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 East Midlands Railways vol 141 (80 mins) Ref: BR116DA volume from the Jim Clemens Collection covering steam workingin the East midlands from the Great Central, West Coast Main Line and Midland routes and their branches such as Newport Pagnell, Dunstbale, Banbury to Cambridge and Oxford to Bletchley. Ironstone workings at Nassington, Wellingborough and others includes a railtour from Nottingham London Road to Melton Mowbray and Seaton. |
 Memories of the Swanage Branch (60 mins) Ref: BL392DA look at the line from Worgret Junction to Swanage using 16mm archive footage, modern scenes and memories of the footplate crews. Updated to September 2008. |
 BFI Vol 9 Just the Ticket (254 mins) Ref: BV130DDouble disc. Disc one - Berth 24, Peak District, Train Driver, Give your car a Holiday, Just the Ticket, England's North Country. Disc two - Away for the Day, They had an idea, Manhandling, Lost, Stolen, Damaged, Go as you plese in Britain, It takes all Sorts and Just Like the Rest of Us. |
 British Transport Films Collection Box Set (2300 mins) Ref: BV131DThe complete 9 volumes previously released on 18 discs. Contains a fully illustgrated booklet with extensive notes and credits to each film. A unique insight into the changing social history of Britain from the 1950s to the 1980s. |
 Scottish Borders & Byways vol 2 (82 mins) Ref: CP147DMore film from the collection of W.J. Verden Anderson. Locations include Carlisle in 1962 where steam traction is predominant, North of Carlisle on the WCML Beattock Station including Carstairs, Stranraer, Ayr and the Waterside mining complex with its heavy coal trains. Back to Carlisle, the Waverley Route is followed with steam traction in Edinburgh's Millerhill Yard, amongst other surrounding locations. On to the Fife area with film taken in 1960 and 1963 on the West Highland Line. Moving to Perth film taken 1930 is shown then on to Aviemore with the railbus service to Boat of Garten, Grantwon and Craigellachie. Then along the Moray coast route, the branch line ot Banff and arrival at Cairnie Junction. |
 Branchlines of Britain Box Set vols 4 5 & 6 (168 mins) Ref: GU211D3 disc box set. Locations include: Meldon Quarry, Tunstead, Hindlow, Quidhampton, Sinfin, Fiddlers Ferry, Andover, Barrow-on-Trent, Melton Mowbray, Old Dalby, Hamilton, Inverurie, Pwllheli, Tower, Harworth, Maltby, Three Spires, Seymour Junct, Calvert, Sutton Park, Corby, Sherbrookbedlington, Ashington, Blyth, Dungeness, Millerhill, Lichfield, Birmingham Snow Hillnidorie Wewst Junct., Chapel en le Frith, Methil, Clipstone, Elmton & Cresswell, Brentford, Kew, Coleshill, Llanwern, Ayr Harbour, Hensall Junction, Eggborough, Grancemouth, Longannet, StourbridgeJunction, Mirkby Muxloestud Farm, Bagworth, Oxley Chord, Arberg, Ruthven, Warrington Crosfield, Crossing, Wroxham, Skinningrove, Southampton Docks, Machen, Salford, Carterhouse, Widnes, Northwich, Lydd, Appledore Sheerness, Lostiwthiel, Par, Tinsley, Boulby, Folly Lane Branch, Sutton Park, Mostyn Docks, Berkley Aberdeen-inverness, Wigston Avoider, Addiscombe, Felixstowe Branch, Sutton Park, Mostyne Docks, Berkeley, Colnbrook, Carnforth E Jct, Greenford Triangle, Kincardine Ps, Didcot W Curve, Bredbury, Quainton Road, Dee Marsh, Wrexham, Drongan, Stanton Gate, Boston Docks, Longbridge, Rawdon, Ironbirdge, Gedling Branch, Sizewell Branch, Islip,Thoresby Coll. Cottam Ps, Winfrith, East Lancs Railway, Monk Bretton. |
 Branch Lines of Britain box set vols 1 2 & 3 (168 mins) Ref: GU212DThree disc set. Branch lines featured in this box set include: Flixborough, Bleicester-Burton, Bates Staithes, Frodsham-Runcorn, Hendon Jnc, Bishopbriggs, Croxley Green, Trawsfyndd, Calverton Colliery, Silverdale Colliery, Methil, Westfield Branch, Killoch Colliery, Tanhouse, Burn Naze, High Marnham Branch, Silverood Colliery, Hays Chemicals, St Helens Pontycymer, Cheetham Hill, Monk Bretton, Wisbech, Anglesea Sidings, Birch Coppice, Haydock, Glazebrook, Northampton, Bridge Street, Hay Chemicals Sandbach, Grain, Thameshaven, Chalmerston, Fawley, Ebbw Branch, Hamworthy, Bentick Colliery, Shelton Steel Works, Manchester Airport, Sizewell Power Station, Branch, Nuneaton avoiding line, Lavant Branch, Greaves Sidings, Birkenhead, Rugby Redland, Baddesley Colliery Branch, Melton Quarry, Stirling Sidings, Hull Analby Cuve, Waterloo Branch, Dee Marsh Branch, Coventry Colliery, Kings Lynn Docks Branch, Bloxwich Branch, Middlewich, Eastgate, Redmire, Swannington, Ravenscraig, Maxwelltown, Granemouth Engine shed, Asfordby, Newton-le-Willows Colliery, Frodsham, Rossington & Frickley Colliery, Padiham Power Station, Bescot-Stourbridge, Dover Western Docks, Machen Quarry, Castle Gresley, Newton Longville, Vic Berrys Scrapyard, Long Marston, Denton, Corby, Liverpool Alexander Docks, Ribble Branch, Deepdale, Grassington, Tondu, Westerleigh, Cadoxton, Fifoots Power Station, Huntley, Ludgershall, Morningisde, Ford, Bridgened, Barry Docks, Aberthaw, Prologis Park Logistic Park (Coventry) Ebbw Victoria Sidings, Cross Keys, Cwym, Heathfield, Tytherington, Hendy Curve, Swansea, Kingsbury, Folly Lane, Clipstone Colliery, Southminster Power Station and Denby. |
 Day Rover (110 mins) Ref: LP428DOriginally filmed on 22 July 1997 and digitally re-mastered. 47236 and 47375 Longbridge to Swindon return. Soon after this programme was filmed RfD disappeared following its purchase by EWS and the Rover trains subsequently went over to Class 66 haulage. Tinsley and its Class 47s then followed into the history books. Finally the car component traffic ceased following closure of the Longbridge plant in April 2005. |
 Irish Railway Review vol 8 (74 mins) Ref: MK099DA review of the current Irish railway scene concentrating on Birdhill and Nenagh, Mallow and the Kerry line, Network Notes, Loco hauled Mark 3s versus 22000 railcars, and The Ennis Line. |
 Tube Trains (80 mins) Ref: OV359D100 years of London underground trains from 'Padded Cells' to today's complex cars. |
 Great Central Volume 7 (100 mins) Ref: PR196DArchive footage of Loughborough Central and A1 Pacifics on the East Coast Mainline. |
 Telerail in the Cab vol 3 Tyne Dock to Drax Power Station (254 mins) Ref: TR180DFilmed in real time without commentary but with the aid of captions starting at Tyne Dock to Gateshead then south on the ECML to Ferryhill. Then the freight only line to Norton South Junction and through Stockton and Eaglescliffe before rejoining the ECML at Northallerton. Down on the ECML through York to Colton Junction then branching to Milford sidings and Knottingley before passing under the ECML to Drax Power Station. |
Steam World Archive vol 19 Cotswolds (60 mins) Ref: TR211DHighlights include auto trains in the wonderful scenery and Kings in charge of mainline steam. |
 Steam Across the North Midlands (60 mins) Ref: TP029DNo commentary. First of several in compilation series of contemporary steam activity. Starts in 2008 in Chesterfield with Duchess 6233 followed by Castle 5029 and then 45407 approaching Totley Tunnel. A4 60007 is seen near Templehurst and York before 60009 departs for the north. Also featured are the Barrowhill 'Rail Power' event, GWR City of Truro and 6430 with 662 Martellow ex L&YT 1300 and BR78019. The Lafarge Hope open weekend, the sidings at Earles and Black 5 45407 as it climbs to Diggle then Copy Pit with the Cotton Mill Express. |
 Diesels around Sheffield vol 2 (60 mins) Ref: TP030DNo commentary. Material from the early 1990s and features 'heritage' locos such as class 20/37/58 etc many in locations which cannot be repeated. The film ends at Sheffield with the 2008 railhead treatment train with 2x DRS class 37s. |
 Sheffield since Deregulation vol 2 (60 mins) Ref: TP041DNo commentary. Shots of Sheffield in 1991. Most types of bus are represented even routemasters and virtually everything featured has long since gone. Northernbus Bristols are seen out at Bradfield before the advent of the Supertram and its associated construction works between Park Square and Darnall. Initial testing is featured and then return to the centre where buses are seen battling through a blizzard. |
 Diesels & Electrics for Disposal (60 mins) Ref: TP042DNo commentary. The early material here comes from the beginning of the 1990s with several deliveries of withdrawn stock arriving for scrap. Includes shots of a batch of class 81 electrics being reduced to scrap along with class 50s 5004/16/23 and also class 37s, 47s 56s and 86 all being disposed of. |
/Notts & Derbys Lines in the 1960s (40 mins) Ref: TP926DArchive film from the collection of Bob Tebb & Michael Creswick. No commentary. Features Great Central Main Line, Cromford & High Peak Line and Mansfield - Nottingham. |
 Big Freight 4 (120 mins) Ref: TC081DAnother in this series showing the longest and heaviest freight trains currently operating in the UK. Filmed in association with Freightmaster, the film starts in South Wales at the Freightmaster Hotspots around Severn Tunnel Junction and Newport and on to Westbury, Crewe, Beatock Summit and various locations in Scotland, then footage from Barnetby and Stowmarket, Ipswich and Trimley. |
 Video Track 2009 annual (100 mins) Ref: TV210DA sample of main line action from the motive power scene past and present plus passenger review 1998. Cardboard cover. |
Video Track Issue 127 (75 mins) Ref: TV211DDecember 2008/January 2009. Main Line Heritage Action, Colas 47 on 87 stock move, Cumbrian Freight, Diverted 57 Mail, Deltic Specials, DRS Tripple Header. |
 Southern Region Diesel & Electrics (85 mins) Ref: TV212DShowing diesel and electric power in the last days of British Railways in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Features diesel power - class 33s in Kent on freight and passenger service, electro diesels, class 73 on a wide range of traffic, diesel muliple units, Hastings Units and Class 205 DEMUs. Electric Multiple Units, the Southerns class 415, 416, 405, 2BIL, 411, 423, 421, 455 andd 442. Also seen are the Croptons from the 1960s to the early 1990s at work at London Bridge, Eridge, Southampton and the Waterloo main line. The push-pull service to Weymouth just before the electrification of the line in May 1988 and Class 33s on the cross country Portsmouth to Bristol line. |
 Steam Video Vol 101 (120 mins) Ref: TV213DDecember 2008/January 2009, News and Events, Great Central Railway Top Link Gala, West Somerset's gala, O@liver Comwell on the Norwich main line and the Tornado on the Great Central Railway including a ride on the footplate, concludes with 30777 Sir Lamiel on tour. |
 Best of Video Track 13, 14, and 15 (120 mins) Ref: TV230DHighlights of the early issues which now constitute archive film from the days of british Railways in December 1989 through to May 1990 |
 Steam's Final Countdown (85 mins) Ref: TV231DMemories from the final year of steam on British Railways. With shots from August 1967 onwards, including Shap, the Settle & Carlisle, the North East and Chester. |
 Landscapes of Steam Vol 6 -Cumbrian Fell (60 mins) Ref: TV660DFeatures: Tebay Station & Shed; Through the Lune Gorge; Low Gill to Grayrigg; Greenholme; Scout Green; Shap Wells; Shap; By Banker to the Summit; North to Carlisle; 30 Years after the End of Steam. |
 Bulleids in Retrospect (90 mins) Ref: TV749DBulleids Pacifics from building and development through to the 1960s up to their withdrawal in 1967. |
 Power of the Peaks (85 mins) Ref: TV778DThe class 44s, 45s and 46s from the 1960s to their last days in service. Plus a cab ride aboard D123 |
 Margate-Canterbury West-Ashford Int.- Charing Cross (104 mins) Ref: TF026DCab ride aboard a class 375 4 car unit of South Eastern Trains as far as Ashford then a 8 car unit for the rest of the journey |
 East Coastway and Marshlink (145 mins) Ref: VI907DDriver's eye view Brighton to Eastbourne, Hastings and Ashford plus Seaford branch PLUS London to Brighton speed run |
 Swanage Experience (60 mins) Ref: VI909DA guided tour of the line by steam train, taking a look behind the scenes and inter views with some staff and volunteers. Uses old photographs and some archive film this shows the rebuilding of the line and its developments today. Plus a DMU cab ride. |
 Industry of Steam vol 6: Central England (63 mins) Ref: VS072DFinal instalment in the series features various locos in the 1970s in Central England including Ironbridge, Stourport, Littleton Colliery, Hams Hall, Cadley Hill Colliery, Birchenwood, Castle Donnington, Wirksworth Quarry, Northampton, Goldington, Thos Grey, Little Barford, Corby Steelworks, Leicester, Holwell Foundry, BS Peterborough and Nassington Quarry. |
 Industry of Steam 4: Southern England (63 mins) Ref: VS082DWorking Steam in Britain after British Rail. Previously unpublished film footage, location maps and in-depth script reveals the story of steam in the South and includes the Falmouth Docks, Acton Lane Power Station, Fireless at Proctor and Gamble and Bagnall Albert at Par. |
 Gotthardbahn, North Ramp 2000-2004 (63 mins) Ref: RI139DIncludes a visit to Erstfeld & the line in detail from Gurtnellen to Goschenen with a huge variety of freight & passenger traffic. |
Newington Naval Armament Depot (100 mins) Ref: RO131DA detailed look at the narrow gauge railways of the armament depot operated by battery electric locos prior to the site being closed and taken over for the Sydney Olympic Games. |
Brisbane to Maitland (120 mins) Ref: RO135DFeatures the scenic standard gauge route from Queensland via the Border Loop spiral and the mid-north coast of New South Wales to Maitland, with ALCOs and Clyde GMs on freight, XPTs and 2-car diesel units on passenger trains. |
 Narrow Gauge Glory 1 - Denver & Rio Grande West (70 mins) Ref: SP019DVolume one - Early Days and Freights. With RGS Galloping Goose. All filmed from 1939 - 1960s. All 16 mm film - mostly colour. Narrated. |
 Southern Pacific Classic Steam vol 2 () Ref: SP020DVintage SP steam in the 1940s and 1950s includes GS Class 4-8-4s, MT Class 4-8-2,s Pacifics 2-8-0s, Cab Forwards, San Francisco Commuter Trains with live sound |
 Southern Pacific Classic Steam vol 1 () Ref: SP021DVintage steam in the 1940s and 1950s with sound. Features GS Class 4-8-4s, MT Class 4-8-2s, Pacifics, 2-8-0s, Cab Forward's on the Modoc Line, San Francisco Community. Trains. |
 SP Classic Collectors Series (90 mins) Ref: SP022DFilm from the 1930s to 1950s. Originally released as part of the Video Rails Classic Collectors Series includes Southern Pacific 1941, Southern Pacific Steam and Southern Pacific - the Coast Line. |
 Gears in the Woods () Ref: SN105DSteam logging in the West. Ten railroads of the West are shown using giant articulated engines hauling logs. Trains climb up canyons and curve over spindly trestles to the high camps. Then with gigantic logs piled high the crew sweats to keep the breaks tied down so the train won't run away as the load heads downhill. |
 Narrow Gauge East of the Sierra () Ref: SN106DChronicles the narrow gauge steam trains of the Southern Pacific which once crossed the desert reaches of California's Owens Valley. Against a backdrop of snow-capped peaks the trains travel between the lonely mining operations at the foot of the mountains. The entire line as it still survived in 1960 is covered, including stations, bridges, water tanks and turntables. |
 Complete West Side Story () Ref: SN107DThe story of the little railroad that moved the big wood out of the mountains of California. Ten ton logs ride the narrow rails down slot canyons and over dizzying trestles then into the millpond at the end of the run. |
Steam Tram Nostalgia (124 mins) Ref: RO116DA combined volume of 'Kogarah Steam Trams' (film taken in 1937-38 of the Baldwin steam trams that ran on the Kogarah to San Souchi line in Sydney) and 'Steam Trams' (archive film of the Parramatta lines in 1937) |
Vintage Buses Sydney (60 mins) Ref: RO117DFeatures an array of signle and double deckers in action around Sydney from the prototype double decker built in 1935 to the first modern series single decker of 1978. |
Buses and Trams (56 mins) Ref: TT128DIncluded are Midland Red FEDDs and Sheffields last tram in 1960, early days at Crich Tramway Museum from 1961, Blackpool and Midland Red in winter, the Isle of Man, Crossville at Barmouth and London trolleybuses in 1962, Wolverhampton trolleybuses from 1961 and 1963, Nottingham and Bournemouth trolleybuses in 1963, Dublin and Ireland in 1965, Mid Wales motorways, Red and White, Western Welsh,Birmingham Corporation waterworks in Elan Valley.. Concludes with a selection of relevant photographs. |
 Blackpool Trams 53 (95 mins) Ref: TC080DWinter 2008/9 - news coverage from the Blackpool tramway from the autumn months of 2008. Features the entire operational Blackpool tram fleet as the finished the 2008 season. All 57 cars which ran in passenger service are seen. |
 Great Port of Manchester Episode 30 (60 mins) Ref: SB130DLooks at the City of Manchester one hundred yers ago with scenes of the docks in those days before computers and mechanisation when dockers loaded and unloaded cargo by hand. The rare film progresses through the same scenes in the 1940s, 1950s and the late 1960s showing changes with containerisation. |
 Right Track vol 11 (230 mins) Ref: AM111DLaying Terrific Trackwork. Shows how to lay the track-bed, remove the templates and how to ballast quickly and efficiently compared with the traditional method and with special emphasis on the tricky bits |
 Model Rail - Weathering Expert (90 mins) Ref: TR181DLearn how to make your models more realistic - the expert way. Features steam and diesel, wagons, buildings, track, varying degrees of weathered finish, dry brushing and airbrush methods and how to use paints, pigments and powders. |
 Addressing the Nation (140 mins) Ref: BV132DDouble disc. Disc one - The Coming of the Dial, Cable Ship, Granton Trawler, John Atkins Saves Up, Air Post, The Glorious Sixth of June, Pett and Pott, 6.30 collection and Weather Forecast. Disc two: Song of Croydon, A Colour Box, Coal Face, The King's Stamp, BBC The Voice of Britain and Sixpenny Telegram. |
 Land of Promise (720 mins) Ref: BV133DFour disc set featuring 40 films depicting the British documentary film movement before, during and after the Second World War. |
 South West England Vol 34 (58 mins) Ref: CDHS3523 locomotives from Hampshire to Cornwall. |
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