A film of skilled professionals doing a good job.

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 !

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

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 😊

Cleaning carriage floors without gloves is impressive.

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

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'm not convinced it was worse !

16:38 As an EX BR man I remember the work-study AKA:  'time & motion' men assessing my productivity as 'piece work' was part of the norm.

They missed the bit where one checked under the cushions in the first class for the dirty magazines.

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

We need to go back to basics. These are great films.

OK so a bit later than this but late 70's you used to be able to smack the seats to watch a great cloud of dust come out. The cleaning regime had certainly gone downhill a decade or so later. And work/study became Time and motion and you had no choice but to take part.

Great film though loving these :)

The station at the start of the film was Liverpool Street station, the depot i think is Stratford which in those days occupied a huge area.

No one ever calls in too say now clean trains are only the defects.

Wonderful film from a different time long a go.....

Love the way everybody gets out before the train stops 😂

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't even cross my mind.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who is a little troubled by the idea that such beautiful trains were furnished to a public who couldn't be bothered to carry out their own litter.

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

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.

Watched this just at the right time, my monitor screen was rather grubby. But after all that effort by the cleaners, it's much
clearer now. I can actually see what's going on in the video.