Vintage railway film - Spick and Span - 1962

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  @andrewwilliams2353 · 11 months ago

  those side corridor compartment coaches were a dream to travel in. How I miss them. You were in such control of your environment - heating, lighting and ventilation. Even better when you had it to yourself !

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• GL

  @glynwelshkarelian3489 · 1 year ago

  A film of skilled professionals doing a good job.

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• BO

  @bob-sb2zu · 2 years ago

  Can't imagine many people would be prepared to do such hard work today ,mores the pity !

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• SL

  @slwide7507 · 1 month ago

  Cleaning carriage floors without gloves is impressive.

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• MI

  @MikeJones-zt3kb · 1 year ago

  My Nana worked in Rhyl shed as a carriage cleaner in the season. There could be 40 plus specials bringing visitors on a Saturday alone,  All had to be cleaned to return of that weeks visitors,  hearing the different alabetical types of cleaning types takes me back to my childhood,  with my Nana complaining about the hot weather and schedule of cleaning types 😊

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• RA

  @randomtux1234 · 3 years ago

  good lord<br>the number of times i taken trains all over Uk,<br>and never once spared a thought for these chaps/esses.<br>wow

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• JO

  @johndonaldson3619 · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF8ETt70CCQ&amp;t=998">16:38</a> As an EX BR man I remember the work-study AKA: &nbsp;&apos;time &amp; motion&apos; men assessing my productivity as &apos;piece work&apos; was part of the norm.

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• PA

  @paulkandi · 2 years ago

  My gran used to do this, Finsbury Park carriage sheds...

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• KE

  @keithdraycott · 5 years ago

  Managing a team of modern day aircraft cleaners, I can tell you that little has changed, except now all of that would have to be completed in 20 minutes by a total of 3 cleaners. Things may have been harder and more labour intensive back then, but standards were obviously way higher and to be honest I&apos;m not convinced it was worse !

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• ST

  @StephenMorris-Émigré · 7 months ago

  I have NEVER left any piece of litter on a train, in a bus, in a taxi or private car...nor in any place other than a rubbish bin - wouldn&apos;t even cross my mind. &nbsp;I&apos;m sure I&apos;m not the only one who is a little troubled by the idea that such beautiful trains were furnished to a public who couldn&apos;t be bothered to carry out their own litter.

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• AN

  @andrewhead6267 · 5 years ago

  I supervised carriage cleaners in the mid 1980s. That work study created a book where evert task was recorded in SMVs - standard Minute Values. I spent some time working nights at Blackpool Enfield Road. The Mk3 Lancashire Pullman was hand washed with Exmover every night. Hosed down rather than brushed rinsed. That was not an easy job, and that stuff was evil if you got it in your face.

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• JO

  @johntuffin3262 · 1 year ago

  I wish we could again have train journeys that weren’t plagued by constant announcements.

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