Memories of Steam DVD: 200 Years of Steam Railways

Description

A Journey through the Post-War World of Working Steam starting just before Nationalisation and ending in the 1960s and the dying days of BR steam.

Archive Journey through the 1950s – A look at the steam shed, stations , branch lines and stations of the period: Stockton Shed – 36A Darlington Shed plus the works – 30A Stratford Shed – 31A Cambridge Shed – 31B March shed – 34A Kings Cross Top Shed – Hornsey Shed – the East Coast Main Line – Liverpool Street – The Eastern Counties Railtour – Leed City Station – Camden Bank – 1A Willesden Shed – 1B Camden Shed – 14B Kentish Town – West Coast Main Line – Crewe Works and Crewe South Shed – the Lickey Incline – Derby Shed – RTCS Railtour to Stanmore – Staveley Shed – Worcester shed and station – Gloucester Eastgate – The Looe Branch – Lambourne and the Newbury to Winchester branch – Isle of White – Bath Green Park and Shed – The Southern Railways ‘Withered Arm’ to the West Country.

A wide range of steam power is featured: Midland Compounds – Duchess Pacifics – A4s – ‘Britannias’ – B1s – a glimpse of Gresleys ‘Hush Hush’, the ‘Fell’ diesel and the North British unique 10800 – A3s – B12s – N7s -E4s – Jubilees – Jintys – D11 – ‘Castles’ and ‘Kings’.

Steam in the 1960s: A look at steam around the BR network in the dying days of steam.

Memories of Steam: The age of working steam is brought back to life by the members of St Albans South Signal Box.

Archive film is used to illustrate those memories when steam was an everyday sight.

Included are: Euston Station, St Pancras, South Wales, Kings Cross, the East Coast Main Line, the West Coast Main Line, the Western Region – PLUS much more.

Approx. 100 minutes.

This DVD is being sold on behalf of and with full permission of the copyright owner – Transport Video Publishing (TVP).