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Arlington Fleet Services at Eastleigh – digital Version
£12.95‘The Story of Arlington Fleet Services’ Based at the former BREL works at Eastleigh, this is the story of how the work’s was rejuvenated from 2006 […]
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Flying Scotsman – 100th Anniversary Edition 1923 -2023 – digital version
£12.95The LNER A3 Pacific which was re-launched in January 2016 is quite probably the most famous steam locomotive in the world. Following its £4.2 million pound […]
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Railway Round Up No. 18 – digital version
£8.95Contents
This latest edition is packed with steam and some heritage diesel footage.
* Steaming of 9681 at the Dean Forest * Galas at Mid-Hants with Nos. 1054, 401, 5239, 53808,
Terrier Fenchurch * Main line in the north with 34067 Tangmere, 35018 British India Line,
Black Fives, 45212, 44871 and 45231 and 45690 Leander and 45699 Galatea plus Flying Scostman * Stunning sequences over Shap and Aisgill * SVR galas B1 No. 61306, 401, 43106, 4930 Hagley
Hall and 75069 * Castles 100 event at Tyseley with 7029 Clun Castle, 4079 Pendennis Castle, 5043 Earl
of Mount Edgcumbe with static 5080 Defiant. Three seen on Demonstration line and inside the works
to view Grange 6880 Betton Grange, 71000 Duke of Gloucester and many others
* Signalling on the Leicester to Peterborough line at Uffington an Ketton
* No. 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley over the S&C * 160th anniversary at S&D location Shillingstone Station in Dorset * Launch of Adams Class T3 No. 563 at Swanage with delivery at Norden * Visit to the latest
Network Rail regenerated line between Exeter and Okehampton
* Diesel Autumn Gala at the SVR with two warship class locomotives, D162, and four
Western Diesel hydraulics (two in operation) * Gloucester Warwickshire Railway Autumn
Mixed Traffic gala and launch of No. 2807 back after overhaul.
* Progress on the Great Central Railway link North and South, plus much, much more.105 minutes duration
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Story of the Great Central Railway – digital copy
£12.95‘The Story of the Great Central Railway’
This DVD programme traces the history of the Great Central Railway and more closely at the preserved section of the GCR with pre-end of BR operation archive films by Richard Willis and Mike Clemens.
We look at how the line from Loughborough Central to Leicester North was secured for preservation in the late 1960s and 1970s and the trials and tribulations in funding the section which was under threat of being completely torn up by BR.
We examine the achievement of laying double track between Loughborough and Rothley as part of the injection of funds from the David Clarke Trust and a look at each station along the route with archive and contemporary footage.
Locomotives arriving at the line from the earliest times with Nos. 71000, 45231, 5224, GC 506, 63601 and visitors such as Stirling Single No.1, 61306 and other gala engines hired in are all seen operating. The superb galas such as the ‘Last Hurrah’, ‘Railways at Work’ and the other galas are covered highlighting the Great Central’s headline of – ‘Recreating the Experience’.
Altogether, a review of this main line heritage project in its 50th year of operation.
75 mins duration £14.95
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Story of the Severn Valley Railway – digital version
£12.95Today the Severn Valley Railway is considered by many to be the premier heritage railway in the UK. It’s rise from the ashes of closure by […]
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Strictly Bulleid Gala II – digital version
£10.95The 7th to 9th June 2024, saw the Swanage Railway hold their second ‘STRICTLY BULLEID’ gala event following the success of the first event in 2017 which hosted 5 of the locomotives to celebrate 50 years since the End of Steam on the Southern Region in 1967.
Eight of Oliver Bulleid’s 4-6-2 machines were gathered from across the country for the Dorset gala. The line-up featured the –
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Biggest gathering of Bulleid Pacifics in preservation
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Biggest gathering of locomotives from one designer
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First time two ‘Merchant Navy’ locomotives have run simultaneously in preservation
Locomotives featured during the event included
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34028 “Eddystone”
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34053 “Sir Keith Park” fresh from a 10 year overhaul
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34070 “Manston”
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34072 “257 Squadron” visiting from the Spa Valley Railway
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34081 “92 Squadron” visiting from the Nene Valley Railway
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34092 “City of Wells” visiting from the East Lancashire Railway
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35006 “Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co.” visiting from the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
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35018 “British India Line” visiting from West Coast Railways
Before the big three-day event, the railway held a ‘STRICTLY D-Day’ preview day on June 6th to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Normandy landings during the Second World War in 1944, used during the day were the recently restored LSWR ‘T3’ No. 563 and Bulleids 34070, 34072 and 34081.
This programme covers all four days of the gala and some of the guest locomotives arriving and departing via road and rail from various locations around the country.
65 minutes duration £10.95
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