This shows the line immediately adjacent to the Park Drive bridge looking south. To the right just off-camera is the old Dairy. The running line the 9F arrives and departs on is the Down Loop which was commissioned by the WW2 government. The sidings to the right are those remaining for Hucknall No1. colliery which was served by both the GCR and MR. The MR line ran along the line of the current bypass and crossed the road near the bottom island to join at Hucknall No1 Box (before 1952)
I often look at this video, I was born in an house at the side of the GCR at Wighay Bridge Hucknall, my bedroom overlooked the line and i could see as far as Annesley, both up & down distant signals were outside the house.I was part of a large group of lads who congregated on the wall on Coronation Road on the other side of the tracks,I started worked at Fanfare Displays near where this video was shot a year before the line closed.
I lived on Annesley Rd near Wighay Bridge and was also part of the Coronation Road gang (Maggit!) Were you Spot, Kingy, Cookie, Congo, Piggy Fat? Those summer evenings , late 1950s, 01s, 04s, B1s, V2s, Austerities, 9Fs on coal, iron ore, passenger - as children we thought they had been there for ever, and would last for ever - how wrong! I don't think I ever recovered from the destruction of that idyllic world. Happy days, thankfully glimpsed again through films like these.
Thanks for posting this video, if only there were more little snippits of such great locomotives at work on the railways of those past great days, they would be snapped up by us loco lovers, much appreciated, thank you
Wonderful. Thanks for sharing. If it were possible to get sound dubbed on to these shots they would be even better and possibly commercially valuable.
Glad you all like the shots, as they ae taken from my commercially available product which is under copywrite, and on which I as producer pay royalties to the gentleman who filmed it in the first place. Sound will be added one day, and to a good standard, so no doubt some kind soul will rip us off on that as well.
This shows the line immediately adjacent to the Park Drive bridge looking south. To the right just off-camera is the old Dairy. The running line the 9F arrives and departs on is the Down Loop which was commissioned by the WW2 government. The sidings to the right are those remaining for Hucknall No1. colliery which was served by both the GCR and MR. The MR line ran along the line of the current bypass and crossed the road near the bottom island to join at Hucknall No1 Box (before 1952)
madmax200769 1 year ago
Pity no sound but an excellent slice of history...5* & Fav.
modemeyes 2 years ago
9F's are ACE great video
woodlandsteve 3 years ago
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the pit may have still been there if you notts lads had gone on strike you scabbing bastards
camel337 2 years ago
lol someone needs to stop living in the past.
edj66 2 years ago
is this on dvd,wonderful
regentv980 3 years ago
I often look at this video, I was born in an house at the side of the GCR at Wighay Bridge Hucknall, my bedroom overlooked the line and i could see as far as Annesley, both up & down distant signals were outside the house.I was part of a large group of lads who congregated on the wall on Coronation Road on the other side of the tracks,I started worked at Fanfare Displays near where this video was shot a year before the line closed.
retrobob272 3 years ago 2
I lived on Annesley Rd near Wighay Bridge and was also part of the Coronation Road gang (Maggit!) Were you Spot, Kingy, Cookie, Congo, Piggy Fat? Those summer evenings , late 1950s, 01s, 04s, B1s, V2s, Austerities, 9Fs on coal, iron ore, passenger - as children we thought they had been there for ever, and would last for ever - how wrong! I don't think I ever recovered from the destruction of that idyllic world. Happy days, thankfully glimpsed again through films like these.
61033dibatag 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this video, if only there were more little snippits of such great locomotives at work on the railways of those past great days, they would be snapped up by us loco lovers, much appreciated, thank you
Jonny7railways 3 years ago
Wonderful. Thanks for sharing. If it were possible to get sound dubbed on to these shots they would be even better and possibly commercially valuable.
weaville 4 years ago 3
Glad you all like the shots, as they ae taken from my commercially available product which is under copywrite, and on which I as producer pay royalties to the gentleman who filmed it in the first place. Sound will be added one day, and to a good standard, so no doubt some kind soul will rip us off on that as well.
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