles but who is playing here please?
mezzomanUK 1 year ago
At 5:39, there's a brilliant photograph of 61572. Where was the shot taken, and what year?
Thanks for putting up such a splendid, evocative, collection of photographs. :)
simierski 1 year ago
Real railways!.... nothing else need be said.
ozzirt 1 year ago
love the music
Watermillfilms 1 year ago
Great pictures, I particularly liked the Jubillee's.
dickeramb 1 year ago
Leave it to the British to make such fine engines! Our Amercan ones are too...monstrous. I'll take a Flying Scottsman over a Big Boy and day! Of course, U.S. ones are a bit more intimidating...but British ones are more beautiful, smooth, elegant. Ups and downs on both sides.
ZekPatterson 1 year ago 10
@ZekPatterson All engines are lovely, and you can see beauty in the most run down examples. I am lucky enough to have seen them working in England, Zambia for 3 years in the 1960s in the Philippines and later in China.
Such a lovely collection of images, thank you.
steamsearcher 1 year ago
@ZekPatterson i agree with you on that one Zek
ThePanzergroupwest 1 year ago
@ZekPatterson A generous comment, much appreciated by this Englishman. Interestingly, one of the locomotives shown (the tank engine 30072) is in fact American. How I'd like to see some US steam locomotives! As you say, ups and downs on both sides.
teagueqc 7 months ago
Seems like yesterday (sorry no pun intended!) - all gone so fast. Brilliant pics and music 5**
waldenhouse 1 year ago
brilliant.
imautuber444 2 years ago
Is that an instrumental version of "Yellow Submarine" by the Beatles?
KingofTomedy 2 years ago
The song I mean.
KingofTomedy 2 years ago
magic!
exposuretv 2 years ago
Some great shots - I recognise some of the locations. What a great time to be a 'spotter'! See my video response for my take on the 60s.
trev68e 3 years ago
Some of these photos make want to cry.
RichardSwayne 3 years ago 9