When a fundamental component of the economy transport is removed .....be prepared for carnage....such as that we have now......these guys who operate these huge machines so efficiently vastly contribute to economic growth of any nation......
@silvertongue3003
2 ай бұрын
We should have never changed from steam to no electricity 😅
@jacqueso8424
11 ай бұрын
Absolutely fabulous video. Thanks for this. All id like to know is where in the country is the film being made
@colinstone1406
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for the comment, I'm pleased you enjoyed the film. I filmed in various areas of South Africa, the locations of each section of film are mentioned in the description comments under the picture frame. All of my cine film was copied on to DVD by a company based in High Wycombe here in the UK . A friend of mine who was in the film business did an edit for me. This is but a small portion of hours of film taken in South Africa between 1977 and 1985. Cheers
@jacqueso8424
11 ай бұрын
@@colinstone1406 thanks for the reply much appreciated. Anything left of steam today also needs to be archived as much as possible especially here in SA where steam preservation could very well be extinct soon if it wasnt for a few individuals and groups dedicated to the cause and purpose. Even modelling the old SAR railway in 16 and 12 mm gauge can be seen as an effort to preserve it. However due to declining interest( only held by males and some females older than 40, correct me if im wrong from the SA modellers) financial constraints and very limited availability of materials sar rolling stock and locomotives(all 3 traction types) makes it difficult to sustain yet we who are doing it keep continueing to push through. As for live steam, Ceres rail Cmpny and Umgeni steam is still active
@daanpretorius8005
Жыл бұрын
I travel 64 65 and 66 from school in Kimberley to Hotazel.
@jasonmfalconer
Жыл бұрын
Colin you might like to know the branch has been tidied up, and although the port end is still cut off from the far end, theres been a Westbury Tarmac train in Realtime trains for 4montha now-many of us waiting to see when they start back down here
@colinstone1406
Жыл бұрын
Hi Jason. Thank you for that, however I wouldn't hold your breath for anything heading down the Hamworthy branch any time soon ! But that said, I hope I'm wrong. Cheers
@philippelahaussedelalouvie6107
Жыл бұрын
Great to see - thanks for posting Colin. My first qualification after school was SAR&H Fireman, shunting in Durban 1974-76. Still remember the steam noise, heat and brasso (lots to clean) and keeping the fire blazing, filling the water tank. It paid for my varsity fees..with the Suez shutdown, Durban port was super-busy, we worked 30 days a month, 14 hours a day.
@colinstone1406
Жыл бұрын
Hi Philippe .. Thank you for your comments ref' the film, it is good to hear it has stirred old memories. I note you worked on steam in Durban 1974-1976, 1974 was the first year I visited South Africa, arriving in Durban toward the end of the trip we were pleased to find the Class H2 4-8-2T loco's still working, seeing 5 of them at Greyville Depot. Unfortunately we never made it to the Harbour at Bluff or Wests to see the out stationed examples. Sadly no cine camera until 1977, so I never got to film them. I have fond memories of my first paddle in the Indian Ocean at Durban. With luck I hope to get more from the archive up on KZitem soon.
@Tom-Lahaye
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you saved the film and got it digital, there are some priceless images in here, and the sound quality is very good still. Especially where Coronation Colliery and Enyati Colliery engines are cooperating on the same train. (you mentioned the Natal Ammonium Colliery, this must be the Coronation Colliery). I have seen GEA 4031 during my visit to SA in 1994, but sadly steam operation on both collieries had ceased just weeks before. 5 diesels needed where 2x25NC could do the work! Very capable machines these were.
@Tom-Lahaye
Жыл бұрын
@@colinstone1406 Thanks for this explanation, for us living in the Netherlands it was not easy to find information about the railways in SA at that time, as you were dependant on what you could find in magazines, I think I came into SA railways after buying the book The Great Steam Trek at a show (which I still own and treat carefully) and I was struck by the sheer beauty of the landscapes and the elegance of many locomotive classes. But it were the Garrats which impressed me the most. Information came I think first time from the Continental Modeller magazine which I got from a club mate who regularly visited the UK and I got a subscription. There so now and then information about SA railways was listed, but this not always was up to date anymore, so we could just miss out on steam operations on Enyati and Vrijheid-Coronation.
@dodgydruid
2 жыл бұрын
To think I could have been down the road from Hamworthy in the base there around this time, its weird as a few short years earlier I used to talk with the Bournemouth train crews when I was lampsman up at Waterloo and now I live in Gillingham which back then the ESD trains were my duty to maintain and replenish lamps and stores and the 4SUB's still running in off the suburban lines had to have lamps as well. I thought I would live and die in my native south London and then I went to Hamworthy, then back to London and then in 92 moved back down to Bournemouth and pretty much been a Dorset chap ever since. My dad retired from BR and spent his last years as a signaller for Swanage Rly.
@sarelstrydom9834
2 жыл бұрын
Hi can we please make contact my dad was a steam driver maybe you got some pictures
@railfreightdrivergallagherGBRf
2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic. To think also, just 20 years previous the S&D trains used to pound along here. The sight & sound of a 7f 280 with 10mk1s was incredible. As is every shot on this video. 👌🏼
@mrmrst9020
2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant footage crompton heaven 👍👍
@nonhlanhlasebitlo8179
2 жыл бұрын
The train takes me back to when I was a teenager wonderful. Thanks for the memories
@nonhlanhlasebitlo8179
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for this video I'm writing about the South African transport from 1964 until 1976. Is it possible to use your pictures. How can I contact you. Very interesting
@sydneymartin6941
2 жыл бұрын
Man I miss those steam days
@ricbchirop4355
2 жыл бұрын
OMG preslows ,thanks for posting
@PaulRhB
2 жыл бұрын
Blimey that brings back memories, thanks Colin
@fapkebefsema7545
3 жыл бұрын
Great video.
@TheDaf95xf
3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic memories 😀 Did plenty of Man Picc/Poole cross country back in the 80s 😂 Push pull 33s heaven 👍🏻
@ShoegazingHammer74
3 жыл бұрын
Very poignant watching the freight train go past Hamworthy Middle School around the 2 45 mark - I might even have been absent-mindedly staring out of my classroom window at it at that very moment!
@BenDover-ln6ns
3 жыл бұрын
Great old footage. Like how the crossing keeper only opened half the gates.
@colinstone1406
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the kind comments on the footage, that gate at Ashmore Avenue you refer to was awkward to open, it had got damaged in a gale some years earlier when it got blown back into a train. Cheers
@edwardbotha792
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent. Great old days
@hawkeye-vv4kb
3 жыл бұрын
Sweet memories.
@veronicabotha9199
3 жыл бұрын
I've only just discovered this video and I cannot thank you enough. My Dad used to work on the steam locomotives in Germiston. It was in his blood until the day he died. This brought back memories and tears to my eyes.
@sarelstrydom9834
2 жыл бұрын
Hi nice my dad was from Springs
@Adventurescot
3 жыл бұрын
Wow, watching those S1s in Germiston yard brings back so many memories. I was a fireman there for years but finally moved to Kimberley where I worked the big 25NCs on the mainline. Thanks for posting this clip, I love it to bits
@colinstone1406
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your kind comments, the Germiston S1 shunt was the very first piece of cine film I shot in South Africa (SA), they were always "vocal" engines. Once we are through the covid pandemic I'm hoping to get even more of my miles of SA cine film onto KZitem, but I need the assistance of a mate more tech savvy than me ! ! I must also thank you for the items you have placed on You Tube, stunning stuff, much better than my modest efforts with an old super 8 cine camera. Cheers
@WMRailSpotter
3 жыл бұрын
Commenting time links for my friend 2:58 9:46
@michelowey9791
3 жыл бұрын
Remember this
@philjones1432
3 жыл бұрын
If only I had a time machine to go back to these glorious times with all the Freight trains and slam door REPS and 4TCs and no Cross Country Voyagers. Last time I caught a loco hauled train from Poole was September 1997 the Sunday Princess Diana was killed. I was on the Sunday morning Poole to Glasgow Central.
@cricciethcastle5077
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for preserving and posting these very historic films. In 1982, I took a photo of a 19D at Harrismith, recently arrived from Warden. She was in spotless condition. The driver let my daughter go up on the footplate, and pull the whistle chain for the departure! The same year, I was on the Trans Karoo Express, got off at the Orange River service stop, walked along the cinders, and was warmly welcomed up on to the footplate of our 25NC. The regular crew had got off, and an ex SAR driver and fireman, who happened to be on the train, had also gone "up front", and were doing the watering and fire-raking for old-times sake. This was after dark, with the orange glow in the cab, the red-hot fire iron, the "snick-snick" of the steam operated rocking grate, and on top of the tender, in the shadows, someone tending the water crane. An experience which is forever imprinted in my memory.
@colinstone1406
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your positive comments, like you I have many fond memories of my visits to South Africa (SA). Sadly like most things steam in SA came to an end, I was lucky enough to see a lot of their locomotives in action and get to film some of them. Luckily new technology has enabled me to convert the old technology of cine film and post it on You Tube and share it. Hopefully soon, I'll be able to upload even more, in the meantime I'm glad my modest filming efforts has stirred happy memories for others. Cheers
@sugarbertie1143
3 жыл бұрын
Great bit of filming - great memories for me. I live in Derbyshire but my aunt lived at Parkstone. The times I've spent on Parkstone Station , at Poole Park, Poole Station and LCs in the 70s and 80s . Many happy family holidays which were spent between 'holiday' things and watching the 33's, 73's and 47's and the Channel Islands Boat Train going up the bank at 07.50 every morning! Wish I could bring it all back, mum, dad, aunts and uncles all now gone as well.....Thanks for memories of happy times!
@TrainLordJC
3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video of the South African steam locomotives working hard. Thank you for making the effort and expense to have them digitised for KZitem. Greatly appreciated by many like the us. Hope there is more coming. Well done.
@colinstone1406
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your gracious comments, I'm pleased you enjoyed watching the film. In due course I hope to add more of my South African footage, but I need the assistance of a colleague with more technical "savvy" than me to edit and upload it. Sadly the Covid pandemic has precluded the opportunity to do so .... BUT watch this space. Thank you once again for your comment
@AndreiTupolev
3 жыл бұрын
15:45 That was a slog! Those tankers were over 100 tons each fully laden weren't they.
@AndreiTupolev
3 жыл бұрын
33/0 hauling TCs? Very, very rare.
@RazSux
4 жыл бұрын
Great video, many thanks!
@teddybearsfor2
4 жыл бұрын
Lovely bit of film thanks for the memories
@trucker84
4 жыл бұрын
Great video. Used to work for Brittany Ferries. Great to see the old Truckline Coutances ferry at the beginning. Remember the freight trains coming in. Good old days.
@f280ocr
4 жыл бұрын
all my memories in that film didnt want it to end thanks for sharing.
@kellyparkstone3520
4 жыл бұрын
Oh wow. Brought back some fond memories. Everything I know and love. Used to sit in my aunties back garden on Stert road and watch them shunt the yard. Thank you Colin. From Colin of Parkstone Goods fame.
@fernandosantiagorodrigueze5532
4 жыл бұрын
And the Steam in Spain & Portugal?
@rongalliers7584
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for these scenes. So much of it, even the diesels at the end, bring back memories. The quality of the pictures and the sound are very impressive. Thank you for saving this wonderful archive.
@colinstone1406
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your positive comment, in 1977 on deciding to take cine film, I paid extra for a sound camera. Sound striped super 8 cine film was new technology back then ! Getting miles of old film transferred to disc was an expensive gamble, luckily the company I chose, based here in the UK, did a fine job. Some colour quality has been lost due to the age of the film and in the transfer, but in the main I'm happy with the result. Cheers
@davidhawkins6724
5 жыл бұрын
Excellent and wonderful to see a few scenes that I don't think one would find on other clips. The Grahamstown to Alicedale section specifically.
@colinstone1406
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your kind comment, as well as filming on the main Kimberley - De Aar Iine I tried to "get in" as many routes as possible during my 10 visits to S.A. I managed a few such as Lootsberg summit, Breyten-Lothair, Sterkstroom-Maclear, plus the Tarkastad, Alexandria and Jamestown branches to name but a few, all provided many a happy "chase". Cheers
@Preyser123
5 жыл бұрын
Greetings from Bergvliet, Cape Town. Fantastic stuff!
@markedgar6437
5 жыл бұрын
Excellent!!!!
@scotty87able
5 жыл бұрын
Poole power stations chimneys dominating the skyline
@NedPooleD818
5 жыл бұрын
Great memories Colin- it was always exciting to see a named 47 on the inter- regional- do you remember which one is seen departing Poole over the level crossing? Do you also remember seeing (if you were really lucky) a 74 struggling on diesel up Parkstone bank on the ‘02’ parcels- happy times in deed!
@dougmorgan3722
5 жыл бұрын
Wonder what was in the "shocbarfits" near the beginning of the clip?
@colinstone1406
3 жыл бұрын
Coiled Sheet steel for a car factory near Swindon
@jonathanhall5344
5 жыл бұрын
Hampton Court MRS are building a model of Hamworthy (Jct) - albeit a little bit later than this film, if anyone has any photos that show the area around the station, particularly the cement terminal just around the corner down the branch, I'd love to see them. The location may be familiar to preservationists as there was a re-repatriated WD 8F (ex Turkish railways IIRC) briefly stored at the cement terminal for stripping and shot blasting.
@aidanstrand4864
5 жыл бұрын
Great video, Colin. Have you got any more footage?
@colinstone1406
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Aidan. A reply better late than never ! Sadly I've only a few more bits and pieces taken in Poole, probably not worth showing ? Once the Covid pandemic is sorted out I'll see if my mate who does the "technical stuff" i.e. editing and uploading can sort it out and add it in with a bit of nationwide archive cine film. Cheers
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