... quality version on YouTube, put there by the BFI. I'm not the only one. I posted it on another model forum and one response was "Fantastic Martin- good filming, excellent editing and wow, that sound-track!! I really enjoyed it." Here are the BFI notes from the YouTube page: Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the award-winning classic that emerged from the cutting-room compresses British Rail's dedication to blizzard-battling into a thrilling eight-minute montage cut to music. Tough-as-boots workers struggling to keep the line clear are counterpointed with passengers' buffet-car comforts. In a mere half-dozen films released between 1959 and 1975, director Geoffrey Jones revealed himself as an outstanding talent, embracing industrial filmmaking as consistent with a personal style, blending movement and sound into a joyous, rhythmic whole. Brilliantly aided by Wolfgang Suschitzky's shimmering camerawork, the Oscar-nominated 'Snow' is Jones' masterpiece. It's crisply invigorating enough to induce ...

... steeper I have found a photo showing the North side and it shows how wrong memories can be http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bushey-Oxhey-Railway-Station-Postcard-Hatch-End-Watford-Harrow-Line-4 -/ 252581686564 My view point was much further along, you can see the start of the embankment on the left which was behind the coal yard, it gradually rose in height to the water tower for the troughs and Oxhey Road bridge. As a youngster it was quite a thrill to slightly decent what was quite a steep embankment, though not quite as severe as remembered posted: 14 Apr 2020 12:51 from: Martin Wynne Hayfield wrote: As a child I watched the West Coast Mainline above the southern end of Bushey (& Oxhey) station from the embankment high above whilst my dad attended his allotment. From memory The drop down to the tracks must have been on the south side 45% if not greater Hi John, Can you remember what sort of soil your dad was digging on ...