Smoke & Steam In The South Dvd
May 1, 2024
Eastleigh 100
May 1, 2024
Somerset & Dorset 7Fs (2-8-0s) DVD
£14.95
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Most people think of the famous Express Steam Locomotives, such as ‘Flying Scotsman’, ‘Princess Elizabeth’, ‘Mallard’ and so on when asked to describe a steam engine. However, the true backbone of the steam railwy age was the conveyance of goods traffic, for which special locomotives were required – known as freight engines.
Perhaps most special of all were the Somerset and Dorset Class 7F 2-8-0s, the subject of this dvd. Their working lives were spent entirely on the famous Somerset and Dorset Railway and such was their charisma, that two examples, 53808 and 53809, have been saved for posterity.
This dvd shows the class at work in the 1960s by means of Ivo Peters incomparable 16mm cine film and features the preserved locomotives at work.
Contents:
Freight Engines – Ivo Peters’ colour films of the S&D 7Fs at work on the Somerset and Dorset Railways in the 1960s, on freight and passenger trains.
Renaissance – Ivo Peters’ film on the return of 53808 from South Wales to Radstock and restoration work at Minehead. 53808 – The Somerset and Dorset Trust’s ’88’ at work on the West Somerset Railway, including cab sequences.
53807 Remembered – Recreating the last 7F to work on the S&D!
53809 – Based at Butterley, on the Midland Railway Trust’s line, the second preserved 7F is seen at work on the MRT and on BR main lines.
53809 Back to Bath – Footage from the 40th anniversary weekend of the closure of the Somerset and Dorset line in 2006 at Green Park, includes Ivo Peters’ Bentley and the 92203 and 9F double headed, viewed together for the first time in preservation.
Approx. 50 minutes.
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A nostalgic journey by train from London’s Waterloo station down to the counties of Hampshire and Dorset.
We begin our journey at the London & South Western Railway’s terminus station at Waterloo which was completely rebuilt following the First World War and opened in 1922 by HM Queen Mary. Its many platforms and bustling atmosphere is seen in the mid 1960s at a time when steam haulage to the south coast was nearing an end.
Soon after our departure, we get glimpses of the depot at Nine Elms and scenes from the trackside of Bulleid pacifics at work and at speed through Clapham and on to the county of Hampshire. We stop at Winchester and Eastleigh where we view the main line trains and some local services added to a visit around the motive power depot and view older Southern classes at the end of their service periods and visitors from the LNER in the form of Flying Scotsman, the Great Marquess and Blue Peter.
After Northam and Southampton Terminus is seen, we stop at Southampton Central for an indepth survey of steam services in 1966 and 1967. We progress through the New Forest to Brockenhurst and a stopover to take a journey down to Lymington with various engines including Standard tanks and Ivatt 2-6-2Ts.
Our onward journey takes us to Bournemouth and the magnificent station buildings and locomotive depot where we see many engines on shed.
Finally, we spend time at Wareham and a trip through Purbeck down to Swanage before we reach the end of the South Western Main Line at Weymouth and its depot full of locomotives either in service or waiting to depart for scrapyards in South Wales.
80 minutes duration
