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Bill Mitchell Books Four Book Offer
£34.00Special Offer – Purchase all four books – Nobbut Middlin, How They Lived in the Yorkshire Dales, Nowts Same and Summatt & Nowt for £35 Post […]
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Birmingham New Street to Portsmouth Cab Ride
£17.95This Cab Ride was recorded from the cab of a Virgin Trains Voyager unit. We depart from Birmingham New Street at 07.32 on 14th May 2003. We approach […]
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Birmingham New Street to Swansea Cab Ride
£17.95This Cab Ride was recorded from the cab of a Virgin Trains Voyager 220 unit which was travelling from Derby to Swansea. We join the journey at […]
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Blue Peter – 60532 Dvd
£14.95The LNER’s last Chief Mechanical Engineer was Arthur Peppercorn, whose most lasting memorial is the subject of this programme – his Class A2 Pacific No. 60532 […]
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Blue Pullman Dvd
£14.95This dvd follows the construction, testing and operation of these 1960s luxury trains. As part of the BR Modernisation Plan of the late 1950s it was […]
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BR In 1990
£14.95‘BR in 1990’ A reflection on Britsh Rail just five years before privatisation. Sprinterisation, Sectorisation and Modernisation were the buzz words of 1990. The DVD examines […]
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Bradford In The Past
£12.95Bradford In The Past A nostalgic look at Bradford through rare colour amd black and white film sequences from the 1890s to the 1970s. […]
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Brighton to Bedford Cab Ride
£17.95Brighton to Bedford – Thameslink Filmed from the cab on a Thameslink service with EMU 319176. Departing from Brighton Station, we call at Preston Park, Hassocks, […]
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Bristol to Swindon Cab Ride
£17.95Wembley Yard to Bristol
This cab ride was filmed from the cab of EWS Class 37
264for a driver training exercise.
We begin from Bristol’s Barton Hill Depot and travel along the
Great Western Main Line to Swindon during which we a number
of different classes en route including, 47s,59s, and HSTs.
The return to Bristol is via Wootton Bassett Junction and
Chipping Sodbury and through the 2-mile long tunnel. We end
our trip at Bristol East Carriage Sidings.
There are occasional picture disturbances as our Traction
Inspector uses his mobile to call various signal boxes.
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Britannia – 70000 Dvd
£14.95This dvd tells the story of one of the most notable preserved steam locomotives in Britain – the pioneer British Railway’s Standard Class Pacific No. 70000 […]
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Britannia & The Duke Dvd
£14.95This is a dvd about two locomotives – the first and last ‘Pacific’ locomotives built for the nationalised British Railways – 70000 Britannia and 71000 Duke […]
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British Pathe Railway Newsreels Part 2
£16.95The second edition in our series relating to the archive films in the British Pathe collection. This volume has another selection of rare films going back […]
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BTF Omnibus Dvd
£14.95This dvd is a compilation of four films produced by the British Transport Films Unit. They include: Main Line Diesel – Produced in 1948, this tells […]
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Building and Operation of No. 2999 lady of Legend
£14.95Building and Operation of the New-build Saint Class No. 2999 Lady of Legend
The Great Western Society based at the Didcot Railway Centre have many fine achievements to their name, but in 2019 they unveiled one particularly important development which has been in the planning for nearly 50 years. The re-creation of a Churchward ‘Saint’ Class locomotive.
When the GWS was purchasing engines from Dai Woodhams’ yard at Barry in the early 1970s, one particular purchase was ‘Hall’ Class No. 4942 Maindy Hall. This was not to be restored as another of the Halls, of which Didcot has two anyway, it was set aside and earmarked for a complete rebuild into a Saint in an attempt to fill a missing gap in railway locomotive preservation. The last Saint saw active service on BR in 1953 and was quickly scrapped and so the dream of members at Didcot was, to some day, build a new one with the boiler and frames from No. 4942 being adapted to those of the 1902 class.
This is the story of how the project developed following a concerted effort to complete this dream was outlined in 1995. Since then, the project has raised £825,000 to pay for a new set of 6’ 8 1/2’’ driving wheels, new cylinders, remodelling of the frames and the building of a new tender. The launch of No. 2999 lady of legend took place on 3rd April 2019 and since then the engine has entered service on the demonstration line. We see Lady of legend operating on the Severn Valley Railway, Mid-Hants and West Somerset Railway between 2021 and 2023.
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Bulleid Pacifics’ A review of OVS Bulleid’s magnificent Pacifics
£14.95The first in a new series of Locomotive Profiles. Thirty Bulleid Pacific locomotives survive today, with 28 of them coming from Dai Woodham’s scrapyard at Barry. […]
