BRITISH STEAM 2007
100minutes - 16:9 Widescreen - PAL - £14.99
This professionally filmed DVD features action from a selection
of the the many special events held on Britain’s heritage railways
every year.
Highlights include... five of the LBSCR ‘Terrier’ tank engines at
work on the Bluebell Railway... “Lord Nelson”, “Princess Elizabeth”
& “Leander” at the East Lancs Railway Winter Gala... a spectacular
performance by special guest “Pitchford Hall” at the Keighley &
Worth Valley Railway’s Winter Gala... fourteen steam engines at work
during the big Spring Gala on the West Somerset Railway, including
newly restored SR West Country Class “Wadebridge”... the superb
‘Cotswold Festival of Steam’ on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire
Railway, featuring six locos including LNER V2 “Green Arrow”... the
40th anniversary of the end of steam on the Southern, commemorated
in style on the Mid Hants Railway, including the launch of newly
restored streamlined LNER A4 “Bittern”... some delightful Great
Western branchline scenes on the South Devon Railway, and the sight
of double-headed Pannier tanks and Beattie Well Tanks at the
‘Cornish Steam Gala’ on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway.
Plus, there are footplate sequences filmed on the West Somerset and
the North Yorkshire Moors Railways - and more - all filmed in
widescreen!