The Last Steam Service - 15 Guineas Special 11 August 1968

Footage from the '15 Guineas Special' on 11 August 1968. It was the last steam hauled passenger service on British Railways. The train is travelling from Dent station in Yorkshire north towards Carlisle on the Settle-Carlisle railway.

The National Railway Museum will be holding "1968", an event from 24 May -- 1 June to celebrate 40 years since the end of steam on mainline railways. The event will see Oliver Cromwell (the train in the film, currently being restored specifically to star in our 1968 celebrations) visit the Museum and first hand accounts from people who witnessed the end of steam. We are asking for anyone to come forward who may have been involved with Oliver Cromwell and the 15 Guineas Special. Please contact Catherine.Farrell@nrm.org.uk.

Video reproduced by permission of the BFI.

http://www.nrm.org.uk/

See the Oliver Cromwell (70013) 40 years later, during its recent restoration, here:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lKjIP7-smgY

The 1968 event runs throughout the last week of May, buy your tickets now!
http://www.nrm.org.uk/events/1968/

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• train
• steam
• locomotive
• carlisle
• settle
• oliver
• cromwell
• national
• railway
• museum
• 1968
• guineas

[NatRailwayMuseum]

It was 40 years ago today...

[NatRailwayMuseum]

The 1968 and All That event starts a week on Saturday - let all your YouTube friends know! We've got: - Oliver Cromwell 70013 (The last steam express locomotive in service on BR in 1968) - Evening Star 92220 - 18 other steam & diesel locos - 2 steam rides and a miniature railway ride - Access to cabs and footplates - Heavy horse demos - Stalls and displays - Barbeques - Real ale bar - Soul and sixties sounds Full details here on the NRM website - buy your tickets now!

[gaz318]

You really are i'll informed aint you ?, most of the exhaust is steam (ie boiled water) which is far less harmfull to the eviroment then diesel clag.

I suppose your car runs on fresh air then does it ?, if not then you sir are an ill informed hypocrite.

[SteffanLlwyd]

Saddest day I had experienced... and I couldn't even be there for The End.

[LeamingtonSteve]

Rather this than HS2

[StanierBlack5LMS]

@Frontera3 Thanks for the tip, I'll look it up.

[Frontera3]

@StanierBlack5LMS

Apparently it's an old musichall (vaudeville) song composed by W.H.Hargreaves in 1912.

Don't know the singer.

[freethoughtmusic]

I don't really remember steam on British Rail as I was very young when it went out of service although I have seen old cine film of me standing near a steam train that my Dad took at Exeter St Davids. It was as if part of England died with steam, a part we could well do to have back.

[StanierBlack5LMS]

Who does the music in this ? I love it, so old time sounding. Its like an old pub song or something.

[TheWidowsSonTemplar]

I love the commentary/singing in this, its timeless and funny ! Long before my time, heck my Dad was still in school. But he's right its STEAM anything else is just trash. My mate has a steam car he got from his Dad, its wonderful to ride in as well and driving around blowing the whistle. The girls like it ! Steam Glorious Steam.

[rsdcomms]

Some sad news, My grandad Jack Weal passed away last week and he was the fireman on this train, we found the commemorative picture he recieved for this.

[TheSteamdriver]

@theredraven ok I get you now fine I will concede a point about modern trash getting the job done but it's not glamous or romantic as it used to be in the days of steam and steam also has that fasinaction because you see the parts move then you have sound and smell which is what the modern stuff lacks

[theredraven]

@TheSteamdriver You stated about steam being more popular than diesels and electrics. I was making a comparison. You call modern traction "trash" yet it does it's job quicker and cheaper than steam.