lovely, quite lovely to watch

1953 - A place in the team

2023 - Zero hour contracts

Ah nostalgia things were much better back then, I think they were

Watching this just goes to show how insanely different the entire job market is these days to back then.

Starting as a cleaner for example and working your way up rarely happens anymore. And the sort of training on the job that turns into a degree? You'd have to have the degree before even applying for the original base level position these days

How did we ever manage without all those engineers and architects crossing the Channel every day in their little rubber boats???

Just 10 years later Beeching came along and emptied all this down the toilet. Thousands of men out of work, communities cut off. ruined stations everywhere.

In 1953 my father was in his first year at Bristol University studying Civil Engineering. He spent his entire career in the transport family, working all over the world with Freeman Fox and later Martin and Voorhees. He absolutely loved it. Thank you for a nostalgic look at the world my late father knew and loved so much.

When I was a kid growing up back then everyone wanted to be an engine driver, I felt out of place because I wanted to build the engines, never got the chance though.

Still loving these old films. And I wasn't even born when this one came out!

It was a nicer time back then. People had more respect for each other, and appreciation that the war was over and rationing was ending.

Liked the comment, when his turn came he became a fireman.  When I was at Hull Dairycoates shed in the early 1960s there were engines cleaners with 21 years service in.

The guy checking for lose tappets at 5:58 is good. Doubt the Safety Officer would allow that now.

I did ok! 38 years railway service with just about 3 to go. Been an enjoyable time.

Those were the days when being part of an  team was a satisfying outcome.

Fantastic film I was just 7 in 1953 it brought back some memories of my late Grandfather taking me to see the trains both in Liverpool and Southport he was a retired railway man ,I worked for a shipping Company Blue Funnel line and I too am retired but always like to see and still do like to see steam engines hard at work

Amazing how slim most people were. The teamship message was very strong linked to everyone knowing their place.

BTF films are brilliant.

Sammy Brown is Harry Truman / Men of the footplate (LMS)

Private personal transport and commercial vehicles changed everything. It was almost unimaginable back then what would happen to the railways within 10 to 15 years of this film being made.
This was the era I grew up in. Everyone wanted a car. Roads and road haulage grew exponentially as the railways withered away.
Lines closed, became derelict and abandoned, then disappeared. It became 'common sense' that railways were old fashioned, dirty, inconvenient relics of a passing age. Everything Victorian was despised. Everything had to be modernised for the nuclear age of concrete and consumer convenience that was coming our way.. on TV.
It all seemed inevitable, unstoppable. Life is like that. The only thing that is constant...is change...and we never know where it is going!

The two policemen doing the disarming with a gun , reminded me of the Harry Enfield sketch
of him overpowering a robber and the policeman taking him away , dead funny that one