Model Forum / General / Railroads / August 2010

I saw this link posted on another group:

http://www.britishrailways.tv/index.php?option=com_hwdvideoshare&task=viewvideo&
Itemid=8&video_id=1424

or http://tinyurl.com/23qh79a

It's a wonderfully nostalgic collection of film clips shot in and around
King's Cross in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The first part is mainly road traffic - it's fun trying to identify all
the cars and trucks, many of which have recently been reissued in model
form. Most of the clips are of assorted passenger and goods trains and
light engines going about their daily business. The locos looked pretty
scruffy, apart from an immaculate "Mallard" heading an Ian Allan
Locospotters Special. There's the odd shot of a diseasel, but the vast
majority were authentic smoke-belching, steam-spitting beasts. King's
Cross station had quite a different atmosphere in those days! And, of
course, at the platform ends there was the inevitable gaggle of young
trainspotters.