Old color footage of cities

[Frank_Dean]

Impressive YouTube channel where you can see old films from various cities around the world, from the early and mid-20th century, which have been colorized, restored and sound-enhanced.

https://www.youtube.com/@NASS_0/videos

 

[JCitron]

Impressive YouTube channel where you can see old films from various cities around the world, from the early and mid-20th century, which have been colorized, restored and sound-enhanced.

https://www.youtube.com/@NASS_0/videos

This is a great channel. I've been subscribed to it for a while now. My father enjoyed the videos as well when we watched them a few months ago. He grew up in New York City and loved the videos from the 1940s.

 

[Paulsw2]

Wow, check out this footage - the first two minutes shows the Irish Mail (I assume LNWR?) in 1898 running down the line from (I assume) another train on an adjacent track. Quite extraordinary!

 

[Forester1]

Awesome! What was that sudden flood of water about 1:40? Water kept pouring off the back of the tender for quite a while. Great to see those horse-drawn fire wagons too! I wonder what the real time was between leaving and coming back. The daylight did not appear to change much. Loved the sight of Windsor Castle. All of those clips were great blasts from the past! Thanks Paul!

 

[Paulsw2]

My colleagues at TCWW were able to offer some more information:

It's 'Teutonic' class No.1304 'Jeanie Deans' and it's not the Irish Mail The train is a Euston-Watford set of 50ft non-corridor carriages and it's running on the up slow line at Bushey and was being filmed from the up fast line. The original was filmed by William Kenny Dickson with the cooperation of the LNWR who provided the locomotive and carriages and arranged the line be kept clear for the filming. An early example of a railway company using the cinema to promote itself. This piece of film has been much examined by the LNWR Society among others so all its secrets are known.

(My thanks to Annie!)

There was also a view that the colourisation isn't terribly accurate and the original B&W version is probably superior:

Awesome! What was that sudden flood of water about 1:40? Water kept pouring off the back of the tender for quite a while.

It's just gone through the Bushey water troughs, so has refilled its tender at speed with the excess water being ejected as it goes. It could be a bad idea to sit in the front coach of trains using lines with water troughs, especially in summer if the top lights were left open!

 

[Forester1]

Amazing! I had never heard of that before!