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Now available on YouTube - 48 minutes of 60's railway nostalgia...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea52T1klf-Q

Includes great footage of the Woodhead Line, Midland Line from Birmingham to Sheffield, and the Brand New Euston Station...

Wonderful to see this again.
£19 a week for a top link driver
£14 for the secondman.

£19 a year -> £950 a year (assuming 50 weeks worked). Seems tiny these days, but that's inflation for you.

Thanks Steve,

Great nostalgia there! Great footage of the 'Tommy's'... I remember cabbing one at Picc at about the time of the closure of passenger services.

I didn't realise how advanced (for the time) that Tinsley yard was.... Super stuff!

(Do I also detect some inspiration for Python's 'Four Yorkshire Men' Sketch in there as well )

Thanks again for the link

T

Kromaatikse wrote:£19 a year -> .

£19 a year !!!!!!!!!!
Luxury.....

Okay, typo on my part but at some point in the 19th century it seems that was actually a fairly average income, according to a famous quote:

"Annual income £20, annual expenditure £19 19s 6d, result happiness. Annual income £20, annual expenditure £20 0s 6d, result misery." -- Charles Dickens, David Copperfield