Vintage railway film - Giants of steam - 1963

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• AL

  @almac414 · 4 years ago

  The poetry and music in these older films is just so timeless and gives them so much more class and grandeur than the nonsense we see in more modern productions.

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• KE

  @kenstevens5065 · 3 years ago

  I witnessed the end of steam but most people in the sixties young and old wanted to sweep away anything old for the new so we ruined our environment with brutalistic high rise architecture as we sprinted into the future. I was one of those people but now realise how wrong we were. Thank goodness for Woodhams scrapyard and the heritage railway movement who have enabled us to have so many heritage steam railways in the UK. Modern build architecture can be attractive too.

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• EA

  @earlknightjr.6161 · 3 years ago

  WHAT A SHOW AND NARRATION!! BRINGS TEARS FROM WHEN PEOPLE WERE REAL IN NATURE !!! THE MUSICAL SCORE WAS SECOND TO NONE!!! AND YOU CAN ADD THE BRITISH SPECIAL EFFECTS ,TOO!!!! EXCELLENT ON ALL COUNTS!!!!! Earl of El Barrio,NYC,NY. 8/27/23

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• SA

  @Sam_Green____4114 · 4 years ago

  Richard Trevithick actually receives the credit he deserves for being the first in 1802 !!! A very rare happening!! Even more so in modern times !!!

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• GR

  @GroveDave · 4 years ago

  Love this film. Being about ten years old at the time back in the sixties I remember this film being broadcast on TV.

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• PU

  @purnimachaudhari · 1 year ago

  In India we had steam engines till 1991 on branch lines. Diesels got faster on main lines. By 1968, then Bombay Victoria Terminus and Bhusawal Junction, @445 kms got electrified. This was start of electrification of vast railway network in Western India. Though steam engines were great, they got un economical, slow moving, high mainten ance, took the toll.

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• JA

  @jamesanderton344 · 4 years ago

  A grand film that has stood up very well over 60 years

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• EL

  @eliotreader8220 · 3 years ago

  my Mum was a baby when this film was made. my Granny witnessed the last days of steam on BR

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• VI

  @Vincent-ow9lj · 4 years ago

  Brings a tear to ones eye

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• LE

  @lesperry5327 · 3 years ago

  Charles Dickin's reaction to the railway strikes a chord as to what is happening with HS2.

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• TH

  @TheTouristLine · 4 years ago

  Fantastic, I am 33 so I never got to see the glory days. Films like this are great for showing how it was!

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• PE

  @petercooper2387 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Just listen to that Ron Grainer sound track. Suits the subject down to the ground!

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