Steam Engines Of Southern Railway (DVD)

JACOBITE STEAM RAILWAY THE "HARRY POTTER" TRAIN

Advantages: a nice day out, nostalgia,
Disadvantages: too expensive, stops too long in Mallaig

slows down on the viaduct in order to take pictures and it is indeed a fantastic sight. We experienced steam at first hand, when we went through the tunnels and were left choking as the smoke came in through the door windows. On the return trip the train could not get up the hill and had to go back to make another go at it. Mallaig is pretty average really, your average fishing port really. We had some lunch in a cafe and wondered around the shops but it was quite difficult to kill 1.5 hours there and we were glad to get back on the train again. HARRY POTTER ++++++++++++++ Apparantly the West Coast Railway Company which runs the trips, supplied the engine and carriages for the Harry Potter films and the more recent films used some of the line for filming, especially the viaduct. The foreign tourists went mad over the Harry ...

kismet 11.09.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Jacobite Steam Railway

The tale of a steam engine called Ivor

Advantages: Good fun to watch
Disadvantages: None

Once upon a time about 50 years ago and then again about 40 years ago in a land not so very far away from here called Wales, there lived a little green steam engine called Ivor. Ivor the Engine worked out of Llaniog railway station. Ivor could sometimes be a naughty little engine because he had a mind of his own. His favourite hobbies are singing with the local choir, making tea and visiting the seaside. Ivor has lots of friends where he lives, including Dai the Station master, Owen the signal man, Evan Evans the Choir master, Mrs Porty, a rather eccentric lady who loves buying new hats, Mr Dinwiddy, who describes himself as an amateur scientist, lives in the hills where he digs for gold and is always losing his boots but Ivor's bestest friend in the whole wide world is Edwin Jones, Ivor's driver. Ivor also loves animals and has ...

paulpry118 09.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Ivor The Engine - The Complete Ivor The Engine (DVD)

Steam in the Midlands

Advantages: The interview
Disadvantages: Not as good as it should be

to stop running and just comes to an unceremonious halt. You are shown steam trains (where are they? What are they?) but you are given no details about their location, what they are used for, etc., which was, I thought, very disappointing. Various steam locomotives in stages of dishabille, obviously ready for maintenance work, were seen waiting. But where? It is clearly a preserved line, but if we were told, it was when the commentary was beaten by a combination of various noises off. The titles revealed that it was a preserved line in Gloucestershire. Interestingly, we are also shown a collection if preserved diesel locomotives. The next scene was recorded at the Chasewater Railway in Staffordshire. This was interesting, as it gave a rare opportunity to look at a wide-ranging collection of industrial locomotives and goods trucks ...

Martinscholes 05.11.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Railway Heritage - Steam In The Midlands (DVD)