DVD Steam’s Unsung Heroes of the 20th Century

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DVD Steam’s Unsung Heroes of the 20th CenturyDVD Steams Unsung Heroes of the 20th Century 15. 99 A look at the great variety of locomotives still at work in Britain. This dvd looks at the variety of locomotives which tend to be rarely considered amongst the great publicity surrounding the Pacific or larger tender locomotive. We search out these often unique engines scattered around the UK at railways such as the Tanfield light railway, Middleton, the Kent & East Sussex and other preserved lines

256 Pages with 100+ B/W photographs HARDBACK

4498 on the S&C

the last day of operation in August 1963 over the town section of the Welshpool & Llanfair narrow gauge line

the Broad Gauge never got beyond Wolverhampton and eventually succumbed to the four feet

after the end of main line steam on British Railways in 1968

Including the Dumfries Branch

60019 Bittern

as well as the much older branch to Hampton Court

A brief visit to Crewe Works is followed by footage of the very successful EE Type 1s in action at Bescot

The ways of this unusual operation are illustrated in detail

the first of two

* Extensive archive film from the 1930s through to the 1965 period