UK Steam

An Online Video production looking back over the varied modes of transport from in and around the Hampshire city of Portsmouth. Start with a look at the tramway system which started by horse propulsion in 1865 between the railway station and Clarence Pier with the electrification programme beginning...

Sited in Royal Tunbridge Wells we look at trains from BR days including steam and diesel. Tunbridge Wells West to Eridge shows signal boxes, old steam sheds and Groombridge as it was and how it is built up now. The line closed in 1985. In 1996 the Spa Valley Railway worked on restoring and reopening...

170 Page Hardback book written by the author John Hunt published in 2022 provides a look back over the years up to the present day of the 18 mile preserved railway North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Along with a wide selection of photographs the book begins with a glimpse of the railway during the period...

The first in a series of books on GWR Branch Lines. This book was written by author Ian McCall and published in 2018 by Mainline and Maritime is an 82-page softback book titled The Gwili At 40. The book celebrates the 40 years of preservation for Gwili Railway with a vast range of photographs. The book...

An A and J Video Production in co-operation with Online Video looking at steam in and around London after withdrawal by British Railway in 1966. Start off with preserved London North Eastern Railway A3 4472 Flying Scotsman along with Great Western Railway King Class locomotive 6000 King George V running...

After many years, Steam Specials returned to the London Underground in 2013, when the 150th anniversary of the opening of the world s first underground railway between Paddington and Farringdon was celebrated. Special trains ran on two Sundays in January. These were hauled by Metropolitan Railway steam...

An Online Video production looking at steam operation in and around the county of Kent both past and present. Start off with scenes from festival of steam held in 1999 and also 2000 at Maidstone West. We then go back in time to 1950 s with steam working at Tonbridge, Maidstone West, Gravesend West and...

An Online Video production looking at the now preserved Swanage Railway both prior and since the start of preservation. DVD starts off with scenes if British Railway Days in 1963 with China Clay workings in and out of Furzebrook Sidings. Then scenes from 1969 with much of the line in a state of dereliction...

See steam locomotives such as Lord Nelson, Tangmere and Black 5's along with diesel class locomotives such as 47's, 67's and 73's with Golden Arrow train and Blue Pullman train as well as Hastings preserved unit 1001. From 1920's steam was used heavily used in connection with boat trains to France however...

This programme evokes memories of British Rail Southern Region in the 1970's and 80's, prior to the creation of Network Southeast. The opening scenes, near Wimbledon, capture the change from green to blue livery, when some of the old Southern Railway stock was still in service. The ubiquitous slam-door...