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Carnforth, Lancaster
and the West Highland Line on DVD
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THE
LITTLE NORTH WESTERN - NEW!
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£11.95 with free
P&P
This double DVD set
filmed between 1999 and 2009 covers what is left of the former Little
North Western Railway, the section from Morecambe and Heysham via
Lancaster Green Ayre to Wennington Junction being closed in 1965.
The
line is only a shadow of its former self now, between Carnforth and Settle
Junction there are only about 5 trains a day from Leeds and Skipton to
Morecambe.
Although
the line still gets quite a lot of use from charters, empty stock and
engineering trains also steam and diesel locos on test runs from West
Coast Railways at Carnforth.
Steam
Locos
30777 Sir
Lamiel 30850 Lord Nelson 34067 Tangmere
45407 Lancashire Fusilier 45690 Leander 46115 Scots
Guardsman
46201 Princess Elizabeth 46233 Duchess of Sutherland
48151 Gauge O
Guild 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley 60163 Tornado
61994 The Great Marquess 62005 Lord of the Isles 70013
Oliver Cromwell
71000 Duke of Gloucester 76079
Diesel
classes 20.31.33.37.43.47.55.57.60.66.67
Disc
1
Carnforth, Over Kellet, Capenwray, Borwick, Melling , Wennington, High
Bentham, Mewith, Clapham, Eldroth, Giggleswick, Settle Junction and
LongPreston
Running
time 65 mins .
Disc
2
Long Preston , Hellifield, Clitheroe Line, Gargrave, Skipton and Rylstone Branch
Running
time 66 mins
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CARNFORTH
1994 -2000
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£9.99 with free P&P - running time : 66 mins
Carnforth is located on the west coast main line, at the junction to the
lines to barrow-in-furness & skipton.
This DVD contains the original sound track, there no commentary to spoil
your viewing.
It was filmed from 1994 onwards and shows the many passenger and freight
workings in and around the Carnforth area. There is vast variety of steam
and diesel locomotives on show.
Contents :
We start in 1994
with 31439 'North Yorkshire Moors Railway ' in regional railways livery
on a Barrow- in- Furness to Manchester Victoria passenger service also
featured on this service is BR blue 31427 .
Class 31and 37 were once a common sight on most freight in the Carnforth
area, they are shown working on engineers, nuclear flask and the
Sellafield to Sandbach acid Tanks .as well as china clay and other
freight workings. They appear in a wide variety of liveries such as BR
blue, Regional railways, Intercity as well as the different freight
sector liveries . 37025 'Inverness TMD' & 37165 feature doubled
headed on a stone train from the Bottom End Yard. Dutch liveried 37377
on a long welded rail from Workington. as well as many other engineers
workings.
There are a number of charter workings through the Carnforth area
featured, the A1A North by North west charter on the Barrow leg of the
tour with 33202 'Burma Star' & 31405 'Mappa Mudi'. D172 'Ixon' on
the Northern Belle returning south off the Little North Western.
Intercity liveryed 47820 on the Manchester Executive Pullmans The
Statesman, and DRS 20304/305 on The Geordie Choppers railtour from
Newcastle as they swap places with 58011 for the return leg to Bristol.
Also shown is 56114/029 on The Barrow BOUY railtour.
Also featured are a number of steam workings 48151 on the Midland Scot,
industrial steam loco lindsey working in the now closed Steamtown. 5972
Olton Hall on its loaded test run over shap in GWR green and. BR
Standard 4 75019 on a empty stock working back to carnforth and 60532
Blue Peter as it sets off down the West Coast mainline on empty stock .
Ivatt 46441 in LMS marron on a charter train as it heads away from
Carnforth on to the Little North western to Settle.
There are also a wide variety of traction on West Coast freight and
passenger workings with intercity 86s, 87s, 90s on the London - Glasgow
and Cross Country sevices. featured are pairs of 37s and 60s on the
Irvine to Burngullow china clay, 56 on the Hardendale to Margam
Limestone 56s & 60s on oil trains to stanlow and coal trains from
Scotland. 86s, 90s, 92s on a a variety of freight workings such as 90029
'Frachtverbindugen' on a container train, RES 86s on mail workings, RFD
liveryed 47235 'The Rover Group' on a southbound car train.
The Dvd finishes with a few winter scenes in the snow at Carnforth with
a pair of 86s on a liner heading north as well as other workings.
Some of the
locomotives featured are:
D172 ' Ixion ' -
DRS 20301 ' Furness Railway -
Regional Railways 31439 'North Yorkshire Moors Railway '
Mainline Blue 37023 ' Stratford TMD ' - BR large logo blue 37025 '
Inverness TMD ' - Intercity 37685,
plus many other
locomotives and liveries far too many too list.
The DVD is a good representation of the trains and traction running on the
WCML at this time.
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CARNFORTH
1998 -2008
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£12.95 with free
P&P - Total running time is approx
110 mins over the 2 discs.
Carnforth is located on the west coast main line, at the junction to the
lines to barrow-in-furness & skipton.
This twin boxed DVD is a follow up to our original Carnforth DVD and takes
us from 1998 up to the present day and contains the original sound track,
there is no commentary to spoil your viewing.
DISC 1
The first DVD filmed from 1998 - 2004 & shows the many passenger and
freight workings in and around the Carnforth area. Their is a large
variety of steam and diesel locomotives on this DVD
Contents :
The DVD starts in
1998 with 31166 in Dutch livery on a nuclear flask train & a pair of
37s in mainline grey passing through the station on the Irvine to
Burngullow empty china clay tanks.
This DVD shows 37s on engineers trains as well as and other freight
workings. It also shows the change over from EWS to DRS of the nuclear
flask traffic & the acid tanks. They appear in a wide variety of liveries
such as Mainline grey, Dutch Transrail, DRS & EWS as well as the
different freight sector liveries .
37065 in Mainline blue & 37886 in EWS feature doubled headed on a
mgr coal train heading south down the west coast mainline.
HNRC liveried 37194 shunts a empty coaching stock in the former steam
town. Also BR blue livered 37308 on a failed MPV, As well as many other
workings.
Their are a number of charter workings through the Carnforth area
featured,
First North Westerns Class 37 farewell tour to Barrow with 37415/421 .
The Rhin & Machars Crompton with Fragonset 33021/108.
The Green Express with Fragonset 31128/459,
First North Westerns 101 farewell tour on the Morecambe to Barrow leg of
the tour, with a strathclyde, regional railways & BR green livered
101. Also 55009/019 shunting stock out of Steam Town for a railtour.
Also featured are a number of steam workings, a pair of GWR Halls 4936
Kinlet Hall & 4965 Rood Aston Hall on the return leg of a tour from
Carlisle to Birmingham New Street LNER B1 61264 renamed and numbered to
61039 'Steinbok' on a ECS move to Steam Town. 46233 'Duchess Of
Sutherland' heading for the steep climb over shap. Black five 44996 on
1M40 heading southbound. 71000 'Duke of Gloucester'on its loaded test
run to Hellifield.
Their are also a wide variety of traction on West Coast freight and
passenger workings with intercity / Virgin 86s, 87s, 90s on the London
-Glasgow and Cross Country sevices. featured are a GBRF 66710 on a
driver training run from Carlisle to Carnforth, 56 on the Hardendale to
Margam Limestone. 86s, 90s, 92s on a a variety of freight workings as
well as many other workings.
The Dvd finishes with a few night scenes at Carnforth wtih a convoy of
locos passing through the station on to the stabling point, as well as
other workings.
Some of the
locomotives featured are:
GBRF livered
66710/716
EWS Royal Scotsman livered 37428 'Loch long'
Electric blue livered 86233 'Alstom Heriagte'
As well as many other locomotives far to many to list.
DISC 2
CARNFORTH 2004-2008
Contents:
The second DVD
starts in 2004 with 37427 'Bonty Y Bermo' on The Cumbrian Warrior
railtour in EWS livery.
Also the probably never to be repeated scenes of 4772 ' Flying Scotsman
' hauling 45112 'Royal Ordnance Corps' and D1023 ' Western Fusilier ' to
the open weekend at Crewe and 5972 ' Olton Hall ' Hauling 46229 '
Duchess Of Hamilton '
We now move on to to see more GM locos of class 57/66/ 67 appearing on
freight and passenger workings
It also show DRS operated trains such as the railhead treatment trains,
nuclear flasks, acid tanks, container traffic, Serco test trains &
railtours, powered by a variety of locomotives, class 20/33/37/47/66.
and for a short period of time riviera class 47s are seen working on
some of these trains.
Also a number of railtours are featured passing through the Carnforth
area such as 47826 'Springburn' & 47851 'Traction Magazine' on a ECS
move from Steam Town. 33029 in DRS blue & 33025 in WCR maroon on
aWest Coast railtour to Whitby. 67006 ' Royal Sovereign ' on the Three
Peaks Tour, as well as many others.
Their are also a wide variety of traction on West Coast freight and
passenger workings such as 86259 'Les Ross' in Electric blue on a ECS
move to steam town. 60020 in EWS livery on Carnforth to Carlisle ballast
working. 60042 ' The Hundred of Hoo ' on a diverted Clitheroe to Mossend
cement working. 37605/611 on a Grangemouth to Daventry container train,
along with many more freight & passenger workings.
The Dvd finishes with 45690 ' Leander ' departing Carnforth wtih a
railtour along the cumbrian coast..
Some of the locomotives featured are. 33207 'JIm Martin' in WCR maroon,
47847 Large logo 66411 in Stobart livery 'Eddie The Engine' 37688 'Kingmoor
TMD'
As well as many other locomotives and liveries far too many too list.
The DVD is a good representation of the trains and traction running on the
WCML at this time.
Locomotives classes featured are:
20/31/33/37/43/45/47/50/52/55/56/57/60/66/67/86/87/90/92
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THE
WEST HIGHLAND RAILWAY
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£12.95 with free
P&P - Total Running Time 123 minutes
This a high quality twin box DVD set on the West Highland line from
Glasgow Queen street to Oban, Fort William and Mallaig and covers most of
the stations and scenic locations on these lines.
Filmed digitally between 2005 -2008 the sound is as originally recorded
there is no commentary to spoil your viewing.
DVD - 1
There are a wide variety of locomotives featured on this DVD Classes 33.
37. 47. 55 .57 . 66. 67
Contents:
The first DVD is
set on the line from Glasgow Queen street and travels along the banks of
the River Clyde to Craigendoran Junction up the West Highland line to
Oban and Fort William.
The DVD has footage of the West Highland Sleeper with class 37 & 67
haulage, It also contains a variety of West Coast locomotives on the the
Royal Scotsman and rail charters, EWS 37s on the northern belle to Oban.
The Blue Pullman is featured with 47709 and 47712 when they visited the
line also the Stobart Pullman with 37423 and 37608
Steam locomotives include black five 45407 8F 48151 and 61994 ' The
Great Marquess ' working their way up the West Highland to Fortwilliam,
5972 ' Hogwarts Castle ' at Tulloch.
locations included are Ardlui ,Crianlarich, County March Summit Rannoch
viaduct, Monessie Gorge as well as plenty of others.
running time 65 mins.
DVD - 2
Contents:
The second DVD
focuses on the line from Fort William to Mallaig which is most famous
for the Harry Potter films.
There are fantastic views of steam locos hard at work on the very
popular Jacobite train.
You journey starts with a look at locations around Fortwilliam then we
travel down the line through Banavie alongside Loch Eil over Glenfinnan
Viaduct and onwards to Mallaig.
Locomotives featured
5972 ' Olton Hall
' 45231 ' Sherwood Forrester '
45407 ' The Glagow Highlander '
48151 ' Gauge O Guilds 61264 62005 ' Lord of the Isles '
33029 ' Glen Loy ' 37197 ' Loch Laidon ' 37261 ' Loch Arkaig '
40145 ' East Lancashire Railway '
47826 ' Springburn ' intercity livery 47851 ' Traction Magazine ' 47854
Running time 58 mins
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AROUND LANCASTER
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£12.95
free P&P
Lancaster is located on the west coast main line approximately 30 mile
north of Preston.
This twin box DVD contains all original sound , also there no commentary
to spoil your viewing.
This DVD filmed from 1994 onwards shows the many passenger and freight
workings through Lancaster area, both steam and diesel locomotives.
Contents:
We start our look
on the WCML at Bolton le sands and gradually move south looking at Hest
Bank, Morecambe south junction, Lancaster Castle station & Galgate
to the south of Lancaster. The two DVDS show the huge change to the
railways around Lancaster, from the days of Intercity to VIrgin
pendolinos and voyagers.
We also see the big changes to rail freight in the area with the older
locos such as class 31/37/47/56/60 which were regularly used on any sort
of freight train from engineers to limestone and china clay replaced by
class 66s and 92s in charge of the greatly reduced freight that passes
through the area.
Among the freight shown passing through the area are trains such as the
Hardendale lime stone to Margam, oil tanks from Stanlow to Jarrow and
the recently diverted Carlisle to Crewe infrastructure service ,trains
which no longer run through this area most of these were class 37/56 or
60 hauled.
Also included are a great variety of charter trains and mail trains on
the dvd.
There are far to many to list so here are some of the highlights of the
dvds,
Triple headed fragonset 31s on a Green Express charter passing the shore
at Hest Bank.
Police liveried 47829 on Mossend to Crewe car empties at Hest Bank
.Dutch liveried 31134 / 31224 on Crewe - Sellafield flask train in 1994
Regional Railways livered 37429 ' Eisteddfod Genedlaethol ' on a flask
train at Lancaster Castle station.
A triple headed engineers working with a 37 and a pair of 31s.
33109 & 33116 on the Skirl O' The Bagpipes railtour in 1995.
87012 in Network Southeast liver on a GNER stock move with GBRF
73204/205 as barrier vehicles.
freightliner grey 47270 on a pendolino stock move.
47744/47634 ' Holbeck ' on a Mail working
Steam locos such as 46201 ' Princess Elizabeth ' - 75014 - 76079 / 34067
' Tangmere ' - 60009 ' Union of South Africa ' storming trough the fast
line at Lancaster
The North western trains class 101 farewell tour
A vast variety of loco hauled trains from Virgin XC including classes
43/47/86/87/90 and EWS classes 47/67/86/90 on mail
D9000 on a Virgin XC service to Glasgow Central on 14 November 1997
The DVDS show the
many changes in liveries from the BR liveries of the 90s to EWS, DRS,
Virgin trains and lots more.
Steam locomotives featured are Union of South Africa, CanadIan Pacfic,
Tangmere, Duchess of Sutherland, Princess Elizabeth 45407 - 48151 - 75014
- 76079
Loco classes featured on the two DVDS are
20/31/37/43/45/47/50/55/56/60/66/67/73/86/87/90/92
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