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Post by auxsetreq on Apr 5, 2007 23:52:25 GMT
BTF film about Waterloo. Someone's posted up a 33 minute film from 1961 on You Tube. In four parts. Very nostalgic.......
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2007 9:32:21 GMT
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Post by Oracle on Apr 6, 2007 10:09:13 GMT
Wow! What memories! We lived in Feltham at the time and so many kids at Southville Infants and Junior Schools had dads who worked on the marshalling yard. We used to go to Waterloo on Saturdays to the Royal Festival Hall with our teacher to the Robert Mayer children's classical music concerts.
The Union Castle Line ship would have been from South Africa to Southampton Eastern Docks. The former Union Castle Line building is still there though.
And the S/M I am sure was my old Headmaster! The villains arrive on lovely Bedford OB, and are presumably en route to Dartmoor via the Princetown banch?
My friends were BTP officers at the time on the SR Waterloo - Windsor Lines.
And Matthew Perry, where are you now?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2007 12:28:03 GMT
A truly classic; it earned several awards at the time. Look at all that history, the SUB unit having it's route code stencil changed, the open plan barrier [soon to return for the installation of the ticket gates], the signalbox cat; do notice the stove kettle kept permanently 'on the boil', proof indeed the railway ran on tea!
It's also available on the British Film Institute DVD, Running A Railway, disc 2, first programme.
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Post by Oracle on Apr 6, 2007 14:18:10 GMT
Standard Class 5 on the newspapers..rebuilt Merchant Navy..tank Waterloo pilot...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2007 23:33:41 GMT
Oracle:
GJP Courtenay, aka Toad? ;D
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Post by Oracle on Apr 7, 2007 10:17:34 GMT
Oh no! Another Old Isleworthian! Gerald John Peter Courtney, aka "Toad", and later "Gerry". Headmaster from 1959, and still was when I left June 1973 in the Upper Sixth. May God rest his Soul. A fine man, used the cane, and an excellent French teacher to us when ours had a nervous breakdown (Gates his name was) after some of our class found his weakness. Mr Courtney's predecessor lived next to my grandparents in Dorset Waye, Heston...Thurston was his name I think. We eventually had an English master who was the spitting image of Toad from the back...so when you saw him walking away down the corridor you thought it was the Head.
David Hayward, Isleworth Grammar School for Boys September 1966-June 1973.
Just remembered that Gordon Hafter's son went to Isleworth Grammar..isn't he now a top bod on LU as well?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2008 14:18:25 GMT
Mentioning the cat reminds me of a well known location on British Rail in London in the 80s. The Drivers messroom had a large notice on the wall by the exit which read 'In the interest of security will all traincrew exiting this messroom please ensure that the exterior door is locked by means of a BR1 key..... P.S. Leave the window open for the cat!'. Priceless!
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