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Hello? The codepoint.

Yes, I saw you on turntable.

Where've you come from?

York.

What engine number?

97508.

I'll get your engine put away by the disposal men.

97508, Sidney. Needs cleaning out and shedding.

Get plenty of water.

The time is ten past seven,

and we now continue with Morning Music.

He's a human being, and he's entitled to his political views.

That's how I do feel about it.

The racial disputes in America...

the Land of the Free, and the Statue of Liberty,

but there's a great number of their population are not getting all the freedom.

I should think...

there would be a certain amount of pride in the job lost in time, you know.

I know it's a lot cleaner in a lot of respects, but...

I should imagine in time there'll be a lot of...

When it gets all dieselised I don't think there'll be the same amount of pride in the job.

I think it's more an automation, you know.

I think there should be colour light signals

at important points on the railway such as junctions and big mainline stations,

because there's no mistake with a colour light.

"Well", he said, "there was official time-keepers riding,"

but he said, "They've got it recorded."

He said, "You was doing 112 mile an hour."

- What engine have we got on 8:15, Carlisle? - 2719.

Right.

5032

Come on, George, it's gone eight.

Come on, Stanley.

We're going to get a job ready for you.

It makes one feel sorry to see a diesel unit taking place of the old steam locomotive

because there seems to be more pride with the older class of driving, the steam engine,

than what there does with the diesel.

Nevertheless, it is the kind of thing we will have to get used to.

Despite the comfort of the diesel,

the engine driver himself is going to sit down in his chair at home, and say,

"Well, I've lost a good pal."

I'd prefer to stick to the old steam.

More variety, more excitement.

There's all sort of peculiarities about a steam engine you won't find in a diesel.

On a steam locomotive you must work to produce results.

We have to coax a steam locomotive,

we have to try and get the best out of a steam locomotive

by different methods of handling.

When you've reached the end of your journey,

you've achieved something by your own skill, and your own work.

But with a diesel, it's different again.

You've not brought that train there. The engine's worked it there for you.

In a diesel, you sit with square thumbs, pressing buttons.

It's horrid pushing buttons, in't it, and pulling levers?

The pride of the railway's going with the steam train.

If I know railwaymen as I do know railwaymen, they can't lose their pride.

As railwaymen, we are out to give the best service possible to the public.

Modernisation will disturb a lot of us, and a lot of working habits.

That is inevitable.

But the steam job is going out.

The public will no longer put up with the dirt, and the smoke,

and you and I must realise that these diesels will eventually represent our bread and butter.

Number 11, middle platform.

The 8:43 for Glasgow and Edinburgh.