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: 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
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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 ...
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 ...
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Product details
Genre
Special Interest - Trains
Classification
Exempt
Production Year
2008
Colour
Black & White / Colour
Franchise Name
Steam's Golden Age
Country Of Origin
United Kingdom
Plot
This release focuses on the Southern Railway (SR), established in 1923, linking London with the Channel ports, South West England and Kent.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
Pinnacle Vision
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Sound
Stereo
DVD Description
Take a nostalgic journey back to the halcyon days of steam trains with the STEAM'S GOLDEN AGE series. The fascinating documentaries combine rare and archive footage, with newly commissioned interviews and film. This release focuses on the Southern Railway (SR), established in 1923, linking London with the Channel ports, South West England and Kent.
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