Retro Steam n the Lune Gorge

Some fabulous vintage footage of steam activity between Greyrigg Bank and Tebay in the 1950s. Of particular interest, the water troughs at Dillicar. People who know the area will be interested to note the absence of the M6 motorway.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Vintage
• LMS
• Steam
• Railways
• West
• Coast
• Main
• Line

[MiLLwallpaul231258]

What can one say but fantastic......even tho i'm a southern man thru and thru you have to admire this.thanks for posting

[RailMon]

Thanks for your kind comments. I used to go up to this area as a boy and saw first hand the beauty and the grime. Of coarse this video was taken before the M6 was built, so it was much more peaceful.

I still go up there regularly and in spite of the motorway, its more beautiful than ever. Especially in Autumn when the colors are fantastic in the Lune Gorge.

[northerner2]

Excellent post !!

Thanks for this.

From Brampton, ON.

[RailMon]

My pleasure northener2

Hugh.

[Mr46238]

thats me on 75024 driving on the shap banker in 1966 i was only 24 ys old i was the fireman , the driver was firing , i am ex upperby 12B man

[UKTrainMan]

Absolutely beautiful footage really very interesting so a big thanks for uploading it, truly fantastic. 5*s and added to favourite videos. Many Thanks!

[fgh456pc]

Very Interesting 

[MusicPredominates]

Just watched this (i am from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia). This video seems the best one as far as technical description and scenery and steam is concerned on Youtube ! We have never had water-troughs in Australia so this is very interesting ! 

[bernieholland775]

This is all very interesting indeed - not only for the motive power but also for the great variety of rolling stock - along with all other viewers I thank you for sharing this wonderful footage with us - this is a priceless record of events which would otherwise have vanished in the mist of history.

[Mr46238]

@integrator14  who was r dad at Tebay i was from carlisle upperby 12b shed i was on load to tebay

[Isochest]

Yes, it's better without the motorway. Ernest marples needed millions of us mugs driving cars to subsidise road haulage. Rail was never inefficient and would be cheap as chips with more electrification.

[ricjuk]

modern life is rubbish...

[cpmcintosh1]

Well you look at the state of the locos, they were always filthy, but this is the end of steam ,the leaking steam all points to neglect, why mend whats to be scrapped next week

[Mr46238]

hello all, has some one got photos of the tebay bankers in say 1966 to 1968, i was on loan to tebay shed from carlisle 12B if so could you send copys to me at robert_uk_1942@yahoo.com . thank you for your time .

[integrator14]

Wonderful nostalgic viewing of my playgrounds in the 50’s. I lived on Winfell Terrace Tebay overlooking the sheds where my dad was a driver and used to ride on the bank engines especially on Sundays when I could get a good shower at the sheds. (Better than the old tin bath).

I probably should not say this, but boys will be boys and we did at times put small fish or eels we caught in the Lune into the troughs.

[BaseTurnComplete]

Amazing. Lots of things on this are notable. Locos taking on water at the troughs - not too much footage of this exists. So many (all in this film) of the trains are freights on an important passenger line - so much freight moved by rail in those pre-motorway days. Also the consists of the freight trains are so mixed - 16t minerals, 12t vanfits-a-plenty, long-wheelbase ferry-vans going to the continent; a variety of parcels vans, conflats with early containers. A real gem this film.