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Saving of Settle Signal Box
£4.00The remarkable story of how Settle’s old 1891 signal box was moved from its location of over 100 years to nearer the station. The movement required special measures being put in place to make certain the structure was secure and steel bracing put around it. A 90-ton road crane was hired in to lift the box onto six trolleys positioned across the main Settle-Carlisle Line which was closed and in a possession for track work elsewhere along the route.
This is the photographic story of the movement in 1997 and the restoration of the signal box as seen by photographs by Roger Hardingham.
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Settle-Carlisle – The middle route to Scotland
£9.95by W. R. MitchellThe whole story of the famous Settle-Carlisle railway by well-renowned local author W. R. Mitchell MBE. He describes the railway from its building […]
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Settle-Carlisle Revival
£12.95The full story behind the re-opening of the line following the flooding and landslip at Eden Brows. Aerial footage of the works to rebuild the section […]
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Sir Lamiel – 30777 Dvd
£14.95The last remaining Southern Railway ‘King Arthur’ Class No. 30777, ‘The Last Knight’ Sir Lamiel is now some eighty years old and proudly a part of the […]
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Sir Nigel Gresley – 60007 Dvd
£14.9560007 Sir Nigel Gresley (A4 Pacific) last ran in BR service in the mid 1960s after which it was purchased for preservation by the A4 Locomotive […]
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Sir Nigel Gresley Greetings Cards
£1.75 – £4.99Greetings Cards, blank inside for your own message. These cards are from a painting by the late Chris Woods, a good friend and a well respected […]
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Skipton & Craven In The Past
£12.95More than at any time in our past, our towns and cities are undergoing great change, Fortunately in the case of Skipton and the surrounding Craven […]
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Smoke & Steam A Celebration of the Steam Engine Dvd
£14.95What nostalgic images these words bring instantly to mind! In a modern, technological world the ‘Age of Steam’ seems to belong to former, more glorious and […]
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Smoke & Steam In Scotland Dvd
£14.95A tribute to the renaissance in steam operations in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland. ‘Scotland for Steam’ runs the advertising and is certainly is! On […]
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Smoke & Steam In The South Dvd
£14.95All steam action from the main lines of the former Great Western Railway and Southern Railway including the Salisbury to Exeter main line, Didcot to Worcester, Didcot to […]
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Smoke & Steam In Wales Dvd
£14.95Wales has one of the largest associations with steam in the British Isles. The narrow gauge railways of the north west are famous for their tiny engines […]
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Smoke & Steam on the Settle & Carlisle Dvd
£14.95‘Settle and Carlisle’ – the words are as evocative to the railway enthusiast as ‘Smoke and Steam’ – put the two together and you have one […]
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Solent Flying with Bristish Pathe
£14.95Rare newsreels from the British Pathe collection with 45 minutes of early attempts in producing flying boats in the Solent area. Factories in Southampton, Cowes and Hamble were all instrumental in developing the newly formed flying machine into a waterborne amphibian. Film of the first launching at Fairey Aviation at Hamble Point in the 1920s and many developments as the decades progressed to the first jet-powered fighter flying boat, the SRA1 and Princess Flying Boat of the early 1950s. We see many scenes of the Schneider Trophy attempts in the Solent at which Britain was leader for many years, retaining the trophy for keeps.
We end with scenes of the flying school at Hamble where pilots were trained for commercial services and the other Solent invention – the hovercraft which was designed by Sir Chistopher Cockerell on the banks of Southampton Water.
45 minutes £14.95
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Somerset & Dorset 7Fs (2-8-0s) DVD
£14.95Most 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. […]
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Somerset & Dorset Railway Collection Dvd
£14.95The Somerset & Dorset Remembered Here is a vivid reminder of what it was like to travel over that most lamented of cross-country railway lines the Somerset […]
