Beautiful film. In 1966 l as a 10 year old kid, Sandown was our holiday destination. Being an Essex boy l had no memories of steam on my local lines. So arriving at Ryde on the ferry l could hardly contain my excitement at seeing the little 02's with the antique coaches. Had a few trips on the line that year and our caravan camp was right next to it so l could see the trains everyday going about their business. Happy days. Have been to Havenstreet in the last few years to enjoy a nostalgia trip .
@mikeuk4130
Жыл бұрын
Best IoW footage I’ve ever seen. Exactly as I remember it being sixty years ago, trains everywhere and always sunny.
@DavidMartin-ym2te
Жыл бұрын
That's funny, that's my memory too, IoW steam in 1963/64. I tell my kids that the sun always shone on my school holidays (I'm 66) - they think I am bonkers!
@nickmiller76
9 ай бұрын
@@DavidMartin-ym2te It did. I was there too.
@brianwillson9567
Жыл бұрын
What a fantastic bit of film. If only........a time machine to experience these images for real.
@tankmicr00man
Жыл бұрын
Happy days! Thanks so much for digitising this film footage. It's a wonderful record of the IOW railways as they were. I lived on the island in the mid 1950s and we regularly travelled from Cowes to Ventnor to visit my dad, who was in the TB hospital there. Ventnor station itself is my main memory.
@alantunbridge8919
Жыл бұрын
I visited the I.O.W. a few times in the 1950’s/60’s just to tide the trains on the Ventnor & Cowes lines. A really fascinating trip to see the pre-grouping locos. & rolling stock.
@geoffreypinchen5075
7 ай бұрын
Excellent period record of a long lost time, so very atmospheric and a great source for railway modellers. I do find it quite amazing though, that such a small island had an extensive railway system at all, never mind into the 1960's.
@peterfletcher2260
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant. Picture quality is excellent. Does anyone have any plans for a time machine I could borrow please? Seriously the shanklin to ventnor and ryde to Newport sections should never have been closed.
@frglee
Жыл бұрын
Well, you never know, restoring the line to Ventnor has been talked about in recent years.. The trackbed from Shanklin is largely unbuilt on, the tunnel is still there, (albeit with water pipes in it) and the site of Ventnor station still exists as an industrial estate.
@porno6361
Жыл бұрын
@@frglee 🤞
@steffanmaximum
Жыл бұрын
Absolute vandalism. British Rail didn't have any foresight in the potential of this railway.
@andrewchaston503
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Thankyou
@michaelhearn3052
9 ай бұрын
@@frglee Wroxall station site has been built over and Ventnor station site has been repurposed with Industrial units. The tunnel has both water and sewage pipes in it.
@johnlunnun9769
Жыл бұрын
So nostalgic, I loved it as a kid, and still do! What a lost opportunity, but of course, it all comes down to money!
@barrytillman2818
Жыл бұрын
Brought back memories of holidays on the island as a kid , I think that’s where my love for tank engines started
@John2E0GTU
Жыл бұрын
The bridge between platforms is amazing!
@ewhurstgreen
Жыл бұрын
Agreed - There was also swing bridge at Brockenhurst Platform 1 and at Eastleigh.
@iankemp1131
Жыл бұрын
As can be seen, it was a spare gangway from the Isle of Wight ferries. When a train was in the line with platforms on both sides, if the first train out was on the far platform, you had to go through the intervening train instead. The porters were probably removing the gangplank as a train was about to arrive at that platform.
@garyhardwick8489
Жыл бұрын
Lovely film.
@simonfunwithtrains1572
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant. Just as it was, when as a kid I did my train spotting in rural Kent.
@mikebutler3263
Жыл бұрын
Great , just as I remembered, all those years ago.
@steffanmaximum
Жыл бұрын
I had a great holiday here in 1963. My Grandfather bought us a rail rover ticket, and we spent a few days of the holiday riding up and down on these trains.
@jean-paulmasse1091
11 ай бұрын
Very interesting ! Not much is left nowadays. But thanks to the people who look after the remaining steam section.
@tominnis8353
26 күн бұрын
Those were the days when everything seemed to be more tastefully painted.
@robertpagetfilms
Жыл бұрын
I remember going to Ventnor as a child in the mid 1950s, especially the sound of the injector on the loco.
@alantunbridge8919
Жыл бұрын
The sound would be the air pump for the brakes, fitted adjacent to the smokebox on the L.H. side.
@iankemp1131
Жыл бұрын
@@alantunbridge8919 The intermittent chuff-chuff of the Westinghouse air pump was perhaps the most evocative sound that I remember of the IoW steam trains. I also remember it being used to remarkable effect in the final scene of John Frankenheimer's film "The Train" of 1967. Well worth seeing, with Burt Lancaster and Paul Scofield on top form.
@nickmiller76
9 ай бұрын
@@iankemp1131 When I read the poem 'Adlestrop', I always mentally hear the sound of the Westinghouse air pump that I remember from travelling on the trains when I lived on the Island in the fifties and sixties, although I suspect the locomotive in the Edward Thomas poem would not have been thus equipped.
@Martindyna
Жыл бұрын
Great footage, I particularly enjoyed seeing the remote operation of the steam engine 4:41. A shame that more of the railway wasn't kept, in particular closing the line to Ventnor seems very short sighted after all that work tunneling through St. Boniface Down. Money is just chucked at the UK railways now that BR has gone and it's privatised; far from being eradicated as was the Governments plan the level of subsidy is now at around 4 times what it was towards the end of BR so I understand. Old Station Road, Ventnor can still be explored via Google Maps although the tunnel entrance is unfortunately obscurred. The tunnel is used for utlity services now. Better views are availabe elsewhere, particularly on the disused-stations website where there are many photgraphs and sketches of Ventnor Station amongst many others.
@Cheeseatingjunglista
Жыл бұрын
Brought to you by the same posse of Eton schooled Tory halfwits that gave us Brexit. What a shower of shits, time cannot dimish their arrogant stupidity, an unpolishable turd that thunders on
@marty8535
Жыл бұрын
"Money is just chucked at the UK railways now that BR has gone and it's privatised..." Private Good, Public Bad! apparently.
@Martindyna
Жыл бұрын
@@marty8535 When it was decided to privatise Royal Mail the cost of stamps was suddenly allowed to jump to a higher level, another example of blatant Government prejudice.
@iankemp1131
Жыл бұрын
The Isle of Wight lines I was familiar with from my childhood and my dad's cine films (quite similar to this), but I had never seen the Lymington branch and its push-pull working with an M7 before.
@geoffreyford7288
Жыл бұрын
The young lad at the start on Ryde Station could quite easily been me! Probably not but did have a Child week rover ticket when the family holidayed at Ventnor early in the 60's. Remember the O2's with affection.
@ChrisJNeale
Жыл бұрын
Great footage but also contains shots of the Lymington Branch, with an M7 on a push-pull set = obviously the cameraman hopped across the Solent from Yarmouth!
@garrymartin6474
Жыл бұрын
Thanks I was wondering where that was although its obvious now you have pointed it out !
@daystatesniper01
Жыл бұрын
Amazing footage
@timfairweather7568
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for posting this. Super stuff!
@iankemp1131
Жыл бұрын
A wonderfully evocative film of the Isle of Wight railways at the end of steam in the mid 1960s. My father took cine films and many of the shots are from very similar viewpoints on and off the train. I think your picture quality is better; was it taken on Standard 8 or Super 8? Even the colour tones seem similar. Good to see the gangplank to get to the island platform at Ventnor! Also the bonus footage on the Lymington branch and the Newport/Cowes line. Nice shots on Apse bank and I'd not seen the north end of Ventnor tunnel captured before. Thank you so much for uploading! Do you know the original source?
@GRAHAM1514
Жыл бұрын
Superb films ,thanks for sharing
@paulrutter5330
Жыл бұрын
From about 4:55, we are on the Lymington Branch - not the IOW!
@iankemp1131
Жыл бұрын
It goes back to the IOW a bit later. There are also shots on the Newport/Cowes section, so we get some bonus extras compared to the billing!
@ewhurstgreen
Жыл бұрын
Excellent footage there - thank you for sharing! Incidentally, in respect of the Pull-Push clips of set 617 at Lymington the history of these is covered on BloodandCustard.
@SouthamptonDashCamMan
Жыл бұрын
Love those days when you could wander off the platform, and go lineside. It was up to YOU to think about your Health & Safety not pass the buck on to everyone else.
@petercollingwood4108
Жыл бұрын
Happy days. 👍
@studio4436
Жыл бұрын
Thank you :-))
@porno6361
Жыл бұрын
Great video
@robnewman6101
Жыл бұрын
I have a Hardback Book called The Railway Policeman. The Story of the Constable on the Track.
@bjornshigg7687
Жыл бұрын
great opportunity missed - the whole island could have become a heritage railway and all the lines kept open
@michaelhearn3052
9 ай бұрын
Good idea, run them as summer only lines, may have helped. But the closures began in the early and mid 1950s, and there was no vision from local councils who could have taken the trains over for community running.
@bertspeggly4428
Жыл бұрын
Sometimes my family went to Ventnor for our summer holidays in the '50's. Although I probably only did id once or twice I remember Ventnor Station very well. Were they push-pull trains? Thanks for the video.
@iankemp1131
Жыл бұрын
Not on the Isle of Wight - typically 6 coach trains and the O2 ran round at each end. A tough pull up the 1 in 70 Apse bank! But it was interesting to see the push-pull train on the Lymington branch.
@stevem-h3562
7 ай бұрын
A better vanished time.... it was after this era that it all started to go horribly wrong.
@smhorse
2 ай бұрын
At 1:39, which engine is being scrapped?
@boblovell5789
Жыл бұрын
Strange isn't it. The Heritage movement ticks along nicely. The big boys suffer technical issues and entangle themselves in red tape.
@bishwatntl
Жыл бұрын
Where were those ferries moored?
@richardlingard6185
Жыл бұрын
Lymington
@robertmaidment-wilson564
Жыл бұрын
Assuming you mean the ones to Pierhead, then they were moored at Portsmouth Harbour.
@robnewman6101
Жыл бұрын
I have the DORLING KINDERSLEY DK EYEWITNESS GUIDES Book of TRAIN. Discover the story of railways - from the days of steam to the high - speed, sophisticated trains of today. In association with THE NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM.
@MiLLwallpaul231258
11 ай бұрын
Shame they couldn’t keep it all open as a working museum…..
@michaelhearn3052
6 ай бұрын
Agreed. But the Heritage Railways Industry was non existent in the early and mid 1950s when the first closures took place. Indeed the whole Island could have been operated as a steam only summer operation. Just an idea.
@marktipper994
Жыл бұрын
A Jack Vetrianno painting at 12:39 😉. Looks like you were all living in paradise, but did you know it would all be gone soon?
@nickmiller76
9 ай бұрын
In retrospect, it was paradise, took half a century for me to realise though.
@roysimmons3549
Жыл бұрын
Like most of Beeching a reckless failure. Economy was never considered. It was all about Marples Ridgway and laying down tarmac everywhere. It has taken 60 years for the penny to drop..that is hundreds of juggernauts roaring up and down the M1 ain't efficient. When a freight train can take their loads 80 to 100 a time to Felixstowe or Southampton quicker and more efficiently.
@michaelhearn3052
9 ай бұрын
Do remember that Marples was a director of Marples Ridgeway, but he resigned that directorship in 1951 when he was made a junior cabinet minister as he was required to do so by Parliamentary law, as ministers and above are required to do so today. So he had no involvement in the day to day running of his former company.
@DavidMartin-ym2te
6 ай бұрын
Check out Mr Marples career - he was a crook and scarpered to the South of France to avoid taxes. If you think he had nothing to do with the destruction of the railways you are misinformed. @@michaelhearn3052
@nigelkthomas9501
Жыл бұрын
Something wrong with the sound?
@marty8535
Жыл бұрын
Unlkikely to have been sound for amateur recordings 60 years ago.
@billywhyte6693
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful English countryside... no motorways, no mass migrants. The girl in the hotpants still the same
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