British Rail advert

Pre-privatisation BR advert from the 1980s, I think described as the 'Concerto ad'

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[TheAmazingDannyKing]

If this video was supposed to envoke pride in our railways in order to get people to invest into privatisng them then it's ironic, because the only thing this video makes me proud of is British Rail. And it's not here anymore.

Long live British Rail. It wasn't perfect but it was something under-rated that Britain could be proud of regardless.

[Defn28]

BRING BACK BRITISH RAIL!!!!

[mota1744]

Excellent video with wonderful images. Congratulations.

[eamonnca1]

I remember delay after delay after delay and trains being cancelled left right and centre. Are people so blinded by nostalgia that they can't remember how bad BR was? Back then everyone was crying out for it to be privatised!

[BarrieBusesandTrains]

@BarrieBusesandTrains And the people who work outside Germany, but are paid by a company of the German Government - DB Schenker, probably would go apeshit at barganing time if they found how good that the DB beamten have when it comes to job security, pensions (the best in Germany), free healthcare, and good pay. If you look at DB's trains in Germany, half of them are covered in graffiti, and run in service with graffiti, with the windows covered with paint. Ruediger Grube needs a new moustache!

[BarrieBusesandTrains]

@shoptothecaf Yeah, but they don't own the tracks, yet. This is one of the many reasons that I'm a Euroskeptic. Of course Thatcher others, but all of Europe had to do this becuase of that piece of toilet peper called the European Directive 91/440, which was made to consider the intrerests of their bankster bosses. and has destroyed the industry. If there wouldn't've been a EU, then the Deutsche Reichsbahn wouldn't get it. I wish I could've been a Beamter, and have a job for life!

[shoptothecaf]

@BarrieBusesandTrains DB through the back door now own a significant chunk of Britain's Railways, Arriva, Chiltern and of course the freight operator EWS.

[BarrieBusesandTrains]

@shoptothecaf If DB gets your railways, that's' the end! Churchill will be turning in his grave!

[BarrieBusesandTrains]

@Markjuk Brian Mulroney did this to CN where I live in Canada. It used to be something to be proud of, like BR. Now it's run by an American, owned by Americans, and has succeeded in becoming the WorstGroup of Canada. It ran in every province of Canada and one territory, and connected every corner of the country. if you put Doctor Beeching and Maggie Thatcher into one body, and ship him to Canada, you've got Brian! Now the same companies who destroyed the industry in UK are destroying Canada's!

[iceolated75]

When it was BR there was a romance associate with the trains. Hanging your head out of a corridor window to get a wiff of the EE or Sulzer engine pulling your train - the rythum of her engine as it wound up to address the grade not to mention the high-pitched ran power of a Paxman Valenta.

All of this new DMU and EMU crap with 60 different color schemes has really robbed the railway of its majesty and grace.

[86501freightliner]

@RoadhouseKiss "Fuck British Rail"? Not a very wise choice of words, BR was a lot cheaper in the days that it existed, guaranteed, it wasn't the best service in the world, but it was a damn site cheaper than most TOC's today, and taking buses won't solve the problem, traffic congestion in the rush hour won't bring you to your destination on time!