UK Steam

In the 1980 s, Marylebone had become a sleepy commuter terminus, with little to interest railway enthusiasts. There was great excitement in 1985, when A4 Pacific Sir Nigel Gresley began a series of steam runs from Marylebone to Stratford-upon-Avon. Over the remainder of the decade, many other famous...

A DVD which is split into 2 sections. The first section looks at the A stock in the last few years of service on the Metropolitan Line before being replaced by modern S Stock. Both forms of stock are described and are shown at many of the Metropolitan Line locations. The second part features the 150...

A double disc featuring past and present of London Underground's Metropolitan Line. Disc one is pure 85 minutes from reminiscing the history starting with black and white footage taken in 1910 of a cab ride from Baker Street going via Oxbridge branch through St Johns Wood, Marlborough Road, Swiss Cottage,...

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...

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...

Castleford's Central Station is the starting point for this journey through parts of the former West Riding of Yorkshire in the 1960s, when, despite the increasing presence of diesel traction, the steam locomotive was still an everyday sight. Leaving Castleford, the next location is Normanton, which...

This programme, compiled from archive cine film taken mainly in the 1960s, covers parts of the once extensive rail network in the industrial West Riding of Yorkshire. The programme starts at Leeds with scenes of both Central and City Stations and, in addition to detailed film of the two stations, sequences...

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.,...

Published in 2020 by Mainline and Maritime, this book written by author Phil Barnes is a 68-page softback illustrated album covering railway subjects on the Isle of Mann with each of the photographs taken during a 7 day outing organised by Bluebell Railway in September 2019. Isle of Mann, which covers...

The programme, which also includes the work of other amateur cameraman, begins at York in 1964 before heading east to the market town of Malton where a line led to Gilling, Ampleforth and Coxwold. A journey on the branch's pick-up goods gives a fascinating reminder of BR's rural freight operations in...