The Elizabethan pt2

The British Transport Film of the Elizabethan Express (Second Part)

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• LNER
• BR
• Elizabethan
• Express
• Kings
• Cross
• Edinburgh
• Silver
• Fox
• 1960s

[stemajad]

golden era....so much better than today.

[TheSteamdriver]

brilliant just brilliant

[keytesofessex]

oh ! how  I wish I was there

[Axbent]

@TheWidowsSonTemplar Im a young person of 40yrs of age, so I wasn't there when this film was made, but I must agree with you still. One thought I have is about medicine, its generally thought it is better now than then as you say, but weren't ppl healthier then, though smoked everywhere and ate greasy food!?

[chrisV8]

@TheWidowsSonTemplar Although electronics might be an improvement, I personally feel they are also part of the reason that life these days doesn't seem as pleasant as back then. I'm a driver myself, if you think that because of electronics everything I do is stored and can be found back simply by plugging in a laptop. They can even see when you switch your cab light on. This causes an unease, you can get caught for the smallest mistake, before, if nothing happened, a blind eye could be turned

[jimusgrimus]

Some of those drivers were old bastards.My uncle was a firman at Kings Cross in the 1950sand 60s and they were pised most of the time.

[TheWidowsSonTemplar]

@stemajad The whole world was a better place ! It was certainly a better age to live in. I've said it before and I'll probably say it many times again: the only thing that has improved in the last 60 years is medicine and electronics, everything else has gone to the dogs and become trash. You old chaps had a better life.

[MiLLwallpaul231258]

when the railways were a propper railway,not like the shambles we have today

[northerner2]

Excellent. !!

[joeyvampirowellsteed]

6h30mins hey. According to Google Maps, quicker than using the M1 and A1 by 53mins. Very Impressive!!!

[TwoEPB]

@061369317 I'm not looking for an argument here but I think stemajad is talking about the railways and how it was a golden era for them, they didnt ask for the war of cause it. Indeed it was a golden era for the railways.

[061369317]

@stemajad Just a few years after Britain had been bombed and hundred thousands of civilians/troops killed (not to mention the rest of the world)...better than today ?

Want to go visiting Dunkirk or El Alamein in the 1940's, for a change ?

Stop dreaming...