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Home Contents Updates Great Central Gloucs & Warwicks Severn Valley West Somerset Bluebell Railway East Lancs Keighley & Worth Valley Midland Railway North Yorks Moors Churnet Valley Other Railways Mainline Blast from the Past Links DVD Other Subjects

 

Video Clips of Preserved Steam Locomotives

70013 Oliver Cromwell around the time of its arrival for restoration at the GCR in 2004. (1.5mB)

The Great Central section contains material from

June 2008 War Weekend, the Stars of the 60s and May Day Events featuring Oliver Cromwell, 2008 Winter Steam Gala,  Winter 2007/8, the 2007 Autumn and "Mail by Rail" Galas.

The Gloucester Warwicks : The Cotswold Festival of Steam May 2008, Spring 2008, 2007 "Christmas Cracker Event", 18/25 August 2007, 7 July 2007 and a summer trip on the line.

The Severn Valley Railway section features clips from Summer 2008, a Matt Fielding charter involving 7812 Erlestoke Manor, the line re-opening (22/3/08), a charter involving Black 5 45110, the Santa Trains (Dec 2007) and the Autumn Steam Gala of 22/9/07.

West Somerset: action from the Spring Gala of 2008 and the Autumn Gala of 2007 plus a ride with No.88.

The Giants of Steam October 2007, the August 2007 125 Event and the April 2007 "Goods Train Weekend" are featured in the Bluebell Railway section.

The East Lancs page includes clips from the steam events of 27/10/07 and 3/3/07.

The Keighley and Worth Valley page includes scenes from the Winter Galas of 2008 and 2007.

The Midland Railway Centre features action from my first visit to that line.

The North Yorkshire Moors page features clips from the 2008 LNER Festival, the Autumn Steam Gala 2007 and the ECML Festival (May 2007).

Churnet Valley:  War Weekend 26/4/08 and Winter Steam Gala 23-24/2/08

Other Railways:  Barrow Hill LNER Gala 11/11/07, North Norfolk 1/9/07 and Mid-Hants 27/6/06

The Mainline section includes a clips of 5029 Nunney Castle at Barrow upon Soar in June 2008, 71000 "Duke of Gloucester in Mar 2008, a clip of the "Lincoln Imp" in November, two clips of the Duchess of Sutherland on the "Shakespeare Express" on 2/9/07, and a regular Shakespeare Express** entry.

"Blast from the Past": various clips from past years. Clips usually find their way here via the "Contents" page.

Other Subjects: an experimental section. Anything could turn up here, but the files are large and reside on "Google Video" which is free!

** The Shakespeare Express is a steam service which runs every Sunday from July to September between Birmingham Snowhill and Stratford upon Avon.

Important

I have now linked a number of clips which have been resident on this site for a few months to Google Video and, of late to You Tube. They can be played in the usual way by clicking the picture, so I have not marked them separately. They should be viewed at 'original size' by clicking on the arrow or box at the right of the frame in which they are played on these sites. For Google these can be downloaded using the following instructions: 

http://video.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=8700 

I need to investigate downloading on You Tube..

Warning:  The files are of substantial size and will take a considerable time to  download for non-broadband users.

All photographs and videos copyright ©  Mike Snow