Rails across the Peaks DVD

Description

Exploring the Midland route through the Peak District from Ambergate to Chinley.

The Days of the LMS: The 1930s with a range of steam power at work on expresses and local trains. Includes Black 5s which had just entered service plus 4-4-0 Compounds from the days before Grouping. Many well-known locations are featured including Millers Dale, Monsal Dale Viaduct and Matlock.

The Route through the Peaks: An exploration of the route before its ending as a through route in 1968 with both steam and diesel traction. We start at Ambergate, and follow the line through Matlock, Bakewell, Darley Dale, Rowsley and Monsel Dale to Millers Dale and its large station. Steam is featured on freight traffic with 9fs, WDs, Fowller 4Fs and Stanier 8Fs with steam banking power. Peaks are seen at many locations on express services from Manchester to St Pancras.

We then look at the route through the triangular junction with the Buxton line with freight and passenger traffic followed by the line through Great Rocks Junction and Peak Forest to the summit at Dove Hills Tunnel.

Finally comes the descent from Dove Holes Tunnel to Chinley and the junction with the Hope Valley line.

The Final Days: The last steam services, the final Peak hauled expresses and the ‘Blue Pullman’ leading to the lines end as a through route in 1968.

From Closure to Hiking Trail: Following the line from Ambergate all the way to Chinley with aerial views of the trackbed, plus the remaining freight route through Peak Forest to Buxton. Plus, the Heritage line from Matlock to Rowsley.

Colour and Black & White archive film.

Approx. 70 minutes.

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