The man you can see in this clip driving that Pullman train is Ernest morris Sadly after this was filmed he was tragically killed in the dorridge train crash a year later whilst driving a western express train which collided with a freight train which failed to clear the line ahead
@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329
3 ай бұрын
The blue and white Pullman livery is nowadays applied to the hsts working with LSL as of now
@barttheanorak
Ай бұрын
Wow time travel, great to experience the sights and sounds from before most of us were old enough to remember. So sad how that driver’s life ended though.
@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329
Жыл бұрын
Ernest Morris Will be sadly missed by us all 59 years later
@DrFod
2 жыл бұрын
The driver of this train, Ernest Morris, was sadly killed in the Knowle & Dorridge train crash a year after this was filmed.
@bobk4404
2 жыл бұрын
I can remember, as a young child, playing in some woods next to the railway line near Beaconsfield and seeing the Blue Pullman pass by with its venetian blinds at the window and its table lamps and thinking "WOW!" I thought it was incredibly posh and modern. In later years I travelled by Eurostar to Paris, Lyon and Brussels, on Indian Railways, Japanese Railways and even the Wuppertal Schwebebahn all of which would have had my eyes popping if I had seen them as a child but the memory of the sight of the Blue Pullman has stayed with me for almost sixty years. Lovely short film but so tragic about the driver.
@lnerrules-iw6ry
Жыл бұрын
I can remember watching this on Channel 4 in the early 1990s. Brilliant film.
@adamc1272
2 жыл бұрын
Interesting to see this diagram involved the train using the New North Main Line - I grew up at one end (Greenford) and ended up living a flat on Livery Street next to Snow Hill, so, despite being about fifty years out of touch, it was great to see this route on film! Thanks for the upload - couldn't help but feel the driver wished he was on the footplate of a 60xx though!
@MrScottmac99
2 жыл бұрын
I just looooooooooove your stuff ...
@maxedison8259
2 жыл бұрын
An excellent little promo film and, as has already been observed in the comments, the Motorman could have easily been mistaken for a Milkman climbing into his milk van, ready to set off on his deliveries. Thanks for posting though, as this is wonderful piece of railway history.
@richardkirka5977
3 жыл бұрын
Right smart acceleration and cornering. They just don't make inertial dampeners liked they used to.
@NTSCuser
3 жыл бұрын
I never knew the Blue Pullman stopped at Leamington until I saw this film.
@MyUnoriginalUsername
Жыл бұрын
Haters will say it's sped up.
@danielkingham9045
3 жыл бұрын
Great
@evelynjiles29
3 жыл бұрын
You know the music would be perfect for an intro scene for an episode involving Gordon
@DrivermanO
3 жыл бұрын
That of course is a Strauss polka - but I can't remember its name! I know it well, but the name escapes me! The Strauss brothers composed polkas about trains - Excursion Train, Without Brakes (Ohne Bremsen) - neither of which this is - and others.
@nickstanbury1523
2 жыл бұрын
@@DrivermanO Perpetuum mobile (Op 257); Johan Strauss II. Marvellous music and entirely appropriate for the film!
@mce_AU
3 жыл бұрын
The original Hyprelapse/Hispeed video.
@ladymeghenderson9337
2 жыл бұрын
but that is not a steam train?
@beardyface8492
3 жыл бұрын
Never used Paddington to Snow Hill.. the route was always Euston to New Street.. Moved house since, & now I'm stuck with the totally useless service on the lesser served loop including Northampton. Please someone invent a time machine, go back & shoot Ernest Marples, I don't blame Beeching, the poor sod gets the hate, but he just did an assigned job. Rail would be better without Marples & his pro-road/anti rail agenda driven by personal interest.
@ianbrown9108
3 жыл бұрын
The driver looks like he would be more at home at the wheel of an electric milk float than a prestige express train.
@Gerri006
3 жыл бұрын
Their nickname was indeed "milkman"
@MrDavil43
3 жыл бұрын
He had to look down at his watch...at that speed that was half a mile where he wasn't watching for signals...appalling driving! Love to see it as originally filmed, lots of steam action.
@stevedunningduckinggiraffe6296
2 жыл бұрын
Compare and contrast with similar footage from the intro of Get Carter with Michael Caine, 1971: kzitem.info/news/bejne/y56f2X2KmHWmhG0
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