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Gandy Dancer Productions
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Films about steam railways and making model live steam locomotives. Occasionally I may include anecdotes about my life as a filmMaker .
The Great Loco Adventure Part 5
A crash on the Manchester/Bury mainline. A look at the ICI Blackley industrial branch. The last of the great steam locomotives around North Manchester with a visit to the Miles Platting and Brewery Sidings.
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The Great Steam Loco Adventure - Manchester Victoria Part 3
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Filmed between 1967 and 1968, the last year of mainline steam in Britain, The film starts with the weekly heavy coal trains heading through Woodlands Road station on the Manchester - Bury electric line. Then we move to the Irk River Valley at Red Bank to watch trains heading out of Manchester Victoria up to Miles Platting. Ending with mayhem with the signals on a snowy Saturday at Manchester Vi...
Visiting local railways with my steam loco.
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Visiting several miniature railway clubs in my area with my steam loco ‘Joan' and my newly painted Gas Mechanical loco. The railway featured: East Somerset Society of Model & Experimental Engineers (ESSMEE) at Bath and West Showground: ESSMEE - Home North Wilts Model Engineering Society at Coate Water Country Park, Swindon: Coate Water Railway Bristol Society of Model Engineers at Ashton Court:...
The last of the great steam Railways. Part 10
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Astley Green and Walkden Railway near Manchester was totally steam powered. Here's part 10 of the story which sharing my excitement in watching the steam trains go by. Austerity tank engines, coal trains and raw power.
Another massive coal train@GandyDancerProductions
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Astley Green coal train heading through Walkden #colliery@GandyDancerProductions
The Great Steam Loco Adventure at Edgeley Stockport.
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The final years of main line steam action at Edgeley Steam Depot, Stockport from 1967 to 1968. Including massive oil trains from Stanlow oil refinery double headed by two mighty 9F's heading for Leeds.
My New Garden Railway
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Having fun with my new garden railway with all my little steam engines in action.
Great Railway Adventures - Swanage
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A trip on the footplate of a Bulleid Pacific steam Locomotive on the Swanage Railway.
The Great Steam Loco Adventure - Manchester Victoria Part 2
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The final year of main line steam action around Manchester Victoria Railway Station in 1967-1968
The Great Steam Loco Adventure - Manchester Victoria Part 1
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The final year of main line steam action around Manchester Victoria Railway Station in 1967.
Steam engines being worked to their limit. Astley Green and Walkden Railway # 9
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Steam engines being worked to their limit. Astley Green and Walkden Railway # 9
Visiting a mainline steam depot Edge Hill.
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Visiting a mainline steam depot Edge Hill.
Enjoying an afternoon running my steam loco
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Enjoying an afternoon running my steam loco
Steam Powered Wood Yard - Armstrong Addison in Sunderland
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Steam Powered Wood Yard - Armstrong Addison in Sunderland
Astley Green and Walkden Railway adventures, Part 8
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Astley Green and Walkden Railway adventures, Part 8
Astley Green and Walkden Railway adventures, Part 7
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Astley Green and Walkden Railway adventures, Part 7
Sounds like no dub i ever heard !
Ex crosti .
Double headed 9Fs: Awesome power!!!!
Very interesting. We are exactly the same age, did exams at the same time etc. I was never a trainspotter, and really I think we are both a little young for the heyday of spotting - very few of my school mates were into trains, maybe 4 or 5 out of a year of about 90. And I grew up close to Bescot, so there had been plenty of spotting going on. Maybe you caught the enthusiasm from your father. Quite a few of my chums were bus spotters - amongst other things our town had trolley buses. After we did our O levels that year, there was a scout trip to a camp in Newton Stewart for a week, and passing through Carlisle the one train spotter amongst us was overjoyed to catch a glimpse of an engine in steam, not sure what it was, but it must have been one of the very last on BR, being the first or second week of August 1968. Sunny days.
My spotting days, as you rightly point out, were well after the the heyday steam. Just a few years earlier would have been very different.
WOW your small films are fantastic!!! Love to see!!!
Global warming 😂.
is there an layout or map of this area 1:29
There no model layout of Miles Platting that I know about. You can check out the layout now it looks today on Google maps or National Library of Scotland web site who have historical maps: maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=15.4&lat=53.49465&lon=-2.21432&layers=10&right=ESRIWorld The station has gone so has a lot of the railway infrastructure.
@@GandyDancerProductions i wasnt talking about a model layout i meant a actual layout in real life on the railway
Good filming for 8mm. The sound seems to be in sync. How was it recorded?
the slope to miles platting dosnt seem steep when u are riding but it must be
This is lovely. Thanks for sharing!
Have a model of respite was lord Phil originally made by hornby 😊😊
Great video, thanks for sharing!!!
Thanks for the memories. I walked through a small door next to a wall and down the cinder path with my father who was a goods guard to the Edgeley engine shed to collect his wages. I must have been about ten at the time. I remember the smells of the steam and seeing the remains of the fires after they had been dropped from the engines, and the sooty faces of the engine cleaners as they emerged after cleaning the boiler flues.
There was nothing like the smells and sounds of a working steam shed.
Brilliant memories of a lost world
Danke!
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Great Video!
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Thanks so much it all helps.
Very reminiscent. I studied at Manchester during the few previous years. At one point what is really an 8F is said to be a Black Five, but very nice.
great too see , can't believe you go the sound so good when you were so young. lived on the London line at Chalford sounds of my childhood hearing them struggle up the hill to Sapperton tunnel thanks for the memories
Glad you enjoyed it
Some superb Diesel action in this one, most excellent. 💪
It's funny they too are all part of railway history now.
Grand memories. Thanks. :-)
Very evocative of an era and love these films. Is the soundtrack original, i.e. your original 8 mm cine had audio feature, or is it added retrospectively?
I talk about it in an interview on Railway Mania - ruclips.net/video/ysuxBFtIILY/видео.html&ab_channel=RailwayMania
Exelant video Sad to think that the locomotives we see in the films are cut up I can imagine it mustve gotten quiter when steam met its fate
It certainly did. I couldn't hear any more freights climbing out of Victoria and lulling me to sleep at night.
@@GandyDancerProductions when are we seeing more of Russell?
@@soundofpollutionproduction3386 I'm going to run it this afternoon.
Really enjoy your films, especially these from the dying days of BR steam. Thanks
Thanks, it's much appreciated. I never imagined when I shot it I'll be sharing it with a wide audience.
I really enjoy your films hope to see more
There is more.
Atmospheric, you were lucky with the greater longevity of steam, compared to BR(W) in the south..
I presided over it's last rights. It was a sad day.
Excellent video, both as a social record of north Manchester and how the railways have changed in this area. Living in Bury all my life, and travelling into Manchester countless times, I find it fascinating to see the extent of the railways in the area. Additionally, having just edited hours of digitised footage that my late father took on his 8mm cine of my family in the mid 1960's I must say the quality of the footage in your videos is very good by comparison, although, sadly, there was no audio on the footage I have edited. I look forward to the next one.
Thanks for the note, I'm Pleased you enjoyed it.
Wonderful video! Thankyou!
Glad you enjoyed it!
These restored film reels in your videos are AMAZING. Makes me wish I could travel back in time to all the places you've been just to see what they looked like.
Thanks , there's more to come.
Thanks. Superb footage as usual. Looking forward to more and Manchester Central 👍
Thanks for the donation I'm glad you enjoyed it. I do have footage of Central with steam and stills shortly before it closed. It was a magnificent station. However, that film will be a little down the line. I think the next is going to be Newton Heath Shed.
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That was awesome seeing those work horses around Manchester as that was my train spotting area as I lived in Urmston so had plenty of trips to Victoria 😊 But sadly steam had finished as I was only 11 in 68 🙁
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it
More very special and utterly unique footage. Always enjoy these films!
Once again, excellent! Re your attire in June, weather manipulation anybody?
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Thanks.
The crane is a Ransomes and Rapier of 45 ton capacity built for the Ministry of Supply and handed over to the LNER as number 951516 late to become BR 122, then 1083/45 and latterly ADRR95215. The crane was stationed at Gorton between June 1943 to November 1961 and then on to Newton Heath from 13 June 1965 until withdrawal, January 1979 .
Fascinating history, thanks.
Wow,what a piece of film,thank you for sharing it
Glad you enjoyed it
Oh so very evocative of the last days...................Many thanks for sharing.............
Superb stuff much missed steam
I agree.
Thanks!
Thanks, appreciated.
You did well to film the breakdown gang at work. Some rare footage there. They always seemed to get stuck in, worked steady n simply. Theirs & the p/way insp’s priority was to get line clear & working again asap. Thank you for posting this good little vid.
Looking back, their main concern was to get train running again.
I'm absolutely over the moon with the stuff you have put on here! I didn't now the layout at Woodlands road, as by the time I was driving at Bury, Abraham Moss had wiped it all out. However, there was a set of old junction points in the long grass on the up side banking until about 88. And to see the shots of Crumpsall yard as it was, was an eye opener. I remeber it still just about working in 77. But now you've no idea how extensive it really was, first with overgrowth and then housing. Thank heavens you made the effort and took care of your film stocks. Top man, you deserve a beer!
Lady Armadale made it into preservation, as did the diesel shunter no. 0226. Don’t know what happened to the other steam engine.
Thanks, I'm pleased this footage found an audience.
The other engine was called Isabel a Hawthorne Leslie saddle tank. It got preserved too.
Fantastic never heard about he accident before but heard about the one I think it was Smeadly lane ? where a steam train at a junction just before Victoria station derailed a electric train and crashed through a wall and plunged 30ft below and killed 10 people
Absolutely wonderful videos. A real joy to watch.
I don't remember that crash but in 1967 I had discovered other things! Then I quickly learnt better. Think my two E's at A level had something to do with it. I know you are in touch with Steve Leyland - time you came to the Doffcocker for a lads night out - not that sort!!!
Great name for a pub. It would be fun to meet up and if I make it up that way to visit my sister I'll let you know. Give my regards to Steve I'm sure he could add a lot more information to my films.
HA !! After that dust up the line would be shut for months nowadays!
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Thanks, it's much appreciated.
Wonderful video. I knew the Newton Heath engines ‘personally’ you might say. My dad knew one of the inspectors there, Frank Davies. Another Driver was Ray Davies who once let me ride in the cab with him from Victoria to Southport, alas in a DMU. Another driver was the late Trevor Owen who many will remember by his nickname ‘Skwaw’, a driver on the Worth Valley.
I have a film in the pipeline about my many visits to Newton Heath, my local shed.
Brilliant again, especially for those of us who lived on Exchange in the early to mid 60’s. Why didn’t I have a camera!
I remember a passenger train on Saturdays that left Exchange at 3 o'clock for Llandudno and could be relied upon to be steam hauled till late '67. Usually an engine off Patricroft. Got a few stills of it (one photo is the thumb nail I used for the last Manchester Vic film of a Britannia doing a massive slip starting the train). No movie film unfortunately.
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Thanks.