Bristol Temple Meads Part 1 - 1960s Railway Cine Film

A promotional video for DVDs with historical cine film footage of Bristol Temple Meads Railway Station in England. Clips from the early sixties illustrate passenger and freight trains coming and going while under the control of the Great Western Railway's power signalling.

Footage taken from...
Steam Journeys From Bristol With Rex Conway (1st Take)
Marsden Rail 24 - Somerset & Dorset (Marsden Rail)
B&R 89 - Along GWR Lines (Part 3) (B&R)
B&R 77 - Memories Of The Somerset & Dorset (B&R)
B&R 84 - Railway Around Bristol (B&R)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Bristol Temple Meads
• 4F
• Power Signalling
• Power Signaling
• General Railway Signal
• Brunel
• Station
• Railway
• Signal
• Great Western
• GWR
• British Railways
• Cine Film
• Terry Nicholls
• Grange
• Collett
• County
• Platform
• Train
• Trains
• Royal Scot
• Empty Coaches
• Carriage Sidings
• Train Shed
• Overall Roof
• Digby-Wyatt
• Castle
• Flying Scotsman
• Pullman
• Ian Allen
• Freight
• Black 5
• Signal Box
• Bath Green Park
• Standard
• Hymek
• Barrow Road
• Bath Road
• St. Phillips Marsh
• Clun Castle

[warminstercentral]

awesome .where can we purchase dvds of a similar nature

[stumpytrain]

@warminstercentral Hi John, if you google the DVD titles listed in the videos description then you will be able to find the best supplier.

[thegigpig35]

Great to see some good authentic footage of the transition period, with both steam and diesel working side by side. Truly wonderful times, and i wish i was alive back then to experience it. Very nice upload, thanks

[joeexon]

My dad fired engines from st philips marsh in the 60s and remembers the scenes in the video well. It's good to see so many of these engines now back in use and it's been fabulous to see what he saw and get the same buzz from it.

[Exagerative]

how elegant!

[Nacho66]

Greetings from America.

Really fabulous film. You guys were lucky to have regular steam in the mid-'60's!

[LikeMindedIncident]

@innocentbystander8 - Good point, I was just about to say, in the vid you see young enthusiastic boys at the end of platforms, I used to do the same. A great pastime admiring great feats of engineering (with a 'platform ticket', I'm talking diesels as I'm not old enough). It's just oddly all gone.

[innocentbystander8]

What a great film. I was born and grew up in Bristol and remember seeing steam in its last couple of years. Thereafter, I remember standing on the end of the legendary platform 12 at Temple Meads watching the hydraulics moving in and out of Bath Road depot. All gone now and Bristol is a very dull scene today, as is the British railway scene in general.

[Turnerspaintbrush]

interesting seeing the NBLs on a holiday express .My first ever diesel trip was a slow train to Minehead behind one of them.Anyone got a video of their scottish

sisters?

[steamfan54]

At long last an NBL clip with decent sounds of pulsating MAN engines.. any more ?

[formidable38]

Great old footage. One thing that realy brings it home to me though is how backward we were in Britain for years, still messing with steam so late on while the US was already enjoying its streamliners and dozerns of other diesel types from arouind 20 years before the scenes above.

[EDP407]

what a fantastic video. I'm not a train spotter but enjoy learning about trains. Amazing to see how it was 50 years ago from today. Thank you for uploading