UK Diesel & Electric

A double-disc DVD. Disc 1 our visit to the East Coast Main Line starts at Kings Cross in 1975 when all trains were diesel-powered. Mainline services were in the hands of the iconic Deltics, and Class 47 s, with the occasional visiting Peak. Suburban services were provided by DMU s and Class 31 s, hauling...

First of two productions by Visions International tracing development of freight of the railway network. This DVD focusses entirely on the years of British Railway era from early 1970 s through to privatisation of 1995. First section is of 1970 s and the changes made from fitted and unfitted vacuum brake...

Second production by Visions International tracing the history and development of freight transport on the railway network. This DVD focusses entirely on the privatisation era from 1995 to 2012. Staring with early days of privatisation with introduction of companies such as Foster Yeoman and ARC whom...

This DVD evokes memories of the Anglia Region of British Rail since the 1970s, concentrating predominantly on the lines from Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street, in the London area, out to Shenfield and Purfleet. We see Liverpool Street station before the rebuilding, carried out between 1986 and 1992,...

2 hours of freight activity from around the UK filmed through 2015 into the spring of 2016 produced by Trains Crazy. DVD features the freight only Grassington Branch used for trains to Swinden Quarry near Skipton, Class 37 s purchased out of preservation is now in operation by Colas Rail and also a look...

A 2016 Train Crazy production featuring over 2 hours of the best of freight action recorded during the year around many parts of the United Kingdom. The DVD features freight along the line that links the East Coast Main Line as Helpston Junction with the Midland Main Line at Syston. Also, a look at the...

No.26 in the Big Freight series is another three-hour edition, with countrywide freight action, filmed 2020-2022. Produced in conjunction with Freightmaster, once again we bring you the best of the action, from remote freight-only branches to major cities, Class 20s to Class 70s, sunshine and snow and...

From the newly rebuilt Class 69s to Class 20s and 37s and some of the oldest locos currently operating, Big Freight 27 provides a detailed look at the post-pandemic rail freight scene in Britain. Filmed countrywide, from the lineside and the sky, along obscure freight-only lines and main lines, once...

Between 1962 and 1992 suburban services from Marylebone to Aylesbury and Banbury were mostly provided by Class 115 DMUs which had replaced steam traction. This production by J & K Video was mostly filmed in the 1980s using live sound and gives extensive cover of both routes. Also featured are locomotive...

128 page hardback pictorial album which forms part of a series of Standard Gauge Album of books. This book written by Iain McCall, published in 2021 by Mainline and Maritime is full of photographs of scenes on the 10 mile preserved Llangollen Railway in North Wales. Throughout the book is high quality...