Engines Must Not Enter The Potato Siding (1969)

qzdcg8 · Post by **qzdcg8** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:38 pm

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...

dggar · Post by **dggar** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:50 am

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

Kromaatikse · Post by **Kromaatikse** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:23 am

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

terrycunliffe · Post by **terrycunliffe** » Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:41 pm

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

dggar · Post by **dggar** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:06 pm

Kromaatikse wrote:£19 a year -> .

£19 a year !!!!!!!!!!
Luxury.....

Kromaatikse · Post by **Kromaatikse** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 7:50 pm

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

Atomic Systems

Engines Must Not Enter The Potato Siding (1969)

Engines Must Not Enter The Potato Siding (1969)

Re: Engines Must Not Enter The Potato Siding (1969)

Re: Engines Must Not Enter The Potato Siding (1969)

Re: Engines Must Not Enter The Potato Siding (1969)

Re: Engines Must Not Enter The Potato Siding (1969)

Re: Engines Must Not Enter The Potato Siding (1969)