Website for the railway anoraks out there

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Fri 18 Jun, 2010 2:30 pm

Stumbled across this one today.britishrailways.tvDoes not have much local stuff that I know of yet butit does have some 'classics'The 1936 Night MailLondon to Brighton in 4 minutesand the staged crash of the nuclear flask with 100 mph train

Richard A Thackeray · Post by **Richard A Thackeray** » Fri 18 Jun, 2010 3:58 pm

Should be good for a browse, I've bookmarked it.Thankyou for the 'heads-up'

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Thu 26 Aug, 2010 6:18 pm

Came across this thread whilst looking the the 'My Threads' facility.As before there is not much to offer locally but there is an excellent 20 minute film 'This is York 1953'http://www.britishrailways.tv/british-r ... o_id=1279A must for anyone with an interest in BR before 'modernisation'in the late 50's-early 60's.Difficult to imagine BR had its own central laundry at Heworth which supplied the BR hotels and sleeping car linen.the wheeltapper at work,the 'lamp man' the then modernsignalbox which lasted until the IECC opened (90's?)A day in the life of the Station Master-complete with top hat !

Post by **cnosni** » Thu 26 Aug, 2010 9:02 pm

Just awaiting Digger Davison turning up on this thread.A bit like shooting fish in a barrel really

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Thu 26 Aug, 2010 10:36 pm

cnosni wrote: Just awaiting Digger Davison turning up on this thread.A bit like shooting fish in a barrel really Found it Great link Dogduke. I've added it in my flickr railway groups. As csnosi says i love all this old railway nostalgia stuff. I certainly wish i could go back in time with the camera to those days for sure And the railways did have pride in those days. Not only did they have there own laundry, but they had there own railway gardens. They supplied all the flowers for the station displays, and the fruit and vegetables for the railway hotels. There's an abandoned one near Leeds. I took a look at Poppleton railway garden complete with it's own narrow gauge railway.The pics and history are herehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/sets/7 ... ail/Thanks for posting the link Dogduke. I'll take a good look at that site.Cheers

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Fri 27 Aug, 2010 12:45 am

Look for the WW2 film -Shunter Black's night off.Wartime epic !

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Fri 27 Aug, 2010 12:54 am

dogduke wrote: Look for the WW2 film -Shunter Black's night off.Wartime epic ! I watched the York one. Very good. Just think it's an open station now. How times have changed. I'll check out the war time vid too