Settle-Carlisle – The middle route to Scotland
May 1, 2024
Railway Round-up No.2
May 1, 2024
The Story of the Settle-Carlisle
£13.95
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A new DVD documentary telling the whole story of England’s most famous railway.
This 90-minute DVD covers the building of the line in the 1870s, the operation of the railway through the years to near closure in the 1980s. A unique survey of the line includes the stations and structures throughout the 72-mile long railway. Interviews with the key people involved with the rescue of the railway in the 1980s and those who have overseen the virtual complete renovation of the track and stations in the 21st century which has allowed passenger and freight traffic to boom.
Full of archive film from the Settle-Carlisle line’s past.
Over 90-minutes in duration
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£9.95Contents
*This edition will include several Christmas lights trains from 2021 including some aerial
footage, plus –
* The launch of No. 4079 Pendennis Castle at Didcot* The Great Central Railway’s superb ‘Working
the Railway’ Gala with re-enactments at Quorn & Woodhouse plus visiting loco No. 80080 and five
other steam plus the Class 45 diesel and DMU.* Mid-Hants Spring 45th anniversary gala with
Nos. 2857 and 48305 visiting.
* S&D 56th anniversary of closure held at the
Mid-Hants Railway with No. 53808.
* Two Class 40s around Bristol * Class 50s to
Okehampton and Kingswear. SVR Diesel Gala.
* Severn Valley Railway Spring Gala with A4 Sir Nigel Gresley and the Saint
with S15 No. 506 and first appearance of Bulleid West Country Pacific as No.
70 Queen Elizabeth II in purple jubliee livery. * Last run of Jubilee No. 45699
Galatea before overhaul. * Feature on the Nene Valley Railway.
* Lynton & Barnstaple visited at Easter with guests Laurel & Hardy and Austin 7 cars!
*Gala time at the West Somerset Railway with the Caley tank 419 and BR Standard 4-6-0 No. 75069.
* No. 34067 Tangmere returns to the main line and many scenes over Shap and the S&C of winter
trains. We see it on its test trains and progressing up to Ais Gill summit and also double-headed
with No. 45690 –
plus a great deal more.105 Minutes duration.
