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LMS Black Fives Dvd
£14.95This dvd is the story of one of Britain’s most impressive class of locomotives – the LMS Black Fives. Designed by Sir William Stanier, Class 5 4-6-0 […]
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Locomotive Profiles Offer – Six for £45
£44.00Locomotive Profile offer of six DVDs for £44 – post free
Please indicate your three DVDs in the Notes column on the top right of the Check Out page when concluding your purchase.
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Locomotive Profiles offer – three for £25
£24.00Locomotive Profile offer of three DVDs for £25 – post free
Please indicate your three DVDs in the Notes column on the top right of the Check Out page when concluding your purchase.
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Mallard – 4468 Dvd
£14.95Arguably Britain’s most famous locomotive, A4 Pacific , No. 4468 Mallard is the prized locomotive within the National Railway Museum’s collection at York. On 3 July […]
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Manchester Piccadilly to Carlisle cab Ride
£17.95Manchester to Carlisle
We depart from Platform 14 at Manchester Piccadilly on 11th September
2002 for Carlisle. The Virgin Voyager Unit, No. 220023, had not been in
service for long as we pass through the suburbs of Manchester and head
for Bolton. The Line through Bolton has more recently been electrified
so this cab ride represents a period shortly before this great change.
After calling at Bolton’s Platform 4, the service heads for the
West Coast Main Line at Euxton Junction for the next arrival at
Preston’s Platform 3. Twenty minutes later we arrive at Lancaster and
soon afterwards speed past Carnforth and the old steam coaling tower
is to be seen on the left-hand side.
We then progress to Oxenholme and venture up towards Shap summit
(916 feet above sea level) and Penrith before arriving at the
border city of Carlisle.
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Mid-Hants Railway – From Construction to Closure 1865 – 1973
£14.95Complete history of the now preserved line from Alton to Alresford. The full line was constructed between Winchester Junction and Alton in the 1860s and opened in 1865. This book traces the history of its construction with many rare photographs and plans. Description of services along the route including the early years through to the M7 push-pull years which lasted until 1957 and the introduction of the ‘Hampshire’ DEMUs. The book follows the struggle to keep the line open through the Beeching cuts period of the 1960s and later the culmination of hopes to retain the line which sadly ended with BR closure in 1973.
large format paperback 112 pages with photographs
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No. 34105 Swanage
£14.95No. 34105 Swanage was one of the final West Country Class locomotives to be constructed at Brighton Works, in March 1950. It was never to carry […]
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Nobbut Middlin’
£9.99‘Nobbut Middlin’ – Laugh with the Dalesfolk’
The third book written by W. R. ‘Bill’ Mitchell in a trilogy of humorous accounts from Dalesfolk. The intension is to amuse and also to evoke life as it was in the Yorkshire Dales. The author, who edited The Dalesman magazine for many years, has witnessed the transformation of an insular, self-reliant way of life into one in which Dales farming as we have known it is struggling to survive.
128 pages with colour photographs and illustrations – £9.99
W.R. Mitchell
W.R. ‘Bill’ Mitchell joined the Dalesman magazine in 1949, starting a journalistic career inspired by owner Harry Scott’s adage ‘put people before things.’ He took over as editor from Scott in 1968, a position he held for eighteen years. As well as editing Dalesman and its sister publication Cumbria, Bill had a prodigious output extending across over two hundred books, innumerable articles and countless lectures. His thirst for knowledge and a keen listening ear made him an expert on many topics. He had the skill of putting often-reticent Dales folk at their ease, his interviews reflecting a bygone age and remaining for posterity in the W.R. Mitchell Archive.
In 1996 Bill was awarded the MBE for his services to journalism in Yorkshire and Cumbria and received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the university of Bradford. In 2007 he was awarded a Golden Eagle Award from the Outdoor Writers’ and Photographers’ Guild which cited him as one of the founding fathers of outdoor writing. Two years later he was voted ‘Greatest Living Icon’ for the Yorkshire Dales National Park in a poll to mark the 60th anniversary of the National Parks.
In 2010 he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dalesman Rural Award ceremony, receiving the award from another advocate of the countryside, John Craven. Bill’s work for Dalesman over four decades is arguably the defining feature of an illustrious career.
Bill died in 2015, aged 87.
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North Woolwich to Richmond Cab Ride DVD
£14.95North Woolwich to Richmond DC and AC This cab ride was filmed from the driver’s cab on a North London Railways service with EMU No. 313005. […]
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Norwich to Great Yarmouth and return Cab Ride
£17.95This Cab Ride was recorded from the cab of an Anglia Railways Class 150 departing from Norwich at 11.50 on 20th August 2001. The journey takes us from […]
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Norwich to Liverpool Street – London Cab Ride DVD
£17.95Norwich to Liverpool Street London Filmed aboard an Anglia Railways Class 86 238. Departure from Norwich was from Platform 5 at 14.40, arriving at Liverpool Street […]
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Norwich to Lowestoft Cab Ride
£17.95Norwich to Lowestoft and Return
Filmed on 20th August 2001, this Anglia Railways service
will depart from Norwich aboard No. 150229 for its passenger
service to Lowestoft and return.
We run through Brundall Gardens and call at Brundall and onto
Buckenham and Cantley with our next call at Reedham. We then
cross the first of two swing bridges in this Norfolk Broads area.
First is Reedham Swing Bridge wth views over the magnificent
broads countryside. Before we cross the next swing bridge at
Somerleyton, we call at Haddiscoe.
We make our way to Oulton Broad North and over the North
Junction and pass the Lowestoft Signal Box before pulling into
Platform 3.
We make a return to Norwich via the same route.
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Norwich to Sheringham via Cromer Cab Ride
£17.95This Cab Ride was recorded from the cab of an Anglia Railways Sprinter 150257 on 13th August 2001 departing from Norwich at 11.53 and bound for Sheringham. At […]
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Nowts Same
£9.99‘Nowt’s Same –
A Light-hearted review of Dales Life in the 20th Century’
Dales life is recalled through folks tales and much humour. In 1900, women showed little more than their ankles to the gaze of the opposite sex.
A prudish Dales housewife covered the bare legs of the living room table on Sundays. Ninety-nine years later, members of the Rylstone Women’s institute felt able to raise money for charity by posing unclad, for a calendar. In Grandma’s day, chests were rubbed with goose grease and working-class folk were often in ‘right pickle’.
136 pages with illustrations by Richard Bancroft – £9.99
W. R. Mitchell
W.R. ‘Bill’ Mitchell joined the Dalesman magazine in 1949, starting a journalistic career inspired by owner Harry Scott’s adage ‘put people before things.’ He took over as editor from Scott in 1968, a position he held for eighteen years. As well as editing Dalesman and its sister publication Cumbria, Bill had a prodigious output extending across over two hundred books, innumerable articles and countless lectures. His thirst for knowledge and a keen listening ear made him an expert on many topics. He had the skill of putting often-reticent Dales folk at their ease, his interviews reflecting a bygone age and remaining for posterity in the W.R. Mitchell Archive.
In 1996 Bill was awarded the MBE for his services to journalism in Yorkshire and Cumbria and received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the university of Bradford. In 2007 he was awarded a Golden Eagle Award from the Outdoor Writers’ and Photographers’ Guild which cited him as one of the founding fathers of outdoor writing. Two years later he was voted ‘Greatest Living Icon’ for the Yorkshire Dales National Park in a poll to mark the 60th anniversary of the National Parks.
In 2010 he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dalesman Rural Award ceremony, receiving the award from another advocate of the countryside, John Craven. Bill’s work for Dalesman over four decades is arguably the defining feature of an illustrious career.
Bill died in 2015, aged 87.
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Pathe Ocean Liner Newsreels
£16.95Rare and fascinating films of Ocean Liners from the 20th century. The British Pathe collection of films is one of the largest archives. This is a […]
