British Rail Motive Power 1981 - 1999 Volume 12

This is the volume 12 in the British Rail Motive Power series produced by Track Record Rail Films in co-operation with Videoscene with on-screen dates and locations accompanied by a detailed 16-page booklet. Sourced from 121 hours of unused and unseen railway film, shot between 1981 and 1999 and all recorded with the original audio on tripod-mounted cameras, this is not just any old film. Highlights of Volume 12 include Class 45s on the Midland Main Line around Chesterfield, Clay Cross and Dore in 1982, working express train to and from St. Pancras. Wolverhampton and Bescot in the 1980s with a great selection of locos including 20s, 25s, 45s, 47s and 56s plus 40106 on an engineers train. In London footage from Paddington, Kings Cross and Waterloo from 1992 and 1986 with 50s, HSTs, 33s and various DC EMUs. Along the Welsh Marshes at Shrewsbury, Hereford and Leominster with various freight and passenger workings in 1986/87. In the Thames Valley area at Oxford and Reading during1987 and 1989 with 47s and 50s plus Bubble car 55027 on a local service and 50007 in green. The popular location of Llandudno Junction features again with action from the early 1980s with 40s and 47s and lots of Mk I stock plus containers, and then right up to 1999 with 37403 'Ben Cruachan' in BR Green. Also a Day at Birmingham Moor Street on 10-12-85,  the old station was filmed which was due to be closed, with plans for new platforms to re-connect it to a re-built Snow Hill Station with the idea of capturing the bustle and routine of a typical day and scenes that were was soon to be history. Various Class 115 and 116 are featured.