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"Steam Routes" is a series of films featuring steam traction along specific routes rather than areas, mostly using previously unseen 1960s archive film. Here our fourth instalment contains film of the West Coast Main Line from Tebay and Shap Summit to Carlisle, Beattock Summit and onwards via Carstairs to Glasgow.

We start at Tebay with views of the banking operations to the summit at Shap plus operations at the quarry exchange siding, before descending to Penrith for scenes at the station and its approaches. The line to Keswick, Bassenthwaite & Arnside is visited with an Ivatt 2-6-0 hauled railtour in 1966.

At Carlisle Citadel station, steam is all around and being used on normal service trains as well as railtours. Engines featured include Ivatt 2-6-2Ts, Britannias, Clans, Black 5s, Princess Coronations plus some ex-LNER locomotives from Edinburgh. There is plenty of steam action at Carlisle Kingmoor depot!

Northwards, we travel along the ex-NBR Waverley Route to Riddings and visit the Langholm branch with a J39 0-6-0. A4s and A2s are also seen on specials on the Waverley Route. We return back to the WCML at Rockcliff and Gretna for views of passing steam hauled trains.

Travelling further northwards, we visit Dumfries, on the ex-GSWR main line, and the former "Port Road" to Stranraer for scenes at Castle Douglas plus token exchanging at Crossmichael with a Crab 2-6-0! More scenes at Dumfries station include 4472 on a special and we return to the WCML at Lockerbie for some depot shunting with a Pickersgill tank!

We continue on to Beattock for footage of the station, yard and the banking operations for the climb to the 1015ft summit. There are even views inside Beattock Summit signal box and passing locomotives include Clan Pacifics and A4 "Kingfisher" on a freight - how the mighty have fallen!

Finally, we descend to Carstairs, Carluke, Motherwell and into the suburbs of Glasgow including Wemyss and Gourock before arriving at Glasgow Central with steam and blue electrics.

All the archive film used is virtually all in colour and an extensively researched commentary along with an authentic soundtrack has been added.

Cover photo:- Keith Pirt/Courtesy Booklaw Publications, Britannia No.70025 "Western Star" on Shap Summit.

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A five day photo charter on the Cumbres & Toltec with superb weather on all five days. Awesome stack talk from hard working K-36's fighting the grade on a perfectly still pre dawn morning, pre dawn and sunrise glint shots at Lava tank, super sunrise silhouttes at Hangman's trestle come together to make this one program steam fans won't want to miss!

WIDESCREEN Edition
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This is the second of a two-volume set tracing the development of rail-borne freight from the British Rail era

of the early 1970s to the present day. Part One covered the nationalised operation up to the creation of the

Trainload companies; Part 2 focusses on the privatised era from 1995.

Freight operation since privatisation has certainly been colourful, with each new operator creating its own liveries. The face of British rail freight has changed drastically with the introduction of North American-built locomotives. But, in recent years. some newer companies have turned to veteran British built locos to bolster fleets. It has certainly been a fascinating period.

Some of the numerous highlights: The early EWS years when the existing loco classes had their swansong; the first moves by 66001 and its test run; the ghost locos; Freightliner’s Class 47s; 87101 on the Ford train; the introduction of Class 57/0s; a very rare shot of Freightliner’s short-lived 66521; DRS 47s on intermodal; GBRf enters the fray; Fastline 56s and a 66 on coal; Advenza scrap trains with a 47 and 57, plus a 66 on the flyash; Colas’s steady growth, from 47s to the reintroduction of Class 56; a Virgin 57/3 on the logs; 37218 on the Sellafied to Drigg working; DB Schenker’s takeover of EWS and the reintroduction of Class 60s; DCR 31s and 56s; GBRf 20s and DRS 57s on intermodal . . . and lots more. On the loco front, some 20 different diesel and electric classes appear.
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