Cinerail

This programme views three major rail arteries within the West Riding of Yorkshire at a time when steam traction was an everyday sight. Mirfield depot is the starting point of the programme, with scenes in the busy locomotive depot, together with film of passing traffic from nearby Heaton Lodge Jct.,...

Carlisle became established as the hub of North West England's rail network following the railway's arrival in1845. The bulk of Anglo-Scottish traffic utilised the main line via Beattock and Carstairs with most services destined for Glasgow and the programme focuses primarily on this 103-mile section...

Until the 1960s, a network of railway routes radiated from the East Midlands town of Northampton. Its two main stations, Bridge Street and Castle, provided mainline and secondary cross-country services, many of which are now but memories. Until closure in 1965, Northampton's motive power depot played...

The programme starts in the south west of England and traces the former GWR route to London (Paddington) via Swindon and Didcot in the 1950s and '60s when steam in the form of ex-GWR designs still predominated. The country branch line was a classic feature of the GWR and many lines changed little throughout...

Many rail enthusiasts were drawn to Scotland in the 1960s to record steam-hauled expresses, particularly between Glasgow and Aberdeen, but they often overlooked much of the everyday scene on Scotland s secondary lines. This programme, filmed mainly in the early 1960s, concentrates on the lines and branches...