This professionally filmed DVD combines superb lineside shots and dramatic footplate ... more
action with glimpses behind the scenes and in-depth interviews to bring you the highlights from a wide variety of events around the country.The winter steam galas on b...
Advantages: Fantasitc footage of the last days of steam Disadvantages: None
This is another in the eminently professionally produced DVD programmes on steam train released through Green Umbrella.
With the Very Best of BritishSteam of Yesteryear, you are given a real feast for the eyes and also, for the memory, of course. Well, for those of us old enough to remember when steam trains regularly plied their business up and down the main lines of the United Kingdom.
The last regular steam runs in Britain came to a very sad halt in August 1968. That's slightly under a year before the first manned space flight to the moon, for those interested in transport trivia.
Without an unsung bunch of dedicated enthusiasts and professional and semi-professional film makers in the previous two decades, these wonderful steam trains would not be available to the general public. They would only exist as the personal ...
Fred Dibnah's Age of SteamDVD is another exceptionally good TV programme released on DVD that carefully reflects and capture's Fred Dibnah's love of steam and his respect for the engineers who made steam not only a possibility but a living and breathing reality before, during and beyond the Victorian era.
As anyone who knows of Fred Dibnah will be able to testify, Fred Dibnah has had a special fascination for all things steam since his childhood growing up in the Northern industrial town of Bolton, Lancashire. In Bolton if cotton was King, the steam must assuredly have been his Queen or consort.
Fred's respect was made manifest by the fact that he carefully and expertly restored steam engines not only for himself (his Aveling and Porter traction engine for one) but also for friends and later for commercial clients.
Although ...
Advantages: Original unseen footage Disadvantages: Poor quality production
British team in the 1950s and 1960s is exactly what it says. BritishSteam in the 1950s and 1960s.
It has to be said that the music chosen is not particularly good library music and that the titles seem to be rather low quality and amateurish. The quality of the sound of the narrator is very poor, being both muddy and rather faint.
However, the programme rather redeems itself by showing uncut amateur footage form all four regions of British Rail during the 1950s and 1960s. Am I biased because the programme starts at Snow Hill Station in Birmingham, the station where my Dad used to take me every Sunday to see the trains? Yes! Of course I am!
The programme then features Clapham Junction (interesting to see a tank engine juxtaposed with a diesel electric locomotive. Whatever happened to the diesel electrics?
Other locomotives ...
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