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Bro is rappin 14:33

And today they say the air polluted, should ha e experienced the fifties every house had a coal fire. The railways have never recovered from the second world war, even in the fifties steam was out of date

And now we have the likes of Avanti to convey us, well sometimes when the shortage of drivers isn't affecting services. They've just been summoned to see the new Transport minister, here we go back to renationalisation, welcome to 1948.😬🤣🤣🤣

Princess Anne's still falling off horses today.

An absolute favovorite, every time I see it. I love the rhymes. It is such a joy to see how we used to live.

They use computer simulation now and get the same results manually derived. They found that when they increased the number of signals on the Settle Carlisle line to cope with increased freight traffic in the early 2000s they put them in exactly the same places as Midland Railway engineers did back in the 19th Century

Before diversity cursed us and our useless ruling class wrecked everything!

Wonderful. Today’s food hygiene inspectors would have a fit of the vapours seeing raw fish and chicken placed above what looked gateaux in the refrigerator!

Narration by Alan Wheatley, who played the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s series The Adventures of Robin Hood

60017 Silver Fox

I wish I was in the 1950s. Everything seems so elegant and the post war economy was booming. Everyone was not staring constantly at their smartphones. They appreciated the world, they talked, they laughed. I feel like a man out of my time.

OMG! Just tell us about the train and NOT give us bloody poetry!

Camera assistant 'WD Williams' is Billy Williams, future cinematographer on 'The Exorcist', 'On Golden Pond' and 'Gandhi'.

10:37 can someone pls explain to me wot is he doing ?

The fireman stoking the boiler at about 15 minutes appears to be wearing a pair of shoes, I would have thought he would be wearing boots.

nice footage. Does anyone knows the name of the viaduct at 15.20? it looks pretty old. Thanks

無煙炭を使っているのだろうか？黒煙は出ないし、石炭の減りも少なさそうだ。

Невероятный по впечатлениям фильм ! Аплодирую стоя !

Absolutely amazing 👏 the poetry 😍 👌

Shame the railways in the UK don't seem to operate with this pride and efficiency

Tony Thompson was married to my Granny's sister. Died quite young - I never met him. I've tried to find him on the internet before without luck. And now suddenly - I can see the film he was most known for. For some reason the version on the BFI site is cut short at 15 minutes.

It's wonderful how these films have become important social documents. Beautifully filmed by a unit that knew how to make a film. Whilst they may be great social documents today there sole purpose then was to get people onto trains and buses, they were commercials, pure and simple. I believe the unit had a couple of days with Silver Fox, there's a moment in the workshops when another A4 was featured but has a well positioned coat covering up the locomotives number as this wasn't 60017. There is often much criticism of the 'dated, rhyming commentary' but I love it, Paul Le Saux, the writer created a masterpiece and his words crop up in many BTF films.

Seems like another world that existed only in storybooks compared to todays fast ugly societyM🙁

What a treat !

Most regrettably, you no longer have to be an actual member of the posh and incredibly wealthy English aristocracy anymore, to possess a rather ridiculous double-barrelled name like Prior-Palmer. I understand that at least 20% of all English young newlyweds now combine their surnames and subsequently pass them onto any children that they may have.

The smell of steam. You either love it or you're wrong.

very interesting, thanks for posting :)

Better days

I first viewed this film at a NRHS chapter meeting in the 1970s. It never gets old.

Wonderful!

A better time, yes a hard time but the people cared more about each other. They had seen war and understood how to enjoy the life they had

Raw meat on top of desserts in the fridge at 2:21 Not so fussy about food hygiene in those days.

@ 5:05 . . . . I remember being told as a kid back in the late 60's that the slang for a gay person at that time used to mean cigarette . . . lol . . and gay used to mean something altogether different as well.

so how did the train take on water?

Fantastic!

Hah ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaa just like Stuart Hall.. when it was fashionable.. So funny..

Steam engine beauty can't be replaced by electric engine, no computers, no android phones, no internet, no buisness cards, world looked simple yet very active,good old days!

This film was made The Day , Hour , And Year I was Born......

I was wondering if there are of the club group members still out there who remember participating in this run......

To think, while all this was going on, politicians in Westminster were hard at work destroying the country.

14:32 is a rap song

What a wonderful era. Everything so civilised. Nowadays society has turned to shite....

I love watching these productions, but always with an element of sorrow in terms of what we have lost. Not all change is progress.

This is a true find. '55 the year I was born, yet by the time I was 15 things were much the same. Happy days. I remember regular return trips by rail with my 'Sun' bicycle, between London and St Neots. Can that be done today?

Excellent film, but I don't remember the verse being so dire! Come back Auden I say.

What a great little time capsule of our great Country, There seems to be a lack of such quality of life today, Not sure why, its just not the same anymore ! what a great pity.

One thing that draws attention, almost no fat persons to be seen. Shame on today!

2:25 4:33 This LNER Gresley Streamlined A4 Pacific Main Line Express Steam Locomotive Sliver Fox Is A Bit Like Mallard. Thanks Mate. X

Makes me proud to rival the Italians

A man's world! Brylcreem could be used equally for the hair or for greasing connecting rods.