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Winter Steam on Two Gauges (60 mins) Ref: NL435D
The provincial railways of Austria provide the enthusiast with an outstanidng selection of working steam locos on standard and narrow gauge. This programme takes us on a steam-hauled tour of the scenic province of Stelermark, organised by the Germany company IGE Bahntouristik with the participation of the Locomotive Club of Great Britain and the Warwickshire Railway Society.
Price: £16.96 (Including VAT at 17.5%)


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Winter Steam on Two Gauges (60 mins)
Garratt Country (70 mins) Ref: NL449D
A portrait of six classic Beyer-Garratt locomotives in South Africa, the world's biggest user of the type. The highly scenic mountains of Natal and the Cape form the setting for stunning action secquens with these articulated giants, while the 2ft gauge versions take us down to the shores of the Indian Ocean in Alfred Country. Wioth special archive feature of GEA class being delivered to Utenhage in 1946.
Price: £19.95 (Including VAT at 17.5%)


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Garratt Country (70 mins)
Woodburners of Paraguay and Patagonia Express (81 mins) Ref: NL451D
Last call for steam in a South American time warp. Brew mate tea with the locals on the world's most southerly steam train, ride the pilot loco on the Andean mountain section and catch a rare triple-header. In sleepy Paraguay British woodburning locos still haul the mails across the pampa to the waiting steam ferry.
Price: £19.95 (Including VAT at 17.5%)


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Woodburners of Paraguay and Patagonia Express (81 mins)
Burma to the River Kwai (58 mins) Ref: NL452D
A journey by steam through Myanmar and Thailand in search of the WW2 Burma-Siam Railway, riding vintage British Pacifics on genuine local trains in Burma and preserved steam on the famous Wampo wood trestles of the Death Railway in Thailand, Exotic local colour and previously unexplored WW2 relics en route plus a surprise ending.
Price: £19.95 (Including VAT at 17.5%)


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Burma to the River Kwai (58 mins)
Cape to Cairo Railway (60 mins) Ref: NL455D
Vintage 1930s documentary on Cecil Rhodes great unfinished project. Mallets on the Union Express, trams in Joberg, Bulowayo loco works and other rarities. PLUS 1946 archive of Beyer Peacock of GEA Class Garratt construction and 16mm colour film of final years of main line steam in South Africa and Zimbabwe. A feast for the Garratt lover.
Price: £19.95 (Including VAT at 17.5%)


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Cape to Cairo Railway (60 mins)
Relics of the Raj (52 mins) Ref: NL456D
Steam days on the railways of the old British Raj with vintage locomotives on three gauges. Filmed on 16mm in the 70s and 80s, a now vanished era with Edwardian broad gauge 4-6-0s on the main line, classic narrow gauge steam in the villages, meter gauge YDs in the Goa palm groves and steam all the way to the Ooty hill station. A quality period piece.
Price: £19.95 (Including VAT at 17.5%)


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Relics of the Raj (52 mins)
Poland - The Last Stronghold of Steam in Europe (53 mins) Ref: NL459D
1950s steam time warp caught on pro-video just weeks after the Iron Curtain fell in 1989. Big 2-6-2s on expresses, tank engines on one-coach branch trains, narrow gauge commuting by steam, and horse carts at level crossings. Ex WW2 Kriegsloks steam past Hitler's Wolfs Lair in former East Prussia. Plus 1970 film in Lulbin area with rare locos now withdrawn.
Price: £19.95 (Including VAT at 17.5%)


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Poland - The Last Stronghold of Steam in Europe (53 mins)
Indonesia - Wheels of Fire (41 mins) Ref: NL462D
Steam in the tropics in the 1970s with Asia's most exoctic collection of locomotives. Big Mallets on mountain main lines, steam trams in city streets, 100 year old British 2-4-0s, rack and pinion in the Sumatra jungle, in all fourteen active classes large and small. A unique record on high quality 16mm film.
Price: £19.95 (Including VAT at 17.5%)


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Indonesia - Wheels of Fire (41 mins)
Rails to the Arabian Desert (Syria & Jordan) (55 mins) Ref: NL463D
Following the trail of Lawrence of Arabia, we journey by steam train from the Arabian desert to the Cedars of Lebanon with vintage locomotives of the former Ottoman Hedjaz Railway. In the Damascus workshops wrecked locos from Lawrence's raids still await repair after 90 years. Plus rare film archive of the Beirut rack railway.
Price: £19.95 (Including VAT at 17.5%)


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Rails to the Arabian Desert (Syria & Jordan) (55 mins)
Steam to the Gobi Desert (54 mins) Ref: NL464D
filmed when steam still ruled the high iron of the Middle Kingdom, this unique journey by express train takes us beyond the Great Wall to Inner Mongolia. We visit the world's last steam locomotive factory and a steam powered steel works. Plus a cab ride in the mighty 'Advance Forward' QJ loco, symbol of Chairman Mao's expansion of China in the 1960s.
Price: £19.95 (Including VAT at 17.5%)


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Steam to the Gobi Desert (54 mins)
Rails to the North West Frontier - Pakistan (52 mins) Ref: NL465D
A railway odyssey with vintage British locos in the North West Frontier of PAKISTAN ending in the legendary Khyber Pass. Broad gauge in the mountains, meter gauge in the desert, steam over the Indus at fortified Attock, and rare 1950s Alco diesels on the sub-continent's steepest main line, 1 in 25 on the Bolan Pass to Quetta. Plus the world's last inside cylinder 4-4-0s.
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Rails to the North West Frontier - Pakistan (52 mins)
R.E.N.F.E. Steam - Past and Present (48 mins) Ref: NL466D
In this new series Focus on Europe, we bring you this special study of main line steam in Spain concentrating on Leon's 141F Mikados in the NE at Santiago and the 282F Garratt on the scenic mountain run to La Pobia, Plus quality 16mm film and sound from Peter Handford of classic steam in the 1960s and a grand finale with Tarragona's Pacific Garratts 48'
Price: £19.95 (Including VAT at 17.5%)


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R.E.N.F.E. Steam - Past and Present (48 mins)
Steam's Indian Summer (50 mins) Ref: NL467D
Sir Mark Tully bids a fond farewell to India's steam trains. He rides the loco of the last meter gauge steam express up the Mhow Ghat, chats with a Maharajah whose father built railways and crosses the salt pans of Gujerat with india's last steam freight. Includes high quality coverage of the end of broad & narrow gauge steam in India.
Price: £19.95 (Including VAT at 17.5%)


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Steam's Indian Summer (50 mins)
Toy Train to the Clouds (74 mins) Ref: NL468D
The worlds' favourite small train, the Darjeeling Himalayan, founded in the 19th century, now steams into the 21st with its original
British 0-4-0 tank engines, a full portrait of this winding hill railway, full of character with all trains steam, caught just before diesels arrived in 2000. Plus steaming of Baby Sivok and freight archive.
Price: £19.95 (Including VAT at 17.5%)


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Toy Train to the Clouds (74 mins)
New Zealand Steam Cavalcade Vol 1 North island (90 mins) Ref: NL469D
An action packed 90 minutes with 14 vintage locos hard at work on main lines and branches all set in superb mountain and coastal scenery. Thrilling cab rides on class J 4-8-2s to the Raurimu Spiral and over Australasia's highest bridge. Plus the mighty K 4-8-4 the Bush Tramway, 'lokey' Glenbrook Railways Mallet &c.
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New Zealand Steam Cavalcade Vol 1 North island (90 mins)
Steam to Mombasa (65 mins) Ref: NL470D
An action study of Africa's large locomotive, the mighty 59 Garratt Kenya's newly restored showpiece takes us on the footplate through the East African bus on a great railway safari. Plus 16mm film of 60 Class
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Steam to Mombasa (65 mins)
Eritrea - A Railway Reborn (60 mins) Ref: NL471D
The incredible story of a forgotten railway in the Horn of Africa, risen from the ashes of war. Enjoy a cab ride on a vintage Mallet as it climbs around hairpin bends to 7000 ft on the spectacular Rift Valley escarpment. At the art deco capital of Asmara 1930s 'litterina' railcars complete the picture of this ex-Italian colonial classic.
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Eritrea - A Railway Reborn (60 mins)
When the Wall Came Down (49 mins) Ref: NL472D
The end of an era on East Germany's narrow gauge railways, filmed in 1990 just after the fall of the b erlin Wall. In this broadcast-aulity portrayal of a railway scene unchanged for 70 years, small town streets fill with the thick sulphorous smoke of Saxon-Meyer locos built in 1912 and fired with brown coal, as the trains thread their way through rural Sxony. We see the steam-worked Zittau lines in the south east, the fascinating Oschatz railway and some industrial lines amid the grim pollution of the Leipzig area, with its opencast mines and belching smokestacks.
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When the Wall Came Down (49 mins)

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